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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)

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Clyde built/Falklands anchored: freelance journalist/broadcaster, lawyer, legislative drafter, public policy consultant and tour guide - we multitask here!

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · Sep 6

According to an AI analysis of my posts on Another Site, I am "like a Swiss Army knife that's been left out in the Falklands' harsh weather - rusty, a bit dull, but still trying to be useful"
Not entirely unfair, but it's not just the Falklands weather that's harsh!

I will try to be useful here too

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 2d

Is Phil Menzies available?

Jake D’Arcy as Phil Menzies in Gregory’s Girl

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 4d

Presumably an alternate timeline in which Calum Kennedy had not found the missing garment on the top of Ben Nevis

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 4d

Reworked from an earlier version of the gag

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 4d

Baroness Mone could always raise funds by covering a Deacon Blue classic
The lyrics might need changing:
They’re gonna sell my dinghy/I can’t call it Dignity

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 5d

As lawyers we should be congratulating Dame Sarah as her appointment to superintend the regulation of Notaries Public in England, Wales, Jersey, Guernsey, Gibraltar, New Zealand, Queensland & Papua New Guinea.

I hear the post comes with a couple of other responsibilities too.

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 5d

It has been announced that a new Bishop of the #FalklandIslands has been appointed
+Sarah Mulally will concurrently hold office as the Archbishop of Canterbury
#TheresAlwaysALocalAngle

A picture of +Sarah Mulally, newly appointed as Bishop of the Falkland Islands and Archbishop of Canterbury

The caption from the Rev Hayley Argles-Grant reads:

As Rector of the Falkland Islands, it’s a great joy to hear that +Sarah Mullally is to be, among many other things, the next Bishop of the Falkland Islands.

As a community of faith, we will pray for her as she prepares to take up her role as Archbishop, for the Church of England and for the whole Anglican Communion.

#love #hope #faith #servant #christchurchcathedral #falklandislands

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 5d

A previous Bishop for the Falkland Islands was also Bishop at Lambeth and Bishop to the Armed Forces
He claimed to be the Bishop of prepositions

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 5d

Apologies: +Sarah Mullally, not Mulally

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 5d

It has been announced that a new Bishop of the #FalklandIslands has been appointed
+Sarah Mulally will concurrently hold office as the Archbishop of Canterbury
#TheresAlwaysALocalAngle

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 5d

It’s the anniversary of the US Bill of Rights being sent out for ratification … although only one of the original package of 12 amendments seems still to be extant

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 5d

Is that even more difficult?

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 5d

I foolishly accepted a free trial of LinkedIn Premium and it has just taken me *seven* steps to cancel it

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 5d

Nowadays, most of us use kerosene for heating and electricity or bottled gas for cooking

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 5d

The latest post box topper outside the main post office in the Falklands marks Peat Cutting Monday, a spring public holiday on the first Monday in October - it was originally used for cutting the following winter’s fuel supply from allocated peat banks on the Common

A post box topper outside the main post office in the Falkland Islands with a diorama of two figures cutting pear at a peat bank
In the foreground is a small sign with text explaining the diorama
In the background are two red phone boxes

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 8d

Randomly just recalled a scene from Po Bronson’s book Bombardiers in which there are (staged) demonstrations in a country acquired by its bondholders and the placards read One Share One Vote
It was meant as satire but seems a bit more realistic these days

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 8d

Btw, back then I made a meme, but I lost it, so I remade it, because it's still funny:

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 9d

In fairness, that isn’t a lot more than originally mandated by the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act

www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/8...

Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845

An Act for consolidating in One Act certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts authorizing the making of Railways.

www.legislation.gov.uk

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 9d

That was Jerome K Jerome writing in Three Men on the Bummel about trams in Dresden

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 9d

“They are all-important in the streets, and everything and everybody makes haste to get out of their way. If you do not get out of their way, and you still happen to be alive when picked up, then on your recovery you are fined for having been in their way. This teaches you to be wary of them.”

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 9d

Maybe the difference between Opposition and Government is like the one between a Championship and a Premiership: getting promotion and playing in the big league are different tasks and require different skills

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 10d

The coffee morning raised over £6000 for Macmillan Cancer Support, about £1.75 per head of the entire population of the Islands

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 11d

Round 4 - pronounce the names of these Scottish and Welsh relay stations and for bonus points some English ones with local pronunciations that don’t sound like the spelling

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 11d

The Armagh crash was the one that made the difference

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 11d

Largely because someone misread a timetable

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 11d

Wasn’t it more a case of the Board of Trade recognising the need for lock, block and brake for a long time while a Parliament full of railway directors and shareholders resisted the imposition?

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 11d

The Historic Dockyard Museum in the Falklands held its annual Macmillian Coffee Morning this morning
I got there at 12 after the locusts had been through - does that make me a vulture?

A sparse table of cakes and other treats at the end of the MacMillan Coffee Morning in the Falklands
There had been much more when it opened at 10!

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