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Diary Snapshot: Hedgehog Highways

Sep 11, 2020Sep 11, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

There are no hedgehogs native to Australia and no living species native to the Americas

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Diary Snapshot: Cauliflower

Sep 10, 2020Sep 10, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 3 Comments

Typically, only the head is eaten

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Diary Snapshot: His floozy’s earring

Sep 10, 2020Sep 10, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure

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Diary Snapshot: Tax

Sep 10, 2020Sep 10, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

A failure to pay, along with evasion of or resistance to taxation, is punishable by law

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Diary Snapshot: Wotsits

Sep 9, 2020Sep 9, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Britain's record-breaking brand of cheesy flavour corn puffs...

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Artwork Archive: Paris

Sep 9, 2020Nov 6, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

My obsession with maps is never-ending

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Drabble: Toddler Zombie Walk ends in tears

Sep 8, 2020Sep 8, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

He thought it would be a fun introduction to the complexities of death

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Diary Snapshot: Home working

Sep 8, 2020Sep 8, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Your workplace needs you

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Diary Snapshot: Buttoned-up Man

Sep 8, 2020Sep 8, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

In large sizes for coats and smaller sizes for breeches...

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Diary: 1-7 September

Sep 8, 2020Sep 10, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

Then someone said “lazy” home-workers should be forced back to their offices

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Diary Snapshot: Storecupboard Shame

Sep 7, 2020Sep 7, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

To the early Christians, chestnuts symbolised chastity...

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Drabble: U2 not really all that bad

Sep 7, 2020Sep 7, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Then someone said U2 "romanticize the shiny side of an old coin"

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Diary Snapshot: Adopt a homeless hamster

Sep 7, 2020Sep 6, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Species commonly kept as pets include the three dwarf hamsters

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Diary Snapshot: Galveston, Oh Galveston

Sep 6, 2020Sep 6, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

An island city on the Gulf Coast of Texas, known for Moody Gardens and a famous son

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Drabble: Rattle & Hum

Sep 6, 2020Sep 6, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

When a Chinook loiters over Cripplegate, we all wonder...

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Diary Snapshot: the Lost City of London

Sep 6, 2020Sep 6, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

It constituted most of London from its settlement by the Romans in the 1st century AD to the Middle Ages

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Diary: August 2020

Sep 6, 2020Sep 6, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 3 Comments

The month started with signs of post-Covid life emerging, and ended with sobering thoughts on what now lies ahead...

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Diary Snapshot: Prestatyn, where bands go to find their name

Sep 5, 2020Sep 5, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Rules are meant to be broken

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Backyard Holidays: Festival Gardens, St Paul’s, London

Sep 5, 2020Sep 10, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 3 Comments

The original street plan shaped the gardens you see today

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Diary Snapshot: Finns can only get better

Sep 5, 2020Sep 6, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 2 Comments

Outsider art on the northern fringes

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