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Gareth Russell

@garethtrussell.bsky.social
206 followers 544 following 35 posts

Christian, Husband, Father, Suffolk boy, Pastor of Westgate Chapel in Bury St Edmunds, Scale modeller, WW2 buff, Alport Syndrome Parent

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
With this regime anything is possible…
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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
#OTD in 1941, Thetford in Norfolk. Large-scale army maneuvers. #WW2 #HISTORY
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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
#OTD, 0214 British Time in 1945, Mosquito XVI ML929 from 109 Squadron, dropped the last RAF bombs on Berlin. (The Russians were about to enter the city). The crew were Flying Officer A.C. Austin, pilot, and Flying Officer P. Moorhead, navigator. #WW2 #HISTORY
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Britain's wrongest man rides again.
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Gareth Russell @garethtrussell.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The best book on leading a church that you’ve never heard of? Small Church Essentials by Karl Vaters. Generous. Optimistic. Relentlessly practical. Buy it by the bucket load and read it with your leadership teams. uk.10ofthose.com/product/9780...
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Small Church Essentials (Paperback) by
Do you lead a small church? Big churches get all the love. Articles, books, conferences—they mostly feature leaders of large con... (Paperback)
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The thing is, while the UK is not that wide, England, in particular, slants. Edinburgh is actually West of Liverpool and, even more startlingly, Bristol.
Snippet of a UK map demonstrating that Edinburgh is west of most of England, which is a fact that tends to boggle people.

(Edinburgh is also north of Moscow, but you can't tell that from this map)
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Gareth Russell @garethtrussell.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
As a protestant Pastor there's a particularly childish delight in seeing Facebook continually shovelling Catholic adverts into my feed.
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.
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Gareth Russell @garethtrussell.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I vividly remember @philipjcowley.bsky.social getting us to read the Hansard debates for **every** parliamentary free moral issue free vote from 1900-2007. A wild ride.
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The Traitors (UK) will return on New Year's Day at 8pm on BBC One.
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Gareth Russell @garethtrussell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I was not prepared for ASDA Bury St Edmunds to be playing Shakin’ Stevens Merry Christmas Everyone.
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a bald man wearing glasses is making a funny face while sitting in front of a wall .
ALT: a bald man wearing glasses is making a funny face while sitting in front of a wall .
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Gareth Russell @garethtrussell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Trying to put together a starter pack of UK based evangelicals making the switch from Twitter: go.bsky.app/PU8MaKb
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Gareth Russell @garethtrussell.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Ah, the great Twitter exodus.
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