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Former thespian and cricketer - now umpire and proud Grumps. Lover of the Yorkshire Dales and very lazy holidays in Greece. Classical music fan and occasional aviation enthusiast. Avid reader of all sorts of history and other good stuff! Not a Tory.
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A view of Robin Hoods Bay from earlier this month. It looks cold and it was!

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Keir Starmer has a majority to carry him forward for five years, but can he ride out short term unpopularity when his successes are not being widely reported? Stephen MacNair gives a summary of the good and the bad with more detail coming tomorrow.

submitted 54 days ago • 4 comments

A lovely spot!

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It's a refreshing and hopeful image. Thanks a million

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Little warrior rocking his powwow regalia. He’s absolutely adorable — yes?

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Also Cromer!

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Now we know what Brexit actually is, it is time for the real Referendum on it.

submitted 98 days ago • 19 comments

Me too! I'm doing my best to hibernate until spring.

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If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up. If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds

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Remember this as the Farmers protest tomorrow because of greed.

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This would be devastating at a time when we need to be preserving our dwindling wildlife preserves.

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It's a wonderfully evocative piece. I heard it not long ago on Radio3. Also fascinating to follow the score. And I have (and have read) all Thomas Hardy's novels.

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Heartbreak as 300,000 WASPI women die waiting for justice over pension age scandal www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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For some inexplicable reason I really like this photo I took in September of pebbles on Brighton beach. I know, I'm easily pleased! 😄

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We spent a couple of days earlier this week at The Wheatsheaf in Wensleydale, James Herriot's honeymoon pub in 1941. The weather was glorious as you can tell from the photos of Semerwater, Gunnerside lead mine in Swaledale and the churchyard at Hubberholme.

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