John Alderson

IT professional turned full-time carer, writes scripts and music for school plays, ponders puppets and bamboo structures, when in a tight spot builds shelving.

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@HMRCcustomers how best to report errors in documents generated by HMRC online?

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@HMRCcustomers The extra stamp duty paid on purchase of a 2nd house can be refunded if the original residence is sold within 3 years. Is this refund still available if that original residence is let for two of those years?

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This is horrifying. Investigators just confirmed that Russia has taken thousands of children from Ukraine and put them into Russian re-education camps. Let’s demand their safe return, now! 🇺🇦 https://t.co/YhieKHTNJL

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@EleanorMorton You need a New Zealand category.

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@AcaciaBegley Yes. It's also self-inconsistent. The weekly graph shows the correct score but the ranking shows the out of date one - which leads to demotion.

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@MLE_Online This needs timelapse photography to check it out for plate tectonics.

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@grahampuddephat It's doing time as a bookmark to remind me to trade it in for a shiny plastic one.

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What I'm reading, and its jaunty bookmark.

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I just signed the petition calling on Boris Johnson's resignation honours to be blocked. Will you sign too? https://t.co/AWWSk1aoE1 via @38_degrees

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@MichaelRosenYes Two rocks in Crete are a dozen stones in Zanzibar.

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@boxmooryoga @MichaelRosenYes No, he might just be another Brian Catling.

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@MichaelRosenYes My favourite from Wendy Cope's set is "Who has two legs must wash two knees".

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@IllsleyPhilippa @MichaelRosenYes Sometimes idioms get horribly mangled by people who haven't absorbed them properly, like the presenter of a daytime fly-on-the-wall documentary who said "But the drunk man's insults are just sticks and stones to the paramedics".

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@IllsleyPhilippa @MichaelRosenYes In Durham I used to hear a bargain talked up as "Cheap at twice the price".

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@MichaelRosenYes What's goose to the grice is nose to the grindstone.

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@MichaelRosenYes Eee it's warm enough to freeze.

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Women’s rights being eroded. Alarming

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@thingskatedid @baileythegreen I've sometimes been mistaken for sweet rye porridge too.

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@pickover It's only one equation and a lot of turns of the handle.

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Again snakes are being devalued by scurrilous and unfair comparisons with humans.