Stephen Winkley
@winkley.bsky.social
Forged in Lancashire. Burnished in Liverpool. Slowly and happily corroding in Cumbria.
One of our December traditions has always been to light a candle each evening during Advent, counting down to Christmas Day. Here’s this year’s splendid effort.
December 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
One of our December traditions has always been to light a candle each evening during Advent, counting down to Christmas Day. Here’s this year’s splendid effort.
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"They're looking for someone with a thick skin and recent experience of flagship BBC news programming."
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"They're looking for someone with a thick skin and recent experience of flagship BBC news programming."
It’s the start of #stoutwars in #Kendal and here’s the lovely Charlie and the marvellous menu at Fell Bar.
November 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It’s the start of #stoutwars in #Kendal and here’s the lovely Charlie and the marvellous menu at Fell Bar.
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If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk
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October 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk
Making the most of the Cumbrian sunshine on our last day of the holidays. Coffee at Levens Hall.
September 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Making the most of the Cumbrian sunshine on our last day of the holidays. Coffee at Levens Hall.
Another hard day at the coal face.
September 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Another hard day at the coal face.
Hello Funchal 👋🏻👋🏻
September 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Hello Funchal 👋🏻👋🏻
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I’ve never felt so disheartened. My small business means everything to me and I want to keep going.
Please have a look at my website. Buy things, commission me or repost.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thank you.
Please have a look at my website. Buy things, commission me or repost.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thank you.
If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business.
It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI.
Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk
It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI.
Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk
September 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I’ve never felt so disheartened. My small business means everything to me and I want to keep going.
Please have a look at my website. Buy things, commission me or repost.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thank you.
Please have a look at my website. Buy things, commission me or repost.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thank you.
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Labour's cowardice in the face of extremism iandunt.substack.com/p/labours-co...
August 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Labour's cowardice in the face of extremism iandunt.substack.com/p/labours-co...
Blackberries. Lots of blackberries.
August 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Blackberries. Lots of blackberries.
“Beauty surrounds,” even if it is somewhat faded.
August 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
“Beauty surrounds,” even if it is somewhat faded.
Summer stroll along Lancaster Canal with @twinkley.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Summer stroll along Lancaster Canal with @twinkley.bsky.social
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Long time no see on here!
Bread & Butter by Vocation Brewery, at the Crown & Kettle, Manchester. With @winkley.bsky.social
Bread & Butter by Vocation Brewery, at the Crown & Kettle, Manchester. With @winkley.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Long time no see on here!
Bread & Butter by Vocation Brewery, at the Crown & Kettle, Manchester. With @winkley.bsky.social
Bread & Butter by Vocation Brewery, at the Crown & Kettle, Manchester. With @winkley.bsky.social
Start of a day out in Manchester with @penno.bsky.social begins with a fine breakfast at Another Heart To Feed.
August 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Start of a day out in Manchester with @penno.bsky.social begins with a fine breakfast at Another Heart To Feed.
More bounty from the Cumbrian soil.
August 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
More bounty from the Cumbrian soil.
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This is a man who has no idea what he's talking about, & no understanding of his interlocutor's motivation, about to sell out Ukraine to Putin, who knows exactly how to manipulate Trump. Europe cannot let this stand, if it wants to save itself as well as Ukraine.
Trump: "There will be some changes in land ... Russia has taken some very prime territory. They've taken largely ocean -- in real estate we call it oceanfront property. That's always the most valuable property."
August 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is a man who has no idea what he's talking about, & no understanding of his interlocutor's motivation, about to sell out Ukraine to Putin, who knows exactly how to manipulate Trump. Europe cannot let this stand, if it wants to save itself as well as Ukraine.
Lunch, (mostly) from the Cumbrian soil.
August 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Lunch, (mostly) from the Cumbrian soil.
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It's our 7th birthday next weekend and to celebrate we'll be having a @wylam_brewery tap takeover with 8 beers pouring. We'll also have DJ sets on Friday ( Carl Higson of @electricboutiquekendal and Saturday (Paul B & ADC). Hope you can join us #craftbeer #indie #Cumbria #beerkendal #supportindie
August 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
It's our 7th birthday next weekend and to celebrate we'll be having a @wylam_brewery tap takeover with 8 beers pouring. We'll also have DJ sets on Friday ( Carl Higson of @electricboutiquekendal and Saturday (Paul B & ADC). Hope you can join us #craftbeer #indie #Cumbria #beerkendal #supportindie
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Did a new one
August 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Did a new one
But they ARE different from the last lot… right? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Homelessness Minister Rushanari Ali quits
Homelessness Minister Rushanari Ali quits
www.bbc.co.uk
August 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
But they ARE different from the last lot… right? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.
August 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.
Still (just about) July and the hedgerows are already full of bounty.
July 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Still (just about) July and the hedgerows are already full of bounty.
The annual trimming of the hornbeam hedge reveals an abandoned blackbird’s nest. This is the reason we don’t cut it until the end of July.
July 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The annual trimming of the hornbeam hedge reveals an abandoned blackbird’s nest. This is the reason we don’t cut it until the end of July.
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Nostalgia is a powerful drug but Old Twitter’s thing of crowding every single institution / religious order / goth band on the same chaotic platform was a fun once-in-human-development moment before it led to the breakdown of society.
It's the fourth anniversary of that time I tweeted the wrong Sisters Of Mercy
July 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Nostalgia is a powerful drug but Old Twitter’s thing of crowding every single institution / religious order / goth band on the same chaotic platform was a fun once-in-human-development moment before it led to the breakdown of society.