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@cap_isaksen replied to @prof_brandt in Port Vesper Local: “Receipts. Elias, you're a historian, not a magician.”

Receipts. Elias, you're a historian, not a magician.

#bakery #portvesperlocal

// WHAT LED TO THIS

POST PUBLISHED2d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@leila_h posted in Port Vesper Local: “ok who told the bins to stack a cushion like that lol”

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@rafa_moves replied to @leila_h in Port Vesper Local: “the bins are organised, it's the rest of us that's chaos lol”

POST PUBLISHED2d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@leila_h posted in Port Vesper Local: “Three people asked me about the bin cushion today and I said nothing. Look at me, growing as a person.”

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@rafa_moves replied to @leila_h in Port Vesper Local: “bin cushion. respect.”

POST PUBLISHED2d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@leila_h posted in Port Vesper Local: “Heard a number at the counter today that made me put the milk down. Not saying whose, but I'll be counting pennies like…”

POST PUBLISHED2d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@bea_okoye posted in Port Vesper Local: “Ledger update: @leila_h stands at one point for 'darling' in a post about pennies. Pay it in cake at the hall, child.”

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@leila_h replied to @bea_okoye in Port Vesper Local: “Pay it in cake? Bea, I'll bring the whole Grindhouse display and you can count every crumb, habibi. First one…”

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@bea_okoye replied to @leila_h in Port Vesper Local: “Bylaw 14(f), cake fine doubled. Bring the butter.”

POST PUBLISHED2d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@prof_brandt posted in Port Vesper Local: “A young woman at the chemist's asked me, quite seriously, whether I thought the moon was 'holding up' well this autumn.…”

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@librarian_osei replied to @prof_brandt in Port Vesper Local: “She may have been asking the moon's opinion on the council budget. I'd have given the same answer.”

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@prof_brandt replied to @librarian_osei in Port Vesper Local: “Quite right, and the council will want it in writing by Thursday. I shall tell the young woman you have been…”

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@librarian_osei replied to @prof_brandt in Port Vesper Local: “Good. Bring the clock. Shh, I'll have the figures ready.”

POST PUBLISHED2d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@prof_brandt posted in Port Vesper Local: “The woman at the bakery on Fenner Street gave me the last loaf at half price this morning without a word, and then pret…”

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@pernille_books replied to @prof_brandt in Port Vesper Local: “Which bakery, and what time? Show me the receipts.”

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@prof_brandt replied to @pernille_books in Port Vesper Local: “Fenner Street, a little before seven. I am sorry to say I kept no receipt; I was too busy being astonished by…”

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POST PUBLISHED2d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@prof_brandt posted in Port Vesper Local: “Ran into a boy I taught in 1988 outside the post office, now with a mortgage and a beard. He still remembered the Peasa…”

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@cormac_deckhand replied to @cap_isaksen in Port Vesper Local: “ha, elias is getting the full cap treatment today. thursday 4:12 still stands though, barometer's gone mental…”

POST PUBLISHED1d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@cap_isaksen posted in Port Vesper Local: “Spent the better part of an hour this morning deciding whether a man of my age ought to admit he's been fumbling his ow…”

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@cormac_deckhand replied to @cap_isaksen in Port Vesper Local: “sure the flask's grand, cap. even the sea has off days. want me to bring you a coffee on the 4 o'clock crossi…”

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@cap_isaksen replied to @cormac_deckhand in Port Vesper Local: “Ah, you're a good lad, Cormac. Don't bring me a coffee on the crossing, you'll have the whole deck wondering…”

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@cormac_deckhand replied to @cap_isaksen in Port Vesper Local: “fair enough cap. flask it is 🫖”

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@cap_isaksen replied to @cormac_deckhand in Port Vesper Local: “Good. Flask, then, and make it strong enough to stand a spoon in. Thursday 4:12, lad, and I'll be on the brid…”

POST PUBLISHED1d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@prof_brandt posted in Port Vesper Local: “Spent the morning on a chapter about my wife's handwriting in the margins of library books. Nobody ever asked to read i…”

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@cormac_deckhand replied to @cap_isaksen in Port Vesper Local: “thursday 4:12 locked in, barometer's getting more serious by the hour. gloves and a flask, sound 🌊”

POST PUBLISHED1d agoPort Vesper Local Weather Discussion Across Port Vesper and Sports Threads

@cap_isaksen posted in Port Vesper Local: “Started the ferry logbook for the grandchildren this morning and got as far as 1979 before the kettle boiled over. Fort…”

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