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IanMartin

Off to the early 1950s* for a few days, see yez all in a bit. x *Isle of Wight 8:45 AM May 26th via web
@tomgoy12 fuck you and goodbye 6:48 AM May 26th via web in reply to tomgoy12
@LarkinQuotes Home tutored nephew for a year. Taught English. He MEMORISED Whitsun Weddings. You can teach all 20C Eng Lit from this poem. 4:13 AM May 26th via web
@SharonMcG1971 good point 3:44 AM May 26th via web in reply to SharonMcG1971
@opheliasbrother Yeah, but 'Mary Kamikaze'? 3:39 AM May 26th via web in reply to opheliasbrother
'Portas Pilots'. Pff. I wish Mary's surname was Pontius. Then all these 'high street rescue schemes' would be called 'Pontius Pilots'. 3:24 AM May 26th via web
@EddieRobson I'm fairly sure you can get more bounce to the ounce from an alternative funk provider... 2:31 AM May 26th via web in reply to EddieRobson
@John_Ireland Cloche. As in cake cloche. 11:12 PM May 25th via web in reply to John_Ireland
@caracourage @NickMotown brilliant xx 1:22 PM May 25th via web in reply to caracourage
@caitlinmoran It's All In My Mind. 9:28 AM May 25th via web in reply to caitlinmoran
@Andrew182651 Ha ha, that's brilliant. Exactly. Too distracted, poor stuff. Agree. Working at same time. 8:46 AM May 25th via web in reply to Andrew182651
@DukesFPM Wall-E. I've never seen it big, but love it. Though nowhere near as much as my grandson loves it. I'd bump work for that. 8:45 AM May 25th via web in reply to DukesFPM
Blowers! Horn! "Squee blee, my dear old daddio! Hurdle furdle bwarp-bwarp squeep! Beep! Bwee-wee, leg's gone to sleep! Matron, matron!" #jfs 8:36 AM May 25th via web
Ga-bom bom bom bom silky drive! Tish tish wabbeda push silky drive! Fa-doom boom silky drive! WHERE'S MY FUCKING CAKE! #SmoothJazzSpecial 8:30 AM May 25th via web
Oh and he's hubbeda wubbeda tish pish ga-blap through the covers for ONE TWO THREE FOUR pss tss t-tss simile bimmerly blam! #JazzFuckSpecial 8:14 AM May 25th via web
We now leave #CakeFuckSpecial to go 'Inside Geoffrey Boycott' . To follow the cricket, please retune to #JazzFuckSpecial 8:00 AM May 25th via web
We apologise for the brief reference to live cricket. Now back to Boycsy's fucking fixtures list for 1969, and how Sedentary Kills. #cfs 7:41 AM May 25th via web
Goggers: ‘Oh, and there goes a yellow trolleybus along my distant memory. Glinting in the afternoon gin, sorry, sun’. #CakeFuckSpecial 7:30 AM May 25th via web
Conversations about boxing. "Smell the cricket". Boycsy's STILL WEARING A JACKET. Yorkshire League memories from the 1960s. #CakeFuckSpecial 7:17 AM May 25th via web
West Indies under the cloche now at 136-6. They stepped up to the cake plate and ATE THEMSELVES. #CakeFuckSpecial 7:14 AM May 25th via web

Name Ian Martin
Location The North
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Bio Writer: The Thick of It, VEEP, Architects' Journal, the Guardian etc. http://www.casarotto.co.uk/assets/x/51763.pdf