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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was just amazed at how un-sheepish the rest of Europe (apart from the UK, that is) was.

Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The elderly Polish gentleman who used to live opposite me (and always raised his hat when we met in the street) fought at Monte Cassino. He looked after the museum in the Polish club in London well into his nineties, and managed to go back for one of the recent commrmorations.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Democracy volunteers is Britain's biggest observer group. They observe all UK elections, plus some European and parts of US elections. John Ault is their chair and spokesman.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's ridiculous that he could have organised thuggery on this scale without anyone noticing.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If there's ever a time for invasive police powers, surely this is it. There should be a police car permanently parked outside this Tommo bloke's house to keep an eye on him. They should be tapping his phone, bugging his house and reading his emails. We know they can do it. 1/2

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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As Ian Leslie says, this is “huge fun and genuinely educational, full marks to whoever created it” anyhumanever.com

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Any Human Ever

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

People say to me, "You lived in Africa. You must be fine in the heat." Last Thursday Abidjan, where I lived, was 25 degrees. London was 38.7.......

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Also keep an eye on Saturday. I am having my 80th birthday party, mostly in the garden.....

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yup. That's why everyone in Liberia took the wheels off their car.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Don't go to India. Metal beakers and plates everywhere, only mitigated in some cases by a banana leaf on top.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

What a great thread! Social media was made for this.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Those are what we used to call "lying down shoes", only to be considered if you expected to spend most of the evening horizontal!

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Surely the main issue with early release is that they will come out and do it again. A real worry with domestic abuse cases, but no one is suggesting these prisoners will come out and run over more policemen.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I always thought Soho was more about horizontal drinking.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I always thought Soho was more about horizontal drinking.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Ah. Yes. That does seem significant.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Do you know if the museum (or indeed anywhere else) sells replicas? I would love a set of cups like that.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Where is he getting all these AI images from? Or do you think he is generating them himself? At the rate of one a minute.....

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

She was doing a social work placement, and found it a fairly extraordinary place. Not cruel, as some were, but rather cloying; the nuns didn't seem to want the girls to leave.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Back in the 1960s I had a friend who worked in St Uncumber's Mother and Baby home. I suppose the nuns thought a bearded virgin was a suitable role model for their unmarried mothers.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Remember, both the Iliad and the Odyssey were originally audiobooks.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

As a user of social media, I want nothing more than a simple chronological feed of everything from the accounts I follow.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Exactly. And Balogun himself was reported as saying he accepted the referee's decision. But then when FIFA said he could play, he accepted that. And that was all he had to say. I hope this affair doesn't blight his whole career.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

He also reportedly said that when he got a red card he accepted the referee's decision. When FIFA told him he could play, he accepted that, and he had nothing more to say. Good man.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I wonder how long before they get bored with my cherries....

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Are they the company that made Corning Ware casseroles?

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The BBC is celebrating the US's 250th anniversary by rebroadcasting its classic 1996 series on American art. This, on America's classical vision for its national capital, is sadly timely. American Visions, 1. The Republic of Virtue: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00g6w7m

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American Visions - 1. The Republic of Virtue

Robert Hughes charts the foundation of a national identity that sought architectural inspiration from Greece and Rome. He also looks at America's earliest major painters.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I thought I was coping well, but now I've got prickly heat, and the milk has gone off AGAIN........

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Poffertjes! Cute little pancakes with a great name

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Wake up at dawn. Open everything. As soon as the sun is up, close curtains on the sunny side of the house. When outside temperatures start to rise, close everything and don't open again until it's cooler outside than in. The flaw in this is you can never get cooler than the night time temperature.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Radio has to make do with having strange, unexplained noises in the background, blogs get something which makes no sense on paper, and heaven knows what listeners in Mogadishu make of it, once it's been translated for the Somali service. 2/2

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

And that is because the Corporation's favourite way of saving money is to do just one report and use it across all outlets. And since domestic TV are the big boys, they get their reports tailor made. 1/2

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The ones who love both may have declared today to be a 'take your daughter/son to work' day.

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Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

True story: Andy Burnham’s wife, Frankie van Heel, is Dutch. Years ago she went on the TV show Blind Date, and won a date with a guy who turned out to be comms director for the Conservative Party. When they got backstage she said: “Fuck off, I never want to see you again”. And then she married Andy.

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Life goal: Get a plaque this good

Stephen Hales DD FRS 1677- 1761

Curate, Twickenham, Middlesex. The first person to measure blood pressure (in a horse) and sap pressure in trees. Found how to stop a pie crust sagging

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

A quick sniff should leave you in no doubt.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Probably even more confused by the fact that she is relatively young, petite, blonde and has long hair. And she's NOT A BIMBO.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

There was a hotel in Liberia with an Irish owner, who got very excited when she heard that my (Ghanaian) colleague, Elizabeth Ohene, was coming to stay....

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Forcados is right down in the swampy bit of the Niger Delta. In the days before effective malaria prophylaxis, a posting there would have been a death sentence.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Just eating what is probably my last asparagus supper - with a soft boiled egg and anchovy crumbs.

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I admire your dedication, but do you think it would work with Brandy instead?

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Elizabeth Blunt @bluntspeaking.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I think he actually needed to put his hand on her to steady himself as he stood up. He was quite unsteady.

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