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  1. johnnychips

    Uxbridge English Dictionary

    Humphrey Park - An order to a car-driving Unigate milk-drinking entity from the 70s. Only people over 60 will appreciate this.
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    Station association

    Lelant station is also single-track and served by GWR.
  3. johnnychips

    Uxbridge English Dictionary

    Fitzwilliam - suitable clothes for the future heir to the throne.
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    Settlement Association

    In 1915, the organist of Antwerp cathedral gave a performance at Ystalfera church. Antwerp once had a VLM plane service to Manchester airport.
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    Woodhead Tunnel reopening

    Having recently moved to Sheffield, I realise now that Victoria really is up the ar** end of nowhere, even relative to Midland. This is why ideas to reopen routes to Stocksbridge and directly to Penistone fail. From post #22 ‘Interestingly it [Victoria] is about the same distance away from the...
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    South Yorkshire buses discussion

    Just put single deckers on the schools only routes in Donny where the kids can all sit together, and double deckers on the routes where ordinary passengers have to mix with kids so space is limited to 31 not 19. Don’t care what they look like.
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    Uxbridge English Dictionary

    Penistone - a mixed unit of currency and mass.
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    Settlement Association

    Blackpool also has a small airport.
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    Norfolk Ranger?

    Thank you.
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    Norfolk Ranger?

    Thanks @peterblue. Are they the same company?
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    Draconian measures

    I do remember a case Bill Bryson reported - unfortunately I can’t remember which book - where a legislator demanded life imprisonment for drug dealers, and it may have even been enacted in that state. However, when her son got done for dealing LSD, he was not sentenced thus.
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    New Scottish COVID-19 Restrictions 07/10/2020

    Excellent Freudian slip. If you did intend it, it made me laugh.
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    the most over the top restrictions introduced

    I work in an educational establishment and the ethos is - understandably - ‘cover your back’, rather than rational measures.
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    Norfolk Ranger?

    Thanks for your quick reply. It seems I might have to take the train or Sanders buses to get to the coast, then Sanders or Lynx to get around the area.
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    Norfolk Ranger?

    Despite much Googling, I can’t find a day ranger ticket for Norfolk that covers buses and/or trains like the Derbyshire Wayfarer does. Is there such a thing? In particular I would like to visit the north coast and Walsingham from Norwich for a day out.
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    Uxbridge English Dictionary

    Glossop - to exaggerate your recent hospital procedure.
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    South Yorkshire buses discussion

    There is a thread somewhere about all buses in South Yorkshire so this could be amalgamated. For instance I was surprised today to see Powells operating the previous Stagecoach X20 from Donny to Barnsley.
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    Settlement Association

    Maltby also has a closed colliery.
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    Uxbridge English Dictionary

    And not far away Newton Abbot. A cleric with reptilian headgear.
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    Really strange PIS pronunciations

    That was the first post. The Circle of Life!

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