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Eleanor G
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Welsh-Kiwi Japanese translator, chanoyu practitioner & host to a timeshare cat. Memorial Device ANT
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Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · Nov 26
I really couldn't ask for a better review 😊 #TheWisdomOfTea #EveryDayAGoodDay 🍵
#NorikoMorishita

(Thought it was time I advertised my work here)

www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a...
Me with the original edition of Every Day a Good Day and the Australia/NZ edition of The Wisdom of Tea Cover of the British edition of The Wisdom of Tea Quote from The Wisdom of Tea "When you are living through difficult times, when you have lost all confidence and the world seems plunged into darkness, Tea teaches you one thing above all else: live in the moment with an eye to the future." Noriko Morishita Quote from the Daily Mail review of The Wisdom of Tea: 'Delightfully quirky...this is a book of wisdom and joy.'
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danneidle.bsky.social
Bad news for anyone thinking of responding to the consultation on the new electric vehicle duty.

The consultation opens today, and closes last March.
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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greenleejw.bsky.social
Public transport isn't just for Middle Earth. Narnia's getting in on the act!

I've drawn a subway map covering all 7 books of The Chronicles of Narnia. Follow the plots lines, but don't touch the third rail! #Narnia #Maps #Subway

You can buy prints on my Etsy store:
www.etsy.com/listing/4345...
A subway style map on a parchment background. The map's title reads: "Narnia Transit Map: Talking Beasts Ride Free." The map has seven keys, one for each of the seven books in C.S. Lewis's Narinia series. The main movements of characters and action in each book are traced by colored lines, like a subway map. Locations in each book are marked out as stops in the lines. There is a drawing of a lion above the title of the map, and in the lower right corner there is a compass rose. A subway style map on a parchment background. The map's title reads: "Narnia Transit Map: Talking Beasts Ride Free." The map has seven keys, one for each of the seven books in C.S. Lewis's Narinia series. The main movements of characters and action in each book are traced by colored lines, like a subway map. Locations in each book are marked out as stops in the lines. There is a drawing of a lion above the title of the map, and in the lower right corner there is a compass rose.
November 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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lizanderson.bsky.social
If you can’t live without merchandise featuring a mouse riding a lobster then @themerl.bsky.social is the place for you.
themerl.bsky.social The Museum of English Rural Life @themerl.bsky.social · 3h
It's a beautiful day. We just dropped new merch for the first time in a year.

merl-shop.co.uk

(and, yes: we ship internationally!)

🧵
Merch for The Museum of English Rural Life. Each item - a tote bag, a mug, and two coasters - is adorned with an artwork of a mouse riding a lobster, holding a scroll decorated with the device of The Museum of English Rural Life.
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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rorycj.bsky.social
…but also delighted to see this. The NHS needs to be far more proactive about why it’s good to share your health data
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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lizaadamczewski.bsky.social
The birding highlight of the year so far was recording Dartford Warbler on our land. To mark this auspicious occasion I painted a musical icon …. Which Bryn the Welsh Terrier always sings along with
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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jonnymorris.bsky.social
Suggs and the boys, great bunch of lads, always said so.
November 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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sallypoastes.bsky.social
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into at least one person's vision of the ideal lover
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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jonesycartoons3.bsky.social
This widescreen #cartoon appeared in @privateeyenews.bsky.social New issue out today and I'm delighted to be in that too. #identityparade #police #unreliablewitness #mistakenidentity
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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oddthisday.bsky.social
Well, if it’s 26 November, it must be the 139th anniversary of a divorce case so saucy and notorious it gave us the phrase “what the butler saw”, and newspapers suppressed some of the details of the domestic servant in question’s testimony because it was “unfit for publication”
Lady Colin Campbell, painted by Giovanni Boldini – a glamorous woman looking directly out of the image with an amused, arguably flirtatious expression, and wearing a black ball gown
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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mxfrankduffy.bsky.social
here are the interpretation panels I created for @nationaltrust.org.uk Dinefwr (will get IRL photos of them installed this weekend hopefully!)
bilingual interpretation panels explaning the Christmas Tree wildlife decorations bilingual interpretation panels explaning the Christmas Tree wildlife decorations
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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mxfrankduffy.bsky.social
Lovely job for @nationaltrust.org.uk Dinefwr: for every xmas they commission a local fibre artist to create tree decorations of the wildlife on site. But they realised they'd never told the public about the decorations. So they commissioned me to illustrate & create interpretation panels:
linoprint illustration of an ant in the grass with white park cattle looking on linocut illustration of a tawny owl and a brown long-eared bat linocut illustration of a perch and swan mussels linocut illustration of a cockchafer and poplar hawk moth
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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waynewilliamjones.bsky.social
This is a very amateur way of putting together a publication on the part of Deloitte, and betrays their lack of knowledge of how reputable and dependable knowledge and scholarship are put together.
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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pickardje.bsky.social
good morning from the river Thames
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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gingertotty.bsky.social
The only power I have (arguably!) in the “everything in life seems to be getting continually worse” stakes - is to defiantly keep making art and trying to share little glimmers of joy I find.

Even when those are ANGY FLOOFS what I’ve drawn in indignation at the enshittification of everything.
This cat is ANGY…
November 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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scientits.bsky.social
My mum ordered a new freezer from AO and when the delivery van came, it did not have a tail lift - apparently the company won't pay for them

The two guys were expected to lift freezers, washing machines etc off the back of the van themselves...which does not seem safe

This guy can GTFO
nick-pettigrew.bsky.social Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1d
There's an advert on his website for a 'Depot Supervisor' that pays £12.75 an hour for shift work.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
the-independent.com The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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itsdanthomas.bsky.social
This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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stephenkb.bsky.social
"My beloved working class" - i.e. the one that exists in his head, but in real life has always rejected this particularly ugly strain of 'you don't deserve commercial television, nice holidays or little luxuries' whenever Labour have taken it to the public.
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d
there's a lot to unpack here Lord Glasman
We return to politics. The working classes, he says, saved Britain during the Second World War, yet were repaid with contempt. “The way that my beloved working class was treated under Margaret Thatcher was cruel and deeply disrespectful, and we are still suffering the consequences,” he says. At a time when unemployment is ticking up and six million people are parked on out-of-work benefits, he wants to restore dignity in employment and see an end to the cycle of welfare dependency. As the Conservative Party was busy selling its soul, Labour abandoned its pro-worker position. “What Thatcher mercilessly initiated, Tony Blair immaculately consummated,” he says. This was manifest in New Labour’s attitude towards higher education. In 1979, roughly 10 per cent of school leavers went to university. Then Blair set his target, encouraging school leavers to move 100 miles from home and dismiss their intergenerational bonds. And, inevitably, “this very beautiful party was colonised by the progressive middle class”.
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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navalairhistory.com
Oh 100%. It’s a kind of snobbery in which the working class aren’t allowed to move, socially, culturally, and apparently geographically. My working-class grandparents’ families were all about self-improvement - houses full of books, music lessons, and the spirit of putting back into the community
November 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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itsjoels.bsky.social
Here’s my CHRISTMAS GIFT TIP. You can buy all Michael Palin’s books and DVDs and suchlike off his website, and he signs and dedicates the item for no extra charge. Don’t say I don’t give you nowt. (I did this for my dad, and he didn’t notice the autograph on his Ripping Yarns.) themichaelpalin.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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victoriaredfern.bsky.social
Few things make me angrier than people who call themselves advocates for the working class, who actually have an incredibly patronising attitude. Oh, going to university is going to cut me off from my family history is it? Should I rather keep my place, is it, like a good little stereotype?Fuck you.
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d
there's a lot to unpack here Lord Glasman
We return to politics. The working classes, he says, saved Britain during the Second World War, yet were repaid with contempt. “The way that my beloved working class was treated under Margaret Thatcher was cruel and deeply disrespectful, and we are still suffering the consequences,” he says. At a time when unemployment is ticking up and six million people are parked on out-of-work benefits, he wants to restore dignity in employment and see an end to the cycle of welfare dependency. As the Conservative Party was busy selling its soul, Labour abandoned its pro-worker position. “What Thatcher mercilessly initiated, Tony Blair immaculately consummated,” he says. This was manifest in New Labour’s attitude towards higher education. In 1979, roughly 10 per cent of school leavers went to university. Then Blair set his target, encouraging school leavers to move 100 miles from home and dismiss their intergenerational bonds. And, inevitably, “this very beautiful party was colonised by the progressive middle class”.
