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RobertJackson58585858, 19 hours ago to random

Feels like everyone in #Tewkesbury knows I've got the decorator in the house.

Just had friendly conversation in the café with a couple who hitherto we'd only exchanged smiles.

First Q: "How's the decorator getting on?"

It started a few weeks ago when I shared it in the street with someone who occasionally joins the coffee table after which it's become the opening line with more folk than I thought I knew.

(Am somewhat flattered, in truth.)

ret, 22 hours ago to random

Looking for an appropriate way to sign off a letter to the superior landlord informing them that I have begrudgingly paid their “ground rent”. Thinking “Cordially,” or “Unhappily Acquainted,”

JorgeStolfi, 2 days ago to random

Random theory that occurred to me yesterday: poetry must be a rather recent and accidental invention compared to singing.

A poem is a song without melody. I bet that, before the invention of writing, there were no poems, only songs. But when writing was invented, and people tried to write down songs, they of course could not write down the melody. Only the lyrics, rhyme, and some of the rhythm could get through. Voilà, poetry...

RobertJackson58585858, 3 days ago to random

Shows how long it's been since I went into a multistorey department store.

Went to Worcester with sis today. Used the escalator to go up two floors. At the end of the first I got confused. In my day you'd do a 180 and go up again. But here they make you walk back past products to get to the next up escalator.

Same coming back down.

Idiots.

No wonder The House of Fraser chain is going bust.

RobertJackson58585858, 3 days ago to random

#SilentSunday

RobertJackson58585858, 3 days ago to random

Happy #EdBallsDay to all who celebrated it in a previous life.

ChrisMayLA6, 3 days ago to random

Before you give too much credit to Dan Poulter (MP & doctor) for abandoning the Tories to join Labour, don't forget he's been an MP for 14 years & been working as a doctor all that time.... so one might have expected him to notice the Tory engineered crisis in the NHS quite some time before now.

No, he's defecting because he can see the Tory electoral meltdown coming & wants to preserve his happy position of having two well-paying jobs.

#NHS #doctors #election

RobertJackson58585858, 4 days ago to random

#genchat

A happy hour!

Thank you for your company ... will catch up with the after time chat later.

Time well spent!!

genchat, 4 days ago to genchat

Almost forgot...last night, Lacey said that she found quite a few FANs in her family's correspondence. (After all, that's usually what people write about, right?) #genchat @genchat

edintone, 4 days ago to genchat

Perhaps for obvious reasons, as family historian, families are reluctant to have funeral / wake photographs. However I have found it can sometimes work (sensitively) and everyone seems happy to participate. Anyone else been there? #genchat @genchat

RobertJackson58585858, 4 days ago to random

#genchat

My first into to the FAN club was the video by Connie Knox which started by showing how to select copy and paste from the (US) census.

Then got to the meat sifting through eliminating those unlikely to be relevant leaving the remainder as possible fathers of her ancestor.

Which remained unresolved but she was able to pin down the grandparents.

That was the big lesson for me ... that one doesn't necessarily discover the actual parent(s) but you might prove the grandparents :)

RobertJackson58585858, 4 days ago to random

#genchat

Good afternoon all, Sorry I'm late.

I enjoyed reading Jan's repost of the finding of Mary Smith earlier.

Now to catch up :)

genchat, 4 days ago to genchat

Oh, by the way: if you look earlier in the hashtag #genchat you'll see that Jan left us some presents (links) from last night! @genchat

ColinTheMathmo, 5 days ago to random

From Tom Bowler on TBBBS:

"Someone else posted this yesterday and it's great fun! Sharing with FM class today. How will you do in 20 minutes?"

It's the MIT Integration Bee Qualifying Test.

https://twitter.com/Ridermeister/status/1783418201247752622

purplepadma, 6 days ago to random

I have the sads.

RobertJackson58585858, 6 days ago to random

#ScottishPolitics

That's the post ...

#ScottishPolitics!!

purplepadma, 6 days ago to random

I have no idea what to do with myself today. I am bored already

ChrisMayLA6, 6 days ago to random

Although there is human tragedy behind the data, there is a certain poetic justice to the fact that waiting times for NHS treatment, which have lengthened & become more frequent across the country, are actually worst in more Tory held constituencies than in Labour held seats.

Voters currently prioritise the economy & health: whatever they tell their supporters in the press, the Tories don't have a convincing case for success in either, as people are actually experiencing!

#healthcare #Tories

RobertJackson58585858, 9 days ago to random

Morrisons Supermarket.
GL20 Tewkesbury Gloucestershire.
A few minutes ago.
The foodbank donations have been stacked by rubbish bags all weekend.
#Morrisons
#Tewkesbury

RobertJackson58585858, 10 days ago to random

#SilentSunday