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Bonjour mes amis de Bluesky. It's octidi 28 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV. Isn't that grand? Have a cup of tea to celebrate. We don't mess around when it comes to tea in this house.

The irony that I'm making a coffee right now isn't lost on me, but anyway, today we celebrate tea.
A photo from the kitchen table of Pom showing three boxes of Clipper Tea. Top left, a red box of 80 bags of Organic English Breakfast. Top right, a grey blue box of 80 bags of Organic Earl Grey. These two are sat on a black and orange box of 440 bags of Classic Everyday Tea. All sport the Clipper Tea logo of a white teapot with a couple of leaves in the spout. There's a bird and a butterfly on the box of English Breakfast as well. We do not do half measures for tea round here.
November 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Afternoon folks. Here we are on septidi 27 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV. I suppose my choice of celebration today comes from my natural predisposition to paperwork and my actual job as a civil servant. Everyone likes a clipboard though, don't they? Everyone has one, right?
A photo of a black and rather battered clipboard. Not just any old clipboard, it's your pal Pom's very own clipboard. It's propped up on a wooden crate and sat on a blue cloth decorated with drawings of gadgets like headphones and game controls.
November 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Ey up me ducks. We find ourselves on sextidi 26 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV. Let's celebrate another facet of modern life. This one may be a bit divisive, especially if you're heading there today. Nevertheless, where would we be without IKEA?
A photo of the entrance to a branch of the home furnishings superstore IKEA. Yellow IKEA on a blue wall, reflecting its Swedish origin. People are heading in, giving you a scale of how big the place is.
November 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Good morning to you my fine friends on quintidi 25 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV. Today we're celebrating paint tubes. Tubes of paint let artists get out of their studios & that completely changed their view of the world. Without paint in tubes, no modern art, and no modern world.
A photo of three tubes of paint on a white surface with some of their content squeezed out. The paint is light blue, dark green and dark orange. The paint has a thick and smooth consistency, which is emphasised by a caption telling us that.
November 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Would you believe it? Today is quartidi 24 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV. Let's celebrate a relative that would have been unknown in Europe at the time of the Revolution. Round of applause for the people of the forests, the orangutans.
A photo of an adult orangutan, all ginger hair and long limbs hanging on between a tree and a creeper in a forest. I think it's a male, big face disc. He has an expression of mild surprise.
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Hello there Blueskyers. What a delightful day it is on tridi 23 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV. Yesterday we celebrated hoodies, and today you can put your hoodie in your backpack and head off out into the world. Not encouraging wearing of backpacks to gigs though. We're not emo kids.
A photo of a blue backpack on a white background. Brown, possibly leather base and handle at the top. It's a simple backpack, one big section, a smaller one and then a little pocket with a reflective strip and the manufacturer's label.
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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How are things with you all on duodi 22 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV? Today we're going to celebrate that most versatile item of clothing, the hoodie. It'll keep you warm, it'll keep you dry(ish), it can roll up as a passable pillow or stand in as an emergency towel. Magic.
A photo of a white hooded top or hoodie on a wooden floor. It has a circular design on the chest stating YOUR LOGO HERE.
November 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Aloha comrades. A warm welcome to primidi 21 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV. What time is it? It's time to celebrate the wristwatch.
A photo of your pal Pom's wrist and wristwatch not ten minutes ago. It's a gold coloured Lorus analogue job, used to be my dad's. Sadly, it doesn't show the date by the French Republican Calendar.
November 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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A cheery wave to you all on primidi 20 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV. As you help yourself to a splash of milk or milk alternative for your morning cereal, give the fridge a little pat, as today we're celebrating the fridge.
A photo of a big, silver coloured fridge on a plain white background. There's something of the Monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey about it. When I went looking for pictures of fridges to illustrate today's celebration, they were all hulking great things, not the discreet little under the kitchen counter cupboards I remember.
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Now then. How are we all on nonidi 19 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV? Fancy a spot of gardening, but it's a bit chilly? A good reason to celebrate the greenhouse.
A photo of a domestic greenhouse in the corner of a garden. Lawn in front of it, sat on pale paving slabs, wooden fence behind it. Plants in pots in and around it. Your typical garden scene.
November 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Yo ho. It's octidi 18 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV. It feels like a fine day to celebrate the crane. I'm thinking about the type used in building, not the bird. They may crop up later in the year. I'm not telling.
A photo of two tower cranes. They're red, standing against a sky that's a mixture of heavy clouds and clear blue. They are behind a metal fence and there are lots of crane parts around them. I think this might be the Wollfkran crane hire site just outside Sheffield. Photo credit to the most excellent Geograph.org site.
