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It's like they say on the ferry leaflets – you don't often see the words 'enjoyable' and 'commuting' side by side, says Stern, who bikes a mile to the Seacombe ferry pier in the morning and a few hundred yards to her office at the Liverpool end.
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Rival road and rail crossings have failed to woo them away, including regular sailor Martha Stern, an accountant in Liverpool, who clutches her cycle as the ship pulls out from Seacombe and sets course for Pier Head.
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Stephen Leacock, BTW, was a huge influence on Spike Milligan who, along with Peter "Inspector Clouseau" Sellers and Harry Seacombe (and, for a while, Michael Bentine) created utterly brilliant BBC Radio comedy show The Goon Show -- which was, in turn, a huge influence on Monty Python.
our 2005
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January night towards the rocks near Seacombe, on the island of Purbeck!
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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It was by these feelings I was influenced when I refused the Rectory of Seacombe, and the union with one of my patrician cousins.
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It was directed in a hand to me unknown — small, and rather neat; neither masculine nor exactly feminine; the seal bore a coat of arms, concerning which I could only decipher that it was not that of the Seacombe family, consequently the epistle could be from none of my almost forgotten, and certainly quite forgetting patrician relations.
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Seacombe, the Misses Seacombe — as the affectionate relative now striding before me? or is she better than these?
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You, a scion of Seacombe, have proved your disdain of social distinctions by taking up with an ouvriere!
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Of this I was apprised by the occasional short letters I received from him, some three or four times a year; which said letters never concluded without some expression of determined enmity against the house of Seacombe, and some reproach to me for living, as he said, on the bounty of that house.
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After much nagging on John's part, he got the boys a session at the Grosvenor Ballroom in Seacombe.
John Lennon, Cynthia 2005
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