Mick Spicer
@middelweald.bsky.social
Writer, occasionally arty, usually farty, luv nature and live in the Forest of Arden with my wife and our dog 🐕
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Christmas is reaching a fever pitch out in the countryside! With nothing to indicate the occasion whatsoever, we've had a Christmas card from our postman, Steve, PLUS International flavourings through our letterbox this morning! The interest of my inner philatelist delightedly piqued🎄🇺🇲🇦🇺
December 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Christmas is reaching a fever pitch out in the countryside! With nothing to indicate the occasion whatsoever, we've had a Christmas card from our postman, Steve, PLUS International flavourings through our letterbox this morning! The interest of my inner philatelist delightedly piqued🎄🇺🇲🇦🇺
@wessexlady.bsky.social we gotta go
The opening date has been revealed for the first Wendy's restaurant in Scotland
Wendy's is set to open its first Scottish site – but not in a major city
www.thenational.scot
December 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
@wessexlady.bsky.social we gotta go
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Philip Hoare & Olivia Laing: William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...
Philip Hoare & Olivia Laing: William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love | London Review Bookshop
In William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love – ‘an impassioned magnum opus celebrating Blake’s star-shaken genius by discovering his lineage everywhere in…
www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Philip Hoare & Olivia Laing: William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...
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I didn't bring my amp
Philip Hoare & Olivia Laing: William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...
Philip Hoare & Olivia Laing: William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love | London Review Bookshop
In William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love – ‘an impassioned magnum opus celebrating Blake’s star-shaken genius by discovering his lineage everywhere in…
www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I didn't bring my amp
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Damn it
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Gil Gerard Dies: Star Of ‘Buck Rogers In The 25th Century’ Was 82
Gil Gerard, the handsome hero of early-Eighties TV hit Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, died early this morning after a battle with cancer.
deadline.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Damn it
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deadline.com/2025/12/gil-...
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#DoctorWho: The Tenth Planet by Gerry Davis.
Chapter 9: C-Bomb Alert!
William Hartnell is taken off the air for a week after a foul-mouthed tirade that's enough to melt a Cyberman's chest unit.
Chapter 9: C-Bomb Alert!
William Hartnell is taken off the air for a week after a foul-mouthed tirade that's enough to melt a Cyberman's chest unit.
December 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
#DoctorWho: The Tenth Planet by Gerry Davis.
Chapter 9: C-Bomb Alert!
William Hartnell is taken off the air for a week after a foul-mouthed tirade that's enough to melt a Cyberman's chest unit.
Chapter 9: C-Bomb Alert!
William Hartnell is taken off the air for a week after a foul-mouthed tirade that's enough to melt a Cyberman's chest unit.
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It's beginning to look a lot like #HillfortsWednesday 🥳
Here's a glorious aerial photo of the spectacular unfinished 3.5ha Iron Age hillfort of Ladle Hill in #Hampshire 😍
✈️ 📷 © Ginny Pringle for the Hampshire Cultural Trust
For more see:
hampshirearchaeology.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/b...
Here's a glorious aerial photo of the spectacular unfinished 3.5ha Iron Age hillfort of Ladle Hill in #Hampshire 😍
✈️ 📷 © Ginny Pringle for the Hampshire Cultural Trust
For more see:
hampshirearchaeology.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/b...
December 17, 2025 at 7:31 AM
It's beginning to look a lot like #HillfortsWednesday 🥳
Here's a glorious aerial photo of the spectacular unfinished 3.5ha Iron Age hillfort of Ladle Hill in #Hampshire 😍
✈️ 📷 © Ginny Pringle for the Hampshire Cultural Trust
For more see:
hampshirearchaeology.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/b...
Here's a glorious aerial photo of the spectacular unfinished 3.5ha Iron Age hillfort of Ladle Hill in #Hampshire 😍
✈️ 📷 © Ginny Pringle for the Hampshire Cultural Trust
For more see:
hampshirearchaeology.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/b...
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December 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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🎉 Absolutely delighted to welcome Jamie Driscoll to the Green Party.
👏🏼 He has a track record of demonstrating his commitment towards our communities alongside empowering them.
💚 Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
👏🏼 He has a track record of demonstrating his commitment towards our communities alongside empowering them.
💚 Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
British politics is a mess. Food, energy, housing are all too expensive. Major parties are all flogging the dead horse of trickle down. So I’m joining the Green Party. Britain needs an economy that works for workers, for small businesses, and future generations. @greenparty.org.uk
December 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
🎉 Absolutely delighted to welcome Jamie Driscoll to the Green Party.
👏🏼 He has a track record of demonstrating his commitment towards our communities alongside empowering them.
💚 Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
👏🏼 He has a track record of demonstrating his commitment towards our communities alongside empowering them.
💚 Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
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On the Australia Day weekend (24-26 Jan) we'll be back in the 🇦🇺 national capital once again for Can Con, a long-standing event in the Australian convention schedule. We're running Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, Pendragon, Rivers of London, & Age of Vikings! Prebook your #TTRPG sessions now!
Chaosium will be at Can Con in January 2026, prebook your gaming sessions now!
On the Australia Day weekend (24-26 Jan 2026) Chaosium will be back in the national capital once again for Can Con, a long-standing event in the Australian convention schedule. As part of the Tableto...
