Black Country Byrhtnoth
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Black Country Byrhtnoth
@brythnoth2
Catching up with old friends and news. Politics - social libertarian. An equal opportunity insulter. They’re just jokes and we will all be dead soon anyway.
Thiumphu Se unió Nisan 2015
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@StansaidAirport @WhiteHouse Lots of fuel to get those KitKats into orbit
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@PascalGrenewic @bindelj 'Lady Balls', 'Hersticles', 'Shebollox'? We must rename those men's parts however we are dictated to it seems...(Except of course we will not, and men like that can eff completely off).
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@paddypower Managing our expectations down for summer.
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@MartinKnight_ Probably just had the Munchies after a toot on a Rolo. What a flake
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@Joanna__Hardy @DavidMuttering Out of practice since the Inn’s Got Talent dinners faded away?
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@brythnoth2 @DavidMuttering Barristers are so bad at singing.
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@KarlTurnerMP @MarcherReborn Don’t worry. There’ll be a U turn on it soon.
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@DavidMuttering @Joanna__Hardy How bad must the singing be?
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Won't see him again.
'Andy's gone to live on a farm'
PoliticalPics@PoliticalPics
Andy Burnham Mayor of Greater Manchester just gone into No10
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@GeoffNorcott Ham, orange pretend cheese and microplastics- yum
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@reallyslack Corned beef, pickles, aioli and ketchup
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@MikePetalengro @rambling1diot If he’s not been to the outskirts of Birmingham and the nearby shires he won’t have a clue
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@ProudofusUK We should never let the history of pencils be erased
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One storm. One fallen tree. One field in the Lake District. ✏️
The entire global pencil industry.
There is a field in the Lake District. Nothing remarkable about it. Fell sheep, grey sky, Cumbrian rain.
Until one day a storm came through. It uprooted a tree and underneath the roots was something nobody had ever seen before.
A black substance. Soft, dark, left a mark on everything it touched.
The shepherds didn't know what it was, but they used it to mark their sheep.
That was 1565.
It was the purest deposit of graphite ever found on earth. The only one like it. Ever. 🌍
Word spread fast.
The Crown seized the mine, put armed guards on the fell and flooded it between diggings to keep the price high.
Stealing graphite became a criminal offence.
Punishable by transportation to Australia.
Because this wasn't just for marking sheep.
It was perfect for lining cannonball moulds. It made England's cannonballs rounder. Faster. More deadly. ⚔️
England had a pencil monopoly for nearly a century. Every artist, every cartographer, every engineer in Europe. All of them wanted what was in that one Cumbrian field.
Slowly, workshops appeared in nearby Keswick. Cottage industries. Families cutting graphite into sticks.
Wrapping them in string. Then sheepskin. Then wood.
The pencil was born. ✏️
In a Cumbrian field. Because a storm uprooted a tree.
There is still a pencil factory in Keswick today. On the same site it has always been.
Did you know that?
These islands have thousands of stories the world has forgotten.
We find them. We tell them.
We put them in front of millions.
You help us make that possible.
Be Part Of Us.
Be Proud Of Us. 🏴🇬🇧
proudofus.co.uk
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In order to repair the Anglo American relationship may I suggest Trumpton?
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: The proposed names the Government is considering calling its new towns - Elizabethtown (after the Queen) - Pankhurst (after suffragette Emmeline) - Attleeton (after ex-PM) - Athelstan (first King of England) - Seacole (after nurse Mary) [@thetimes]
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@Rozpusteny @TheMossadIL Another one killed by death
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