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Dan Etchells

@danetchells.bsky.social
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Retired civil servant. Bit of walking & cycling. Red wine, cherry & white rugby.

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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 5h
Sunday afternoon's least surprising news, ever... In other news, look at that bear over there, carrying a toilet roll, walking towards those trees...
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The world's leading democracy, ladies & gentlemen...
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thursday morning, Trend Setters... Back to basics, with the Hairy Genius... 😎
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Salcombe - Day 4...
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sal - Day 3...
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Salcombe - Day 2...
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Salcombe - Day 1...
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wednesday afternoon's least surprising news, ever... Looks legit to me!!
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not now plague, not now... #fucksake
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Monday morning, Trend Setters... A familiar walk, with the Hairy Genius, and an awful lot of squirrels...
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Friday morning, Trend Setters... 😎 A very pleasant stroll with a predominantly nose down, tail up, Hairy Genius...
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Don't the government realise that "Trump's White House" *IS* the fucking radical right??!!??
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
You can only assume one thing, when all the US tech bros start trotting out this line - China's winning...
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nah, it's not about race, is it?? It's about 'protecting people'... The fact that these were brown people is wholly irrelevant... Anyway, welcome to Britain, eh lads?? This is where this country is, now - any brown face is a licence for hatred and violence.
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Wednesday morning, Trend Setters... A lovely stroll around the fields and lanes of Painswick... 😎
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Nice bit of shrinkflation, McVitie's - top work!! 🙄
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Nurse?? Nurse!! I'm sorry - he's shit himself. Again!!
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Good to see Death upping its game, after a poor few days...
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Wednesday morning, Trend Setters... 😎 A slow and steady stroll with the Hairy Genius, who was more convinced than ever that there were small creatures hiding in all clumps of long grass... 🙄
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Friday morning, Trend Setters... 😎 First time in a good while (muddy paths / cancer), on 1 of our favourite walks... Complete with possibly the least welcoming stile in the world!!
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A better headline might be "Reform UK plan would devastate the lives of vulnerable people, while making the rich even richer."
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So, Farage has managed to get more people to vote for him than for a bin... Bravo. See you in the Commons as soon as Recess is over then?? What's that?? You need to spend a bit more time with other people's money??
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Tuesday morning, Trend Setters... 😎 A lovely, not too hot stroll, with the Hairy Genius - and with a Red Admiral, too - and, happily, without a bull... 😁
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Name: Dan Etchells Hobbies: Requesting a Community Note against all the abject nonsense Musk posts or promotes on his own fucking platform.
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A horror story in 12 words...
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Friday morning, Trend Setters... 😎 A very sunny stroll, with the Hairy Genius in a DFZ (deer free zone)... 🙄
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So, leaving bodies to rot viewed as slightly more serious than professing support for Palestine Action?? Wow.
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Friday morning, Trend Setters... 😎 A stroll around Chosen Hill, with the Hairy Genius - feeling a bit more like it, post-radiotherapy - which is good news... We'll even gloss over Baxter flushing a 🦌 from cover and taking off after it... 🙄
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It was a failed attempt at an honesty and empathy implant... The host rejected it.
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Radiotherapy?? Completed it, mate. Huge thanks to the brilliant, caring and infinitely patient staff at Cheltenham General Hospital - "Could you just move your arm, Dan. No, not like that, like we asked you to yesterday. There, that's great. Now your other arm. No, not like that..."
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Saturday morning's least surprising TV programme review, ever... 😬
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Won't anyone think of the poor cannibal??
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Do you want to change out of your Pantomime Dame outfit, before we take you in?? What's that?? It's 'everyday wear'?? Oh, OK.
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Tuesday evening, Trend Setters... 😎 A short, gentle stroll, after a radiotherapy-induced nap, with the Hairy Genius...
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Incredible scenes in the car, this morning... Temperature c. 50% of yesterday... Actually shivered!!
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Tuesday morning, Trend Setters - strolling around a savanna-like Chosen Hill with the Hairy Genius... 😎
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Monday morning, Trend Setters - a stroll around with the Hairy Genius... 😎
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Possibly Xitter's worst set of 'Who To Follow' recommendations for me yet...
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Be terribly unfortunate if SY-L developed a cocaine allergy, wouldn't it??
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
(This was) Friday morning, Trend Setters... A galloping / paddling Hairy Genius, a Leopard Moth and some Common Mallow... 😎
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Tuesday morning, Trend Setters... A very nice stroll, with the Hairy Genius, along with a lovely coffee Felt Riverside Kitchen & Coffee Bar and a superb Winstones Ice Cream - what more could you want?? 😎
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Well, I suppose an 'essay' isn't going to ask questions about the £5M gift, or the house in Clacton, or the *other* house, or the racism, or...
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Wednesday morning, Trend Setters - a stroll and restorative @centralcrosscafe, and the Hairy Genius encountered a large, white, fluffy ground-based cloud... 😎
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