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Apparently it was Greta Thunberg's birthday yesterday. Was it her party you were at? 

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Summer in the City

So when's your birthday and will there be a party and will she be invited (i.e. your ex) and will there be any drinks that don't make all your teeth fall out?

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Ipswich

In the East End of London, pie mash and green liquor is a traditional Cockney meal consisting of a savoury meat pie, a great wadge of mashed potato, and a bright green parsley sauce known simply as liquor. Dick Van Dyke ate plates and plates of the stuff to further his method acting for the part of Bert the Chimney Sweep in the 1964 film Mary Poppins. I don’t know what the green liquor tastes like but on the occasions that I’ve come close to it, it has always looked like something that might have oozed out of our sick cat.

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Association Football

I’ve been to Baltimore. I’ve been to a few places round the world that were a bit dodgy but Baltimore was the only place where I thought I might be murdered, or die from one of the many other things that are available there. In the most delightful way!

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supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Baltimore and Pimlico are both the names of places in Ireland. Baltimore’s a village in Cork and Pimlico’s an inner city district of Dublin. It’s tucked in between the Guinness Storehouse and the Teeling Whiskey Distillery. London has a Pimlico too but it’s also named after ours.

I can’t get my head round the concept of a justifiable homicide. It was bad enough discovering that the police wouldn’t let the fire brigade put out the fires when some dear old crime-infested pubs in Leeds caught fire.

Umm diddle iddle iddle um diddle aye

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supercalifragilisticexpialidociously

 

Righto! I hope you're feeling better soon. 

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charity

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Mercy Mercy Me

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Scousers

The other night I was over at the gypsy neighbours' house listening to their stuff on scratchy old vinyl. With a splash of homemade rakia it warms the soul these icy nights. It's a shame it's too ethnic for the world wide web to take an interest. I need a cassette recorder.

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browsers

The weirdest drink I ever had was a cup of tea one of my elderly lady clients once gave me. It was about 60% Sainsbury's own-brand whiskey. The tea was rough and the whiskey was rough but together they cancelled each other's roughness out. The woman herself wasn't rough at all. She was really posh.

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party poppers

She was the educated at an English private girls' school sort of posh. A jolly hockey sticks and polo ponies type of woman.

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Eleanor Rigby 

Jolly hockey sticks isn't easy to explain so I Googled it and got this... in imitations of speech associated with a type of upper-class English schoolgirl it's used to express boisterous enthusiasm or excitement.

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Stone Age

Yes! Do that! It'll change your life forever. 

I doubt if you know of singer-songwriter Billy Bragg over there but he writes some great lyrics. In his football innuendo-based song called The Boy Done Good, he sings…

Now I feel like I've won the cup every time that we
Make love
Forty-five minutes each way, at halftime I hear a brass
Band play

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egg nog

Sorry to hear of your chilliness. I'm not suffering at all, and that's because it's so bloody cold outside I haven't dared to venture beyond the door. It's snowed non-stop for the last thirty-six hours. It'll stop during the night but our road will blocked or thick with ice for a couple of days beyond that. On days like this it's good to be an old age pensioner with no responsibilities beyond the living room.

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northern grit

I feel for you. Work is the curse of the drinking class, as Oscar Wilde apparently said. 

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banitsa

... if you can remember what you said you'd do drunk. 

Reminds me of Alex Glasgow's song 'As Soon as this Pub Closes'.

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barrister

I Googled Nancy Wilson and it turns out you have two of them. A jazz singer and a rock musician. Which one's yours? I like the jazz singer best.

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parapet

I suffered the same as a working man. Towards the end I felt I had more knowledge and experience of verruca control than the woman who claimed to be the expert. I bet she'd never even had a verruca. 

I've listened more to Jazzy Nancy. Nice discovery... ta for that!

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city

I might have missed that track so I've just given it a whirl now. I put her 'best of' thing up on Spotify for a couple of hours this morning.

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acropolis

I will. Tomorrow. It's almost 1:00 am here now.

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he man

 

Tarzan

 

Jet Jungle

 

Imagine there's no countries.

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Bryan Ferry

I'd have said Serbia or Montenegro.

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The British Royal Family

I wasn't really trying to make you laugh but I'm glad I did. They're both gorgeous places and driving distance from where I live. We've booked a holiday. We're off to Lithuania in June but that's a bit further so we'll be flying... in an aeroplane.

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mayday

I was thinking about regional dialects whilst washing the wean's nappy under the tap. 

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cauliflower

 

Ah were lakin’ at football in t’ rec wi me mates an’ then we went to t’ shop to get us sens a bit o’ spice and bottles of pop.

 

I was playing football with my friends at the recreation ground and then we went to the shop to buy ourselves sweets (candy) and bottles of lemonade (soda).

 

Translated from old Yorkshire to modern English with slight adjustments to accommodate those living in the former colonies.

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toxic toadstool

CPL? Colon Protection Laxative?

 

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stud

im not a cow im a bull!!

 

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