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Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈

@carolebristol.bsky.social

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I like cooking, photography, reading, music and wine. I have two Westies who I love dearly and I am in a civil partnership. History is a passion of mine, also Wargaming. Take a look at my blog https://hippolytastinyfootsteps.blogspot.com/

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Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 2h

I took this photo back in 2000 in the Jardins de la Fontaine in Nîmes, using my old Pentax MZ5N 35mm film SLR with a Sigma 28-200 zoom. It is still one of my favourites because I think it is an interesting scene.

#France #photography #Pentax

Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 2h

file:///home/carole/Pictures/France/Nimes black and white.jpg

Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 22h

John Carpenter's Mary Poppins

Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 22h

Oh no! I am so, so sorry. I've been through it twice since 2020. It hurts so much, but it is, in the end, the last great kindness we can ever give to our beloved friends. You have my deepest sympathies. They will always live on in our hearts and memories.

Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 1d

Farage needs to be investigated. He needs his finances gone through with a fine tooth comb and he needs his tax arrangements exposed.

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Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 1d

Will these 28mm Red Lizardmen warriors from North Star do?

#Nerdlings

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Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't say that you made anything up. I was just questioning your methodology, level of analysis and expertise in polling.

Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, look. A rabble-rousing racist gobshite spouts hate that appeals to other racists.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 1d

This is so terribly sad. Have a big hug from me over the internet.

Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 1d

Except that Starmer was more interested in brown-nosing the orange arse than working with our close neighbours.

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Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 2d

It's bullshit, run by a 23 year-old nobody.

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Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 2d

Not particularly. Quite a lot of OK things, but no truly earth-shatteringly great ones.

Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 2d

Still loaded with far too many right-wingers. Annabel Denham is the Deputy Comment Editor of the Daily Telegraph. According to Wikipedia, her net worth is estimated at $500k to $1 million. I won't bother watching. I haven't watched QT for at least 15 years, maybe longer.

Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure how this will push growth. Surely this just means more people will go to work hungover and knackered?

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts

www.theguardian.com

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Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 2d

This is ridiculous. The government should stop this and force the water companies shareholders to pay for the necessary work out of the undeserved profits they have extracted since privatisation;

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Millions of households face jump in water bills after regulator backs more price rises

Competition watchdog agrees requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, Southern, Wessex and South East to raise household bills

www.theguardian.com

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Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 2d

Try PCSpecialist. I've had two desktop machines and a laptop from them. I replaced my first desktop this year with a more powerful one. The old one was about a decade old, still working but underpowered for today's bloated software. If you don't want Windows, you can buy one without software.

Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly. It is why I love Sharp Practice, so long as both players stick to playing the period, i.e. how the various forces went about their business.

Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 3d

A well-deserved one!

Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 3d

How many innocent Palestinian children had to die to balance the Israeli hostages Hamas illegally captured two years ago. Killing innocent people is always a war crime but doing it to punish an entire population for the actions of a small minority is a worse one.

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 3d

And here's some watery statuary, Piazza Navona, Rome, also taken in May 2011 with my Pentax *ist DL;

Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 3d

Here's some sunshine and blue sky. Trajan's Forum, Rome. Taken in May 2011 with my old Pentax *ist DL, my first DSLR.

file:///home/carole/Pictures/Rome May 2011/Fora/Trajan's Forum 2.JPG

Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 3d

That is why I never use the trains in this country. Italian, Belgian and French trains are miles better than UK ones.

Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, that can happen. I played Peninsular War British line with Portuguese skirmishers against the French once and the same thing happened. After the French taking casualties from skirmishers, my 3 groups of Line gave a First Fire Controlled Volley at maybe 3". The French were absolutely shattered.

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Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 3d

The French need to form an attack column and use Pas de Charge when attacking. Also, you need to deploy skirmishing troops ahead of the column.

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Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 3d

Typos are different from grammatical errors, though.