Neill Roberts
@robbo59.bsky.social
Retired teacher of English. Busy doing stuff. 📚 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
Full disclosure: no interest in pets, crypto and sport. And don’t get me started on ludicrous names for shades of paint.
Full disclosure: no interest in pets, crypto and sport. And don’t get me started on ludicrous names for shades of paint.
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Neill Roberts
@robbo59.bsky.social
· Sep 19
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here.
But, while we can, say it anyway.
But, while we can, say it anyway.
I have to admire the confidence, good humour, resilience and, yes, baking skills of these youngsters. Hope for the future.
#JuniorBakeOff
#Channel4
#JuniorBakeOff
#Channel4
January 16, 2026 at 5:52 PM
I have to admire the confidence, good humour, resilience and, yes, baking skills of these youngsters. Hope for the future.
#JuniorBakeOff
#Channel4
#JuniorBakeOff
#Channel4
First snowdrops I’ve seen this year. Another lap around the Sun completed.
#LymePark
#NationalTrust
#Cheshire
#LymePark
#NationalTrust
#Cheshire
January 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
First snowdrops I’ve seen this year. Another lap around the Sun completed.
#LymePark
#NationalTrust
#Cheshire
#LymePark
#NationalTrust
#Cheshire
The bar for best history book read in 2026 has been set high. Very high. A fabulous telling of the rivalry and clashes that marked the lives of Richard II and Henry IV. Fascinating account of events previously only familiar to me via Shakespeare. Read and relish.
#BookSky
#HistorySky
#HelenCastor
#BookSky
#HistorySky
#HelenCastor
January 11, 2026 at 8:42 PM
The bar for best history book read in 2026 has been set high. Very high. A fabulous telling of the rivalry and clashes that marked the lives of Richard II and Henry IV. Fascinating account of events previously only familiar to me via Shakespeare. Read and relish.
#BookSky
#HistorySky
#HelenCastor
#BookSky
#HistorySky
#HelenCastor
January 11, 2026 at 8:24 AM
I will not be responsible for my language or actions if I meet one more person for whom there is nothing more important than discovering the identity of the ‘Secret Traitor.’
Get a grip.
Get a life.
Get a grip.
Get a life.
January 4, 2026 at 5:27 PM
I will not be responsible for my language or actions if I meet one more person for whom there is nothing more important than discovering the identity of the ‘Secret Traitor.’
Get a grip.
Get a life.
Get a grip.
Get a life.
January 1, 2026 at 9:02 AM
A fascinating book, one that will stay with me. Not just the history of a person or a particular place at a particular time; but an exploration of what we can and can not know about the past. And of the qualities needed for survival and achievement. Hugely recommended.
#LeaYpi
#Indignity
#BookSky
#LeaYpi
#Indignity
#BookSky
December 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A fascinating book, one that will stay with me. Not just the history of a person or a particular place at a particular time; but an exploration of what we can and can not know about the past. And of the qualities needed for survival and achievement. Hugely recommended.
#LeaYpi
#Indignity
#BookSky
#LeaYpi
#Indignity
#BookSky
December 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Now is the time. 🇪🇺
December 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Now is the time. 🇪🇺
Reposted by Neill Roberts
The death of Philip Larkin 40 years ago today devastated his friends, colleagues and loved ones. The Philip Larkin Society, founded ten years later, continues to provide a forum for the discussion and celebration of his work and has members from all around the world.
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The death of Philip Larkin 40 years ago today devastated his friends, colleagues and loved ones. The Philip Larkin Society, founded ten years later, continues to provide a forum for the discussion and celebration of his work and has members from all around the world.
93, 332 at time of signing. One last shove needed.
November 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
93, 332 at time of signing. One last shove needed.
There’s more to British history than the bloody Tudors!
The seventeenth century is where the REALLY big stuff happens.
This is a terrific series. Give it a listen.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...
The seventeenth century is where the REALLY big stuff happens.
This is a terrific series. Give it a listen.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...
Uprising: The Civil Wars
History Podcast · Weekly series · On 30 January 1649, King Charles I was led on to a freshly
erected scaffold outside Whitehall’s Banqueting House in London. Thousands of spectators watched in shock a...
podcasts.apple.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
There’s more to British history than the bloody Tudors!
The seventeenth century is where the REALLY big stuff happens.
