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  • What are some of your earliest memories of school?

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    • Losing a fight in the sandpit
    • Crying because there were no more trains in the trainset for me to have one. But then being given another whole set to play with
    • Farting extremely loudly in the middle of storytime
    • Miss not being able to tell me what dates Robin Hood lived in
    • Having a lesson on how to use a dictionary - which surprised me, since I already could, and didn't realise that anyone couldn't.

  • Beloved '70s BBC sci-fi series from Daleks creator confirmed for reboot with Doctor Who director

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  • I see that Jason Haigh-Ellery is involved, which - given his involvement with Big Finish - does give me some hope for the quality if it does go ahead, but that is a very big IF.

  • ‘Robin Hood’ activists who targeted Crown Jewels plan London Waitrose raids

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  • Mixed feelings on this one with Waitrose in particular as a target. Whilst not exactly a workers cooperative, it is employee owned: staff have non-transferable shares. Thefts will hit employees directly as a result.

    Clearly this is not going to be any kind of significant dent in the overall profits of the company - it is very much about the publicity - but, even so, couldn't they have chosen one with a more standard corporate model?

  • How would you bescribe yourself by a sentence?

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  • Some decades back I described myself in a social organisation's yearbook as "Degenerate freeloader and card-carrying pope" - which should indicate my influences at the time.

    I no longer carry a pope card.

  • What's your favorite Robin Hood media?

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    1. Robin of Sherwood - the 1984 series, first two seasons, with Praed.
    2. That segment of Time Bandits (1981)
    3. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - Flynn & Rathbone
    4. Robin and Marion (1976) - Connery

    And then all the rest bringing up the rear.

  • Those who have moved residences, do you still remember all the places you've been, do you feel anything about it when remembering it or looking at street views? Do you feel sentinmental about it?

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  • Remember them: yes.

    Feel anything: it is usually a particular event or something that causes me to bring them to mind, so any feelings will be more tied to the event that caused the memory than the place itself - and that could be good, bad or just unusual. I don't think that I have ever had reason to look at street views of any of them.

    Sentimental: not in general. They all had good points and not so good. I enjoyed living in them most of the time, but I enjoy where I am now too.

    The closest to sentimental would be when I spent a night at one of the old places some years later. I used to live on site for work, but my role changed. No-one lives there now. It is used for meetings and storage etc, but someone will occasionally sleep-over for one reason or another, as I did on this occasion. That evening I felt like a ghost haunting my own past.

  • What is your favorite movie of the year?

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  • A toss up between Bugonia and The Ballad of Wallis Island in my case.

  • Which gift from a past Christmas do you still use regularly and enjoy?

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  • My wife has knitted me several pairs of socks over the years. I am pretty certain that she has given me at least a couple at Xmas. I still have them all and wear them at weekends.

    However, other than that, I don't think that I have given or received anything that is not consumable - food, drink, toiletries, candles, outings etc - for a very long time.

  • What is this colour?

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  • Dark Mustard

  • What movies defined your childhood?

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  • Films that I saw, on TV or at the cinema, prior to the age of 16 or so that had a major impact on me - in the approximate order in which I saw them:

    • The Amazing Mr Blunden
    • Jason and the Argonauts
    • Mon Oncle
    • Star Wars (before it became A New Hope)
    • The Third Man
    • The Omen
    • Stalker - which pretty much marked my transition to adult SF

  • What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say?

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  • Bite my shiny metal ass!

  • What's the story behind your username and avatar?

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  • It's a variation on a local folkloric figure, and the image is modified from the album of a poem about the figure by Martin Newell and the Hosepipe Band.

  • What Did Y'all Buy on Black Friday?

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  • An excellent sausage and cheese toasted sandwich.

  • How does trash collection/recycling work where you live, and do you like the system?

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  • 2 x 240L wheelie bins - one for dry mixed recycling, the other for residual waste. They are collected on alternating weeks.

    We could pay for a third for green waste, but we compost instead (and have a bokashi bin to assist with that).

    There are a few communal glass bins around which we will drop stuff off to as we pass from time to time, since that is not included in the DMR selection.

    Soft plastics - bags, film etc - are also not included, but can be recycled at supermarkets - or collected by them when they make a home delivery (which is what we do).

    Tetrapaks, WEEE, batteries etc need to be taken to the local recycling centre. We'll book a slot about once a quarter for that.

  • What's your favorite assignment you made while in school?

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  • Early in secondary school, back in the '70s, the music teacher had some issue or another - if I ever knew, I have long since forgotten - and had simply given up. She did not even attempt to teach anything. As a result, we were allowed to do anything at all as long as long as it was quiet.

    I did an assignment on early Russian space flight. I don't know why that particularly, but it was my obsession at the time, so I did. It was never marked and no-one else had any interest. It contained a lot of detail from numerous sources, but I doubt that it was that great really. However, that I was allowed to do it at all surprised me at the time and had been a source of fond amusement for me even since.

  • How cold are you atm?

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  • It's 2°C outside, but fairly toasty inside because both Mrs GreyShuck and I have the lurgy and so the heating is turned up. Personally, my temp is all over the place. My feet were simultaneously too hot and too cold most of last night.

  • Do you use a dishwasher or wash dishes by hand?

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  • I have read comparisons in the past. I don't have them to hand, but the conclusion was that dishwashers were more efficient in terms of water use and energy. However, the type of hand-washing that it was being compared to was itself a very inefficient style of washing (tap running continuously? two full sinks for rinsing? I can't recall, but not the way that we do).

