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Posts by gerrarrdus

They said, why don't you take a detour. But there's no other way.

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Oops. Thank you Brighton. That will do for us I reckon. #lfc

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"suspicion falls on members of the local Lady's Bright Hour, angry that John Clare Cottage is replacing its thatch with solar panels" @moremidsomerplots.bsky.social

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Local museum. Then @sophiemhistory.bsky.social can work out if they were associated with an infamous local murder.

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One of Florence Nightingale's great insights was that disease was a bigger killer than battle. And she did something about it.

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I like watching baseball. But the weirdness of the way there's things basically laying around that the ball can ricochet off is weird. It's like playing cricket but someone's got a greenhouse, a pillar box, and an Austin 7 just randomly inside the boundary.

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Spalding isn't!

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Typical vicaring day. Wedding planning, funeral planning, QA-ing somebody else's church, PCC, and trying to hand over archaeological finds*

*scraps of tile

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West Anglia was Mercia. Between there and East Anglia was my homeland, Middle Anglia.

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In Regional terms it's in the East Midlands.

But don't get me started on this little patch of historic Northants which is in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, or Lincolnshire according to the specific purpose.

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Remembering the farmer I saw in Leicestershire swearing blue murder at the sheep to get into a trailer. Reckon they knew where they were going.

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Enjoyed them a few weeks ago.

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Sorry to hear that.

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This is how I got banned from testing an SAP system. Because every night I made the batch fall over.

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I once managed to cite my own (co-written) book on barcodes in an essay on the Book of Revelation.

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He came back to his old college (and mine now), BNC, and gave a talk in about 1985. He came across as a wonderful man. And has come across as much the same ever since.

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And daisies spring up very quick between mows

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That is surely the Pepto-Bismol ad.

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I only know it as Frank Spencer's mum's motto in "Some Mothers do 'Ave 'Em"

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The Eastern European design of toilets.

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"wield"?

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I've had a week like that. Hope all goes well.

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For the second time, someone has asked me if I'm their taxi driver.
When I'm wearing a dog collar.

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Where Isaac Newton used to home brew cider

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Cat?

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Hereford Museum of Cider!

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Joke in the "Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass" when he has to babysit three babies.

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Mine are leggy as anything, on the windowsills.

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Not really true. Only 40% went to church. Many of the great thinkers were atheist or agnostic.

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Did well there. Took me about ten years to forget it.

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