normanhadley.bsky.social
Fell runner, wild camper, writer.
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If this were the West Wing (and reality would do well to take notes), Morgan McSweeney could write, "Let Starmer be Starmer" on a flip chart about now.
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That was an exceptional bit of storytelling, to think that such an unconnected place as Seathwaite could have had such a profound effect on geopolitics in the Napoleonic Wars.
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I can heartily recommend a podcast on the topic. 😉
Countrystride #60: WAD - The wealth of Borrowdale share.google/CxryrIPSN7XW...
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Fine with me, matey.
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So desperate is the squalor that the buildings are only *half* timbered.
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My first thought: it *has* to be a product placement video made by Stella: the can is held just right for the label. My second thought: it was made by one of Stella's competitors.
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If you aggregated the intellectual curiosity of every Brexiter asking why their project hasn't worked, it would amount to that of a seaside donkey.
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I have seen the Promised Land.
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Worst birthday since Kendall Roy's.
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Radio Four's The Naked Week had a good phrase: "A doctor who's all diagnosis and no prescription."
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Congratulations Ariane.
Maybe not the most important thing here, but I can't unsee that name as a cryptic clue: "Drug slims middle of African peak(8)"
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"So, Mr Farage, you've had one idea. One idea that, by your own admission, has failed. Why should people look to you for answers now?"
That shouldn't be too hard.
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America - remember who you are. Do it right fucking now. Now. Not tomorrow. Senators are a *long* way down the "first they came for..." list.
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It's then mandatory to respond to news of the refrigerated mangos with, "So sweet and so cold."
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Clever to write it in invisible ink. Always one step ahead.
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How is it medically possible for her to be so stupid as to not anticipate that response?
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Presumably, this month will now be named Trumpember?
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But his story's seldom told.
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[Just reaffirming the obvious, for sanity's sake]. That's a straight-up lie. A lie that the Republican party will bravely pretend they haven't noticed.
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He only needed to tap this button three times.
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youtu.be/85dKvletfSo?...
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"Ten-word answers...are the tip of the sword."
youtu.be/85dKvletfSo?...
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When I was small, my aged grandmother would exclaim, "Good garden stuff!" in moments of exasperation or disbelief.
Fast forward to my middle age, with Nana long since gone, and the euphemism dawns on me...
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Saw it at Rheged yesterday. Those scenes of chain-dragging were literally harrowing.
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Scaling up, that has to be Free Solo levels of daring.
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I'm just glad it's being conducted with such decorum.
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Very unDude.
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With all that Dadding, he'll be the most Centrist Dad ever.
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Even though we have a new family every year, I never tire of 'em, Em.
But my favourite wren memory was running up a Highland glen one midsummer dawn and scattering a family of youngsters, one of whom flew into my chest.
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I'm still blaming you for all the misdeeds of the Byzantines.
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A pun with real polish.
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There are reports of skirmishes with forces loyal to Sir Ian McKellen.
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*misty, nostalgic voice* I remember chipping into that. Wasn't it pre-decimalisation or something?
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So a vote for Farage would de-form UK...
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Now they've taken over the radio station, and their demands include national improvements in enunciation.
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Jam-packed with atmosphere.