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on our morning walk and i just told the dogs that we can’t stop at every mailbox. they in turn are asking me why there are so many along the Smelling Trail then

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Sensational.

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Garden visitor this morning, right outside the kitchen window 🙂 Having just read Raising Hare, I'm amazed at how unique an experience the author must have had, spending so much time and sharing her space with just one of these intriguing creatures.

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If you - or someone you know - needs a confidential chat about a comedian / author in the headlines, I’m here. It’s been a privilege to be trusted by so many people so far and I’ve never stopped working on this. Every story counts.

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The finished piece. Oil and acrylic on canvas.

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Another from my visit to Craigmillar Castle, Edinburgh on 11 June 2025

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"I once sold some postcards to Morriss-ey and heaven knows I'm miserable now-ow" Look, it scans. I don't care what you say. It scans.

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She trusted her instinct, and look where it led.

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If I live to be 100, I doubt I'll ever top the time I threw my socks and pants into the toilet instead of the washing basket.

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I became an ombudsman after being bitten by a radioactive ombud.

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'Mon the Crows!

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You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

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A life well lived. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I feel better already.

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Looking across the 'Bay of Deception' towards Beinn Alligin.

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Morris Dancing. Utter Shite.

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Definitely worth your time, this series. Eye-opening.

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Now you've drawn this to the world's attention I hope they have comprehensive insurance.

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Absolute Schoolboy Error.

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The death of non-algorithmic text feeds is a real problem for getting information and messaging out rapidly, whether to public or politicians. Just did a panel on state of media to comms people at [major uk org] and they still have to post on X, hope people see it, then hide the racist replies.

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Screenwriters all over the globe have just opened and saved a new file titled '11A'.

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This plane crash is utterly horrendous but in the UK alone nearly 6x this number of people are killed on the roads every year. If a Boeing 787 was going down over the UK every 2 months we’d never accept it. Why do we accept it on the roads?

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A reminder that we're now mainly on Bluesky. If you followed us on Twitter, please follow us here, so we can finally turn off that increasingly unusable platform.

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Evening.

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So 3 wks of surveying on Orkney has come to an end, and what an end, when a pod of Orca were seen off Hoy today. Sadly, no migrants other than Honey Buzzard, Osprey & Marsh Harrier in that time. #BirdingOrkney #BirdingScotland

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If these are the sorts of debates they have in the Jaf household I think I'd be quite intimidated about going there, should I ever be invited. Which I won't be.

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