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Retired from the NHS, now enjoy writing. Pookins Saves Santa and Pookins of Beauchamp Road are on Amazon. Spent the last year chasing lidos with some crazy ladies. A happy snapper who loves taking photos of nature. Interested in world events and politics.
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@monicaharding.bsky.social Can you look into a fairer system for booking driving tests. Getting up and logging in every Mon to find bots have taken all the slots is sole destroying. Perhaps putting in a theory test number would stop the bots. My son doesn't have £400 to pay a third party.

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@wrexhamafc.co.uk I hear Kevin De Bruyne is free for next year. Perhaps the boys can use their charms on getting him for a season 😃

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Anyone else having problems with Microsoft 365 family share?

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@mrjamesob.bsky.social My mum's cousin was in the Berlin White Rose and got arrested when they found her printing press in her room. Unlike the Munich spur she wasn't executed but sent to a concentration camp. Ending up living the otherside of the wall. Mum and her reunited when it came down.

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RHS Wisley yesterday.

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Harbinger of spring

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Amazing how a good long walk through lovely countryside on a beautiful day can help you put the troubles of this stupid world in some kind of perspective.

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What a lovely young Ukranian man Maxsym Talovierov is. Plymouth Argyle may not have won against Man City but this lads goal and post match interview were class.

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A different perspective

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Im a Green voter now. Previously a lifelong Labour voter (Even held my nose for Blair). I have long held disdain for the Lib Dems, especially after their various betrayals during abomination of Tory/Lib coalition. But recently, Ed Davey has been saying all the right things. I respect the man. 👏

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Absolutely @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

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That would have short term symbolic impact-but a more structured revert from #Brexit is now a national security imperative for UK, aside from being sensible in its own right. The gov needs to fast track a mutually acceptable course in that direction with EU. Starmer can’t ’both sides’ it any longer.

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New petition: "Tax banks to recoup the £23bn they lost taxpayers in the banking crisis" Deadline 7 July 2025, created by Jonathan Bell #NewPetition

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misty river Thames this morning

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I’m still processing what we saw in the Oval Office and it’s difficult to put into words how disgusted and ashamed I am. This was a coordinated assault on an ally to benefit a dictator and authoritarian regime. Trump and Vance aren’t just Putin’s puppets, they’re his assets.

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Now that’s a State visit

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If you've woken up still angry about Trump's treatment of Zelensky, please help out by sharing this petition around to cancel the UK state visit over it. It's now at 15,000 and growing.

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This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

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Tesla’s shareholders just lost another $38,640,000,000 today — a total $TSLA loss of $600 billion since December. Tesla’s CEO was not in the office. In literally any other public company ever, this would be the point where the CEO gets fired.

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I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

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Trump cannot be given a state visit to the UK. It should never have been offered. The invitation must now be withdrawn. You might as well hand it to Putin.

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America has totally lost its status in the world. Countries that were our allies are worried. People in our country are worried. What is Trump going to do next? What more can he destroy with our allies? it’s not the America I grew up in and love anymore.

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Just a little something to cheer us all up. Snapped in Bushy Park digging up worms on a rainy day.

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Trump and Vance just made Zelensky one of the most popular leaders in the world.

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“Expanding our airports will not produce the economic growth that Rachel Reeves so desperately wants,” said Alex Chapman, a senior economist at the New Economics Foundation. “[It is] also completely incompatible with the government’s aim to be a climate leader.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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"It makes no sense for Starmer to pretend he would die in a ditch over Brexit – the sooner he abandons it the better" 👏👏👏

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#booksky #tea ❤️❤️

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Europe has a message for Elmo.

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This billboard says it all.

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I Would Do Anything for Growth (But I Won’t Do That) 🎶 #Rejoin

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Is not rat .....is Siberian Hamster....is called Basil

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“As the UK’s attempts at a “reset” with the EU continue behind closed doors, No 10’s most senior aide made the trip to meet counterparts in Brussels before Christmas.” Brexit #BrexitDisaster www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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