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Politics Hub post from the other place
Another day another own goal by Rachel Reeves . Utterly depressing tbh
Was expecting to wake up to
Armageddon but #stormEowyn is pretty quiet at moment . Yet Most trains have been cancelled adding to stress of annual check-up. Why? Thanks to friend who has offered me lift
Wrong bit of Yorkshire !
RIP Denis Law . One of the last surviving members of the Reds 1968 European Cup
Champions . Was lucky to see all of them play
Watching Silent Witness from Episode 1 with Amanda Burton . Had totally forgotten it was originally set in my old stamping ground of Cambridge now comes across as period drama but v good no gimmicks and excellent actors . Should get me to spring at least 😃
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Let’s meet up in Feb will DM you ! X
Watching Panorama on weight loss . Prediabetic but didn’t qualify for Ozempic and chums Wegovy and Mounjaro - not obese - so had to stick to low carb diet. Three months nine pounds lighter which is good but was pretty fit anyway . Celebrated Monday with crisps and beer ( now pretty much verboten) 😃
Hope you’re on the mend !!! Xx
Sad news about Tony Slattery was thinking only other day how nice it was that he was getting back on his feet - life sucks sometimes
Watching The Mirror Has Two Faces . Every bit as bad as I remember. At 54 Streisand was way too old for screwball comedy and Jeff Bridges is no Cary Grant …
Watching Jimmy Carter’s funeral - I was very young when he was President he came to one of the most depressed parts of Newcastle to amazing scenes. Great man. Damn glad Trump isn’t President yet to lord it over the proceedings
L.A peeps! A message from the owner at Calico Fish House.
Anyone who has left LA and headed south. You are welcome at our restaurant, 16600 Pacific Coast Highway, 92649. We have a large parking lot, you can stay as long as you need and camp out. We will provide free meals for all of those affected.
Jack Shepherd was very left wing
Very good actor actually ex National
Theatre but he didn’t exactly have much to emote
Me too deliberately avoid best sellers
Day 4 of being icebound. Tucked up with cats and heated wrap . Kind of blissful. Heating also on do not want burst pipes
Just in from mammoth interview session to two bits of news. One that a DV perp got locked up because of something I did and that a vulnerable constituent had a a massive wrongful debt written off after our intervention. This is why I came to politics, this is why I'll just keep cracking on.
Spent almost two hours enjoying 7:39 on iplayer realised just 10 minutes from end had already seen it in 2014 when first screened . Then as now I thought he should have stayed with Sheridan Smith not boring suburbia . But they always do
20 followers now ! Not as user friendly as the old Twitter though
Snowbound in Todmorden - plan to make full use of free Apple TV this weekend fortunately wine and food stocks still high after Christmas
Thanks to new followers still v slow over here but I’ll give it more of a go over 2025 currently got post Christmas blues not blue sky thinking
Anyone else watching The Walk-In ? Terrifyingly brilliant Stephen Graham is as ever excellent
