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@Pippisell I keep them to hang Christmas decorations. Jolly useful.

Does anyone ever use these bits of ribbon sewn into the shoulders of women’s clothes, or do we all cut them off and make little holes in the brand new garment? 🙄😂

@MrBonMot And car clock.

British Summer Time. Or as I like to call it, 'Correct time on the Oven Clock'

@bagshaw2112 “Outstandingfold in the wetty grippers”. Stanley Unwin advertising tyres.

Anyone remember this Guy. A very funny gentleman . Had is own language Called Unwinese I think #stanleyunwin Kids nowadays wouldn’t understand this comedy ..

@ianrich15813274 The trip when Liz Truss kept people waiting while she posed in front of the Sydney Bridge? I remember it well.

The EU has just signed a major economic deal with Australia, it's on massively better terms than the Johnson government were able to get from Aus. Guess it's another one of those Brexit benefits! 😁

@thecoastguy I'm always happy to hear explanations for how my son died. Usually I listen to doctors. They tell me that it was meningococcal septicaemia (sepsis). Can you explain why I should listen to you instead?

RT if you would never vote Reform UK!

@devilscustard And well worth celebrating! 🎉

I know I’m odd, but tonight marks a festival in the calendar in my head. It’s officially ‘First Line-Dried Bedlinen Night’ tonight!😁

@archer_rs Rather like the Labour government is doing following 14 years of the Tories. It can’t be accomplished quickly.

The US President who comes after Trump will likely have to spend nearly all his first term repairing the damage that Trump has done to America.

@Hepworthclare 'Ye gods and little fishes!' - don't hear that much these days. A wonderful way to express ones frustration and less rude than 'wtf'. Thank you.

Ye Gods and little fishes ! Cleverly on #bbclaurak attempting to channel "statecraft" as he refers to women being segregated as second class citizens. I imagine he's forgotten his tasteless "joke" about dosing his wife with Rohypnol. I haven't forgotten.

@arealmofwonder Did anyone else immediately burst into song reading this? Took me back to assembly in primary school and then Cat Stevens.

Poems for Lent (Day 28)

@SarahWoods66 Busy too. It would seem the Bluebell Railway in Sussex is up and running too; I can hear it from my garden.

It’s that time again - the first day of trains past the house

@paullewismoney @Moneybox @BBCRadio4 960. Which I worked out in my head! Why couldn’t I do this when I was at school? It would have saved a whole lot of grief in maths lessons. 😩

Why am I showing you this? All will become clear @moneybox starting just after midday @BBCRadio4 but you must wait til the end to find the answer! Meanwhile - and don't look it up - how many of these to the pound then?

GB News has turned into the Reform channel. After a New World investigation found hundreds of breaches of the rules on accuracy and impartiality, Ofcom has failed to do its job and act. We've seen what Fox News has done to politics in the US. We can't let it happen here.

Surely your personality has achieved this already.

@Zero_4 Loved the way his fellow guests on @BBCNewsnight piled in on him though. Intelligent women refusing to stand for his nonsense.

I’m still yet to find a Reform MP (or representative) who isn’t a colossal twat The way they act in every public/TV appearance is utterly detestable There’s never any warmth or charm or humour or facts - just fury, hatred, arrogance and stupidity #newsnight

Love the pile on from both Gillian Tett and Baroness Debonnaire directed at Robert Jenrick on @BBCNewsnight. You almost feel sorry for him … no, not really. 🙂

@JoannaCannon Could not agree more, but I’m still addicted to crime dramas.

Not dealing with my emotions has also stolen my ability to read (no concentration) or sleep for any length of time, so I have taken to watching ENDLESS British crime dramas. The mandatory opening scene is a chaotic family breakfast, featuring at least one person staring furtively at their scrambled eggs for Reasons Unknown. The cast needs to include Martin Clunes, or James Hannah (or both) and Nicola Walker, and a nice woman who used to be in Casualty, but you can’t remember her name, so you have to pause and look it up. The body is always found by a dog walker. Someone also has to vomit at this point (either the dog walker or a policeman fresh out of policeman school, either will do). The cast needs to include an eccentric pathologist, an enthusiastic but naïve junior detective, and a desk sergeant who knows more than he’s letting on. The main detective must have sketchy coping strategies and constantly argue with their boss, but rather than getting them sacked, this attitude somehow makes them better at solving crimes. There is a lot of car door slamming, and people are in such a rush to catch murderers, they never say goodbye to each other on the telephone. It’s also almost always set at the sea side, because you can conveniently throw things into the sea, like mobile telephones and murder weapons. The sea also provides ample opportunity for yet more furtive staring. At some point, the detective will need to consult a retired policeman who, quite fortuitously, remembers every single detail from a case he never solved in 1973. People stare out of windows and draw arrows on whiteboards. Then, just when everything seems hopeless, the eccentric pathologist rings at some ungodly hour of the morning with a break through, we discover the murderer didn’t clean their car boot out properly, and something the detective hasn’t been able to ‘quite put their finger on’ since episode two suddenly makes sense and they finally decide share it with the rest of us. The closing episode usually involves a tense car chase, lots of confrontation and shouting (usually in a multi-story car park or a disused warehouse), but finally we can all rest easy because the murderer is caught (and it’s never, ever the furtive starer). Please God let my reading mojo come back soon or I will lose my ACTUAL MARBLES. *watches another one*

@qikipedia For Comic Relief perchance.

In 1600, one of Shakespeare’s acting troupe, Will Kemp, quit the company to Morris-dance from London to Norwich. It took him 23 days.

@MrBonMot But we’ve never forgotten it or a meander. (My school found these important geographical features just down the road opposite the Cadbury’s factory. And, yes, the smell of chocolate did sometimes waft towards us.

Geography lessons at school really overestimated the importance of correctly identifying an oxbow lake.

“Just one more thing, President Trump. Why do you need our ships to help you in a war you said you’d won last week?”