Fishing
Fishing
Here is a rare piece of good news from the world today.
After decades of shrinking and ecological catastrophe, part of the Aral Sea is expanding and coming back to life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67EApBM8hUI
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Re: In spite of CON leads of 7-9% in the polls punters still rate a hung parliament as the most likely G
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Re: In spite of CON leads of 7-9% in the polls punters still rate a hung parliament as the most likely G
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Re: In spite of CON leads of 7-9% in the polls punters still rate a hung parliament as the most likely G
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Re: In spite of CON leads of 7-9% in the polls punters still rate a hung parliament as the most likely G
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Re: In spite of CON leads of 7-9% in the polls punters still rate a hung parliament as the most likely G
I think that's undoubtedly true. Major wasn't quite the ideology vacuum that say Johnson or Blair are. But he had a great poker face. And it's also certainly true that the Conservative… (View Post)2
