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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 9h

Old Saw - Country Tropics LP. "The funny thing about devotion is the absence of sight, of source. We place trust in the guide or guides to bring us to a place of seeing, feeling, and hearing. The music on "Country Tropics" calls out to those in search of such places, but also doesn't demand we conjure some fantastical, celestial vision of understanding. Rather, Old Saw points our gaze downward towards the terrafirma unconsidered, and guides our hands into the dirt."

Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 1d

FROM LONDON COMES THE VOICE OF BRITAIN . . . THE VOICE OF FREEDOM

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CALLS THE WORLD

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Men, women, and even children, risk imprisonment and death to hear broadcasts from London. They are the inhabitants of the occupied countries of Europe. They do so because they have learned that the British broad-casts tell them the truth
Back dust cover of Being Met Together by Vaughan Wilkins, published in 1945:

All over the world, and in many languages, you can listen to the truth from London. The British radio sticks to the facts-giving the latest, most authentic news as soon as it is known.

In addition to news, the BBC brings you every night its world-famous "Radio Newsreel." It brings you talks from leaders of the Allies, stories from people in every walk of life, from war workers, from men in the Forces at Home and Overseas; and programmes of music and entertainment.

Full details of all the programmes in English are broad-cast from London in Morse every Sunday, and are made available to the Press, almost everywhere, a week in advance. If you cannot find them in your own paper, enquire for them. Many items are re-broadcast, too, by stations all over the world. The wavelengths and times of broadcasts from Britain in all other languages are available from your local British authorities or your own radio stations.

FROM LONDON COMES THE VOICE OF BRITAIN THE VOICE OF FREEDOM

Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 2d

Shepherd's pie in the oven.

Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 3d

It is here too. Nuts...

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 3d

Food trucks for peace. Could get behind that idea, and stand in line. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/oc...

Enjoying international cuisines makes people more tolerant, UK study finds

Frequent and varied eating found to reduce likelihood of perceiving immigrants as ‘cultural or economic threats’

www.theguardian.com

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 3d

The BBC stopped working on the TuneIn app (for me at least) in Belgium yesterday. Today, I downloaded this app and it works: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Radio UK - Online Radio player - Apps on Google Play

Tune in live radio: 2500 UK radio stations. Easy to use, FM and internet radio.

play.google.com

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 3d

If your (formerly excellent) TuneIn radio app no longer works with the BBC, this Radio UK app is working for me in Belgium:

play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 3d

Not alone: bsky.app/search?q=Tun...

bsky.app

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 3d

It appears that BBC radio stations are no longer available outside the UK on the TuneIn radio app.

Screenshot of BBC radio 4 on the TuneIn radio phone app.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 4d

Choking on my Covfefe.

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 4d

double checked this and it originated from the LBC political editor over on twitter, so it does appear to be real.

with that out of the way: lmfao

ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 4d

Oh dear, this is a freebie being given out at the Tory conference.

Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 4d

Monday in Brussels.

Posters pasted to a graffiti covered wall, falling down.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 5d

Some solid art on offer.

A painting of a marriage(?) Probably best left to the imagination.

Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 5d

😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 5d

Completely normal and totally safe toy for the kids.

Freaky doll lying on a table of knickknacks at Brussels flea market.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 5d

Marilyn?

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 5d

Tape deck

A large old Sony stereo stereo centre on a table at Brussels flea market.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 5d

Air Barbie fleet.

A fleet of Barbie toy planes at Brussels flea market.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 5d

Latest in technology.

A Tandy computer monitor on sale at Brussels flea market.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 5d

It’s been a while. #FleaMarket

Scene at Brussels flea market. Tonnes of cardboard boxes filled with junk on cobblestones.

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Lydia Massiah @lydiamassiah.bsky.social · 6d

This could be a long and rambling thread. Be patient with me.

I bought an old mahogany bureau on Ebay. I didn't really want a bureau as we're meant to be downsizing, but it was a beautiful piece & obviously very old. Google lens suggests the brass chased handles are Queen Anne. That's 1702-1714 😯