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‘Supergranny’ fights off Northampton robbers

Had a fairly busy day today and missed this story the day before when my home town’s local news broadcasted it. An elderly lady is caught on camera fending off robbers from a jewellers on the top of Gold Street, Northampton (quite ironically). While I’m pretty sure it would be epic that Lady in Red [...]

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10 O’Clock Live

David Mitchell, Charlie Brooker, Lauren Laverne and Jimmy Carr. With a line-up like that you couldn’t go far wrong could you (unless you didn’t like any one of those four people, then you could) but somehow it did. I’m not quite sure what it was, but it was like they were flicking their shit around [...]

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The horrid reality of theme park ownership.

Going on a nostalgia trip is one of the fundamental reasons why I lose days to YouTube. The joy of watching, say, the intro to the original Spyro game or someone play a game you spent absolutely ages on is far beyond anything you’ll get from completing an essay. I recently went on one of [...]

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Raconteur in Retrospect: July – December

Huzzah! You’re back! So you read yesterday’s post about the review of the year from the first half, but what about the second? Granted it happened more recently so it won’t be as interesting (nor probably as long as I’m sure you’re glad to hear). But what did happen in the second half of the [...]

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Raconteur in Retrospect: January – June

Well would you believe it it’s the end of the year already. It’s been a whole 365 days since you were (totally not, you bastards) reading last year’s recap. But hey, if you’re new this year, this is the recap of the year. Bit like the Big Fat Quiz of the Year, just with less [...]

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