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Alex Brightsmith

@AlexBrightsmith

Serving the gods of true & fair presentation dutifully by day. Writing beautiful untruths by night. #brumwriter Amanuensis to @DramCetus

 Birmingham
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Joined March 2011
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Not sure whose employees you'd expect to have highway maintenance stickers (@BCC_Help? @NationalHways?) but I assume they'd be at least faintly irritated by either their employees flagrantly pavement parking or chancers using fake flashes to avert complaints.
A car parked half on the pavement in a residential area. Above the number plate is a magnetic strip of yellow and red diagonal bars marked HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE.

ALT A car parked half on the pavement in a residential area. Above the number plate is a magnetic strip of yellow and red diagonal bars marked HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE.

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The video is on the link, if you scroll down a little ...
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Left my neat pile of cardboard ready to be bailed for recycling unattended. Rookie error.
Two kittens investigate a mound of cardboard scattered across the floor

ALT Two kittens investigate a mound of cardboard scattered across the floor

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I may previously have cast aspersions on Carrados's intelligence, but it took him less time to work out how to delay hoovering than it did me to find the new bag ...
A small white and tabby sits smuggly on the middle section of a dismantled Henry vacuum

ALT A small white and tabby sits smuggly on the middle section of a dismantled Henry vacuum

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If you were driving a car on the A23 today about 17:00 and got hit buy a car derived van that messed up merging I witnessed it from about 3 vehicles back from a lorry cab, I got his registration as he pulled off from the bus stop
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Saw a chihuahua in a service dog harness the other day. Had all sorts of snarky comments ready, but I'd be peeved if anyone judged a rottweiler by its media image so ... just don't let anyone else decide what you can't do, eh?
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(Unless the person is the assistant warden at Bardsey Obs and they're telling you you can't swim to the skerries)
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These are much, much further away than you think they are. No, further than that even.
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And this morning I have mainly been singing 'and the worst you can do is throw kittens at me' to the tune of She's Always a Woman to Me. I can't imagine why.
My wrist, decorated with a number of new and aging scratch marks

ALT My wrist, decorated with a number of new and aging scratch marks

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She's lovely, but she's at the 'you are my honourary litter mates, come play with me' age, and hasn't yet learnt that you can't play as rough with the furless members of the clan. Which is fine when I'm awake enough to deal with it. Less so at 2am.
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Oh, now my brain has remembered the ' she'll carelessly cut you and laugh whilst you're bleeding' line, so that's the afternoon's soundtrack sorted. And are we sure this woman wasn't a cat all along?
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Might have accidentally worn my murder face to Asda. Whole lot less cutting in front of me and loitering inconveniently than usual. Being the cause of apologetic scuttling is embarrassing though.
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The delightful uncertainty of September weather - at the bus stop with a woman wearing fur-lined boot & a thick wool hat, and a man wearing flip-flops
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Not *just* flip-flops, obvs
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Ben is listening to Pink Floyd's Bike. I don't know why this question bothers me so much, but what is it that the singer doesn't know about the mouse?
0%Why he dsn't have a house
100%Why he calls him Gerald
1 votes • Final results
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Simon of Romford@PeopleOfUK16 Aug 2023
The third and worst camp are the ones that smell fabulous but taste of nowt but the inside of a kettle. Anything with berries in it lives here. Oh my lord, blackberry and hibiscus? That sounds gorgeous. Is it? No. It tastes of limescale and disappointment.
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Happened across this fellow fortuitously for #sundaypixbirds Hard to get a good angle on him in his temporarily reduced circumstances
An eagle lectern overlooks the clutter of a temporarily cleared church (it's having its floor restored), next to the high narrow windows of the church hall

ALT An eagle lectern overlooks the clutter of a temporarily cleared church (it's having its floor restored), next to the high narrow windows of the church hall

The wooden talons of a carved eagle dig into the ball he is perched on. If that's meant to be the world the divots must be the size of Wales

ALT The wooden talons of a carved eagle dig into the ball he is perched on. If that's meant to be the world the divots must be the size of Wales

The head, breast, and spread wings of a wooden eagle lectern, unfortunately backdropped by ladders, chipboard, and folded tables

ALT The head, breast, and spread wings of a wooden eagle lectern, unfortunately backdropped by ladders, chipboard, and folded tables

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But why do cat antibiotics taste of strawberries?
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How do I know this? Derby is Not A Fan, & has an impressive ability to spray what he seems to have swallowed.
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