Maggie/915
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Now let us praise the NHS for dealing with all the injuries from 'Gannin doon the furnace bank.' Obviously everyone on the sight was too skilled to need any first aid etc
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Good comments! Still laughing
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I wonder if she planted the trees when her children were born.
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Bedlington Humour again. We say that with our grandkids.
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David Almond on desert island discs today. He wrote Skellig and is talking about his influences, even the Oxford ballroom
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Excellent reading
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Chris Mullen was another Northern MP, for a while. Very entertaining.
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Yet another award for Kathryn with Northumbrian voices. Spiral traditional folk album of the year.
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I am going to see a play called 'This House' at the National. It is about the last of the Callaghan Government. Obviously Maggie Thatcher got in when they lost the vote. Some of the whips were called the fixit four and had the job of getting people to vote. Bog Trotting, Bottom Flushing and Bovver Boys. That is the title of the chapter in Joe Ashton's book Red Rose Blues. One of our MP's was "Jack Dormand, the pairing Whip, a genial but ruthless Geordie headmaster,"as he is described
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I hate to do this but swearing has a part to play in our town. Haddaway and sh---! Sounds like a firm of solicitors my better half suggests! Or the worst one 'Bu---- Off. Discussed years ago at the History Society it was suggested it was from Beggar Off! The beggar was a strain on the parish resources.
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The Tombstone appears to say:- A. D. 1801 Steady the Path ordain'd by nature's God And free from human vices, Wheatley trod Yet hop'd no future life- his all he liv'd The turf he grazed his parting breath received And now protect his bones:disturb them not But let one faithful horse respected rot. Maybe the bones are now under someone's house.