Richard
@rchdnv.bsky.social
Husband, father, brother, son, great uncle. Enthusiastic, compassionate, inquisitive.
Images mine, except where noted.
📍 Leicestershire UK
Images mine, except where noted.
📍 Leicestershire UK
The key question really is whose privacy is being invaded by Google scanning your Gmail inbox? Yours, or that of everyone who writes to you? Because if it's your inbox, it's what other people are writing that's being scanned, not what you're writing yourself.
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The key question really is whose privacy is being invaded by Google scanning your Gmail inbox? Yours, or that of everyone who writes to you? Because if it's your inbox, it's what other people are writing that's being scanned, not what you're writing yourself.
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Miscellaneous weather, Morecambe Bay, United Kingdom.
November 20, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Miscellaneous weather, Morecambe Bay, United Kingdom.
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved #history #photography #EastCoastKin
(detail in ALT)
It stood for a thousand years.
Unloved by Henry, it was destroyed.
Only stone remembers.
(detail in ALT)
It stood for a thousand years.
Unloved by Henry, it was destroyed.
Only stone remembers.
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved #history #photography #EastCoastKin
(detail in ALT)
It stood for a thousand years.
Unloved by Henry, it was destroyed.
Only stone remembers.
(detail in ALT)
It stood for a thousand years.
Unloved by Henry, it was destroyed.
Only stone remembers.
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Let’s commemorate transgender & non-binary people who became victims of transphobic violence in ‘25. They deserve safety, dignity & respect. Their right to exist is not up for debate.
#TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransLivesMatter #TransgenderGedenkdag #TransAwarenessWeek
bit.ly/49otPol
#TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransLivesMatter #TransgenderGedenkdag #TransAwarenessWeek
bit.ly/49otPol
November 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Let’s commemorate transgender & non-binary people who became victims of transphobic violence in ‘25. They deserve safety, dignity & respect. Their right to exist is not up for debate.
#TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransLivesMatter #TransgenderGedenkdag #TransAwarenessWeek
bit.ly/49otPol
#TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransLivesMatter #TransgenderGedenkdag #TransAwarenessWeek
bit.ly/49otPol
Seeing books and thinking about my Christmas List...
And then casting a glance at my TBR pile 😬 Actually, I've read all of last year's Christmas book list, bar one. That's good! Better than I thought! 👍
This one *can* go on the Christmas List!
And then casting a glance at my TBR pile 😬 Actually, I've read all of last year's Christmas book list, bar one. That's good! Better than I thought! 👍
This one *can* go on the Christmas List!
It's been so long since I've read a crime thriller that my investigative skills were getting rusty. This absolute gem—and The Secret Barrister's first novel, no less—is the perfect way to get my heart racing again... without, you know, being the one on trial.
@barristersecret.bsky.social
@barristersecret.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Seeing books and thinking about my Christmas List...
And then casting a glance at my TBR pile 😬 Actually, I've read all of last year's Christmas book list, bar one. That's good! Better than I thought! 👍
This one *can* go on the Christmas List!
And then casting a glance at my TBR pile 😬 Actually, I've read all of last year's Christmas book list, bar one. That's good! Better than I thought! 👍
This one *can* go on the Christmas List!
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One of the most precious things about Remembrance is that it sets no political tests.
It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.
It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.
That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵
It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.
It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.
That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵
November 10, 2024 at 6:10 PM
One of the most precious things about Remembrance is that it sets no political tests.
It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.
It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.
That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵
It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.
It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.
That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵
#BackToTheFuture was 40 years ago?! 🤯
November 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
#BackToTheFuture was 40 years ago?! 🤯
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
November 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Just been in an evening meeting with a couple of volunteers, one of whom was getting a bit jumpy as we hit the half hour.
"I've got a plane to catch. I need to leave in 5"
I encouraged them to just go and get their plane.
Lesson for the day: time and tide and aeroplane schedules wait for no man.
"I've got a plane to catch. I need to leave in 5"
I encouraged them to just go and get their plane.
Lesson for the day: time and tide and aeroplane schedules wait for no man.
November 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Just been in an evening meeting with a couple of volunteers, one of whom was getting a bit jumpy as we hit the half hour.
"I've got a plane to catch. I need to leave in 5"
I encouraged them to just go and get their plane.
Lesson for the day: time and tide and aeroplane schedules wait for no man.
"I've got a plane to catch. I need to leave in 5"
I encouraged them to just go and get their plane.
Lesson for the day: time and tide and aeroplane schedules wait for no man.
