Laurie Menear

'Hefty and friendly' (© Evening Standard 1983). Renaissance odd-job man, strummer, driver of old bangers, and underground author.

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Discovered from #SecretsOfTheLondonUnderground that @MrTimDunn was a only babe in arms back when I wrote this book. Great to have seen the Underground's heritage being so enthusiastically discussed 40+ years on by him, @siddyholloway and @ChrisNixEsq in these series.

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@paullewismoney @Moneybox I can DM you a tortuous tale which has a happy ending. Though it took over 18 months of persistence with HMRC to get there :-)

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@UKVolkswagen Discover Media map updates (Tiguan R-Line Tech Dec 2019). No downloadable updates in VW portal https://t.co/Ocg1bN2jqr since dated 27/11/2023. New releases used to be every six months. Are they discontinued? Online links not updated? Has release interval shifted?

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@MrTimDunn @ltmuseum Thanks for the quick snap at the depot yesterday. I briefly had an inverse parallel career to you as I wrote about stations first (insert), then went into marketing. You definitely did it the right way round. PS: On your next project we need to see your golf skills at Moor Park!

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@paullewismoney @HMRCgovuk Couldn't get through on phone in April, so wrote a letter in May. They eventually replied in October, telling me to ring them. Rang them last week. Eventually got a person. She said she needed to pass the query to another department, who would then write to me.

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@PaulHusband_ Very sorry to read this Paul. Tony's work had been a big part of my life for many years and he kindly drew this for me when PE finished the run of tortoise cartoons. Very best wishes to you and your family.

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@last_of_england You may be aware of this CoE survey on Norfolk churches. It doesn't highlight the artistic, historic and deep-rooted heritage aspects of this unique collection of special places, but anything that might keep them accessible can only help. https://t.co/a0dTy1VGwm

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Just remembered, my illustration was also used by LT for a poster promoting an exhibition on its architecture at the @ltmuseum in about 1980. Here's that very poster in a promo shot for Spitting Image in TV Times, 1984.

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Discovered from #SecretsOfTheLondonUnderground that @MrTimDunn was a only babe in arms back when I wrote this book. Great to have seen the Underground's heritage being so enthusiastically discussed 40+ years on by him, @siddyholloway and @ChrisNixEsq in these series.

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@YesterdayTweets @ltmuseum My brother’s hand got stuck in a chocolate vending machine at Tower Hill in the sixties. In the Station Master’s office he showed his weird trick of bending over just the tips of his fingers. The Station Master said: “I’ve never met anyone else who can do that,” and did the same.

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Delighted to see Boris and Carrie putting in an appearance among the village jubilee scarecrows in Gressenhall, Norfolk today.

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I understand 'don't panic' and the reasons for the protests, but the news blackout over the very real petrol/diesel forecourt crisis is starting to feel sinister. If I was a conspiracy theorist I'd wonder what else they're not telling us? #petrolshortageuk #dieselshortageuk

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1946 Ford Anglia with 'Worm' supermoon, Longham, Norfolk 18 March 2022.

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Full 'snow moon' setting after Storm Dudley, Dereham Norfolk, 08:06 17 February 2022 @BBCLookEast @itvanglia @edp24

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@Lord_Sugar 20-02-2022's pretty good too though. That's when my daughter's getting married.

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Storm Arwen passing through Cromer yesterday.

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@tonyhusband1 @PrivateEyeNews Your cartoons are always a highlight. I also treasure this from you after I wrote to the Eye in 2010 about the end of your 'tortoise' series (I still giggle remembering the one of the tortoise running round the room with the Andrex roll).

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@midnorfolkrly Flying Scotsman day 2 (2/2)

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@midnorfolkrly Flying Scotsman day 2 (1/2)

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@midnorfolkrly Some photos of the Flying Scotsman today from before the rain started!

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The Funeral of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey 100 years ago today, captured faintly by two sides of a recording I own. #Warrior100 #UnknownWarrior100 #ArmisticeDay #Remembrance https://t.co/QORDnYNnhe