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David Shepherd

@dms59.bsky.social
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Alienated by the scent of Musk. Flaneur, haunter of Art Galleries, love watching paint dry in Arthouse films, countryside conservationist, Birkbeck History of Ideas MA, progressive, radical, European.

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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A real one which is still there at Carnforth. I think the coal was loaded from wagon to hopper and then hauled up to top of tower for delivery to tender.
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Wondering where the beach is in Surrey?
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Charles is getting to the age when he may well be asked to name the PM. Not being able to remember will not necessarily be evidence of memory loss.
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
My closest match is Pope Leo XIV britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I’m a Jesuit!
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The Feast of St Augustine of Canterbury and a reminder of how migrants in a small boat landed on the Kent Coast bringing a foreign Middle Eastern religion to the Angles from Rome.
Mosaic from Westminster Cathedral showing Augustine preaching to Angle enslaved.
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Looking for lamb for Easter Day. It’s all so expensive. This seems more like it!
Pack of dog food.
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
They have potential in boating. Here are three monks bringing out a priest to bless passengers on the excursion boat to Mt Athos.
Lighter approach ferry with Orthodox monks and priests on board
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
When I did History at Reading University in 1981 I did a course on Medieval church architecture with Brian Kemp who wrote a book on church monuments. Sure enough all this gets a mention. It was so long ago I only half remember it.
Book cover
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I meant the folds at the base of the shroud look a bit like the folds in something like this example: framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/...
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Love the Ad for The Observer in the middle of @theguardian.com app! A reminder to read it later.
Ad for Observer
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
A newly built rabbit hutch can be yours for just £920K in Godalming. How can anybody young afford to live here.
 4 new build terrace houses.
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Today is the Feast of St James. Here he is in a church in Tavira near Faro, wearing what looks like a pirate hat. Ora pro nobis!
An image behind altar of St James looking like a pirate in a pirate hat
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Reminded of the wooden temporary grave markers now in the cloisters at Salisbury Cathedral, like this one. Their fragility conveys the tragic waste of life in WWI.
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
It’s not yet 06.30 and I’m reading some great articles in @theguardian.com. One about a gangster granny and the other featuring people and their collection of sex toys. I now need coffee to stop me conflating the two.
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The beach at Tavira, Algarve looking like a Rothko painting.
Sky, sea, sand
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The news is so depressing it’s best to stick to the Daily Star!
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
tri-angsociety.co.uk/princess02tr...
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I’m old enough to not quite like the original as an innovation from the lion and wheel variants but yes I agree.
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Interesting that the Loading Gauge isn’t the problem. The only UK double deck train wasn’t very successful because it was too cramped.
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I went there in 2011. I guess it’s gone now.
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Amesbury, one of Cooper’s “thugs”? Good juxtaposition from the BBC.
Screenshot of BBC newstory.
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Afissos 2015 when Grexit was feared and before Brexit was a thing!
A ruined Greek door
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Good to see water meadows in #Godalming doing what they are meant to do, taking flood water from the River Wey.
Flooded meadow with church spire behind. View of flooded water meadow.
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
-1C with brilliant sunshine, so a great morning to run up and down 101m of hills, wrapped up against the frost like an extra from a Scandi Noir, though I didn’t find any bodies.
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I met him in Dublin
Bust of James Joyce
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I see I’m about to join the 8%! I guess it keeps me young!
Graph showing percentage using mobile payment services.
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Thought the Holy Father had taken up cricket when I saw this BBC headline!
Picture of cricketer
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
The LT depot had a bus from my childhood which made feel old although the bus seemed old to me back then.
A green bus.
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Waited patiently for it to stop raining but in between leaving flat and reaching front porch it started again so I got soaked!
Outline of run on photo of running legs.
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
You’ve not been watching this by any chance? Rebecca Hall has not been right since.
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Here’s another one on the Grand Union Canal tow path near Rickmansworth.
White cast iron boundary post with London crest with red cross.
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Just finished Alan Hollinghurst’s ’Our Evenings’. At first it seems a little disjointed but by the end comes the realisation that it is part of a skilful and deliberate literary recreation of a found and edited memoir. A poignant reflection on, memory, aging and loss.
Book cover
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
A wild day ahead in Guildford. BBC playing safe with forecast unlike 1987.
Screenshot of BBC News with typo forecasting Hurricane force winds in Guildford.
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David Shepherd @dms59.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
Enjoying Sally Rooney’s ‘Intermezzo’ which has a new depth that comes with accumulated years, despite a deceased character being the same age as me. Each chapter has such an intensity that I have to pause before beginning the next. Recommend.
Blue and white chequered detail of the back cover of Rooney’s new novel referencing its chess theme.
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