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Had to send a parcel today so went to @PostOffice and put it on the scales.
That's £17.
But it said £6 online I said.
That's if you buy online.
So I left the queue, bought online, then waited in line, showed my QR code on the phone and paid £6.
Why make it so difficult?
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In @CostaCoffee (Union Square Aberdeen) Barista offered to carry my coffee & cake as i had luggage ⭐️ Accepted & said I was going to ask as my blood glucose was dropping & I was feeling shaky. She then offered some marshmallows to bring my glucose levels up. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2
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Last night, a woman behind me came over pre kick off and said 'I've just captured a video of you and your son. Can I send it to you?'
I gave her my email and I think it might just be my favourite video ever.
@wembleystadium
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There is a pattern hidden across the map of England.
“-gate”
“-by”
“-thorpe”
Names like Stonegate, Whitby, or Scunthorpe are over a thousand years old.
But they are not English in origin.
They are the imprint of ancient Viking settlements.
“Gate” does not mean a barrier - It comes from the Old Norse word gata, meaning a road or street.
That is why cities like York still have Stonegate, Coppergate, and Micklegate.
“-by” meant a farm or settlement. Towns like Grimsby, Whitby, and Derby were once Viking communities, places where Norse settlers lived and worked.
“-thorpe” meant a smaller outlying village. These were often new settlements on the edge of older ones, carved out of the landscape by incoming settlers.
A thousand years later, and the language of the Vikings remains written across the map of England.
Follow @oaksandlions for more interesting posts like this.
@HistoricEngland #EnglishHistory #Vikings

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