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Spending most of my time over on the other site. Cardiff born, Barry bred & Grangetown settled.

Grangetown, Cardiff, UK
Joined March 2010
New @MetalbirdU steel Balrog silhouette, set over the front door.
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Heading into Cardiff city centre with Kathryn and the Boys this morning. Last minute Xmas shopping 🎄
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Festive holiday is well underway. Peppermint cocktails & Black Doves 🎄
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Aged 7 or 8, paying far too much attention to The Thing. It was on ITV and I was allowed to stay up late with the slightly older kids of my parent's friends. I lost sleep after the utterly bonkers defibrillator scene. Had seen nothing like it up till then.
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Replying to @ScarredForLife2
Aged 4 or 5 I was left scared of Goths for years after reading the ladybird horror classics version of Dracula. Nearly 4 decades later ended up buying a copy for my children.
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Roses are red, Violets are blue,
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Overload originally came out in WHAT year!
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If the PM loses the Rwanda vote we should go to the country. Snap election. This is an immigration election. A one issue vote. Do you back us in trying to control immigration or not?
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Hi @Britvic where can I redeem these vouchers? Was given three of them after finding a small piece of plastic in a bottle of 7Up. @homebargains doesn't accept them 😳... Who does 🤔?
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He died in 2013. Sort it out @AmazonUK.
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The $2.3 billion MSG Sphere in Las Vegas is almost ready. • 366 feet high • 516 feet wide • 18,000 seats • 164,000 speakers • 580,000 sq ft of LED panels It is the world’s largest sphere and will officially open this September with a U2 concert.
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World’s hardest dish? Stir-fried stones are China’s latest street food fad cnn.it/3pdPMBX
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Replying to @RealTimeWWII
Soviet Marshal Zhukov leads the two-hour-long military parade through Moscow, riding a white stallion. Stalin was planning to take this honour, but fell from the horse during practice. Watch now: youtube.com/watch?app=deskto…
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Real, real shame this tweet is not a piece to camera.
Replying to @AldrinSampear
Strangely, we didn't hear the sirens or explosions. #AfricanPeaceMission program is proceeding as planned.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Reuters journalists saw the South African delegation entering the air raid shelter of their hotel to take cover from the Russian missile attack on Kyiv: reuters.com/world/south-af… AP reports that six Kinzhal missiles were fired at Kyiv by Russia and intercepted by Ukrainian air defense: apnews.com/article/russia…
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Hi @DVLAgovuk one of your clamps taken off a car and left here //////sung.blues.holds @what3words . Can you pass onto colleagues.
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A big difference from 2018 when @Grange_Pavilion was a tired ex-bowls Pavilion.
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Flashback to this morning. A decent dusting of snow in Grange Gardens and a pristine, white-roofed @Grange_Pavilion in the distance.
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Is someone going to have a quiet chat to the algorithm generating ads for @guardian 🤔. @ruskin147
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