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Jill Wicks
@jillwicks.bsky.social
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Books (mostly crime fiction), animals (mostly cats and horses), live theatre, live music (almost any)
Jill with a J
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jillwicks.bsky.social
@countarthurstrong.bsky.social
Fabulous show last evening at #HexagonReading
Sides still ache from laughing. Not able to stay to be singed but great to see you in top form.
J&Hx
November 2, 2025 at 7:54 AM
jillwicks.bsky.social
A very happy 10th birthday to the wonderful Talking Pictures TV. Here's to many many more birthdays.

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talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · May 26
It's our🎂10th birthday!
In that time that's over 5,000 feature films, shorts & TV series. Talking of TV, that's over 6,000 episodes of 250 series. That's a lot of classic film & TV! We promise lots more to come! Thank you for the support, you lovely lot!
#TPTV #LifeInThePastLane
May 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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drrachelclarke.com
We have a desperate shortage of care workers. This has a catastrophic effect on the NHS too.

Labour’s decision to close the care worker visa scheme for overseas recruitment is appalling, kneejerk politics that - yet again - will penalise the most vulnerable.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK care homes face ban on overseas recruitment under migration plans
Yvette Cooper to announce proposals to reduce net migration in response to growing pressure from Reform UK
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
jillwicks.bsky.social
What the heck Labour?

How are they going to force reluctant Brits to work in the care sector.

It might help if care work was properly funded and valued.

I'm dreading having to need care.
peterstefanovic.bsky.social Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · May 11
Care homes will be prevented from recruiting staff from abroad as part of an overhaul of rules to drive down net migration, Yvette Cooper has said today

The UK is already facing a desperate shortage of care workers

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK care homes face ban on overseas recruitment under migration plans
Yvette Cooper to announce proposals to reduce net migration in response to growing pressure from Reform UK
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
jillwicks.bsky.social
If you scoff and laugh at Health and Safety, think again. Health and Safety saves lives on a daily basis, in and out of the workplace
number10cat.bsky.social Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · May 11
40 years ago a horrific fire at Bradford City's Valley Parade ground claimed the lives of 56 people. It took less than four minutes for a small fire to become a raging inferno. Warnings had been ignored.
May 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
jillwicks.bsky.social
Surprise close encounter with, what I hope I've identified correctly, as a Moorhen family. Two adults and a small ball of fluff ringed in blue.
Chanced upon them on a path by a lake and they didn't flinch. Lovely moment
Adult Moorhen enjoying a walk on a path by a lake Another adult Moorhen also enjoying itself by a lake Ball of fluff ringed in a blue circle, a Moorhen chick out for a stroll with the parents
April 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
jillwicks.bsky.social
Here's a wonderful 🧵 well worth following to the bottom so to speak.

👏👏 👏 to Mary Rose Museum
maryrosemuseum.bsky.social The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · Apr 15
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
April 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
jillwicks.bsky.social
PNG Courier on point as usual. So disappointing the way this Labour government is going. Weren't they supposed to try to get us out of a hole, not throw vulnerable people in a deeper one.
March 19, 2025 at 10:41 AM
jillwicks.bsky.social
Ooh, doesn't happen often

Wordle 1,361 2/6

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March 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
jillwicks.bsky.social
Wonderful stuff from the PNG Courier's correspondent. On the button as always. When someone shows you who they are, believe them first time. Quite.
February 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
jillwicks.bsky.social
Every line a gem. Love The PNG Courier's overseas correspondent.
February 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
jillwicks.bsky.social
Dear me. High up on the silly questions list. What next, asking about Boudica
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Jan 27
"Is the PM proud of our role at the Battle of Agincourt?"

An absolutely genuine question put to Keir Starmer's spokesman at the morning lobby briefing just now
January 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
jillwicks.bsky.social
Irony lost on her then
bestforbritain.org Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · Jan 24
Oakeshott, who recently emigrated to Dubai with her children, explaining how "integrating" there was "not really challenging" as it is "90pc expats", beams in to complain about too many immigrants in London.

Could not make it up. ~AA
January 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
The Farage-athon in our media has to stop.All he represents is the weaponisation of prejudice to keep people angry and uninformed. But headlines about him go on and on, building up a myth instead of exposing him for the nasty little con artist he is.
Years of this shit. Please can 2025 be different.
December 30, 2024 at 1:08 PM
jillwicks.bsky.social
Lush and tidy and genuine. Perfect ending. Only one loose end, the fishing trip!!

