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👻 🧙‍♀️ Trick or treat? 🦇 🎃

It's TREATS ONLY at Kingfishers Bridge this Halloween, with all sorts of family fun for just £3/person, plus fabulous food from @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social!

🕒 3-8 pm, Friday 31 October

📲 Book now at kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/category/eve...

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[To] The Fenland Station @fenlandstation.bsky.social · 2d

Aaah thanks... I've only spent the last ?47 years hearing "...bought new suits..."

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[To] The Fenland Station @fenlandstation.bsky.social · 2d

Islands of the Fens, part 94

[To] The Fenland Station @fenlandstation.bsky.social · 3d

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

‘I’m the total opposite to Cav and Brad’: Geraint Thomas on how a normal bloke won the Tour de France

The two-time Olympic gold medallist tells Donald McRae about the grit and sacrifice needed to succeed for two decades in elite cycling

www.theguardian.com

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[To] The Fenland Station @fenlandstation.bsky.social · 3d

Cherry Hinton brook, yesterday

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Amanda Watson @amndw2.bsky.social · 6d

I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror

A bingo card for the ghost stories of M.R. James. Boxes read:
"Spiders
Terrible hotel stay
Narrator makes fun of golf
Latin passages
Eerie disembodied voices
Confirmed bachelor main character
Vengeful spirit
Evil magician
Working-class character as comic relief
Bleak East Anglian coast
Visit to an archive
Narrator in guidebook mode
FREE SPACE
Unholy doings in a church
Frogs or toads
Queen Anne style house
Cursed artifact
Don't buy that rare book!
Something hairy and horrible
Someone gets too curious
Tentacles
Story told via old manuscript
Research trip gone horribly wrong
Beds are scary
Tactile horror

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The Kingfisher Cafe @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social · 8d

Yes, that's 10% on all your café favourites, from cakes to milkshakes — and free parking!

It's a bargain: sign up now!

Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve @kingfishersbridge.bsky.social · 8d

Become a Supporter of Kingfishers Bridge for just £45/household/year to get:

📰 Regular updates about the Reserve
🥾Priority booking and 10% discount on Guided Walks
🍰 10% discount @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social
🚗 Free onsite parking
💕 Our deepest thanks

www.kingfishersbridge.org/become-a-sup...

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 6d

The Arrival of the Jarrow Marchers in London, Viewed from an Interior, by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale, 1880-1952 (Museum of the Home).

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[To] The Fenland Station @fenlandstation.bsky.social · 10d

G and Luke not included in this ep

[To] The Fenland Station @fenlandstation.bsky.social · 10d

pca.st/episode/c5c3...

These women are amazing!

Body image, positivity and the Tim Tam SLAM! | Watts Occurring Femmes

pca.st

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[To] The Fenland Station @fenlandstation.bsky.social · 10d

Ah ye olde Talke Talke, lutenists for the ages

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[To] The Fenland Station @fenlandstation.bsky.social · 13d

2nd series of Alien:Earth to be titled "The HR Conspiracy", as over 94 episodes we learn how on earth both Weyland-Yutani and Prodigy managed to hire such eejits

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 13d

Poster advertising the Yorkshire coast for LNER, 1929, by Derbyshire-born Laura Knight (1877-1970), her generation's most popular painter. #WomensArt

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[To] The Fenland Station @fenlandstation.bsky.social · 14d

They help me to WALK THIS WAY etc etc

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Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve @kingfishersbridge.bsky.social · 14d

‼️ Last call for this Sunday's Bat Walk at 6:45 pm! We have 5 spaces. The rest are sold out

🦇🌒 🦉 What better way to keep the mellow weekend vibe going than venturing deep into the Reserve at dusk, led by our expert Warden?

👩‍💻 Book at kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/even...

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[To] The Fenland Station @fenlandstation.bsky.social · 14d

Coincidentally, this just out which I'm enjoying
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Grounding - Gary Numan on how he expresses his emotions - BBC Sounds

Gary Numan reflects on being autistic and how he expresses his emotions through his art.

www.bbc.co.uk