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Aug 19, 2023·edited Aug 19, 2023Liked by Terry Freedman

Liked the bike travels again. You almost got wiped out a few times there. Be careful! And the birds were almost annihilated when you passed by.

The drawings are a hoot.

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🤣🤣 Thanks, Matthew!

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Terry, you're hilarious! Britain becoming a world leader in pothole production, love that. Good job on the riding, you'll be so fit you can join Rebecca in her running race soon!

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Thanks, Donna. No thanks, I have an emotional attachment to my knees.

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What a dreadfully uncomfortable bike lane!! We have them in a city near where I live, but ours are streamlined and spectacular. All those bumpy ... manhole covers?? So many!! Lumps and bumps and uncomfortableness everywhere you look! Your poor bum certainly gets a workout! Well done for managing to develop a degree of speed in such conditions. All the best dear Terry.

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It is a bit rough on the posterior, I have to admit. 🤣

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'Ofpot'! 🤣

I thought you'd enjoy that literary puzzle! 🏆 I remember 'Antony and Cleopatra' from my salad days as an English A-level student, when I was green in judgment.... 😉

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E is wondering what targets Ofpot should be chasing/inspecting.

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I'll forward a spreadsheet at the earliest opportunity. Warning: large file size incoming.

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Aug 18, 2023Liked by Terry Freedman

Hi Rebecca I wondered if two of the deliverables why not use ugly language) could be, the number of potholes created and the number of potholes filled in. Obviously, councils would be paid on a piecework basis. As a subsidiary target the number of traffic jams created could also be a target.

Looking forward to your spreadsheet!

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It’s just struck me that this spreadie is going to have to be watertight - those pesky council folk are sure to slither through any loophole they perceive being in existence. I’d better seal every Excel cell in a layer of lead and send it via Securicor rather than cyberspace... #bearwith

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😂

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E is wondering what targets Ofpot should be chasing/inspecting.

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Why do you say you were green in judgement? Do you not like the play now or something? I've not read it myself.

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It's one of the most famous lines from the play. If you're not careful, I'll start banging on about the barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, and how it burned on the water and that its poops were beaten gold. Purple the sails, and so perfumed the winds were lovesick with them blah blah blah....... 😉

You can take the girl out of A-level English, but you can't take A-level English out of the girl! 🤣

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sorry, it's been a long day. I read a modern version at school: "It was in the days when I ate nothing but salad, and judged everything by how green it was"

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🤣 Brilliant! 🥗

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😂

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Aug 16, 2023Liked by Terry Freedman

Thanks so much for the shoplifting tip! I am not only entertained by your newsletter, but I learn practical skills! That's what keeps me coming back!

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We aim to please 😂

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I come here for the culture and you never disappoint. The illustrated and condensed Julius Cheeser really boils it down for me.

Now I hope you will do the same for Tony and Cleo. Do they live happily ever after? Illustrations please!

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Thanks, Jim. Unfortunately, at the risk of sounding like an uneducated pleb, I have neither seen nor read Tony and Cleo. I could do a condensed version of Macbroth, Omelette, King Beer, Romeo and Jules or, later in the year, Hot Fellow. I hope one of those will do for now.

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Any one of those would be great.

And, spoiler alert, things don't go too well for T & C. As we say here in Florida: "I seen the movie."

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😂

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