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Ailsa McWhinnie
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Greyhounds, photography, allotments, Brighton & Hove Albion. You know – the usual. Freelance subeditor and project manager of Amateur Photographer of the Year. Also on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ailsamc
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At #DomeBrighton in #BrightonFestival the sublime unique superb talent #AroojAftab and her amazing band of musicians not just singing but having shots of whisky 🥃 delivered to the audience by the bar staff wonderful night go see them all and drink whisky together #VerveRecords
May 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This is our main form of entertainment at the moment: six fox cubs (plus vixen) growing up before our very eyes, just outside our kitchen balcony in central Brighton. Definitely better than television 🧡 #FoxOfTheDay #FoxesOfTheDay #FoxCubsOfTheDay
April 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Joyous @joshuaidehen.bsky.social at Patterns tonight. Quite possibly the gig of the year. #MumDoesTheWashing
April 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty down about my small business. I’m working so hard but it’s been very quiet. It’s bloody difficult at the moment.
Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
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April 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
You know all is right with the world when Laurie the greyhound appears on another #TimsBlueSkyListeningParty
April 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I was taking pictures. Laurie was bored.
March 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Greyhound in “finds the sunny spot” shocker.
March 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
“Fly what?” #Crufts
March 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
A fantastic day for greyhound welfare. May the rest of the UK follow soon.

Greyhound racing to be banned in Wales www.bbc.com/news/article...
Greyhound racing to be banned in Wales
Labour ministers say the sport - which has one track in Wales - will be banned as soon as possible.
www.bbc.com
February 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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You've got to admire how Liz Truss' strategy to stop people from talking about how she crashed the economy has involved purposefully generating an entirely new news cycle about how she crashed the economy
January 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Slithered home through the snow.
January 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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one of the most thorough skewerings I’ve ever seen during PMQs
Keir Starmer says Kemi Badenoch in eight years as an MP never mentioned grooming gangs in the House of Commons - not once - even when she was children’s minister

Badenoch insists she has raised the issue “in speeches” but is unable to deny the charge #pmqs
January 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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In other news, Nigel Farage didn't bother to turn up to the debate on grooming gangs in the House of Commons just now
January 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
January 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
January 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Happy 2025 to you all.
January 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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There’s an antiques emporium in Norwich of such unfathomable strangeness every visit produces fresh gasps of bewilderment and terror. Recent finds:

1. Mounted photo print of depressed steam train driver (£1)
December 17, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Comfortable there, Laurie? 🙄 #GreyhoundsofBluesky #Greyhounds
December 17, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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I love this map of places where sycamore gap tree saplings will be planted. They include the Rob Burrow Centre for MND and a plot in memory of a 15 year old girl killed by her ex-boyfriend. They stretch from the Orkneys to Cornwall. By @nationaltrust.bsky.social
December 14, 2024 at 8:40 AM
I distinctly remember a young couple laughing at me as I pleadingly said, “But Laurie, it’s Sunday!” #GreyhoundsOfBluesky
December 13, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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This may look hand made but it's not. Strong winds during #StormDarragh over Exmoor have created this. Beautiful.

📷 Exmoor4All
December 9, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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This will (hopefully) never cease to be staggering to everyone else in the world.
December 5, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵

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December 4, 2024 at 9:08 AM
The final round of this year's Amateur Photographer of the Year competition has launched, and for the first time the theme is completely open. Anything goes! Really looking forward to judging the entries to this one.

www.photocrowd.com/photo-compet...
Amateur Photographer of the Year 2024 hosted on Photocrowd | Photo Competitions & Community Site
Enter the Amateur Photographer of the Year 2024 competition on Photocrowd, your new favourite photo community. Be in with the chance of winning the title of Amateur Photographer of the Year 2024 and ...
www.photocrowd.com
December 3, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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Re-post for a chance to win this brilliant prize:

2 x tickets to the show
A room at Leven (liveleven.com)
2 x return train tickets from anywhere in the UK
I’ll present you with a signed print after the concert

Winner picked at random: THURSDAY 3pm

Tickets on sale: THURSDAY 4pm
December 3, 2024 at 12:50 PM