Neill Roberts
@robbo59.bsky.social
Retired teacher of English. Busy doing stuff. 📚 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
Full disclosure: no interest in pets, crypto and sport. And don’t get me started on ludicrous names for shades of paint.
Full disclosure: no interest in pets, crypto and sport. And don’t get me started on ludicrous names for shades of paint.
February 10, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Dunham Massey, Greater Manchester. With the silver birches in the Winter Garden.
February 8, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Dunham Massey, Greater Manchester. With the silver birches in the Winter Garden.
After four editions under its new presenter, I feel the much-loved ‘In Our Time’ in not just in safe hands but in the best possible hands.
#InOurTime
#MischaGlenny
#BBCRadio4
#BBCSounds
#InOurTime
#MischaGlenny
#BBCRadio4
#BBCSounds
February 5, 2026 at 1:25 PM
After four editions under its new presenter, I feel the much-loved ‘In Our Time’ in not just in safe hands but in the best possible hands.
#InOurTime
#MischaGlenny
#BBCRadio4
#BBCSounds
#InOurTime
#MischaGlenny
#BBCRadio4
#BBCSounds
Don’t get me started.
February 2, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Don’t get me started.
Nope, I don’t get it. The most histrionic, unbelievable novel I’ve ever read. They all need to sit down and have a cup of Yorkshire tea. The semaphore version was an improvement.
#WutheringHeights
#EmilyBrontë
#BookSky📚
#WutheringHeights
#EmilyBrontë
#BookSky📚
February 2, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Nope, I don’t get it. The most histrionic, unbelievable novel I’ve ever read. They all need to sit down and have a cup of Yorkshire tea. The semaphore version was an improvement.
#WutheringHeights
#EmilyBrontë
#BookSky📚
#WutheringHeights
#EmilyBrontë
#BookSky📚
Never read anything quite like it, may never read anything quite like it again until I read my next Jon Fosse book, yes, there will be another and soon, it will be soon
#Vaim
#JonFosse
#FitzcarraldoBooks
#BookSky📚
#Vaim
#JonFosse
#FitzcarraldoBooks
#BookSky📚
January 28, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Never read anything quite like it, may never read anything quite like it again until I read my next Jon Fosse book, yes, there will be another and soon, it will be soon
#Vaim
#JonFosse
#FitzcarraldoBooks
#BookSky📚
#Vaim
#JonFosse
#FitzcarraldoBooks
#BookSky📚
January 27, 2026 at 8:05 AM
“This week, oi ‘ave mostly not been giving a shit about the Beckhams.”
January 21, 2026 at 9:48 AM
“This week, oi ‘ave mostly not been giving a shit about the Beckhams.”
Lyme Park, yesterday.
January 17, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Lyme Park, yesterday.
I have to admire the confidence, good humour, resilience and, yes, baking skills of these youngsters. Hope for the future.
#JuniorBakeOff
#Channel4
#JuniorBakeOff
#Channel4
January 16, 2026 at 5:52 PM
I have to admire the confidence, good humour, resilience and, yes, baking skills of these youngsters. Hope for the future.
#JuniorBakeOff
#Channel4
#JuniorBakeOff
#Channel4
First snowdrops I’ve seen this year. Another lap around the Sun completed.
#LymePark
#NationalTrust
#Cheshire
#LymePark
#NationalTrust
#Cheshire
January 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
First snowdrops I’ve seen this year. Another lap around the Sun completed.
#LymePark
#NationalTrust
#Cheshire
#LymePark
#NationalTrust
#Cheshire
The bar for best history book read in 2026 has been set high. Very high. A fabulous telling of the rivalry and clashes that marked the lives of Richard II and Henry IV. Fascinating account of events previously only familiar to me via Shakespeare. Read and relish.
#BookSky
#HistorySky
#HelenCastor
#BookSky
#HistorySky
#HelenCastor
January 11, 2026 at 8:42 PM
The bar for best history book read in 2026 has been set high. Very high. A fabulous telling of the rivalry and clashes that marked the lives of Richard II and Henry IV. Fascinating account of events previously only familiar to me via Shakespeare. Read and relish.
#BookSky
#HistorySky
#HelenCastor
#BookSky
#HistorySky
#HelenCastor
Couldn’t agree more - about the book and its author. And this is a great comparative read:
January 11, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Couldn’t agree more - about the book and its author. And this is a great comparative read:
January 11, 2026 at 8:24 AM
A fascinating book, one that will stay with me. Not just the history of a person or a particular place at a particular time; but an exploration of what we can and can not know about the past. And of the qualities needed for survival and achievement. Hugely recommended.
#LeaYpi
#Indignity
#BookSky
#LeaYpi
#Indignity
#BookSky
December 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A fascinating book, one that will stay with me. Not just the history of a person or a particular place at a particular time; but an exploration of what we can and can not know about the past. And of the qualities needed for survival and achievement. Hugely recommended.
#LeaYpi
#Indignity
#BookSky
#LeaYpi
#Indignity
#BookSky
December 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Don’t know of any generic term; but sometimes my 66 year-old self still wishes his 8 year-old self hadn’t seen this bunch. (Accept no inferior remake.)
December 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Don’t know of any generic term; but sometimes my 66 year-old self still wishes his 8 year-old self hadn’t seen this bunch. (Accept no inferior remake.)
I guess that’s why they call it the Reflecting Lake.
Gonna make a nightmare jigsaw.
#Lyme
#NationalTrust
#Cheshire
#photography
Gonna make a nightmare jigsaw.
#Lyme
#NationalTrust
#Cheshire
#photography
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I guess that’s why they call it the Reflecting Lake.
Gonna make a nightmare jigsaw.
#Lyme
#NationalTrust
#Cheshire
#photography
Gonna make a nightmare jigsaw.
#Lyme
#NationalTrust
#Cheshire
#photography
So happy to have the familiar brought together with work never published before. A treasure trove.
November 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
So happy to have the familiar brought together with work never published before. A treasure trove.
November 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Two musical offerings.
A clavichord once played by Mozart; and a piano owned by Beethoven and subsequently Liszt.
Both in the wonderful National Museum in Budapest.
#Beethoven
#Liszt
#MusicSky
#ClassicalSky
A clavichord once played by Mozart; and a piano owned by Beethoven and subsequently Liszt.
Both in the wonderful National Museum in Budapest.
#Beethoven
#Liszt
#MusicSky
#ClassicalSky
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Two musical offerings.
A clavichord once played by Mozart; and a piano owned by Beethoven and subsequently Liszt.
Both in the wonderful National Museum in Budapest.
#Beethoven
#Liszt
#MusicSky
#ClassicalSky
A clavichord once played by Mozart; and a piano owned by Beethoven and subsequently Liszt.
Both in the wonderful National Museum in Budapest.
#Beethoven
#Liszt
#MusicSky
#ClassicalSky
Now, more than ever.
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Now, more than ever.
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM