Being Doris
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Massive fan of The Archers, country dwelling leftie. Speak up please.
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So the U.S. Government can hold foreign presidents to account…but not its own.
Got it.
Got it.
January 3, 2026 at 4:52 PM
So the U.S. Government can hold foreign presidents to account…but not its own.
Got it.
Got it.
I love a bit of you and sunshine on this snowy Scottish night .
🧵Spotted on the first Market Day of the Year in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A tiny human (1?) is sharing a VERY yummy looking ice cream with Grandad.
Tiny Human's wearing an ice cream gummy grin, eyes big as she looks adoringly at Grandad who's aeroplaning a spoon towards her. "VROOOOM!" (1)
A tiny human (1?) is sharing a VERY yummy looking ice cream with Grandad.
Tiny Human's wearing an ice cream gummy grin, eyes big as she looks adoringly at Grandad who's aeroplaning a spoon towards her. "VROOOOM!" (1)
January 3, 2026 at 12:25 AM
I love a bit of you and sunshine on this snowy Scottish night .
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Move aside 2024’s #DuvetKnowItsChristmas the 2025 version is here.
(I participated a couple of days before today - but am desperately hoping this doesn’t count against me too much!!)
(I participated a couple of days before today - but am desperately hoping this doesn’t count against me too much!!)
Right then, no one asked for it (everyone seems quite happy with last year's!) but here we are anyway, your #DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025 bingo card! Some returning classics, some we missed last year and some new ones. Enjoy team, donation link below once Rhodri posts it!
December 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Move aside 2024’s #DuvetKnowItsChristmas the 2025 version is here.
(I participated a couple of days before today - but am desperately hoping this doesn’t count against me too much!!)
(I participated a couple of days before today - but am desperately hoping this doesn’t count against me too much!!)
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You spectacularly generous people have raised £13k so far. We have a beyond-excited three year old likely to wake us at 5am, so it’s an early night here. I’ll have to catch up with the pix in the morning ♥️ #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden
Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing.
What is it?
Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025
www.gofundme.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
You spectacularly generous people have raised £13k so far. We have a beyond-excited three year old likely to wake us at 5am, so it’s an early night here. I’ll have to catch up with the pix in the morning ♥️ #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
This is my favourite hash tag of the year. #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?
December 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
This is my favourite hash tag of the year. #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
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🧵Spotted Recently While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A young human (9?) is walking through a shopping arcade at Mum's side.
Suddenly she realizes that all the floor tiles are an imaginary hopscotch grid! (Yay!)
She hops ahead, roaring back over her shoulder for Mum to copy.
(Mum does.) (1)
A young human (9?) is walking through a shopping arcade at Mum's side.
Suddenly she realizes that all the floor tiles are an imaginary hopscotch grid! (Yay!)
She hops ahead, roaring back over her shoulder for Mum to copy.
(Mum does.) (1)
December 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
🧵Spotted Recently While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A young human (9?) is walking through a shopping arcade at Mum's side.
Suddenly she realizes that all the floor tiles are an imaginary hopscotch grid! (Yay!)
She hops ahead, roaring back over her shoulder for Mum to copy.
(Mum does.) (1)
A young human (9?) is walking through a shopping arcade at Mum's side.
Suddenly she realizes that all the floor tiles are an imaginary hopscotch grid! (Yay!)
She hops ahead, roaring back over her shoulder for Mum to copy.
(Mum does.) (1)
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Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
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🧵Spotted On Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:
Two men (40s & 50s?) meet in a bustling market:
The first says: "Hey Buddy."
The second says: "Hey."
The first says: "Bought a dingy."
The second says: "Fishing?"
The first says: "Yeah.
The second says: "Done."
Satisfied, they part ways. (1)
Two men (40s & 50s?) meet in a bustling market:
The first says: "Hey Buddy."
The second says: "Hey."
The first says: "Bought a dingy."
The second says: "Fishing?"
The first says: "Yeah.
The second says: "Done."