Interesting article by @emermoreau.bsky.social for BBC News.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
When teaching my son to drive, I felt a manual licence was important to gain so as to not limit himself to the way life is in the UK. What if he wanted to work in Africa or Asia or anywhere that has older cars?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
When teaching my son to drive, I felt a manual licence was important to gain so as to not limit himself to the way life is in the UK. What if he wanted to work in Africa or Asia or anywhere that has older cars?
What is driving the decision to learn in a manual or automatic car?
Learner drivers say a lack of automatic instructors and the higher cost of lessons pushes them to manual.
www.bbc.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Interesting article by @emermoreau.bsky.social for BBC News.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
When teaching my son to drive, I felt a manual licence was important to gain so as to not limit himself to the way life is in the UK. What if he wanted to work in Africa or Asia or anywhere that has older cars?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
When teaching my son to drive, I felt a manual licence was important to gain so as to not limit himself to the way life is in the UK. What if he wanted to work in Africa or Asia or anywhere that has older cars?
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My favorite sign of the day so far
October 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
My favorite sign of the day so far
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Must-read from Ed Luce.
on.ft.com/3L3gJCU
Must-read from Ed Luce.
on.ft.com/3L3gJCU
The Trump Supremacy
Opponents in disarray, allies in line, followers enthralled — the US president is already on his way to building a new world order
on.ft.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Must-read from Ed Luce.
on.ft.com/3L3gJCU
Must-read from Ed Luce.
on.ft.com/3L3gJCU
Make a movie food:
Children Of A Lesser Cod
Children Of A Lesser Cod
Make a movie food:
Quatermass and the Pitta
Quatermass and the Pitta
Make a movie food:
Starship Croutons
(Okay, that's me done)
Starship Croutons
(Okay, that's me done)
October 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Make a movie food:
Children Of A Lesser Cod
Children Of A Lesser Cod
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'Here Nelson Fell 21st October 1805', a floor plaque on the deck of HMS Victory, now permanently berthed at Portsmouth. In the words of the immortal Spike Milligan, 'I'm not surprised, I nearly tripped over it myself'.
#TrafalgarDay
#TrafalgarDay
October 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
'Here Nelson Fell 21st October 1805', a floor plaque on the deck of HMS Victory, now permanently berthed at Portsmouth. In the words of the immortal Spike Milligan, 'I'm not surprised, I nearly tripped over it myself'.
#TrafalgarDay
#TrafalgarDay
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Can we keep antibiotics working? Yes, but the world needs to follow the EU and the UK | Devi Sridhar
Can we keep antibiotics working? Yes, but the world needs to follow the EU and the UK | Devi Sridhar
Unless more countries drastically cut back on antibiotic use in food production, these vital drugs will lose their efficacy for humans, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Can we keep antibiotics working? Yes, but the world needs to follow the EU and the UK | Devi Sridhar
Tell me this doesn't sound like a Colin Dexter novel! There's a Lord Morse? And I thought Enigma was an unusual, made-up forename.
BBC News - Morse closes case on £9.6m House of Lords door
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Morse closes case on £9.6m House of Lords door
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Lord Morse closes case on £9.6m House of Lords door
The project to rebuild an entrance into Parliament ran over budget and over time by 100 weeks.
www.bbc.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Tell me this doesn't sound like a Colin Dexter novel! There's a Lord Morse? And I thought Enigma was an unusual, made-up forename.
BBC News - Morse closes case on £9.6m House of Lords door
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Morse closes case on £9.6m House of Lords door
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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When I become PM all railway stations will have to have a pub and everyone has to keep at least one (1) decent bitter and keep it *well*.
October 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
When I become PM all railway stations will have to have a pub and everyone has to keep at least one (1) decent bitter and keep it *well*.
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekOforOpulent
The library at Chatsworth 🤩
I've always fancied a library and a chapel in my own home: this would just about do as a library!
I think I've grown out of these ambitions, however!
#WeekOforOpulent
The library at Chatsworth 🤩
I've always fancied a library and a chapel in my own home: this would just about do as a library!
I think I've grown out of these ambitions, however!
October 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekOforOpulent
The library at Chatsworth 🤩
I've always fancied a library and a chapel in my own home: this would just about do as a library!
I think I've grown out of these ambitions, however!
#WeekOforOpulent
The library at Chatsworth 🤩
I've always fancied a library and a chapel in my own home: this would just about do as a library!
I think I've grown out of these ambitions, however!
@sheena-mck.bsky.social hope you keep safe today with the storm. Thinking about you.
October 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
@sheena-mck.bsky.social hope you keep safe today with the storm. Thinking about you.