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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I appealed for this for the sake of what I expected to be a £1.20 refund from a £9.60 return ticket. But they have given me £4.80 instead which makes absolutely no sense and does nothing to persuade me that Northern are utterly useless. Even if it is in my favour.

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If you're in my GP's office any time soon, prepare yourself for what many are calling the greatest mnemonic of all time. Come for E and P, but sit down and clap for I.

A screen in my GP's office advertising a mnemonic of signs to spot SEPSIS.

S slurred speech of confusion
E extreme shivering or muscle pain
P passing no urine all day
S severe breathlessness
I ot feels like you are going to die
S skin mottled or discoloured

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Sadly given cutbacks and ever increasing shared programming, there's no space for something like Manchester Music on BBC local radio any more. But what a great show that could be - a different show for every station celebrating the local music scene through the decades. [Sighs wistfully]

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BBC Radio Manchester - Manchester Music - Episode guide

Listening to the Greater Manchester edition reminded me very much of the long gone and much missed (by me!) Manchester Music show on BBC Radio Manchester - a weekly two hour show of music from the area. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

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All episodes of Manchester Music

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BBC Sounds - City Soundtracks - Available Episodes

When BBC Radio 6music Indie Forever was announced, one of the shows that intrigued me was City Soundtracks - a two hour deep dive into music from a particular area. Listened to the Greater Manchester and Wrexham editions over the last few days, and it's great. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

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Listen to the latest episodes of City Soundtracks on BBC Sounds.

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...urgh, Bank station has many, many exits...

I don't remember getting any advice about interviews 30 years ago. I seem to recall my early ones mostly involving people talking at me. And then there was one where I got called to a second interview in London, thought I knew where I was going because I had been there before, only to discover...

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Turns out sheep like to sleep in the middle of the road.

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Fashion. Food. Fun. Whatever you fancy, find it at The Glades. Discover the latest trends and happenings in the heart of Bromley - High Street, Bromley, BR1 1DN

I only ever saw one, near Marble Arch in that London. But amazingly there's apparently still one in Bromley, in the Glades shopping centre. www.theglades.co.uk/stores/quiznos

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Quiznos - The Glades

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 24/09/2026

Tonight's high school visit: the small one with really old and quirky buildings, a library with stained glass windows, and an area of the site where pupils can learn bricklaying.

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*extremely tired voice*AI agents don't "go rogue". They are not sentient; they don't have agency. They work within guardrails set by humans. If the humans are so shit at building secure sandboxes for the agents to work within, that's on the humans. Stop using this framing.

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£22 per 500ml. It's a no from me Gordon.

The Girl Who Was Death @bohaynowell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Calm down, Gordon.

Gordon Ramsay-branded olive oil ‘Krude’ with the slogan ‘finish me’.

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For the clarity, the typo on the piece of paper 😀

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Actually I meant on the piece of paper you photographed!

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Someone's kicking themselves now having just spotted the typo.

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Good old Doctor Who: simultaneously too childish AND too scary for children

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Back in the day, people used to phone their Tweets into the BBC, where someone would type them up using a manual typewriter.

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Buy PestBye Advanced Whole House Rodent Repeller: Delivery by Primrose

We had a humane once where the slice of Mars bar sat there completely unnibbled for quite a long time before I gave up. What did work was one of these: www.primrose.co.uk/product/_/pe... Took a few weeks but eventually the mice left.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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#TBT to this from 2012 in honour of Michael Gove starring as an invasion-battling leader in Sky's new show The Wargame. If you don't know what or who this comic is about... just count yourself lucky and scroll on, no worries.

[Opening scene is WESTMINSTER, LONDON. Over Downing Street a huge ALIEN SPACECRAFT hovers, silent, still, filling the whole sky a la Independence Day].

[Cut to INSIDE 10 DOWNING STREET. The (then) prime Minister DAVID CAMERON is looking out of his office window at the ship.]

VOICE FROM OFF-SCENE, BEHIND CAMERON:
Prime Minister…

CAMERON [addressing the person behind him, still keeping his eyes fixed ahead in dread at the spaceship]:
Yes?

[We see the speaker is MICHAEL GOVE, then Education Secretary]:

GOVE:
Let me do it.

CAMERON:
For God's sake, Michael, you're the Education Secretary! You've never flown a fighter plane in your life!

GOVE:
But I know I could do it, David. I could fly a fighter plane into the big space- ship...

...and shoot all the aliens.

CAMERON:
But you have no military training!

GOVE:
David

I haven't told you this, but...

I used to be a journalist. For The Times.

[Cameron reacts, turning to look at Gove with awe and respect, as if only now truly seeing him for the first time].

GOVE:
I wrote two articles about planes, David.

I've got strong opinions about aliens.

I know I can do this job.

[Cut to a title card panel]:

AND SO:

[Then cut again to Cameron on the roof of Number 10, watching a Michael Gove pilot a fighter jet up towards the spacecraft, and then completely miss it, careering towards Earth, as Cameron buries his face in his hands].

[Ends]

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Sure she'll calm down, but absolutely, yes, that's exactly it!

Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 23/09/2026

Studying our new chickens, have concluded that they can be individually summed up as follows: - extremely nervous - nervous and incredibly hungry - absolute tyrant.

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Always remember a friend saying four was a daft number of children to have because you need bigger houses, you need special cars, and all sorts of other reasons. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to guess how many children they now have.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

who's up for robbing banks while shouting "stop the boats" so no-one arrests us?

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It's amazing how many councils didn't do glass. Glass was the first thing I ever remember recycling, down at the bottle banks.

Got to say it, the Ocado run Morrisons home delivery really has gone down the pan recently. Loads of products randomly disappearing from sale, ongoing stock shortages, substitutions getting worse. Probably time I ditch them so I can get annoyed by someone else.

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It really is time soft plastic was recyclable via standard household recycling bins. Supposedly it's happening next year...

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Morrisons delivery man (actually employed by Ocado) tells me he can't take my carefully sorted soft plastic and carrier bags because he's been told not to take "rubbish", despite the fact Morrisons/Ocado say they take back anyone's carrier bags and soft plastic. So someone did some good training.

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Not sensing this will be as brutal as a few years ago when the late Bronzey at one point had two other chickens pinned down by their necks by her claws, at once. Which definitely showed them who was the boss, and it was quite a sight. Straight after she went to bed for a rest.

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Not that either could win because there's a fence in the way, so we're currently on a stalemate until they can actually reach each other. Who will win is not clear. Could go either way. With her pacifist ways, Hendini's looks set to be the new number 3.

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She then tried this on the boss of the three new chickens. Despite looking like she might give in, new boss didn't. And then Martha (old number 1), presumably sensing Hendini probably would win and her position may be threatened, swooped in and the two top hens went into full fight mode.

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New chickens are still separate to the old chickens, but they can see each other and attempts to create a new chicken power hierarchy are in progress. Hendini (old number 2) has asserted her dominance over two of the new ones by the process of winning an intense staring competition.

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Deposit was paid by phone because having been stung once, I always use a different card when paying by phone so I know full well it shouldn't have been used.

Today's annoying tedious pointless admin to sort out. Plumbers have taken payment for the work they did last night twice. Once on the card I paid the deposit on, and once on the card I used when I paid the invoice on the link they gave me.

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Payments on my credit card bill described as "Medical Services and Health". The payments? Purchases of beer at the first ever Marple Beer Festival 🤔

An interesting side note is how effortlessly Moyles's replacement at Radio 1, Nick Grimshaw, seems to have slid into the role of breakfast presenter at 6music. As well as doing podcasts about food for Waitrose!

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I guess his challenge is where and what? Where would he fit on another radio station? Can't really see him back at the BBC. The incredibly overcrowded podcast world? Or a complete reinvention? Very tricky.

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Whilst I have been to Glasgow, I've only been once (22 years ago) and mostly used the subway when we were there from memory.

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I have never been on a bus in the UK where you tipped coins into a chute. Not once. There may have been a few areas where that was the norm, but not in the areas of England, Wales and Scotland I've been to. Even in London you got change before they went cash free.

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NTS 2024: Mode share and multi-modal trips

25% of car journeys in 2024 were under a mile. Yes some people have mobility issues. But still... www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Amazing how much the future is changing to look like what was there before.

Reading about it, it all makes a lot of sense. Glad my GP surgery keeps up to date on these things. My mum's still using inhalers my surgery abandoned years ago.

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