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More hours of sunlighte kan not returne fast ynogh. Why doth it have to be 3AM at 5PM?
December 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
More hours of sunlighte kan not returne fast ynogh. Why doth it have to be 3AM at 5PM?
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 8
‘Winter Farmyard’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘Winter Farmyard’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
December 8, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 8
‘Winter Farmyard’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘Winter Farmyard’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
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He’s not the best-known Ladybird artist, but I do love Roger Hall’s depiction of Matilda escaping the siege of Oxford through the snow
December 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
He’s not the best-known Ladybird artist, but I do love Roger Hall’s depiction of Matilda escaping the siege of Oxford through the snow
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Prayers for colleagues @salisburycathedral.bsky.social as they move into serving, singing and carolling
December 8, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Prayers for colleagues @salisburycathedral.bsky.social as they move into serving, singing and carolling
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Dunno, but this has reminded me that my granddad put out a fire in the telephone exchange where he was working in the 1970s, and when the fire crew turned up to find they had nothing to do, granddad shrugged and said "at least I was on land and the bloody Germans weren't shooting at me this time."
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Cable lacing for me. We would stitch hundreds of metres of cables into telephone exchanges using waxed string. We all had callouses on our fingers from pulling them tight.
They use zip ties nowadays!
ZIP TIES!!!!
Cable lacing for me. We would stitch hundreds of metres of cables into telephone exchanges using waxed string. We all had callouses on our fingers from pulling them tight.
They use zip ties nowadays!
ZIP TIES!!!!
December 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Dunno, but this has reminded me that my granddad put out a fire in the telephone exchange where he was working in the 1970s, and when the fire crew turned up to find they had nothing to do, granddad shrugged and said "at least I was on land and the bloody Germans weren't shooting at me this time."
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Great news for London’s wildlife.
Proud to support this historic moment through my Green Roots Fund.
Proud to support this historic moment through my Green Roots Fund.
December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Great news for London’s wildlife.
Proud to support this historic moment through my Green Roots Fund.
Proud to support this historic moment through my Green Roots Fund.
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My friend's son was hit by a car whilst cycling yesterday outside Swindon. He is seriously injured. The car sped off and the police are looking for witnesses, particularly those with dashcams.
Please do share the article below if you're local to that area:
Please do share the article below if you're local to that area:
Cyclist suffers serious injuries in suspected hit and run on busy road
A cyclist suffered potentially life changing injuries in a suspected hit and run near Swindon.
www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
My friend's son was hit by a car whilst cycling yesterday outside Swindon. He is seriously injured. The car sped off and the police are looking for witnesses, particularly those with dashcams.
Please do share the article below if you're local to that area:
Please do share the article below if you're local to that area:
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I was wondering about avian flu, with Josh's chickens. Paul may have been vaccinated against it, working at the vets. #TheArchers
December 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I was wondering about avian flu, with Josh's chickens. Paul may have been vaccinated against it, working at the vets. #TheArchers
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Ebola, avian flu or blue tongue in Ambridge? That’ll play havoc with Lily’s travel plans.
Or is this “Just flu” hitting non vaccinated young folk? #TheArchers
Or is this “Just flu” hitting non vaccinated young folk? #TheArchers
December 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Ebola, avian flu or blue tongue in Ambridge? That’ll play havoc with Lily’s travel plans.
Or is this “Just flu” hitting non vaccinated young folk? #TheArchers
Or is this “Just flu” hitting non vaccinated young folk? #TheArchers
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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“Ever since mum’s accident I just can’t bear the thought of being behind the wheel. You understand don’t you Alistair?”
Boom, job done Paul. All PDR objectives completed.
#TheArchers
Boom, job done Paul. All PDR objectives completed.
#TheArchers
December 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“Ever since mum’s accident I just can’t bear the thought of being behind the wheel. You understand don’t you Alistair?”
Boom, job done Paul. All PDR objectives completed.
#TheArchers
Boom, job done Paul. All PDR objectives completed.
#TheArchers
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My speech of today to NIHRC now published in full by Joshua Rozenberg: “The ECHR - the view from London and Strasbourg”
December 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
My speech of today to NIHRC now published in full by Joshua Rozenberg: “The ECHR - the view from London and Strasbourg”
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The current trend in what passes for the West towards moated societies, where hope of a better life elsewhere is met with a raised drawbridge and the clang of the portcullis, is miserable.
