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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And because there are not enough smaller homes. People used to a garden & their own front door are not so keen on flats & in our experience service & maintenance charges are seriously high. We intended to downsize when living from Yorks to West Mids but ended up in a bigger house for these reasons.

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They would have been better to condemn all war & genocide as racist. Israel's actions in Gaza, West Bank, and wider Middle East are currently top of the list but there are many places in the world where one country is trying to take the territory of another by force, & drive out/destroy populations.

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And age if you're collecting your state pension.

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes, the mid day meal is dinner John. I'll have none of your fancy "lunch" thank you very much!

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You can buy carling peas and loads of other beans and lentils here hodmedods.co.uk

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you're in Coventry on Sunday afternoon come and see Priory Row cottages and Cook Street gate for Heritage Open Days. #HODS #HeritageOpenDays #Coventry

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Then when they've completely blocked the pavement they stand in the road. I know schoolkids jump the queue, I've seen them in Stratford on Avon. And I know in London and in bus stations it's a bit of a free for all. But here, in the street, in sedate little towns, it's just NOT ON!!!

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We are in the Cotswold for a few days and I am APPALLED by the behaviour of overseas tourists in the bus queues. Or bus not queues if you're from overseas. They sneak up in small groups to look at the timetable then stay there right by the bus stop regardless of how long the queue is.

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

As a child in the 1960s I lived about 10 mins walk from the Brandon Estate and often went there with my nan to play bingo. The room was upstairs in what I assume was some sort of community facility, the article mentions a clubroom so it might have been that.

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In 1971 my dad drew a stick man with a union flag in the margin of our census form. Sadly I won't be around to see it again, much as I'd love to 😟

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

But it's a book festival, not a celebration of writers. All sorts of people write books - scientists, historians, news presenters, politicians, brain surgeons - not just someone who has an MA in creative writing. And if books by "celebrities" get people reading then why not?

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I think it's the lack of regs which makes the riders of these bikes & scooters think of themselves as a pedestrian trying to get around rather than a fast moving vehicle capable of hurting someone. They whizz up & down my street on the pavement & it's a really quiet road & has little moving traffic.

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Quick question. What's your UK local council doing about cyclists and scooters (e-machines and manual ones) riding carelessly and very fast on pavements with no thought for pedestrians & other pavement users? Are they trying education, bans, lobbying for regs? It can't just be an issue in my town.

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

2/2 The burial registers show them buried mostly on the same day or in the same month. So I'm interested in the practicalities of this as well as the financial costs and how people might have felt about this. Also mourning rituals other than the Victorian ones for clothes, ribbons etc. Thanks

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Can anyone recommend any reading - books, articles, websites all welcome - about burials in England 19th to mid 20th C please? I've just started to look at this topic for my tree and everyone up to say 1950s is buried with up to a dozen strangers. #GenHour 1/2

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

What struck me the most about the article, which I read in full on another post, is the line "there will be plenty of losers". But we won't need to give them any thought as we'll be too busy enjoying our Med life! What a poor excuse for a human being and a journalist. 🤦‍♀️

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I've read another of Jim Kelly's Cambridge books. The title escapes me but it was something about the mathematical bridge. Historical police detective fiction, set in WW2. Really enjoyed it.

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Agree. And I also think that there are so many different problems today that it might take a few more announcements for something to chime with everyone.

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

As a child it was 'ne'er the twain shall meet' and we only ever crossed the river at Xmas to see the West End lights, or when dad took us to see the historic sights, almost like tourists. Does the same divide still exist? Or do those from elsewhere in the UK or the world see the city as one? 2/2

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The nth/sth London thing interests me. I was born in SE5 but my London ancestors, my dad's paternal side, were living north of the river until the 19thc expansion of the southern suburbs. I'm assuming they came for homes & work as they had been living around the area cleared for Trafalgar Sq. 1/2

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Thank you for posting this. We moved house 4 years ago & every winter a flock of mixed gulls feed on the grassy field opposite. By mid March they have gone, & by mid Oct they are back in large numbers. I've become fascinated by them - want to know where they go & if it's the same ones that return.

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

We lived briefly in Northampton in the mid 1980s. IIRC Wakes Week was early Sept so schools broke up a week later in July & went back a week later in Sept. When we moved to West Yorks schools had a shorter summer break because they had two weeks off for the May half term, another factory week.

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A couple of years ago, appalled by the cost of nice birthday cards, I started sending birthday postcards. I buy collections of art postcards from @rathergoodart.bsky.social , they have some crackers. So yes, a 50p postcard stamp would be great.

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

But in one sense we need him to be re-elected - then the Parliamentary Standards committee can report their findings. If he loses there's a chance the investigation will fold.

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

They obviously can, otherwise how did Burnham get his seat? If they take the Chiltern Hundreds, as the link explains, they can resign. The issue here is resigning and standing again in an attempt to prove your point. That shouldn't be allowed.

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

And how many times did he mention money in that statement?? Seems that's all he's interested in.

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

And all the siblings of my Grimes being in Gloucs. I knew that wasn't right.And then! I found him in someone's beautiful tree - born and dying in Southwark just as I expected. From there I found other records proving the link was correct! Now I can try further back. 2/2 ##genealogy

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

#genealogy We get lots of advice and comments about people with unreliable (wrong) trees. But here's a thank you to those who do research properly & make their trees public. I was stuck on the father of one of my London Grimes - searches & other trees gave him as being born and dying in Gloucs.1/2

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The swelling of the leg disappeared?

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

But his father, born in March 1924 as evidenced by the 1926 census and his own and family knowledge, was registered in Sept 1924 as being born in June.

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Do you know whether the attitudes to this changed after Irish independence? My husband's grandmother and her 3 siblings were all registered together in 1909, 5 years after the youngest was born. There's a note in the register to say the registrar had authorised it. 1/2

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Ancestry strikes again! This is labelled as a transcription of the will of Ann Bredon from Tenterden in Kent. Apologies for the terrible phone pic but it's a photo of my laptop screen. I'm sure you get the gist, or not!! #genealogy #Ancestry

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

My thoughts exactly when I read that piece. And also the hospitality industry complaining about VAT, NI etc. There are way too many cafes, restaurants and other food places anyway. Our town centre has loads, and a long standing shoe shop has just closed to be reopened as a cafe.

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

This is the huge tithe barn at Bradford on Avon. I'm on a visit to Wiltshire - my paternal g'father's mum's family were locals. Her parents, Richard and Maria Sims, were born in BoA & married in Trowbridge. Richard's father Job & his father were born in the small village of North Bradley. #genealogy

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I bought this in a deep red colour (Berry) in Cambridge last week and have started a cardi. It knits up beautifully, so I'm going to get more next time I see it.

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Week 3 finished, although I'm just about to go on a camping holiday for 17 days so may need to do week 3 again when I get back! I am taking running kit with me but whether I run depends on the weather and where exactly we find ourselves. #runningUK #couchto5k #running

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I've just discovered an ancestral link to Clare. My paternal gg g'father's in-laws were from the area. I've found 2 men with the same name born around the same time in the Clare area. One went to sea, the other to London so I'm checking the London one first as that's where my g grandfather was born.

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I love them, and although I don't grow them every year I do get withdrawal symptoms and then have to find some!

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Yes, I wasn't arguing that point. I was suggesting that the AI was 'updating it' to reflect language we use today. Which of course is wrong of it, because as you say, we need accurate transcriptions.

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Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

You can look at those who voted and the books they voted for. Many other books didn't make the 100.

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