Bow and quiver are both required for archery, but they are also instructions for what to do if someone aims at you…

Very sad, but these things happen…

Thanks Zig Ziglar. I’m quite comfortable being silly, or daft; another old English word, for an old Englishman…

UK: Afghan asylum approvals plunge as UK denies women fleeing Taliban, new briefing warns As the Taliban tightens its grip, the proportion of women granted safety here is falling. That is indefensible

“The fact that #Afghan women are being denied refuge here, despite clear evidence of the brutality they face under the #Taliban, shows the extent of the moral and practical collapse in the UK’s #asylum decision-making.”
~ Karla McLaren, #AmnestyUK’s Head of Government Affairs
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I think we may have a Clematis/Lilac hybrid…

Is that the Rabbit of Caerbannog in the background… 😱

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1936 ► St James' Church on Standard Hill, #Nottingham, was demolished.
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Spring is moving at pace; the Horse Chestnuts are blooming and the Dandelions are going to seed. And the greenery around ‘the’ steps is filling out.
Forest Recreation Ground, #Nottingham

A cannibal ate a missionary and got a taste for religion.

#Classic #DadJoke

In a healthy society there are no undeserving…

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19 April 1984 ► Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip met ice dancing champions Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean in #Nottingham on the Council House steps.
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19 April 1897 ► Jessop & Son’s (John Lewis) new department store opened in King Street, #Nottingham.
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Bluebells at Oldmoor Wood, near Strelley, #Nottingham

Spontaneous combustion…

Facebook | Old maps of nottingham, Old slum images Slum clearance took place in Nottingham’s Narrow Marsh area in 1931, such as around Knotted Alley and Foundry Yard. Gorbals slums pictures, Old slum pictures

1931 ► Slum clearance took place in #Nottingham’s Narrow Marsh area, such as around Knotted Alley and Foundry Yard.
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How did you get rich?

Apparently, white bluebells are still bluebells, but albino, and quite rare.

I don’t know why, but of all the steps and walkways at the Forest, I’m always drawn to these particular steps when I walk through the park. Although perhaps slightly less last summer, when there was a wasp nest under a slab at the top end…
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Old man Max was a little sleepy this morning; it was a while before I was permitted computer chair access…

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17 April 1899 ► The foundation stone of #Nottingham’s Bagthorpe Workhouse was laid (City Hospital).
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#HowToStopAnts

Nottingham city transport bus stops Gregory Street tram terminus on Derby Road, Nottingham, c1920s. A tram terminus on Derby Road in Nottingham. A tram is visible on the tracks, and there are several people standing nearby. Nottingham c...

16 April 1927 ► #Nottingham’s Derby Road tram route was extended from Gregory Street to Wollaton Park Gates.
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What was a more important invention than the first telephone?
The second one.

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Robin Hood and his Merry Men, one of four historic murals in the dome of Nottingham’s Exchange Arcade, painted in 1928 by Nottingha… | Mural, Robin hood, Historical Robin Hood and his Merry Men, one of four historic murals in the dome of Nottingham’s Exchange Arcade, painted in 1928 by Nottingham artist Noel Denholm Davis (1876-1950).

1928 ► Four historic murals, including Robin Hood and his Merry Men, were painted in the dome of #Nottingham’s Exchange Arcade by Nottingham artist Noel Denholm Davis (1876-1950).
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😂 Sacré bleu!

“There are many theories...”

Just one of the many divisions in society today is between people who recognise this, and people who deny it.

Nottingham City Libraries on Twitter | City library, Nottingham, Library Nottingham’s first public library was opened by the Mayor, in temporary rooms on Thurland Street on 13 April 1868.

13 April 1868 ► #Nottingham’s first public library was opened by the Mayor, in temporary rooms on Thurland Street.
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