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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No media on, no AI demon. #palindrome

Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Having failed as an illustrator for Girls Own Paper as a result of finding feet difficult, Titus Montgomery was invited in to some of the finest homes in England to demonstrate his patented piano pedal shoes. The Wheel of Fortune turns. #GirlsOwnCC

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And also help needed! Can you record a short video of yourself saying the name of one of 397 poor men from York who went to WWI? The School Roll of Honour they are named on has recently been restored, and we would like to remember each of them: forms.gle/7XfhUcj46G6Z...

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Bedern Boys Memorial Consent Form

Thank you for offering to be involved in the recording of an Act of Remembrance for the Bedern National School Roll of Honour. This project aims to create a video and audio record of the 397 names li...

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Enjoy this Sunday’s caption contest! Give away lots of ❤️s, please repost to encourage more competitors, and include #GirlsOwnCC

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Guess who spotted a mouse under the dresser! My son says that it’s photos like this which demonstrate the need for anti-upskirting legislation.

Daphne the cat spots something of interest

A cat’s hind legs and tail vanishing under the dresser.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Apparently , it used to be that GPs didn’t make a formal diagnosis of arthritis without x rays/specialist intervention etc but now they are allowed to cut to the chase. They want me to have the X rays to check I haven’t got an injury as it came on very quickly in my left knee.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thank you! I have to say, she makes some good suggestions *opens bottle of claret*

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

How awful. 🙁No, but they suggested physio this time but I’ve got to have an x ray first.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think, on reflection, that I meant Carmarthenshire. We were staying near Llandeilo.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m very sorry about that. It’s an absolute bugger.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

All my joints feel as though they’re very loosely attached and could come unraveled at any time.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No, she skulks. She knows I don’t like it

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Worst we had was a toad which alternated between playing dead and screaming and then went to live in the fireplace.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thank you. All will be well, I expect x

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Best draw a veil over the whole episode. It was the day when they rescued those little Thai boys from the cave. Momentous in different ways.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And while I’m whinging, I can tell by the way the cat came in with a sense of purpose and without miaowing, and the way there are now scurrying and thumping noises from the next room, that she’s brought in a mouse. I’ve already cleaned up a broken glass today so mouse guts is a natural progression

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Probably too late to worry about that now 🙁

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Couldn’t have said it better myself.🙁

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I did the almost impossible and let my last one get drastically overheated in Carmarthen.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Feeling very sorry for myself. I’ve had a fortnight of excruciating pain in my ‘good’ knee, not able to leave the house, let alone drive. And now my tooth, the one I had lengthy root canal treatment on, has broken off. I feel like General Franco, dying tiny bit by tiny bit (but without the fascism)

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well, exactly. How different from the home life of our own dear queen, as they used to say.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Same here. That’s why I use an iPad

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We placed a trailcam at the meeting place of 3 animal tracks in our woodland The choice was obvious. Evidence of deer, badger & rabbits using the tracks What did we get? Over 1,000 photos of the same two squirrels. Sometimes foraging, but almost all just arsing around 🙄

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Jamie Muir @jamiembrixton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Very chatty nurse at the GP surgery today. She told me that while her mother went along with the biennial request from the NHS bowel cancer screening unit for a poo sample, she didn’t like the idea of them jostling up against Christmas cards in the Post.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is an interesting case. Paragraph 2 reads: “This is, however, anything but an ordinary case because there is a dispute as to whether the children exist at all.” It would make a wonderful Gothic novel. www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“We try to cater for every taste at the Mme Sadistica House of Ecstacy, Mr Farage…but not that one” #GirlsOwnCC

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“I’m a classic old school Conservative “ says Kemi as she welcomes the Press on a behind-the-scenes tour of the party conference. #GirlsOwnCC

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Enjoy this excessive illustration for Sunday’s caption contest! Give away lots of ❤️s, please repost to encourage more competitors, and include #GirlsOwnCC

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

…and one which I shall be using in the future!

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well, it would have hugely improved morale and might have absorbed flying shrapnel.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Here’s a little quiz. Are these characters from Matt Berry’s Toast of London or Wakefield Trinity players? Tyson Smoothy Isaiah Vagana Jazz Tevaga Mason Lino Clem Fandango

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What I want to know is, were they celebrating the end of World War I?

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A poem from my new @carcanet.bsky.social collection Red River Valley

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’ve just had to uninstall/reinstall BlueSky because it just stopped letting me do anything. The rise of the machines.

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