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Paddy Roberts @paddy-roberts.bsky.social · 25d
This year, rather than grow a moustache (my wife has had enough of my dodgy 'tashes) I'm running a virtual marathon for The Robin Cancer Trust.

If you've a spare quid, click on this link. If not, no worries. Whatever you do:

Check your (or someone else's) balls!

www.justgiving.com/page/paddy-r...
Big Ballsy Run 2025
Help Paddy Roberts raise money to support The Robin Cancer Trust
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gphydeauthor.bsky.social
Here’s my offering for the theme of #timed – it’s a piece from several years ago after a visit to #Canada where I had a great experience travelling on the excellent #GOtrain. Thanks go to Sheila @lovehealthed.bsky.social our #vss365 host.

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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lagahoo.bsky.social
A party begins
When people arrive, not when
It was scheduled
Timed events try to contain
The chaos of life

#vss365 #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #BlueSkyPoets #WriteSky #Poem #Scrape #SkyPoets #HaikuCommunity
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Thanks again Jan @jangoeswriting.bsky.social Have a superb day!
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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#BigBallsyRun #8/n

A longish walk to get some mental bandwidth. I find running uses up quite a lot of space trying to ignore the body's desperate pleas for me to stop, so this walk allowed me to think and de-stress. It's full on at work, in an endocrinic and emotional way, so I needed this.
Nice day for a walk Top of the first slope ...
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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They timed me again;
Disbelief showed in their eyes:
Evidence ... denied ...
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#vss365 #timed #haiku
Image: sciencephoto.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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On stage in Cardiff last month.
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Thank you, Fubar @fubar-427.bsky.social for reposting this
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Terry Pratchett: Jingo
Night poured over the desert. It cane suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way. Terry Pratchett (1993): Jingo, p. 193
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Thanks, Dawn @dmcwriter.bsky.social , for reposting this.
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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25/11

I'm smoking too much
I put it down to the fire
Set around this stake

#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku

youtu.be/9-2m07d2Neo
Scene from The Wicker Man, with Ewar Woowar ... (there's an old joke!) Pic: looper.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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With a button's push,
This wings its way into the

Void,

and is now gone

#haiku
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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I visited Montreux, Switzerland, a couple of summers back. Made a bit of a pilgrimage to the casino, where Mr Mercury recorded his final song, and stands guard over Lake Geneva.
The spot on which Freddie Mercury stood to record his final song, Montreux Casino, Switzerland. Statue of Freddie Mercury, on the Lake Geneva shoreline... (But that's a different song)
November 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 26,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.

Please sign and share 🙏

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Thank you, @nikkismiling.bsky.social for reposting this.
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Thanks, again, Dawn @dmcwriter.bsky.social for reposting.
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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It's time to abolish the House of Lords.
November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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@paddy-roberts.bsky.social

24.11

A welcome return to some sunlight, it does make everything seem a bit better, doesn't it?

Christmas tree shadow,
A portent of the festive
Season approaching.

#17thOctober #haiku365
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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two men are standing next to each other and one of them is asking do you want woofers and tweeters ?
ALT: two men are standing next to each other and one of them is asking do you want woofers and tweeters ?
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November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Thank you, @jangoeswriting.bsky.social for this repost.
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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another poem
finds its way to the blank page
how's this relevant?

#vss365 #relevant #haiku
A leather-bound book of recycled paper, a gift from my wife, in which I occasionally scribble things.
November 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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kingsraconteur.bsky.social
Seek the joy within
from your own source of power.
It is all you need.

#dailyhaikuprompt [wellspring] #haiku
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Thanks for the repost, Luke @deluxday.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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@deluxday.bsky.social

Short Wave:

The lodestone. It helps you find your way home, or, at least, keep hold of your bearing.

24/11

... comingthrough static ...
... wewel come lis ten ersfrom ...
... Lon don2LO ...

#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku

(There's a bit of an essay in the ALT)
Photo: Getty Images/Roger Wood I had an increasingly-battered hand-sized 'transistor' sw/lw/am/fm (vhf) radio from my pre-teens to middle-age, when it was finally superceded by mobile phone/Internet technology. A bit like Trigger's broom, it underwent enough changes - batteries; aerials - lengths of copper wire to fish for signal; quite possibly the actual radio itself - but in essence, that radio, a Roberts, of course, was the first thing I'd find before packing for a trip. I heard the Berlin Wall fall; some of the events of September 11, 2001; various Cup Finals; the Boxing Day Tsunami. My wife had a similar model. A friend had one fixed to his ear for a while trip around Uganda. Eventually, I gave it to my son as a plaything: I guess it's disappeared into the great Toy Box in the sky, now. It's a connection, albeit one-way, to the outside world which, although lacking the interaction of the Internet, creates a much closer network of people, a greater commonality: whether it was the BBC, Deutche Welle, the Voice of America, or simply the local radio station playing local tunes and chat in an incomprehensible (to me) language, you were a part of the audience, valued, engaged. I was once told by a Canadian, I think with a little bit of leg-pulling, that I had a voice for the BBC. But when one absorbs From Our Own Correspondent and similar, day after day in foreign lands, some of it gets into the DNA. I even got to make an audio postcard myself, once, and I like to think that I was able to pay off just a little bit of my massive radio-debt. https://farmradio.org/audio-postcard-gathering-stories-for-farm-radio-weekly/
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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... with Hilversum settings.
November 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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deluxday.bsky.social
@paddy-roberts.bsky.social

23.11

Turn the dial and search
the frequencies to find a
broadcast just for you.

#17thOctober #haiku365
One for you Mr Roberts, Len's vintage Roberts R606 radio..
November 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM