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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Now slept in 87.8% of traditional English counties

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sitting with coffee discussing aeroplane brake temperatures with @dfgillie.bsky.social Can cause delays, it appears.

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Outside Gillie towers currently...

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Something AI could usefully do is automatically format letters so the signature doesn't fall just on to a blank page.

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

@lakesstiles.bsky.social @loukellett.bsky.social "Pilgrim's Choice" cheese on sale. Which makes one wonder. Why choose cheddar, not Rochfort? What are pilgrim cheese requirements? Also, King Size tissues. Do kings sneeze more violently?

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

@lakesstiles.bsky.social Does the metoffice app only give "feels like" temperature now? Am I going to have to write a letter in green ink?

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If anyone has a hungry goat, I have a large quantity of grass I need to get rid of.

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I cleaned the bannisters. They were quite amazingly grubby.

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I've just been reading the Nautical Almanac 1939 edition and learned of the Easter Act 1928 which was passed to fix the date of Easter.

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

M&S is now playing musak I don't like in the food hall, while Tesco's is OK. Very confusing.

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

@lakesstiles.bsky.social The women's loos at House of Bruar have settees in!

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Just had to move a duck standing in the road in front of our house.

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

@lakesstiles.bsky.social @loukellett.bsky.social Momentous question. I have a new gate. What sort of catch should I get?

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Four left gloves. No right.gloves.

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Isle Martin (that is, my island)

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Today I learnt chicken manure has an usually high angle of repose (45 Deg)

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

This is my calf. Does anyone else's "wriggle" like this, or am I weird?

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Today I've learnt corrugated iron was invented in 1829.

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

A baby tree creeper just mistook me for a tree

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I've completed my tax return 👯‍♀️💃🕺

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I'm concerned about what Tesco music will be in 10 years time. I quite the 1990s selection currently played but if it advances 10 years, I won't.

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

How did stone age people cut their toenails?

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

This morning's question: Pepys often wrote of going to his office. What were 17th offices like? Are any examples left?

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Turns out wallpaper pasting brushes are really good for cleaning showers.

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Something odd. A train with more than 4 coaches.

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

@lakesstiles.bsky.social I am staying in Ibis Styles. I had high hopes but nothing.

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

@lakesstiles.bsky.social I am staying in Ibis Styles. I had high hopes but nothing.

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

@lakesstiles.bsky.social @loukellett.bsky.social What wellies do you have? I have been congratulated on my Hunter Argylls. I feel red corduroys are getting closer and closer.

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I will watching this today. All day.

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Things that need inventing: Dustpans which don't let stuff go underneath Vacuum packed coffee which opens New towels which behave like old towels.

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

This morning I learned about pronking (also known as stotting or proinging)

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

New law: All tinned food to be together in supermarkets arranged alphabetically.

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

There is an excessive amount of curling around.

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Things that used to be better: Outlook Marks and Spencer's socks Bournville bars (shape, wrapping, taste) Silva compasses Stanley hand drills

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

@loukellett.bsky.social You around? I have a question. A bit like the salad question.

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Having red and amber in a country's traffic light sequence is a sign of civilization.

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

When you buy a book. Read it. And then discover you have a copy. That.

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Martin Gillie @martingillie.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I used to think HMRC were quite good. I don't any more. I also hate accountants, software vendors and anyone else in any way related to MTD and forcing me to buy software to pay tax. Does anyone have Dante's number, a second edition is due

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