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Our album launch concert aind ceilidh is tomorrow night - and it's now sold out! Which is lovely news, but sad news if you don't already have a ticket. :-( No tickets on the door, I'm afraid, so please don't come along if you don't have a ticket; see you next year, we hope.
Sat 29th Nov, 7pm start (doors 6.30pm): Drive The Cold Winter Away - album launch concert and ceilidh.
Singing songs from our new album, and more, then a ceilidh with music by The Horace Mouse Band.
Venue: St Paul's West Hackney, N16.
Tickets £12/£8/£7: www.tickettailor.com/events/morri...
Singing songs from our new album, and more, then a ceilidh with music by The Horace Mouse Band.
Venue: St Paul's West Hackney, N16.
Tickets £12/£8/£7: www.tickettailor.com/events/morri...
November 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Our album launch concert aind ceilidh is tomorrow night - and it's now sold out! Which is lovely news, but sad news if you don't already have a ticket. :-( No tickets on the door, I'm afraid, so please don't come along if you don't have a ticket; see you next year, we hope.
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You can however preorder the CD here: folklondon.co.uk/product/morr...
or get it on Bandcamp here: folklondon.bandcamp.com/album/drive-...
or get it on Bandcamp here: folklondon.bandcamp.com/album/drive-...
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
You can however preorder the CD here: folklondon.co.uk/product/morr...
or get it on Bandcamp here: folklondon.bandcamp.com/album/drive-...
or get it on Bandcamp here: folklondon.bandcamp.com/album/drive-...
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Morris Folk Club for November is on Tuesday 25th, 7.30pm-10.30pm(ish), at The Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Road, Clerkenwell. Free entry.
What it's like: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/folk-club.....
What we did last time: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/club-setli....
Come, sing, play, listen, enjoy!
What it's like: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/folk-club.....
What we did last time: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/club-setli....
Come, sing, play, listen, enjoy!
November 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Morris Folk Club for November is on Tuesday 25th, 7.30pm-10.30pm(ish), at The Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Road, Clerkenwell. Free entry.
What it's like: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/folk-club.....
What we did last time: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/club-setli....
Come, sing, play, listen, enjoy!
What it's like: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/folk-club.....
What we did last time: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/club-setli....
Come, sing, play, listen, enjoy!
Palace fan to make his England football debut at age of 59 insidecroydon.com/2025/10/28/p...
Palace fan to make his England football debut at age of 59
Seth Gillman, whose selection for the England Parkinson’s Walking Football team was reported in Inside Croydon last year, is off on his first overseas tour with the national team. Gillman is part o…
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October 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Palace fan to make his England football debut at age of 59 insidecroydon.com/2025/10/28/p...
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Morris Folk Club for October is on Tuesday 28th, 7.30pm-10.30pm(ish), at The Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Road, Clerkenwell. Free entry.
What it's like: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/folk-club.....
What we did last time: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/club-setli... (and pic).
Come, sing, play, listen, enjoy!
What it's like: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/folk-club.....
What we did last time: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/club-setli... (and pic).
Come, sing, play, listen, enjoy!
October 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Morris Folk Club for October is on Tuesday 28th, 7.30pm-10.30pm(ish), at The Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Road, Clerkenwell. Free entry.
What it's like: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/folk-club.....
What we did last time: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/club-setli... (and pic).
Come, sing, play, listen, enjoy!
What it's like: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/folk-club.....
What we did last time: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/club-setli... (and pic).
Come, sing, play, listen, enjoy!
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Wed 15th October, 7.30-10.30pm: Celebrate Palestine Fundraiser. The Old Church, Stoke Newington Church St, N16 9ES. We are part of this fundraising evening of song, music and poetry for the Daughters Of Jerusalem and the Edward Said National Conservatory.
www.tickettailor.com/events/theol...
www.tickettailor.com/events/theol...
Buy tickets – Celebrate Palestine Fundraiser – The Old Church Stoke Newington
Celebrate Palestine Fundraiser – The Old Church Stoke Newington, Wed 15 Oct 2025 -
Doors at 7pm
www.tickettailor.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Wed 15th October, 7.30-10.30pm: Celebrate Palestine Fundraiser. The Old Church, Stoke Newington Church St, N16 9ES. We are part of this fundraising evening of song, music and poetry for the Daughters Of Jerusalem and the Edward Said National Conservatory.
www.tickettailor.com/events/theol...
www.tickettailor.com/events/theol...
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Our next gig: Thu 16th October, 7.30pm at @conwayhall.bsky.social, taking part in Songs And Ballads, a 'sharing of songs showcasing the history of the streets of Bloomsbury and St Giles, and the global cultures of communities who live here now'. bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/events/songs.... Free entry.
Songs and Ballads - Singing Showcase - Bloomsbury Festival
Join singers from Bloomsbury and beyond for a joyful and powerful sharing of songs showcasing the history of the streets of Bloomsbury and St Giles, and the global cultures of communities who live her...
bloomsburyfestival.org.uk
September 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Our next gig: Thu 16th October, 7.30pm at @conwayhall.bsky.social, taking part in Songs And Ballads, a 'sharing of songs showcasing the history of the streets of Bloomsbury and St Giles, and the global cultures of communities who live here now'. bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/events/songs.... Free entry.
August 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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"True love is not found in possession or perfection, but in the quiet presence that stays—when words fail, when flaws show, when the heart trembles and still chooses to remain."
May 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"True love is not found in possession or perfection, but in the quiet presence that stays—when words fail, when flaws show, when the heart trembles and still chooses to remain."
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Today’s mood - "Most of the thoughts that pass through the mind are like clouds drifting across an open sky — momentary, aimless, and unnecessary. Peace begins when we stop chasing every one of them."
a painting of a buddha sitting under a tree in a lotus position
ALT: a painting of a buddha sitting under a tree in a lotus position
media.tenor.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Today’s mood - "Most of the thoughts that pass through the mind are like clouds drifting across an open sky — momentary, aimless, and unnecessary. Peace begins when we stop chasing every one of them."
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Cross Westminster Bridge when the sun is low in the afternoon, and the shadows of the bridge on the pavement make perfect shapes of cocks with balls all the way along.
It is unknown whether this was intentional for the bridge right next to Parliament...
#London
It is unknown whether this was intentional for the bridge right next to Parliament...
#London
November 23, 2024 at 10:18 AM
Cross Westminster Bridge when the sun is low in the afternoon, and the shadows of the bridge on the pavement make perfect shapes of cocks with balls all the way along.
It is unknown whether this was intentional for the bridge right next to Parliament...
#London
It is unknown whether this was intentional for the bridge right next to Parliament...
#London
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This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.
April 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.
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I have created a Starter Pack for British Trans Activism
Let's start organising and making the UK a better place. We've been on the defense for too long
🇬🇧🏳️⚧️✊
go.bsky.app/N6Qai5F
Let's start organising and making the UK a better place. We've been on the defense for too long
🇬🇧🏳️⚧️✊
go.bsky.app/N6Qai5F
November 22, 2024 at 10:47 AM
I have created a Starter Pack for British Trans Activism
Let's start organising and making the UK a better place. We've been on the defense for too long
🇬🇧🏳️⚧️✊
go.bsky.app/N6Qai5F
Let's start organising and making the UK a better place. We've been on the defense for too long
🇬🇧🏳️⚧️✊
go.bsky.app/N6Qai5F
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The Monarch #butterfly embarks on one of nature's most incredible journeys, migrating up to 3,000 miles from #Canada to central #Mexico. These tiny travelers, with wings of vibrant orange, navigate the vast distances using the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields, defying the odds
April 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The Monarch #butterfly embarks on one of nature's most incredible journeys, migrating up to 3,000 miles from #Canada to central #Mexico. These tiny travelers, with wings of vibrant orange, navigate the vast distances using the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields, defying the odds
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UK more corrupt than Uruguay, Estonia, Seychelles, Iceland, Hong Kong.
Honours, crony contracts showered on party donors.
Donations/Bribes will secure the laws you want. Dirty money ... no problem. Rule of law ... tell that to postmasters, Grenfell fire victims.
Corporations/rich rule.
Honours, crony contracts showered on party donors.
Donations/Bribes will secure the laws you want. Dirty money ... no problem. Rule of law ... tell that to postmasters, Grenfell fire victims.
Corporations/rich rule.
Corruption Perceptions Index 2024
The Corruption Perceptions Index 2024 ranks 180 countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption. Find out the scores and read our analysis.
www.transparency.org
April 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
UK more corrupt than Uruguay, Estonia, Seychelles, Iceland, Hong Kong.
Honours, crony contracts showered on party donors.
Donations/Bribes will secure the laws you want. Dirty money ... no problem. Rule of law ... tell that to postmasters, Grenfell fire victims.
