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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦

@john0109.bsky.social

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Dad, RAF Veteran and survivor of numerous Leeds United ups and downs. Lover of nature, history, books and making miniatures. 75% English, 15% Welsh, 10% Odds & Ends. Just looking for things to make me smile...or think...or think and smile.

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 9d

Sometimes you just have to take a beat and forget about the future. Sit down and enjoy the view in the company of someone special. (Niederau, Austria)

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 10h

🫣 😳

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 11h

Love it! 😊

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 12h

Same here. It's kinda comforting that 'spice' is still in use! Brings back memories of kayli, penny arrows and lucky bags. But then I'm a right old so-and-so. 👴🤣

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 13h

Gadzooks...now I comprehend! 😂

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 14h

...got it!! 🤣

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 14h

Hastily googles 'Timothy Claypole'...

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 14h

I should add that that's 2% Dane DNA, but nobody is perfect!

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 16h

And a nice bit of friendly banter makes the world seem saner somehow! 🤪

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 17h

Time for a post from Malcolm Root's "Pageant of Transport", this time another wintery scene with 'Royal Scot' in LMS livery climbing to Ais Gill Summit, Cumbria. Reminds us of times when loco crews really needed a good fire to hand! ⛄🔥⛄
#Steamtrains #Steamgeek #Trains #Transport #Art

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 17h

People are very scathing about climate change. I just say, well it's here, let's make the most of it! 🏖️

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 17h

Phew, thank heavens for that! 🥳

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 17h

It's nice to know that Blue Sky can be an oasis of calm in the midst of a very troubled world, isn't it? I just plod on in my little happy bubble, whistling contentedly! 😊

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 21h

Good grief, I'm just not that bendy. I'll ask Mrs M! Teehee

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 22h

I seem to have lost my Yorkshire roots in favour of some amorphous blob called 'East Midlands'. I am very miffed! 😢 #Ancestry #Genealogy

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 22h

I can't help myself, I just love these little fellas. 😊♥️

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All On The Board @allontheboard.bsky.social · 1d

Today is World Mental Health Day. It’s a day that should be every day of the year. You are worthwhile, and you deserve to be here.

#WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD25 #MentalHealth

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 22h

He did a lot of that rubbing the head with both hands thing, as if the voices in there just wouldn't go away! But to my mind he wasn't the worst Welsh player. Let's hope his confidence doesn't take too much of a knock. #lufc

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 1d

Oops, having second thoughts now, aren't we? 😭

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel prize for Peace...and a 'special' award for Advanced Mathematics? #doh

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 1d

All Welsh aren't we? 😃 #AWAW #lufc

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 1d

Haha, enjoy! 😋

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 1d

Genius isn't it? And I'm thinking I'd love that to be made into a jigsaw puzzle! 🤔

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 1d

And the carriages sport the typical 'blood and custard' livery of that era.

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 1d

I can't let the day go by without posting a bit of Malcolm Root steam. It's the early 1950s and 'Duchess of Sutherland' attacks the gradient at Greenholme, Cumbria on the way to the Shap summit. Just captures the winter bleakness perfectly.
#Steamtrains #Transport #Art #Steamgeek #Trains

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 1d

Best bit of TV I have seen for some time. BAFTAs all round please. #BlueLights