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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This. And, yes - I'm looking at you, Trinity Park Food Festival. skirky.blogspot.com/2026/10/cave...
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Caveat Musicus
Well now, firstly, let’s start with the rant I put on the Facebook… That thing where an event puts out an APB for folk to play their (say, ...
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My first reflection upon #thetraitors is that when it comes to a team-based task, you really need the limpid singer-songwriter and former tank commander @jamesblunt.com to assume command rather than, say, Jerry Hall. No reflection on Jerry's undoubtedly excellent leadership qualities.
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#Bandcamp Fee-Free Friday. Deep cut from my old band, featuring at least half of Helen and The Neighbourhood Dogs, and a lovely Rive Gauche accordion player. songsfromthebluehouse.bandcamp.com/track/foreve...
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Forever, by Songs from the Blue House
from the album Too
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"What they can't do with WiFi these days, eh?"
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I just saw a post from some guy saying that traditional music is “over” because AI music will provide “infinite personalised songs”. I want music that reflects the misshapen thoughts of another human being, not the output of an algorithmic average.
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That would be more a Bovril thing, wouldn't it?
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Johnsey @grahamdjohns.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Soon enough, Danny Timmo will fall in & need rescuing
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
They're selling 'Festive Doggy Donuts' in Sainsbury's. What a time to be alive!
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Surely there must be a bit of code they could add which meant that you weren't able to comment on an article until you'd read it? #RTFA
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I have seen motorists sat staring at this totally nonplussed. #whatcoulditallmean
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If someone asks you if you're The Grammar Police the correct response is to admit that you are and read them their writes.
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Read a review in the paper suggesting this fell somewhere between William Goldman and Joseph Heller and it was bang on. Then I found out he wrote the film script for Garp so we are firmly in Happy Place territory. It's terrific, and thank you to my local indie - Dial Lane Books - for sourcing it.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just Zia Yusuf having a pop at his parents.
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Conspiracy theorists, treasonists, traitors and leakers" sounds like either the guys in Arlo Guthrie's cell in "Alice's Restaurant" or the mob they were trying to round up to storm Rock Ridge. #ItsHedley
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Looks like it's back to ironing work shirts from the end of the month for me. I would, at this point, like to agree with all those folk on LinkedIn who mention how dispiriting it is to be constantly ghosted by recruiters.
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I know, readers - I'm hilarious...
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I feel for Trump. I mean, who among us hasn't imagined being carried off by two firefighters - "Big strong guys" - at some point?
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hard agree.
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
As I've said many times. it's an idiocracy. The never ending the stupidity of this whole MAGAT administration!
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"I once did an interview where I claimed that I had lunch and a long conversation with someone while not listening"
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
‘Masked paramilitary group occupies crucial port’ is the headline the media would go for if it wasn’t happening in Britain.
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“In a West End town a dead end world / For East End Boys and West End Girls…” #AccidentalPetShopBoys 😅
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Loltastic opening to today's Nigel Farndale notebook in @thetimes.com
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Shock and awe at Kirk Towers as the teen boy-child puts crockery in the dishwasher of his own volition!
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I mean, you could start by turning up every so often now, but what do I know..?
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just in time for Bandcamp’s Fee Free Friday, a download exclusive pay-what-you-will radio-friendly remix, with extra doof-doof, lovingly curated at Chemistry Set West for you, you, and especially *you*. helenandtheneighbourhooddogs.bandcamp.com/track/not-th...
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Not That Kind of Girl (CSW Radio Remix), by Helen and The Neighbourhood Dogs
track by Helen and The Neighbourhood Dogs
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Happy Third Birthday to my joke.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
That’s your mum, that is. www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/2651435...
Staggering abnormal load to crawl through Norfolk at 10mph for eight hours.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I hear they like to put lots of gold all over everything too.
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
One of the more egregious examples of showing off your guitar collection was the guy I saw at Maverick playing a baritone guitar with a capo on the fifth fret.
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Ian Wade @wadeywade.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Motors were PowerPub
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Big up the Ipswich rail ticket office, who saved us about a third on our family day out to TTL. If in doubt, talk to a human.
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If you don't mind squandering valuable natural resources I can thoroughly recommend using AI to write discussion forum entries in the style of posters who you find particularly irritating. I found the one on "Why my boiled egg is too runny" particularly Cathartic.
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
As @rockingbob.bsky.social clearly knows, the best unsigned Bond theme is by Adam Buxton. youtu.be/H8hAMhLoQUc?...
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BBC 6 Music Adamand Joe- Quantum Of Solace Theme
YouTube video by Will Teece
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
No offence, but I don't want PIP claimants manning libraries. I want librarians #oook
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This, from The Times:
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
All these things that I have done. skirky.blogspot.com/2026/08/it-w...
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
I  was invited out for lunch at a (genuinely nice) restaurant the other day in the company of The Present Mrs. Kirk which was called ‘Starl...
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 14/08/2026
Farage got 63% of 44% of Clacton voters in an election he called and that he was the only MP standing. And he's calling it a win.
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
BTL activity on our local indie news's new fearless columnist proclaiming they will be forthright and "won't walk on eggshells" seems to be principally people saying what they think of her and a series of replies along the lines of "No, that's not what I meant" and "You can't say that." #paperskin
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Look - they're coming over at 406mph now! #stoptheJCBs
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"We're out of cans of coke, Dad" [thinks: Ha! Finally an opportunity to demonstrate JIT and kanban supply chain logistics in action!] [Does:] "Right, do we anything else from the shop?"
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Which, essentially, tells you everything you need to know about both Giles Coren *and* Rod Liddle.
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Todd Blanche: “I am not sure of the uproar of having a Border Patrol or ICE agent at a polling location. What's the risk?” Uhm, maybe because it’s illegal? Federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 592 prohibits deploying “troops or armed men” to locations where elections are held. An AG should know this.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Each circle has a different story.
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Ah - I see you've opened the fridge..?"
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
me: hey do you have this movie I want to watch? Disney: no Netflix: not anymore Apple: ew no CBC Gem: yes and it’s free Prime: maybe I do, maybe I don’t. Maybe it costs $5 for no reason, even though you already pay for this. Maybe you should fuck off into the sun.
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Me: Nice dress - you know where that would look good..? Her: [sighs] In the laundry basket, I get it. #romanceisntdead
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Libby Purves, wrong about something? #hugeiftrue www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘These are human fires, not wildfires’: Dunwich reflects on the devastation
As residents, nature wardens and experts consider the damage to the heathland and how to restore it, the climate crisis is foremost in their minds
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Listen to me play, then listen to me talking. Listen to Helen and The Neighbourhood Dogs Part 1 by Helen and The Neighbourhood Dogs on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/nkfehyi1GSqI...
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Helen and The Neighbourhood Dogs Part 1
Interviewed by Stephen Foster for Hospital Radio Ipswich and ICRFM.
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