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  Free good fings oggi: 1. I have a new scarf because Mrs Roach has been sewing... and now everyone will get one for Christmas! 2. Mrs Roach noticed just in time that the squeezy ginger she was about to squirt into the ginger parkin mixture was, in fact, squeezy garlic. 3. Despite being awake since four in the morning, today is going quite well. #3GoodThings

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  Free good fings oggi 1. Roach Minimus appears to be overcoming their cold. 2. Rain dodged on the bike commute home. 3. Sleb Traitors series 2 starts tomorrow. #3GoodThings

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  Free good fings oggi 1. I printed a rounded corner protector for a bookcase that's right behind my head when I'm on the sofa, and it's saved me from a nasty bump three times in the last few weeks. 2. Moved Roach Minor into their 2nd-year student house. Nice street. Slightly better house than my 2nd year student house. 3. Back in time to binge Strictly and Gogglebox before bed. #3GoodThings

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  Free good fings oggi 1. Restraint. For example, I sensibly muted the toots of kitten.exe rather than publicly replying "oh, fuck off, Kitten" which would have been much, much funnier, but would have garnered unnecessary opprobrium. 2. Last night's Brian Bilston poetry reading in Winchester. It was a treat to hear them as Brian intended. 3. There was a deer by the side of the A31 at Holmsley, but it was facing away from the road. #3GoodThings

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  Free.good fings du jour 1. I don't have to get up early tomorrow! 🥳 2. The warmth in the garden office today. Because I know I will miss it in February. ☺️ 3. The last guests of the year have gone, so we can have a last shouty Mario Kart before Roach Minor goes up. 📢📣 #3GoodThings

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  Free good fings heute 1. Nice weather today..Again. 2. I found and printed a SPD-SL cleat cover to replace the one that escaped me, somewhere on the South Island. This might be a bit cryptic but is definitely a Good Thing and I'm grateful. 3. Future plans are crystallising with baffled but polite interest from Mrs Roach. This might be a bit cryptic but it is definitely a Good Thing and I'm grateful. #3GoodThings

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  A variant of #-womensmilingwithsalad I discovered just now is definitely #OlderPeopleHavingFun in pension brochures.

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  Free good fings oggi 1. You know that thing where you go on holiday and nothing's changed when you get back? Hypothetically, were I employed, they would have worked Friday and Monday so all I would have had to do today was work frantically until lunchtime and then sit back and relax. Instead of having to thrash around all week. 2. New Bake Off on telly later. 3. I'm getting on top of planning something big, bit by bit. #3GoodThings

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  Well that solved the clicking noise after I installed a new chain 😳 #BikeToot #velophant #cycling #BetterShifting

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  Free good fings du jour 1. overnight, soaked the labels off a beer bottle that apparently would make a nice bud vase. 2. I made a "bud vase er" beer joke and am still standing. 3. one more day remains of a nice break somewhere I'd not visited before. #3GoodThings

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  Right. Off to St. Ratford upon a Von, to have, despite receiving a Complete Works as a scholarship gift, my ignorance of The Bard's œuvre exposed. If anyone can chip in with little-known and unverifiable "facts" this would be a great time to help! #ShakespeareSunday

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  The lawn patch kit appears to be highlighting that, in fact, swaths of lawn aren't coming back. #UKGsrdening #BourgeoisProblems

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  Free good fings heute 1. IPA plus lint free cloth plus disc brake rotors = hopefully no horrid noises 2. The first blue-grey Mk1s arrived. 3. Roach Major circulated a video of a vole that they discovered during their run. #3GoodThings

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  Free good fings oggi 1. It's our regular AirBnB guest's last night with us for the foreseeable, as he's changing job. He was our first guest. In the last two years he's been a regular monthly guest for a working week, run a marathon, become a dad for the second time, shouted at the football on the telly (especially Toon matches), and ordered about 100 pizzas. I am grateful for his support to our fledgling rental annex and wish him every success. 🏃🧑‍🍼⚽🍕 2. Roach Minor's gang m...

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  Free good fings oggi 1. after 6 months of sulking and eating Quaker instant porridge pots, because the canteen stopped doing itw own porridge and offered over-nigh toats, today I tried the over-nigh toats for the first time and they were delicious, more to eat than a Quaker porridge pot and 10p cheaper. Converted. Eventually. Now I just have to have separate conversations with _every_ kitchen staff member about this revalation. I should make a badge. 2. I successfully avoided the two people r...

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  Free good fings heute 1. Both my parents confirmed to me that my 78-year-old uncle drives, and has always driven, "like a madman". Phew, not just my perception then. Zero margin for anyone else to make an error. 😬🫣 2. Roach Major having fun on their new internship with a wildlife management organisation. Grey partridge surveys! Off-road driver training! 3. Roach Minor returned from a nice Balearic break. 4. Roach Minimus back to school, start of their last year ever, unless they ta...

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  Free good fings from yesterday y Domani 1. Some nice people pointed me to the subway at Linlithgow station when I was flapping about the lack of footbridge to cross the tracks 😆 2. While on the train, I slid a recalcitrant contact lens back into position without having to gross anybody out. 3. Delay Repay decided I could have all my train fare back for yesterday's Bank Holiday afternoon trip (signalling approaching Northallerton, tree on the line at Doncaster, "police related inciden...

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  Free good fings du jour 1. Retrieved the Best Bike from the Breton garage where it has has languished for a month. Oh and another bike, and the car. 2. Trains. When they run well, there's nothing I like more for long journeys. Thank goodness the place to which they recovered the car has a railway station. 3. When I force myself to step away from computers and portable telephones, it's amazing how much reading I can accomplish. #3GoodThings

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  Free good fings oggi 1. Good birthday meal out for 2. Fixed a curtain pulley that has been progressively more broken for months. 3. The wind is blowing the smoke from the heath fire on the Forest somewhere else. #3GoodThings

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  Free good fings du jour 1. Hypothetically, were I employed, Tuesday would have felt like the sort of day that in a parallel universe, I might have answered seven questions in a work 🏳️‍🌈 quiz and won a free breakfast voucher! 2. After several days of looking and thinking, my new gloves were in the rucksack, untouched since returning from Bristol this fortnight last. 3. Before she died in 2017, my friend Ange commissioned me to take some photos of her young family. Her widower Paul just sent me...

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  Tricycle! #CarryShitOlynpics

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  Free good fings oggi 1. The jar of special foreign honey that is a gift for my Dad survived the journey, 2. The jar of the world's best marmalade survived the journey, 3. The jar of Carrefour own-brand rhubarb jam* survived the journey. #3GoodThings #rhubarb #marmalade * truly the sign of a civilised country, when you can find supermarket own-brand rhubarb jam, rather than Special Artisanal Conserve Made With Special Artisanal Care And That'll Be Fifteen Pounds Please.

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  As if I don't have enough to think about at the moment, my dreams include being sent the new commemorative cycling jersey for (which, when awake, I decided I don't want) and for the printing to be very poor quality and peeling off, so dream me ALSO has to return the bloody thing.

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  SCENE: THE PARK "Hello. You're looking down at your phone a lot. Can I ask you what app you're using to control your dog while it's off the lead?" 😆

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  Free good fings oggi 1. People making podcast adverts in English have recognisable voice patterns that make it very easy to discriminate "advert" from "podcast" even when it's the podcast host reading out the advert. 2. Recently I discovered my headphones have a control that will advance the playback forward 30s. 3. Combining these things means I no longer have to sit through podcast adverts while riding my bike. #ThreeGoodThings

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  End of school year. Mrs Roach cancels her morning alarm for the next few weeks.

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  #FensterFreitag

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  Hypothetically, were I employed, I might have overheard a snatch of teams-meeting conversation two desks along from me: "And now is in the White House saying why it shouldn't be a red card, ..." Meeting finishes. "This AI note taker is going too far. I've been given an action. "Clarify political situation around football matches." 🙄😆 #AI #WorldCup #IStandWithBelgium

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  Free good fings oggi 1. My parents are having a good time in Man. 2. Was not demolished on the road by motor vehicles operated by people that stayed up late with corresponding effects on attention and reaction times. 3. Fulfilled a 3 year ambition to ride to Bristol (yesterday). #ThreeGoodThings

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  #SilentSunday #StilleSonntag