Thursday, January 17, 2019
Of queens, Slovenes, and the birthplace of James Douglas Morrison. – For Queen Mob’s Tea House
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Also tagged Bach, bulls, construction, crime, Denmark, Europeans, family, George Herbert, Gilgamesh, Italy, Jim Morrison, money, obscenity, poets, Queen Mob's Tea House, royalty, running, satire, Sheba, Slovenians, Special Branch, the English, vomit, wood, writing, Zbigniew Herbert
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Thursday, December 20, 2018
Of gypsies, greys, and Copehill Down. – For Queen Mob’s Tea House
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Of Zulus, Zac, and Winston Churchill (novelist). – For Queen Mob’s Tea House
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Of arshins, poods, and workplace happiness. A whole new week’s worth of the news where you aren’t. – For Queen Mob’s Tea House
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Also tagged accents, Alan Titchmarsh, Armenia, army, BTS, children, Christmas, doctors, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, employment, health, Italians, measurements, men, pens, politics, Queen Mob's Tea House, Richard Dawkins, Robert Browning, Russians, satire, Shakespeare, Sri Lanka, the Irish, the Orient Express, the Scots, theatre, train-travel, vending machines, wolves, work
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Thursday, November 29, 2018
No alternative facts to see here, people! – For Queen Mob’s Tea House
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Also tagged anatomy, army, asbestos, Barbara Cartland, bathrooms, books, children, dairy, dancing, death, dreams, England, French, George VI, incarceration, insanity, Kaiser Wilhelm, lions, meteorology, music, Norfolk Showground, Queen Mob's Tea House, Royal Norfolk Show, rugby, Russians, Saigon, satire, Spinoza, St Leonard, Tacques Tati, the Blitz, the internet, trombone, Tula Province, vodka
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Thursday, November 22, 2018
A little bit more idiocy from around the global village. – For Queen Mob’s Tea House
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Also tagged baseball, beauty, birds, books, Caucasians, Central Park, China, Communism, death, Fernando Po, fire, grandmothers, Joseph Conrad, knives, MAGA, manufacturing, men, MILFs, New Zealand, parenthood, petroleum, politics, PornHub, potatoes, Queen Mob's Tea House, Roxy Jacenko, satire, saxophones, science, teenagers, the internet, the ocean, trivia, University of Iowa, widows, women, Yiddish
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Thursday, November 15, 2018
The Spanish Inquisition, and other matters unexpectedly arising. – For Queen Mob’s Tea House
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Also tagged Angola, anthems, Bosnia, Brazil, cricket, Croatia, De Selby, death, Denmark, Ecuador, film, Finland, Fox News, France, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, housing, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Laos, libraries, money, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, November, peace, Portugal, Queen Mob's Tea House, rainbows, religion, roosters, satire, Senegal, sex, sexting, Spain, Spike Lee, Switzerland, Tajikistan, the Forth Bridge, the Marseillaise, the Victorians, Tonbridge School, train-travel, Trinidad and Tobago, trousers, UK, Venezuela, writing, Yorkshire
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Thursday, November 8, 2018
A lad named Rogers, and other true-ish stories. – For Queen Mob’s Tea House
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Also tagged Alcoholics Anonymous, animals, assassins, babies, Beethoven, books, Caractacus, China, cricket, crime, Dhingra, Epping, Evelyn Waugh, fireworks, geography, health, heroes, horses, music, news, Plutarch, pumpkins, Queen Mob's Tea House, race, Rain Men, Regulus, sailors, satire, shit, Sweden, taxes, the Bible, the Congo, theatre, Tom McIlwaine, travel, TV
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Trailer for the ‘new’ and ‘improved’, all-singing-no-dancing, NEWS AT A GLANCE – coming soon to a Queen Mob’s Tea House near you! – For Queen Mob’s Tea House
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Also tagged air travel, America, anthems, Austria, children, death, Donald Trump, Dutch, Hinduism, Johannesburg, marriage, New Zealand, Queen Mob's Tea House, satire, singing, sleep, translation
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. Norway has five leper hospitals, with about 600 patients. — The Nelson Evening Mail, January 24 1907 . There is an injury called ’tennis elbow of the heel’. The rocks in the Sultanate of Oman are special. Hitler only started all the Nazi bollocks because he was such a godawful painter. There is no necessary connection between [...]
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Also tagged Adolf Hitler, America, birds, boxing, codicology, crime, death, dogs, Edwin RIst, finance, Francis Urquhart, geology, health, history, leprosy, London International Palaeography Summer School, manuscripts, mountaineering, Natural History Museum, Nazism, Norway, Oman, painting, palaeography, phones, Poetry, poets, policing, pudding, Samaritans, Stephen Merchant, tennis, the Bible, the Scots Guards, Tibetan, Tring
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