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Carolyn Boyd @carolynboyd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you so much @mathewlyons.bsky.social , so glad you enjoy it and use it! What every author is thrilled to hear/read! 🙏🇫🇷🥂🥖

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Carolyn Boyd @carolynboyd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Gah you’d think a BBC report that starts with comment on pronunciation of Bayeux would actually pronounce it correctly 🤦🏼‍♀️ #oldladymoan

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Carolyn Boyd @carolynboyd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Listening to Soul Music on Radio 4 about Dolly’s I Will Always Love You, on same day as hearing a dear friend has died is a lot 😭

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Anaïs Lecoq @anahlcq.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

POV : t'es pigiste, on est en août, et tu tentes d'obtenir des réponses pour finir tes papiers.

Même de Pablo Escobar dans la série Narcos. Assis seul sur un banc, seul à une table, seul dehors... avec un air dépité

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Northern & proud 👊 @gazlancs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡

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Carolyn Boyd @carolynboyd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Went to see the Odyssey. Need a lie down now.

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Farewell Bill, most radical of the Goodies. Present at Grosvenor Square with Tariq & Vanessa. Turned his harassment by the Met into slapstick TV comedy for kids. Angry, hairy, furiously talented.

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Carolyn Boyd @carolynboyd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Bill Oddie was the first famous person I ever saw in real life. It was a very exciting moment for me aged, probably, 7. May he rest in peace. 🙏

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Carolyn Boyd @carolynboyd.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Oh sad news about Ed Stourton on Radio 4. Fond memories of interviewing him about his time as BBC Paris correspondent and love of France. RIP 😢

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Today’s independent front page Brexit has been a disaster – it’s time the guilty men felt some shame

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU. Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Carolyn Boyd @carolynboyd.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Oh good, I can listen to Radio 2 again. 🤣

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Carolyn Boyd @carolynboyd.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Lolled all the way through this from @newyorker.com Felt all these same judgments simply from HMRC’s confirmation email after submitting tax return in January 😂

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 52; Yes, you are a proper writer if you also have a day job. Nearly all writers have day jobs.

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Carolyn Boyd @carolynboyd.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Fast forward to spring in Provence … My latest for @theguardian.com 🌼🌼🌸🌷💐

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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 23/01/2026

🥐Apparently next Friday (Jan 20th) is national croissant day. Who knew? The Savoy has a fancy bakery attached. They are giving out "at least 200" free croissants next Friday morning.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials

Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

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Carolyn Boyd @carolynboyd.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

My feed is full of Paris in the snow… it looks magical ✨

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Carolyn Boyd @carolynboyd.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I absolutely despise wrapping presents.

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Carolyn Boyd @carolynboyd.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

New France Traveller out today, full if cheats and boozy suggestions for the too-busy French food lover… open.substack.com/pub/francetr...

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Have yourself a French-ish Christmas

It's not too late to give your celebration a touch of joie de vivre, inspired by our French friends.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 17/11/2025

“How many refugees have been granted asylum in the UK?” Most people overestimate the number - by a lot. With far-right figures spreading misinformation, it’s hard for the public to know the truth. Watch the video to see just how wide the gap is between perception and reality.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in. Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/

A post by Zarah Sultana of 'Your Party', that uses a generated image with the words 'Your Party, County Durham Launch', surrounded by nine simple, flat images of images in silhouette with single colour backgrounds, presumably intended to represent Durham, four of which are a man with a weirdly long pick-axe, one is a building, two are gantries of some kind – for a coal mine? – and one is some kind of floating lamp. I will expand on this in the thread.

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Carolyn Boyd @carolynboyd.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

So very sad about this. She was utterly brilliant 😢

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Ah the 1970s. Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.

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Carolyn Boyd @carolynboyd.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Happy tears in my eyes reading the itinerary for my next trip. It is absolutely beyond my wildest dreams… and I just want to tell my 2015 self, when I cried sad tears en route to work every day, that things are going to work out. 😊✊🏼

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Michel Lacombe @michellacombe.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Julius Caesar conquered Gaul in 51 BC and died in 44 BC, therefore all of Asterix's adventures took place over the course of less than seven years, probably much less since Asterix's chieftain was at the battle of Alesia, were it is probable Asterix and Obelix's fathers died. In this essay, I will

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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Carolyn Boyd @carolynboyd.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Dear @teamlabouruk.bsky.social, I don’t wanna hear you slagging off NF. It’s boring. And repetitive. Just tell us how you’re going to repair this country’s bad bits, because his version won’t work. Give us the solutions 🙄

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Carolyn Boyd @carolynboyd.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This promises to be excellent! Love Montreuil 💕

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Carolyn Boyd @carolynboyd.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Sorry BBC, by ‘remarkable and wide-ranging speech’ you mean ‘unhinged and full of lies’ 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Carolyn Boyd @carolynboyd.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Fantastic article… have been meaning to go for years!

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Carolyn Boyd @carolynboyd.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Had an amazing dinner last night at Crocadon Farm in Cornwall. Chef Dan Cox is a regenerative farmer and has a green and one star from Michelin. I tasted unusual herbs and varieties of produce… One of the desserts was this lemon verbena sorbet. Out of this world! Get down there! www.crocadon.farm

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Carolyn Boyd @carolynboyd.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

In today’s iPaper… top tips for making self-catering in France easy! inews.co.uk/inews-lifest... (holding an orange to your eye isn’t one of them, but I appreciate the implication I am young and beautiful like this model)

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I wrote a book about food in France - here are my easy tips for self-catering

From stocking up at the bakery to mastering the cheese counter, this is how to make your French self-catering holiday straightforward and authentic

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Stop the yachts.

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Rossiter Books @rossiterbooks.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Buy ANY book 18-20 July, and you could win a £250 @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social digital gift card! Browse our lists of recommended titles or look up the book you want... uk.bookshop.org/shop/rossite...

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