December 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The current trend in what passes for the West towards moated societies, where hope of a better life elsewhere is met with a raised drawbridge and the clang of the portcullis, is miserable.
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Thatcher interestingly was a philosemite and single-handedly did a lot to scour antisemitism out of the Conservative Party for a generation or more
December 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Thatcher interestingly was a philosemite and single-handedly did a lot to scour antisemitism out of the Conservative Party for a generation or more
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by the children of refugees or migrants.
December 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
by the children of refugees or migrants.
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UK businesses which over even just the last 2 centuries had been started and sustained by migrants, there would be large holes in the British economy. Ironically, the Conservative Party would have been missing many of its leading lights of the past 40+ years. Much of Thatcher's Cabinets was staffed
December 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
UK businesses which over even just the last 2 centuries had been started and sustained by migrants, there would be large holes in the British economy. Ironically, the Conservative Party would have been missing many of its leading lights of the past 40+ years. Much of Thatcher's Cabinets was staffed
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In addition, anyone who has migrated to another country, especially one on the other side of the planet, knowing that they are coming into a largely unwelcoming context, has demonstrated a real tenacity and force of character that is going to benefit the country they end up in. If we removed all the
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
In addition, anyone who has migrated to another country, especially one on the other side of the planet, knowing that they are coming into a largely unwelcoming context, has demonstrated a real tenacity and force of character that is going to benefit the country they end up in. If we removed all the
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Similar story here, except they arrived a decade later and their children included 3 soldiers (one killed in WW1), started 2 businesses employing about 300 people by the 20s, and by the 60s one was a cabinet minister and another went to Hollywood to produce movies. (I'm an underachiever.)
December 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Similar story here, except they arrived a decade later and their children included 3 soldiers (one killed in WW1), started 2 businesses employing about 300 people by the 20s, and by the 60s one was a cabinet minister and another went to Hollywood to produce movies. (I'm an underachiever.)
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My grandfather came to Scotland as an Italian POW, he created art and sculpture, a statue sat in the National Museum of Scotland, his work adorns buildings in Glasgow. His son and daughter ran small businesses and restaurants in Edinburgh. His grandson is writer, and his sons are at Uni.
Fuck this.
Fuck this.
December 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
My grandfather came to Scotland as an Italian POW, he created art and sculpture, a statue sat in the National Museum of Scotland, his work adorns buildings in Glasgow. His son and daughter ran small businesses and restaurants in Edinburgh. His grandson is writer, and his sons are at Uni.
Fuck this.
Fuck this.
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I really do not understand at what point we forgot that this is how it works.
People are championing and enforcing these immigration policies now who are *products of this immigration ladder of excellence themselves*.
Did they never eg speak to their parents/grandparents?
People are championing and enforcing these immigration policies now who are *products of this immigration ladder of excellence themselves*.
Did they never eg speak to their parents/grandparents?
December 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I really do not understand at what point we forgot that this is how it works.
People are championing and enforcing these immigration policies now who are *products of this immigration ladder of excellence themselves*.
Did they never eg speak to their parents/grandparents?
People are championing and enforcing these immigration policies now who are *products of this immigration ladder of excellence themselves*.
Did they never eg speak to their parents/grandparents?
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several of their children fought for Britain in WW2. one died, shot down in his Lancaster Bomber over Magdeburg. so don't tell me we haven't contributed.
the great-grandchildren are writers, businesspeople, academics, CEOs, musicians, publishers, a couple have OBEs for charity work.
the great-grandchildren are writers, businesspeople, academics, CEOs, musicians, publishers, a couple have OBEs for charity work.
December 7, 2025 at 9:03 AM
several of their children fought for Britain in WW2. one died, shot down in his Lancaster Bomber over Magdeburg. so don't tell me we haven't contributed.
the great-grandchildren are writers, businesspeople, academics, CEOs, musicians, publishers, a couple have OBEs for charity work.
the great-grandchildren are writers, businesspeople, academics, CEOs, musicians, publishers, a couple have OBEs for charity work.
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my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
December 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
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Someone is going to get fired for forgetting to remove the rainbow from the medal given at Trump's homophobic Kennedy Center Horrors.
December 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Someone is going to get fired for forgetting to remove the rainbow from the medal given at Trump's homophobic Kennedy Center Horrors.