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Frances Talbot, Countess of Morley wrote a poem on her journey from Longleat to Bath.

"The poem was the result of a breakfast row around 1820, where Lady Morley argued that writing rhyming verse was easy. She decided to prove her point by crafting a poem on her way to Bath, ensuring that every other line rhymed with Longleat."

gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/25

For decades my grandad was a public health inspector in . He would be spitting feathers at this news story.

My partner meanwhile thinks this is a setup for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles joke about the power of a Splinter…he was also as a digital librarian seriously unimpressed by the use a stock photo of a random rat.

theguardian.com/world/2025/apr

The Guardian · ‘They’re everywhere’: workers warn of rat infestation at Somerset nuclear plantBy Jillian Ambrose