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  1. 3 hours ago

    Genuinely sing this to myself something like 3 or 4 times every single day.

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  2. 8 hours ago

    And as the inspiration for the single best cover of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah (and I do mean that) by the late lamented Jeremy Hardy.

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  3. 8 hours ago

    Formby also features in this excellent anecdote about the Queen.

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  4. 12 hours ago

    ‘Why don’t you piss off, you horrible little man?’ is just such *such* a perfectly formed riposte. Apex tier.

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  5. 12 hours ago

    Always be yourself, unless you can be George Formby’s wife Beryl. Then always be George Formby’s wife Beryl.

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  6. 24 hours ago

    The ‘surprise’ being that it is, in fact, a takeaway curry.

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  7. 24 hours ago

    I discover that one of the original names for Baked Alaska was ‘omelette surprise’ which I can’t help but think sounds like the sort of thing people cook as students.

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  8. Mar 3

    Just about to join (alas, not in person) to talk about Canon Kir, Jane Haining, Archbishop Damaskinos et al. Looking forward to it.

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  9. Feb 18

    NOTEBOOK: Classics in the cul-de-sacs by Fergus Butler-Gallie. Our cities are so saturated in the mythology of the ancient world that classical allusions pop up in unexpected places.

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  10. 9 Sep 2020

    Was Tristram Shandy the first interactive novel? I have a complete 4-volume 1803 set that faithfully reproduces the orig, including the blank page to “paint... your mistress as you can.”

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  11. Mar 3

    Oops- tell a lie.

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  12. Mar 3

    Say what you like about Thomas Cromwell, but I don’t recall him posing weirdly on a staircase.

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  13. Mar 3

    Oh so *now* you’re all interested in the role of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Well I don’t remember my timeline ever being filled with takes about Bishop Walter de Stapledon or Sir Michael Hicks Beach so forgive me if I take all this ‘Budget’ stuff with a pinch of salt.

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  14. Mar 3

    Nicola Sturgeon in happier times- having a little chuckle with the Duke of Buccleuch during the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

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  15. Jan 22

    Ever wondered what the unremarkable siblings of your favourite literary characters might be up to? Wonder no more! Delighted to have helped inflict new characters like Walter Wonka, Hubert Humbert, and the Cat in the Cone on the world via

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  16. Mar 2

    We hope members are enjoying the latest Prayer Book Today magazine, as well as the latest issue of our scholarly journal Faith & Worship. For excellent articles and other benefits, and to support our work, why not invite a friend, or join today, here?👇

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  17. Mar 2

    Genuinely a very heartwarming read from the wonderful Dr Brydon. Worth subscribing for!

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  18. Mar 2

    MORE clickbait from the Prayer Book Society’s magazine.

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  19. Mar 2

    This particular underground movement would probably be running a small time gambling book on a Saga cruise.

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  20. Mar 2

    Post a pic of yourself as the leader of an underground movement without taking any new pics.

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