Accent? Kiwi's Have An Accent (Eck-scint) ? Naaaaah ... Beached Whale Video

I may have told this story, apologies if you've heard it already. I moved away from Monmouth when I was 19 with an ever decreasing set of reasons to go back, heck I had the whole world at my fingertips even if it started just over the border in Gloucester. My first proper job, 198something, at St Ivel in Swindon as the world slowly opened its doors to me. St Ivel, at the time, had extended it's graduate program to the likes of me. A year of learning how to "be in business", a few secondments, and quite a number of workshops away from the confines of the offices and factories. One such workshop was hosted in Tintern . Tintern is famous for two things, it has an Abbey that, whenever we drove passed, my Dad would point out the window and grinningly proclaim to anyone listening, "It'll be nice when it's finished!" The second famous thing is that The Poet Wordsworth spent some time wandering and pondering before writing some evocative words ... no

Alex Horne, Mark Watson, and Tim Key are all UK comedians and longtime mates. Sometime ago they created a silly game and during the (UK) lockdown they brought it back, playing over Zoom, and uploading each game to YouTube. Here are the rules, enjoy your own game with mates. Rules of the Game No More Jockeys is, traditionally, a two player game. A coin is tossed, and the winner decides which player begins. The first player names a person - usually a well known person or celebrity - followed by a category into which that person fits. This category is then eliminated ie. no other person named in the game from this point can fit into this category. For example. Jacinda Ardern, No More Policians. The opponent must now name a person who does not fit into that category, followed by a category into which his new person does fit. This category is then eliminated, too. The first player must then name another person, who fits into neither of these categories, followed by a new category into which

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