Fenouille
@fenouille.bsky.social
You can take the Brit out of the UK but not the tea out of the Brit
🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🏴 speaker living in SW France
Interested in 🚲 and active transport, politics, podcasts, 🐈🐈⬛ and fibre arts
🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🏴 speaker living in SW France
Interested in 🚲 and active transport, politics, podcasts, 🐈🐈⬛ and fibre arts
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Fenouille
@fenouille.bsky.social
· Sep 8
Dead Men Tell Tales: A Retro Anthology Graphic Novel
An anthology inspired by early seventies contemporary British horror cinema, especially the Amicus portmanteau films.
www.kickstarter.com
My cousin is a brilliant writer of horror, and he knows where to find the best illustrators. And I know there are people here who love 80s horror. If you are one of them support his Kickstarter here, I can vouch that he's a solid bet www.kickstarter.com/projects/169...
Ah hell, just realised my favourite Garibaldi biscuits have become victim to shrinkflation. Brought an extra packet home from my last UK visit to get me through til Christmas, but just realised it only compensates the reduction in the other packets 😭 @sainsburys explain yourselves 😤
December 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Ah hell, just realised my favourite Garibaldi biscuits have become victim to shrinkflation. Brought an extra packet home from my last UK visit to get me through til Christmas, but just realised it only compensates the reduction in the other packets 😭 @sainsburys explain yourselves 😤
Love Martin Parr's work - stumbled across his work in an expo in Hamburg. Hadn't realised until his recent interview on Arte 28 Minutes how much the French love him too. So much gentle humour in his photos, this Brit felt less homesick after some time with his photos. RIP Mr Parr
‘Like a rock star’: the global reverence for Martin Parr’s class-conscious photography
‘Like a rock star’: the global reverence for Martin Parr’s class-conscious photography
Unfettered love for late photographer in France and elsewhere stands in contrast to occasional reservations in UK
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Love Martin Parr's work - stumbled across his work in an expo in Hamburg. Hadn't realised until his recent interview on Arte 28 Minutes how much the French love him too. So much gentle humour in his photos, this Brit felt less homesick after some time with his photos. RIP Mr Parr
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Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
This is the truth right here. Can't help but being a smile to your face
A. A. Milne is one of the great English poets.
October 15, 2025 at 5:55 AM
This is the truth right here. Can't help but being a smile to your face
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New podcast episode;
🇫🇷 Dodgy Sarko going to jail and why France's right-wingers are so crooked
🇫🇷 Whatever happened to the Champs-Elysées?
🇫🇷 And why the Lascaux caves in south-west France are so very, very special
🇫🇷 Dodgy Sarko going to jail and why France's right-wingers are so crooked
🇫🇷 Whatever happened to the Champs-Elysées?
🇫🇷 And why the Lascaux caves in south-west France are so very, very special
Talking France: France shamed by Sarko and is the Champs-Élysées now the worst street in Paris?
A former French president is set to spend some time behind bars in prison, quite a bit of time actually. Yes Nicolas Sarkozy, remember him, he’s been up to no good. Again. We'll hear about France...
pod.fo
October 2, 2025 at 6:07 AM
New podcast episode;
🇫🇷 Dodgy Sarko going to jail and why France's right-wingers are so crooked
🇫🇷 Whatever happened to the Champs-Elysées?
🇫🇷 And why the Lascaux caves in south-west France are so very, very special
🇫🇷 Dodgy Sarko going to jail and why France's right-wingers are so crooked
🇫🇷 Whatever happened to the Champs-Elysées?
🇫🇷 And why the Lascaux caves in south-west France are so very, very special
My cousin is a brilliant writer of horror, and he knows where to find the best illustrators. And I know there are people here who love 80s horror. If you are one of them support his Kickstarter here, I can vouch that he's a solid bet www.kickstarter.com/projects/169...
Dead Men Tell Tales: A Retro Anthology Graphic Novel
An anthology inspired by early seventies contemporary British horror cinema, especially the Amicus portmanteau films.
www.kickstarter.com
September 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
My cousin is a brilliant writer of horror, and he knows where to find the best illustrators. And I know there are people here who love 80s horror. If you are one of them support his Kickstarter here, I can vouch that he's a solid bet www.kickstarter.com/projects/169...
Yes but also this one youtu.be/o589CAu73UM?...
July 25, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Yes but also this one youtu.be/o589CAu73UM?...
Anybody with an elderly relative who has to use hospital services knows this, because it's not just surgery. The trouble is, if they find an issue they have to do something about it. Much easier to send them home and let the family deal with the problem.
Older patients who have surgery are not being screened to assess how frail they are in the majority of UK hospitals, a study suggests
Frailty of older patients ‘not being assessed in majority of hospitals’
Older patients who have surgery are not being screened to assess how frail they are in the majority of UK hospitals, a study suggests. Frail people are more likely to stay longer in hospital after an ...
nation.cymru
May 27, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Anybody with an elderly relative who has to use hospital services knows this, because it's not just surgery. The trouble is, if they find an issue they have to do something about it. Much easier to send them home and let the family deal with the problem.
This old man is 19 today 🥳 Happy birthday Welly
May 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This old man is 19 today 🥳 Happy birthday Welly
For the cat people who have already clicked the link, I did the due diligence, it isn't a Phishing 😹
You are invited to participate in a study about people and their behaviors and feelings toward their cats. In order to participate, you must currently have a cat.
Participation in this research entails taking a survey answering questions about yourself and one of your pet cats.
Participation in this research entails taking a survey answering questions about yourself and one of your pet cats.
May 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
For the cat people who have already clicked the link, I did the due diligence, it isn't a Phishing 😹
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Ok, mourir un lundi de Pâques pendant une année de jubilé, c'est pas mal. Mais plusieurs papes du Moyen Âge sont morts de manière assez... étonnante !
Un top 10 en fil, avec un mari jaloux et une mouche psychopathe ⬇️! #PapeFrançois #Rome #popefrancisfuneral #medievalists #medievalsky
Un top 10 en fil, avec un mari jaloux et une mouche psychopathe ⬇️! #PapeFrançois #Rome #popefrancisfuneral #medievalists #medievalsky
April 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Ok, mourir un lundi de Pâques pendant une année de jubilé, c'est pas mal. Mais plusieurs papes du Moyen Âge sont morts de manière assez... étonnante !
Un top 10 en fil, avec un mari jaloux et une mouche psychopathe ⬇️! #PapeFrançois #Rome #popefrancisfuneral #medievalists #medievalsky
Un top 10 en fil, avec un mari jaloux et une mouche psychopathe ⬇️! #PapeFrançois #Rome #popefrancisfuneral #medievalists #medievalsky
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Remember the #GoodbyeLegsRide we introduced you to recently? It's now just 2 days away, when Tom our #MarComms Manager does his last ride 'with his own legs'! Sound intriguing? Details and donations for WfW warmly welcomed at: wheelsforwellbeing.o...
The Goodbye Legs Ride and WfW
The Goodbye Legs Ride is an informal charity cycle raising funds for 4 important charities - and Wheels for Wellbeing is one of them!
wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk
April 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Remember the #GoodbyeLegsRide we introduced you to recently? It's now just 2 days away, when Tom our #MarComms Manager does his last ride 'with his own legs'! Sound intriguing? Details and donations for WfW warmly welcomed at: wheelsforwellbeing.o...
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Farage's numbers look false, skewed or spun
Of the 16% (10.6m) people born abroad, 6/10 had arrived before 2011 [so he can't claim 7m new registrations since 2015]
- about 4/10 of those born abroad are UK citizens
+ non-citizens on visas pay £1035/year NHS surcharge. NHS net gain on £ now
Of the 16% (10.6m) people born abroad, 6/10 had arrived before 2011 [so he can't claim 7m new registrations since 2015]
- about 4/10 of those born abroad are UK citizens
+ non-citizens on visas pay £1035/year NHS surcharge. NHS net gain on £ now
Farage:
"7.2 million foreign-born people have registered with GPs in the last 10 years... All I'm doing here is giving you cold hard facts".
