@jameshawes2 @oldstpublishing It’s a story I’d very much like to hear!
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David Vaughan-Birch
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David Vaughan-Birch
@zemblya
Baker of bread and other things. Also member of the Labour Party and solicitor.
Denstone, England Katılım Ocak 2009
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@zemblya @oldstpublishing What a lovely thought. Fortunately, I was rescued by the great and wonderful Andrew “Bleak House” Davies (long story)
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Tomorrow I am 66.
At 51, I was washed up, homeless and broke.
Today in #Germany and #Ireland. Thanks to all in both countries who have reviewed, written, talked to friends…
Thank you, life - and @oldstpublishing!
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@CliveWismayer The always fascinating Origin Story podcast has recently released a 3-part history of the EU which is well worth your time.
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The fall of France in 1940 is one of the most fascinating phases of WW2: militarily, politically & socially. That shattering defeat, & the one Germany was to suffer, accounts for the existence of the EU.
Voices of WW2@VoicesofWW2
86 years ago today, Winston Churchill, Prime Minister for exactly 5 days, was woken by his phone ringing at 7:30 a.m. It was Paul Reynaud, the French Premier. His voice was hollow. "We have been defeated. We are beaten; we have lost the battle." Churchill, half-asleep, couldn't process it: "Surely it can't have happened so soon?" Reynaud: "The front is broken near Sedan. They are pouring through in great numbers with tanks and armoured cars." The German invasion was 5 days old. The "impassable" Ardennes forest had just funneled seven Panzer divisions through France's weakest hinge. The next day, Churchill flew to Paris. He asked General Gamelin a single question: "Where is the strategic reserve?" Gamelin shrugged. "Aucune." None. France had no reserve. There was nothing behind the line that had just broken. Churchill later wrote that this was one of the greatest shocks of his life. The country he'd grown up believing had the finest army in Europe had already lost the war. They just didn't know it yet. Six weeks later, Paris fell.
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A recurring culinary conundrum: I have a nice peat-smoked haddock fillet in. Fish pie or kedgeree, or something else? I suppose there's always omelette Arnold Bennett too.
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@KPW1453 I’m enjoying your photos very much! Do you have anything on St Peters Church Coniston Cold Yorkshire? Very beautiful but I’ve not been able to find out much about it.
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The gateposts leading to St. Andrew’s Church at Wroxeter in Shropshire. The gateposts are Roman columns from nearby Viroconium, the fourth largest town in Roman Britain. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #SteepleSaturday #Wroxeter
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@JulietBlaxland @secondmentions @hwallop Fortunately it's reasonably easy to make-@timhayward has a good recipe for it.
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Today’s sad news. Patum Peperium, aka Gentleman’s Relish, “the anchovy spread”, discontinued… @secondmentions @hwallop
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@jameshawes2 @IrishTimes More than happy to-'A short history of England' is excellent. So is 'A White Merc with Fins'!
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I would be v. grateful for any RT because we are getting ZERO COVERAGE IN UK despite going straight in at #1 in the @IrishTimes!
What’s a writer to do?
A dizzying, thrilling ride through 14,526 years of Irish history | Irish Independent independent.ie/entertainment/…
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@memorialdevice @Iamhairyf Far too young for that but my rels went to the albion WMC i think
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@zemblya @Iamhairyf Nights out at Burntwood on Brierley common?
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@memorialdevice @Iamhairyf South Kirkby was my village pit.
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@Iamhairyf Legend has it that Dr Crann was open for business at 9am the next day. Once went to see him with a 'mystery ailment' with my Mother who was told by him. 'He's skiving. There's nothing wrong with him. Are there any exams at school this week?' He was absolutely spot on 😂
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@BartGonnissen Did the uk navy have anything similar? I have a dim recollection of seeing something like this in Torquay harbour in the 70’s.
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@philipmurraylaw I had a similar experience-contact the relevant Patient Liaison Service; they are extremely effective at resolving issues like this.
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I had a cancer check in August. I never received any results. My GP said they didn't have results and I should call the test centre. The test centre doesn't give out results, and told me to phone outpatients. I phoned outpatients, and they passed me to the relative clinic, but none of the phone menu choices are about results. When I chose the most relevant option, I was forwarded to a secretary who's out of the office for the next week, and sent me back to the main outpatients number. I still don't have a result. This is the reality of "our NHS". I wish I could afford to go private.
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@barstandards Your link points to a gender gap report. The Mazur report is in your October regulatory update (ps it’s judgment)
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@DrAllyLouks Is your thesis publicly available? I would like to read it!
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The function of smell is to alert us to changes in our environment, so you’d notice if a place suddenly stopped smelling, for instance. All of these statements rely on a disparity in sensory stimuli anyway. Someone would only remark about darkness or quietness if they had just been somewhere brighter or louder. Smell is the same - you are only consciously aware of significant shifts. A better comparative sentence would be “Finally, some fresh air”, which is an entirely normal thing to say and would still designate an absence of odour.
Also, in one of his most famous essays, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”, David Foster Wallace writes of being disturbed that his cruise ship cabin has no odour, noting that it is one of the very few totally odourless places he’s ever been and that it gives him the creeps. I have a smell quote for everything.
Brwn Bat@brwn_batman
@DrAllyLouks What is your expert opinion on this?
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@JudithRalston @74frankfurt So did I-the book is even better of course!
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@HMWarships Bosun's whistles can still be bought and I'm very proud of mine, from the Acme Whistle Company in Birmingham-it's not easy to play though!
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(7/8) In the day and age of Nelson, the boatswain wore a distinctive blue coat with blue lapels and collar, gold anchor buttons embellishing the cuffs and pockets. Whether he wore blue or white trousers was entirely up to him. For headgear, he wore a typical low top-hat, sometimes adorned with a cockade on the side. He was also at liberty to choose what type of shirt he wore, whether woollen or linen. Around his neck he flung the famed silver bosun’s whistle, at the tone of which the captain or a flag-rank officer was piped aboard. The sharp sound of the whistle also made the instrument suited for passing down orders when the mayhem of battle prevented the officers from doing so vocally.
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Who was the boatswain in Nelson's time?
(1/8) The warrant officer with perhaps the most notorious reputation was the boatswain. The boatswain is perhaps one of the oldest attested ranks in the Royal Navy, with its history dating back to the days of the Anglo-Saxon ruler Edward the Confessor (r. 1042–1066 CE). The word derives from the Old English compound batswegen, consisting of the elements bat (‘boat’) and swain (‘apprentice, follower, servant, young man’).
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