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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

[Le Figaro @Le_Figaro]

L'escrimeuse ukrainienne est revenue sur sa disqualification jeudi, pour ne pas avoir échangé de poignée de main avec son adversaire russe Anna Smirnova, qu'elle avait battue. →https://t.co/gIjgd4DWrv

[Visit Germany @VisitGermanyUK]

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[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

We’re trying to get as many followers as Rishi Sunak so we can show the government just how many people are prepared to fight for the NHS and its staff

Please can you take a few seconds to help by following us and retweeting this?

[A B Chitty @ABosseChitty]

Remove Bishops From The House Of Lords - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/kzIXmHIAHg via @UKChange

[Shire Folk @FolkShire]

Saw ⁦@sweeneyfiddle⁩ play an excellent solo gig last night in #Oxford. He mentioned ⁦@LeveretBand⁩ are touring the new album Forms in October. Eleven dates inc ⁦@TheNorthWall⁩ in Oxford on Saturday 14 October. All dates are on their website.

[A B Chitty @ABosseChitty]

@ThisWriterGal Eid Mubarak, Kakul! Hope allergies and lurgies are truly on the wane now!

[A B Chitty @ABosseChitty]

@rootsandfusion @IiiMontyDavies I'm grateful you beat me to it ...

[A B Chitty @ABosseChitty]

@GundersonD @Grumpy_Steff https://t.co/lwoVzFHD5m

[A B Chitty @ABosseChitty]

@GundersonD @Grumpy_Steff That's exactly right, they've been doing this for decades.

[A B Chitty @ABosseChitty]

@onewendy @IanDunt https://t.co/9BaJkad5wE

[Michael Spicer @MrMichaelSpicer]

Half of British television always starts like this.

[A B Chitty @ABosseChitty]

@VodafoneUK Thanks for replying, Kieron appreciated - do you have any indication how soon 'as soon as we can' may be?

[A B Chitty @ABosseChitty]

Hi @VodafoneUK there seems to be a broadband outage in the Oxford area which has been going on since lunchtime yesterday - any chance of an update on what's happening and when this will be fixed? Working from home will burn through mobile data pretty swiftly, y'know ...

[A B Chitty @ABosseChitty]

@newsboy23 Stop talking down our cauliflower, if you believed in it more it would surely grow to world-beating proportions.

[A B Chitty @ABosseChitty]

I just entered @AutoTrader_UK’s monthly️ #ElectricCarGiveaway & you can too! This month’s prize is a Tesla Model Y worth over £51k! It’s free to enter & you have until 31st January. All information (including Ts&Cs) can be found here: https://t.co/Gl9zt9C1IS

[A B Chitty @ABosseChitty]

@TheRegencyCook Had it, many a time, as a kid, courtesy of my German mother. It's called Schwarzwurzel in German, literally 'blackroot'. Delicious cooked and then served in a little melted butter. I believe she'd season it with a little salt and nutmeg.

[A B Chitty @ABosseChitty]

@SirKneeland @JudithLHarvey @GeorgeMonbiot An aside: there's currently much debate in the UK about social care and its cost / funding etc. Again, the German model is based on universal insurance and was introduced in 1995 (after decades of debate). Again, the important point is that adequate funding is essential.

[A B Chitty @ABosseChitty]

@SirKneeland @JudithLHarvey @GeorgeMonbiot Just for info, the German universal insurance-based model was created on Bismarck's initiative in 1883. It therefore predates the NHS by 65 years. Both systems have flaws, no doubt. Both can deliver good healthcare. Both need adequate funding.

[A B Chitty @ABosseChitty]

@BettinaSRoss1 In dem Sinne dann mal Guten Rutsch (jetzt schon mal, später ist ja meist so viel Betrieb).

[A B Chitty @ABosseChitty]

@IiiMontyDavies Heavens above, fella, get a move on. Time waiteth for no man.

[A B Chitty @ABosseChitty]

@ihaterobots Haha! Merry Christmas to you, too!*

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