Well here's another cold hard fact - 40.6% of GPs in England and Wales are foreign born.
The NHS would completely collapse without workers from abroad.
"7.2 million foreign-born people have registered with GPs in the last 10 years... All I'm doing here is giving you cold hard facts".
Well here's another cold hard fact - 40.6% of GPs in England and Wales are foreign born.
The NHS would completely collapse without workers from abroad.
April 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Farage's numbers look false, skewed or spun
Of the 16% (10.6m) people born abroad, 6/10 had arrived before 2011 [so he can't claim 7m new registrations since 2015]
- about 4/10 of those born abroad are UK citizens
+ non-citizens on visas pay £1035/year NHS surcharge. NHS net gain on £ now
Of the 16% (10.6m) people born abroad, 6/10 had arrived before 2011 [so he can't claim 7m new registrations since 2015]
- about 4/10 of those born abroad are UK citizens
+ non-citizens on visas pay £1035/year NHS surcharge. NHS net gain on £ now
I was wondering why the new ep wasn't in my feed
Jam Tomorrow by @rostaylor.bsky.social is now an indie. It's such a remarkable podcast, unpeeling the promise of post-war Britain and revealing this much stranger country underneath. Good time to jump aboard if you haven't already
morejamtomorrow.com
morejamtomorrow.com
How did it feel to watch the Channel Tunnel breaking through? The NHS made dentistry free – so why were British teeth still so bad? And what did police find at Club Eleven in 1950 that would change h...
morejamtomorrow.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I was wondering why the new ep wasn't in my feed
Still puzzled by people saying judges shouldn't have found guilty or ruled on punishment.
Maybe the law is wrong, then campaign to change the law, don't criticise judges or judgment. We have a current very good example of what happens if you start ignoring the rule of law just across the pond...
Maybe the law is wrong, then campaign to change the law, don't criticise judges or judgment. We have a current very good example of what happens if you start ignoring the rule of law just across the pond...
À lire : la mise au point salutaire du premier président de la @courdecassation.fr
« Attaquer l’institution judiciaire, ce n’est pas seulement porter atteinte aux juges mais aussi aux fondements de notre démocratie. »
« Attaquer l’institution judiciaire, ce n’est pas seulement porter atteinte aux juges mais aussi aux fondements de notre démocratie. »
Condamnation de Marine Le Pen : « Attaquer l’institution judiciaire, ce n’est pas seulement porter atteinte aux juges mais aussi aux fondements de notre démocratie »
Dans un entretien au « Monde », le premier président de la Cour de cassation, Christophe Soulard, rappelle que la condamnation de Marine Le Pen est motivée par le droit et une loi votée au Parlement, ...
www.lemonde.fr
April 2, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Still puzzled by people saying judges shouldn't have found guilty or ruled on punishment.
Maybe the law is wrong, then campaign to change the law, don't criticise judges or judgment. We have a current very good example of what happens if you start ignoring the rule of law just across the pond...
Maybe the law is wrong, then campaign to change the law, don't criticise judges or judgment. We have a current very good example of what happens if you start ignoring the rule of law just across the pond...
Some great suggestions here! I've been trying to get the more US centric stuff off my time line and replace with more humour and whimsy
March 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Some great suggestions here! I've been trying to get the more US centric stuff off my time line and replace with more humour and whimsy
Difficult to hear @prifweinidog.gov.wales on #politicalpartypod boasting about #NHSWales. They sent my elderly aunt home with a terminal diagnosis, no home help, no interest from hospital/GP. Local social services worse than useless. Luckily she could pay for private care. It was devastating
March 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Difficult to hear @prifweinidog.gov.wales on #politicalpartypod boasting about #NHSWales. They sent my elderly aunt home with a terminal diagnosis, no home help, no interest from hospital/GP. Local social services worse than useless. Luckily she could pay for private care. It was devastating
There was a recent excellent "You're Dead to Me" episode from @gregjenner.bsky.social on Sojourner Truth, really fascinating woman.
