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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 3d

Two robbers were robbing the local off licence.

One robber said to the other robber, “Is this Whiskey?”

The other robber replied, “Yes, but not as wisky as wobbing a bank…”

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 3d

This might be one of the best remakes I’ve ever heard.

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Jan Lilleyman @whiterose1919.bsky.social · 2d

Just yards from two busy A roads in Leeds is a little pocket of serenity - the Japanese Garden in Hall Park, Horsforth. It’s glorious in all weathers, but in Autumn it really comes into its own, with the scarlet of the paintwork on the bridges and shelters reflected in the foliage of the acers.

Green grass in the foreground of a redbrick-walled garden, scattered with yellow fallen leaves from the tree overhead. To the back left is a scarlet painted wooden bridge and shelter, to the back right is an acer shining all colours of flame red. In the centre is a small lake covered in lily pads.

Green grass in the foreground of a redbrick-walled garden. To the back left is a scarlet painted wooden bridge and shelter, to the back right is an acer shining all colours of flame red. In the centre is a small lake covered in lily pads.

A different angle of this brick walled garden (I seem to remember being told that it was a tennis court when Horsforth Hall still existed but I don’t know if that is true?). To the left is a shrub that I think may be a pieris but I’m not any sort of horticulturist so may well be wrong - shading from a lime green at the base 70 through all shades of pink until it glows at the very top. To the right is a scarlet-painted wooden arched bridge which crosses the short stream that runs from the waterfall to the small lake.

Standing stones on a gravel patch - we visit this garden often and this but is always used by the pre-school children to measure which one is their height. To the back of the picture is the scarlet bridge and the stream running into the pond

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Dr Dean Burnett @garwboy.bsky.social · 2d

What makes even your strangest dreams feel familiar, explained by a neuroscientist

www.sciencefocus.com...

Because it's weird, right? You're dreaming of being upside down in a flaming boat made of fingernails, talking to a bat who's also your mother, and be all like "Yup, this is fine"

Here's why

What makes even your strangest dreams feel familiar, explained by a neuroscientist - BBC Science Focus Magazine

Our sleeping brains weave a patchwork out of our memories in complex, baffling ways.

www.sciencefocus.com

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Morgan W-B @morganw-b.bsky.social · Nov 9

#Museum30 day 8: storage

Ever wondered how books at the British Library get from our storage to you?

youtu.be/AY6B0wNisUY

(This is for books on site in London, and not all materials! Many have special handling requirements and are collected and delivered by hand.)

Riding the robots – Inside the British Library

YouTube video by British Library

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 5d

Let’s be real: approximately ten seconds after you told Tolkien that Catholics couldn’t go to Mass because they were afraid of being disappeared by agents of the government, he’d be out there protesting.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 5d

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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Jan Lilleyman @whiterose1919.bsky.social · 6d

Third day in a row for a last ditch success - it’s becoming a habit.
#wordle

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Jan Lilleyman @whiterose1919.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!! That’s really helpful - will put it on my to-buy list 😄 Between the dog on woodwork and the teenager doing handstands and causing havoc sliding bare feet down his newly-decorated bedroom walls I’m starting to feel that decorating is a job that’s no sooner finished than it’s restarting 😄

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Jan Lilleyman @whiterose1919.bsky.social · 7d

Gary, do you know of a paint that would withstand scratches from dog paws, please? Our dog likes to survey the world from our wide and low window sill in the living room and the paintwork is suffering 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 8d

The reform party nativity scene.

No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.

And not a wise fvcking man in sight…

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Jan Lilleyman @whiterose1919.bsky.social · 9d

That runs too big a risk of it not being dark enough once milk is added - if you’ve gambled wrong you’d either have to put a soggy and cooling teabag back in, waste a whole new bag, or have a pale beige cup of warm milk 🫣Best just to add milk at the very last minute before bag removal to be sure…

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Jan Lilleyman @whiterose1919.bsky.social · 9d

Nah, bottom left is the only right option, otherwise how do you know if the tea is the right colour to safely take the bag out 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Jan Lilleyman @whiterose1919.bsky.social · 10d

#lufc not the worst option to have above us in the table 😄

Photo shows the “Explore” tab of BlueSky, which currently has Zohran Mamdani as the number one hot topic, and Leeds United below him in second place

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Jan Lilleyman @whiterose1919.bsky.social · 10d

For me, I’ve been in a bit of a rut of anything by Ann Cleeves, Jaqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series, and anything for adults by Anthony Horowitz - though I’m finding that using the library’s fab BorrowBox app means I’m definitely reading things that I otherwise wouldn’t pick up.

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Jan Lilleyman @whiterose1919.bsky.social · 10d

My son’s leg-up out of his reading slump aged about 10/11 was the John Flanagan Ranger’s Apprentice series - they fired his interest immediately and he’s still sad that the last three of their Brotherband sequels are almost impossible to get hold of here.

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 15d

Under Over Over - West Hampstead

So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.

The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.

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Jan Lilleyman @whiterose1919.bsky.social · 15d

Brace of shakes is the only other one I can think of .. 🤔

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Jan Lilleyman @whiterose1919.bsky.social · 17d

I hadn’t heard anything about this! Love the idea - off to look into it some more but we’ll definitely be taking part! Thank you for posting 😍

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Jan Lilleyman @whiterose1919.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks for posting that - it’s finally encouraged me to google the answer after years of not having the faintest clue what the audience mumbled back 😂

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Jan Lilleyman @whiterose1919.bsky.social · 20d

#wordle
Wordle 1579 - when you think you’ve sussed it after line 2, and yet … 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 22d

If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk

Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer

I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services. Get in touch!

www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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Jan Lilleyman @whiterose1919.bsky.social · 22d

Last night’s spectacular Derbyshire sunset

Orange purple skies framed in a tangle of foliage

Distant views of hills with orange and pink skies framed in the branches of trees

A vivid sky of orange, reds, pinks fading to blues with purple brown hills shadowed in the foreground

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 27d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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Angry John of Bradford @bd-angry.bsky.social · 25d

My take on why everyone should come to #Bradford2025 to see #TurnerPrize - even frequent TP visitors are finding something fresh & new in #Bradford - but it’s attracting artistically unseasoned eyes, too.
Brilliant art, brilliant setting, all in brilliant Bradford!

Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 26d

✍️ The Turner Prize lands in Bradford’s Cartwright Hall for UK City of Culture 2025 – world-class art meets a city alive with fresh voices

By John Atkinson

@bd-angry.bsky.social

Turner Prize Bradford 2025

The Turner Prize lands in Bradford’s Cartwright Hall for UK City of Culture 2025 – world-class art meets a city alive with fresh voices

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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