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I dithered between those and a Gressingham duck, but I decided to hold off on the duck for now. I think I prefer a weekend to properly appreciate roasting a duck
Now ambling down to the pub to have a quiet pint or more while reading the latest Private Eye
Some kind of shenanigans outside the pub: the police stopped and searched a group of young people. I'd seen them (the police, not the young people) obviously lying in wait around the neighbourhood, hiding here and there in their cars, as I was walking to the pub, and assumed they were planning a raid of some kind. It turned out it happened right outside the window where I was sat in the pub
Eventually some people were taken away in a van. There was some weird stuff going on with a young woman who had apparently collapsed, or at least was sitting on the pavement, possibly with cuffs on. Not sure what was happening with her, but it seemed they were prepping her to be taken away in a van (which backed up to her position after they'd moved a car), rather than over to the Royal Infirmary's A&E a hundred yards away.
I also found the behaviour of a couple of youngish people, not in uniform, interesting: I got the impression they may well have been plain-clothes coppers, so presumably DS. They looked quite trendy, but they didn't seem to be on the side of the oppressed.
I expect I'll read something about our heroic police force stamping out the distribution of dangerous drugs on our streets, when in reality all that happened is that a few dozen Es and a bit of whizz never made it to a club night in town
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