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Sharon McGuinness @blushingunseen.bsky.social · 22h

Progress is being made though. They had to completely rebuild my floor but I am now free of ominous creaks [and so is the floor etc ha ha]…

Bathroom renovations under way. Wooden battens now affixed to walls ready for plasterboard. While still no true right angles we are now much more rectangle adjacent!

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Sharon McGuinness @blushingunseen.bsky.social · 22h

Been round to Beryl next door’s for a shower and hair wash. I feel like a new woman!! 😅

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Sharon McGuinness @blushingunseen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bathroom fitter has different apprentice with him today who has just had to be inducted into the mysteries of my odd shaped house. Lots of explanations of angles and where they will have to square off!!

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Sharon McGuinness @blushingunseen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The other end still has its floor at least! And a slightly precariously balanced loo. Still - needs must!

Other end of bathroom showing loo temporarily balanced on old tiles and exposed stone wall. The other walls looking relatively untouched for now!

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Sharon McGuinness @blushingunseen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Last day of bathroom looking like this. Awaiting arrival of gang of men and a skip to commence the “worse before it gets better” phase. 😱

View of bathroom - dark grey marble effect walls, white basin, a white bath with shower above it, and a turquoise bathmat. Dark grey flooring. Photographer visible in the mirror!

View of other end of bathroom - white toilet, radiator, one grey wall and two white ones with art on them as well as decorative vinyl seagull silhouettes. Rectangles of sampled paint in various shades. Stainless steel medicine cabinet on one wall.

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Billy, Garry, Orville @billythecat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A Comfortable Man!!

Billy the brown tabby cat is asleep on his back on the top shelf in the wardrobe. Only his tail and his back legs can be seen, with his pink and black beans high in the air.

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Sharon McGuinness @blushingunseen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lancaster looking gorgeous today in the soft Autumn light

River Lune and the Millennium Bridge in Lancaster under a blue sky with wispy clouds and bathed in golden autumn light

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Man City fans thinking they can spot flaws in a decision made by three senior lawyers is the new Dads think they could win a game against Serena Williams.

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Sharon McGuinness @blushingunseen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Went for my flu jab (I get a free one due to an underlying health condition) at the surgery. They were running a special clinic so very high throughput. I did bring the average age in the waiting room down quite substantially though!! 😅

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Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Today I am in 19th century Birmingham and researching the Library fire of 1879. I am learning a lot about 19th C disaster preparedness. However what everyone* wants to know is what was the “unpleasantness” which caused the resignation of the Librarian and which he promised would not be repeated?

Birmingham Council House in the sunshine

A 19th century minute book on a book pillow with bookshelves and a window beyond

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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Sharon McGuinness @blushingunseen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A long few days at work with a somewhat late finish at the office tonight plus train journey home so took myself out for my tea and had an epic chicken pie!

Black ceramic plate on a scratched wooden pub table holding an enormous pile of buttery mash, an equally huge chicken and leek pie garnished with crispy onions, and a smalk white jug of gravy. In the background a glass of water and just out of shot a glass of nicely chilled Sauvignon blanc.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Woman walks into a Hull hairdresser and asks for a perm. Certainly, he replies: 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' #NationalPoetryDay

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I had no idea this was an option.

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Sharon McGuinness @blushingunseen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is the “irrefutable body of evidence” in the room with us? #thefootballshenanigans

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

<Director> GUYS WE GET ONE SHOT AT THIS. ANNNND ACTION

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When was the last time our Secretary of State for Culture displayed anything approaching this degree of public enthusiasm for our world-class arts industry? Has she been seen anywhere? Given impending charter renewal... did she even bother to visit a single prom?

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Nostalgic Things that go bump in the night @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Saw someone yesterday describe those morons outside Basingstoke Police Station as the Provisional Wing of Sports Direct, and, yeah, that’s pretty much it.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The doorstep milk thief, 1966 Artist: Ronald Lampitt

A blue-tit pecks at the silver top of a milk bottle on the doorstep

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Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Getting into some pretty intense negotiations here

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 19/09/2026

My liege...

