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@thenamesjane.bsky.social
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Hey, I still have windows 7.
Maybe a bit slow, but then at my age so am I!
But both still working fine!!
December 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Conservatives showing their true misogynist colours.
December 15, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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All gunmen accounted for. One dead, two arrested.

One gunman was disarmed by a civilian that ran up to him and took away his weapon.

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Video shows bystander tackling gunman at Bondi Beach | Israel Hayom
Incredible footage from Bondi Beach reveals the moment a brave bystander tackled an armed suspect, potentially preventing a massacre. According to XXXX, the civilian used parked cars for cover before ...
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December 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Day 11: 'Coloured favours and programmes are for sale near Stamford Bridge, the ground of Chelsea Football Club.'

Probably before the Cup Final, played at Stamford Bridge 1920-22.

An Advent Calendar of London a century ago, from 'Wonderful London', 1925, 📷Donald Macleish. #AdventLondon100 #Day11
December 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Day 10: 'Kensington High Street: the silent appeal of the all-powerful shop window on the daily crowd of potential customers.'

An Advent Calendar of London a century ago, from 'Wonderful London', 1925, 📷Donald Macleish. #AdventLondon100 #Day10
December 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Day 9: 'A heat wave in the West End: the ornamental water in Trafalgar Square is not officially a public bath, but children who paddle there are smiled on by the authorities.'

An Advent Calendar of London a century ago, from 'Wonderful London', 1925, 📷Donald Macleish. #AdventLondon100 #Day09
December 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Day 8: 'The street singer: a gramophone charioted in a perambulator seems the last and most sordid victory of the Age of Science.'

An Advent Calendar of London a century ago, from 'Wonderful London', 1925, 📷Donald Macleish. #AdventLondon100 #Day08
December 8, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Day 7: 'The ice cream seller: a son of Italy does a brisk trade.'

An Advent Calendar of London a century ago, from 'Wonderful London', 1925, 📷Donald Macleish. #AdventLondon100 #Day07
December 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Day 6: 'A flock of sheep incongruous among the traffic on the Strand. This flock is coming from some station on the north for transport to some southern county.'

An Advent Calendar of London a century ago, from 'Wonderful London', 1925, 📷Donald Macleish. #AdventLondon100 #Day06
December 6, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Day 5: 'That the pavement artist can gain a living is a testimony to the number of rainless days that London enjoys. Many spectators, alas, regard the entertainment as free.'

An Advent Calendar of London a century ago, from 'Wonderful London', 1925, 📷Donald Macleish. #AdventLondon100 #Day05
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Day 4: 'London's Safest Milk: A north London milkman. The three-wheeled trolley of the milkman in a fairly small way is disappearing in favour of the motor van.'

An Advent Calendar of London a century ago, from 'Wonderful London', 1925, 📷Donald Macleish. #AdventLondon100 #Day04
December 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Day 3: 'A greengrocer in the Commercial Road. In the East End and poorer districts of London a strange kind of establishment, half shop and half booth, is common.'

An Advent Calendar of London a century ago, from 'Wonderful London', 1925, a photogravure by Donald Macleish. #AdventLondon100 #Day03
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Day 2: 'A heat wave in the East End'

Boys follow a water cart along Cotton Street, Poplar, a photogravure by Donald Macleish. The chapel behind them would be destroyed in the Blitz.

An Advent Calendar of London a century ago, from 'Wonderful London', 1925. #AdventLondon100 #Day02
December 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Reminds me of Ron Radford, Hereford United and his goal, not only of the year but remained so for 10 years.
I know, cos I was there!

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December 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM