Alex Brightsmith

Serving the gods of true & fair presentation dutifully by day. Writing beautiful untruths by night. #brumwriter
Amanuensis to @DramCetus

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@NationalHways Thank you :-)

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Not sure whose employees you'd expect to have highway maintenance stickers (@BCC_Help? @NationalHways?) but I assume they'd be at least faintly irritated by either their employees flagrantly pavement parking or chancers using fake flashes to avert complaints.

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@Sebast1antombs I have to admit I was picturing dabbing at them with kitchen paper

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@Sebast1antombs I checked (of course I checked, I have the internet in my hand) - angels on horseback (the original). Devils on horseback are prunes.

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@Sebast1antombs Well that's a new contender. I thought they were one of the '... on horseback' range. To add to the confusion, I believe an American asked to produce pigs in blankets will make something that's almost, but not quite, a sausage roll.

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@Sebast1antombs Not consciously

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@AndyWoodturner @Sebast1antombs Thank you (& oops, I meant to mention it was the base of the font). Now I just need to find out why the churchwarden suddenly needs a word for it.

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@Sebast1antombs I know we used to consider April new year, hence taxes, but I don't know if I've ever seen anything about why we changed. The numbering is Roman though, so presumably the reason was theirs.

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@Sebast1antombs Myself I'm quite attached to the six-season model, prevernal (thaw and ploughing), vernal (proper spring), estival (the summer that midsummer is the middle of), serotinal (full on harvest), autumnal (leaf fall) and hibernal (stay in bed).

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@Sebast1antombs I never know what to say to these. Most of what I read between 12 & 25 is kinda mulch in the back of my head, and the things I remember clearly I remember for odd and irrelevant reasons.
Although Catch-22 was the book that taught me I could have a different view to a teacher.

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@Sebast1antombs That's also why he doesn't have soil to dig in any more though

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@Sebast1antombs Most of them. Very familiar with the smell of singed fur. Only seen Chips crawling all over them apparently eating fleas once though.

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@Sebast1antombs I mean, I'm not saying there's not. I just don't whoe what it is.

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@Sebast1antombs @AndyWoodturner That would make a lot of sense. I guess the other option is bioaccumulation in some kind of bacteria and/or whatever eats them, being concentrated & then released when they die at the sewage works?

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@Sebast1antombs Only two? They made much more of a boogie man of it in first aid class

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@Sebast1antombs I don't think he was in my year but I think we were at Sandye Place at the same time