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Social researcher. Occasional pedant. Likes: music cinema books allotments travel food drink politics sport...

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Disaster. NestlΓ© giving up.

10.12.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Night Full of Ghosts

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Time for my annual recommendation of beautiful festive song A Night Full Of Ghosts by @smalltownjones.bsky.social
Link to sp*tify but you should try to buy the album Sky Down To The Ground - treat yourself!

10.12.2025 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My first all-ages book. This one's special.

09.12.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not really very slow by historical standards.

06.12.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I did a Freakzone for BBC Radio 6!
Availible on BBC Sounds for the next 29 days...

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

20.11.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reveries & Ritual: A British Solo Acoustic Guitar Primer Drawing on the music of John Fahey and Bert Jansch, the new generation of UK solo guitarists is maintainingβ€”and expanding onβ€”tradition

Thanks a bunch to Robin Murray and @bandcamp.com for featuring me and some good buds of mine on their recent Bandcamp Daily piece on British fingerstyle guitar. Much obliged!

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20.11.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hadn't spotted you here. It's nicer.
Welcome.
Nearly time for my annual recommendation of A Night Full Of Ghosts...

05.12.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Classic British film- great performances in this adaptation of the Graham Greene novel.

03.12.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A little girl in a Manchester department store is upset by doves in Santa's Grotto when one lands on her head, December 1954 (Mirrorpix/@manchestereveningnews.co.uk).

30.11.2025 09:27 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3

That's very much how i feel.

30.11.2025 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gessler orders the arrest of William, but where is he?

🍎 WILLIAM TELL (1958) 10:30am #ConradPhillips #WilloughbyGoddard in 'The Hostages' #TPTVsubtitles

29.11.2025 09:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Great line-up today on Talking Pictures TV.

Just watched Stingray and now regretting having made plans for much of the day...

29.11.2025 10:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Marina
Aqua marina...

29.11.2025 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But if we raised the flag outdoors and it started raining, it was a matter of urgency and honour to take the flag down immediately. You NEVER left the flag up in the rain: it was disrespectful.
That's what i think when i see all the flags now: you're dishonouring the flag and the nation. Be ashamed.

29.11.2025 10:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When I was in the cub scouts, and later the scouts, raising and lowering the union flag were important start and end points for the weekly meetings...
1/2

29.11.2025 10:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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What is the source of the mysterious missile attacks on Marineville?

Dive under the sea with... 🌊 STINGRAY (1964) 10am 'Emergency Marineville' on #TPTV

29.11.2025 09:00 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@dannythechamp.bsky.social
Top night out with Danny and the Champions of the World at Omeara, London.

28.11.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@chrisrainier.bsky.social
Fascinating slot last night supporting @gweniferraymond.bsky.social at @ivyhousenunhead.bsky.social
Weird Hawaiian guitar and what Gwenifer Raymond described as a "psychotic guitar" unlike any other 6 string, the strangest tunings...
Do catch Chris if you get the chance.

26.11.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In a wasps' nest there are lots of cells - too small for a wasp to fit inside. The pieces I have are all empty so what are they for? Storing food? Insulation?
#wasps

25.11.2025 07:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why does Marco Rubio dye his hair? It looks quite unnatural.

23.11.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Realistically, what are the chances of a(nother) putsch against Putin?

And if there were one, what chance it could be more effective than the aborted Wagner group coup?

22.11.2025 00:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The question is, was any part of the Telegraph article factually accurate?

21.11.2025 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our event on the civil service fast stream will be starting in 45 minutes.

Tune into the livestream and submit your questions for our panel πŸ“Ίβ“ www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/civil-...

17.11.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Now playing: Flower Lady by Phil Odgers feat. Sid Griffin
From the album Ghosts Of Rock 'N' Roll.

17.11.2025 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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2024 General Election 2024 General Election Results and Analysis from the Electoral Reform Society

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14.11.2025 08:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Houchen’s deprivation failure exposed – official Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England

β—Ύ >9 years since Tees Valley voted for supposed benefits of Brexit

β—Ύ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley

β—Ύ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas

...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.

12.11.2025 08:52 β€” πŸ‘ 316    πŸ” 149    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 4

Also, who was the secret premier league footballer who used to write in The Guardian?

11.11.2025 09:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whatever happened to Darren Tackle?

11.11.2025 09:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What's this, David, your motivational speech for the day?

I'm going back to the duvet...

09.11.2025 10:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A voice that still carries: Aimee Mann’s greatest songs – ranked! Thirty years on from the release of her acclaimed album I’m With Stupid, we count down the sucker-punching best tracks by the US singer-songwriter

A voice that still carries: Aimee Mann’s greatest songs – ranked! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

I disagree with many of the choices in this list and with the ordering. But few list articles have made me happier- just knowing there is an 'Aimee Mann's greatest songs' list makes life better.

06.11.2025 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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