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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 3h

Tamsin Grieg a one woman ambassador for Hebden and Tod on @bbc6music.bsky.social

Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 14h

He obviously didn't start from the outside in

Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 16h

Read it and weep Orange POTUS!

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 19h

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 16h

This book changed our family traditions at Christmas. We originally had stockings on our bed which we opened with our parents in their bedroom. One year I had read 3/4 of TLTWATW before they had even woken up,so next year we had to leave them downstairs by the fire. I bought them with pocket money

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 16h

In the home of the best pork Pie (Percy Turner's in case you need reminding) It has often surprised me that the local chippies don't do Pork Pie and chips. Tonight Shaw's of Dodworth has remedied that.

An chip shop advert of pork pie and chips for £3.50

Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 17h

I love the novels of Sarah Hall but don't believe she is on social media. I guess it is an email to her publisher

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 17h

It couldn't help but make me think of this

A section of cartoon from Asterix and Cleopatra where our heroes are discussing how pretty her nose it

Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 17h

Thank goodness for Cerys #totp

Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 17h

Damn I should have thought of Dusty. Being the son of a preacher man that song has a resonance...LOL

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 20h

#FridayFive bit slow so some of mine already been taken
1. Like a prayer: Madonna
2. Say a little prayer: Aretha Franklin
3. Save a prayer for me now: Duran Duran
4. I am the resurrection: Stone Roses
5. In the church of the poisoned mind: Culture Club

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 1d

That's the great thing about great art. It produces great emotions in people. That those emotions are not always the same doesn't matter. They went, they saw, they responded. Becket clearly was not for them.

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 2d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 1d

People of Clacton: Nigel who?

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 1d

If you are looking to avoid the madness of the world and escape to an island, this might be the job for you and your partner. Holiday estate management, gardening, boating on the isle of Mull www.greycoatlumleys.co.uk/job/couple-j...

Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 1d

You may not approve of a certain river based e-reader but I got this beautful book for 99p on a time limited offer, it comes up now and then at that same price. I read it wonder at the gorgeous pictures of the beautiful islands and dream of visiting.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 1d

This post took me three goes. Twice I had to delete it and retype it as it was unintelligble, I was so cross I couldn't type straight. That's how mad 12 jobs, friend of Russia Farage gets me!

Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 1d

Show me you HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS HAPPENING IN SCHOOLS without telling me you have no idea what is going on in schools. As if I needed another reason to dislike this man (clearly I mean his opinions, honest, as I have never met him) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education

www.theguardian.com

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 1d

After watching the series I have loved her Vera Stanhope books but will give these a go too now. If you like Scottish Island crime series have you tried the Peter May ones?

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 1d

That strange noise you hear is Thatcher turning in her grave

Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 1d

Show me you HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS HAPPENING IN SCHOOLS without telling me you have no idea what is going on in schools. As if I needed another reason to dislike this man (clearly I mean his opinions, honest, as I have never met him) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education

www.theguardian.com

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 1d

Just another event that worries me about the USA.... It will worry be even more if it becomes designated a Foreign Terrorist organisation as some are hoping.

WIRED @wired.com · 1d

NEW: A professor at Rutgers University who wrote a book about “antifa” almost a decade ago is trying—and struggling—to flee the US for Europe after a weeks-long online campaign against him by far-right influencers was followed by death threats. www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 1d

it's called retirement

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 1d

Another reason not to like United 😂😁

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 2d

literally down the pan

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 2d

How can a fat orange man (sorry for being childish...not sorry really...it helps) get the Nobel peace prize when his department for war is waging war against his own cities? Or am I missing something?

Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 2d

In recent years I have tried to read more European writers in translation but there are so many I have never heard of. Which says more about me than them. (and possibly the reluctance to get books translated perhaps, but you will know about that more than me)

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 2d

Dodged spending with the Opthalmologist sadly not with the audiologist..sorry you'll have to speak up!!!"

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