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December 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
On the Australia Day weekend (24-26 Jan) we'll be back in the 🇦🇺 national capital once again for Can Con, a long-standing event in the Australian convention schedule. We're running Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, Pendragon, Rivers of London, & Age of Vikings! Prebook your #TTRPG sessions now!
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A 66-year-old, well known in Edinburgh for his community work, will appear at the High Court this week accused of terrorism. Even if this is lawful, it's a mistake, Tommy Sheppard writes ✍️
www.thenational.scot/politi...
www.thenational.scot/politi...
December 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A 66-year-old, well known in Edinburgh for his community work, will appear at the High Court this week accused of terrorism. Even if this is lawful, it's a mistake, Tommy Sheppard writes ✍️
www.thenational.scot/politi...
www.thenational.scot/politi...
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Annie Rie, contemporary stained glass artist inspired by the UK countryside #WomensArt
December 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Annie Rie, contemporary stained glass artist inspired by the UK countryside #WomensArt
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Also got back into reading comics recently. Checked out the new Marvel Zombies series and enjoying it so far!
December 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Also got back into reading comics recently. Checked out the new Marvel Zombies series and enjoying it so far!
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Nice surprise (part one ..)
Paintings featured in a great article by @markeltro.bsky.social in the @staffssignal.bsky.social ..
Thank you for a reference too!
Paintings featured in a great article by @markeltro.bsky.social in the @staffssignal.bsky.social ..
Thank you for a reference too!
December 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Nice surprise (part one ..)
Paintings featured in a great article by @markeltro.bsky.social in the @staffssignal.bsky.social ..
Thank you for a reference too!
Paintings featured in a great article by @markeltro.bsky.social in the @staffssignal.bsky.social ..
Thank you for a reference too!
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45 years ago today.
a man in a white suit is playing a white grand piano
ALT: a man in a white suit is playing a white grand piano
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December 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
45 years ago today.
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Gallivanting hither and thither through the Six Towns of Stoke-On-Trent as I have been doing, I chanced across a copy of the new Staffordshire Signal in a cafe (and another in a gallery)... and a thing of quality and style it is too! The only way is up in a city of stories ..
Find one soon I'd say!
Find one soon I'd say!
December 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Gallivanting hither and thither through the Six Towns of Stoke-On-Trent as I have been doing, I chanced across a copy of the new Staffordshire Signal in a cafe (and another in a gallery)... and a thing of quality and style it is too! The only way is up in a city of stories ..
Find one soon I'd say!
Find one soon I'd say!
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"We need to listen to conversations about privilege and power bearing more weight than people." (2017)
sojo.net/articles/opi...
sojo.net/articles/opi...
This Advent, Listen to Those Who Feel Unwelcome in the Church
People of color are forced out to the caves, to the hidden places, just like the cave Jesus was born in.
sojo.net
December 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"We need to listen to conversations about privilege and power bearing more weight than people." (2017)
sojo.net/articles/opi...
sojo.net/articles/opi...
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The fixture details for all three of Scotland's World Cup group stage matches have been confirmed 🚨
Scotland learn date, time & venue of World Cup group stage matches
www.thenational.scot
December 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The fixture details for all three of Scotland's World Cup group stage matches have been confirmed 🚨
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American hurdler & sprinter Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone named Women’s World Athlete of the Year for 2025--for the second time (first in 2022).
She holds the world record for the 400-meter hurdles & had an undefeated 2025 season. #athletics #champion
www.bet.com/article/9dfk...
She holds the world record for the 400-meter hurdles & had an undefeated 2025 season. #athletics #champion
www.bet.com/article/9dfk...
December 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
American hurdler & sprinter Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone named Women’s World Athlete of the Year for 2025--for the second time (first in 2022).
She holds the world record for the 400-meter hurdles & had an undefeated 2025 season. #athletics #champion
www.bet.com/article/9dfk...
She holds the world record for the 400-meter hurdles & had an undefeated 2025 season. #athletics #champion
www.bet.com/article/9dfk...
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Where my love is going There will I go. Where his boat is rowing I will row. We will laugh together, Together we will cry. If he lives I will live, If he dies I die. Where my love is going There will I go. Where his boat is rowing I will row.
December 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Where my love is going There will I go. Where his boat is rowing I will row. We will laugh together, Together we will cry. If he lives I will live, If he dies I die. Where my love is going There will I go. Where his boat is rowing I will row.
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Content Warning (CW): Offensive language
Richard Pryor seen here with Gene Wilder, Patrick McGoohan and Jill Clayburgh in the 🇺🇸American comedy action thriller "SILVER STREAK" (1976) dir. Arthur Hiller
🎬 20th Century-Fox 🚅
Richard Pryor seen here with Gene Wilder, Patrick McGoohan and Jill Clayburgh in the 🇺🇸American comedy action thriller "SILVER STREAK" (1976) dir. Arthur Hiller
🎬 20th Century-Fox 🚅
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Content Warning (CW): Offensive language
Richard Pryor seen here with Gene Wilder, Patrick McGoohan and Jill Clayburgh in the 🇺🇸American comedy action thriller "SILVER STREAK" (1976) dir. Arthur Hiller
🎬 20th Century-Fox 🚅
Richard Pryor seen here with Gene Wilder, Patrick McGoohan and Jill Clayburgh in the 🇺🇸American comedy action thriller "SILVER STREAK" (1976) dir. Arthur Hiller
🎬 20th Century-Fox 🚅
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Never forget: Art matters.
‘Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia’
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Never forget: Art matters.