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David Freedman

@freedmanhp4.bsky.social

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The world’s softest grandpa and worst jazz trumpeter. Cricket, rugby, music, books, theatre, politics and - above all - family. You’d probably describe me as woke. And if you did, that’d be OK. I was (still am, for now) @freedmanhp4 in another place.

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David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · 10h

I travel to Lincolnshire.

David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · 20h

We didn’t have these confounded machines when Douglas Adams was around, but if we had, would there have been a Meaning Of Liff word for picking up your phone to do something necessary and specific but instead be rootling around in distracting social media and search engines 20 minutes later?

David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve still got a couple, and many of the cables, leads and connectors mentioned in these posts. They’ll have to prise them from my cold, dead hand.

David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · 4d

Still is. Test Match Special opens with it as do the TMS podcasts. And if the BBC have Ashes tv highlights this winter (will they?) it will be used then.

David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · 4d

Importantly, use the Quick Vote recommended 7 candidates to avoid splitting the anti-Farage, anti-Restore Trust vote. There are so many candidates that examining each individual’s credentials and spreading votes is risky.

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 10d

Remember to vote in National Trust elections!

teresapbn.bsky.social @teresapbn.bsky.social · 15d

One vital reason to vote in the National Trust elections and for the NT endorsed candidates. We can't risk the Restore Trust candidates getting any influence on it.

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David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · 5d

Good luck if you can get past the electronically controlled gates these days.

David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · 9d

After a delightful fortnight in two glorious, historically interesting Italian cities, I’ve concluded that there is one ubiquitous interloper far worse and more disfiguring than McD, Starbucks, Hard Rock Cafe and the rest:
the bloody “Irish” Pub.

David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · 10d

Or is it?

David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · 27d

Praise the Lord that I’m not the only person screaming this (self evident truth) into the void. People who spend £100s on coffee equipment and expensive beans - and ages making it - seem happy to brew tea from paper and powder when the far better alternative is cheap and easy.

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David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · 29d

Electric razors are the devil’s work anyway.

David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · Oct 5

You say that now, but it’s easy to be a Monday morning quarterback.

David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · Sep 14

Yes. They started dropping in price to around £50 (which was still a lot) in about 2001. I did PR for companies launching popular prepaid in about ‘97 and remember chasing journalists at the GSM World Congress at Cannes in those days to come and see this revolutionary breakthrough.

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David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · Sep 14

I worked with a lot of the software companies involved in the early days of prepaid mobile. Handsets affordable by people of school age weren’t around in 1999. The first cheap prepaid options came a year a so later and weren’t ubiquitous for a while.

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David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · Sep 14

Some areas (like mine) still have inconsistent mobile coverage. No call I have made from a landline has ever dropped. 5G makes lots of extra services possible but for voice-to-voice calling from a fixed location landlines are still a better option.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · Sep 13

Sky News says police are "overwhelmed by the numbers". Met coped perfectly well with 2x as many at the pro-Gaza rally, 5x as many at the anti-Brexit march, and 15x as many at London Pride.

They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.

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David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · Sep 12

This is utter rubbish. *Some* players have very busy schedules because they choose to play multiple formats for multiple teams. Invariably they come from counties who could reasonably increase their playing staff. Most players in most counties play relatively little by historical standards.

David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · Sep 8

Perfect, yes; but if there is anything (pan, little silicone pods etc) between the egg and the water then the egg isn’t actually poached. If there’s a pan that creates and sustains a whirlpool of water you could drop the egg into: here - take my money.

David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · Sep 7

When it was manufactured.

David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · Sep 5

The word “could” in the headline is doing quite a lot of heavy lifting here, in relation to the actual story. Still, some room here for hope that the counties will hold the line. Though they should be bolder and push for more, not fewer, Championship games, via a return to some 3-day games.

David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · Sep 4

First version was better, apart from the odd, redundant “….al”.

David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · Sep 3

The fess here is that the OP has eaten a McDonalds and, having done so, has knowingly repeated the experience.

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David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · Sep 2

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David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · Sep 1

I feel I’ve let the side down a bit today. 7.45pm and only now am I about to eat my first bowl of stewed apple and blackberry of the day. Should have had five or six by now to keep up with supply.
#Autumn

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · Aug 31

I mean this country has killed enough Kennedys, I guess it’s only fair one of them tries to return the favor

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David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social · Aug 31

Iron rule: white boards not to be cleaned by cleaning staff.