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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦

@john0109.bsky.social

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Dad, RAF Veteran and survivor of numerous Leeds United ups and downs. Lover of nature, history, books and making miniatures. 75% English, 15% Welsh, 10% Odds & Ends. Just looking for things to make me smile...or think...or think and smile.

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 9d

Sometimes you just have to take a beat and forget about the future. Sit down and enjoy the view in the company of someone special. (Niederau, Austria)

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 1h

And a nice bit of friendly banter makes the world seem saner somehow! 🤪

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 1h

Time for a post from Malcolm Root's "Pageant of Transport", this time another wintery scene with 'Royal Scot' in LMS livery climbing to Ais Gill Summit, Cumbria. Reminds us of times when loco crews really needed a good fire to hand! ⛄🔥⛄
#Steamtrains #Steamgeek #Trains #Transport #Art

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 2h

People are very scathing about climate change. I just say, well it's here, let's make the most of it! 🏖️

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 2h

Phew, thank heavens for that! 🥳

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 2h

It's nice to know that Blue Sky can be an oasis of calm in the midst of a very troubled world, isn't it? I just plod on in my little happy bubble, whistling contentedly! 😊

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 5h

Good grief, I'm just not that bendy. I'll ask Mrs M! Teehee

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 6h

I seem to have lost my Yorkshire roots in favour of some amorphous blob called 'East Midlands'. I am very miffed! 😢 #Ancestry #Genealogy

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 6h

I can't help myself, I just love these little fellas. 😊♥️

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All On The Board @allontheboard.bsky.social · 13h

Today is World Mental Health Day. It’s a day that should be every day of the year. You are worthwhile, and you deserve to be here.

#WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD25 #MentalHealth

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 7h

He did a lot of that rubbing the head with both hands thing, as if the voices in there just wouldn't go away! But to my mind he wasn't the worst Welsh player. Let's hope his confidence doesn't take too much of a knock. #lufc

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 18h

Oops, having second thoughts now, aren't we? 😭

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 21h

Nobel prize for Peace...and a 'special' award for Advanced Mathematics? #doh

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 21h

All Welsh aren't we? 😃 #AWAW #lufc

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 21h

Haha, enjoy! 😋

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 23h

Genius isn't it? And I'm thinking I'd love that to be made into a jigsaw puzzle! 🤔

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 1d

And the carriages sport the typical 'blood and custard' livery of that era.

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 1d

I can't let the day go by without posting a bit of Malcolm Root steam. It's the early 1950s and 'Duchess of Sutherland' attacks the gradient at Greenholme, Cumbria on the way to the Shap summit. Just captures the winter bleakness perfectly.
#Steamtrains #Transport #Art #Steamgeek #Trains

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 1d

Best bit of TV I have seen for some time. BAFTAs all round please. #BlueLights

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 1d

I'm good with low bars. My limbo skills are rapidly improving as I get older!! 🤣

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 1d

Did you say 'more sane'? Are you sure? Really? 🤪

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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · 1d

Time lapse of a Border Collie sheepdog doing his job!

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#bluesky #animals #wildlife #animals #dog #dogday

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John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 1d

Reminds me of an old, old joke about a Swedish bloke who goes into a Chemist -

"I'd like a deodorant please"
"Certainly sir. Ball or aerosol?"
"Neither, I'd like it for my armpits"

Sorry. 🤣

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, now your earlier comment about keeping your socks on makes perfect sense! 🤣

John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @john0109.bsky.social · 1d

Hold on, YORKSHIRE is the mother language designed to worship the old gods. We have becks, fells, more thwaites than you can shake a stick at, and we're all as fit as lops. Some of us even have 2% viking DNA (+ or - 2%)!! 🤣

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Eco-Schools Wales @ecoschoolswales.keepwalestidy.cymru · 2d

Pupils from Ysgol Llandrillo yn Rhos, together with the 'Friends of Rhos on Sea' and local residents, have been carrying out regular beach litter picks. Over the past year, they have collected more than 100kg of rubbish, helping protect the coastline 💚🚮

👉 bit.ly/42uhXNj

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