Coombe Barton
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... feedback. I’m being more direct this year, pointing out quite strongly where they should have found the information before they started ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/covid-enquiry-scotland-starts-tomorrow-and-jn-1-is-spreading-abroad/
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When I was seven one of my classmates brought in a pet frog in his pocket.
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See today's yellow warning's been extended to cover your patch
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Hattons and Warley in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/14/an-aged-hobby-enthusiasts-struggle-to-keep-model-railway-industry-on-track
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I always wonder how he kept a straight face.
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May learn, but not necessarily remember later
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... Today marking. I am now behind. The urgent domestics are done, so I’d better get my mind into it. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/01/14/covid-and-influenza-data-increase-decrease-and-covid-variants/
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Can't find one, but someone's done an academic paper on it Verbal Humour in Screen Translation: Officer Crabtree’s Case with the Fronch and Hungarian Longwodge And it is salutary to think that 'Allo, 'also was on our screens more than thirty years ago (broadcast 1982-1992) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347551457_Verbal_Humour_in_Screen_Translation_Officer_Crabtree's_Case_with_the_Fronch_and_Hungarian_Longwodge
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... in music, Henry Purcell meets Monty Python ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/01/13/covid-data-catching-up-after-christmas/
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... varieties of the acronym IBM according to person type ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/01/12/gp-respiratory-infection-consultations-sharply-up-and-whats-the-cost-of-decent-software-systems/
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... We have a new sport here – extreme buck-passing ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/01/11/covid-and-influenza-data-both-show-decrease-and-how-competent-do-you-have-to-be-in-the-post-office/
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In France they're on £30million a kilometre for high speed lines
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... The 134 mile stretch of the London to Birmingham HS2 is now estimated to be £66bn. That nearly half a billion a mile! ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/covid-no-data-or-news-hs2-ow-much/
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Now you're just making me dream and wonder 'what if ...'
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... meet Crumbs, the robin that’s taken up station on the patio of Wheal Rodney. Begging is its speciality. The speciality of the staff is now giving in to the begging. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/01/09/covid-no-data-or-news-climate-change-and-crumbs/
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... marking, ... first one I clicked on was from a parallel universe as the answer bore absolutely nothing to do with the questions asked. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/01/08/covid-no-data-or-news-and-marking-marking-marking/
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... The answer, in this alternate universe, is still 42, but the question is “where the hell did I put that?” .... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/01/07/covid-enquiry-phase-1-report-and-a-career-after-retirement/
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I use, and try to abide by this
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... Today is domestics and finding floor space which I can later cover up again. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/01/06/sounds-of-the-season-2023-35-age-related-infections-and-covid-legacy/
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Just discovered this one - a recent publication -
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And now as a pirate - which fits because some of my ancestors came from Penzance.
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... Boar’s Head Carol time. The modern take on this is pigs in blankets. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/01/05/sounds-of-the-season-2023-34-people-in-hospital-with-flu-and-covid-up/
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... Following on my reinvention as a Viking yesterday, I asked ChatGPT to write a Haiku about Vikings. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/01/04/sounds-of-the-season-2023-33-covid-and-flu-data-long-covid-and-vikings-again/
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Supper tonight is a chuckitin - lamb mince bought from Sainsbury's this evening as a last day good item (i.e. mucho reduced) , onions, mushrooms, chestnuts, a couple of chopped tomatoes and potatoes, all now simmering in a red wine stock (from a stockpot) and awaiting consumption in about half an hour. There is enough for more then one meal, so that may be eaten tomorrow evening or it meat be tomorrow lunch sorted.
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... This is what I look like as a Viking – thinking of using it for my students to show them I mean business. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/01/03/sounds-of-the-season-2023-32-no-data-on-covid-submission-day-for-students/
