madocleonard2.bsky.social
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Welshwoman living in London. Sometime author. See my accounts madocleonard and madocleonard1.
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Richard E. Grant fixed me with a ‘Don’t even fucking think about it’ look when my eye caught his while he was stuffing a baguette sandwich into his face lengthways on a street in Maida Vale
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Richard E. Grant fixed me with a ‘Don’t even fucking think about it’ look when my eye caught his while he was stuffing a baguette sandwich into his face lengthways on a street in Maida Vale
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A lovely depiction of Catherine of Aragon in a stained glass window at The Vyne in Hampshire, which likely dates to the 1520s #catherineofaragon #tudor #tudors #thevyne
December 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
A lovely depiction of Catherine of Aragon in a stained glass window at The Vyne in Hampshire, which likely dates to the 1520s #catherineofaragon #tudor #tudors #thevyne
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Remembering Marianne Faithfull on her birthday. Here's a playlist featuring some of her finest recordings
open.spotify.com/playlist/3VC...
open.spotify.com/playlist/3VC...
The Best of Marianne Faithfull
open.spotify.com
December 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Remembering Marianne Faithfull on her birthday. Here's a playlist featuring some of her finest recordings
open.spotify.com/playlist/3VC...
open.spotify.com/playlist/3VC...
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St Paul's Cathedral, London - November 2025
December 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
St Paul's Cathedral, London - November 2025
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Fans of Welsh language soap operas will no longer have to wait to catch up on the latest drama, with new episodes available to watch online from the early morning✍️ Amelia Jones
Major shake-up sees fans gets early access to popular soaps online
Amelia Jones Fans of Welsh language soap operas will no longer have to wait to catch up on the latest drama, with new episodes available to watch online from the early morning. From Tuesday 6 January,...
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December 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Fans of Welsh language soap operas will no longer have to wait to catch up on the latest drama, with new episodes available to watch online from the early morning✍️ Amelia Jones
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Police have seized two cars and reported two people for dangerous driving after breaking up a street racing event near the Amazon warehouse in Jersey Marine.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
Police swoop on street racing event in city and seize cars
Police said they received 'multiple reports' of anti-social behaviour on an industrial park
www.walesonline.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Police have seized two cars and reported two people for dangerous driving after breaking up a street racing event near the Amazon warehouse in Jersey Marine.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
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Sala de Música. 1965
Edward Gordon.
Edward Gordon.
December 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Sala de Música. 1965
Edward Gordon.
Edward Gordon.
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A stunning version of Myfanwy has been reducing people to tears due to the sheer beauty of an acclaimed musician's moving take on the classic Welsh song
Watch: The spine-tingling version of Myfanwy people have fallen in love with
A stunning version of Myfanwy by acclaimed cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason which has been reducing people to tears due to the sheer beauty of his take on the classic Welsh song has become a viral hit once ...
nation.cymru
December 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A stunning version of Myfanwy has been reducing people to tears due to the sheer beauty of an acclaimed musician's moving take on the classic Welsh song
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The 12th-century Romanesque nave at Ely Cathedral rarely steals the spotlight (thanks to that lantern tower), but it’s absolutely jaw-dropping
December 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The 12th-century Romanesque nave at Ely Cathedral rarely steals the spotlight (thanks to that lantern tower), but it’s absolutely jaw-dropping
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The brilliant story of what happened when Tom Jones turned up to see Rhys Ifans playing Scrooge in A Christmas Carol
Watch: The hilarious Tom Jones story told to Rob Brydon by Rhys Ifans
Here’s a wonderful festive story for you. When two legendary Welshmen get together to tell a wonderful tale about an even bigger legend then we’re all ears. And this story about the time that Rob Bryd...
nation.cymru
December 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The brilliant story of what happened when Tom Jones turned up to see Rhys Ifans playing Scrooge in A Christmas Carol
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A lovely door and doorway in the beautiful Church of St. Mary, Yelden, Bedfordshire 🥰
If you look closely, you can see where the medieval wall painting, of fictive masonry and flower motif, once also extended over the doorway 🤩
If you look closely, you can see where the medieval wall painting, of fictive masonry and flower motif, once also extended over the doorway 🤩
December 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A lovely door and doorway in the beautiful Church of St. Mary, Yelden, Bedfordshire 🥰
If you look closely, you can see where the medieval wall painting, of fictive masonry and flower motif, once also extended over the doorway 🤩
If you look closely, you can see where the medieval wall painting, of fictive masonry and flower motif, once also extended over the doorway 🤩
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Natural Resources Wales’ former offices are to be converted to assisted living apartments
Assisted living apartments approved for long-vacant office building
Twm Owen, Local Democracy Reporter Natural Resources Wales’ former offices are to be converted to assisted living apartments. The environmental body moved out of the Cantref Court office block in Bre...
