Bring back those old "Halt At Major Toad Ahead" road signs.
09.03.2026 20:15
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Bring back those old "Halt At Major Toad Ahead" road signs.
A litte after I first visited but captures the zeitgeist.
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"This is William Sandcastle with The World at Sixes and Sevens" Private Eye Record long ago.
Oh yes.
Recall some of us being caught having a swift half at the pub in Brockton when on a geography field course at Preston Montford (which we reached by steam train from Paddington and Vaggs Motors) Old school socialist geography teacher, "I thought you were having coffee. Better leave now."
Same here. I think the most my wife has had to wait was a week but that has come down recently. Results with GP in two/three days.
Not here in W Sussex. We used simply to turn up, take a numbered ticket and wait in line. We were concerned when it changed to an online booking service but it is still sometimes possible to get a same-day booking.
A little stylish musical interlude from Australia.
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Is that a line from "Hallo Hallo"? If not, it should have been.
People don’t vote for candidates they fear will ruin their lives and indeed, they will actively try to stop those candidates getting elected, film at 11.
Superb!
"Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?" Mitchell J.
Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand, Wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?
Goddard's turn and pass would have been described as "nifty" back in the day.
it's bleakly hilarious to have people complaining that using the word "nazi" to describe people calling for racial cleansing and forced breeding is "rendering the word meaningless," while supporters of the US government use the word "communist" to describe having a functioning healthcare system
A (possibly, the) most famous English beer writer once wrote that Bernard Miles, of Mackeson adverts fame, spoke with a West Country accent.
This whole drama, whatever side your on, is pretty undignified, and will only give ammunition to the pound-shop Trumpians who want to get rid of the whole concept of an impartial civil service altogether.
I have just been told that Waterstones is running a February sale until the 20th (tomorrow), and that you can pre-order my book at 25% off if you enter the code FEB26 checking out. www.waterstones.com/book/fantast...
Just like PE at school.
This is Prelude, featuring the gorgeous voice of Irene Hume, and their 1974 hit After The Goldrush.
I can't bring myself to say it's as good as Neil Young's aching, fragile original. But it's bloody close!
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Not entirely alone.
"The inhabitants of Scotland now call themselves "Scots" and their affairs "Scottish" They are entitled to do so. The English word for both is "Scotch....."
AJP Taylor, Preface to "English History 1914-1945"
You're welcome. I spend too much time on You Tube.
What a voice. What a smile. Companion to my adulthood. @trainsongscentral.bsky.social
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Interesting observation on a similar thread about Waterstone's, a lot of people's favoured alternative, being owned by an aggressive American hedge fund.
Thanks. It would appear from this thread that not many people know that.
Both sides of both hands like at school.
There will come a day, when nobody competent or with any integrity will even consider a career in the Civil Service, if this is how people are treated.
As for the desperation, it is clearly on the side of the "Government source“.
