Alison Gibbs
@guineagibbs.bsky.social
Books, theatre, gardening, history, guinea pigs, running, yoga, comedy, folklore, wild places, South London stuff.
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This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
December 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
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Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan https://theonion.com/cat-clinging-to-side-of-christmas-tree-admits-that-was-1849899567/
December 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan https://theonion.com/cat-clinging-to-side-of-christmas-tree-admits-that-was-1849899567/
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Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.
December 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.
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i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
A real Good Samaritan
One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
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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...
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#DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025
The Peach Room of Doom awaits, with a bonus clothes dryer, his and hers towels, and after 24 years of marriage the Formica Stool of Chastity guarantees a hankypanky-free night
Donate to @centrepointuk.bsky.social at www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know... h/t to @rhodri.biz
The Peach Room of Doom awaits, with a bonus clothes dryer, his and hers towels, and after 24 years of marriage the Formica Stool of Chastity guarantees a hankypanky-free night
Donate to @centrepointuk.bsky.social at www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know... h/t to @rhodri.biz
December 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025
The Peach Room of Doom awaits, with a bonus clothes dryer, his and hers towels, and after 24 years of marriage the Formica Stool of Chastity guarantees a hankypanky-free night
Donate to @centrepointuk.bsky.social at www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know... h/t to @rhodri.biz
The Peach Room of Doom awaits, with a bonus clothes dryer, his and hers towels, and after 24 years of marriage the Formica Stool of Chastity guarantees a hankypanky-free night
Donate to @centrepointuk.bsky.social at www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know... h/t to @rhodri.biz
I managed to look away at key moments - the only way I can cope with watching A Ghost Story for Christmas. I’ve been listening to ghost stories all autumn - Edith Wharton got me hooked, but there’s some stuff I still can’t cope with looking at.
The Room in the Tower: A Ghost Story for Christmas review – Tobias Menzies is perfect in Mark Gatiss’s spooky tale
The Room in the Tower: A Ghost Story for Christmas review – Tobias Menzies is perfect in Mark Gatiss’s spooky tale
The understated lead in this year’s creepy festive drama is ideal for the whispered dread it drips with. Be warned, though: it verges on horror – young kids may well be terrified
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I managed to look away at key moments - the only way I can cope with watching A Ghost Story for Christmas. I’ve been listening to ghost stories all autumn - Edith Wharton got me hooked, but there’s some stuff I still can’t cope with looking at.
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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 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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?
Oh I would like to see this!
BBC are showing A Question of Attribution on Saturday - it’s amazing ❤️
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
BBC One - Screen One, A Question of Attribution
Alan Bennett's drama about the double life led by Sir Anthony Blunt.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Oh I would like to see this!
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the lights of the West End will dim this evening in memory of legend Tom Stoppard x
December 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
the lights of the West End will dim this evening in memory of legend Tom Stoppard x
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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RIP Tom Stoppard
“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting” the rare literary reference that highlighted the value of election administration
“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting” the rare literary reference that highlighted the value of election administration
November 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard
“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting” the rare literary reference that highlighted the value of election administration
“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting” the rare literary reference that highlighted the value of election administration
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Goodbye to the master.
❤️
❤️
November 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Goodbye to the master.
❤️
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I’m very behind the times, wrong century even, but I have watched The Mummy for the first time properly, and I have thoughts. Mainly how, usually, don’t these sort of characters in films accidentally stumble into the wrong place and unleash evil by pure chance?
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I’m very behind the times, wrong century even, but I have watched The Mummy for the first time properly, and I have thoughts. Mainly how, usually, don’t these sort of characters in films accidentally stumble into the wrong place and unleash evil by pure chance?
Here’s how jumbled my brain is right now: I panic-booked a hair appointment for tomorrow thinking ‘I’ll be too busy in December to get my hair cut’ but looked in the mirror and realised my hair still looks OK. I didn’t need a haircut now, I needed one in 4 weeks. But too late to cancel.
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Here’s how jumbled my brain is right now: I panic-booked a hair appointment for tomorrow thinking ‘I’ll be too busy in December to get my hair cut’ but looked in the mirror and realised my hair still looks OK. I didn’t need a haircut now, I needed one in 4 weeks. But too late to cancel.
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Zadie Smith.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Zadie Smith.
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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
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‘Recycling By’
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
‘Recycling By’
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Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
Boring Fund | Christina Poulton
Applications now open!
£200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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ultimately you cannot appease people whose purpose in life is to destroy you bsky.app/profile/drje...
One can’t help but suspect that the Telegraph is going to be disappointed by whoever is appointed if they are to the left of Attila the Hun.
November 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
ultimately you cannot appease people whose purpose in life is to destroy you bsky.app/profile/drje...
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever