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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
24 Apr 20
A diary of doing virtually nothing, given the ongoing lockdown. I'll be talking to sock-puppets before long if this goes on much longer.
The 14th April would have been the day I returned home from the big science fiction...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
12 Feb 20
Diary - Saturday 8th February 2020 - I spent most of the day preparing for my trip to Manchester for my 58th birthday celebrations. The weather was nice but I was worried by reports of major storms expected on my birthday itself....
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
7 Feb 20
Diary Friday 31st January 2020
A bill paying day that cut my bank account to ribbons.
Diary Saturday1st February 2020
Even more bills to pay.
Diary Sunday February 2020
I returned my library books as they were due today....
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
16 Jan 20
Friday 10th January - the first meeting of the book club this year and a very well attended lovely event it was too. I've reviewed the book we covered, Sandra Cisneros's The House On Mango Street seperately.
Saturday was a quiet...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
27 Dec 19
My final week on the temporary mail sorting job, and all the shifts would be full ones, no reduced hours. Adding the very early starts and getting up at 4.30 am made for a gruelling week.
On Wednesday 18th December I treated...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
5 Dec 19
Tuesday 3rd December 2019 - A promising start to the working week (I'm off on Sundays and Mondays) when I finally got a full uncut shift, but Wednesday 4th was reduced by an hour and Thursday, 5th by ninety minutes.
Two fairly...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
9 Jun 19
A week of quiet days and busy ones.
Job searching is usually quite a mechanical routine process, involving the same career websites being checked daily. It can be tedious and take hours. I have to do it daily. The Monday and...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
26 May 19
A quiet Monday at home (20th) and a week on a very low budget for me. On the Tuesday I called to the Doctors to pick up a repeat prescription for my blood pressure medications, and collected enough of the necessary drugs for the...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
10 Apr 19
I sometimes like words only signs as well as pictographic ones, This one, on the North Manchester and Oldham Tameside borders has a refreshingly honest approach to advertising, by admitting the pub has no claim to fame whatsoever....
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
4 Apr 19
A real piece of history here, as stocks were used as a medieval cruel, humiliating punishment for minor crimes such as drunken behaviour, or spreading malicious rumours.
If found guilty by local magistrates, a felon would be...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
9 Mar 19
A lovely fun sign depicting a very happy pig driving a locomotive and tooting the whistle. He is dressed in an engine driver’s uniform. Beats being turned into bacon.
The Pig And Whistle is a name used on quite a few pubs,...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
12 Feb 19
On my own difficult (see my 9th-10th February 2019 diary entry) journey to Manchester I saw a man at Preston station who had savage bruises on his face. He was panicking over the train delay and asked me what was going on.
At...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
11 Feb 19
Diary Saturday 9th February 2019
My 57th birthday, and I woke up early feeling no different than at 56.
I was up early as I planned to get an early train to Manchester to have time to see my Mum before meeting friend later in...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
8 Feb 19
The toad doesn’t look lazy at all to me, just relaxed and possibly gigantic unless he is in a very small pub.
He is sitting on a wooden bar stool, and enjoying a pint. Probably preferable to sitting on a lily pond catching flies...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
30 Jan 19
The execution of three Irish Fenian rebels over the death of a policeman in 1867 has led to the erection of an unusual and controversial monument to them in Moston Cemetery (aka St. Joseph’s Cemetery) near to where I lived for...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
2 Jan 19
Known as The Ravenoak after its location on Ravenoak Road in Cheadle Hulme when first opened in 1882. This was a large sumptuous restaurant bar, which might now be called a bistro-pub, where wealthy diners could eat while...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
25 Dec 18
Diary Saturday 22nd December 2018
My last post ended as I was about to set off to Manchester for the weekend. This is the adventures that followed.
The coach was fully booked and there were literally no seats left. I am glad...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
12 Dec 18
The eagle, among the greatest of the birds of prey, was seen as the king of the air as much as the lion was seen as the king of the jungle and African plains.
The eagle became a powerful symbol of might and reach, a symbol of the...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
3 Dec 18
Diary 30th November 2018
I got my welfare payment today and I was not surprised that the promised top up payment extra money for my rent was not included. This is a payment arranged by the Council to supplement my welfare...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
30 Nov 18
Edwin Waugh (1817-1890) was one of Manchester’s best loved poets and story tellers, capturing the life and soul of the cotton mill industry in dialect verse and short stories. He was born in Rochdale, serving much of his life as a...
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