Charlene
@norfolkian.bsky.social
Tentatively dipping my toe back in to social media.
This account will probably include books, films, PC games, walking, golf, swimming, (sustainable) travel, history, Lego and cats.
This account will probably include books, films, PC games, walking, golf, swimming, (sustainable) travel, history, Lego and cats.
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As the year begins to quiet, we’re pausing, like a great egret choosing a steady perch over the constantly moving kelp forest canopy. Nature has a gentle way of reminding us to slow down, reflect, and find balance. Here’s to calm moments, the quiet between chapters, and new beginnings. 💙🌊
December 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
As the year begins to quiet, we’re pausing, like a great egret choosing a steady perch over the constantly moving kelp forest canopy. Nature has a gentle way of reminding us to slow down, reflect, and find balance. Here’s to calm moments, the quiet between chapters, and new beginnings. 💙🌊
Hope everyone had a good one yesterday, whatever your day looked like. Today I went to the local Asda quite early and bought vegetables and Gaviscon.
December 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Hope everyone had a good one yesterday, whatever your day looked like. Today I went to the local Asda quite early and bought vegetables and Gaviscon.
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🔭 Sunset Solstice over Stonehenge
Image Credit & Copyright: English Heritage, Josh Dury
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Image Credit & Copyright: English Heritage, Josh Dury
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December 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🔭 Sunset Solstice over Stonehenge
Image Credit & Copyright: English Heritage, Josh Dury
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...
Image Credit & Copyright: English Heritage, Josh Dury
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...
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Take part in the survey - letstalk.coventry.gov.uk/budget-26
Budget Consultation 2026-27
We are launching our annual budget consultation with a significantly different focus this year – with no cuts to services proposed and the potential for additional investment for the second year in a ...
letstalk.coventry.gov.uk
December 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Take part in the survey - letstalk.coventry.gov.uk/budget-26
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(1/4) Cart ruts! Malta is famous for its 'cart ruts', and lots of frankly strange ideas get expressed about them...aliens, Atlantis, water transport, you name it. The reality is that if you run a cart over the same place enough times, it causes erosion.
December 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
(1/4) Cart ruts! Malta is famous for its 'cart ruts', and lots of frankly strange ideas get expressed about them...aliens, Atlantis, water transport, you name it. The reality is that if you run a cart over the same place enough times, it causes erosion.
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Parisot (the Director) tells a story about how Tim Allen just started crying after a scene one day
"I don't like these feelings i'm having." Says Tim. "I'm going back to my trailor" and walks off.
There's silence for a second.
"Oh my god." Says Rickman. "I think Tim just experienced acting."
"I don't like these feelings i'm having." Says Tim. "I'm going back to my trailor" and walks off.
There's silence for a second.
"Oh my god." Says Rickman. "I think Tim just experienced acting."
Galaxy Quest - a perfect movie, just a wonderful love letter to actors, sci-fi, Star Trek in particular, and to fandom - really deserves a proper physical release with decent extras. Think Weaver's right that releasing a R-rated cut would be fun, too.
Sigourney Weaver Says She Wishes DreamWorks Released A Director’s Cut Of ‘Galaxy Quest,’ Reminisces On Sequel That Never Came To Pass
Sigourney Weaver reflected on cult classic Galaxy Quest and how she wishes the sci-fi satire had released an R-rated director's cut.
deadline.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Parisot (the Director) tells a story about how Tim Allen just started crying after a scene one day
"I don't like these feelings i'm having." Says Tim. "I'm going back to my trailor" and walks off.
There's silence for a second.
"Oh my god." Says Rickman. "I think Tim just experienced acting."
"I don't like these feelings i'm having." Says Tim. "I'm going back to my trailor" and walks off.
There's silence for a second.
"Oh my god." Says Rickman. "I think Tim just experienced acting."
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“A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin
then waving it in the general direction of Italy.”
-Noel Coward #BOTD
Coward and Mary Healy Bruno’s Pen & Pencil, NYC, 1950s
then waving it in the general direction of Italy.”
-Noel Coward #BOTD
Coward and Mary Healy Bruno’s Pen & Pencil, NYC, 1950s
December 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
“A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin
then waving it in the general direction of Italy.”
-Noel Coward #BOTD
Coward and Mary Healy Bruno’s Pen & Pencil, NYC, 1950s
then waving it in the general direction of Italy.”
-Noel Coward #BOTD
Coward and Mary Healy Bruno’s Pen & Pencil, NYC, 1950s
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Sharing this to commemorate Dick Van Dyke’s centenary.
