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Paddy Roberts
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It's time to abolish the House of Lords.
November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Reposted by Paddy Roberts
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24.11

A welcome return to some sunlight, it does make everything seem a bit better, doesn't it?

Christmas tree shadow,
A portent of the festive
Season approaching.

#17thOctober #haiku365
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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two men are standing next to each other and one of them is asking do you want woofers and tweeters ?
ALT: two men are standing next to each other and one of them is asking do you want woofers and tweeters ?
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November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Thank you, @jangoeswriting.bsky.social for this repost.
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Thanks for the repost, Luke @deluxday.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Short Wave:

The lodestone. It helps you find your way home, or, at least, keep hold of your bearing.

24/11

... comingthrough static ...
... wewel come lis ten ersfrom ...
... Lon don2LO ...

#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku

(There's a bit of an essay in the ALT)
Photo: Getty Images/Roger Wood I had an increasingly-battered hand-sized 'transistor' sw/lw/am/fm (vhf) radio from my pre-teens to middle-age, when it was finally superceded by mobile phone/Internet technology. A bit like Trigger's broom, it underwent enough changes - batteries; aerials - lengths of copper wire to fish for signal; quite possibly the actual radio itself - but in essence, that radio, a Roberts, of course, was the first thing I'd find before packing for a trip. I heard the Berlin Wall fall; some of the events of September 11, 2001; various Cup Finals; the Boxing Day Tsunami. My wife had a similar model. A friend had one fixed to his ear for a while trip around Uganda. Eventually, I gave it to my son as a plaything: I guess it's disappeared into the great Toy Box in the sky, now. It's a connection, albeit one-way, to the outside world which, although lacking the interaction of the Internet, creates a much closer network of people, a greater commonality: whether it was the BBC, Deutche Welle, the Voice of America, or simply the local radio station playing local tunes and chat in an incomprehensible (to me) language, you were a part of the audience, valued, engaged. I was once told by a Canadian, I think with a little bit of leg-pulling, that I had a voice for the BBC. But when one absorbs From Our Own Correspondent and similar, day after day in foreign lands, some of it gets into the DNA. I even got to make an audio postcard myself, once, and I like to think that I was able to pay off just a little bit of my massive radio-debt. https://farmradio.org/audio-postcard-gathering-stories-for-farm-radio-weekly/
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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... with Hilversum settings.
November 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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23.11

Turn the dial and search
the frequencies to find a
broadcast just for you.

#17thOctober #haiku365
One for you Mr Roberts, Len's vintage Roberts R606 radio..
November 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Beware Americans who offer to match you pint-for-pint...🍻
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Thank you Jan @jangoeswriting.bsky.social for reposting this
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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... and for the repost, @authorpjm.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Thank you, sir.
November 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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And, then another -
Day dawned to the East of me:
I offer this thought:

23/11

Flawed, human beings
Can yet become immortal,
Through their mortal deeds.

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A Dali sculpture, in a random gallery in Paris, found on a visit in April 2023.
November 23, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Thank you @markmorey5.bsky.social for this repost!
November 23, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Thank you for reposting this, @fizzytwizler.bsky.social Have a lovely day!
November 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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The universe is big,
and wide,
and has lots of room
for happy coincidence ...
November 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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That's beautiful.
November 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Almost - but without the distractions of uniform, iron discipline, and ricochets ... 🤣
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM