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Old Rivers Grow Wilder Every Day

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AKA Peter Metalli. 20,000 roads I've been down down down and they all led me straight back to Ireland Love cosmic American music, Ireland, good cheese & chocolate! Currently learning to play the bodhrán (badly). Often by a river watching boats go by!

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Wait until they hear about 1970s’ teachers and blackboard dusters!

11.03.2026 21:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’ve had enough of Tom Cruise movies too TBH.

11.03.2026 21:25 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bad day for Starmer over Mandelson files?

Let’s resurrect the boobgate tosh.

11.03.2026 21:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just become a theatre or music critic.

Remember, those who can, do.
Those who can’t, teach.
Those who don’t have a clue and hate life, “review”.

09.03.2026 23:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s a banger of a tune. 👏

09.03.2026 23:18 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Isn’t that how he started? I thought he worked on Spitting Image?

08.03.2026 23:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well c’mon all of you big strong men, Uncle Sam needs your help again…

#RIPCountryJoe

08.03.2026 22:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Haha funnily enough I understood that! (Without the translate feature, but thanks anyway 😜🤣)

I actually have that phrase pinned on my wall! 🤦

08.03.2026 22:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I can get as far as ta bron orm…

08.03.2026 10:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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All right then…

#irewal

06.03.2026 19:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dear Shabana,
I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank.
You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to
make a perilous crossing on small boats.”
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton
and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government
who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division.
When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there
to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done
in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the
flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney.
As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking
points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I
filled water tanks and picked up litter.
What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop
the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country.
Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it.
It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping
migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and
croissants to refugees and food parcels.
When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She
said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for
refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers
whilst risking death on the seas.”
She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on
the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

05.03.2026 16:59 👍 4915 🔁 1802 💬 249 📌 346

I’ll have a stab… is as Corcaigh me?

05.03.2026 10:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Best #dadjoke of the year so far…

05.03.2026 09:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Except that is not whataboutism, it’s hypocrisy.

30.01.2026 13:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The big problem is that the Iranian spokesperson has a valid point. If the Islamic Revolutionary Guard are deemed terrorists, why not the IDF?

Played into their hands there.

29.01.2026 16:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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This is hilarious!! 🤣 🤣

29.01.2026 13:35 👍 11464 🔁 4432 💬 1716 📌 838

But they will have the tools to prosecute. At the moment the GS hands are tied.

28.01.2026 22:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you.

What a shame though that it took the death of a beautiful young girl to get us there.

No consolation to her family and friends at the moment I’m sure but at least a legacy of which they can be proud of her in decades to come.

28.01.2026 18:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Customary empty stage photo no 25663456:

Early doors for #brownhorse

Close enough? #SeatsToo

26.01.2026 19:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#StickyFoodInASongOrMovie

Gummy Shelter

24.01.2026 00:03 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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‘Meat tax’ could have significant impact on environmental footprint, study finds Full VAT on meat products could cost EU households as little as €26 a year but cut impact by 3-6%, says paper The environmental impacts of meat consumption could be rapidly and cheaply reduced if governments applied full VAT on products such as beef, pork, lamb and chicken, a study has shown. Depending on how the additional tax revenues were redistributed, such a change could cost households as little as €26 (£23) a year, while cutting ecological destruction by between 3% and 6%, the paper found. Continue reading...

‘Meat tax’ could have significant impact on environmental footprint, study finds

20.01.2026 10:02 👍 63 🔁 19 💬 8 📌 5
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Let’s get ready to rhamble…

PJ & Duncan (AKA Ant & Dec)

20.01.2026 09:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And the longer you are married, the more you value a person who accepts/laughs at the same shit every time!

My wife (of 35 years) said to me the other day that it is like we are living in an episode of The Fast Show, with the same old one liners/jokes. And she meant it in a POSITIVE way! 😉🤣🤣

19.01.2026 17:41 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s so frustrating to watch this though. The legal system is proving him with chance after chance because the it must be seen to be doing the right thing and he is just taking the piss every time.

Just one reason why I could never be a judge. My patience would have been exhausted a long time ago.

16.01.2026 13:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Indeed. Why did the judge let him out yet again? IMO it’s beginning to look like there might be some mental health issues there now.

In any case, totally unacceptable behaviour for school kids (and school staff) to have to witness/endure every day.

16.01.2026 13:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

WTF did the judge think would happen?

Lock him up, start seizing his assets and just stop reporting on him. He thrives on the publicity. Don’t feed it to him.

16.01.2026 10:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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#Asongormoviefortakingabreak

Anything by Marty Pillow…

Or zero effort on these:
Lay Down Sally - Clapton
Holiday - Madonna
Five Minutes - Gretchen Peters
Sleeping - The Band
Lay Down - The Strawbs

Or minimal effort:
Doze Your Mother Know? - ABBA.

16.01.2026 10:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What, even if it was Ricky Gervais’ or Jim Davidson? 😉

Oh sorry, stupid question. Davidson would never get one! 🤦‍♂️

16.01.2026 10:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Need to make gigs more enjoyable then. Bands are often great but since lockdown audiences suck. Ban camera phones (the back screens at least), always provide at least SOME seating (older people generally have more disposable income) and no standing in those areas and ALWAYS sell Guinness (in glass)

16.01.2026 10:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A NIGHT OUT FOR PALESTINE

TALKS - MUSIC - STALLS - BAR

FRI 30 JAN 2026
DOORS 6:30 FOR 7PM START
ST MARY'S SOCIAL CENTRE
LEWES

TICKETED
FUNDRAISER

12.01.2026 23:36 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0