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[Grumpy Oxford @GrumpyOxford]

@dg_davies @ClarkeMicah Fractions and imperial liquid measures are linked: I used to buy half-pint cartons of milk. I bought potatoes, though, in stones

[Grumpy Oxford @GrumpyOxford]

@ClarkeMicah You may be glad to hear that the Iceland shop still sells its own-brand milk in pints (with their four-pint plastic bottle alternatvely labelled 2.272 litres) https://t.co/DXBsb2HVZk

[Grumpy Oxford @GrumpyOxford]

@Number10cat If you've been *laying* on the sofa, you are a bird (or an American)

[Grumpy Oxford @GrumpyOxford]

@ClarkeMicah What are old women supposed to do? 😇

[Grumpy Oxford @GrumpyOxford]

@ClarkeMicah It's good to be back in our real time this morning (with noon being midday again). Changing clocks is such a nuisance: the Chiltern Railways website couldn’t cope with it last night: https://t.co/Uqg6yqvvCc

[Chiltern Railways @chilternrailway]

There is a technical glitch with the site due to the clocks going back, the website thinks it is later than it is. We are trying to resolve this issue; please ask your local station staff or use https://t.co/oThKXmqaje to check your journeys tonight ^LM

[Grumpy Oxford @GrumpyOxford]

@ClarkeMicah Sorry about strange ending. I find typing with one finger while on a bus tricky

[Grumpy Oxford @GrumpyOxford]

.@ClarkeMicah I thought you might like to have these warnings for anyone daring to go upstairs on the No 8 bus into Oxford for your colle3

[Grumpy Oxford @GrumpyOxford]

@LarkeyMetcalfe @ClarkeMicah That's just silly. I would get a train for that sort of distance. I meant going for walks for pleasure (up to ten miles): they are much more interesting without a car.

[Grumpy Oxford @GrumpyOxford]

@nationaltrust The Horny Beasts

[Grumpy Oxford @GrumpyOxford]

@BBCArchive It looks as though things haven't changed much, except that the pub closed in 2015: https://t.co/d7JgxpfPzC

[Grumpy Oxford @GrumpyOxford]

@hippo_report De gustibus non est disputandum

[Grumpy Oxford @GrumpyOxford]

@AshmoleanMuseum That's accidie personified!

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@DavidOlusoga Well worth watching by people like me who thought at the time that it was harmless fun. Have you seen the depiction of Christian Cole, who in 1873 was the first Black African student at the University of Oxford? https://t.co/C8ELgwHkPn

[Grumpy Oxford @GrumpyOxford]

@youellog @HitchensReal Here's a review of Barbie by Boris Johnson: https://t.co/fxQO5ZgcPY

[Grumpy Oxford @GrumpyOxford]

@ClarkeMicah @BruvverEccles Here's Latimer staring into a bedroom in the Randolph Hotel from the Martyrs' Memorial.

[Grumpy Oxford @GrumpyOxford]

.@ClarkeMicah I agree that the abutment holding up such an important railway bridge should never have been allowed to get into a terrible state, but those who toiled to put it right deserve praise, and Nuneham bridge is fully open again today (Sat 10 June) https://t.co/wHMx1Ithut

[Grumpy Oxford @GrumpyOxford]

@AndyVee15 @ClarkeMicah I am older than Mr Hitchens, but I have never seen such an important railway bridge collapse before. Passengers travelling from Oxford to Paddington have had to begin/end their journey with a bus to/from Didcot since 3 April. (Trains to Marylebone not affected, though.)

[Grumpy Oxford @GrumpyOxford]

@ClarkeMicah @PaulCliftonBBC Network Rail should have repaired the crumbling abutment much earlier in its deterioration. This earlier video (which includes an interesting brief history of the bridge) reveals that it has been sinking for years and shows how dangerous it had become: https://t.co/FJB2zk2mio

[Network Rail Western @networkrailwest]

🏗️We're working 24/7 to get the railway between Oxford and Didcot reopened

🦺Prior to the recent rapid deterioration of the viaduct, its condition posed no safety risk

📽️Stuart Calvert explains how we have been looking after the viaduct and what our permanent fix will look like