adamchapman.bsky.social
Medieval historian interested in Wales, Somerset exile, inept cricketer, General Editor of the longest-running and largest local history project yet devised, the Victoria County History of England. Probably drinking tea.
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Getting between the point you describe and the point I can make sense of from later sources is what the day job is for (and one of the big questions a VCH treatment of Yeovil should look at, when we eventually get around to it).
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Remember that I'm really looking at it from the later Middle Ages: the Friary, the suburb of Northover, castle, county gaol (and the Domesday scribe), aren't in Yeovil, but down in the marsh on the Fosse Way. The tax revenues show Ilchester as the more important place economically - until it wasn't.
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True!
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Oh yes, he’s told me about that! The gradual pivot from Ilchester to Yeovil (I suppose it’s really a slow collapse, post Black Death of the former, but it takes to the 19th century to complete), is something I find fascinating.
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Visual evidence that even Chapman (LBW for 11), can sometimes look like a cricketer.
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Fast medium sausage roll. #TeaUp #VillageCricket
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I couldn't immediately think of an alternative: I suppose it doesn't really need qualifying.
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A shock for all concerned (but I don’t think that’s sector/related).
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Hmm.
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... mind you, I did (eventually), get the blank HR FAQ page taken down.
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This resulted in another rather withering email to HR...
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Rather pointedly noting that the legislation had been in place in 2014 and that our part of UoL was the only one with no acknowledgement that this was a thing (I checked!), in 2019 lives firmly in my memory.
Mind you, details of SHP in 2022 were, maybe still are, listed under 'Maternity Leave'.
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Same.
Pretty sure I was the first academic to take Shared Parental Leave at ours in 2022.
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- four weeks at full pay on the nod, SHP completely fuss free, was instructive it can be done.
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Mat leave (especially the rate of statutory pay) as that tracks across to Shared Parental Leave is also an issue: it's so employer dependent. Universities are getting better at this: the difference between the response to our first child - having to explain the existence of SPL - and the second 1/2
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Maybe they're just not into Shermans?
Or just don't like the name?
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That or they're full Liz Truss...
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I reckon if you're that close, you're true believer until you get fired and suddenly and mysteriously recover your critical faculties.
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Could be, but the chap who wrote it claimed - apparently sincerely (his wife is quite vehement on this, but I suppose Mandy Rice-Davies applies) - that there's nothing gay about YMCA. *Sure Jan GIF*
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That's probably more explicable by simple incompetence: lots of people only hear chorus lyrics. Cf. David Cameron and 'Eton Rifles'; Trump and YMCA...
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January the 6th, I imagine.
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Two different things, surely? A lot of tanks will batter a road surface (and possibly any utilities underneath them), but marching in step shouldn't. It is a know problem for week bridges (and some suspension bridges because of things like resonance).
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This is the sort of thing my 5-year-old regards as a good day out. Not a lot of continuity either side of Croydon.
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Having played cricket on the approach to Southampton airport for years “Lancaster stopped play (again)” has certainly appeared in the scorebook several times.
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Beautiful!
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If this isn’t the set up for a ghostly visitation, then I don’t know what is.
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Stuart Broad as bowling coach will have enjoyed that.
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It wasn't! The pitch reverted to type! Australia burned their reviews! Brilliant (and fun).
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Agree. That this isn’t happening…
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Quite.
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A classic example of words being assembled by people with no idea what they mean or where the come from (in a British context). If you know that sheriff means shire reeve, a couple of blokes doing private security doesn’t match. Westerns/US usage have a lot to answer for.
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Glos v. Somerset (who look like they'll win this...).
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Nice little spell from Goldsworthy there.
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Richard Eyre is having none of her youknowwhat
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No, of course not - but I am surprised that the contour hasn’t been straightened out!
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That’s the one, yep. Seems more in situ.
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Having seen the members of the MCC in motion when the gates are opened, I reckon the stewards are up to that task.
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Massively old school listing, mind. 'The Long Room occupying much of the ground floor is of particular interest'
Which it is, but you wouldn't know why from this! (I have been in - one of the members was having a particularly sound nap and first aiders were called. The joys of working for SJA...).
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... you'd think, after all this time and all this effort, that they'd have managed to even out the slope.