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Are those storm pegs? Never seen them before. Have any trampolines passed the window yet??

Wow!!!

Thanks Barry.

Which was why we wanted to stay near the station really

Am so disappointed with Premier Inn - absolutely appalling.

If your automatic go to is Premier Inn take a look at this. Blossom Street North, York. I discovered this behind the pelmet when the curtain stuck as I was trying to open them before leaving for train. I slept in this for 2 nights but Premier Inn not interested as I didn't report during my stay.

Happy birthday to her 🎂🎉

How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail    I would rather  eat Quavers that are six weeks stale,  blow dry the man bun of Gareth Bale,  listen to the songs of Jimmy Nail,  than read one page of the Daily Mail.    If I was bored  in a waiting room in Perivale,  on a twelve-hour trip on Network Rail,  halfway through a circumnavigational sail,  I would not read the Daily Mail.    I would happily read  the autobiography of Dan Quayle,  1001 Things You Can Do With Kale,  selected scripts from Emmerdale, if it meant I didn’t have to read the Daily Mail.    Far better to  stand outside in a storm of hail,  scratch a blackboard with a fingernail,  be swallowed by a humpback whale,  than have to read the Daily Mail.    If I was blind   and it was the only thing in Braille,  I still would not read the Daily Mail.    Brian Bilston 

Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.

Celebrating St. David's Day today, 1st March, and all things Welsh, with this delightful little medieval dragon with golden wings.

Sadly no but the human one was more than big enough to share

I’ve been keen to go ever since the renovations. Its very impressive

🤣🤣🤣

Who wouldn’t 🤭

Would have been nice to see you there 😊

Isn’t it good! Was a fabulous little place

Beautiful day for a visit to Clifford’s Tower - so impressed by the inside - and wonderful view from the roof

Found a little cheese shop in York which sells the most amazing halloumi fries and as luck would have it they had an Eric size replica of the shop!

YouTube video by harpandamonkey A Naked Man In Paradise - Harp and a Monkey (The Victorians)

@harpmonkey.bsky.social wrote a song about it -

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Feel better soon xx

How exciting- thank you!!

So the Telegraph is taking this well

Marinus van der Lubbe (1909-1934). Photograph taken by the German police soon after his arrest, probably Febr. 1933

93 years ago, on the 27th of February of 1933, the Reichstag fire occurred in Berlin. Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch communist, confessed to lighting the fire. He was tried and executed. In 2008, he was granted pardon by the German government. The circumstances of the arson are still unclear. #otd 🗃️

Graceful in defeat.

This week in 1736 Ann Lee was born in Manchester. She was leader of the Shakers, whose worship involved ecstatic shaking, and who believed her to be the female manifestation of God. Shaker furniture, known for its simplicity and utility, continues to inspire designers.

Thanks!

Thanks Munro!

You are definitely making me feel that I need to re-read them now

We were “forced” to read The Trumpet Major at school. And tho honestly its one I cannot remember it did engender a lifelong love of Hardy.

How wonderful. Thinking of lovely Joan and Raspberry. What a brave lady she was ❤️