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18 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
One thing I really missed during Covid Christmas was going home and having conversations like this with my dad.

ME: I've done the dishwasher
HIM: Did you check the rinse aid?
ME: Yes.
HIM: And the salt?
ME: Um... yes?
HIM: You hesitated. WHY DID YOU HESITATE.
What's interesting (and lovely) is watching how he utterly trusts/distrusts each of his kids about different things.

Like, he'll 100% expect me to work his new complex power saw flawlessly, while I'll get a 10min lecture on the new microwave. Whereas my brother is the opposite.
I don't think he's even conscious he does it. He just clearly has very defined and well-worked in ideas as to what we're individually fucking useless at in his own head.

Sometimes based off of one household or workplace incident when we were like, twelve or something.
On the plus side, at some point he's just decided that my younger sister knows more about Apple laptops than I do, so she has to configure all his gadgets now.

I'm happy getting roped into helping him fix the odd house or shed roof at xmas instead of that, any day of the week.

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19 Feb
Uber have now LOST their appeal on the ruling that they employ workers, not contractors.

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An amazing man who brought history to life.
Victor's art and the occasional bit of 3D modelling was what made Time Team a must watch for me, as a kid.

It helped me learn how to map ruins to reality. It made me want to study, then tell, stories from history. I wanted to be like him and make them real.

He helped make me.
Whenever I see diagrams in a book now, or talk about trench outlines on a tour, or try and bring something to life in a thread here, I'm hoping to do for someone else what Victor did for kid me.

He was as critical to my love of Time Team as Tony, Phil, Carenza and the others.
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16 Feb
Should say that we almost NEVER get other cats in our garden. Only #notMyCat. That's why it's full of birds.

He's worked out that if he hides under the pond fountain for one hour a day, the other cats just assume he might ALWAYS there, and don't enter his territory just in case.
Of course, in reality, he's either sloped off back over the fence and is (presumably) curled up asleep in his actual house.

Or, if it's noisy over there, he's snuck in here (like today) for a snooze instead.

Absolute top level kitty grifting.
Of course sometimes it backfires on him. The other night I saw him jump out of his under-fountain pounce spot at what he assumed was another kitty, only to discover it was actually a fox.

BOTH animals instantly decided discretion was the better part of valour and legged it.
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22 Jan
Right. Friday history thread!

Let's talk about how not once, but TWICE, in WW2 a 650 year old treaty between Britain and Portugal (that the rest of the world had mostly forgotten about) was invoked to help the Allies win the war. treaty screenshot: there shall be from this day forward betw
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It's 1385 and John of Aviz is standing on a hill with 6,000 soldiers, asserting his right to be King of Portugal.

Unfortunately, at the bottom of that hill is is the King of Castile, along with 30,000 Castillians, French, Aragonese and Italians who disagree.
Luckily, for John:

1) This is a REALLY steep hill. A good hill to (potentially) die on
2) The Castillians and French love to Zerg rush with armoured knights
3) He has crossbowmen
3) He has 200 battle-hardened English longbowmen.

Because the English have just pulled a Helms Deep
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21 Jan
By meeting Churchill and Stalin at Yalta President Roosevelt indicates he's more interested in the views of the citizens of Yalta than in the lives of the citizens of Pittsburgh. This agreement will do little to effect the end of the war and will harm the livelihoods of Americans
By signing the 1783 Treaty of Paris with George III, George Washington indicates he's more interested in the views of the citizens of Paris than in the jobs of the citizens of Pittsburg.

By facilitating the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, President Carter indicates he's more interested in the views of some guy called David than in the jobs of the citizens of Pittsburgh.
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20 Jan
You know how my history threads about obscure stuff?

A disproportionate amount come about because someone meets me and says:

"Oh? You did THAT thread?! Reminds me: my family has a legend about x happening. But we tihink it's rubbish"

It might not be. DM me your famliy legends.
that thing you heard your grandfather did in the war that sounds suuuuuper sketchy?

Might not be. I have at least two largely unknown SOE ops in the thread bank because of crazy grandad stories and one more i'm still trying to track down info on.

SOE did weird shit.
That story your family tells about someone who helped them escape something awful?

How do you think I learned about Mary Burchill?

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