The Right Runcible Howard Batey
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Bookworm living in Llandaff. Happy Public Servant. Loves Heidi (Wife), good books of all stripes, History, Rugby, Elvis, & Tea. Posting here in a personal capacity.
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And send a random electical shock into the nerves of your right arm which makes it straighten quickly at a 45 degree angle upwards.
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And you can only hear sounds from the far right.
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Now that the delayed #QuizzyMonday is done, time to catch-up with #GBBO
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Robinson got squashed (14) #UniversityChallenge #MegaMondayMindMangle #MondayMindMangle #QuizzyMonday #QuizzyTuesday
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Stop nodding, please #UniversityChallenge #MegaMondayMindMangle #MondayMindMangle #QuizzyMonday #QuizzyTuesday
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Cheer up, Magdalen.... #UniversityChallenge #MegaMondayMindMangle #MondayMindMangle #QuizzyMonday #QuizzyTuesday
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I've gone right off you, Lizzy..... #MegaMondayMindMangle #MondayMindMangle #QuizzyMonday #QuizzyTuesday
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Scottish textiles #MegaMondayMindMangle #MondayMindMangle #QuizzyMonday #QuizzyTuesday
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Evening Clive. Where were you yesterday?
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Now, do I post to #MegaMondayMindMangle #MondayMindMangle #QuizzyMonday or
#MegaTuesdayMindMangle #TuesdayMindMangle #QuizzyTuesday ?
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Well there is 'Blood for the Blood God' by Sabbat, but you do get funny looks when you try singing it at the bus stop of a morning....
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Just watched the film 'Kindling'. This probably means I have no soul, or the like, but I thought it was dreadful.
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I've just seen the BBC2 schedule for this evening. Livid.

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Well Vodafone, what have you got to say for yourself?
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I've seen that, in the Kunstkammer museum in Vienna! It is a stunning, if ridiculously ostentatious thing. Cellini also wrote about its making, which is quite something too.
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As a light blue alumni you might enjoy Tom Sharpe's 'Porterhouse Blue', though his satirical farces can be a little bit of an acquired taste, and they may not have (shall we say) 'aged well' since their first publication.
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There are some good ones too, taking aim at exactly this kind of thing.
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I guess there has to be a reason why there is a genre of fiction known as 'the campus novel',
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Now, I'm impressed by them having Lang Lang on! #StrictlyComeDancing #Strictly #SCD
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All this gushing over the guest judge 😬 #StrictlyComeDancing #Strictly #SCD