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  My neighbour tells me this is an "eyesore" 😊 Front garden "meadow" cut once a year. Some 20 species of of UK native wild flowers.

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  An outrageous suggestion 😂

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  @europeanspodcast@mastodon.social @jon@gruene.social Try the UK, some of the worst train services in Europe, a consequence of privatisation leading to multiple train operating companies. Slowly being put right as train companies come back under government control but still not great. The best example of the problem is Ticket Splitting - depending on starting point, final destination and intermediate stations, how and where you buy tickets results in different costs. I have saved up to 50% by...

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  @Tinido Keep in mind there was no such thing as standard written English well understood across the whole country until relatively recently; spoken English even less so. Even today, someone in rural Northumberland would not necessarily clearly understand every word spoken by somebody from rural Devon. Personally, as a reasonably well educated native speaker of English, most (>95%) of Shakespeare is clear to me. Chaucer (late 14th/early 15th C) starts to be a struggle.