One of the best exchanges I’ve ever seen on social media was when Lt. Cmndr Data and Bert the Chimney Sweep got into a rumble over Angela Lansbury.
December 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Sharing this to commemorate Dick Van Dyke’s centenary.
Quote with your model of masculinity
December 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Quote with your model of masculinity
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GUYS
GUYS
MY BROTHER MADE ME THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL BUSTS
GUYS
MY BROTHER MADE ME THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL BUSTS
December 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
GUYS
GUYS
MY BROTHER MADE ME THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL BUSTS
GUYS
MY BROTHER MADE ME THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL BUSTS
I ordered some more Kikkoman soy sauce in this week's online shop and it arrived with a little scarf on it. Delightful!
December 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I ordered some more Kikkoman soy sauce in this week's online shop and it arrived with a little scarf on it. Delightful!
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Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
Not gonna lie, this jigsaw puzzle was a bitch to put together, but the end result is rather lovely.
November 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Not gonna lie, this jigsaw puzzle was a bitch to put together, but the end result is rather lovely.
The Eternal Daughter
Miss Pym's Day Out
Judgement at Nuremberg
Wake Up Dead Man
Miss Pym's Day Out
Judgement at Nuremberg
Wake Up Dead Man
Post your favorite first-watches of November 🍿
November 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The Eternal Daughter
Miss Pym's Day Out
Judgement at Nuremberg
Wake Up Dead Man
Miss Pym's Day Out
Judgement at Nuremberg
Wake Up Dead Man
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If you can’t make it to an independent bookshop to buy books for Christmas presents and have to buy online, buy them from @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social. Free shipping ends tomorrow. uk.bookshop.org
Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookshops.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookshops.
uk.bookshop.org
November 30, 2025 at 9:34 AM
If you can’t make it to an independent bookshop to buy books for Christmas presents and have to buy online, buy them from @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social. Free shipping ends tomorrow. uk.bookshop.org
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On a Bourdain kick for a bit, reading the reissue of Les Halles Cookbook and watching the Myanmar episode of Parts Unknown where he's listening to people. Always brings me back to @meemalee.bsky.social 's piece about him after he died.
london.eater.com/2018/6/15/17...
london.eater.com/2018/6/15/17...
What Anthony Bourdain Meant for Cuisines Othered by So Many
“Here was someone who had made an effort to understand what was going on around him.”
london.eater.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
On a Bourdain kick for a bit, reading the reissue of Les Halles Cookbook and watching the Myanmar episode of Parts Unknown where he's listening to people. Always brings me back to @meemalee.bsky.social 's piece about him after he died.
london.eater.com/2018/6/15/17...
london.eater.com/2018/6/15/17...
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Dolphins
Monkeys
Road runner
Grey seals
Little egret
Dolphins
Monkeys
Road runner
Grey seals
Little egret
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Soprano Pippistrelle bats
Rabbits
Foxes
Water voles
Herons
(all in my local park)
Soprano Pippistrelle bats
Rabbits
Foxes
Water voles
Herons
(all in my local park)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Pigeons
Wood pigeons
Collared doves
Stock doves
More pigeons
Pigeons
Wood pigeons
Collared doves
Stock doves
More pigeons
November 29, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Dolphins
Monkeys
Road runner
Grey seals
Little egret
Dolphins
Monkeys
Road runner
Grey seals
Little egret
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what the fuck
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
what the fuck
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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
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
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European political scientists are blue in the face from constantly pointing out that accommodating the far right does not help centre-left parties win, and contributes to the rise of far-right parties. There's a mountain of data to support that.
But no, the galaxy-brained strategists must be right.
But no, the galaxy-brained strategists must be right.
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
European political scientists are blue in the face from constantly pointing out that accommodating the far right does not help centre-left parties win, and contributes to the rise of far-right parties. There's a mountain of data to support that.
But no, the galaxy-brained strategists must be right.
But no, the galaxy-brained strategists must be right.
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To quote Tony Benn
"The way a government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows how they would treat the rest of us if they could get away with it"
#R4Today
"The way a government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows how they would treat the rest of us if they could get away with it"
#R4Today
November 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
To quote Tony Benn
"The way a government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows how they would treat the rest of us if they could get away with it"
#R4Today
"The way a government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows how they would treat the rest of us if they could get away with it"
#R4Today
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay, for Trans Day of Remembrance
November 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay, for Trans Day of Remembrance
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I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.