u/ArborealFriend

I'm helping spread the word – on behalf of Serian of Merry Go Round Toy Library – about this event:

>Hello! As part of the Cambridge Toy Library, I am going to be running a toy swap in the run up to Christmas - hopefully help with a circular economy and the costs of Christmas.

>It will be at Romsey Mill on Mill Road on the 28th November from 10-12.30 (toy drop off 10-11 and swap from 11-12ish).

>If you are free, I will really need volunteers to help set everything up and run the session, as it could be very busy. I also, obviously, hope that people have toys they can swap! And finally, if anyone is involved in a sustainability charity or group, I'm hoping to have a space with a few stands where people can find out more while they're waiting for the actual swap to start. So if you'd be interested, please get in touch with me.

If you can help, please let Serian know on merrygoroundtoylibrary@gmail.com (not by replying to me).

Villagers hollowed out the trunk in 1820 to create a parish meeting room within the tree. The roof of this room collapsed during a storm in 1845, but the tree lived on, with the wooden door to the secret room remaining to this day.
[Pippa Neill, Environment reporter, Graun, Thu 8 Oct 2026]

Full story here.

Tending Your 'Lady Garden'... 🤔 Trimming bushes... Um... 🤭 This card for the 'Lady Gardening Service' came through our Cambridge letterbox today. It caused prolonged ribald laughter in our household. 😂😂🤣🤣

(Phone N^(o) redacted to comply with rules against sales/advertising.)

Archer jailed for four years

Also with entitled SUV owner parked in the bus bay and giant tortoise scarecrow. Village life.

What else should I do to it? (Couldn’t find a nice photo from the start but the second one gives an idea of what it looked like)

It seemed appropriate to name my Apple Bluetooth mouse ‘Harald’ after the inventor of Bluetooth.

When I got a second (spare) Apple Bluetooth mouse, the obvious name was ‘Cnut’ for similar reasons.

Previously sported a World Cup topper.

The postbox is operational, the two phone kiosks are decommissioned.

It had lots of big boxes piled up very high on its deck. It was slowly making its way into Felixstowe Port.

Apparently (I looked it up) it’s the OOCL WISDOM, which is very very long, very very wide, and very very tall.

Look at the top of the pillar-box. (IYKYK – the arrow would’ve pointed to the left.)

The wall-box is opposite the rail station.

In the Edmundo Lounge, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

Which of those two flower-pot men,
Is it Bill or is it Ben?

Spotted on the platform at Dullingham.

Key points to note:

>Overall, Local Government Reorganisation is an ongoing process to deliver simplified and more efficient local authorities, reduce wasted spending on bureaucracy, and end the situation whereby local people are dealing with fragmented services across county and district councils.

>Decisions will be made on West Sussex, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough in due course to allow ministers more time to consider options ahead of making final decisions.

14 more areas to benefit from streamlined local services

Found in St Ives, Huntingtonshire. Well worth a ride out on the guided busway for that, alone.

Moorsbus: an exemplar of rural bus operation As if living in Yorkshire were not blessing enough, we also have these wonderful Moorsbus and Dalesbus schemes. What’s not to like?

Bridge Street, Downham Market.

The town has a Royal Mail delivery office, which formerly housed the Post Office.

The Post Office is now in its second or third shop, whilst there is a separate Post Office Banking Hub, as all five former banks – Barclays, HSBC/Midland, Lloyds, NatWest and TSB – have closed.