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GERALD twitter.com/geraldstratfor…
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start your Friday right with this giant horse
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The 4th of January is a special day here at The Museum of English Rural Life, because it's a time when we ask you, once again, to please send us your best pictures of ducks.
#InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay
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driving (your sheep) home for Christmas
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fun fact: farmers historically reared rectangular sheep so that they could be stacked up high and arranged in intricate LEGO-like structures
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We are a museum.
And we run a $0M portfolio of businesses.
This is our daily routine.
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correct
twitter.com/AndrewR_Physic…
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if this is to be one of Twitter's final days please enjoy this box of eggs which you can send to your favourite accounts
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This shepherd is checking that these verified sheep are actually not just cows with white ticks
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WhatsApp might be down but photos of exquisite heritage sheep are only always on the up
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with autumn underway, it gives us great delight to share this sheep, who has taken the concept of turtlenecks to new levels
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Did you visit The MERL today with this bunny and accidentally leave without it?
If they're yours, please know they're currently being looked after by our front of house team!
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SO IF IT HAS FOUR WHEELS IT'S A WAGON, BUT IF IT HAS TWO WHEELS IT'S A CART
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child: I'd like a treehouse
artisanal heritage gardener: say no more
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There are many reasons why museums and galleries matter, and on #InternationalCatDay, we bring you another: we have a cat that is 1cm small.
It makes a mew so exquisitely tiny that it is audible only to the night sky’s most brilliant bats, and possibly NASA.
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it is a beautiful afternoon to take your sheep for a walk
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Cat twitter meets 19th century agricultural portraiture. It's perfect. twitter.com/itslittletunny…
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He's a 10 but only because this sheep is an 11
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Hold up twitter.com/depthsofwiki/s…
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[checks website stats]
Wow it's great to see that so many people have been looking up tractors in the past few days
[zooms in on what they've been searching for]
oh no
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Please can they be friends twitter.com/WeirdMedieval/…
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What if the purpose of stone circles all this time was simply to provide sheep with a little shade
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How about replacing your doomscrolling
with some broomscrolling
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We briefly interrupt your scrolling to let this flock go by
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