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Historyboy

@andylennox.bsky.social
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Happily retired, living in Whitehaven, Cumberland (UK). Walking, DIY, photography, vegetable growing. SAFC. Music from the 70s and 80s, including Genesis, Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen. And Runrig.

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Historyboy @andylennox.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
www.maptap.gg October 12 100🎯 98🔥 100🎯 97🔥 96🔥 Final score: 977
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 08/10/2026
Please submit your small ideas for fixing Britain to the Small-Ideas.org website. It’s a new charitable initiative I’ve set up to try and make sure life’s potholes don’t get ignored. Working with two charities and a cross party panel to turn your ideas into policy then try and make it happen.
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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Betting apps are the data centers of the Internet: wasteful, destructive parasites that ruin people's lives and contribute nothing worthwhile to society at large.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Text which says "Top tip: avoid hecoming a workaholic by only doing jobs which contain no workahol."
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Historyboy @andylennox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@apiln.bsky.social BBC News - Barrow's fire-hit crematorium to reopen after months closed - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Barrow's fire-hit crematorium to reopen after months closed
Westmorland and Furness Council says it expects the site to reopen on 30 September.
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Historyboy @andylennox.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 11 96🔥 95🏅 99🎯 98🎯 99🎯 Final score: 980 Best score ever!
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Historyboy @andylennox.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 6 98🎯 99🎯 100🎯 100🎯 85😁 Final score: 952
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Historyboy @andylennox.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Everyone should be more like Dolly. RIP.
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Historyboy @andylennox.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Swallows seen yesterday at Cleator Moor. Probably thinking that it's too hot here and that they should go back to Africa to cool off.
Swallows on power lines in Cumberland,  UK.
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Historyboy @andylennox.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
www.maptap.gg August 7 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 96🔥 95🏅 Final score: 973
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 04/08/2026
Super Folio Brothers?
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Brett Coughlin @coughlinbrett.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Kylian Mbappé #WorldCup
Kylian Mbappé speaking about the destructive nature of sports gambling.
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Historyboy @andylennox.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
www.maptap.gg July 6 99🎯 95🏅 99🎯 100🎯 99🎯 Final score: 989
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Clay Jones @claytoonz.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Democratic Socialists are happy and joyful, while MAGAts are angry and butthurt. #DemocraticSocialists #MAGA #NYC #zohranMamdani
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 21/06/2026
This sums up the immigration debate neatly in a way you won't hear it spelled out in the British media. A media which seems to have given up on any commitment to educate many years ago.
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Historyboy @andylennox.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
www.maptap.gg June 19 98🎯 96🔥 95🏅 95🏆 97🔥 Final score: 960
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Excellent illustration from UK In A Changing Europe
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
They removed CD/DVD drives from PCs. -Made physical media harder to buy and use. -Removed expandable storage from phones. -Pushed us into streaming subscriptions. -Made always-online normal. -Made unlimited internet necessary. -Slowly raised the price of everything. Ownership quietly became renting.
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 10/06/2026
Martin Lewis: When abroad pay in euros (or other local currency) or pounds? Courtesy of ITV’s This Morning.
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Historyboy @andylennox.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Found these in Aldi. Delicious!
Picture of a bag of Marmite flavour crisps
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Gerry Anderson @gerryanderson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The rarely seen trailer for the Captain Scarlet vs the Mysterons compilation movie is now available to watch on our YouTube channel! youtu.be/DlBhBmWINZI
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Captain Scarlet vs the Mysterons trailer - Super Space Theatre
YouTube video by Gerry Anderson
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Historyboy @andylennox.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Start of the Coast to Coast cycle way, Whitehaven harbour, Cumberland.
A view of the start of the Coast to Coast cycle way at Whitehaven Harbour,  Cumberland UK.
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Random Smash Hits @randomsmashhits.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
1985: smash hits 31 january 13 february 1985, page 30 Full mag --> archive.org/stream/smash-hits-31-ja…
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The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
25th May 1973, the debut album, Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield was released as the first full price album on the Virgin Record label. It comprises two mostly instrumental tracks and Oldfield, who was 19 years old when it was recorded, played almost all the instruments. #TubularBells #MikeOldfield
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Historyboy @andylennox.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Slightly out of focus orchid growing in my lawn, amidst the daisies, moss and dandelions!
Common orchid in a mowed lawn with weeds
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Scissors @scissors.myatproto.social · 26/06/2025
I’m sharing it a little late this year, but if you’re still swimsuit shopping, remember that the color of a person’s bathing suit can be lifesaving www.today.com/parents/colo...
today.com
Lifeguards Warn Against Wearing Certain Color Swimsuits: Here's Why
The color of your child's swimsuit could help save them from drowning.
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The former Mayor of Abingdon is to attempt to break the world long distance Morris Dancing record - 200 miles along the Thames Path, from London to Abingdon and back, this May. Duncan Bhaskaran Brown is raising money for six charities along the way.
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I have succeeded in stopping buying books or anything else from Amazon. It’s easy to give up next day delivery and most books can be found discounted on other websites. More of you should do this.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
It’s the 248th anniversary of the most exciting thing ever to happen in Whitehaven, when a Scotsman fighting for the Americans in the War of Independence made a small town in Cumbria the last place in England to be raided successfully from the sea... 🧵
A large group of men in US naval uniform of the 18th century rowing a hugely overcrowded small boat on choppy seas
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Historyboy @andylennox.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
@bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social great talk in Keswick today, but you need some new socks! You won't be allowed to forget that for a while I guess.
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Historyboy @andylennox.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Last onion of the 2024 crop, and what a beauty!
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Historyboy @andylennox.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Evening view in Newcastle from the Copthorne hotel yesterday.
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