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1. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Sarah Tipper

   Tumble dryers wondering why they've been ostracized (opens the original)

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   Inactive tumble dryers are sitting wondering why they no longer get to accept big mouthfuls of damp washing and make them all toasty warm and dry for the humans they live with. Having been entrusted with making towels fluffy for years they are now witnessing the same towels being hung outside on a line with olden days wooden pegs, like some kind of how we used to live re-enactment project or being hung indoors, metres away from them, over an item of furniture called a clothes horse which is not

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2. Article · Aug 9, 2026 · Sarah Tipper

   Birmingham appearing on maps since before the 2022 Commonwealth Games (opens the original)

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   There was some confusion this week after journalists claimed that this year’s Commonwealth Games have really put Birmingham on the map. Literal minded Reading resident Elsie Glovebox popped to check the Reader’s Digest AA Book Of The Road and found Birmingham was there, as she’d remembered it was, having looked at it many years ago when she and husband Stanley had used it when first visiting Stan’s sister Maureen who lives in King’s Heath. Maureen was asked to comment and said Birmingham always

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