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helenrees.bsky.social
Likes a nice cup of tea and a sit down. Books,art,gardens. May have tinkered with the odd database. Dysgwraig.
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I’ve gone retro with an old Jilly Cooper from 1978.
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There was a board game. We fought over it on Friday afternoons in primary school. Runners up got Mousie Mousie.
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I was always envious of the long US phone cords. The UK ones were about a yard long and always tangled so no way could you lie on the floor.
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The demountables as we called them.
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Did you go to my school? Burned down in 1976 when I was 13. Then burned down again in 2006 when my daughter was 13.
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Yay!
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Wow, Call The Midwife at no 1. I love it but I’m surprised.
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Or Wotsits
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What fun we had when some of our colleagues TUPEd to Fujitsu www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRTf...
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The West Wing
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I saw them live at Wolves Poly in about 1981. They were either brilliant or it was a mass hallucination.
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Please!
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Into The Silence - Wade Davies is a classic. Follow-up with Ghosts of Everest.
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I was giving out stamps in 1980.
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The Co-op issued stamps too. They were blue. Four for every pound you spent. I used to count them out in my Saturday job and there was a certain knack to folding them as you counted.
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It’s fantastic. The book is a good read too.
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You never fail to make me smile.
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😂 yes.
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Waste of a great mullet.
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Gordon Brown. A good man.
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Cary Grant, Hugh Grant and Richard E. Grant.
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Late-ism or being the last to leave and shouting ‘part -timer’ at anyone who leaves before them. I got this a lot as a working parent with a long commute.
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I really don’t want to play Speculum.
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This reminds of my Dad, early on Christmas Day after a heavy night, struggling to put my brother’s Corgi Rockets set together. Oh the Christmas spirit. Shortly afterwards he decamped to the pub.
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I miss them both. George grows on me year by year. Two geniuses (genii?).
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Usually about the 15th of November these days!
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We use to crowd into the phone box and dial 16 to hear a snippet of the Dial a Disc song. Sometimes you got an open line and could hear other teenagers shouting down the line - like an early chat room!
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Such a sad song
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Thank you for excellent reporting of this.
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#rosewednesday
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@metoffice.bsky.social
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It’s awful.
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Three amazing choices.
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Hurray
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Genius