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Lynne
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Lancashire-raised, Lincolnshire-domiciled; retired OU-er; mother & grandmother; fond of semicolons.
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Might it have been a grey wagtail (which is almost as yellow)? They stay all year.
yellow wagtail
November 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Caerphilly results
October 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Might have been this photo.
Photograph of young Shostakovich (1925)
August 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Some interesting points here.
And locally, as nationally, the number of parties standing has risen. In the past, many local councillors have been elected unopposed. But this time it appears that every local council seat will be contested, often between five candidates, and the winning vote share may well be very small in many places. For a decade, local election turnout in the Eastern Region has never been higher than 40%. So, if 40% splits fairly evenly between four parties, the winner might be chosen by barely one in ten electors.
April 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Misleading headline from the BBC, as it's only *personal* imports that have been banned. It does scupper our plans to bring back some interesting Dutch cheese from holiday next month, though! (Not sure how a cheese butty can spread foot & mouth?)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK bans EU cheese and meat imports to prevent disease spreading
April 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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They must have updated it.
There are currently 9.27 million people classified as economically inactive. Reasons for economic inactivity include long-term sickness, studying, retirement and caring responsibilities.
March 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Used to be we would all dash over to Twitter to post about Facebook being down...
Facebook error message: Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.
February 27, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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How is it so quick? Germany doesn't use electronic voting.
BBC headline: Merz victory confirmed after complete vote count published at 01:19 01:19 Breaking Friedrich Merz's conservatives have won the German election with 28.6%. Counting of votes has been finished and the results confirm tha
February 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Does nominative determinism apply to places?
news story: A main road in Nottinghamshire was closed after a water pipe burst, causing water to shoot into the air. Severn Trent said teams have been carrying out emergency repairs in Main Street, East Leake, on Thursday, which was closed temporarily for safety.
December 6, 2024 at 12:26 AM
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Yes, it was chilly in parts of France last night, but I'm more entertained to learn there's actually a place called 'Bumblebees-on-Kidney'😂
Chart showing overnight temperatures. One placename is Bourdons-sur-Rognon, which translates as Bumblebees-on-Kidney.
November 22, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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Some wise advice from @davidallengreen.bsky.social
davidallengreen.com/2024/11/the-...
3. Respond, if you can, to what they actually do – not what you fear they will do, or even what they say they will do. What they actually will do will be bad enough, and will need your energy and focus. The illiberals will hope – and expect – that all the noise and fears under (1) and (2) will mean that by the time they do put measures forward, they will have little opposition.
November 19, 2024 at 12:03 AM