Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[Rod Paradise]

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Dammit, who's cutting onions...

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https://twitter.com/dont4getthesun/status/1397920661704609809

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https://twitter.com/dont4getthesun/status/1397920661704609809

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Fabulous!


The next time you walk under a canal bridge, look for the deep grooves cut into the stonework by the tow rope.

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Even on this cast-iron rubbing strip.

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IMO The World at War narrated by Sir Lawrence Oliver was the definitive WWII series. I've watched the entire boxed set at least half a dozen times, but I've just discovered this on Amazon Prime and I have to say its better. Mainly because it's less sanitised, less bias, and narrated in a more modern vanacular.

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For some reason over the last couple of days I've been totally devoid of energy. Everything seems like it's too much effort, all I want to do is flop about in front of the telly.

I don't know what's wrong with me but I know I don't like it.

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Meanwhile, Mrs Red is her usual industrious self.

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[tonytats]

Something on my facebook today

The grisly origins of Caxton Gibbet
 
Did you know that Caxton Gibbet is named after a medieval practice of execution? A gibbet was a gallow-type structure where the dead or dying bodies of criminals were hung in a cage on public display as a warning to other potential offenders. At Caxton Gibbet, most criminals were still alive when they were suspended in the gibbet cage and left to die from thirst, starvation and exposure to the weather. This was unusual as at other locations criminals were already dead before being ‘gibbeted’. Fortunately the structure we see on site today isn’t the original.

Wikipedia says this isn't conclusive, but medieval people in positions of power were right wankers, so i am not so sure (It seems Dominic Cummings has the same view of the current incumbents).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caxton_Gibbet

The site has been improved by a drive through McDonalds, which isn't something that is often said.

I was going to do the no need to starve there’s a McDonald’s there now  comment
As I drive past the area a lot there’s a shell garage and an old little chef I believe now a hand car wash
I must look and see if there’s still a gibbett ,I think there is
It’s a roundabout now on the edge of Cambourne at the A428 bedford to Cambridge road / A1198 to Huntingdon
Godmanchester nearby has a lot of old English style buildings and a sign saying from 1297 or some date ages ago
I marvel at how folk travelled around then and where they lived and how churches were built on what was essentially marshland and how they got the stone there
Most villages have a church and the oldest building are very nearby ,but where did the poor folk / labourers live ?

[Karabiner]

Have you got your mojo back yet?

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Have you got your mojo back yet?

Yes thanks Ralph. I could bite a tiger.

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[booder]

https://twitter.com/dont4getthesun/status/1397920661704609809

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Very clever.
Designed so that the towpath can be crossed without the horse being unhitched.

[The_nun]

It is like a goats horn.

[Mohican]

IMO The World at War narrated by Sir Lawrence Oliver was the definitive WWII series. I've watched the entire boxed set at least half a dozen times, but I've just discovered this on Amazon Prime and I have to say its better. Mainly because it's less sanitised, less bias, and narrated in a more modern vanacular.

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Loved the world at war esp as they interview  from both sides including Albert Speer, who as we know, got away with it. Anyways I shall be watching all these episodes, looks proper interesting.

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IMO The World at War narrated by Sir Lawrence Oliver was the definitive WWII series. I've watched the entire boxed set at least half a dozen times, but I've just discovered this on Amazon Prime and I have to say its better. Mainly because it's less sanitised, less bias, and narrated in a more modern vanacular.

Click to see full-size image.

Loved the world at war esp as they interview  from both sides including Albert Speer, who as we know, got away with it. Anyways I shall be watching all these episodes, looks proper interesting.

Great. I love it when someone watches the same thing as me.

Let me know what you think.