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As Churchill would have probably said if he’d worked in IT "“Anyone can reverse ferret, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-reverse ferret.”"

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I was thinking about last week’s Mastodon #JukeboxFridayNight subject, which was #OtherLands, and it crossed my mind how lucky I am to be able to hear music from around the world. My grandparents' generation would have grown up only really he... https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2025/06/13/082325.html

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I was thinking about last week’s Mastodon #JukeboxFridayNight subject, which was #OtherLands, and it crossed my mind how lucky I am to be able to hear music from around the world. My grandparents' generation would have grow... https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2025/06/13/i-was-thinking-about-last.html

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“One day I’ll tell them all about their grandad, and what happened to them, but just not yet”. A very sad line from Patrick Kielty’s stand-up show on the BBC…but the rest is very funny. Information, education and entertainment in... https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2025/06/13/one-day-ill-tell-them.html

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📷 Micro Blog Photo Challenge Day 12: Hidden #mbjune This is a “Green Man” on the Victorian building that houses Salisbury’s Wetherspoons. I feel like the Green Man is the ancient, English, possibly pagan, equivalent of Disney’s Hidden Mickey en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gree…

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There was a thing in Harry Potter where someone said don’t trust a magical object if you can’t see where it keeps it’s brain. I feel you shouldn’t trust a website unless you can see how it makes it’s money.

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Well….I might be overstating a teensy-weensy bit, but THERE’S A SPECIAL PLACE IN HELL FOR PEOPLE WHO CHANGE MY SHORTCUTS!!! 🔥🔥🔥👿👿

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#mbjune micro blog challenge day 11: brick Two brick-y buildings with musical connections. I’m very much a fan of one, but not the other

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📸 #mbjune Micro Blog Photo Challenge Day 10: Rail This is John Betjeman, at St Pancras station He wrote a poem about a local station, Dilton Marsh Halt “Was it worth keeping the Halt open, We thought as we looked a... https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2025/06/10/mbjune-micro-blog-photo-challenge.html

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📷 Micro Blog Photo Challenge Day 9: Wood #mbjune This is a ‘bug hotel’ in Salisbury Cathedral Close

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Day 8: travel 📷 #mbjune This isn’t the most exotic of locations. I was on my way up to the City Ground last season to watch Chelsea, and this is Kettering station. I think the ironwork is rather beautiful

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Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉

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I had a lovely time at the folk festival at the Salisbury military museum today, despite the dreadful weather This David Mitchell is now my favourite David Mitchell, out of all the David Mitchells.

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I took this photo shortly before getting shocked because I hadn’t turned the right switch off for the mains. I’m an idiot. 📷 Day 7: Switch #mbjune

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I got over-excited yesterday and posted the wrong photo on the wrong day, so this is wrong too It’s the Old Mill pub in Harnham, probably taken while out jogging, very, very slowly 📷 Day 06: Reflection #mbjune

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📷 Day 5: Contrast #mbjune

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My 'Crucial Track' for today - "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by Toots & The Maytals: https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2025/06/04/my-crucial-track-for-today.html

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📷 Day 4: Nostalgia #mbjune

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Fascinating podcast episode about Gabriele D’Annunzio, who Mussolini called “The John the Baptist of Italian fascism” My friend Tom talks to Lucy Hughes-Hallett, who wrote his biography The Hated and the Dead - Gabriele D’Annunzio

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I took this at Stonehenge on a winter solstice a few years back. The solstice is about sunshine and shadow, but I’d not seen this particular shadow before #mbjune day 3: Shadow 📸

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This is part of the Circus in Bath. According to Rosemary Hill’s book on Stonehenge the Circus was inspired by Stonehenge, and inspired the traffic roundabout, so it’s a pivotal curve, perhaps? #mbjune day 2: Curve 📸

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#TodayILearned that the bloke who invented Iron Mountain originally had a business growing mushrooms "The company was started by Herman Knaust, who had made his fortune growing and marketing mushrooms.[3] He purchased... https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2025/06/01/todayilearned-that-the-bloke-who.html

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These trees are at Old Sarum (Iron Age/Norman hill fort outside of Salisbury), and I always think they look like one tree that’s been split down the middle, and seperated #mbjune day 1: Tree 📸

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We were on a Replacement Bus Service a couple of weeks back, from Woking to Andover I think we were on the way back from the Pogues Anyway, I was pleased to see that Horsell common has a ‘Mars Trail’…as it’s where the Martians landed in War of the Worlds

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Is it me or have places of worship really gone downhill lately

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I need to get this as a tattoo…or maybe just a coffee mug ⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc

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Marvelous second-half performance. Lovely to see ⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc

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I’m delighted that we got the result, but that was no fun at all. I hadn’t realised it, but, supporting Chelsea has,in a way, been fairly low stress for some time, in that we’ve not been in a really crucial match since 2021. My nerves are shattered Hard luck, Forest and Villa ⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc

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The words ‘Tottenham Hotspur’ and ‘open-top bus parade’ have appeared in the same sentence, and it wasn’t a joke. Strange times ⚽ BBC News - Tottenham Hotspur parade: Spurs players celebrate with thousands of fans

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An Englishman talking about the weather is a bit of a cliche, but I love the warm wind that’s blowing in my bit of the Shire today

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Crucial Tracks over the last week - Wilson Simonal, Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra, Paul Kelly, Alaine, Tv Personalities, and Elvis, twice: https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2025/05/23/crucial-tracks-over-the-last.html

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It’s all very un-Spursy You can’t depend on anyone anymore ⚽

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#TodayILearned that, although you can’t copy meetings in Outlook’s calendar within the application you can do ‘Duplicate Event’ in Outlook Web Access

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Crucial Track for 20th May 2025 - "Hello" by Alaine: https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2025/05/20/crucial-track-for-th-may.html

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I heard this overnight. Coincidentally it’s the anniversary today of Henry having Anne Boleyn killed I can never quite get my head around that the Church of England was founded by someone like him Short history of Henry VIII

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I almost certainly spent longer looking for this today than it would have taken to re-do it. My most used powershell debugger commands. I will redo it at some stage and add in: get-psbreakpoint | disable-psbreakpoint …and this cmdlet what I wrote: Get-MuNonStandardVariables.ps1

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Samuel Johnson said that Stonehenge and Salisbury Cathedral were the first essay and last perfection in architecture Here on my way town they are only separated by Bluestone Plastics

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He’s trying to curry favour so that we win Eurovision "Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has given his strongest signal yet that a youth mobility scheme could form part of a new deal with the EU BBC News - Youth mobility scheme could be part of EU deal"

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Crucial Tracks over the last week - Come From Away, The Stranglers, Abba, Joey Ramone, The Beermats, The Pogues, 23 Skidoo, Christy Moore, Barbara and Barry, The Undertones, The Isleys, and the wonderful Mary Saenz: https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2025/05/16/crucial-tracks-over-the-last.html

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I enjoyed the classicly British understatement of ‘Everyone in 1945 was a bit tired’ "Vincent said: “It’s easy to understand why it was mis-catalogued when it was sold … it’s a long time ago. Everyone in 1945 was a bit... https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2025/05/15/i-enjoyed-the-classicly-british.html

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Four Constable images from my longer running route. Milford Bridge, with a distant view of Salisbury Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows Harnham Gate Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishops Grounds (a few yards to the right of where I plod along,tbh)

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We deserved at least a point from this game. Just didn't quite have the luck ⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc

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