    So handwashing the way we do is probably more efficient but it seems that there isn't THAT much in it either way, and given the time taken and that we cook from scratch almost all the time, we use a dishwasher for the vast bulk of stuff.

  • Today is remembrance day, what are your families war experiences?

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  • WW1 - grandfather was a stoker in the RN. His ship was involved in the battle of Jutland. He was then in the RN reserves until he aged out on Sept 1st 1939. A great uncle was KIA in the trenches in France. Another was in the Mesopotamia campaign under Townsend. He had a rough time of it, but I don't know the details.

    WW2 - dad was in the RASC. In Normandy on D-Day+6, initially working on Mulberry B, but was then given a Sherman that had had its turret blown off and was clearing roads toward Caen. Later he was guarding munitions factories back in the UK, which is where he met mum, who had started the war filling jars with jam, but then was filling shells with explosive.

    Malaya "emergency" - an uncle was there and hated everything about it.

  • If you don't know where a movie/show/book/game takes place, where do you assume it takes place?

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  • As a kid, in the UK, back in the '70s, I was watching Roots and was wondering why they were so keen to get to Scotland. I eventually realised that this was set in the US, of course, and the north there was different.

    So I suppose that was my default then but, these days, I typically find myself trying to work out exactly when and where a thing is set, if it isn't obvious, automatically - before I actually settle into the plot or anything.

  • Why don't you have persimmons at home right now? how dare you?

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  • That's nothing. I have no granadillas, rambutans or mangosteens either.

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    Two charged for pouring porridge and jam on Queen Victoria bust in Glasgow

    www.theguardian.com /uk-news/2024/mar/03/two-charged-pouring-porridge-jam-queen-victoria-bust-glasgow
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    Fewer than 20% of levelling up projects completed in England, figures show

    www.theguardian.com /politics/2024/mar/03/fewer-than-20-levelling-up-projects-completed-england-figures
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    Warning Iceland volcano eruption is ‘imminent’ as tourist attraction evacuated

    www.independent.co.uk /news/world/europe/blue-lagoon-iceland-volcano-eruption-b2506139.html
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    Abolishing non-dom tax status would be humiliation for Tories, says Phillipson

    www.theguardian.com /uk-news/2024/mar/03/abolishing-non-dom-tax-status-would-be-humiliation-for-tories-says-phillipson
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    Eight arrested as climate activists break into chemicals plant in France

    www.reuters.com /world/europe/eight-arrested-climate-activists-break-into-chemicals-plant-france-2024-03-02/
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    Climate activists convicted of criminal damage after smashing glass door of JP Morgan

    www.theguardian.com /uk-news/2024/mar/01/climate-activists-convicted-of-criminal-damage-after-smashing-glass-door-of-jp-morgan
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    Tories accused of hypocrisy for supporting farmers’ protests

    www.theguardian.com /environment/2024/mar/01/tories-accused-of-hypocrisy-farmers-protests-crackdown-climate-gaza
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    Rwanda plan to cost UK £1.8m for each asylum seeker, figures show

    www.theguardian.com /uk-news/2024/mar/01/rwanda-plan-uk-asylum-seeker-cost-figures
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    George Galloway wins sweeping victory in Rochdale byelection, saying ‘this is for Gaza’

    www.theguardian.com /politics/2024/mar/01/george-galloway-wins-rochdale-byelection
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    Nineteen English councils handed multimillion-pound bailout agreements

    www.theguardian.com /society/2024/feb/29/english-councils-bailout-agreements-capitalisation-directions
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    Tories accused of using ‘mob rule’ claims to justify restricting protests

    www.theguardian.com /world/2024/feb/29/tories-accused-of-using-mob-rule-claims-to-justify-restricting-protests
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    Labour in power faces dire economic inheritance, says Rachel Reeves

    www.theguardian.com /politics/2024/feb/28/labour-dire-economic-inheritance-rachel-reeves-budget
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    Three secrets to successful climate litigation

    theconversation.com /three-secrets-to-successful-climate-litigation-224045
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    More than half of Tory members in poll say Islam a threat to British way of life

    www.theguardian.com /politics/2024/feb/28/more-than-half-of-tory-members-in-poll-say-islam-a-threat-to-british-way-of-life
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    Nearly one in 10 English councils expect to go bust in next year, survey finds

    www.theguardian.com /society/2024/feb/28/nearly-one-in-10-english-councils-expect-to-go-bust-in-next-year-survey-finds
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    Drax: UK power station burns wood from rare forests

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/science-environment-68381160
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    Rishi Sunak faces fresh byelection as former Tory MP suspended

    www.theguardian.com /politics/2024/feb/27/rishi-sunak-faces-fresh-byelection-as-former-tory-mp-suspended
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    ‘Health emergency’: 15% of UK households went hungry last month, data shows

    www.theguardian.com /society/2024/feb/27/health-emergency-15-of-uk-households-went-hungry-last-month-data-shows
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    Tory supporters lash out at ‘snake’ Sunak over Lee Anderson suspension

    www.theguardian.com /politics/2024/feb/26/tory-supporters-lash-out-at-snake-sunak-over-lee-anderson-suspension
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    Metal scar found on cannibal star

    phys.org /news/2024-02-metal-scar-cannibal-star.html