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Bethan Angharad
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This is a daring clerical appointment I didn’t see coming.
Screen shot of Pokémon Go list of nearby power spots. Each spot shows a picture of the Pokémon at that spot alongside the name of the site of the spot. The bottom listing shows a Wailmer alongside the site listing “Bishop of Stepney”.
October 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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On Saturday I passed through Stocksfield station with my father (Fath) & learned about the station’s place in our family history. At about the age of 11 Fath & his best friend were caught stealing grain from a local farm. They’d been selling it to allotment holders as pigeon feed.
Train platform in the early morning sunlight. The name of the station written on a sign on the platform is Stocksfield.
October 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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On a train journey & just finished children of Earth & Sky by the wonderful Guy Gavriel Kay. Lined up next, Manifesto on Never Giving Up by Bernadine Evaristo.
Book cover . Top left hand corner shows a stylised picture of a quarter sun symbol. The title, Children of Earth and Sky is written in archaic black font on a parchment-coloured background. The author’s name, Guy Gavriel Kay, is written at the bottom in gold block capitals Book cover. Framed in yellow, inside which there is a frame of dirty lilac, inside which there is a frame of orange, is a black & white photo of a young, black woman (head & shoulders only) looking slightly upwards to her right. The author’s name, Bernadine Evaristo, is written in black text at the top. The title,, Manifesto On Never Giving Up, is written in white towards the bottom of the page, partially across the bottom of the photo. The Penguin logo is at the bottom.
October 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Please what now?
Electronic information board on train station platform. Message reads “Information system rebuilding. Please bear”
October 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Morning. Currently reading Children of Earth & Sky by Guy Gabriel Kay, one of my favourite authors.
Cover of book. A quarter sun visible in top left hand corner. “Children of Earth and Sky” written in archaic text. Author’s name, Guy Gabriel Kay printed in block capitals at the bottom.
October 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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He is an evil little man.
A Lego mini-figure in a dark suit with brown hair receding at the temples and a repellant smirk of a smile. In fact, it looks remarkably like Robert Jenrick.
October 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Seven swans a-practicing for Christmas.
October 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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J. Lant - Walker Jubilee Leek Campion 1971. My grandad was famous for his leeks.
Pewter tankard engraved with “J.Lant - Walker Jubilee Leek Champion 1971”
October 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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“The crackle of worn leather with tobacco” - imagine spending £220 to smell like someone’s grandad.
Partial picture of a magazine page with a bottle of fragrance. The blurb next to it reads “FOR A FIRST DATE - A big component of attraction is the way someone smells. Explore fragrances that are rich, unique - and memorable. This evokes the crackle of worn leather with tobacco and salted amber. BYREDO Rodeo Eau de Parfum, £220, exclusive to Selfridges”.
September 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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The beans from my last runner bean pod. Who wouldn’t exchange their cow for these?
Dark purple beans with pink sides spotted with more dark purple.
September 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Facebook post from a page called “Which? Gardening”. Title of post is “Who’s eaten my plums?”. The poster states that something has mysteriously eaten her plums and asks “any idea who’s the culprit”? Reply underneath reads “William Carlos Williams”.
September 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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It’s a hard life. Perkin recovers from a night on the tiles.
September 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Tomorrow is the 35th anniversary of the death of Stephen Hammond, 32, David Richardson, 19, & his brother Paul Richardson, 17, who died trying to clear a blockage in a sewer under Watney market. They had not been given any safety equipment or training. Their employer was fined just £50k.
Plaque reads “This clock tower was erected in memory of: Stephen Hammond David Richardson Paul Richardson Who were overcome by fumes while working in this building 22nd September 1990”.
September 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Nice finishers t-shirt this year. #GreatNorthRun2025
Sky blue t-shirt. At the centre is a white word cloud bi-sected by a dark blue line representing the river. 2025 is in red text just below the river in the word cloud. Close up of the word cloud showing phrases such as “local hero”, “we run for those we love”, “South Shields”, etc.
September 8, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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A very sedate 2hrs 40mins. Knackered, windswept, done. #GreatNorthRun2025
September 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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My mother reckons Kate Middleton’s new hairstyle is like mine. I should be flattered but I wish she’d stop copying me and get her own look.
Kate Middleton smiling at the camera with tidy, just below shoulder length hair with honey coloured highlights. Me, a middle-aged woman with glasses and long, frizzy, straw-coloured hair glaring at the camera.
September 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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I got a whole handful of blueberries from mine this year.
August 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Wishing you all a very merry Bartlemas. May you never be flayed alive.
August 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Three weeks in & she’s still a bit nervous but has progressed a lot.
August 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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As part of my solemn religious observances I am eating a scone with jam & clotted cream to mark the feast day of Octavia Hill.
Me, a middle-aged woman in a flowery dress & glasses, staring sternly at a plate containing a scone topped with & clotted cream.
August 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Just started In Ascension by Martin MacInnes.
Book cover. Shows a picture of blue water which darkens to dark blue-black as it goes down with spots of light looking like stars and planets. At the top of the water the head and shoulders of a person are visible. In the white sky above the water the title, “In Ascension” is written in black letters. At the bottom of the cover in white letters is the name of the author, Martin MacInnes.
July 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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I suspect that I like the flowers on my beans more than I will like the beans.
July 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Chair of Poplar & Limehouse Constituency Labour Party decides Labour aren’t right wing enough & leaves to join the Conservatives.
Screenshot of an X post by Simon Clarke reads “Big stuff. Founder of Labour YIMBY - Chris Worrall crossed the aisle. Chris is one of the most knowledgable, passionate housing activists I know. He gets it: business as a force for good; the power of free markets; controlled migration… Welcome to the Conservative family.” Visible at the bottom of the shot is the top of an X post by Chris Worrall which reads, “Build Baby Build @consyimby”
July 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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My first blueberry harvest.
July 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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My son’s first protest sign is very…niche.
A home made protest sign is propped against an untidy closet. The sign is painted with three horizontal stripes, red, purple and blue. Written across the red and the blue stripes are the words “Remaster Bloodborne”. The second word is written in white gothic script.
July 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM