Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,062
I suppose this kind of gullibility shows just why cows are still cows.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,868
What clever cows, I wonder how often they mistake the milking parlour for their bank.

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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
The pub I'm at likes to be clear about such things:
Can't wait for Hot Chocolate to be included in the drinks menu...
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
Hm. Not great, I have to say...
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,062
Great to see Chaucer making a comeback.
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-59345552
"Fleming was involved in various codebreaking missions during World War Two when he served in the Navel Intelligence division."
Presumably gazing at oranges.
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
Eurotunnel, the company which runs vehicle-carrying trains between Dover and Calais, said it was "delighted that the French government has responded positively to its requests for flexibility in travel rules".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59832076(Not my real name.)
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,062
When Jilly Cooper picks your strikers.
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,062
Day-dreaming in the cataloguing section.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
Either my Kindle's playing up, or Bing is, or it's windier than I thought!
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Alec Sheldon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
- Posts: 1,037
How strange.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,868
Alec Sheldon wrote:How strange.
I have an automatic battery clock that is giving the wrong time even though I have changed the battery, the time is now showing four hours ago. I wonder if this B awful wind is to blame somewhere along the signal route as it went silly during Friday/Saturday.
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
Just as strange is the siding/passing loop that, according to Bing maps, some enterprising person has installed on the Eurotunnel line to France in case you fancy a quick training session for your dog at Church Hougham:
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,062
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
Between u and i, not quite a proper job...
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
Oh dear! Unless HER is some kind of acronym, it seems the PM's allies imbibed rather too much at those illegal raves we hear so much about...
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,062
Adverb collapses before finishing line.
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,062
Property-proud but not possessive.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,052
Homophones - not just for calling your gay friends.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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