Fab rendition of Blackbird

#gavinandstacey
December 25, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Everyone needs to be aware of this

@the-bma.bsky.social
bma.org.uk The BMA @bma.org.uk · Dec 13
Today @gmcuk.bsky.social starts regulating non-doctors as it opens voluntary registration of AAs and PAs. It does so without any national agreement in place to confirm scope of practice for these roles, and so puts patient safety at risk.

Read our full statement: www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
BMA press release
December 13, 2024 at 10:15 AM
jillwicks.bsky.social
Brilliant satire from Henry Morris
😂👏👌
mrhenrymorris.substack.com Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · Dec 13
NEW: For those of you that missed it, here's that Kemi Badenoch Spectator article in full.
December 13, 2024 at 10:41 AM
jillwicks.bsky.social
Great to see the Papua New Guinea Courier's London correspondent on usual brilliant form
mrhenrymorris.substack.com Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · Nov 28
NEW: I've just been passed this excellent article from the Papua New Guinea Courier's London correspondent.
To England, where five months after the last general election two and a half million adults (sic) have signed a petition calling for another one. Succesfully. It will be held in four years and seven months’ time. The campaign began because Labour didn’t restore prosperity in their first twenty weeks. Rumours that the petition was a ruse by an autograph hunter who specialises in simpleton signatures were not laid to rest when Reform UK threw its collective intellectual weight behind it. Labour only have themselves to blame. By annihilating the Tories at the ballot box, they killed the goose that laid the golden tractor porn eggs. Without Randox, or Chris Pincher, or shell PPE companies, or Partygate, or a vision, all they seem to offer are tax rises and warm words about Blackrock. Ideologically, this leaves them more exposed than Peter Bone talking to a junior staffer. Enter stage far-right, goosestepping, Reform UK and their cartoon Tory clones who hawk uncontested narratives about imaginary threats posed by refugees, experts and – er – trans people. The near and present dangers of climate catastrophe are meanwhile rejected. Never, they say, let the truth get in the way of a good story. In a world where mothballed Thunderbirds extra Richard Tice can become a political figure, it seems that voters are unwilling to let it get in the way of a crap one too. Insurance giant AXA has just published data which say that Tice’s constituency is the second most exposed to global warming in the UK. It’s a catchy stat, but not so catchy as Tice’s mantra that ‘Net Zero equals Net Stupid’. Perhaps the 4000 householders in Boston and Skegness who are at risk of submersion will chant this next time they’re baling turd-filled floodwater from their living rooms. Apologies, the alt text box has run out of space. Pls DM me if you were reading this way and I'll forward the rest!
November 28, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Grenfell, Post Office,infected blood, Hillsborough. Britain has witnessed a long series of injustices where walls of silence & lies have stopped the powerless inconveniencing the powerful by telling their whole truths. To that list add UK’s nuclear testing scandal
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Britain’s Nuclear Bomb Scandal: Our Story review – how the UK’s atomic testing programme devastated lives
Trauma, terror and potential medical effects that last for generations – those who experienced the fallout of nukes in Australia and the Pacific tell their horrifying tale
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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sturdyalex.bsky.social
“Farage cost farmers more money with Brexit than any inheritance tax. Now he’s cosplaying in tweed, marching alongside them. Tractors came to Whitehall in March, to protest trade deals Badenoch signed. Now they're applauding her speech. How can I take them seriously? Where are their principles?”
quietriotpod.bsky.social Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · Nov 21
🚜 NEW Quiet Riot: FARMED OUTRAGE 🐄

@pimlicat.bsky.social, @sturdyalex.bsky.social and special guest former UK-US ambassador, Sir Kim Darroch, discuss Trump's outrage farming in the US, and farmers' outrage here in the UK.

🏮 open.spotify.com/episode/1gu2...

🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Farmed Outrage
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 21/11/2024 · 1h
podcasts.apple.com
November 21, 2024 at 5:18 AM
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stevebraysodem.bsky.social
credit: Jane in Gibraltar.
November 21, 2024 at 12:08 PM
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@donkeysanctuary.bsky.social

Glad to find you on here
November 16, 2024 at 10:21 PM
jillwicks.bsky.social
@countarthurstrong.bsky.social

Lovely little reminder of farewell tour part one just arrived through the letterbox.
Glad you're doing A Christmas Carol again. We've booked for Reading next year.
November 16, 2024 at 6:02 PM
jillwicks.bsky.social
Gareth Thomas woefully underprepared this morning, getting tied up in all sorts of knots. He's having to go away and do a great deal of homework

#postofficeinquiry
November 8, 2024 at 12:52 PM
jillwicks.bsky.social
@donaeldtheunready.bsky.social

Aha, glad you're here
November 6, 2024 at 10:26 PM