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\n\n@matt the occasional kayaker excepted, even when it’s clear, I’ve never seen anyone in the water for a swim. It’s strongly discouraged!
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The Gasworks and Me (and You): chat-dev.ealing.civiccommons.co.uk
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\nNot only that, but he wrote his own song to accompany the game play (musical accompaniment by Suno).
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: southallstories.uk
New Drawing Challenge dropped!
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/davidmarsden/97580304","date_published":"2026-09-15T14:55:45+00:00","author":{"name":"David Marsden","url":"http://davidmarsden.info","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F35%2F7092.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"davidmarsden"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-15 14:55","date_timestamp":1789484145,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"97564132","content_html":"These strips transformed my sleep. Hope they help you, too.
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\nLefties like Tony Benn, who clearly spoke a lot of sense, were “loonies”.
\nObvious drooling idiots and upper class twits like Cecil Parkinson and Michael Heseltine were hailed as intellectual stars and saviours, at least until they got caught with their trousers down.
\nThatcher was God.
\nIt brought out the very worst in people and us as a nation, and we’re still paying the price.
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It’s like a virus.
\nIn Southall, which is predominantly south Asian, I now frequently see and hear friends and neighbours espousing far right rhetoric about “new arrivals from India”, even when their own parents were immigrants from the same country.
\nYesterday lunchtime, a friend who suffered terrible racist abuse as the only brown kid at his school, was telling me how “immigration has caused all the problems in Southall.” Nothing to do with poverty, racism, or any other political choices.
\nHe was with a white British man, who told me he attends the local drug rehab unit recently relocated to Southall....
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New drawing challenge today
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\n\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://davidmarsden.info/2026/09/14/been-there-done-that-if.html","date_published":"2026-09-14T06:50:18+00:00","author":{"name":"David Marsden","url":"http://davidmarsden.info","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F35%2F7092.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"davidmarsden"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-14 06:50","date_timestamp":1789368618,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ndo343a5k2vboqfglleeeuf5/post/3mvhjhz2zmh2y","https://www.threads.com/@david.marsden/post/DdQiIIgFv8g"]}},{"id":"97500192","content_html":"If there were a Fediverse meetup in your city or region, would you go? #EvanPoll #poll #fediverse #meetup #FediverseMeetup\nYes\nYes, but…\nNo, but…\nNo\nPoll: cosocial.ca
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My little lad would absolutely love it if anyone takes him up on his drawing challenge.
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I literally read that “little symphonies for kids” today in Peter Doggett’s Electric Shock book. I will be reading about ABBA soon, no doubt.
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\nHe draws something and challenges family members to draw the same image he has drawn. Then he grades them using his special grading system.
\nTonight we built the only natural extension of this competition Elijah’s Drawing Hand.
\nSee...
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\nI can only think the offside was overturned to even up the Foden sending off.
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\nRetaliatory two-footed kick in the chest against standing attacker = red card.
\nVAR upholds the ref’s decision – no clear and obvious error.
\nIt’s very straightforward when you think about it.
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\nRe-uploading temporarily fixes it but later different images fail.
\nGetting a “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403” error.
\nE.g. southallstories.uk/uploads/2…
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