Bill FJ Quinn
@billfjquinn.bsky.social
Early-retired layabout. Drifting around Australia since 2013, but dropped anchor on the eastern seaboard. ✍️🎙️🦘🐨 No DMs pls. 🙅🚫 www.OverheardProductions.com
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Bill FJ Quinn
@billfjquinn.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Valé Frank Hodges, late of Bicton, Radio Fremantle, and York Minster
“I’ll see you when I’m looking at you.”
www.overheardproductions.com
My article for next edition of Trad And Now magazine.
Eulogy for Frank Hodges who died on Sunday 17 November 2024.
#Bicton #Perth #Freo #WA #Australia #Yorkshire #radio #liveoriginalmusic
www.overheardproductions.com/2024/11/19/vale-frank-hodges-late-of-bicton-radio-fremantle-and-york-minster/
3, 2, 1 and that's TIME!
A full year of #noalcohol.
What started on 16 Dec 2024 as an #alcoholfree week spun out to twelve months.
15 more days then I toast 2026 with a couple of straight double vodkas. 🥳
A full year of #noalcohol.
What started on 16 Dec 2024 as an #alcoholfree week spun out to twelve months.
15 more days then I toast 2026 with a couple of straight double vodkas. 🥳
a green circle with the number 12 on it
ALT: a green circle with the number 12 on it
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December 16, 2025 at 3:02 AM
3, 2, 1 and that's TIME!
A full year of #noalcohol.
What started on 16 Dec 2024 as an #alcoholfree week spun out to twelve months.
15 more days then I toast 2026 with a couple of straight double vodkas. 🥳
A full year of #noalcohol.
What started on 16 Dec 2024 as an #alcoholfree week spun out to twelve months.
15 more days then I toast 2026 with a couple of straight double vodkas. 🥳
Hint for Archer: when your team is only 9 runs away from a humiliating loss, that's probably NOT the time to start chirping the opposition. Just sayin's all. #Ashes
December 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Hint for Archer: when your team is only 9 runs away from a humiliating loss, that's probably NOT the time to start chirping the opposition. Just sayin's all. #Ashes
Taking a 20 minute break now - when they're unlikely to be out there for longer than that when they return - is utter, utter bullshit. #Ashes
December 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Taking a 20 minute break now - when they're unlikely to be out there for longer than that when they return - is utter, utter bullshit. #Ashes
December 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Meanwhile, Warner is like the dorky younger brother who hangs around with the big boys and girls only because Mum and Dad says they have to include him. So he just bobs around in the background and flaps his gums with any old shite just to be seen and heard.
#Ashes #cricket #AUSvENG #AUSENG
#Ashes #cricket #AUSvENG #AUSENG
What I like most about Ricky Ponting as a commentator is you get terrific insight & preparation, but not the blokey bullshit that so often accompanies former champions turned media people. The focus is the game, not him, and he talks to, not down to the audience. #ashes
November 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The sound you are now hearing is several million English fans doing their third hairpin bend turn on whether their team are dead set far king legends or miserable, pathetic losers.
#Ashes #AUSENG #AUSvENG #cricket
#Ashes #AUSENG #AUSvENG #cricket
a drawing of a roller coaster with people riding on it
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November 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I confess to being extremely nervous up until 13:20h AEDT today, and was going to post this GIF, but that was before England decided to self-implode.
Thank you, Blighty, for easing my #Ashes angst. 😌🏏🏴💣🤯
#AUSvENG
Thank you, Blighty, for easing my #Ashes angst. 😌🏏🏴💣🤯
#AUSvENG
chewbacca says i have a very bad feeling about this in front of luke skywalker
ALT: chewbacca says i have a very bad feeling about this in front of luke skywalker
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November 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM
#Wikipedia are doing one of their semi-regular fundraisers when you go to look something up.
In a world of aggregation of media and social media sources, imagine an existence where Wikipedia was owned by Müsk or Zúçkerbèrg.
Then click the button and donate.
In a world of aggregation of media and social media sources, imagine an existence where Wikipedia was owned by Müsk or Zúçkerbèrg.
Then click the button and donate.
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
#Wikipedia are doing one of their semi-regular fundraisers when you go to look something up.
In a world of aggregation of media and social media sources, imagine an existence where Wikipedia was owned by Müsk or Zúçkerbèrg.
Then click the button and donate.
