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David Hingley

@davidhingley.bsky.social
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Head of Arts, Heritage and Culture at Peridot. Trustee at Painshill Park and Museum of the Broads - with previous form running visitor experience at Tate Galleries, Hampton Court Palace, Landmark Trust and BOP Consulting BEM for queues

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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Not that I ever would but..
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Good to have clarity on the rules here. There’s a lot you can’t do. But equally a nice place for a run or walk
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
When you’re really very excited about your next adventure - but not sure where you put the lead so you need someone to get it for you.
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
A great decision making flow chart here. Particularly enjoy the route to ‘sounds like you better do it’ - so often the case!
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Dogs adjacent to polling stations Not all dogs always follow the rules
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Operations managers everywhere… I’m always up for reading the rules.
Sign saying ‘I read the rules so you don’t have to’
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Sometimes the instructions might not make sense but you really do need to just follow them. Thoughtless not to.
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Initial rule book. This is without the additions and appendices too.
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
At last!! Say Dave’s everywhere.
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Sometimes instructions can be low key but still clear!
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
From one of my site visits this week. We all need some clear guidance when we’re lost.
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Chosen
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
In a world of madness good to feel like in some ways everything is exactly in its place. And therefore easy to pick up when needed - except my glasses, always.
Sign saying 

PLEASE
PUT THINGS BACK IN THEIR PROPER
PLACES AND YOU WILL FIND THEM
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
You are what you’re told you are. Just accept it!
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Best walk ever as per
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Lots of different ways to issue instructions! You don’t have to shout to be heard.
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Instructions that are fading from memory. Amazing how quickly we were all programmed and then de-programmed around what’s normal
A floor sticker from the covid period reminding everyone to keep two metres apart
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
When you’re on the lead and excited to see what might be next!
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Thinking the sertraline must be working because my lackadaisical approach to which tablet to take which day isn’t triggering me. Or maybe it’s time travel
Blister pack of tablets, each day is labelled and I think I should be going Monday to Sunday but I’ve taken Friday, Tuesday, Monday and Sunday so far. This is not down to time travel
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Personally I’d be looking happier even if I was being given the bowl on the floor rather than at the table - sometimes an owner just can’t catch the breaks
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Loving the #WinterOlympics coverage
The commentators on Winter Olympics - in a small cupboard as far as you can tell. Have added Gordon the Goffer
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Could be comfier? Milo the Bichon Frisée - guarding us all and keeping us safe #DogsOfBlueSky
A bichon frisée. (Off white at present) lies amongst grey cushions and a throw. All paws in the air and tummy exposed. Asleep. You can just tell he’s snoring loudly
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Amazing to be named among ‘UK's best places to live that tourists mispronounce but is obvious to those who live there’ Niche, but maybe easier to win than Britain in Bloom. It’s Ewell, since you ask.
Headline from Get Surrey Online - reads ‘Surrey Village named among UK's best places to live that tourists mispronounce but is obvious to those who live there’
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Latest book book complete. This one was a birthday present. Lovely to do and nice to ignore the real world for a little.
A book nook. Nestled in between a load of books on British Prime Ministers and elections (I can’t help it, I’m always fascinated). It’s a steam train in a station with a platform containing a bench and a luggage trolley. There’s a clock overhead A book nook. Nestled in between a load of books on British Prime Ministers and elections (I can’t help it, I’m always fascinated). It’s a steam train in a station with a platform containing a bench and a luggage trolley. There’s a clock overhead
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Out on Milo’s walk.. and hear me out on this .. Binterest - like Pinterest but with all the best bins for dogs to sniff.
Photo of the lake near me, which we walk around daily. Winter trees, grey blue sky and quite a brown lake given the recent rain
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Painshill Park looking as stunning as ever from a few days ago now.
Sunset over the vineyard and river at Painshill ParkThe view down to the lake from within Gothic Temple
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Anyone that used to work with me in the past will appreciate this - the office fridge in our shared kitchen.
A fridge - absolutely stacked with bottles of milk on every shelf
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Eclectic. Always.
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Guarding duty
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Yes. Exactly as you would expect it to.
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Eventually they will be this size. Mark My Words
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Seems inefficient to be honest
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Shanklin today
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Always glass half full. I’ve been gifted 50 flumps - it’s all good
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Personal status update
A card illustrated with a cartoon in a tapestry style with a sentry cut in half - and the number 50 with the text ‘officially half a sentry’
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
When eating your lunch feels like a spectator sport #DogsOfBluesky
Milo, my Bichon frisée - giving me the big eyes as he sits on the floor next to the sofa where I am trying to eat my sandwich
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
May come back to #KingAndConqueror but for now having watched the first few minutes I’ve switched to something that more realistically captures the period
Image from Disney’s animated version of ‘The sword in the stone’ featuring Arthur holding the sword - about to pull it from the stone
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Snapped these up. Very realistic! #Halloween
A display of ghost drinking jars with straws (but the box is empty so it looks like they may be properly invisible ghosts)
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
1990’s me absolutely loving @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social latest podcast. The fact it’s been to accompany 2020’s me on a morning run would have been total anathema back then mind.
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Multiverse in Shropshire (budget constraints)
A Spider-Man cap which has been hooked over the back of a park bench
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
schrodinger's picnic table
A standard picnic table, brown stained wood, written on it in white ‘No picnics please’
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Totally expected these to be the usual disappointment - and just taste like not-so-good Jaffa cakes. But they actually do taste ‘hot’ and of honey. Strange times - would recommend
Jaffa cakes package for Hot Honey flavour Jaffa cakes - like normal Jaffa cakes but with the new flavour written on the pack and a bee image
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Peterborough Cathedral was looking stunning today
Looking through an arch, bathed in sunshine at Peterborough Cathedral
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Doing some interviews today in a stunning location, and accompanied by the ultimate decision makers. Cats.
A tabby cat leaving the medieval hall where the interviews were taking place
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Love the #London10k I never get much better or worse, but the scenery is fab and the organisation is excellent
A steam of runners On a sunny day running towards Westminster along embankmentAn older guy with a grey beard/ stubble and an erratic grin, with a cap and a cyan SANE charity top. Looking very hot. Just after finishing a 10KRunners on Waterloo bridge running to Big Ben
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Very much enjoyed Magnus Mills - The Scheme for Full employment #BooksofBluesky
The cover of Magnus Mills ‘the scheme for full employment’ which includes a picture of the uni van that’s key to the book
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I hadn’t expect to enjoy this, I’ve enjoyed a lot of their music, but been a bit on the fence really. But this is a great book, and beautifully written too. #BooksOfBlueSky
The cover of Bono’s book ‘Bono, stories of surrender’
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David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Well ‘The List of Suspicious Things’ by Jennie Godfrey was brilliant #BooksOfBluesky
The cover of the ‘The List of Suspicious Things’
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