Do the neighbours appreciate the honour of having their garden done without charge?
Brexit, for once some facts.
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We try too. At the end of my estate road we emerge onto Featherbed Lane, and not far away is North Pole Lane. Long ago I checked to see if Zlatan was in, but he wasn't.We do love evocative and romantic place names in Yorkshire!
Another road is named Saltbox Hill. Yes you guessed, the hill is steep and it has a council saltbox. Some councils have no imagination.
The adjoining estate has all its roads named after birds, some wildly inappropriate since they'd never be seen in Surrey or London outside of the zoo. Their developers have been sensitive though, there's no Bluetit Way.
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I'm surprised no one noticed and commented on the red tape, it's there to protect the paintwork as I have difficulty "Getting my leg over"Here's an image for Woosh
Panic buying Pandemic style on a Big Bear
Cat litter is almost as rare as toilet rolls in Hull, but my friend Keith who lives in a village called Preston said he knew where he could get some (and toilet rolls and frozen meals too) so we arranged to meet at the rather quaintly named village in between.
I was expecting a small bag but he is nothing if not ambitious and arrived on his bike with what was pretty damn near a lifetime supply strapped to the back.
So with full panniers and Santa's sack roped to the carrier I came back along the old disused railway line.
The bike handled surprisingly well, and I can definitely conform the 25 kilo rating stamped on the carrier as being modest.
On a historical note: the Viet Cong would have giver their eye teeth for an Ebike like this during the drubbing session they handed the Americans.
And I manged to combine shopping and exercise on a single outing
(the exercise being lifting that sack around!)
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A man's still a man for 'A that!
When we lived in Co Durham I remember a bus timetable Twizzel -> Lands End -> No Place. 3 busses a day, but only 1 returning.
(Can't find Lands End on the map, but appears the bus is every 1/2 hour now in both directions.)
Probably the most unfortunate name is in Northumberland
Shilbottle
There are half a dozen junction to it on the A1 and for generations a battle between the highway authorities and the local lads who almost invariably amend the first "l" into a "t"
Regular users of the A1 take great delight in watching for the latest developments as they pass both North and South
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Thanks goodness it isn't a Swine Flu pandemic - Trump would have nuked the place.Here's an image for Woosh
Panic buying Pandemic style on a Big Bear
Cat litter is almost as rare as toilet rolls in Hull, but my friend Keith who lives in a village called Preston said he knew where he could get some (and toilet rolls and frozen meals too) so we arranged to meet at the rather quaintly named village in between.
I was expecting a small bag but he is nothing if not ambitious and arrived on his bike with what was pretty damn near a lifetime supply strapped to the back.
So with full panniers and Santa's sack roped to the carrier I came back along the old disused railway line.
The bike handled surprisingly well, and I can definitely conform the 25 kilo rating stamped on the carrier as being modest.
On a historical note: the Viet Cong would have giver their eye teeth for an Ebike like this during the drubbing session they handed the Americans.
And I manged to combine shopping and exercise on a single outing
(the exercise being lifting that sack around!)
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My voice in the wilderness as usual"
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In the best interests of the nation we should call for the government to announce that party politics are suspended and all elected MP's are to be part of a coalition government so that the majority of the nation is represented not just a faction
Fat chance of course
oldgroaner@oldgroaner
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In the best interests of the nation we should call for the government to announce that party politics are suspended and all elected MP's are to be part of a coalition government so that the majority of the nation is represented not just a faction
Fat chance of course
Shouldn't have told them til April 1st
Coronavirus: German Big Brother cast told about pandemic live on TV
Some of the housemates - who hadn't been told about the pandemic - expressed fear for their parents.
www.bbc.co.uk
Funny how they now tell us:
Matt Hancock: 3.5m coronavirus test kits are on the way to the NHS
But they are still not telling us whether that is over the next week - or ten years.
Matt Hancock: 3.5m coronavirus test kits are on the way to the NHS
But they are still not telling us whether that is over the next week - or ten years.
She doesn't use gardens, well, she wees in ours - but there is a thick hedgerow then a field behind us and she scarpers in the direction.
A plague of hot takes: Lazy contrarians are putting everyone at risk
https://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2020/03/23/a-plague-of-hot-takes-lazy-contrarians-are-putting-everyone
https://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2020/03/23/a-plague-of-hot-takes-lazy-contrarians-are-putting-everyone
In the Guardian
'Confused, dangerous, flippant': rest of world pans PM's handling of coronavirus
We need a vaccine to get rid of the Dangerous Boris contagion
'Confused, dangerous, flippant': rest of world pans PM's handling of coronavirus
We need a vaccine to get rid of the Dangerous Boris contagion
Now the Mail are publishing articles saying up to 50% of the country have already had Coronavirus and that Herd Immunity may already be present! Funny that the number of cases is still increasing, and that countries who are testing people properly don’t think so. Someone must be getting twitchy about the cost.
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It could happen
'Covid coalition' government considered by senior Conservatives
They are beginning to realise the scale of the public reaction that will inevitably come and want to share the blame around!
'Covid coalition' government considered by senior Conservatives
They are beginning to realise the scale of the public reaction that will inevitably come and want to share the blame around!
Unfortunately this is what you get with Fascist regime publications
The Big lie, as Trump would say "Told Bigly"
Sustrans 4 yesterday late morning on our socially distanced exercise walk. Beautiful day, flowers really starting to bloom (celandines by the million, wild garlic just about to get there, last of the snowdrops). I think we saw two other people but easy to keep our distances. Babbling brook, well, babbling. More butterflies than we have seen for a long time - anywhere.
Funnily enough, it is exactly the same distance to Hwlffordd as Haverfordwest.
