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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It has taken me months to find a spotlight with a sufficiently narrow beam. But hugely pleased with this!

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A sign near us in Lusaka. And so it begins...

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Er, Zesca... How did you get there...?"

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Loving that 'benefits' is given quotation marks

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Scotland as always excelling itself in matters celestial observation

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Same joke sent to some friends in May last year!

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Abra pulling off the impressive trick of making it look like she's being eaten

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I think it's always been to allow them time to get up to Scotland for the shooting. Very wise.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Meanwhile, in the far North...

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My dog has never once so much as glanced at the television, but now seems gripped by Fargo (1996). Maybe it's a good excuse to binge watch Cohen Brothers output. Not sure she's going to be super impressed by humans at the end of it all, dogs not being big on irony. But we'll give it a go.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The fixed look in Zesca's eyes. A long journey with the children. Like Withnail in the film, she's MAKING TIME

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The puppy we ended up getting instead lived a good life, with never a moment alone, as part of our family, constantly outside and active, in 14 countries across three continents. Just bizarre behaviour by Battersea.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Domimina nustio illumea - roughly translated as "My mistressess is by commind my lighgt" - should forever be our motto.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

This is his 'deplorables' moment

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Ah, the Straits of America...

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Enjoy the growing heat of spring whilst you can. This winter's going to be cold.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Please excuse the indulgence, but I'll scream this into the ether: it's unreal to see my little brother David nominated for an Olivier Award. In my mind's eye, he's still an 10 year old clowning around to amuse my university friends.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

What a legacy of pose-y shots they leave behind them

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Off in the great hunting ground in the sky having a whale of a time

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Or when you've 'learned' this

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Is that a Nick Gryphon? This is also on there. What's going on? It's almost as if a commonly used AI tool were deliberately evoking historical far-right imagery....

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Show me a bunch of cats this cool

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

On what terms does the US maintain its bases in Europe? Presumably now that Trump's made it clear he couldn't care less about NATO or Europe, the status of all these could be reviewed in the event of aggression against another NATO member?

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

David Niven clowning about a few years later

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Yes, I know one isn't supposed to comment on people's appearance, but screw it; this is hardly punching down. Surely there does have to be a public conversation about how f*cking weird these people look, and what it probably says about their character and values?

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

WESTERN CIVILISATION CAN ONLY BE SAVED IF THE EU IS ABOLISHED

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

"EUROPE STANDS ON THE BRINK OF CIVILISATIONAL ERASURE..."

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

"EUROPE STANDS ON THE BRINK OF CIVILISATIONAL ERASURE..."

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Being lectured on 'civilisational [sic] erasure' by an administration of plastic-faced, hamburger-munching morons, who don't speak 2nd languages - who indeed are barely literate in their own - and who consider golf as the apogee of human endeavour, must rank as a low point in Europe's 2k yr history.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

You can never really drive them far enough go incur much of a cost tbh. Ours has been going almost 59 years, and - for all it being an objectively dire driving experience - one does just start to love them. Plus if you learn to drive on one, you're never going to be troubled much by a driving test!

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I can't remember if I ever shared this on here, but on or around his anniversary I'm reminded of my finest photograph of Boatswain, an arch poseur among dogs: "Wanderer, above the sea of Dog", after Friedrich.

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John Shields @avochie.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Reminds me of this - actually covering his eyes like a teenager when I opened the curtains

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