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Macanultaigh

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I wear a lot of wool. Not set fire to the kitchen for years now. Cats and hens can dispose of evidence: they are thorough but slow. Denizen of #Wulferhampton. In real world North West England. Mostly happy.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 7h

Knacker as in:
Bollocks
Dead horse processor
Offensive term for Irish traveller?

Because I hope it's the top one because there ain't much of a market for the other two.

Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 8h

Decades ago friends went out onto Formby Moss for star gazing.
Got eyes used to the dark when blue flashy lights appeared.
Scuffers were actually apologetic, just they'd never come across it before.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 8h

Of course!

Nudge nudge, wink wink etc

Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 8h

How different A Winter's Tale would, if sans bear and avec doggers.

Exit, pursued by a dogger.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 8h

Wasn't there an old criminal charge of pandering?

Similar to procuring or pimping.

The truth is out! It's Pander not Panda!

[Eastenders theme]

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 8h

No. Don't be silly.

Normal tallow. We keep the human dripping for roasting potatoes.

Heathen!

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 8h

He is a bear. Probably there to meet the pope or summat.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 8h

Elecktrickery?
We have FLAMING torches!

But we also have occasional human sacrifice, so it evens out, I suppose.

a group of people are holding torches in the dark

ALT: a group of people are holding torches in the dark

media.tenor.com

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 10h

Am at local theatre. They are advertising what's coming up in the interval.
There are so many tribute acts that it is a genuine surprise that the Lightening Seeds gig coming up is the actual Lightening Seeds and not some group of blokes with an astonishingly similar name.

Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 15h

I can recommend the charity book table at Booths: that's where I got it.
I even got daughter an Arthur Bryant there!
I MUST emphasise that this was as a joke, and she burst out laughing when she saw it.

Other overpriced middle class supermarkets are available.

Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 15h

It is. Im enjoying it.
Daughter is in her 3rd year history, so is indulgent of my popular history addiction.

Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 18h

I really enjoyed A Dance to the Music of Time.
Have you tried Alms for Oblivion by Simon Raven?
Similar territory.
That series is very good (with a few reservations), but most of his output hasn't aged well.
Frankly, some was shit.

Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 1d

Go you! Well done!

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 1d

Yep.
Alcohol and ships: never seen good combo.
My dad had his 21st on a minesweeper in the Med.
Got given "sippers": a sip of everyone else's tot of rum.
Woke up locked up. Got completely bollocked as you'd imagine.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 1d

Yep.
That's the one.
One of those things where you forget how tenuous a new dynasty's grip on power was. We all wonder why people tolerated Henry VIII's initial excesses, but the Wars of the Roses were in living memory, and no-one wanted a return to that.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 1d

I shall look.

Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 1d

Was looking at an old Facebook post, referring to a close friend's early death.
I visited his grave. I'd forgotten that he'd asked for his epitaph to be,
"think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush"

Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 1d

I have just opened a 2016 elderberry wine.
Tastes like communion wine.
If i croak in the night, I will at least be able to fool St Peter that I came straight from mass.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 1d

Actually, it's really good. Very readable.
Fascinating subject: Henry I seizing power, then Normandy, but the lack of male heir leading to The Anarchy.
I've not been able to get that period straight in my head until now.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 1d

I think one of the funniest things I read in t'other place was a response to some rant of Joey Barton's.
"Mate, you're just a bad wool."

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 1d

Im reading The White Ship at the mo.
That is going to feature a lot of Norman's in the Channel soon.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 1d

Panopticonophile?

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 1d

Disappointingly few goat legged men in the illustrations I saw.
And no Pans People. (Do the Porridge "Beautiful Babs" joke yourselves.)

Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 1d

Lawks.
I only know where my certificates are 'cos I had to show my birth certificate.
After searching the house, we (Mrs Mac, obvs) put them all in one place & wrote where it was.
Back room. Left hand drawer of big desk.
If anyone wants to nick em to pass as me, I hope they make a better job of it.

Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 1d

We can't be too careful.
I'll send you mine.
If i can find it. I have moved several times.
It may be haunting my parents' old house.

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