Bethan Hutton
@bethanh.bsky.social
I was @yabunonaka1 over there. Books, dogs, wildlife, Japan, ex-journo, still news addict. Bristol, often Wales and Norfolk, increasingly London.
Whiskers on (my nephew's) kitten. Is there a word for that? K(n)itten, maybe?
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Whiskers on (my nephew's) kitten. Is there a word for that? K(n)itten, maybe?
...but then, just now, as if they had read my mind and wanted to prove me wrong, Facebook showed me an ad for a UK-based supplier of discount natto, and I am wondering if they actually know me very well indeed.
August 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
...but then, just now, as if they had read my mind and wanted to prove me wrong, Facebook showed me an ad for a UK-based supplier of discount natto, and I am wondering if they actually know me very well indeed.
No subs on duty at the BBC website on Sundays?
July 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
No subs on duty at the BBC website on Sundays?
Belatedly watching this for the first time. Seems somehow relevant for our times.
July 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Belatedly watching this for the first time. Seems somehow relevant for our times.
Also an Avengers magazine. I may have to revive my ebay account.
June 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Also an Avengers magazine. I may have to revive my ebay account.
@blogmywiki.bsky.social I see your attic clearance and raise you parental house clearance plus my late husband's youth in boxes from my in-law's attic. Today's possible treasure: ZX Spectrum pamphlet apparently signed by the man himself
June 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
@blogmywiki.bsky.social I see your attic clearance and raise you parental house clearance plus my late husband's youth in boxes from my in-law's attic. Today's possible treasure: ZX Spectrum pamphlet apparently signed by the man himself
At Heathrow, five years ago today. Few people, even fewer planes landing, no health checks, just a banner advising people to self-isolate if they had symptoms. The opposite pole of abnormal circumstances from today's chaos at Heathrow.
March 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
At Heathrow, five years ago today. Few people, even fewer planes landing, no health checks, just a banner advising people to self-isolate if they had symptoms. The opposite pole of abnormal circumstances from today's chaos at Heathrow.
@blogmywiki.bsky.social Edited version
March 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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@blogmywiki.bsky.social Do you remember the brief craze for bookspine poetry?
March 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
@blogmywiki.bsky.social Do you remember the brief craze for bookspine poetry?
I didn't do many, but this is a bit of a classic: Heathrow arrivals on March 21st 2020. Collecting daughter from one of the last available flights out of Japan. No quarantine, no testing, not even any leaflets offering advice, just these posters and hardly any people.
March 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I didn't do many, but this is a bit of a classic: Heathrow arrivals on March 21st 2020. Collecting daughter from one of the last available flights out of Japan. No quarantine, no testing, not even any leaflets offering advice, just these posters and hardly any people.
I have picked this one
December 26, 2024 at 11:48 PM
I have picked this one
Classic country house bedside reading collection where I am staying
December 26, 2024 at 11:48 PM
Classic country house bedside reading collection where I am staying
Hmm. I might just re-think those plans for a nice hill walk in Wales this weekend.
December 5, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Hmm. I might just re-think those plans for a nice hill walk in Wales this weekend.
Found it! First edition, not surprisingly. I will add it to the TBR pile(s).
December 4, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Found it! First edition, not surprisingly. I will add it to the TBR pile(s).
I am #notamuseum but would like to preserve for posterity this very fine Cuban sow, who is threatened with redundancy in her long-time role as my profile pic on XTwitter.
November 27, 2024 at 12:17 PM
I am #notamuseum but would like to preserve for posterity this very fine Cuban sow, who is threatened with redundancy in her long-time role as my profile pic on XTwitter.
You can tell this site is taking off as the fake Martin Lewis accounts peddling crypto are here. Oh well, I suppose it was inevitable.
November 27, 2024 at 12:59 AM
You can tell this site is taking off as the fake Martin Lewis accounts peddling crypto are here. Oh well, I suppose it was inevitable.
Thanks for the reminder, New Scientist. It's not as if we don't have multiple other doomsday scenarios to worry about at the moment.
November 21, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Thanks for the reminder, New Scientist. It's not as if we don't have multiple other doomsday scenarios to worry about at the moment.
I'm in Manchester for the very first time, for this:
November 13, 2024 at 11:02 PM
I'm in Manchester for the very first time, for this:
It seems to be my BlueSkyVersary today, though I haven't been on here (or the other place) so much recently.
September 17, 2024 at 8:29 PM
It seems to be my BlueSkyVersary today, though I haven't been on here (or the other place) so much recently.
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
September 5, 2024 at 9:38 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
@yukokato1701.bsky.social I am at the RSC, and they gave the audience lanyards to wear. I should have brought my real one: spot the difference!
June 29, 2024 at 2:00 PM
@yukokato1701.bsky.social I am at the RSC, and they gave the audience lanyards to wear. I should have brought my real one: spot the difference!
Northern Lights are visible crazily far south in the UK at the moment, even from the middle of London (this is Brixton)
May 10, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Northern Lights are visible crazily far south in the UK at the moment, even from the middle of London (this is Brixton)
Different season down by the Wye yesterday.
April 27, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Different season down by the Wye yesterday.
Is it really nearly May? It doesn't look or feel like it up here. But at least the curlew seem to be back.
April 27, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Is it really nearly May? It doesn't look or feel like it up here. But at least the curlew seem to be back.