Helen Bradford-Swire
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Helen Bradford-Swire
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Financial/legal journo & news editor. Writing a book. Mental health, running, Bond, LOTR, Twin Peaks, Partridge. French & Russian graduate. Views my own.
In my happiest of happy places.
June 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Two years. He makes me smile every day: even when things are challenging, together we make them manageable.
May 20, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Husband got home from work just in time for the new Pope's inaugural speech, so I made him an appropriate cup of tea. #NewPope #PopeLeoXIV #Conclave
May 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Today is a writing in the garden day, and that is...simply delightful.
May 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Things I do when the IVF is crippling me, cross-stitch edition. #IVF #fertility
April 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
If there's a better day in the Church calendar I don't know what it is. @rochestercathedral.bsky.social #PalmSunday
April 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Nobody:

Henry VIII:
March 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Having prioritised finishing the #JamesBond books at the start of the year, I'm now turning my attention to my husband's incredible Christmas present. As Jack Karlson himself would say, "Gooood one." #DemocracyManifest #SucculentChineseMeal #ISeeYouKnowYourJudoWell
March 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
And so once again the time rolls round in the Church calendar when we wait to see if Flatley shows up. He never does.
March 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
In bed early early with an undefined lurgy, so cracking on with my penultimate Fleming. #TMWTGG #JamesBond
March 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Just sent this image of one of Gordon Ramsay's classic disguises to a pal, who responded "This has the look of an ill Daniel Craig to me" and I am howling.
March 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
#NowWatching Conclave (2024). Seems timely after we just visited the Vatican.
March 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM