Estelle Wolfers

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We had to leave our Scottish timeshare because the site was held to be uninsured, with both landline and local cell tower out and SSEN unable to guarantee reconnection of the electricity for four days.

did he do for recreation when he was off work, then?' (he'd been a policeman). 'Went to the opera, mostly,' was her reply. My maternal grandparents' only indulgence was season tickets at Manchester Opera House.

Apologies if you've heard this story before. When my working-class mother was introduced to her more middle-class parents-in-law to be, m-i-l tb (trying to be kind) asked her, 'What football team did your father support?'. She answered, puzzled, 'He wasn't really interested in football.' 'What

Platters are worse, I suspect. We commissioned one and were taken aback to discover it had taken the potter three tries.

We saw it at the Locomotion Museum in Shildon last week - fantastic place.

To be followed by George Samuel Brewery's Leaves on the Line golden ale.

Sensible advice. It was like a top-end Shiraz with overtones of port.

A very dark bottle of wine - Schola Sarmenti's Diciotto.

A wine-shop-owning friend regularly brought back Diciotto from Italy - a mere 18%. Sadly, he's given up and gone back to being a scientist.

Here, the BBC, the Guardian, the Independent...

I thought that, too.

Gotta say--dressing up in costumes is the kind of creatively brilliant resistance we all need. It brings joy and humor to things while vividly painting the authoritarian as foolish and absurd. Hats off Portlanders! @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org I think this counts as the sprite of mischief.

Police arresting two suited men, believed to be Jewish, in the East End of London after the 'Battle of Cable Street' between anti-fascists and the British Union of Fascists under Oswald Mosley.

Agree.

Also, as to the final paragraph - Jewish East Enders being arrested in the aftermath of Cable Street.

Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference Veteran award-winning investigative journalist David Hencke has attended Conservative party conference since 1987 but is now hundreds of pounds out of pocket after being blocked from attending

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Veteran award-winning investigative journalist @davidhencke has attended the Conservative Party conference since 1987, but is now hundreds of pounds out of pocket after being blocked from attending

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That surprises me. There are three extremely fine rural curry places within ten minutes' drive of my Cambridgeshire village.

The Right hate the educated middle classes above all. They hate people who won't listen to their lies.

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This Rutgers professor and his wife, also a Rutgers prof, have been forced out of their home and classrooms by TPUSA. The story deserves greater attention.

We *like* to hear the local primary school at playtime.

I'd add this. Although human rights are universal, those who most need the shelter they provide are those without money and power and who are politically targeted. The cost of the Supreme Court's choice to "edit the Human Rights Act out of existence" will be born most heavily by them.

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

I compare this with my childhood experience of taking the train between my home town and Manchester to visit my grandmother. On days when either of the big football teams had a home match (especially if they were playing each other), women and children were routinely ushered into first class.

I was thinking, in this instance, that it might at least draw attention to the existence of a news story. But generally, yes.

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We counted 61 trees down across the road between us and Pitlochry. Fortunately someone had already got through with a chainsaw and cut a single lane. We were alarmed by what we dubbed the Branch of Damocles - a probably 30 cm diameter branch broken off but caught in another tree directly overhead.

a tedious trip back to Cambridge. A long round trip for a bottle of Caorunn...

and shortly after that, that the nearest cell tower was out. We struggled through to Pitlochry on Saturday morning for supplies and a camping stove to boil water, but on return were visited to be told that the premises' insurance insisted the site be cleared of visitors. Cue hasty repacking and

We arrived in Kinloch Rannoch on Friday afternoon and lost power less than three hours later. SSEN said they'd reconnect today, Monday. Prepared to tough it out (not unusual at home) but then discovered that, with no power, the clean water supply (pumped and filtered on site) was diminishing

Marginally better than no source at all.

My daughter has had the same since covid - constant, light- and noise-sensitive migraine. She can't currently work (she's a special needs teacher) and GP says she shouldn't drive. GP's analysis is covid but migraine unit at hospital doesn't recognise that as a cause for migraine.