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Badger Mash
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Made of the land I lived on. Plants, Wildlife, BBC Radio 4, Tolkien, Tea, TaiChi, Policy rather than Politics, #Population #SaveOurBBC Worcestershire
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Imagining the consequnces if all the, currrently hyperactive, vexillophiles became guerilla gardeners.
Government, whether Lab, Con, Ref or Lib, would clamp down hard. Possession of a trowel would get you 10 years inside. The RHS would become a proscribed terrorist organisation.
"My Cheque Book" is a dangerously volatile issue for folk of a certain age, as I have found more than once, to my cost. Last time, once the local branch of the bank had closed, so they couldn't go and hold the place up, I said that, after a particular date, cheques would no longer be in use.
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The lake of Llyn Cerrig Bach, Anglesey-one of those rare places where the veil between then & now can feel like mist, & never more so than, having spent the weekend hunting for its lost Iron Age artefacts, & with its ancient peat ingrained beneath fingernails, someone lifts a carnyx to their lips
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Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I've just found, inside a Snickers bar, a Marathon bar of exactly the same size.
Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
They seem to have run out of ammo here.
This makes perfect sense, given that the infernal ITV soap "Crossroads" had a regular character called Amy Turtle.
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The etymology of ‘turtle’ is interesting as shell.

'Turtle' comes from the French 'tortue,' which in turn comes from the Late Latin 'tartarucha.'

‘Tartarucha’ was short for the phrase ‘bestia tartarucha’ which means "infernal beast" or "beast of the nether regions."
Wonders whether it was chocolate cake, junior Guide, or household spirtit. Could easily be any, or all.
I once saw some in bloom in mid December near Penzance.
We have one right over the drive, and I usually attempt to limit doing leaves to, at most a couple of sessions, but had to do two and a half on acorns alone.
@dandyandafop.bsky.social I've kept meaning to send you a photo of this to get overexcited about. I dimly recall it being built, C.1969.
Bizarrely, we had the same situation a few weeks back, but with acorns. Like a woodland ball pit.
Dangerously Johnsonesque
And a great voice on radio, not least in King Street Junior. However, once saw him as the unlikely host of a very early, and ill advised, virtual reality TV game show.
I was hoping the isobars might take on a bunny shape...
Storm Benjamin has been named by MeteoFrance

We are likely to see impacts from wind and rain across the UK tonight and tomorrow with yellow warnings issued ⚠️

Stay updated 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning
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It's impossible to play the hurdy gurdy without making it your whole personality. No one is a casual hurdy gurdy player.
This should be available in one-size-fits-all burka format, for work use. Not to be removed until a qualified maintenance psychiatrist is satisfied that the breakdown has been fully resolved.
Same, sign, same
I bet there were teams of hackers, crouched inside long barrows, hacking the ley lines via inadequately warded henges.
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I’ve done a thing and finally published the business website for the @pboroearcare.bsky.social acct. www.earwax-gone.co.uk

Currently covering PE3 and PE4 postcodes, looking to do more later this year.
Are we living through Catch 22 again? Could Trump have been persuaded to demolish the White House by Putin, to save him money on missiles? (And all that bother that goes with thermonuclear war.)
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