davidjwarnes.bsky.social
Retired priest (Scottish Episcopal Church) & former History teacher. Author (Russia:a modern history, UTP 1984 & Chronicle of the Russian Tsars, Thames & Hudson 1999). Carer.
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This one broke my streak.
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Sad news indeed.
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Warmly recommended.
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That trumps my first ascent of Great Gable, aged seven.
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Not to mention the Feast of the Visitation.
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This evening my wife’s carers will have difficulty reaching us because of the road closures due to the Robbie Williams concert at Murrayfield. Tomorrow morning we’ll proceed to church with extra caution across pavements littered with broken, wheelchair tire-shredding, glass.
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This comment wins the internet today.
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Took me three goes.
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Another pleasure was reading of the work of Dr David Woolliscroft, who as a teenager came on one of the youth hostel trips to Hadrian’s Wall which I co-led.
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(2/3) ...to the Assembly.
I join him in calling for freely flowing aid to Gaza, and for an end to the bombing of hospitals and to the targeting of civilians, emergency workers and the media.
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That would be the Alan Sked who was a founder of UKIP.
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I was helped by eventually recalling a very famous line of Shakespeare’s.
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Took me five goes too.
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British bangers aren’t the wurst. 😉
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Love that they used Finalidad.
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It was indeed excellent. One of the very few occasions when I’ve taken the phone off the hook to watch live TV without interruption.
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This from a PM who claims to be concerned about community cohesion.
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They should re-open the line to passengers using Manchester-type trams & build a spur from Cameron Toll to the Royal Infirmary. Surely less costly than a tram line from the city centre via Newington?
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The CofE came up with the perfect Suffolk compromise - the Cathedral in Bury, the Bishop’s residence in Ipswich & the Diocese known as St Edmundsbury & Ipswich.
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YES! Fix social care funding & training first. And put up my taxes and implement a version of Dilnot to do so.
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This is an eloquent statement of the reasons for my disillusionment with the current Westminster government.
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Ave, o grammaticae propugnatorix
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Surely party (a singular noun, albeit collective) should require a singular verb? A Labour spokesperson displaying a singular ignorance of grammar.