Peter Hutchinson
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Peter Hutchinson
@Catus14
Retired international construction director (despite my degrees being PPE & EU law). Labour Party & NUFC for stress, grandchildren for joy. Wine & rowing help.
UK Katılım Ocak 2011
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Definitely was still a tradition in the 1990s, Gateshead. Folks would rub a coin on my daughter’s hand. @JHCPAL
Elizabeth❣️@WorkElizab
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@SkinnerPm Two additional points (as well as Trump is racist).
1) 40 years ago my company supported a Docklands school in London with a high % of Somalia kids. Their results were exceptional.
2) If they're so stupid and you're so smart, how do they keep conning you?
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The president is openly racist. Has been his entire life. His ‘low IQ’ slur is used very selectively and deliberately. Again and again he shows everyone: The president is openly racist.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump: "In Minnesota, it's very Somalia-oriented. These people come from a crooked country, disgusting country, one of the worst countries in the world. They come to our country -- low IQs -- and they rob us blind. Stupid people, and they rob us blind."
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Now I'm in Chicago! I'm here for High School Nationals. This tournament isn't FIDE rated, so it's mostly just "for fun". Still, if I play well, I could be a "National Champion", and that sounds cool, right? The blitz tournament is tonight and the main event starts tomorrow.
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The rare surname Gofton (sometimes mistakenly t/s Goston) pops up around Ponteland 1500/1600s, & sporadically elsewhere in Northumberland.
Where did it originate?
I came across this farm planning a walk near Wark, which may well be the origin. Originally a denu not a ton @JHCPAL
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@LauraPidcock Nothing more valuable than being lectured about working class self emancipation by someone who has always been middle class and who uses the example of the failed miners strike 40 years ago to try to look relevant, having failed her voters
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Class struggle is as relevant now as it was during the 84-85 miners strike. Working class self emancipation, with working class people driving that political project is crucial to what we build next.
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@BeckettUnite "Far fetched"? Beckett was suspended from Unite for allegedly misleading the union regarding a controversial hotel project, which exceeded its budget from an estimated £7m to an astonishing £112m. The project was also under investigation by the SFO due to financial irregularities
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Starmer calls it “far fetched” to question the truth of McSweeney’s phone being stolen
The one constant that can be said of Starmer:
He thinks we are all thick.
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@Catus14 It's a tad milder down here. We were amazed it survived a winter !
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There was one on the farm about 25 years ago. On a hill. In Nth Tyneside. It survived a winter ! Use to sit at the kitchen window. Must have escaped from an aviary. One day it turned up & had lost a leg ! It lived a good bit longer. Was around for about 18 months in total.
Oaks And Lions 🏴🇬🇧@oaksandlions
London now has tens of thousands of bright green parakeets, spreading to new areas every year. They were never native to Britain. So how did they end up here? Most likely, they escaped or were released from captivity decades ago. Since then, they’ve adapted remarkably well to London’s parks and suburbs, helped by mild winters and abundant food. To some, they add colour and character to the city, to others, they are seen as an invasive species. Have they reached your area yet?
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@JHCPAL ...and the spill used to light the gas from the fire, or a tab from the gas, or birthday candles.....like a REALLY big spelk
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For our Yorkshire contingent - spell. OED...a splinter, fragment. First recorded 1545. Perhaps a variant of speld, a chip or splinter. Now obsolete, though OE, inherited from Germanic. Old Norse speld, Norwegian spjelk, Swedish spjell.
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Spelk.
The word that started me off. A big language account said it was obsolete. No I thought & off I went. The word that always provokes a response. The one that, based on 2 years doing this, is THE word that identifies a region & the people from it - however far-flung. 🧵
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@JHCPAL @WitchesKitchen Researching my wife's family, who moved down from Aberdeenshire to work on the land in the borders, I found they lived in Sunilaws, a place I'd never heard of. Looked it up and this train ticket appeared
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@JHCPAL @WitchesKitchen Yep, her family also lived in Carham, her great x 4 grandfather Charles Blyth married Agnes Ann Easton there in 1810.
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@WitchesKitchen @Catus14 Just had to Google to see where that is ! Carham. Near the other Wark.
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