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Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉

@goakl.bsky.social

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Published on 19th Century Vendéen memorials. Former PwC partner. Trustee at Institute of Historical Research. Trustee at NHS Retirement. Active travel in Bishop’s Stortford. Keyboard warrior. Bearsted CC. Cricket, cycling, rugby à XV. France and England.

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Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 1h

Pretty sure Keith Richards smoked his way through every concert ever! And he must be at least 120.

Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 1h

*for eight!!

Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 1h

Would eat.

Would drink.

Would never cook for right these days. Courage!

Looks wonderful.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26d

'What we have lost, and what we desperately need to reclaim, is a different mode of cognition, a historical sensibility....t is a temperament that is comfortable with uncertainty, sensitive to context and aware of the powerful, often unpredictable rhythms of the past.'

The Lost Art Of Thinking Historically | NOEMA

To understand the world today, we must see it as actors of the past did: through a foggy windshield, not a rearview mirror, facing a future of radical uncertainty.

www.noemamag.com

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Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 2h

Not sure how Exeter lost that game. Camped out on the line for much of the second half. They’ll learn to use their amazing backs during the season I guess. Frustrating.

#rugby

Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 4h

See, I’m a Aldi ersatz mars bar addict…

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Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 5h

It is. The Aldi (a mile away) was empty apparently. People are strange.

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Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 5h

We have a new Lidl in Stortford. We walked the 2.5 miles to have a look, maybe buy a bottle of wine. The car park (full of shiny Range Rovers of course) was beyond full. The queues to pay, 20 deep. There are another 5 supermarkets within a 4 mile radius. We walked on.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 9h

stop thinking right now

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Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 7h

Talking with Davy who’s still in the navy.

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Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 7h

Damn. It was just there staring at me wasn’t it? I suppose we must acknowledge that the other chap was actually O’Rourkpierre.

All the best Gareth O’Akland.

Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 7h

That Marat bloke was a wrong’un. She had him bang to rights.

Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 7h

And for Token 2 this is definitely set in a cocktail bar. Although who calls it a “tonic and gin” ffs?

Billy Joel. Piano Man.

Billy Joel - Piano Man (Official HD Video)

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Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 8h

Hello M and K.

Happy jukebox day.

I think this may already be loaded on the playlist but Frank and Carlos are definitely at home in the cocktail lounge.

Token 1. Sinatra and Jobim. Girl from Ipanema.

Frank Sinatra - The Girl From Ipanema ft. Antonio Carlos Jobim | A Man And His Music (1967)

YouTube video by Frank Sinatra

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Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 8h

I know very little about birding. So I was convinced this is either a) a bit of Irish politics that has passed me by or b) (more likely) a coded Antifa message calling for a general uprising.

Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 9h

#donegalbirding
Grey-cheeked thrush still present on Tory this morning. Harlequin moving west towards Bloody Foreland.

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Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 9h

Fantastic. Changing the world one pedal stroke at a time.

Chapeau.

Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 9h

My dad was manager of the Sidmouth woolies, my first paid job was working in the stockroom there. We are so many sweets…

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Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 9h

Unsolicited pick n mix pic

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Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 22h

Nice. Zinc on the inside?

Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 22h

Yes. That does it. And the stadium is half empty. Think there are going to be pretty one-sided games this weekend. Bath. Exeter. Northampton. Saracens. All nailed on.

Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 23h

Not sure why I’m watching a training session for Sale on a Friday night. Or who managed to talk Red Bull into investing in a team who would struggle in the Champ (maybe even in 1).

#rugby

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Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 23h

Vanilla ice cream? Bet that was good. You’re very welcome.

Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 23h

Desserts start at €20, you think? With a €10 glass of Sauternes?

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Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 23h

Avec un coulis des pommes et mûres sauvages!

Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 23h

I scoffed the lot! Birds custard powder should be in every store cupboard I’ve decided. Tomorrow I’m thinking banane crème anglaise à la façon de ma mère.