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Nicolas F Hal

@halnicolas.bsky.social
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Specialist in all styles, ks1-2, ks3-5 mfl, bilingue, froglet, 💚 nature, l'Occitanie, Norfolk, l'Exmoor, le Kenya. The sunlit uplands of Chesham. L'île des pot holes

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lichen, algae, funghi ‘Plants and how they Live’ (1965) Artist: Ronald Lampitt
An illustration from the book showing different sorts of funghi growing at the base of a large tree in autumn 
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m seriously worried about Lee Anderson MP. It’s been over 3 weeks since he has filmed himself fingering his meaty flaps. Has he: -Died? -Converted to Islam? -Turned vegan? -Had one of those stomach bugs that leads to what Dean our paperboy calls the “sharts?” -Lost his false teeth?🤔
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Other work by the Ladybird artists Llangollen Valley Artist: SR Badmin
A view over a green, lightly- wooded valley at Sunset or dawn 
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Nicolas F Hal @halnicolas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Future of humanity entrusted to famously reliable consciences of tech billionaires
Humanity has breathed a collective sigh of relief after learning that potentially civilisation-ending artificial intelligence will be regulated by the famously reliable consciences of technology bi…
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Nicolas F Hal @halnicolas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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‘The people have spoken,’ insist Brexiters determined to ensure they are never allowed to speak again
Brexit supporters have warned that Andy Burnham’s suggestion that Britain could consider rejoining the EU threatens the nation’s democratic principles by creating the possibility of finding o…
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Surely it is time for the authorities to take this Fairford terrorism case out of the hands of the police & pass it over to Nigel Farage, Richard Tice & Isabel Oakeshott etc. These people have the expertise & skills to have this all solved & explained to the public by tonight.👍
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A sad, lonely woman jilted by her brash lover is left to wile away the empty hours in an isolated flat in Dubai. After consuming yet another vodka her mind wanders & she types out far fetched fantasies desperately seeking attention & solace. Please could someone call a doctor.😬
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Nicolas F Hal @halnicolas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Trump administration quits European corruption group after discovering members are actually trying to ‘stop’ corruption
The United States has withdrawn from a European corruption group after an increasingly uncomfortable meeting revealed that members viewed corruption as a problem rather than a shared professional i…
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Nicolas F Hal @halnicolas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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‘It’s very important you don’t check if we have criminal pasts’, insist Reform councillors with nothing to hide
Reform councillors in Barnsley, who made it very clear that they will not submit the standard DBS check that even a parcel delivery driver has to provide, have instantly convinced the nation that t…
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m beginning to worry about Liz Truss…😊
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Other work by the Ladybird artists The English Lakes British Railways poster Artist: Ronald Lampitt
Scene of a lake in the Lake District with slanting sunshine breaking through the clouds and highlighting the purple tinged hills 
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“The swallows can be distinguished from the martins by their reddish-chestnut throats and foreheads, their beautiful steel-blue backs and wings, and their long, forked tails” Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist : CF Tunnicliffe
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Our Danny Who art in prison Racist be thy name Thy balaclava come Thy will be done In ports as it is on dinghies Give us this day Our daily funding & forgive us our racism as we intimidate those who speak against us & lead us all into aggravation But deliver us from being civil. 🙏
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Huge apologies. My wife Bunty and I have been hacked by an AI program. Hopefully this matter will be resolved by tomorrow. 😬
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Had a bit of fun with That Danny Tommo wrap group ‘Right Said Fred’ yesterday. Or should I say ‘Wrong Said Fred.’ 😊 www.thepoke.com/2026/09/22/t...
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This takedown of Right Said Fred’s ‘holiday’ moan was already good and it just gets better
You’ll remember Right Said Fred from back in the day when they briefly bothered the charts, but are now better known as conspiracy cheerleaders and railing against vaccines and lockdown back in they. ...
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Nicolas F Hal @halnicolas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Andy Burnham to present Donald Trump with tickets to see Oasis at the Etihad
Andy Burnham is set to surprise the US President with tickets to see Oasis at the Etihad it is revealed today.
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Mr Tommo’s local vicar in front of his church ‘Are Blessid Laydee and All Are Souls.’
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Nicolas F Hal @halnicolas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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CNN reporters smuggled into White House inside a catering truck
CNN reporters have allegedly been smuggled into the White House inside a catering truck after being banned by President Trump.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Here’s July’s picture! Due to popular demand, all orders made before tomorrow night will receive a free signed (& dedicated) CWS Xmas card👇👇 coldwarsteve.bigcartel.com/product/grea...
