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Andrew Br

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2700 on: 27 December, 2021, 04:46:15 pm »
Stoke paper but the restaurant is actually in Bury.
If I'm ever up that way and wanting a curry, I'll make a point of going there; it seems to get good reviews and, as the manager has pointed out, it's hard running businesses like his these days.

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2701 on: 27 December, 2021, 04:50:11 pm »
Also the website on which the tale appeared is run by the craptacularly useless Reach plc whose webby SCIENCE does not play nicely with fondleslabs, so I could barely get beyond the headlines before the page reloaded five times and then b0rked.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2702 on: 27 December, 2021, 04:52:54 pm »
Reach media sites don't open well on a laptop either. Too many autoplaying videos and other shit.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2703 on: 28 December, 2021, 06:27:48 pm »
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2704 on: 28 December, 2021, 10:40:28 pm »
I think a tree rat has taken up residence in the upper storeys of Fort Larrington, specifically right above my bed  >:(  Whatever manner of beastie, critter or, as it were, varmint it might be, it's a noisy little bastard.
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Beardy

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2705 on: 29 December, 2021, 12:48:17 am »
You’re all right as long as it isn’t bats. You can’t get rid of bats because the have rights you know. Everything else is fair game though; I recommended a 410 to start with as it’ll make less of a ,ess of your ceiling.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2706 on: 29 December, 2021, 01:14:11 am »
If only the forum had a resident squirrel eviction expert...
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rafletcher

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2707 on: 29 December, 2021, 10:49:21 am »
I suggest a humane trap, then give it to the RSPCA who will do the dastardly deed for you, it being illegal to release a grey squirrel into the wild
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orraloon

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2708 on: 29 December, 2021, 11:20:02 am »
One of those mouses with the v heavy boots?
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2709 on: 29 December, 2021, 11:39:02 am »
Isn’t it clogs that meeces wear?

(Googles)

Apparently only in Old Amsterdam.  As you were.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2710 on: 29 December, 2021, 12:46:11 pm »
Quote from: rafletcher on 29 December, 2021, 10:49:21 am
I suggest a humane trap, then give it to the RSPCA who will do the dastardly deed for you, it being illegal to release a grey squirrel into the wild

Rather than shirking the dirty deed onto someone else who really doesn't want to do it, we bought a proper squirrel trap.  The deceased American tree rat (I refuse to grace the evil interloper vermin with the name squirrels, which as everyone knows, are red and cute) makes excellent food for the red kites, and buzzards round here.  If more appear, they'll get the same treatment.
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MikeFromLFE

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2711 on: 31 December, 2021, 04:07:08 pm »
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2712 on: 31 December, 2021, 11:07:41 pm »
Quote from: MikeFromLFE on 31 December, 2021, 04:07:08 pm
It all got a bit weird in Ipswich (sound on)  :hand:

https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/nursery-rhyme-near-a12-scaring-residents-2817848

That's old news Shirley?

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Published: 8:27 AM September 12, 2018 Updated: 8:55 PM October 11, 2020

Curious.  Wonder what the update was...
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2713 on: 05 January, 2022, 04:04:18 pm »
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2714 on: 10 January, 2022, 02:10:02 pm »
Man gives up cycling because communists force him to breathe clean air.
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Ian told SomersetLive: "I would cycle to work and back every day, I’d cycle to the pub, cycle to meet my mates. I rarely used a vehicle.

"I had saved up to buy my 1999 Mazda Bongo van and then done up it inside, so it was a very personal thing and I had stopped it from going to landfill.

"But it wasn’t compliant with the Clean Air Zone, so every single time I left my house I was fined £9 - which I thought was a bit communist really.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2715 on: 17 January, 2022, 07:02:49 am »
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2716 on: 17 January, 2022, 01:13:35 pm »


use the heads for golf...

What happens to the internal organs?

Makes a change from bad beer...

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2717 on: 17 January, 2022, 03:27:45 pm »
The internal organs are available as protein snacks. £10 for 100g, £35 for 200g.
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rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2718 on: 22 January, 2022, 10:52:21 am »
Real Rise Of The Machines stuff in Cambridge.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-60084347
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spesh

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2719 on: 22 January, 2022, 11:42:17 am »
Quote from: rogerzilla on 22 January, 2022, 10:52:21 am
Real Rise Of The Machines stuff in Cambridge.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-60084347

<ObligRegistercomment> I, for one, welcome our new Roomba overlords.  :D <ObligRegistercomment>
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2720 on: 22 January, 2022, 03:32:09 pm »
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2721 on: 22 January, 2022, 06:09:51 pm »
Quote from: Jaded on 22 January, 2022, 03:32:09 pm
Toaster works.

"He said J H May has a "fantastic guy there called Luke".

"He's really into complex electronics and he fixes it every time," said Mr James."

Hmmm ...

(Lovely story though  :) )
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2722 on: 22 January, 2022, 09:31:31 pm »
I'm sure there'll be a whole exhibit on the electronic complexity of 1940s toasters in Arch's toaster museum.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2723 on: 24 January, 2022, 09:27:42 pm »
Never mind your prosecco or even Bristol cream, it's all claret here:
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I am white socially liberal/fiscally conservative claret-loving capitalist who thinks this administration regularly fails on competence, accountability and transparency - and I am not mad about skyscrapers either.       
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2724 on: 28 January, 2022, 02:04:04 pm »
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