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), abolitionist, women's rights advocate, who chose to be photographed with her knitting. As an enslaved person, she had knitted/spun endlessly and when free later in life, she taught knitting to former enslaved women aiding self-sufficiency #womensart
March 22, 2025 at 6:37 AM
There was a recent excellent "You're Dead to Me" episode from @gregjenner.bsky.social on Sojourner Truth, really fascinating woman.
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Bust or Trust subscribers get:
The full episode - longer than the one you get for free AND without adverts
Colouring sheets
A super fun newsletter with even more fun facts, book recommendations, words to impress grown ups with and more
Extra special shout outs on the show
www.bustortrust.com
The full episode - longer than the one you get for free AND without adverts
Colouring sheets
A super fun newsletter with even more fun facts, book recommendations, words to impress grown ups with and more
Extra special shout outs on the show
www.bustortrust.com
March 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Bust or Trust subscribers get:
The full episode - longer than the one you get for free AND without adverts
Colouring sheets
A super fun newsletter with even more fun facts, book recommendations, words to impress grown ups with and more
Extra special shout outs on the show
www.bustortrust.com
The full episode - longer than the one you get for free AND without adverts
Colouring sheets
A super fun newsletter with even more fun facts, book recommendations, words to impress grown ups with and more
Extra special shout outs on the show
www.bustortrust.com
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To help with our urgent fundraising campaign, our friends BBH have helped us to pull off a heist. We've stolen vulvas from famous artworks, so you can support the *real* masterpiece instead.
You might spot them on billboards around London today... www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
You might spot them on billboards around London today... www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
March 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
To help with our urgent fundraising campaign, our friends BBH have helped us to pull off a heist. We've stolen vulvas from famous artworks, so you can support the *real* masterpiece instead.
You might spot them on billboards around London today... www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
You might spot them on billboards around London today... www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
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Your donations still matter, now more than ever. The real work starts now. Become a part of this historic moment, and donate to defy patriarchy, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny and attacks on our precious cultural spaces www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
Donate to Save The Vagina Museum, organized by Vagina Museum
The Vagina Museum is one month away from closing – forever
The Vagina Museum will be forced t… Vagina Museum needs your support for Save The Vagina Museum
www.gofundme.com
March 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Your donations still matter, now more than ever. The real work starts now. Become a part of this historic moment, and donate to defy patriarchy, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny and attacks on our precious cultural spaces www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
This is terrible news, I love following Tim's adventures. RIP
We are going to do a ride in Tim’s @timcyclesthecoast.bsky.social’s memory: Land’s End to John o’ Groats. A ride he would have loved, finishing in his favourite country of all: Scotland. We would love people to join in and ride for a day or two. See timcyclesthecoast.com for details.
Ride for Tim
timcyclesthecoast.com
March 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This is terrible news, I love following Tim's adventures. RIP
Turned a couple of cross stitches into cushions tonight. One for my first cousin once removed and one for me as we both have been recently bereaved.
Forget-me-nots from www.etsy.com/shop/OwlAndT..., robin pattern from a cross stitch magazine
#crossstitch
Forget-me-nots from www.etsy.com/shop/OwlAndT..., robin pattern from a cross stitch magazine
#crossstitch
March 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Turned a couple of cross stitches into cushions tonight. One for my first cousin once removed and one for me as we both have been recently bereaved.
Forget-me-nots from www.etsy.com/shop/OwlAndT..., robin pattern from a cross stitch magazine
#crossstitch
Forget-me-nots from www.etsy.com/shop/OwlAndT..., robin pattern from a cross stitch magazine
#crossstitch
Omg I would learn to knit/crochet for this 😮
March 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Omg I would learn to knit/crochet for this 😮
Backstitching is magic 🪡🧵#crossstitch
March 6, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Backstitching is magic 🪡🧵#crossstitch