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December 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Natural Resources Wales’ former offices are to be converted to assisted living apartments
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President Donald Trump has indicated that the US has ‘hit’ a facility in South America as he wages a pressure campaign on Venezuela, but the US offered no other details
Trump indicates US has ‘hit’ facility in South America
President Donald Trump has indicated that the US has “hit” a facility in South America as he wages a pressure campaign on Venezuela, but the US offered no other details. Mr Trump made the comments in ...
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December 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
President Donald Trump has indicated that the US has ‘hit’ a facility in South America as he wages a pressure campaign on Venezuela, but the US offered no other details
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My front page story for Monday’s South Wales Evening Post - A queue of people withdrawing money from a Swansea / Abertawe cash machine led officers straight to drug dealers, a court has heard.
December 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
My front page story for Monday’s South Wales Evening Post - A queue of people withdrawing money from a Swansea / Abertawe cash machine led officers straight to drug dealers, a court has heard.
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Our Director, Rachel Morley, visits one of our newest vesting: Coanwood Meeting House, Northumberland
December 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Our Director, Rachel Morley, visits one of our newest vesting: Coanwood Meeting House, Northumberland
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Allegedly,Trump said that "Thank God",USA didn’t give Tomahawks to Ukraine
Putin told Trump that Russia's position on peace would be reviewed now
❗️President Zelenskyy denies an attack on Putin's residence.It’s Russia's way to justify attacks on Ukraine,play for time&blame Ukraine in the eyes of USA
Putin told Trump that Russia's position on peace would be reviewed now
❗️President Zelenskyy denies an attack on Putin's residence.It’s Russia's way to justify attacks on Ukraine,play for time&blame Ukraine in the eyes of USA
December 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Allegedly,Trump said that "Thank God",USA didn’t give Tomahawks to Ukraine
Putin told Trump that Russia's position on peace would be reviewed now
❗️President Zelenskyy denies an attack on Putin's residence.It’s Russia's way to justify attacks on Ukraine,play for time&blame Ukraine in the eyes of USA
Putin told Trump that Russia's position on peace would be reviewed now
❗️President Zelenskyy denies an attack on Putin's residence.It’s Russia's way to justify attacks on Ukraine,play for time&blame Ukraine in the eyes of USA
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Yarde Book Promotions
@maryanneyarde
📚 NOW OPEN! Yarde Book Promotions Book of the Year Awards 2026 ✨
All genres welcome, multiple categories allowed, digital awards & promo prizes. Winners announced 20th Dec 2026.
maryanneyarde.blogspot.com/p/book-of-ye...
@maryanneyarde
📚 NOW OPEN! Yarde Book Promotions Book of the Year Awards 2026 ✨
All genres welcome, multiple categories allowed, digital awards & promo prizes. Winners announced 20th Dec 2026.
maryanneyarde.blogspot.com/p/book-of-ye...
December 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Yarde Book Promotions
@maryanneyarde
📚 NOW OPEN! Yarde Book Promotions Book of the Year Awards 2026 ✨
All genres welcome, multiple categories allowed, digital awards & promo prizes. Winners announced 20th Dec 2026.
maryanneyarde.blogspot.com/p/book-of-ye...
@maryanneyarde
📚 NOW OPEN! Yarde Book Promotions Book of the Year Awards 2026 ✨
All genres welcome, multiple categories allowed, digital awards & promo prizes. Winners announced 20th Dec 2026.
maryanneyarde.blogspot.com/p/book-of-ye...
