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Bill Gibbon
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Ex teacher, adviser, HE tutor, Policy Adviser etc .. more fun being retired though.
Die Hard? Well, why not??
December 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas.

Be a love, and pay it today.
December 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Lifting 500k kids from poverty ✔️
Gambling Tax ✔️
Mansion Tax ✔️
Energy Bills down £150✔️
Min Wage up ✔️
Pensions up ✔️
Tourist Tax for local communities✔️

I’d say it was a bloody good budget myself.
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Six months of total incompetence from @WeAreOpenreach on full fibre broadband.
12 houses in cul de sac, four different ISPs, permission to work given multiple times by all involved, including residents association for shared drive. 30 engineer visits. STILL NO DUCT!!
November 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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My comedy creation “SLT Newbie” is getting extremely popular over on the Facebook. You really should check out her nonsense…
November 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Someone from RAF Waddington had a lovely morning.
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Yup .. “Harnessing Technology” programme, “Strategic Technologies Programme”, “Beyond Current Horizons programme” etc. all running from early noughties until kiboshed by Gove, and libdem Nick had a hand in that too ..
Gavin Williamson floundering on schools in the COVID Inquiry is unsuprising.
But Tory predecessors should share the blame for ignoring pandemics after some of us had helped plan for them!
That ‘Nobody could have seen this coming’ nonsense! – Parkin Space
That ‘Nobody could have seen this coming’ nonsense!
Written in response to all those, “nobody could have seen this coming,” “online learning is showing it is poor at replacing real classroom teaching,” and, “isn’t…
tonyparkin.wordpress.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
RSA Newcastle Network Encounter tonight. Tyneside Cinema Bar/Cafe.
September 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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People cannot catch shingles from someone with chickenpox. But they can catch chickenpox from someone with shingles if they have not had chickenpox before.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#health
Children offered chickenpox vaccine on NHS
All young children in England and Wales will be offered a free chickenpox vaccine by the NHS from January 2026.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 29, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Would love the King to tell us today in his speech why he gets £132m a year for charging rent to Wind Turbines for worthless seabed.

The money comes straight from your energy bills, £3.30 each.
August 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Don't rush - but Morrisons have mince pies on sale already ...
August 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Good luck everyone involved in Results Day. May the tears be mostly happy, and the unhappy ones turned around after a couple of phone calls.

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August 14, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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To quote an old line, the average IQ of both parties has gone up.
So Jake Berry joins Reform. There's a surprise. Unpleasant man joins unpleasant party.
July 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Defining Culture Shock. A couple in their mid seventies walking down Dean Street in Newcastle on their way to a theatre on the Quayside. On a Saturday evening.
June 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
So there’s the first Xmas card catalogue in the inbox.
June 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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We went to Blaydon Races, ’twas on the 9th of June, Eighteen hundred and sixty-two, on a summer’s afternoon…’. Happy 163rd anniversary of your anthem, Geordies!
June 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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It’s June, and that means many things, but one of them is also the release of a new tube map on the TfL website.

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lon...
London's new tube map: Bond Street shuffles, step-free changes, and Cutty Sark closes
It’s June, and that means many things, but one of them is also the release of a new tube map on the TfL website.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
June 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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May 31, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Old fogey or what. At airport at 5am (yes!?) and the place is heaving with families and hordes of men drinking pints of beer. Noise is twice what we usually experience with a mid afternoon flight.
May 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
So I wonder how long it will take before we'll get the truth from Musk in revenge about how he the rigged the election ..
May 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I’ve just seen a Spitfire fly across Whitley Bay. …
May 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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And it gives indefinite access to EU markets for food, animal and agriculture. So for 12 years of status quo on the fishing deal - our fishermen can now sell their produce into the EU which they haven’t been able to do for 5 years

The surrender, if there was one - was the deal done by the Tories
May 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM