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Ailsa McWhinnie

@ailsamcwhinnie.bsky.social

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Greyhounds, photography, allotments, Brighton & Hove Albion. You know – the usual. Freelance subeditor and project manager of Amateur Photographer of the Year. Also on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ailsamc

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Roly Maby @osakalbion.bsky.social · May 7

At #DomeBrighton in #BrightonFestival the sublime unique superb talent #AroojAftab and her amazing band of musicians not just singing but having shots of whisky 🥃 delivered to the audience by the bar staff wonderful night go see them all and drink whisky together #VerveRecords

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Ailsa McWhinnie @ailsamcwhinnie.bsky.social · Apr 28

This is our main form of entertainment at the moment: six fox cubs (plus vixen) growing up before our very eyes, just outside our kitchen balcony in central Brighton. Definitely better than television 🧡 #FoxOfTheDay #FoxesOfTheDay #FoxCubsOfTheDay

Ailsa McWhinnie @ailsamcwhinnie.bsky.social · Apr 25

Joyous @joshuaidehen.bsky.social at Patterns tonight. Quite possibly the gig of the year. #MumDoesTheWashing

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · Apr 9

If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty down about my small business. I’m working so hard but it’s been very quiet. It’s bloody difficult at the moment.
Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

Gail Myerscough | Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator | Manchester

Surface Pattern Design & Illustration by Manchester based designer Gail Myerscough. Contemporary design meets mid century style. Contact for art licensing, commissions & collaboration enquiries.

www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

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Ailsa McWhinnie @ailsamcwhinnie.bsky.social · Apr 9

You know all is right with the world when Laurie the greyhound appears on another #TimsBlueSkyListeningParty

Roly Maby @osakalbion.bsky.social · Apr 9

@waterboysmusic.bsky.social Laurie is Go here in Brighton and the Easy Rider looking for more #TimsBlueSkyListeningParty adventure #SunRecordsGroup #SunRecords #LifeDeathAndDennisHopper @mickpuck.bsky.social #hopperlisteningparty @tim-burgess.bsky.social

Ailsa McWhinnie @ailsamcwhinnie.bsky.social · Apr 5

Oh, get tae fuck. (Him, not you.)

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Ailsa McWhinnie @ailsamcwhinnie.bsky.social · Mar 17

Isn’t it? 😄

Ailsa McWhinnie @ailsamcwhinnie.bsky.social · Mar 17

I was taking pictures. Laurie was bored.

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Ailsa McWhinnie @ailsamcwhinnie.bsky.social · Mar 12

Greyhound in “finds the sunny spot” shocker.

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Ailsa McWhinnie @ailsamcwhinnie.bsky.social · Mar 9

“Fly what?” #Crufts

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Ailsa McWhinnie @ailsamcwhinnie.bsky.social · Feb 18

A fantastic day for greyhound welfare. May the rest of the UK follow soon.

Greyhound racing to be banned in Wales www.bbc.com/news/article...

Greyhound racing to be banned in Wales

Labour ministers say the sport - which has one track in Wales - will be banned as soon as possible.

www.bbc.com

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Ailsa McWhinnie @ailsamcwhinnie.bsky.social · Feb 18

I can see me helping to hold Carlota up 😄

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Jan 9

You've got to admire how Liz Truss' strategy to stop people from talking about how she crashed the economy has involved purposefully generating an entirely new news cycle about how she crashed the economy

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Ailsa McWhinnie @ailsamcwhinnie.bsky.social · Jan 8

Slithered home through the snow.

Ailsa McWhinnie @ailsamcwhinnie.bsky.social · Jan 8

As is Harriet! I love her white socks 🤍

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Ailsa McWhinnie @ailsamcwhinnie.bsky.social · Jan 8

Laurie does that, too!

Ailsa McWhinnie @ailsamcwhinnie.bsky.social · Jan 8

Orange first, then green.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · Jan 8

one of the most thorough skewerings I’ve ever seen during PMQs

Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · Jan 8

Keir Starmer says Kemi Badenoch in eight years as an MP never mentioned grooming gangs in the House of Commons - not once - even when she was children’s minister

Badenoch insists she has raised the issue “in speeches” but is unable to deny the charge #pmqs

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Jan 6

In other news, Nigel Farage didn't bother to turn up to the debate on grooming gangs in the House of Commons just now

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Jan 5

Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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Ailsa McWhinnie @ailsamcwhinnie.bsky.social · Jan 4

It’ll take more than a howling gale to disturb this one!

Ailsa McWhinnie @ailsamcwhinnie.bsky.social · Jan 4

Bit breezy out there #UKweather #windy #GreyhoundsOfBluesky #SkyHounds

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Ailsa McWhinnie @ailsamcwhinnie.bsky.social · Jan 1

Happy 2025 to you all.

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · Dec 17

There’s an antiques emporium in Norwich of such unfathomable strangeness every visit produces fresh gasps of bewilderment and terror. Recent finds:

1. Mounted photo print of depressed steam train driver (£1)

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Ailsa McWhinnie @ailsamcwhinnie.bsky.social · Dec 17

Comfortable there, Laurie? 🙄 #GreyhoundsofBluesky #Greyhounds

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