@MetaFatigue

IT freelancer by day; still working on crimefighter by night. Likes Bagpuss. Also science, art, food, books, films and assorted weird shit. Never skips leg day.

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Joined June 2015
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Well, that narrows it down. dailymail.com/lifestyle/fash…

72 of the best trench coats on the high street, from just £28

72 of the best trench coats on the high street, from classic styles to funnel-neck designs, supermarket steals and investment buys.

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#Woodensday A few 15th C armrests to relieve tired arms, head to head St Nicholas, Swineshead, #Bedfordshire
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Well, this is lovely. thetimes.com/life-style/prop…

‘I live in a cemetery — it’s not the dead you have to worry about’

Derek Shilling, a sexton, has lived in a two-bedroom house at the Royal Navy Cemetery in Hampshire for 51 years

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Candlestick, c. 1540, German (Victoria & Albert Museum)
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Just found a pair of M&S pants down the back of the radiator from a range they haven't made for over 10 years. It's like finding the coelacanth but with pants.
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Holmes and Watson dressed as ninja turtles burgling Robert Hardy's master blackmailler. Perfect Boxing Day telly.
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Very excited about the new gravy boat I just bought #lifeafter50
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New Scientist
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‘Vampire’ hedgehog among 234 new species identified in Asia newscientist.com/article/246…

‘Vampire’ hedgehog among 234 new species identified in Asia | New Scientist

The Greater Mekong region of Asia hosts a wealth of rare and unstudied species – 173 new species of plants, 26 reptiles, 17 amphibians, 15 fish and three mammals were described last year. Here are...

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Small relief depicting the Genii Cucullati (the Hooded Spirits) which was found in one of the vicus buildings at Housesteads Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall. The relief was probably a family shrine, and is on display in the site museum. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain
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The WEED MEN - Sept 9, 1936, British sci-fi.
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Just bumped into a lady with her kids in the corner shop. She saw me looking quizzicaly at her outfit made from black painted cardboard boxes. 'Yes. I'm a coffin' she deadpanned.
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I like to think the mouse donned bandages, shades, and a tiny smoking jacket. thetimes.com/article/56ec535…
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Jack Draper's T shirt is 3 sizes too big. Machac's shorts are 3 sizes too small. Everything else appears to be the correct size #USOpen
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DIY-ing. Dropped a screw from 2 metres. Perhaps today I should buy my first ever lottery ticket...
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Turns out that remaking Alien with pretty teenagers instead of the original cast is every bit as bad as it sounds.
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Dog sitting a small round dog for a neighbour. Suggested we share sitting duties with his usual sitter (80 year old Pat with no teeth). 'Pat's lovely but he comes back smelling of fags so we have to Febreze him'
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Once again, I have a brilliant idea and a quick Google reveals it's already been done (It was 'squeaky nunchaku for dogs'. Not exactly penicillin, I admit)
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Gf just got stuck in a bit of gym equipment and shouted to me across the room 'Help the fuckers got my leg!' #Fitspo
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Whoever wins I hope the trophy is a giant golden sub handed to the winner by Jersey Mike himself #CharlestonOpen @jerseymikes
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At the dentist. Just overheard the nurse tell someone 'Better to avoid food for 24 hours but if you have to eat, eat something soft like pasta' and behind my calm facade I'm having to suppress my middle-class fury.
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