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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salvey1.bsky.social
The strange sneering attitude to higher education evident here goes directly against a key point of Kinnock, aspiration. The most important line in his 85 conference speech was talking about the Labour movement providing an education that went on for as long as he wanted
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d
there's a lot to unpack here Lord Glasman
We return to politics. The working classes, he says, saved Britain during the Second World War, yet were repaid with contempt. “The way that my beloved working class was treated under Margaret Thatcher was cruel and deeply disrespectful, and we are still suffering the consequences,” he says. At a time when unemployment is ticking up and six million people are parked on out-of-work benefits, he wants to restore dignity in employment and see an end to the cycle of welfare dependency. As the Conservative Party was busy selling its soul, Labour abandoned its pro-worker position. “What Thatcher mercilessly initiated, Tony Blair immaculately consummated,” he says. This was manifest in New Labour’s attitude towards higher education. In 1979, roughly 10 per cent of school leavers went to university. Then Blair set his target, encouraging school leavers to move 100 miles from home and dismiss their intergenerational bonds. And, inevitably, “this very beautiful party was colonised by the progressive middle class”.
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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thatmarkelliott.bsky.social
Maurice Glasman, who moved from his home in London to study at university first in Cambridge, then in York, lastly in Florence, explains why young people should be discouraged from leaving home to study at universities in distant cities.
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d
there's a lot to unpack here Lord Glasman
We return to politics. The working classes, he says, saved Britain during the Second World War, yet were repaid with contempt. “The way that my beloved working class was treated under Margaret Thatcher was cruel and deeply disrespectful, and we are still suffering the consequences,” he says. At a time when unemployment is ticking up and six million people are parked on out-of-work benefits, he wants to restore dignity in employment and see an end to the cycle of welfare dependency. As the Conservative Party was busy selling its soul, Labour abandoned its pro-worker position. “What Thatcher mercilessly initiated, Tony Blair immaculately consummated,” he says. This was manifest in New Labour’s attitude towards higher education. In 1979, roughly 10 per cent of school leavers went to university. Then Blair set his target, encouraging school leavers to move 100 miles from home and dismiss their intergenerational bonds. And, inevitably, “this very beautiful party was colonised by the progressive middle class”.
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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korimakoecology.bsky.social
So our only local emergency doctor just announced they will no longer allow free emergency visits for 0-17 year olds. It's going to cost $59 per visit.

How are families already pushed
to the brink supposed to afford this? All it does is push kids into stretched hospital emergency rooms.

#nzpol
November 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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nug.monster
ACC: "we're going to move a bunch of long term claimants off ACC "
Kmart: "You guys ever hear of asbestosis"
long term claims unit: "...fuck"
newsroom.co.nz Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 12h
Comment from the University of Otago: Recording possible asbestos exposure now might be important for cancer diagnosis and ACC claims.
How ACC can cover asbestos-contaminated sand claims
newsroom.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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whenisbirths.bsky.social
I do these exclusive A6 and A5 cards for birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas etc. Do get in touch if you’d like me to create them. Email [email protected] for more info. Thanks.
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM