Ann Pooley
@iamzoombini.bsky.social
Art, Photography, Film, TV, Geology, Palaeontology, Archaeology, History, Architecture, Dogs, Cats, Cakes… in no particular order.
Quality Street tin refilled for Christmas 2025.
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Quality Street tin refilled for Christmas 2025.
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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France hosted a large musical flash mob featuring 100 musicians who came together to perform a new orchestral version of Carol of the Bells to mark the ceremonial switching-on of the Christmas lights in the streets of Paris.
November 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
France hosted a large musical flash mob featuring 100 musicians who came together to perform a new orchestral version of Carol of the Bells to mark the ceremonial switching-on of the Christmas lights in the streets of Paris.
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This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.
Pluribus. Holy shit, that was some good telly.
November 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Pluribus. Holy shit, that was some good telly.
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What an absolute hero Samir Zitouni is - doubtless he saved lives that day
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Train hero who saved passengers during attack named
The rail worker credited with saving multiple lives is named as Samir Zitouni.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
What an absolute hero Samir Zitouni is - doubtless he saved lives that day
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
2
[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
3
NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
4
MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
5
NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
6
NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
7
NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
8
KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
9
[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
10
MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
Oh my goodness. Film Club on BBC. So much deeper and sadder than I was expecting. Bloody love it though.
October 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Oh my goodness. Film Club on BBC. So much deeper and sadder than I was expecting. Bloody love it though.
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Oh Yea.. Just a Reminder...👍
October 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Oh Yea.. Just a Reminder...👍
Well done to everyone taking part in No Kings events today.
October 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Well done to everyone taking part in No Kings events today.
Watching Leonard and Hungry Paul with a huge smile on my face.
October 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Watching Leonard and Hungry Paul with a huge smile on my face.
Looks like I blocked those gobshites already.👏👏👏👏👏
October 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Looks like I blocked those gobshites already.👏👏👏👏👏
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Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning actress known for a prolific career in uplifting comedies, has died at the age of 79. More:
www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Diane Keaton, 'Annie Hall' and 'The Godfather' Actress, Dead at 79
Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning actress known for a prolific career in uplifting comedies, has died at the age of 79.
www.rollingstone.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning actress known for a prolific career in uplifting comedies, has died at the age of 79. More:
www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
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Here's Patricia Routledge being given a Tony Award for Beat Actress In A Musical, which she won in a tie with Leslie Uggams, by Groucho Marx.
October 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Here's Patricia Routledge being given a Tony Award for Beat Actress In A Musical, which she won in a tie with Leslie Uggams, by Groucho Marx.
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RIP to Jane Goodall, who opened the world's eyes to our closest relatives. (Photo by NatGeo's Hugo Van Lawick)
October 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
RIP to Jane Goodall, who opened the world's eyes to our closest relatives. (Photo by NatGeo's Hugo Van Lawick)
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Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place"
"Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people"
-Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats
"Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people"
-Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats
September 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place"
"Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people"
-Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats
"Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people"
-Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats
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We need to be very clear about this.
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism: a threat to us all
Scenes on Saturday of Christian preachers denouncing ‘Secular Humanism’ from the main stage of Tommy Robinson’s radical right Unite the Kingdom rally in London may have been surprising to see on the s...
humanists.uk
September 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
We need to be very clear about this.
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
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Letter in The Observer today.
“I am a refugee. The UK made me a surgeon.”
“I am a refugee. The UK made me a surgeon.”
September 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Letter in The Observer today.
“I am a refugee. The UK made me a surgeon.”
“I am a refugee. The UK made me a surgeon.”
Perfectly good Spicy Prawn Laksa from M&S ruined by whoever decided that chopping up the water chestnuts was a good idea. Spent 5 minutes sieving out the offending lumps. Vile.
September 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Perfectly good Spicy Prawn Laksa from M&S ruined by whoever decided that chopping up the water chestnuts was a good idea. Spent 5 minutes sieving out the offending lumps. Vile.
What a babe. What a voice! CMAT at All Points East Festival. I’m knackered, but we had fun!
August 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
What a babe. What a voice! CMAT at All Points East Festival. I’m knackered, but we had fun!
Treated myself to all the third series of Fisk. Every episode a thing of beauty. It’s not often you love every character in a comedy. Joyous.
August 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Treated myself to all the third series of Fisk. Every episode a thing of beauty. It’s not often you love every character in a comedy. Joyous.
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Nirvana's Nevermind cover but the baby is Baby Sinclair from the 90s sitcom Dinosaurs
As requested by Morgan
As requested by Morgan
August 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Nirvana's Nevermind cover but the baby is Baby Sinclair from the 90s sitcom Dinosaurs
As requested by Morgan
As requested by Morgan
This world may be going to hell in a hand basket, but there is a small joy in knowing that the final season of Resident Alien is now on Sky.
August 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This world may be going to hell in a hand basket, but there is a small joy in knowing that the final season of Resident Alien is now on Sky.
Drinking Cretan wine at home in Whitley Bay, and it’s good.
August 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Drinking Cretan wine at home in Whitley Bay, and it’s good.