This is a terrific series. Give it a listen.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...
The seventeenth century is where the REALLY big stuff happens.
This is a terrific series. Give it a listen.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...
If I ever have the misfortune to meet Nigel Farage, I have some ready-prepared banter to share with him.
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
If I ever have the misfortune to meet Nigel Farage, I have some ready-prepared banter to share with him.
I guess that’s why they call it the Reflecting Lake.
Gonna make a nightmare jigsaw.
#Lyme
#NationalTrust
#Cheshire
#photography
Gonna make a nightmare jigsaw.
#Lyme
#NationalTrust
#Cheshire
#photography
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I guess that’s why they call it the Reflecting Lake.
Gonna make a nightmare jigsaw.
#Lyme
#NationalTrust
#Cheshire
#photography
Gonna make a nightmare jigsaw.
#Lyme
#NationalTrust
#Cheshire
#photography
I don’t know what’s in this week’s Budget. And I know that I don’t know. And I wish that all the other people who don’t know would admit they don’t know.
Time for a lie-down.
#UKPolitics
#Budget
Time for a lie-down.
#UKPolitics
#Budget
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I don’t know what’s in this week’s Budget. And I know that I don’t know. And I wish that all the other people who don’t know would admit they don’t know.
Time for a lie-down.
#UKPolitics
#Budget
Time for a lie-down.
#UKPolitics
#Budget
Reposted by Neill Roberts
NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵
Never mind Proust and his madeleine: I just opened a tin of Dubbin. The years just rolled away.
November 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Never mind Proust and his madeleine: I just opened a tin of Dubbin. The years just rolled away.
So … Natasha is married to Amber’s dad …
#TheArchers
#TheArchers
November 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
So … Natasha is married to Amber’s dad …
#TheArchers
#TheArchers
November 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Dear Donald
I think you’ve got enough to worry about. So do one.
Yours
The BBC
I think you’ve got enough to worry about. So do one.
Yours
The BBC
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Dear Donald
I think you’ve got enough to worry about. So do one.
Yours
The BBC
I think you’ve got enough to worry about. So do one.
Yours
The BBC
For what it’s worth …
We have very high expectations of the BBC, one such being that they will tell the truth.
We have very low expectations of Donald Trump, one such being that he will lie.
The BBC occasionally disappoints our expectations. Donald Trump never does.
#BBC
We have very high expectations of the BBC, one such being that they will tell the truth.
We have very low expectations of Donald Trump, one such being that he will lie.
The BBC occasionally disappoints our expectations. Donald Trump never does.
#BBC
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
For what it’s worth …
We have very high expectations of the BBC, one such being that they will tell the truth.
We have very low expectations of Donald Trump, one such being that he will lie.
The BBC occasionally disappoints our expectations. Donald Trump never does.
#BBC
We have very high expectations of the BBC, one such being that they will tell the truth.
We have very low expectations of Donald Trump, one such being that he will lie.
The BBC occasionally disappoints our expectations. Donald Trump never does.
#BBC
Two musical offerings.
A clavichord once played by Mozart; and a piano owned by Beethoven and subsequently Liszt.
Both in the wonderful National Museum in Budapest.
#Beethoven
#Liszt
#MusicSky
#ClassicalSky
A clavichord once played by Mozart; and a piano owned by Beethoven and subsequently Liszt.
Both in the wonderful National Museum in Budapest.
#Beethoven
#Liszt
#MusicSky
#ClassicalSky
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Two musical offerings.
A clavichord once played by Mozart; and a piano owned by Beethoven and subsequently Liszt.
Both in the wonderful National Museum in Budapest.
#Beethoven
#Liszt
#MusicSky
#ClassicalSky
A clavichord once played by Mozart; and a piano owned by Beethoven and subsequently Liszt.
Both in the wonderful National Museum in Budapest.
#Beethoven
#Liszt
#MusicSky
#ClassicalSky
Now, more than ever.
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Now, more than ever.
If you can, get vaccinated! I can’t understand why so many of my over-65 cohort haven’t done so yet. Come on guys - get those sleeves rolled up.
Definitely worth paying for a flu jab this year, about £15 at pharmacies!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
If you can, get vaccinated! I can’t understand why so many of my over-65 cohort haven’t done so yet. Come on guys - get those sleeves rolled up.