@robbo59.bsky.social
Retired teacher of English. Busy doing stuff. 📚 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 Full disclosure: no interest in pets, crypto and sport. And don’t get me started on ludicrous names for shades of paint.
Sublime.
22.02.2026 14:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Sickth 🤦♂️
Six-th. 👍
“I’m not sure” … nice understatement.
20.02.2026 07:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And smaller.
20.02.2026 07:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If I block the word ‘Andrew’ right now, my timeline will be reduced by about 90%.
19.02.2026 11:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of UK paperback edition of ‘Visitation’ by Jenny Erpenbeck.
Loved it too - like all her books. And this one, Jenny Erpenbeck’s ‘Visitation’ is similarly fine: limited in geography to one house in Eastern Germany, but tracing twentieth-century middle-European history through the house’s various occupants. A great read!
16.02.2026 11:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Absolutely not.
15.02.2026 20:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What do you get if you cross a tangerine with a lettuce?
A rotten pair.
Yes. Drenched in brown sauce.
15.02.2026 11:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Never studied that one with a class - but I can just imagine how it would unfold that way!
15.02.2026 09:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Digging” … “Storm on the Island” … “Blackberry Picking” … “Death of a Naturalist” … they never failed to delight.
14.02.2026 19:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Right now, I don’t know of any drama on any platform that is better plotted than ‘The Archers.’ If you know, you know.
#TheArchers
#BBCRadio4
We used to go to work on an egg.
14.02.2026 14:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Brilliant writing and acting. And hats off to those responsible for casting. Huge fun!
14.02.2026 14:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Characteristically self-effacing; but Heaney is no foothill. A towering peak.
14.02.2026 10:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0An absolute classic. Still as funny - and clever as it ever was.
11.02.2026 20:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Backstory … tip … iceberg.
11.02.2026 14:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh, not again.
11.02.2026 09:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On the list.
11.02.2026 06:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of the UK paperback cover of ‘Three Days in June’ by Anne Tyler.
Anne Tyler just gets people. Magical stuff.
#AnneTyler
#BookSky📚
“And my good friend David Icke agrees with me.”
08.02.2026 15:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Snowdrops providing ground cover among the silver birches in the Winter Garden at Dunham Massey.
Dunham Massey, Greater Manchester. With the silver birches in the Winter Garden.
08.02.2026 10:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So … Lady Who? Who? prefers losers. Figures.
07.02.2026 17:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Somehow, he seemed to have more authority by still being just “Mr Brown.”
07.02.2026 09:23 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yay for a veggie version!
07.02.2026 07:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Melanesia (n): forgetting you ever heard about the film or its subject.
06.02.2026 13:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Peter Medawar was the grandfather of Alex Garland.
06.02.2026 09:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Boomoranges.
06.02.2026 08:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Saw the show at the Plaza, Stockport tonight. Absolutely, jaw-droppingly brilliant.
05.02.2026 23:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A photo of the front cover of issue 1668 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main cover line reads “LORD MANDELSON IN DISGRACE.” The central image shows a blurred, photograph of a Mandelson standing indoors wearing a T-shirt and underwear, holding a folder. Surrounding the image are multiple speech bubbles, including: “I’ve let myself down, my party down and my trousers down,” “He’s going to pay for this – which makes a change!”, “Talk about a cheques offender!”, “He will need some decent briefs!”, “Time to strip him of his title as well!”, “Oh no! He’s into M&S!” and “Can we have a cover up, please!”
Lord Mandelson in disgrace
The new Private Eye is out now.
