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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 7h

The above is from HV Morton's I Saw Two Englands, the story of two trips around England he took in 1939, one before the outbreak of war and one after.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 9h

Reading an account of someone visiting the commandant of an RAF training school in 1939 who "Judging by the chestful of medals had seen an awful lot of trouble in the last war". He's exactly the sort that Reform types fetishise, yet he seems to have a very different view of immigration to them.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 10h

Saw some building a giant rubbish man in the Arken Gallery in Denmark. They get about!

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 11h

Been delving into my memory to recreate my favourite mixtape from when I was first a student in 1987/8. Can't remember the order and my taste was questionable at the time. Some were from records and others taped off the charts with a box tape recorder. Why haven't I done this before?

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 12h

Bread baked. Half wholemeal, half white.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 17/10/2026

I never found out what I broke. Couldn't see anything wrong but there was a scraping every time I drove downhill. I made it to Venice and back though. Mechanic said he welded something next MOT but I missed what he said and was too embarrassed to ask.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 17/10/2026

Similar to these bastards. Still can't believe I made that (with some small damage to the rear suspension when the back wheels slipped on the second one. I felt like Michael Knight.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 17/10/2026

I'd say this house is what? 40% Hitler?

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 17/10/2026

The putters of West Worthing, driving themselves into a putting frenzy.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 17/10/2026

Quiet weekend. Haven't seen anyone today and that's fine. It's a leaf turning, horse chestnut, chill in the air October Saturday. Can you believe it's the last of summer?

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 17/10/2026

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a picture of a boat you like. Sierra Leone, River No.2 beach in the distance.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 17/10/2026

It's become a cliché to say we're reliving the 1930s, but this conversation from 1939 feels very relevant.

§ 8.

In the morning I went to look at the church again, and met there a fellow-guest from the hotel, a professor of history. I remarked that the news from Danzig was not too good that morning.

"I know nothing about it," replied the historian. "I gave up reading the papers last September and feel better for it in every way." food

"But surely you glance at the headlines?"

"No, I refuse to do that. I like to base my opinions on facts, and there are not sufficient facts available these days on which anyone could base an opinion, therefore I feel I miss nothing. Is it going to rain again, do you think?"

We talked about the weather, as everyone does in England, and about Mary, Queen of Scots, as everyone does at Fother-inghay.

I suggested that it was not easy to understand the callous cruelty of the Elizabethans who murdered Mary, Queen of Scots.

"Now there I don't agree with you," he said. "I might have done so in 1914, but not to-day. You, as a reader of newspapers, must be aware of the decline in moral values which has taken place in our time. The world has swung back into the immoral atmosphere of, shall we say, Tudor times? The reign of Hitler has taught me a lot about the reign of Elizabeth. It has made the men and the actions of that time entirely credible and understandable. Our world has just emerged from a long and unusual period of law and order, and, as always in times of danger, politicians have become unscrupu-

lous, just as they were in Tudor times." He paused to light his pipe and went on:

"Danger produces fear, and fear produces unscrupulous-ness. Danger and uncertainty are two of the constant factors in human affairs. If you doubt that we are back in the men-tality of the Tudor Age, study the social background. The

Money Power was paramount, and the State was chained to it as it is to-day. The Elizabethan State, enriched by church lands, was financing commerce just as we are to-day. Money, and fear of Catholic Spain were two great factors in Eliza-bethan politics. Money and the fear of Nazi Germany are the great factors in England to-day.

"The execution of Mary Stuart was merely a swift and successful political move carried out by men very like modern politicians. Indeed, before I gave up reading the papers, I seem to remember that similar death sentences have been executed from precisely similar motives in modern Europe. It is true that the common people are shocked by them, probably because the common people of Europe are not yet as unscrupulous as their leaders. They are still living in the old-fashioned atmosphere of a more moral world. But their leaders are not. And history proves, if it proves anything at all, that a leader need not necessarily lead forward; he can just as easily lead backward. The only hope for the world, as I see it, is that the people of the world may remain suffi-ciently old-fashioned to refuse to be led backward. But who can tell?"

Rain began to fall, and we walked back in silence to the hotel.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 17/10/2026

I know it wasn't her greatest achievement, but Marie Curie absolutely knew how to be photographed.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 17/10/2026

Found it and you're absolutely right.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 17/10/2026

Relax everyone, it's going to be a great day. Stay away from the news, you won't learn anything that will help your weekend.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 17/10/2026

Tense time down at the water's edge in Worthing. Will the sun make it today, or will this be the day it gives up and goes back down?

