Tim Dee-McCullough (he/him)

They are indeed. But in this case the stuff of fiction that would make even Enid Blyton or JK Rowling consider it far-fetched!

There was an impossibly unfactual rumour as kids that there was an ancient secret passage from the Stone Cross (between Gresham/Aylmerton) to Gresham Castle. All rubbish of course - it’s a distance of two miles

It wasn’t when I was a kid. There’s a massive field around it (all private land) and the closest building was the former village pub (long since closed). It was quite a stretched-out village though so someone may have “filled in the gaps” with homes since we lived there.

Me and a mate tried to cross the moat when we were around 11. Got waist deep in mud. Plus deciduous trees tend to be protected over here.

UK is more densely populated than the USA and decent arable land is in high demand.

Plus this castle has minor significance in the grand scheme of things - impossible to get to without getting waist deep in mud (me and a friend tried, age 11). It was plundered for building materials centuries ago!

I suspect a lot of the stones ended up in local farmhouses - flint was the main building material in that part of Norfolk. Our 17C cottage had walls 18” wide stuffed full of flint.

Good question - from what I remember, just stones. This is going back 30+ years, and we weren’t supposed to be there 😅

Mind you, I was 11 when me and my mate attempted it.

It’s a bugger to get to. Mud up to your waist to get across, and bugger all to see. LiDar image definitely better than the real thing.

Ozempets: will weight-loss jabs for cats and dogs make them miserable? The era of plump, cuddly pets may soon be over, as overweight animals are being prescribed a version of Ozempic. What will this do to their love for food?

I have so many questions.

For example, what pet is going to let its owner stab it with an injection pen a second time?

Just feed them properly and give them decent walks

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Considering shirts still require ironing as soon as they come out of the packet, there is absolutely no need for the excess packing clips and plastic strips and paper. Absolute waste of time

This is giving me The Waltons vibes, except that was filmed in Burbank. It should have been filmed here

Blimey, our old flatcoat retriever used to grab like 3 toys in keep them in her mouth for an entire 5 mile walk. We called her Three Toy Joy.

a cartoon of a bishop with the words " enough of this blasphemy " below him ALT: a cartoon of a bishop with the words " enough of this blasphemy " below him

Down with this sort of thing

True, yet the onus is still on the individual to own their response and own their emotional regulation. If I blamed my complex PTSD for every instance of emotional dysregulation, I’d never move forward. I can’t expect everyone to make allowances for me, and therefore I have to own my behaviour.

Looks like they’ll be moving the M25 for Heathrow’s third runway anyway, so there’s still time to do this

I could name more than 10 former colleagues who fit the description!

Oh I could make so many ex-bosses here…

If you work in management and basically your entire job is to make presentations, perhaps you should get an absolute fucking minimum set of skills to author them succinctly and make them look good, rather than going "hey is anyone here good at Powerpoint" right before the meeting

Trump’s plan for Ukraine is nothing short of a complete capitulation to Russia. He missed his calling at the League of Nations.

Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Got any pics of the cabin?

😍😍😍 I could watch this on repeat all day!

That comes down to the ICB for your area then - not the surgery! For a response I’d write to your MP and ask them to contact the ICB on your behalf.

Can you not get test results via the NHS app? I use that all the time - saves me a call/appointmrnt

My surgery accepts e-consults an hour before the phone lines open, which helps - but it’s still not great on weekends etc.

It’s not an emergency service - that’s what UTC, A&E and 111 are for etc.

I got an emergency prescription through 111 / my chemist last weekend. Works well.

I asked about this a few years ago and the stock answer is that they have a limit on the number of e-consults they can process in a working day. It’s not uncommon for it to be switched off early afternoon either when they’ve reached their limit.

Wow! This looks just like the Isle of Skye… even though it’s not!