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..hold them up to the light, they’re as transparent as the shroud of Turin. I suspect if Jesus were around today he would be just the sort of bloke to wear corduroys. It seems a long time ago now, but corduroy was once (briefly) a fashion fabric. It was The Beatles of course, but other…
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..whilst trying not to be disturbed by the repetitious recounting of weekend exploits of the young, old and terminally stupid. Should I so choose I won’t be working again, as just before Christmas I was packaged out from my place of employment of the past 20 years, the result of one of its periodic and…
Greece is the word
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