Corporations/rich rule.
Honours, crony contracts showered on party donors.
Donations/Bribes will secure the laws you want. Dirty money ... no problem. Rule of law ... tell that to postmasters, Grenfell fire victims.
Corporations/rich rule.
Is this what we're calling him now? #kingcancer
March 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Is this what we're calling him now? #kingcancer
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Morris Folk Club for Marchis on this coming Tuesday, 25th, 7.30pm-10.30pm(ish), at The Betsey Trotwood in Clerkenwell. Free entry.
What it's like: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/folk-club.....
What we did last time: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/club-setli....
Come, sing, play, listen, enjoy!
What it's like: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/folk-club.....
What we did last time: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/club-setli....
Come, sing, play, listen, enjoy!
www.morrisfolkchoir.org
March 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Morris Folk Club for Marchis on this coming Tuesday, 25th, 7.30pm-10.30pm(ish), at The Betsey Trotwood in Clerkenwell. Free entry.
What it's like: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/folk-club.....
What we did last time: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/club-setli....
Come, sing, play, listen, enjoy!
What it's like: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/folk-club.....
What we did last time: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/club-setli....
Come, sing, play, listen, enjoy!
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A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge sprayed on to farmland? The answer won’t make you happy | George Monbiot
Thanks to breathtaking negligence, the liquid fertiliser used to help grow our food bubbles with a lethal cocktail of toxins, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Welfare spending as a percentage of GDP.
- France: 31% of GDP.
- Finland: 29%.
- Belgium: 28.9%.
- Italy: 28%.
- Germany: 26%.
- Spain: 25%.
- Denmark: 25%.
- Sweden: 25%.
- Norway: 25%.
- Japan: 22%.
- United Kingdom: 21%.
This is before £5 Billion of Labour cuts!
- France: 31% of GDP.
- Finland: 29%.
- Belgium: 28.9%.
- Italy: 28%.
- Germany: 26%.
- Spain: 25%.
- Denmark: 25%.
- Sweden: 25%.
- Norway: 25%.
- Japan: 22%.
- United Kingdom: 21%.
This is before £5 Billion of Labour cuts!
March 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Welfare spending as a percentage of GDP.
- France: 31% of GDP.
- Finland: 29%.
- Belgium: 28.9%.
- Italy: 28%.
- Germany: 26%.
- Spain: 25%.
- Denmark: 25%.
- Sweden: 25%.
- Norway: 25%.
- Japan: 22%.
- United Kingdom: 21%.
This is before £5 Billion of Labour cuts!
- France: 31% of GDP.
- Finland: 29%.
- Belgium: 28.9%.
- Italy: 28%.
- Germany: 26%.
- Spain: 25%.
- Denmark: 25%.
- Sweden: 25%.
- Norway: 25%.
- Japan: 22%.
- United Kingdom: 21%.
This is before £5 Billion of Labour cuts!
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Humans: the remix - in the most eloquent explanation of the latest genetic insights into human evolution that you’ll find.
Remixing in human evolution. loops and rivers in the flow of our ancestors - a million year clusterfuck.
arutherford.substack.com/p/human-evol...
arutherford.substack.com/p/human-evol...
Human evolution: a one-million-year clusterf**k
A new incredibly subtle and elegant analysis of our living genomes reveals yet another major piece in the jigsaw of human evolution, completely hidden until now.
arutherford.substack.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Humans: the remix - in the most eloquent explanation of the latest genetic insights into human evolution that you’ll find.
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Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.
March 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.
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Costa Rica has massively rewilded over recent decades. Has this led to the collapse of farming, rural society, or national wellbeing?
Totally the opposite, and we in Ireland have SO much to learn from their example. My piece for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Totally the opposite, and we in Ireland have SO much to learn from their example. My piece for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Learning from an awe-inspiring immense ecosystem that has returned to life
Rewilding ecologist and author Eoghan Daltun visited Costa Rica to see first-hand how the country has managed over the last 30 years to reverse one of the worst deforestation rates in all Latin Americ...
www.irishexaminer.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Costa Rica has massively rewilded over recent decades. Has this led to the collapse of farming, rural society, or national wellbeing?
Totally the opposite, and we in Ireland have SO much to learn from their example. My piece for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Totally the opposite, and we in Ireland have SO much to learn from their example. My piece for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
A case my father has been working on for decades. Has it finally cracked it?
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Murder in Cairo
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March 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
A case my father has been working on for decades. Has it finally cracked it?
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