A chance moan in a text from a friend this morning led me to ten minutes of life-enhancing Wikipedia reading pleasure. I had mentioned that I would like to ban the word 'unacceptable' as used by government spokespeople and their ilk; he countered with 24/7 and 0207, and I suggested 1-2-1 (as in students requesting an individual tutorial; they do, I'm afraid). I wasn't sure what he meant by 0207 so I Googled it and found this: UK telephone code misconceptions.
I suspect Starcross Jim will enjoy it.
I have one of those peculiar 011x numbers now.
It's 0114 for anyone who's interested and hadn't yet guessed.
Drought memories as Oxford is cut off by high waters
12 hours ago
When I saw the title, I figured it was going to be a discussion about how many boats a girl could own!
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