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More reminders of The Festive Big Green Book Swap from last year.

Join in this year for more of the same fun.

But let's make it even bigger!

A book chosen just for you.
Choc and tea.

A new book buddy.

JOIN HERE. Just £15!

www.biggreenbookshop.com/index.php

Ice on the inside of the windows in winter and a calor gas heater for the bathroom. Lino on the floors. Eating out was unknown.

Went down at 1pm. Out by 2pm and good recovery but still want 4 hours observation. Vague promises of early release followed by more delays. Been here 10 hours and no food offered...did bring a box of snacks and yoghurt or jelly offered to other children.

At a MSE hospital waiting for paediatric day surgery, an appointment we've waited 14 months for, after the consultant said the waiting list was 5 months. Been here since 7:30 and waited 5 hours so far. Got to be a better way of doing this.

I wonder if it's written by a committee with a tick list

That is a finely crafted pop song which will reverbate around your head for months. Nothing is kicking that sucker out!

My child's school built Tudor style houses out of cardboard boxes and made a little street to burn down and then put out the fire.

For some decisions, country level is appropriate, others should be devolved down to regional or town level. Subsidiarity could also mean the most appropriate level is across international borders.

Is the Pope Catholic?

@samljpage.bsky.social seems like your field of interest...https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wgeq702dyo

Naturally. Is there even such a thing as too much cheese? It's a bit like having too many books.

Any cheese?

Where are all the #education and #reading people? I'm looking for a version of Homer's Odyssey suitable for a confident 10 year old reader. Seen books aimed at very young children but nothing for younger teens. #books #Homer

I have a vague memory of covering the Jacobites at one point.

It'll help to some extent but not much use when "directors" are just fronts. They need to make sure addresses are genuine too. I once informed Companies House that a registered office address didn't exist but they weren't interested because I wasn't connected to company or address.

Kids are off to Scout camp tomorrow, which means tonight we've spent time discovering which essential items they've got missing, followed by writing a bad dad joke for them to read each day they're away.

I can recommend Lyon. It's fantastic and surprisingly unknown by many British people.

Agreed, come back to me when it can do the housework and sort out all my important appointments.

It makes her feel good to support your business. You don't want to take money from your mom. Perhaps let her pay (with a sneaky discount), put it to one side, and buy her a present later with the saved cash. Hopefully a solution that makes you both feel good.

Well, Reform are currently struggling to organise a piss-up in a brewery, so odds aren't good for a coup d'état.

That's usually what cats do when they're in the cat distribution scheme. I didn't realise there was a similar programme for chickens.

Katherine Babblesingh showing minimal understanding of how legislation works. 🙄

Schools should ‘shut up’ about food handouts, says SMC chair Francis fears inclusion focus will mean schools having to 'bend over backwards to accommodate everybody'

schoolsweek.co.uk/shut-up-comp... hmmm, not sure how these attitudes will help.

@blueskyshoelessjoe.bsky.social good luck 🤞🏼

That's the national picture, but birth rates and private school attendance is quite localised. I wonder what would happen if a school closed in an area with a large number of private schools? Not a reason to change the vat policy, but might affect PAN planning in some areas.

Turkey?

Trump is testing what he can get away with. Either there's little objection and soldiers walk in, or there's riots and more soldiers are sent to quell them.

We got a small bottle of fizz and a little tool kit. We still use the tool kit 10 years on, it was grand.

A question closely followed by asking which country can I move to easily?

Desperate to escape.