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A couple of years ago I went on a pilgrimage to the derelict moorland cottage where a vegetarian ex-butcher once lived with a bull he had adopted, named Scrunch.
You will find the story in the alt text...
A couple of years ago I went on a pilgrimage to the derelict moorland cottage where a vegetarian ex-butcher once lived with a bull he had adopted, named Scrunch.
You will find the story in the alt text...
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
THREAD.
A couple of years ago I went on a pilgrimage to the derelict moorland cottage where a vegetarian ex-butcher once lived with a bull he had adopted, named Scrunch.
You will find the story in the alt text...
A couple of years ago I went on a pilgrimage to the derelict moorland cottage where a vegetarian ex-butcher once lived with a bull he had adopted, named Scrunch.
You will find the story in the alt text...
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If you've not read/perused these yet, I've made it a bit easier by putting them on my website: www.tom-cox.com/important-bi...
November 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
If you've not read/perused these yet, I've made it a bit easier by putting them on my website: www.tom-cox.com/important-bi...
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George has been gone for five months but I have been feeling some pangs for him out of nowhere today. Quite a few grieving pet owners got in touch when I wrote this to say it helped them, so I've decided to take the paywall off so it can be read by all... tomcox.substack.com/p/lots-of-pe...
Lots Of People Will Unsubscribe As A Result Of This, Solely Because It's My Second Post In Consecutive Days, But The Fact Is My Cat Died And I Needed To Write About It
Back when I lived on the Norfolk-Suffolk border, a little over a decade ago, there was a running joke amongst people who knew me that my house was a kind of after-hours youth club for cats.
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January 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
George has been gone for five months but I have been feeling some pangs for him out of nowhere today. Quite a few grieving pet owners got in touch when I wrote this to say it helped them, so I've decided to take the paywall off so it can be read by all... tomcox.substack.com/p/lots-of-pe...
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also, a reminder
anyway, I'm having one of my occasional panics about numbers on that thing, so
a) please sign up - look, you can get 25% off an annual sub today, and
b) if you want to read but CAN'T currently pay just DM me and I'll comp you no questions asked, no it isn't a trick, we're on the honours system
a) please sign up - look, you can get 25% off an annual sub today, and
b) if you want to read but CAN'T currently pay just DM me and I'll comp you no questions asked, no it isn't a trick, we're on the honours system
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January 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
also, a reminder
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"By 1921, there were around 150 women’s football clubs in the country, who played to crowds in the tens of thousands and could sell out stadiums. That’s the moment the English Football Association chose to declare the game “not suitable for females” and ban women’s teams from FA grounds."
Guest post: A women’s history guided tour along London’s Suffragette line
Nuns, jiu-jitsu and the first women’s football match.
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November 24, 2024 at 3:29 PM
"By 1921, there were around 150 women’s football clubs in the country, who played to crowds in the tens of thousands and could sell out stadiums. That’s the moment the English Football Association chose to declare the game “not suitable for females” and ban women’s teams from FA grounds."
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Hello everyone. I am now on this platform for social media. Do please repost this message so that more people can find me!
November 13, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Hello everyone. I am now on this platform for social media. Do please repost this message so that more people can find me!
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November 10, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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