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France – staying in an Alsatian gite
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The Ark, Basingstoke
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Tories trounced
ByGarfTories have just been well and truly trounced in the UK. Labour has officially won the 2024 UK General Election. Results still coming in but it’s set to be an absolute landslide… https://www.theguardian.Com/politics/live/2024/jul/04/general-election-2024-uk-live-labour-tories-starmer-sunak-results-exit-poll Not so much that Labour won, than the Tories lost. Granted, this time it was more about people voting out the Tories,…
Aliens ate my shed
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Szofi come home
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Macro with a 58mm 44-m4 Helios lens and a 10 mm macro ring
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