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The name's Ghân. Buri Ghân.

14.03.2026 07:18 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

England: business as usual.

12.03.2026 16:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That was normal for monastic cathedrals - the Bishop was nominally abbot, the Prior was usually actually in charge. At Norwich the Prior even wore a mitre.

11.03.2026 16:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mr. á l'Orange?

09.03.2026 10:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.

08.03.2026 19:42 👍 4111 🔁 1472 💬 15 📌 18

Carthago delenda est?

08.03.2026 13:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sorry, I can't serve your friend, he looks like a bit of a cycle path.

05.03.2026 20:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is this the same thing as "riding shotgun underneath the hot sun, feeling like a someone?"

04.03.2026 20:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It's lent - surely hair shirt season.

04.03.2026 13:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In the Shire calendar? The extra day is added at midsummer, it's not part of any month, it isn't any day of the week, and it's a universal holiday.

20.02.2026 08:23 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

I believe it's an extension of the prohibition on eating blood, e.g. Leviticus 27.10-14. "Because the life of every creature is its blood." (v14)

18.02.2026 18:44 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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A little something for Ash Wednesday. #CursedCarols #Lent

18.02.2026 10:12 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

... But it could still go to the ECJ?

15.02.2026 21:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What does it do with the rhyme (my request)?

15.02.2026 21:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Isn't that (at least based on) the last verse of Alleluia, Alleluia, Hearts to heaven and voices raise?

15.02.2026 20:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It must be the same school of thought that objected to the Visitation coming after the Birth of John the Baptist - the Innocents should be after Epiphany. But why so long after I dread to think - surely the same logic would put it before the Presentation?

15.02.2026 19:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think Transpennine means you have to be Ultramontane, and I doubt that squares with Presbyterianism.

15.02.2026 19:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A member of my choir lives in one - I found out when he offered the garden for Socially Distanced rehearsals as lockdown eased.

14.02.2026 21:50 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ruler of the earth and sea...

14.02.2026 18:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just think how much money that could save NASA!

14.02.2026 15:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nefyn looks identical to the older form of Great Yarmouth, unless that's a black background.
While I can't add to your list, I can tell you that GY Borough Council uses the dimidiated lion/herring hybrid as a badge, referred to as a "Percy Prawn."

10.02.2026 18:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

S. Pancras for Eurostar, surely?

07.02.2026 18:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Another version of the rumour says it's not Batman who appears but the Pink Panther.

06.02.2026 04:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Riddled with vermin, and not just the elected ones.

05.02.2026 21:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The only extra requirement is that you should want to pray, rather than to be seen to be praying.

05.02.2026 21:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Was it that parliament wanted, or just that parliament's permission was required?

31.01.2026 22:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Which would push that towards the concentration camp side. Likewise the people Britain sent to the Isle of Man. (Possibly this also makes the Governor's residence in the Bahamas during WWII the world's most luxurious concentration camp?)

31.01.2026 19:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Is it "taken from where they were already" (even if they've been moved significantly, e.g. from Holland to Poland) as opposed to "just arrived" (as refugees, immigrants, PoWs)?

31.01.2026 18:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

On the contrary, 2 things is by far the easiest number to forget exactly 50% of!

31.01.2026 11:32 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And then say, "That's snow moon!"

30.01.2026 22:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0