The Romiley Rambler

@GenealogyBeech 'Oneris P. Digat' surely teen-speak marketing for 'It can chop up the cause of the problem' (father of the burden). *Obviously* a souvenir bought on a school trip to the continent; surreptitiously ditched overboard the ferry home when teacher announced a search for contraband! 😉

inscriptions are still visible along its blade. The lettering, combining Roman and Lombardic capitals, forms no known words, leading archaeologists to believe it may represent a sacred or protective phrase intended to give its owner strength in battle. Dating from around 1100,

🧵The Cawood Sword is one of the rarest and best-preserved medieval swords ever discovered in Britain only the fifth example of its type to be found. Recovered from the River Ouse near Cawood Castle in the late 19th century, it remains in such remarkable condition that

The afternoon sun gradually dims, as if clouded by a gathering storm of flying ants.

Fireworks over Bredbury as the exit poll results are announced.

(So far) the number of garden signs exceeds the actual turnout, as voters dodge the rain showers with help from their postal votes.

Confused Mancs look a gifthorse in the mouth, as details man Rishi finally allows them the one mile Metrolink extension they were demanding to the new Manchester Airport HS2 station from the old Manchester Airport rail station.

Five pence pieces the size of hailstones tumble from the sky, as 2023 turns out it's pockets to refund UK customers for the non-delivery of summer.

Quick, everyone pretend to act normal, the Google Street View car is taking photos of us all!

Calls grow to extend new Voter ID rules to supermarkets, to reassure the public about product impersonation.

Congratulations to the Wharf Marple CIC team. It's great to see a #Marple project progressing well. Take a look...youtu.be/9_94kPUgzjs

Water pressure yo-yos as UU play a daily game of whack-a-mole for Advent.

Can I use this stuff coming out of my taps as paint? Asking for a friend.

Compstall mops up the puddles, after 1km-high wall of water swept downstream in apocalyptic flood now being blamed for low footfall at Merseyway.

Is your turnout looking dangerously low? Have you tried handing some nice voters more than one ballot paper? Watch that ballot box fill up faster!

@FelicityFuller3 @BBCLookNorth @MarsdennT @WYFRS

@BBCLookNorth @MarsdenNT a fire has broken out on the moors above Marsden in the last few minutes. @WYFRS have been notified.

"If you just heard an announcement in the rear carriage that this train is too long to fit on the platform, please note this train is having an identity crisis: it thinks it is a 6-car train... which it is not."

@CharlotteLangt5 @BRPEurope This tale must be a work of fiction, for you can find no one, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave Romiley. When one is tired of Romiley, one is tired of life; for there is all in Romiley that life can afford. Plus the river isn't that high today.

Yes! I am extremely pleased to announce that my short #adventure story 'Sadie Devereaux: Escape from Romiley Island' will be published in this upcoming #anthology by @BRPEurope ! Who's up for an adventure?

Brexit paper shortage reaps dividends as the only Mayoral election leaflet delivered so far is for someone who is not even a candidate this year.

X-rated Covid-19 likes to spread via the 3 Cs: Close Contact Closed Spaces and *CENSORED*

Rumours that for its next trick, 2020 will deliver a plague of frogs, are incorrect as most of them are in fact toads.

Increased rates of obesity have been reported amongst Romiley's school-age frogs and toads following this year's flying ants day.