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Gaynor Madoc Leonard

@madocleonard.bsky.social

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Author of The Carmarthen Underground novels. Middle-class woman of a certain age. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🐧 London and Caerfyrddin. NO INTEREST IN BITCOIN.DMs FOR PRIVATE MESSAGES ONLY, THANK YOU. PLEASE NOTE THAT I AM AT madocleonard1 DUE TO A GLITCH.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 4h

The GOP: the party of ‘family values’.

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cathaguamia.bsky.social @cathaguamia.bsky.social · 3h

BBC4 heno: ail-ddarlledu rhaglen Arena ar y Chelsea Hotel (1981)

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El Eremita @dinamitteros.bsky.social · 2h

Rob Rowland. 1952

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 2h

Llanelli’s Dafen Primary School was closed today because a threat was made about "individuals attending the premises with knives", police have said. The threat was made to the Met Police at 2.30am and passed to Dyfed-Powys Police who declared a critical incident
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Police confirm 'knife threat' led to Welsh school being shut down

Dyfed-Powys Police said at least 13 police vehicles were deployed to the school and surrounding area

www.walesonline.co.uk

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 2h

#NowEating 3-cheese and walnut lasagne. What could be better when the sun goes down and the nights become chilly…?

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TerryLeopard @terryleopard.bsky.social · 6h

This is a lot of pressure for a poo.

Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 6h

Will this do?

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Gaynor Madoc Leonard @madocleonard.bsky.social · 1h

When I was very young, I'm pretty sure my grandmother and Dad's sister used to go regularly to the Legion to play whist or bingo. There's no permanent club in Carmarthen now, but the BL meets in a pub in St Clears.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 1h

Cf the old Alexei Sayle joke about “running away to join the British legion, it’s not as exciting as joining the French foreign legion, but you can get a pint after hours”

richd028.bsky.social @richd028.bsky.social · 1h

But yeah, being shocked at the idea that the legion is using beer to raise money means you don't know what the legion is.

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Shane @incompleteness.bsky.social · 1h

Tehran is facing zero water day - water crisis in Iran, massive heatwave with temperatures over 40C in Tehran

The regime is rotten, sure, but they are kept in place by foreign pressure - the population can't improve their lives the way things are controlled: very limited access to modern technology

Gaynor Madoc Leonard @madocleonard.bsky.social · 4h

Cousin A in Pontarddulais has sent me a photo of my maternal grandmother's older sister (with her husband), taken in about 1899. William and Emiah Annie had 12 children.

A photograph taken in 1899 of William Jones and Emiah Annie Maddocks. It's colourised.

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Kgusler @kgusler.bsky.social · 9h

Specific human gene can help the heart repair itself from heart attack or heart failure

A naturally occurring gene called Cyclin A2 (CCNA2), which turns off after birth in humans, can actually make new, functioning heart cells and help the heart repair itself from injury, including a hea...

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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 8h

The interior face of the door has trompe l’oeil painting that imitates woodgrain and panelling.

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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 8h

At its core, St Helen's, Barmby on the Marsh is a medieval structure. However, the character of this Yorkshire is largely provided by its later Georgian features.

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 8h

"The sensational murder that took place on the 8.33 motor-bus that runs from Esting to Raybourne"
#MurderEveryMonday #crimefiction #coverart with a bus.
#booksky
Not sure what #MurderEveryMonday is? Here's the link: crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/m...

Cover of Murder en Route by Brian Flynn featuring a skull and an omnibus with dipped headlights driving in front of it.

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 8h

If you haven't seen this then you must. It's the law.

Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 9h

A star-studded favourite for our ☕ brew and 🍪 biccies matinee today at 2:40pm!

🚛 HELL DRIVERS (1957) ⭐ #StanleyBaker #DavidMcCallum #SeanConnery #HerbertLom #WilliamHartnell #SidJames #PeggyCummins #PatrickMcGoohan action drama #TPTVsubtitles

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Gaynor Madoc Leonard @madocleonard.bsky.social · 8h

Okay, I've actually done something today! Sent a pic of Mum's dresser to a local antiques place and contacted a flooring company about small repairs to the parquet.

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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 11h

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Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 2d

Life in Eleventh Century Britain: The Fyrd and the Housecarls: Before the Normans brought over their own version of feudalism, the Anglo-Saxons had a different way of calling up an army in need of defense. buff.ly/444Sfxy

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 14h

🤔 Largely unnoticed by visitors to Ripon Cathedral, Henry Wilson’s 1913 repoussé pulpit gleams with Anglo-Saxon saints and burnished light.

📸 I worked hard here to capture how his craft bridges the past and present, the material and the spiritual. A real hidden gem. #thread

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caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 22h

Stale-drunk 1. Still intoxicated from the night before or getting drunk again before achieving full sobriety.

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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 1d

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 14h

It's not exactly the same thing, but finding out that Jerry Orbach - who I knew as Lenny Briscoe from watching Law & Order with my mom - was also the voice of Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast broke my pre-adolescent brain.

paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 20h

I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”

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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · 13h

Art of Laundry. Via FB/A world of washing/Rita M. Sjöholm. The Laundress - 1858, Francisco Laso (1823-1869), Peruvian artist and writer…

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 13h

And the whole Royal carriage cheered

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 14h

A friend told me that her American dad got in touch to talk about some news he'd seen on Facebook: there are riots in England over DEI, and the King dramatically burst into parliament to tell Starmer off, and then Prince William did the same to Sadiq Khan. AI really is inventing bold new universes

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 13h

Dafen Primary School in Llanelli will not open today after threats were made online. Police officers are currently at the school.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Welsh primary school closed by police after threats made

Police and the council made the decision to close the school after 'threatening messages' were received overnight