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Erbury Old Boy

@erburyoldboy

Son of Suffolk, iPhone snapper, leisurely cyclist, watcher of wildlife & drinker of beer. Still figuring out what I want to be when I grow up. Occasionally foreswunk. Not so much mainstream, more ox-bow lake. Not entirely serious. Life huh? En France

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It s just like little kids going
Can
Can’t
Can
Can’t
Over and over again.

07.03.2026 19:45 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Constructive opposition is fine as you say, what they are there for, blindly thinking I am right and they are wrong is just stupidity.

07.03.2026 19:44 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

She is aware she’s the leader of the opposition so she always just says the opposite of the government.
Doesn’t matter what it is.
It keeps it simple.

07.03.2026 19:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Lawah meyrlan?

07.03.2026 19:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A bridge ridge dirge

07.03.2026 12:04 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’d like to choose trial by jury if you are the judge m’lady.

07.03.2026 12:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On not of*

07.03.2026 12:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What if he landed of a ridge?

07.03.2026 12:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

He looks cruel enough to make a go of it.

07.03.2026 11:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He was only asking how her husband fell off the bridge into that deep ravine.

07.03.2026 11:29 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The lost languages of ancient humans: Listen to stone-age chat The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like?

The lost languages of ancient humans: Listen to stone-age chat www.bbc.com/future/artic...

06.03.2026 23:18 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 5 📌 2

Less political, more unhinged.

07.03.2026 11:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

He didn’t ask a question, he made a statement.

07.03.2026 10:54 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Bonjour mon ami, not raining here either.

07.03.2026 10:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not really a proper word

07.03.2026 10:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Wordle 1,722 5/6

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I had a nightmare!

07.03.2026 09:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A trickle becoming a deluge then?

07.03.2026 09:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

The prevailing winds.

07.03.2026 08:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Today’s #dailypicturegame word is BRIDGE

Tomorrow’s word is Futuristic

Nighttime bridge. Castres

07.03.2026 07:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’s sad, but it happens to us all eventually.

07.03.2026 07:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Surely Nige rebranding himself as a born again Christian wouldn’t fool anybody…

Would it?

07.03.2026 07:10 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

5

07.03.2026 05:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

They walk among us.

07.03.2026 05:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bit forrin though.

It’s a good job Brits can’t vote for their own song.

06.03.2026 19:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Beer stein in the shape of a penny farthing bicycle, with the front wheel, which is where the beer goes, shaped like a ball. The rider is a lid for the stein, which is openable with a thumb-activated hinge.

Beer stein in the shape of a penny farthing bicycle, with the front wheel, which is where the beer goes, shaped like a ball. The rider is a lid for the stein, which is openable with a thumb-activated hinge.

Beer Stein from Germany
ca. 1890
Pewter rider/lid and rear wheel
Stoneware container

06.03.2026 17:17 👍 96 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 4

Si

06.03.2026 18:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We have Colin the fish here.
(Hake, I think)

06.03.2026 18:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

She wants her Thatcher moment!

06.03.2026 18:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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“Very, very few people can break the speed limit on a bike”: James May slams Mr Loophole’s call for clampdown on ‘speeding’ cyclists, claiming problem is with illegal e-motorbikes and “nothing to do w... James May has criticised calls for a police crackdown on ‘speeding cyclists’, arguing that “very, very few people” can break the speed limit on a bike and that campaigns focused on speed “always demon...

“Absolute balls. 30mph on the flat on a bicycle is Tour de France stuff… These campaigns always demonise ‘speeding cyclists’,” the former Top Gear host said

06.03.2026 15:32 👍 126 🔁 24 💬 10 📌 1
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Illegal trapping kills more than 700,000 songbirds in Cyprus in autumn 2025 More than 700,000 migratory songbirds were illegally killed in Cyprus last autumn, according to a new survey that highlights stark contrasts in enforcement and a growing link with organised crime.

An estimated 726,000 migratory songbirds were illegally trapped and killed in Cyprus during autumn 2025, according to a new report:

06.03.2026 12:41 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0