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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
In one of the Hornblower books, Cs Forester has him pay for a meal in a tavern with a coin which wasn't introduced into circulation for another three years.
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A leisurely scroll at the weekend. Lavishly footnoted for your pleasure. skirky.blogspot.com/2026/10/in-s...
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In Spite of All The Stranger
I had reason to rummage around in the big box of things under the bed the other day  (no – not that one, the other one)  and came across a...
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Happy tenth anniversary to the time the Reading Chronicle didn’t know what a plant room is.
Crane disruption
AN enormous crane that will lift a room full of plants into a 14 sto-rey building will close town cen-tre roads in October.
Station Road and Garrard Street will be shut and Friar Street and Blagrave Street reversed between 5am October 15 and 5am October 17. The temporary measures will allow contractors working on the Thames Tower to install a 500 tonne crane that will put a prefabricated plant room onto the roof of the building.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🎵 Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Annie Hall... 🎶
@ boston.com
Ringo Starr returns to Forest
Hills Stadium
The 86-year-old drummer played the Queens venue for the first time since his former band performed there in
1964. The concert featured a mix of classic rock hits alongside his current arous.
Generated with Al, which can make mistakes

The picture is of Woody Allen.
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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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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
👏👏👏👏
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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
😂👏👏👏👏
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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
😁👏👏👏👏
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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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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
That is a well-fierce looking boy! 💙
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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 · 01/09/2026
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"Buy a mandolin, you cheapskate!" 😁
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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 · 26/08/2026
Cherubic Acolytes - #TMFTL.
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Skirky @doyoudoanywings.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It's so it feels like someone else is doing a fist pump salute.
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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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