In a world of aggregation of media and social media sources, imagine an existence where Wikipedia was owned by Müsk or Zúçkerbèrg.
Then click the button and donate.
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No one could accuse Donald of being woke.
November 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
No one could accuse Donald of being woke.
Mostly watching the football ⚽ on a several hours' delay (sleep was more of a priority at 04:45h), but regularly distracted by the meandering incense patterns.
November 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Mostly watching the football ⚽ on a several hours' delay (sleep was more of a priority at 04:45h), but regularly distracted by the meandering incense patterns.
One day we will look back at the #MelbourneCup and wonder why as a society we allowed glorious horses to be mistreated, exploited & abused just so we could gamble & get drunk. There’s no entertainment to be had in the suffering of animals. They deserve dignity & safety like us. #NupToTheCup
November 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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OK, regardless of source, credit where due: That's a great headline.
October 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
OK, regardless of source, credit where due: That's a great headline.
Great start to last day of Canberra Writers Festival.
Killing time before the first session, and a wee lad is quietly reading aloud, slowly sounding out the words to the encouragement of mum.
Oh youngling; what an adventure in words and ideas you're embarking on.
#cbrwritersfest #amreading #books
Killing time before the first session, and a wee lad is quietly reading aloud, slowly sounding out the words to the encouragement of mum.
Oh youngling; what an adventure in words and ideas you're embarking on.
#cbrwritersfest #amreading #books
October 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Great start to last day of Canberra Writers Festival.
Killing time before the first session, and a wee lad is quietly reading aloud, slowly sounding out the words to the encouragement of mum.
Oh youngling; what an adventure in words and ideas you're embarking on.
#cbrwritersfest #amreading #books
Killing time before the first session, and a wee lad is quietly reading aloud, slowly sounding out the words to the encouragement of mum.
Oh youngling; what an adventure in words and ideas you're embarking on.
#cbrwritersfest #amreading #books
October 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Great start to last day of Canberra Writers Festival.
Killing time before the first session, and a wee lad is quietly reading aloud, slowly sounding out the words to the encouragement of mum.
Oh youngling; what an adventure in words and ideas you're embarking on.
#cbrwritersfest #amreading #books
Killing time before the first session, and a wee lad is quietly reading aloud, slowly sounding out the words to the encouragement of mum.
Oh youngling; what an adventure in words and ideas you're embarking on.
#cbrwritersfest #amreading #books
Day 1 #book haul from Canberra Writers Festival. Quite some restraint exercised.
#cbrwritersfest #books #amreading #booksky
#cbrwritersfest #books #amreading #booksky
October 25, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Day 1 #book haul from Canberra Writers Festival. Quite some restraint exercised.
#cbrwritersfest #books #amreading #booksky
#cbrwritersfest #books #amreading #booksky
Putting my habitual overdose of sportsball on hold for one weekend to soak up some knowledge and such at the Canberra Writers Festival. 👨🏫🧑🏫🤓📚✍️
#cbrwritersfest
#cbrwritersfest
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Putting my habitual overdose of sportsball on hold for one weekend to soak up some knowledge and such at the Canberra Writers Festival. 👨🏫🧑🏫🤓📚✍️
#cbrwritersfest
#cbrwritersfest
It's been a long time between warbles, but tonight it's back to the world of #singing #choir #massedvoices. 🎶😮😲
October 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
It's been a long time between warbles, but tonight it's back to the world of #singing #choir #massedvoices. 🎶😮😲
A hill I'm quite prepared to die on: there's a special place in hell for people who take medium to large wheelie bags on airplanes as hand luggage.
A cabin attendant told me a while back the airlines were going to crack down on this arsehole behaviour. Hasn't happened.
Just don't.
A cabin attendant told me a while back the airlines were going to crack down on this arsehole behaviour. Hasn't happened.
Just don't.
a man wearing a louis vuitton sweatshirt is walking with a suitcase
Alt: A man wearing a Louis Vuitton sweatshirt is walking with a suitcase.
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October 14, 2025 at 6:13 AM
A hill I'm quite prepared to die on: there's a special place in hell for people who take medium to large wheelie bags on airplanes as hand luggage.
A cabin attendant told me a while back the airlines were going to crack down on this arsehole behaviour. Hasn't happened.
Just don't.
A cabin attendant told me a while back the airlines were going to crack down on this arsehole behaviour. Hasn't happened.
Just don't.
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Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.
October 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.