Satisfied, they part ways. (1)
November 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
🧵Spotted On Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:
Two men (40s & 50s?) meet in a bustling market:
The first says: "Hey Buddy."
The second says: "Hey."
The first says: "Bought a dingy."
The second says: "Fishing?"
The first says: "Yeah.
The second says: "Done."
Satisfied, they part ways. (1)
Two men (40s & 50s?) meet in a bustling market:
The first says: "Hey Buddy."
The second says: "Hey."
The first says: "Bought a dingy."
The second says: "Fishing?"
The first says: "Yeah.
The second says: "Done."
Satisfied, they part ways. (1)
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🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
In a misty paddock, early morning, a farmer belts across buttercup strewn grass on a quad bike, two border collies streaks of black and white either side. Cloud draped mountains in the distance. The smell of green and the sea in the air. (1)
In a misty paddock, early morning, a farmer belts across buttercup strewn grass on a quad bike, two border collies streaks of black and white either side. Cloud draped mountains in the distance. The smell of green and the sea in the air. (1)
November 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
In a misty paddock, early morning, a farmer belts across buttercup strewn grass on a quad bike, two border collies streaks of black and white either side. Cloud draped mountains in the distance. The smell of green and the sea in the air. (1)
In a misty paddock, early morning, a farmer belts across buttercup strewn grass on a quad bike, two border collies streaks of black and white either side. Cloud draped mountains in the distance. The smell of green and the sea in the air. (1)
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This Waitrose ad is better than the majority of movies I've seen this year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sOy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sOy...
Keira Knightley stars in Waitrose’s Christmas ‘mini romcom’ ad
YouTube video by Daily Record
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This Waitrose ad is better than the majority of movies I've seen this year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sOy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sOy...
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Spotted in London...
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Spotted in London...
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🧵Spotted Recently on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A small human (3?) in a dinosaur shirt is MOST disgruntled. Looking up at Mum with an offended frown he states emphatically: "We are IN THE WRONG CARPARK! The toy shop ISN'T HERE!"
Mum doesn't seem to grasp the gravity of this situation. (1)
A small human (3?) in a dinosaur shirt is MOST disgruntled. Looking up at Mum with an offended frown he states emphatically: "We are IN THE WRONG CARPARK! The toy shop ISN'T HERE!"
Mum doesn't seem to grasp the gravity of this situation. (1)
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
🧵Spotted Recently on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A small human (3?) in a dinosaur shirt is MOST disgruntled. Looking up at Mum with an offended frown he states emphatically: "We are IN THE WRONG CARPARK! The toy shop ISN'T HERE!"
Mum doesn't seem to grasp the gravity of this situation. (1)
A small human (3?) in a dinosaur shirt is MOST disgruntled. Looking up at Mum with an offended frown he states emphatically: "We are IN THE WRONG CARPARK! The toy shop ISN'T HERE!"
Mum doesn't seem to grasp the gravity of this situation. (1)
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Those queueing up wanting to take a mallet to the BBC this morning might like to pause and think ‘be careful what you wish for.’ It’s not perfect, of course not, mistakes have been made but it’s still a jewel in the crown. TV, wide range of radio output and a huge bank of programmes on iPlayer.
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Those queueing up wanting to take a mallet to the BBC this morning might like to pause and think ‘be careful what you wish for.’ It’s not perfect, of course not, mistakes have been made but it’s still a jewel in the crown. TV, wide range of radio output and a huge bank of programmes on iPlayer.
Weirdest thing. At a counter protest because the racists have come to our town and a passer by asked if I knew it’s Remembrance Sunday tomorrow. Clearly thinking we were being disrespectful. I’ll be commemorating the brave fallen who crushed fascism tomorrow. It just a shame memories are so short.
November 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Weirdest thing. At a counter protest because the racists have come to our town and a passer by asked if I knew it’s Remembrance Sunday tomorrow. Clearly thinking we were being disrespectful. I’ll be commemorating the brave fallen who crushed fascism tomorrow. It just a shame memories are so short.
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🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A woman (30s?) wearing business black finishes her lunch in a cosy Levantine cafe.
She dabs her face with a floral handkerchief, checks her lipstick and then rolls perfume on her pulse points with elegant precision. (1)
A woman (30s?) wearing business black finishes her lunch in a cosy Levantine cafe.
She dabs her face with a floral handkerchief, checks her lipstick and then rolls perfume on her pulse points with elegant precision. (1)
November 6, 2025 at 2:28 AM
🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A woman (30s?) wearing business black finishes her lunch in a cosy Levantine cafe.
She dabs her face with a floral handkerchief, checks her lipstick and then rolls perfume on her pulse points with elegant precision. (1)
A woman (30s?) wearing business black finishes her lunch in a cosy Levantine cafe.
She dabs her face with a floral handkerchief, checks her lipstick and then rolls perfume on her pulse points with elegant precision. (1)
Agreed
I’ve seen on the media how pundits amusingly refer to Zack Polanski as if entirely propped up by social media & youngsters’ ‘vibes’ but to this middle aged women (who has no TikTok account) he seems the most serious political leader in sight talking about real issues with conviction and directness 🤷🏻♀️
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Agreed
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🧵Spotted at a Country Festival in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A worried looking small human (3?) is given a peanut butter sandwich.
Holding his sandwich protectively to his chest, he says to Mum: "I think I should hug you while I eat this."
Mum picks him up for a bear hug. (1)
A worried looking small human (3?) is given a peanut butter sandwich.
Holding his sandwich protectively to his chest, he says to Mum: "I think I should hug you while I eat this."
Mum picks him up for a bear hug. (1)
October 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
🧵Spotted at a Country Festival in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A worried looking small human (3?) is given a peanut butter sandwich.
Holding his sandwich protectively to his chest, he says to Mum: "I think I should hug you while I eat this."
Mum picks him up for a bear hug. (1)
A worried looking small human (3?) is given a peanut butter sandwich.
Holding his sandwich protectively to his chest, he says to Mum: "I think I should hug you while I eat this."
Mum picks him up for a bear hug. (1)
Aberdeenshire this evening from my back garden.
October 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Aberdeenshire this evening from my back garden.
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“Don’t be fooled by those in Epstein’s circle who say they didn’t know what he was doing. Epstein…took a certain glee in making people watch. And people did watch – scientists, fundraisers from the Ivy League and other heralded institutions, titans of industry. They watched and they didn’t care.”
‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother
In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“Don’t be fooled by those in Epstein’s circle who say they didn’t know what he was doing. Epstein…took a certain glee in making people watch. And people did watch – scientists, fundraisers from the Ivy League and other heralded institutions, titans of industry. They watched and they didn’t care.”
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The figures from the Health & Safety Executive, show that between March 2014 and March 2024 there were 490 reports of serious injuries to school staff in Scotland caused by violence.
Workplace injuries above a certain threshold of seriousness must be reported to the HSE.
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
Workplace injuries above a certain threshold of seriousness must be reported to the HSE.
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
Scotland worst in UK for violent injuries to school staff
In the 10 years to 2024 there were almost 500 reports of serious injuries to Scottish school staff caused by violence, including fractures, dislocations and loss of consciousness
www.tes.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The figures from the Health & Safety Executive, show that between March 2014 and March 2024 there were 490 reports of serious injuries to school staff in Scotland caused by violence.
Workplace injuries above a certain threshold of seriousness must be reported to the HSE.
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
Workplace injuries above a certain threshold of seriousness must be reported to the HSE.
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
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My painting BLUE VESPA
October 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
My painting BLUE VESPA
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The new edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social goes to the printers tomorrow.
And we go where others fear to tread…
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October 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
The new edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social goes to the printers tomorrow.
And we go where others fear to tread…
Subscribe by tonight and you’ll get it delivered to your door
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Subscribe by tonight and you’ll get it delivered to your door
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