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A health board is aiming to reshape the way care is provided to patients with life-limiting conditions after unveiling a new palliative and supportive care plan
Health board launches new plan to reshape end-of-life care in south Wales
A health board is aiming to reshape the way care is provided to patients with life-limiting conditions after unveiling a new palliative and supportive care plan. To deliver the plan, Cardiff and Vale ...
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December 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
A health board is aiming to reshape the way care is provided to patients with life-limiting conditions after unveiling a new palliative and supportive care plan
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Oh excellent news. Brexit sovereignty strikes again.
‘Global’ Little Britain gets to plead with foreign powers not to screw us over. And foreign powers say no.
We will be doing this shit for years. What an idiotically avoidable waste of our time and resources.
www.farminguk.com/news/chlorin...
‘Global’ Little Britain gets to plead with foreign powers not to screw us over. And foreign powers say no.
We will be doing this shit for years. What an idiotically avoidable waste of our time and resources.
www.farminguk.com/news/chlorin...
December 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Oh excellent news. Brexit sovereignty strikes again.
‘Global’ Little Britain gets to plead with foreign powers not to screw us over. And foreign powers say no.
We will be doing this shit for years. What an idiotically avoidable waste of our time and resources.
www.farminguk.com/news/chlorin...
‘Global’ Little Britain gets to plead with foreign powers not to screw us over. And foreign powers say no.
We will be doing this shit for years. What an idiotically avoidable waste of our time and resources.
www.farminguk.com/news/chlorin...
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Right Mr Zelensky, We Don't Believe Chump Either......
December 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Right Mr Zelensky, We Don't Believe Chump Either......
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All but one of the 13 episodes of the 1959 BBC TV adaptation of Great Expectations are still in existence.
While his family thought he was asleep in bed, he was trudging through the cold night wearing only jeans, shirt and blazer, to Dartford, six miles from his home.
There he hid in the back of a lorry which took him to London. He stowed away on another lorry and found himself in Ealing.
There he hid in the back of a lorry which took him to London. He stowed away on another lorry and found himself in Ealing.
Dennis Mallard: The boy who ran away to Ealing to be a film star
If an American child dreamed of being a star, they would run away to Hollywood. In the Britain of 1958, children had to make do with Ealing....
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December 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
All but one of the 13 episodes of the 1959 BBC TV adaptation of Great Expectations are still in existence.
Checked the TV schedules. BBC had at least 5 programmes tonight with "celebrity" in the title.
December 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Checked the TV schedules. BBC had at least 5 programmes tonight with "celebrity" in the title.
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A man has been charged with murder after a 68-year-old man who sustained serious injuries in a Christmas Day “disturbance” in St Asaph / Llanelwy died in hospital.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
Man, 68, dies after Christmas Day 'disturbance'
James Ronald Hughes, 66, has been charged with murder following the death of a 68-year-old man
www.walesonline.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A man has been charged with murder after a 68-year-old man who sustained serious injuries in a Christmas Day “disturbance” in St Asaph / Llanelwy died in hospital.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
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New PhD training programmes from a Welsh university have been launched to equip graduates with the skills and knowledge to advance biomanufacturing and AI-enabled bioscience
Welsh graduates set to drive innovation in biomanufacturing and AI
New PhD training programmes from a Welsh university have been launched to equip graduates with the skills and knowledge to advance biomanufacturing and AI-enabled bioscience. The programmes are part o...
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December 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
New PhD training programmes from a Welsh university have been launched to equip graduates with the skills and knowledge to advance biomanufacturing and AI-enabled bioscience
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They are selling peonies in M & S and I am in two minds about this breach of the peony season law!!!!
Here's my painting of some from the summer because why not and because I like the wait for the summer. I like the specialness of them being there for a season. But I was also a little bit tempted!!
Here's my painting of some from the summer because why not and because I like the wait for the summer. I like the specialness of them being there for a season. But I was also a little bit tempted!!
November 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
They are selling peonies in M & S and I am in two minds about this breach of the peony season law!!!!
Here's my painting of some from the summer because why not and because I like the wait for the summer. I like the specialness of them being there for a season. But I was also a little bit tempted!!
Here's my painting of some from the summer because why not and because I like the wait for the summer. I like the specialness of them being there for a season. But I was also a little bit tempted!!