patjbp.bsky.social
Welsh-ish whisky socialist, neo-librarian and would-be historian of Grimsby Town when we were good
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That is a wonderful piece of work. Can't have been easy to write so thanks for putting it out there Donk
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Daubney proving he is the Meek's long-lost brother, a helping of BOTB and a touch of Retro, cooked in Ireland
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Is that the new name for X?
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It was vintage in the sense that the team looked old, tired and crotchetty
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You had me at chatting about Alan Buckley over cake and cordial. Beautiful.
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The ability to write movingly and well must be genetic. Thank you Mother of Demographic Diary
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The boring version is that there is a valid discussion to be had about improving the civil service, but not if it starts from the assumption that it is intrinsically wasteful and inferior to the private sector
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A lifetime of feeling myself a plastic Grimbarian vanished the day we moved to Beverley and I bought some cloths and a plastic bowl in Boyes
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There were a few cheers, whether from Town fans, Watford fans or Sunderland fans who knows
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Hmm, perhaps this is one better suited to whoever is left on X
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By the by, I'm not reckoning on posting everything from CA here. This is flying a kite for something that caught me just right at the right moment
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When I saw a Tory stall last Saturday I was tempted to take a pic and say something about preserving for posterity the evidence of an endangered species
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Alive and well and touring the M60. Shrinking apparently but put that down to a health kick, not a wasting disease
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We were on the road the other day when my wife remarked pandas are getting smaller and pointed one out. Thinking she meant police cars, I said I couldn't see any. She apparently thought I meant the bamboo devourers. She actually meant Fiat Pandas
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The collapse of the Lib-Lab pact and the general election which followed certainly produced a widespread urge to spit with disgust
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I always assumed if one phoned in sick claiming an upset stomach it was accepted as code for having put in too much socialising the night before