Bob Leckridge
@bobleckridge.bsky.social
Retired doctor Photographer “L’émerveillement du quotidien” (the wonder of the every day) insatiably curious
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Bob Leckridge
@bobleckridge.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Lost freedoms
I was listening to Bob Harris the other day and in his section about The Old Grey Whistle Test he played an interview he’d recorded with Grace Slick back in the mid 70s. He asked her what cha…
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Our freedoms are being eroded. My children and grandchildren don’t have the same freedoms I had at their age.
Is that your experience too?
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Is that your experience too?
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🚨🚨" Some leaders have chosen to hunt them down and deport them through operations that are both unlawful and cruel. My government has chosen a different way: a fast and simple path to regularize their immigration status." Spanish PM Pedro #Sanchez on why #migrants are essential for Western society:
February 6, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Ace of Spades. The shapes you find in and around rock pools are endlessly fascinating #photography #seashore #rocks
February 6, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Ace of Spades. The shapes you find in and around rock pools are endlessly fascinating #photography #seashore #rocks
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
So true Emma, thanks for sharing this moment of awe
A starling murmuration at Tubney Fen (& my reaction). Only filmed on my phone so not brilliant quality, but experiencing awe, even from a video on a screen, has been shown to improve mental health 🪶:
February 5, 2026 at 7:16 AM
So true Emma, thanks for sharing this moment of awe
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The British mainstream media is busy trying to oust Starmer, again, and yet they seem not at all interested in a much bigger and more serious Epstein story involving Farage, Putin, and Brexit.
Fortunately, @bylinetimes.bsky.social is.
Fortunately, @bylinetimes.bsky.social is.
Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein
Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support
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February 4, 2026 at 6:24 PM
The British mainstream media is busy trying to oust Starmer, again, and yet they seem not at all interested in a much bigger and more serious Epstein story involving Farage, Putin, and Brexit.
Fortunately, @bylinetimes.bsky.social is.
Fortunately, @bylinetimes.bsky.social is.
“There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.” The Secret History. Donna Tartt.
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Life after death
“There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The uncon…
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February 5, 2026 at 7:06 AM
“There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.” The Secret History. Donna Tartt.
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Can you see the cormorants, sitting in rows like musical notes on a page of sheet music #photography #birds #scape #SouthAfrica
February 5, 2026 at 6:33 AM
Can you see the cormorants, sitting in rows like musical notes on a page of sheet music #photography #birds #scape #SouthAfrica
I climbed into a dark cave and took a photo which activated the flash revealing all this colour!
#photography #colour #green
#photography #colour #green
February 5, 2026 at 6:31 AM
I climbed into a dark cave and took a photo which activated the flash revealing all this colour!
#photography #colour #green
#photography #colour #green
This is one of the most amazing astonishing stories of courage and determination I’ve ever read! What a boy!!
Mother says asking 13-year-old son to swim four hours to save family ‘one of the hardest decisions’ ever made
Mother says asking 13-year-old son to swim four hours to save family ‘one of the hardest decisions’ ever made
‘What have I done?’ thought Joanne Appelbee as she waited for rescue with her two other children in rough seas off Western Australia
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Joanne Appelbee says asking her 13-year-old son Austin to swim four hours through dangerous waters to get help after her family was swept out to sea was “one of the hardest decisions” she has ever made.
“I knew he was the strongest and he could do it,” she told the ABC. “I would have never went because I wouldn’t have left the kids at sea, so I had to send somebody.” Continue reading...
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February 4, 2026 at 7:42 AM
This is one of the most amazing astonishing stories of courage and determination I’ve ever read! What a boy!!
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Get Thiel / Palantir out of all EU contracts.
🔴In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel
The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage, reports @peterjukes.bsky.social
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The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage, reports @peterjukes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...
In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel
The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage
bylinetimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Get Thiel / Palantir out of all EU contracts.
Absolutely astonishing - viola.bz/realistic-fl...
February 4, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Absolutely astonishing - viola.bz/realistic-fl...
There’s something liberating, calming, invigorating, boundary dissolving, enlivening about standing at the edge of an ocean #scape #IndianOcean #SouthAfrica
February 4, 2026 at 7:24 AM
There’s something liberating, calming, invigorating, boundary dissolving, enlivening about standing at the edge of an ocean #scape #IndianOcean #SouthAfrica
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Wounaan Baskets from the Rainforest of Panama, created by master weavers such as Miriam Negria #womensart
February 4, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Wounaan Baskets from the Rainforest of Panama, created by master weavers such as Miriam Negria #womensart
This might be from 1987 but John Cleese nails exactly what we are experiencing today in the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy etc etc!
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Quiet Majority - John Cleese on #Extremism 1987 - restored audio & video #FarRight #project2025
YouTube video by Quiet Majority
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February 4, 2026 at 7:15 AM
This might be from 1987 but John Cleese nails exactly what we are experiencing today in the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy etc etc!
youtu.be/5mU5ef-zFyw?...
youtu.be/5mU5ef-zFyw?...
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It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵
February 2, 2026 at 8:20 AM
It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵
Good morning Bluesky folks, touch of pink in the clouds this morning #photography #bluesky
February 3, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Good morning Bluesky folks, touch of pink in the clouds this morning #photography #bluesky
600 year old Camphor trees #Vergelegen #thicktrunktuesday
February 3, 2026 at 7:29 AM
600 year old Camphor trees #Vergelegen #thicktrunktuesday
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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
― Malcolm X
― Malcolm X
February 2, 2026 at 12:26 PM
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
― Malcolm X
― Malcolm X
Diversity. Nature loves it. I love it. Form, shape, colour, context, relationships and interaction over years, decades, centuries.
February 2, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Diversity. Nature loves it. I love it. Form, shape, colour, context, relationships and interaction over years, decades, centuries.
Immigration narratives - heroesnotzombies.com/2026/02/01/t...
Two stories of immigration
Two stories about immigration caught my eye this week. Firstly, here in France, applications for full citizenship are down in 2025 following a tightening of the guidelines issued to the Prefe…
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February 1, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Immigration narratives - heroesnotzombies.com/2026/02/01/t...
February 1, 2026 at 10:06 AM
I saw this stone lying on a beach in South Africa. It’s extraordinary. Firstly, it has straight edges, and Nature doesn’t really do straight lines. But look at the green “Xmas tree” in the middle of it!
Surely this is the work of human hands….or is it?
I left it lying there by the way #Stunday
Surely this is the work of human hands….or is it?
I left it lying there by the way #Stunday
February 1, 2026 at 7:36 AM
I saw this stone lying on a beach in South Africa. It’s extraordinary. Firstly, it has straight edges, and Nature doesn’t really do straight lines. But look at the green “Xmas tree” in the middle of it!
Surely this is the work of human hands….or is it?
I left it lying there by the way #Stunday
Surely this is the work of human hands….or is it?
I left it lying there by the way #Stunday
Great quote from Wendell Berry!
“The wild is not the opposite of cultivated; it is the opposite of the controlled.” — Wendell Berry
January 31, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Great quote from Wendell Berry!
January 31, 2026 at 7:18 AM