November 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Would you believe it? Septidi 17 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV. Today, let's celebrate one of the great innovations in public wellbeing, the swimming baths.
A photo of an indoor swimming pool. It's Victoria Baths in Manchester. Yellow stone walls, ornate Victorian decoration, a pale blue pool and a darker blue sky visible through the skylight, supported by a lattice of green beams.
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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A very warm welcome to sextidi 16 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV. For today's modern version of the French Republican Calendar, I've chosen to celebrate the postcard. Slightly archaic now, but I think they're great and deserve reviving. Send somebody a postcard today.
A photo of a wall of postcards. Quite a random selection, including a fluffy cat in a Santa suit, some grumpy kangaroos and an old school film camera. Plus the usual beaches, maps and landscapes. Postcards are cool.
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Joy to the world on quintidi 15 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV. Let's celebrate screws. They're literally holding everything together.
A photo of a pile of screws. Some silver coloured, some brass coloured. Some flat headed, some cross headed. Small but important.
November 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Time to rise & shine comrades. It's quartidi 14 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV. Let's hear it for dolphins. I've never seen one in the wild, so I guess I should do something about that.
A handy map of where cetaceans have been spotted off the coast of the United Kingdom. We are celebrating just dolphins today, but whales and porpoises will have their day too.
November 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Ola, mes amigx. Do you feel fit and well on tridi 13 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV? If you feel like going on a nice walk to blow away the cobwebs, then you should celebrate your walking boots.
A photo of someone's lower legs and feet. They're wearing khaki trousers a pair of stout looking brown walking boots. They're standing on a patch of gravel with some greenery behind them. There's also a row of four single walking boots. Perhaps the person is going to try them on for the best fit.
November 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Top of the morning everyone. It's duodi 12 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV. Today is the kind of day where we should celebrate knowing where our towels are.
A photo of two piles of clean towels. Dark and colourful on the left, paler on the right.
November 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Shiver me timbers on primidi 11 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV. Speaking of shivering, let's celebrate how we avoid that by giving a cheer for central heating.
A diagram illustrating how modern central heating works in a house. Water tanks at the top feeding immersion heater and boiler and pipes to the radiators. Cosy.
November 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Would you believe it? We've reached décadi 10 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV. Today in my side quest to have the importance of ducks properly recognised, we're going to celebrate the teal.
A photo of a male Eurasian Teal duck gliding serenely across a pond. He has a chestnut head with a wide green stripe around the eye, a white stripe along a grey body and a yellow patch under the tail. The smallest and most secretive of European ducks, apparently.
October 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Rise and shine one and all on nonidi 9 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV. Today we'll celebrate Sheffield's most famous product. No, not Pulp, stainless steel.
A close up photo of a table knife sat on a beige cloth. It declares itself STAINLESS STEEL SHEFFIELD ENGLAND.
October 30, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Good morning friends, neighbours and anyone else who's turned up. It's octidi 8 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV. Today, at the suggestion of @ohmartinc.bsky.social we're going to celebrate the bicycle. Feel free to make your own requests. I don't promise to pay any notice 🙂
A photograph of a bicycle in someone's hallway, presumably @OhMartinC's since he kindly donated the photo. The bike appears to be a Bianchi. Looks like a racer, but I know precious little about cycles.
October 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Irresponsibly posting my location on social media
A photo of your pal Pomfob grinning like an idiot and squatting against a wall next to a sign telling you the name of the street. Unusually, the sign has an arrow pointing to the street, which Pom has positioned himself so it's pointing at him. The name of the street? Bell End. Takes one to know one.
October 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Hmmm, not sure what happened there. I posted today's French Republican Calendar earlier but it's not showing up. Here we go again then. It's septidi 7 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV. Today we celebrate street lights. You'd be lost without them. Especially at night.
A photo of two double headed street lights, just coming on at twilight.
October 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Come on then comrades, let's get into 'em. It's sextidi 6 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV. Today we're going to celebrate the technological marvels that are satellites. Wouldn't be able to do this nonsense without them.
An illustration of the European Space Agency's Artemis satellite. Two long solar panel wings, a couple of dishes, presumably to send and receive information, and the actual satellite in the middle looking a bit like a refrigerator. It's hanging in between the blackness of space and the blue~white of Earth's atmosphere.
October 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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How's things for you all on quintidi 5 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV? Good I hope. You know what you need? A nice bowl of quinoa, that's what.
Yes, I know quinoa has been around a lot longer than the Republic, but it's not on the original list of celebrations, so it's in mine.
A photo of a bowl of quinoa. The bowl is white, the table it's on is white, the quinoa grains are a creamy colour.
October 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM