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Post by iainbhx on Sept 24, 2024 20:38:10 GMT
Councils should throw the keys to libraries at parish councils and run away Harborne has a parish council? No, only Frankley (in Birmingham) and Royal Sutton Coldfield have parish level councils. The only serious attempt to have a parish other than that was Balsall Heath which has been carefully derailed for the last two decades by whoever is running the city. You would have thought that Harborne, Moseley and Bournville would have been prime contenders really given the number of fussbuckets in each of them. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Sept 25, 2024 18:58:26 GMT
Harborne has a parish council? No, only Frankley (in Birmingham) and Royal Sutton Coldfield have parish level councils. The only serious attempt to have a parish other than that was Balsall Heath which has been carefully derailed for the last two decades by whoever is running the city. You would have thought that Harborne, Moseley and Bournville would have been prime contenders really given the number of fussbuckets in each of them. Doesn't Toytown parish council cover nearby Dickens Heath? |
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Post by Chris from Brum on Sept 25, 2024 19:18:54 GMT
No, only Frankley (in Birmingham) and Royal Sutton Coldfield have parish level councils. The only serious attempt to have a parish other than that was Balsall Heath which has been carefully derailed for the last two decades by whoever is running the city. You would have thought that Harborne, Moseley and Bournville would have been prime contenders really given the number of fussbuckets in each of them. Doesn't Toytown parish council cover nearby Dickens Heath? Dickens Heath is a parish in its own right within Solihull borough, if that's what you mean. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Sept 25, 2024 19:25:14 GMT
Doesn't Toytown parish council cover nearby Dickens Heath? Dickens Heath is a parish in its own right within Solihull borough, if that's what you mean. I wasn't being too serious, I was taking the mickey out of Dickens Heath and its square roundabouts! |
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Post by Chris from Brum on Sept 25, 2024 19:37:53 GMT
Dickens Heath is a parish in its own right within Solihull borough, if that's what you mean. I wasn't being too serious, I was taking the mickey out of Dickens Heath and its square roundabouts! It is an odd place indeed, and I wouldn't choose to move there. |
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Post by iang on Oct 17, 2024 21:21:27 GMT
Cllr Greg Brackenridge (Wolverhampton and husband of Wolverhampton Lanour MP of the same name) has been administratively suspended amidst a row over allegedly having exaggerated the length and nature of his service in the Royal Marines.
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Post by johnloony on Oct 18, 2024 10:23:36 GMT
Cllr Greg Brackenridge (Wolverhampton and husband of Wolverhampton Lanour MP of the same name) has been administratively suspended amidst a row over allegedly having exaggerated the length and nature of his service in the Royal Marines. I was confused for a moment because the Labour MP for Wolverhampton North East is Sureena Brackenridge, not Greg Brackenridge. It would of course be possible for a married couple to have the same first name, especially if they are a same-sex marriage. It would be not as silly as the “celebrity” couple Ollie Locke and Gareth Locke, who (when they got married) decided to combine their surnames and become Ollie & Gareth Locke-Locke. |
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Post by aargauer on Oct 18, 2024 10:26:23 GMT
My next door neighbours growing up had essentially the same name *before* getting married, Leslie and Lesley Smith
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Post by johnloony on Oct 18, 2024 10:30:43 GMT
My next door neighbours growing up had essentially the same name *before* getting married, Leslie and Lesley Smith That’s cheating because it’s different spellings. Unlike Evelyn Waugh and his wife Evelyn. |
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Post by aargauer on Oct 18, 2024 11:16:54 GMT
My next door neighbours growing up had essentially the same name *before* getting married, Leslie and Lesley Smith That’s cheating because it’s different spellings. Unlike Evelyn Waugh and his wife Evelyn. The surnames matching too must be rare, even if the spelling differs, especially for heterosexual couples. |
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Post by Chris from Brum on Oct 18, 2024 16:06:04 GMT
That’s cheating because it’s different spellings. Unlike Evelyn Waugh and his wife Evelyn. The surnames matching too must be rare, even if the spelling differs, especially for heterosexual couples. Jethro Tull's original bass player was Jeffrey Hammond, but since both his parents had the surname Hammond before marrying, he styled himself Hammond-Hammond as a joke. |
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Post by Crimson King on Oct 18, 2024 16:48:18 GMT
The surnames matching too must be rare, even if the spelling differs, especially for heterosexual couples. Jethro Tull's original bass player was Jeffrey Hammond, but since both his parents had the surname Hammond before marrying, he styled himself Hammond-Hammond as a joke. Which organ did you read that in? |
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Post by ColinJ on Oct 18, 2024 21:31:18 GMT
The surnames matching too must be rare, even if the spelling differs, especially for heterosexual couples. Jethro Tull's original bass player was Jeffrey Hammond, but since both his parents had the surname Hammond before marrying, he styled himself Hammond-Hammond as a joke. In view of my longtime interest in the music of Jethro Tull, I must be pedantic and point out that Glenn Cornick was Tull's original bass guitarist. He left the band (possibly pushed) after the 'Benefit' LP, Jeffrey Hammond taking over the role for 'Aqualung'. |
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Post by uthacalthing on Oct 23, 2024 16:25:20 GMT
Jethro Tull's original bass player was Jeffrey Hammond, but since both his parents had the surname Hammond before marrying, he styled himself Hammond-Hammond as a joke. Which organ did you read that in? Pipe down |
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Post by finsobruce on Oct 23, 2024 16:44:52 GMT
Which organ did you read that in? Pipe down Stop it now! |
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Post by batman on Oct 23, 2024 17:20:46 GMT
Some of these puns are absolutely dire, paysan.
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Post by finsobruce on Oct 23, 2024 20:06:43 GMT
Some of these puns are absolutely dire, paysan. And just the prelude to worse ones, I'll be bound. |
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