Eternally recurring doubt as to the seriousness of the whole business of local government reform given the date. On the one hand, but on the other.
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Eternally recurring doubt as to the seriousness of the whole business of local government reform given the date. On the one hand, but on the other.
Young people spending 30 quid a month on a gym subscription but too weak to walk to the shops or live in a flat without a lift
Infant off with the customary winter respiratory, so we're building the Toby ApSimon Memorial Railway up onto the dining table and across to, and perhaps out of, the window. Alas, no Hornby clockworks.
Nice detail re the end of Gunner's bank in Bishops Waltham - L.S. Pressnell, Country Banking in the Industrial Revolution (1956)
I'd prefer to watch Lord of the Flies than get a mobile that does emojis
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Sadly I think the government will listen to the lobbyists and some MP's will look at potential job offers. 😕
There must be a Ladybird book on how to set up a bank.
A stranger today in Aldi: Excuse me, aren't you Pete?!
Me: No, but some people think I look like him.
Infant earns money, wants to do something with it apart from buy Wotsits, but it appears to be impossible for her to get a savings account. Perhaps she should apply to the regulator for a banking licence.
We had a few in past years, & they were so uninspiring that we suspected subsidy farming.
A green door is going onto the old Humbl café on Monk Bridge Road, leading to speculation www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BnP...
Maybe they'd keep at it if the £1 books were better
Infant declined to go to British Isles Book Day at skule as the protagonist of her revenge thriller, in which The Pencil pursues the rubber which tried to rub her out. My old pink wig was also cancelled, tho this is the English event closest to carnival, apart from the Otley Run.
Often see the Connexions 781 bus from Meanwood to Otley at the Green Road stand for extended periods in the morning, but there's probably a rule against the driver using the time to put up a timetable in the shelter
Peregrine falcon just took a couple of fly-by pecks at a crow seated in a tree in Meanwood Park
Boner (Wright, English Dialect Dictionary)
The Guardian revives the use of 'vulnerable' as an auto-antonym for a story about pupils beating up SEND transport staff
What kind of HP can we expect for the waterwheel project?
A modal filter for Grove Rd twixt Monk Bridge & Grove Ln! Are council transport planners 1) Dumb? Pavement driving on this school walk was 100% predictable. 2) Machiavellian snails, plotting death by 1,000 cuts over the next 100 years for Leeds, Motorway City of the 70s?
Delivered more Yorkshire Almanacs today, & got invited to tea at one house, thus learning about the flea circus on Woodhouse Moor & Jake Thackray, who I suspect was the origin of a friend's performance style
£10/glass at a run-of-the-mill pizzeria
Safe to say that stories about snowdrops and medieval monks are nonsense
Snowdrops & bees in 1894
Twilight of the mussels. See also muricidus, mouse-killer.
The infant seems to have figured out apostrophes, so let's not abolish them yet.
The pleasing notion that snowdrops were introduced to England to provide early-season pollinator support (bumblebee queen observed...) & kickstart food crops. Crocuses, another essential link in the early-season flower sequence, are also non-native, but let's stop there.
We're back to Masada and Cyrus - Bernard Lewis grinning somewhere
The inevitable twat gets out his camera & starts filming
"Fix the pavement parking." I am wrong to think of it as a recent phenomenon, although obviously far more serious now - 12-13 million motor vehicles in 1969 vs 43 million now, total tonnage perhaps 20 vs 90 million.