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“Semi-sensible”. “Mayor of Bumsville”. “Enemy of decency” ‘Owner’ of AFC (always furious cat). More drivel: https://mulberryhall.medium.com/
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Just been explaining to Tommy that there’s a cat down the road who’s both floofier and friendlier than her

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The evening is perfect, my sisters. The loch lies silent, the air is still. The sun’s last rays linger over the water and there is a faint smirr, almost a smudge of summer rain. Sisters, I smell supper… —Edwin Morgan, “Midge” published in THE MAP & THE CLOCK, @faberbooks.bsky.social 2016

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Today is the 356th anniversary of the time Samuel Pepys celebrated his birthday by grasping the corpse of a queen consort who’d been dead for 232 years and kissing it on the mouth. Obviously

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It’s the 228th anniversary of the last time Britain was invaded by a hostile foreign power. No, no — not 1066. That was the last time Britain was *successfully* invaded

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My stepmother gave me some money for my birthday, so I bought myself a book I’d been debating whether to get for actual years. Now I’m wondering how I ever did without it

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Bought a copy of How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup after someone recommended it on here, and treated myself to J L Carr’s ‘Dictionary of Politicians’ at the same time

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It’s the 228th anniversary of the last time Britain was invaded by a hostile foreign power. No, no — not 1066. That was the last time Britain was *successfully* invaded

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Morning

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Gift from a neighbour. Lovely of them, but… well, 30 years ago, I’d just have got stuck in. Age has made me wary. Any suggestions? Give it to someone else? Pour away? Stop pissing about, Coates, and just drink it?

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I have one or two caveats, but then again, too few to mention. This, from @johnrain.co.uk is basically spot on

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