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 16/10/2026

Lieutenant colonel Jim Channon, commander of the First Earth Battalion. Sadly dead now, so I'll never know why.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 16/10/2026

Friday night hysteria: I went on some weird Waitrose buying spree. I must have gone in weak. I bought some roses, some posh tea and that reed diffuser which is making my room smell like Felicity Kendall. I only went in for a pizza.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 12/10/2026

Composing a letter. I just wanted someone to see me doing this.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 12/10/2026

Been down to see the sun rise, to save you the bother.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 11/10/2026

In what seems like an unlikely turn of events, this room they're locked in, in the Death Star, seems to have very similar decor to the one in which I'm sitting watching the film. Do I have the same interior design tastes as Darth Vader?

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 11/10/2026

I'd forgotten how brutal some bits of this were. We've just seen the charred skeletons of Luke's family and here's C3PO cheerfully burning a pile of corpses.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 11/10/2026

This was great! Very much enjoying the longer episodes as well, allows more time for a discussion to unfold. Also, ta for the mug!

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 11/10/2026

I've just realised the hair was his disguise. Ignore the hair and the Potty Time presenter turns back into the military counter intelligence agent. First non SAS man to fire a gun in their "killing house" training facility. Loved Potty Time when I was little, though.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 11/10/2026

I use a Nothing Phone 4a Pro which I really like, but the camera software out of the box is shit. I suspect AI enhanced. The lighter pic here is shaper but looks like a toddler coloured it. The darker one is with Zerocam and app which promises to just take the picture the lens sees.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 11/10/2026

Don't worry everyone: I've just received the message that my phone system upgrade has been successful. A worrying time, but we're through it now.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 07/10/2026

Watching a Waterloo documentary fronted by the excellent Sean Bean, who I'm beginning to think of as "Hollywood Fred Dibner". (If he was in the room, I expect he'd slap me and remind me Dibner was from "fucking Lancashire"

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 06/10/2026

I'm sorry, I think I misheard, you've bought a what?

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 06/10/2026

I think I've had a cerebral haemorrhage.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 06/10/2026

Remembered I had the email addresses of two Popes. Don't ask me why, I don't need any of that albino monk nonsense.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 06/10/2026

Tough day and late home, so I thought I'd play the Rocky IV soundtrack loudly.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 05/10/2026

Also to cheer me up, this beautiful 1939 edition of Beowulf was waiting for me. It's an absolute feast and the opener is "What ho!"

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 05/10/2026

Back at work today, which is horrible. Back home in time to head down the beach though and remind myself of why I do it. These glorious evening colours!

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 04/10/2026

Out for an evening stroll earlier. Now what would an ordinary Worthing household be doing with a sizeable liquid nitrogen container?

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 04/10/2026

It's a glorious Worthing morning! Good morning to other early risers 😃

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 03/10/2026

I've been giving the oven a workout. This is normally a Sunday afternoon activity, so I expect I'll get confused tomorrow.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 03/10/2026

According to a fellow early morning stroller, I just missed a spectacular sunrise this morning, but here's half a minute of hardcore morning beach action.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 01/10/2026

Turkish used carpet salesman Arif in G.O.R.A. is the only space hero you need today.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 01/10/2026

Heard the sea booming and came for a look. The tide has just turned. There's a couple of people who look like they're going for a swim, which seems Ill advised, but they've got dry-robes so they look like they've done this before.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 01/10/2026

It was a beautiful sky this morning. I didn't quite catch the sunrise as I was too lazy to get up.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 30/09/2026

Sorry old friend, see you when the Strait of Hormuz opens - *door clangs shut*

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 27/09/2026

Who knew: Dougall and The Blue Cat was a Trump MAGA prophecy. An evil blue cat appears, somehow mesmerises everyone, gets himself made king and then bans everything that's not blue.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 27/09/2026

When the going gets tough, the tough drunk coffee and put on their new Dougall and The Blue Cat LP.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 27/09/2026

Tell me you know diddly squat without saying you know diddly squat.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 27/09/2026

Bummer! Have you got the cold I had last week? I'm reading H.V. Morton's (proto Sebaldesque?) I Saw Two Englands about trips taken just before and after the outbreak of war in 1939. Interesting, but I'm not convinced the England in his memory wasn't, er, made up (see paragraph in picture).

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 27/09/2026

Baked some scones while listening to Michael Rosen's series on The Seven Ages of Man.

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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 26/09/2026

This picture by Trevor Makinson hangs accusingly in the stairwell of Worthing Museum. It's called Drink Will Be The Death Of Me.

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