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Jeff Witts

@jeffwitts.bsky.social

Former retreat house warden now living in Norfolk. Volunteer for Archway, Blickling Estate & Edgefield Village Hall.

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After a long winter moult, my seemingly immortal hen started laying again last week. An egg every day so far!

13.02.2026 16:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Our annual conference begins today at @retreatparmoor.bsky.social

19.01.2026 13:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sad to hear that their original guitarist Mick Abrahams died last week. He left Jethro Tull in 1968 and founded Blodwyn Pig, but as a fellow Lutonian he was one of the few musicians that I actually knew personally for a while.

24.12.2025 14:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Bob Dylan - Must Be Santa (Official Video)
YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO Bob Dylan - Must Be Santa (Official Video)

Happy Christmas everybody

24.12.2025 14:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Jethro Tull - Ring Out, Solstice Bells - BBC Top Of The Pops 1976 (Remastered) HD
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The calendar gives me another opportunity to share a golden oldie with you all

21.12.2025 09:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Gaudete - Steeleye Span - LIVE 1974!
YouTube video by SpanFan Gaudete - Steeleye Span - LIVE 1974!

You'd all be dissappointed if I didn't...

14.12.2025 10:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The tables are set, the drinks are cooling, and the cooks are in the kitchen. Hope to see you later. Come and say hello to me behind the bar!

13.12.2025 15:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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First Christmas cards arrived yesterday and the lights went up today, but it still feels too early

07.12.2025 17:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My TV picture is much better now that the aerial is back where it belongs

05.12.2025 17:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Had a great lunch today at the Walpole Arms with colleagues from Blickling Hall

27.11.2025 17:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today would have been my Dad's 100th birthday.
Bernard Sidney Richard Witts
1925 - 1999

10.11.2025 07:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I shall be listening to quite a lot of Moody Blues albums this weekend 🥲

11.10.2025 16:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It's Quiz night tonight at Edgefield Village Hall
I'll be behind the bar again!

04.10.2025 10:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pentangle was the first band that I saw live. They were playing at Watford Town Hall and a group of us went by bus from Luton.

25.09.2025 07:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Spent a couple of hours at Bayfield Hall Sculpture Trail today

21.09.2025 12:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Yusuf / Cat Stevens – (Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard ft. Elkie Brooks | IZITSO
YouTube video by Yusuf / Cat Stevens Yusuf / Cat Stevens – (Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard ft. Elkie Brooks | IZITSO

My favourite back-to-school song for all the family going back to school this week youtu.be/uNc5ULGO9EM?...

01.09.2025 09:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I've taken a photo of my grandchildren on this tree most years, but just for a change I got all my children to pose here as well this time!

27.08.2025 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Photo of my father alongside his Burma Star

15.08.2025 16:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Another one gone - RIP Dave Cousins. So glad I saw them perform 8 years ago and that he signed the CD #Strawbs

17.07.2025 07:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No way is Debbie Harry 80
But if that's what it takes for BBC4 to have a Blondie night, so be it

04.07.2025 20:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The annual apple has appeared
#PamsDelight

28.06.2025 11:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sorting through some old business cards, I came across this one from my father's antique shop.

25.06.2025 11:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My old house is looking a bit run down. Maybe I shouldn't have sold it!

23.06.2025 09:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It's been good to be in Swanwick again this week and to see this painting that used to be at Morley Retreat still hanging at The Hayes Conference Centre

18.06.2025 11:34 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I'm losing count, but I think that's the fifth power cut today 😕

29.05.2025 19:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When I grow up I want to be...

14.05.2025 13:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I knew this freebie would come in use one day. My doctor has advised me to roll a cold drink can over the base of my foot for about 20 minutes. I certainly shan't be drinking it! #plantarfasciitis

15.04.2025 15:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I had my first taste of @moongazerale.bsky.social Ostara at The Pigs last night. Highly recommended!

14.04.2025 11:17 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

If you watched Fake or Fortune on BBC2 last night, you'll have caught a glimpse of the former Morley Retreat House, now the home of SureScreen Scientifics at 53 minutes in www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnfh...

28.03.2025 16:18 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0