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  1. johnnychips

    Uxbridge English Dictionary

    Polesworth - East European immigrant’s wages.
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    England & Wales Tracing App to be released Sept 24th

    Strangely I have noticed in pubs like Greene King and Wetherspoon who have their own apps and/or QR code do not ask you to download it, whereas non-chain pubs that write your name and phone number on a piece of paper ask you to, but don’t bother if you don’t.
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    UK face coverings discussion

    The one group of people really exposed to the virus quite early in the lockdown, once the NHS had got their PPE sorted, were supermarket workers. We did not see a massive spread of the virus among them.
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    Uxbridge English Dictionary

    Matlock Bath - instructions from the Health Secretary’s wife to secure the house and perform his ablutions.
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    Expanding Deansgate vs Piccadilly platforms 15/16

    Isn’t Deansgate on a sort of viaduct?
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    Settlement Association

    Stockport also stands on the River Mersey.
  7. johnnychips

    Uxbridge English Dictionary

    Seasalter- statement explaining global warming.
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    Google maps inaccurate

    ^ Yes Carl. Incidentally I just can’t download Sanders PDFs from their website but this may be just me. But the timetables on bus stops are also wrong - or right? Is this their responsibility or that of the council?
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    TRIVIA: Bus routes in the UK serving at least 3 or more counties

    Isle of Axholme coaches 291: Doncaster to Owston Ferry. South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire (briefly) and Lincolnshire.
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    Google maps inaccurate

    There has been a thread about the demise of Traveline recently, and many people suggested that it was irrelevant as Google Maps could be used instead. I went walking on the Norfolk coast today and found a bus from Happisburgh to Stalham on Google Maps at 1650, also on bustimes.org. It was...
  11. johnnychips

    Uxbridge English Dictionary

    Netley - somewhat irritating to the skin.
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    Uxbridge English Dictionary

    Chandlers Ford - Matthew Perry’s car.
  13. johnnychips

    Uxbridge English Dictionary

    Seascale - observes a crop very good in Vitamim K.
  14. johnnychips

    Uxbridge English Dictionary

    Walsden - where Wally hides when he is sick of people trying to spot him.
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    Uxbridge English Dictionary

    New Holland - reminiscences of an exiled Dutchman.
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    Hulley's of Baslow (Defunct)

    Although I really hope this service works - and I will use it to see relatives in Glossop Loading were fairly decent for day1 with 10 on the outbound journey and 5 on the return. A mixture of enthusiasts and walkers. Arriving in Manchester this evening and see a queue of about 5 people for the...
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    Woodhead Tunnel reopening

    I’m not sure of the point you are trying to make. If you want to go from Midland to University, there is a frequent tram if you don’t want to walk, whereas there isn’t from Victoria. If you had to walk from Victoria to Midland to make a connection that is quite a long unpleasant walk.
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    Uxbridge English Dictionary

    Yes they are. Senior moment! Meanwhile ... Thetford - a South African pointing out a car.
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    Wales to enter "circuit break" lockdown from Friday 23 October to Monday 9 November

    By which time the one in five-hundred who have CV have touched it, and it will have to be quarantined for three to twenty-eight days (depending on whose science you believe). Easier to let them buy it and take it home.
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    Brunel's Atmospheric Railway - could it ever have worked properly?

    They even eat plastic wiring, so something leather, which might even provide nutrition isn’t too far-fetched.

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