Owen Sedgwick-Jell
@owenjell.bsky.social
Manchester-based lefty dad, folk singer, board gamer, bicyclist. Woodcraft Folk volunteer and staffer. He/him
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“One Christmas was so much like another, ..... that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.”
✍️Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales ❄️
#BookWormSat
✍️Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales ❄️
#BookWormSat
December 19, 2025 at 10:35 PM
“One Christmas was so much like another, ..... that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.”
✍️Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales ❄️
#BookWormSat
✍️Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales ❄️
#BookWormSat
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Re-posting with alt text because the post accompanying this is obviously wrong, it's clearly a picture of a woman on a Crosscountry train having found a place to sit on the floor and read, her coffee cup beside her, folks queuing for the loo behind her
December 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Re-posting with alt text because the post accompanying this is obviously wrong, it's clearly a picture of a woman on a Crosscountry train having found a place to sit on the floor and read, her coffee cup beside her, folks queuing for the loo behind her
They’re playing the Red Flag on Radio 3 - we’ve been activated, Mr Dalliard!
December 12, 2025 at 8:14 AM
They’re playing the Red Flag on Radio 3 - we’ve been activated, Mr Dalliard!
As good a time as any for a seasonal share of my favourite carol from the South Yorkshire carolling tradition, about taking inspiration from a guy who said some some stuff about welcoming the stranger in, and which has been sung in pubs round Sheffield for over a century:
youtu.be/d8FO0r3tnd4?...
youtu.be/d8FO0r3tnd4?...
December 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
As good a time as any for a seasonal share of my favourite carol from the South Yorkshire carolling tradition, about taking inspiration from a guy who said some some stuff about welcoming the stranger in, and which has been sung in pubs round Sheffield for over a century:
youtu.be/d8FO0r3tnd4?...
youtu.be/d8FO0r3tnd4?...
Hey, @tommckinney.bsky.social - the wonderful @windbornesingers.bsky.social are about to start a short pre-Christmas UK tour…any chance we can hear something from “To Warm The Winter Hearth” on your show next week? youtu.be/jntN-IyrofI?...
Come and I Will Sing You
YouTube video by Windborne - Topic
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Hey, @tommckinney.bsky.social - the wonderful @windbornesingers.bsky.social are about to start a short pre-Christmas UK tour…any chance we can hear something from “To Warm The Winter Hearth” on your show next week? youtu.be/jntN-IyrofI?...
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The problem with day/night tests in Australia is you can experience England losing during the daylight hours. This kind of thing belongs to the dark times between three and four in the morning, like other nightmares. #TheCricket
December 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The problem with day/night tests in Australia is you can experience England losing during the daylight hours. This kind of thing belongs to the dark times between three and four in the morning, like other nightmares. #TheCricket
Guilty as charged, I guess…
Not surprised that the Woodcraft Folk have put out a statement like this.
They're up there with the Quakers in
a) accepting people
and
b) looking like a bunch of wishy-washy do-gooders until someone threatens a) when it turns out they take shit from no one
They're up there with the Quakers in
a) accepting people
and
b) looking like a bunch of wishy-washy do-gooders until someone threatens a) when it turns out they take shit from no one
December 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Guilty as charged, I guess…
Cephalopots! (paging @captainbionic.bsky.social, @sundayseasongs.bsky.social, @beardybanjo.bsky.social &c.)
Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️
Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Cephalopots! (paging @captainbionic.bsky.social, @sundayseasongs.bsky.social, @beardybanjo.bsky.social &c.)
It me
Accidentally checked my work e-mail on my day off and now I'm gonna spend the whole weekend annoyed about something I shouldn't have been annoyed by until Monday
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
It me
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Ive never been slow to criticise the Reach plc media for their awful clickbait headlines. But this is another level. They know exactly what they're doing with this headline, and it is horrible, divisive and dangerous. Shame on them.
November 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Ive never been slow to criticise the Reach plc media for their awful clickbait headlines. But this is another level. They know exactly what they're doing with this headline, and it is horrible, divisive and dangerous. Shame on them.
If you’re not ready to bid farewell to Spooky Season just yet (and are within reach of South Manchester), join me and others tomorrow, upstairs at Chorlton’s Dulcimer Bar for our last themed singaround of 2025:
November 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
If you’re not ready to bid farewell to Spooky Season just yet (and are within reach of South Manchester), join me and others tomorrow, upstairs at Chorlton’s Dulcimer Bar for our last themed singaround of 2025:
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🚨BREAKING: Activists have imprisoned DANGEROUS TERRORISTS Mandela, Gandhi, and Millicent Fawcett statues in Parliament Square.
They've been placed behind bars to expose the UK's extreme crackdown on protest.
The heroes the government celebrates would be imprisoned today under their extreme laws.
They've been placed behind bars to expose the UK's extreme crackdown on protest.
The heroes the government celebrates would be imprisoned today under their extreme laws.
October 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🚨BREAKING: Activists have imprisoned DANGEROUS TERRORISTS Mandela, Gandhi, and Millicent Fawcett statues in Parliament Square.
They've been placed behind bars to expose the UK's extreme crackdown on protest.
The heroes the government celebrates would be imprisoned today under their extreme laws.
They've been placed behind bars to expose the UK's extreme crackdown on protest.
The heroes the government celebrates would be imprisoned today under their extreme laws.
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Still my favourite one-line description of the organisation I work for (though not the most accurate, particularly these days):
Alexei Sayle's Stuff (20th October 1988). "Well, we apologise for the absence of Alexei Sayle in this week's edition of Alexei Sayle's Stuff. We're attempting to right the problem, but in the meantime the programme will continue in Leslie Crowther only".
October 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Still my favourite one-line description of the organisation I work for (though not the most accurate, particularly these days):
Our reported approached a bear, in the woods, for comment, who did not immediately respond because he seemed to be in the middle of something:
October 14, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Our reported approached a bear, in the woods, for comment, who did not immediately respond because he seemed to be in the middle of something:
Looks like just the right thing to put in his hutch! Amirite, @aransome.bsky.social?
October 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Looks like just the right thing to put in his hutch! Amirite, @aransome.bsky.social?
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absolutely the fuck not
September 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
absolutely the fuck not
A parable for our times:
The animals of a certain farm complained against the farmer. “He steals our eggs,” said the hens in their coop. “He’s scarcely better than a fox!”
September 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM
A parable for our times:
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On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph
Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement
Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty
Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence
[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]
Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent
29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg)
![The Telegraph
Money > Property > Second homes
How to avoid tax on your second home
From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net
[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]
Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer
29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
On the same day in the Telegraph:
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"Bolton" (1937) by Julian Trevelyan. Collage shows mills and chimneys of Bolton, with the Pennines behind. Incorporated are newspaper and magazine cuttings of Spanish Civil War and rise of fascism across Europe, warning it could come to this Lancashire town. Bolton Art Gallery
September 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"Bolton" (1937) by Julian Trevelyan. Collage shows mills and chimneys of Bolton, with the Pennines behind. Incorporated are newspaper and magazine cuttings of Spanish Civil War and rise of fascism across Europe, warning it could come to this Lancashire town. Bolton Art Gallery
Here follows a thread of 24 carat bangers from our grate frend @anarchoshanties.bsky.social - many I know and love, some I am not yet familiar with, but I’m just off to rectify that:
anyway I need to cleanse my palate
for each like, i'll drop a folk song recommendation
for each like, i'll drop a folk song recommendation
youtube just recommended me an AI slop '''folk''' song. absolutely fucking disgusting and contrary to the core principles at the heart of folk music. eternal struggle against AI 'art'
August 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Here follows a thread of 24 carat bangers from our grate frend @anarchoshanties.bsky.social - many I know and love, some I am not yet familiar with, but I’m just off to rectify that:
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This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
www.quaker.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
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'Immigration doesn't bother me but it seems to bother everyone else' – Everyone.
This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.
This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.
August 26, 2025 at 5:37 AM
'Immigration doesn't bother me but it seems to bother everyone else' – Everyone.
This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.
This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.
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The Lackfield family of Blackley, Manchester, set off on a day trip in the rain, August 1942 (Daily Express/SSPL/Getty).
August 26, 2025 at 7:52 AM
The Lackfield family of Blackley, Manchester, set off on a day trip in the rain, August 1942 (Daily Express/SSPL/Getty).
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Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.
August 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.