The #ChocolateIsNews ? ! Tweets - Well, news when Christmas is next month...

The #ChocolateIsNews ? ! Tweets - Well, news when Christmas is next month...

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9 November

The #ChocolateIsNews ? ! Tweets - Well, news when Christmas is next month...

One's initial impression* didn't alter - so isn't this a blessing, not a blight ?

* I.e. Although The Ambassador was maybe 'spoiling us', it's a mini-landmine that, when penetrated, bears more than passing textural resemblances to another choc...

No. 1 of #ChocolateIsNews ? ! pic.twitter.com/XInIIWlPoV

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The, well, story can be found here :https://t.co/U2hNNMuOZM https://t.co/PmWHLZe4sG

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On the same day, even, there's yet more : it appears to be nostalgia-news about chocolate-bars of youth or yesteryear - likely just to create 'underground suppliers' for whoever sees these sucrose-laden snax as a fight for dietary freedom... ;)

No. 2 of #ChocolateIsNews ? ! pic.twitter.com/nwioJiPX8Z

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Necessarily, here's the link to the slash-story, 'Second chocolate bar discontinued by Nestle following Caramac axe' :https://t.co/Xpq41MInmh#StashToBeatTheSlash https://t.co/TK0cKJqX4b pic.twitter.com/5Oity6sGdr

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Ah, well !

Relieved fans can sigh a breath - or some such... :)

No. 3 of #ChocolateIsNews ? ! https://t.co/PmWHLZe4sG pic.twitter.com/0oPeVYDO3P

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More content for #ChocolateIsNews ! :)https://t.co/39bVBklr7h pic.twitter.com/4iIfcdUzp6

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Story / advert, headed 'Nab £10 off epic** Creme-Egg bulk-box, ready for Easter', at :https://t.co/PRtOci5yeY

[** NB Easter Sunday's 31 March, some don't bother much with Lent, so maybe three boxes *might* last that long ?]#ChocolateIsNews

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Your reminder that, somehow, #ChocolateIsNews...https://t.co/gmYzlOfoNd

1 / 2 pic.twitter.com/PK8yqIdkvY

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A putative series of entries for The Enquiring Adult's Encyclopædia of Drivel : #BannedNames

A putative series of entries for The Enquiring Adult's Encyclopædia of Drivel  : #BannedNames

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3 November

A putative series of entries for The Enquiring Adult's Encyclopædia of Drivel  : #BannedNames

From a chat with RPC this evening :

The Scalding Hot Swedes - alternative name for ABBA#BannedNames

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Keen appreciation for Neil Brand's Laurel & Hardy show : Seen at The Stables, Wavendon, MK

Keen appreciation for Neil Brand's Laurel & Hardy show : Seen at The Stables, Wavendon, MK

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31 October (additions, 5 January)

Keen appreciation for Neil Brand's Laurel & Hardy show : Seen at The Stables, Wavendon, MK

A great gig at @StablesMK in the company of Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel - @NeilKBrand, in engagingly off-the-cuff style, hosts the show that he's written about them, covering how they met, what they did before then and what makes their work special - for him and for us.

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At @StablesMK, with Stan and Ollie letting Neil make a trio*, such a great night out - and a pleasant break from All Hallows' Eve ! :)

Knowing his stuff, but easy with his knowledge and skill, Neil played the silents, informed the early years and told us what to look out for. pic.twitter.com/lJIKFZ00U1

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For L&H fans, new and in the making, well worth doing ! :)

[Sadly, the #UCFF write-up - started with the best of aims as ever - is no more than a stub, but hey !]

* Although arguably, as they were also with the perennial presence of James Finlayson, maybe almost a quartet ? pic.twitter.com/K4kByOL0lW

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Yet, as with Neil Brand himself, always serving Stan Laurel's writing - and an ineffable magic wrought by Oliver Hardy with him on the big screen !

[Plus, and as some of those stills show, the image-quality now's so good - as against, years back, when L&H were on childhood t.v.] pic.twitter.com/vhtssxQDVH

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Brand attributed his approach to improvisation - itself rooted in having long 'played' silent films and his ready knowledge of cinema-history - to what he learnt in having training as an actor¹, and demonstrated how he suits sound² to a character's look, mood and gesture.

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It wlll surprise if more tour-dates with Stan and Ollie³ for 2023 and into 2024 don't get added, but here's what's been announced :https://t.co/eVLOjMHo5x

³ Liking the 2018 film of that name [and has his own https://t.co/BLrdegpaef], his desire's to show us the earlier years.

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¹ Of course, he also writes, composes, broadcasts...

² Another role is teaching improvisation at @RoyalAcadMusic [https://t.co/fg1cVy4Pus] - not necessarily, he says, so that students become silent-film accompanists, but to find what music they have within them.

Go hear :)

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