A screen grab of the BBC with the subtitles "the duke and duchess of sausage" and a picture of harry and Megan.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

An injection of yellow like a fizz of sherbet fountain to cheer the end of the week with this #1750s striped robe à la française. Bright and breezy and sunny perfect for welcoming the weekend #coraginsburg #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Back view of a bright yellow and white striped silk satin gown with deep central Watteau pleat and fitted elbow length sleeves

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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bolivian Murder Kitten just dropped...

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

3-y.o. has interpreted the “lemon” from “easy peasy lemon squeezy” as an all-purpose intensifier. If something hurts: “Owie” If something *really* hurts: “Owie owie lemon owie”

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every other headline now is "Huge liar who's financially motivated to lie says"

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MrPaulRobinson @mrpaulrobinson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Either this should say 'dualling' or it's time to start packing a pistol if you're heading for Scarborough

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Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Along with swift boxes, should be compulsory on all new builds 🙏

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Really good chicken helmet. Best chicken helmet I’ve ever seen maybe.

A knight’s helmet with, inexplicably, a chicken face coming out the front

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Sharon McGuinness @blushingunseen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For Heritage Open Days I visited a textile printing factory. Some machines still steam-powered and they abstract water from the River Lune under “grandfather rights”. Really fascinating tour.

Pumping equipment which facilitates abstraction of water from the River Lune to provide the steam needed to run some of the machines. Saved during Storm Desmond by the engineers who shut off and physically moved the bespoke (and largely irreplaceable) pipework when they realised it was going to flood!

Yard inside Standfast & Barracks factory compound. Arch at end supports huge water tank as steam power still in use. This bit of the factory dates from 1896 but current use as textile print works merely from 1924!

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Jane McGrath @jlbmcgrath.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Adorable guerilla art in the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath.

2 water pipes are emerging from a wall, near the floor. Where the pipes have angled joints, someone has painted them with little faces. There is a gallery-style sign stuck to the wall beside them saying "Pipe Portraits, mixed media installation, artist unknown."

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Seán MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Clicked on the link. Some Man Utd streamer gubbins I think to myself but I trust Gary, I'll watch to the end Am now convulsed with laughter in cork airport

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Sharon McGuinness @blushingunseen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Fair play to Ralphy’s in Morecambe but when you get a cappuccino they do not stint. Kindle for size comparison!

Enormous cup of cappuccino next to a Kindle.

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Sharon McGuinness @blushingunseen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’m Minnesotan apparently, by virtue of calling fuzzy drinks “pop”! 😊

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Sharon McGuinness @blushingunseen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ugh. Fit for nothing today after that twice interrupted sleep. 🫩

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Sharon McGuinness @blushingunseen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And again! 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

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Sharon McGuinness @blushingunseen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Woken up by what must have been a brief power cut setting the burglar alarm off and switching on all the smart bulbs. So that’s me wide awake! 😳

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Sharon McGuinness @blushingunseen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Lovely concert up at the Priory tonight. A programme of early music using period instruments. Lots of recorders, lutes, viol da gamba and a majestic theorbo.

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Sharon McGuinness @blushingunseen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Been to Skipton for the day and persuaded to buy a light jacket and a Peter Brook print. Strapline should be “town of great salespeople”. 😂

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

out: “picky bits” in: bringing back the term “cold collation”

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Sharon McGuinness @blushingunseen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Autumn is officially here. A house spider the size of a small pony trotted jauntily across the living room floor between the front door and the kitchen, as I watched from the sofa. I swear I could hear its feet on the laminate.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Y'all... the Band of the Coldstream Guards performed "9 to 5" in front of Buckingham Palace in honor of Dolly Parton.

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Sharon McGuinness @blushingunseen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I do wish Sky would take the punditry back into the studio after the game so we don’t need to listen to all the background noise in the stadium being picked up by the mic. The most annoying child in the world has been yelling consistently for 15 minutes now.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It’s frock day! Ladybird book pictures on request. Cinderella’s three ball dresses. (1964) Artist: Eric Winter

Cinderella‘s first ball dress, pink silk and rosebuds.

Blue satin and lace. Cinderella‘s second ball dress.

White net and gold thread. Cinderella‘s third ball dress

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