@beecycling @rufustheduck @dillyd at least a further 10% are social media managers for dogs, rats, rabbits, donkeys, goats, assorted birds and giant African landsnails

@TheBreadmonkey There's a neighbourhood of Exeter called Heavitree and I spent years thinking "oh, how lovely, I bet there was an enormous beautiful tree they wanted to commemorate." No, it was the hanging tree where they hanged women accused of being witches. Never look anything up.

@TheBreadmonkey every British childhood song and scrap of folklore is either racist or about wife beating, cock fighting or dying horribly of the plague. I don't know how historians get out of bed in the morning.

Many years ago when I was a student my landlady told me she had a tradition of reading #TerryPratchett's Hogfather every Christmas, and Lords and Ladies every summer solstice. And that remains the most sensible tradition I've ever heard of, so I adopted it immediately and have been doing it ever since

My thanks to @zaty for informing me that someone did once, in fact, actually pull the plug out of a canal! https://mulberryhall.medium.com/odd-this-day-5b1cfd1fdb32

Today in "infrastructure isn't meant to do that" news from Normal Island, a canal has fallen down a hole.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2lvq0yk9dko