thorntonjones.bsky.social
South-east London: politics, prisons and road trips.
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Did a road trip a couple of weeks ago, including a brief nip by the lakes - saw loads of sheep. So why have we no UK lamb in the shops - and the NZ lamb that is there is really expensive.
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This is excellent to hear!
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We need a few quotes from the columns!
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Yep - over here. Me neither!
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That’s awful. What was the reason given and did the guy follow it up with the head of the surgery?
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I just did a search and he did the same thing a month ago on Times Radio.
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Me too - it was extraordinary.
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Well done that journalist.
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He went instead to a town “once branded Scotland’s most sectarian and has green traffic lights protected by metal cages after a spate of Rangers fans took out their angst on the colour green.”
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Whoa - I did not know that www.switheart.org/shop/
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You lucky lady to have met her :)
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Wonder if that's the end of the canal, in Peckham?
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Definitely will.
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Can’t ride his bird.
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That is proper.
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Exactly this.
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It’s really stressful.
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No it was common broom. I just went out to look and it was lurking behind a big peony, so I've moved it to a rough but sunny spot.
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I bought some of that on your recommendation. It's not bright yellow yet but it seems happy enough.
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I was mortified by my own initial rudeness and blown away by his determined grace.
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A man with very limited English persevered in calling my phone when I kept ending the calls because I didn’t know who it was, because he’d just found my purse on the street and the number was inside. He refused to take any money as thanks and said the look in my eyes was enough. A star in Peckham.
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No problem Sam - it will pass but never underestimate the value of your confidence. It can be a challenge to get it back if it’s lost. That’s general life advice, not just academic :)
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Hi Sam - find a mentor, re-read the book you most admire, take a break and go somewhere else for a week or two and look back - it helps to clarify things, in my experience.
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Dear Lord - was that a thing? They're rubbish hoovers, unlike the Henry which is brilliant.
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Do you have a more detailed timeline on why he left each one? And which is your own favourite pet name? Altar Mitty, Sideshow God, the Sinister Minister, the Clerical Error or Leo Prayer?
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“People choose to live here because of the beautiful rural countryside.” Is Marc with a c opposed to solar energy in general or just doesn’t want to see it from his own kitchen window?
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“. It will be an industrialised complex like Chernobyl. People will go for a drive and see nothing but panels.”. Parts of Spain are like that. I was mesmerised by them. Loved it.
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The Witham, the Welland, the Nene and the Ouse. First form geography.
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Imagine the shame of the entire country - surely without exception - saying what a pair of dickheads. Including the mother of the new baby.
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Or Emmaus.
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Except that it translated into actual bloody votes.