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is Reform UK Councillor Jaymey looking ‘cute.’ Isn’t he gorgeous? My only worry is I hope he hasn’t suffered autism in this photo & has posed Gregg Wallace style without his trousers on. Jaymey has allegedly had some Masterchef issues before involving a sausage & veg dish.😳
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Andy Burnham. Drinks 12-15 cups of tea a day? Ha! What a wimp. When we Conservatives were in power Nadine Dorries was drinking 12-15 bottles of vodka a day. 😊💪
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
2027 Calendar - available to preorder now! First 100 orders come with a free exclusive Cold War Steve Christmas card, signed and dedicated to you (or the recipient of the calendar) 👇👇👇👇 coldwarsteve.bigcartel.com/product/grea...
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reform UK MPs are apparently in charge of this parliamentary inquiry & have found out the reasons for our Eurovision failures. -Migrants -Too many regulations against Crypto Billionaires -Rachel the Piddington leftie -The RNLI They believe Ed Sheeran should be this year’s entry.😊
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have formed a patriotic vigilante force in the village. We are The Gussage Patriot Guard. Naturally we disguise our identity. At the snap of a custard cream we can be mobilised to: Quote the bible Urinate in public Set up funding pages Eat spicy foods Spit Chant in cockney. 🇬🇧
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
‘Oak’ Ladybird Book of Trees, 1963 Artist: SR Badmin
In the foreground we just see a little of the leaf and fruit of the tree. In the mid ground, the large trunk of an ancient oak displays the bark. In the background we see the full tree canopy in all its splendour. 
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘September’ Shell Nature Studies, 1956 Artist: Rowland Hilder and Maurice Wilson
A rather bleak view across windswept moorland to low seacliffs. In the foreground are brown brambles and damp corn stooks. In the mid ground, a small white, low crofters cottage. 
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Nicolas F Hal @halnicolas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Piddington residents delighted to leave UK, less delighted by new border controls at end of village
Residents of Piddington have celebrated voting overwhelmingly to leave the United Kingdom, before expressing their fury at being asked to show a passport when attempting to enter the United Kingdom…
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Nicolas F Hal @halnicolas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed as new support act for Ed Sheeran tour
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been confirmed as the new support act for Ed Sheeran’s tour after everyone else quit.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What Reform UK will spend their £72M donations on: Robert Jenrick’s Mounjaro Bacon sandwiches Balaclavas Recruiting Conservative ex ministers Full home and away football kits Oysters Pints of beer used as props Holidays to Dubai Gags for Zia Yusuf Old men with walking sticks. 🇬🇧
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My contribution to ‘Paste, Present, Future’ project, celebrating 35 years of @bigissueuk. Signed, numbered versions of available at Big Issue shop. Lots of other pieces from amazing artists, 25% of sales going to Big Issue. Massive thank you to @grow_up_art_ 👇👇 www.bigissueshop.com/collection/p...
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Other work of the Ladybird book artists. ‘Yorkshire fishing village’ Reader’s Digest, 1972 Artist: Ronald Lampitt
The fishing village of Staithes.  A cluster of houses, some small boats and a bridge across the river
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“The starlings in this picture are at the halfway stage between their juvenile and adult plumage” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson ‘What to Look for in Autumn’ (1960)
A group of five juvenile starlings perched on brambles, picking at ripe blackberries 
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
You might not like him but one thing you must say about Lee Anderson is you will never catch him blowing his own trumpet. He is a modest & humble man who never boasts about himself. He might be boisterous but Lee has no ego & never lies about himself or his achievements. 🤔
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
‘September’ Artist: Eppo Doeve (Not a Ladybird artist - but what a striking image)
A tangle of brightly coloured, slightly surreal September plants have been set under a mysterious grey, forbidding sky. In the background, we see a gardener walking away, his back to us. 
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Tommy Robinson considers his future this morning after last night’s Channel 4 documentary…
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Len our ‘Reform UK’ butcher in the village has gone full Danny Tommo. For 2 pork chops Jill in the village shop has agreed to knit him a black balaclava so he can go about incognito. He’s started slapping his wife, smoking Spice & telling us all he is protecting ‘are dawters.’ 😳
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The new photo of the Reform ‘team’ from their recent conference should go down well with their supporters…
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Do listen! As we all know Reform UK have a ‘shadow’ cabinet. For example Zia Yusuf is their Shadow Home Secretary.😂 This chap talking at the recent Reform conference is their Shadow Royal Majesty, King of The UK. Nah Nah Yeah Nah… 🙄
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
‘You, Boy! Get me a walking stick. I’m off to hit loads of women on the head who disagree with me!’
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
And somehow it’s time for the first page of ‘What to Look for in Autumn’. Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
“In front of the farmhouse the oats have been bound in stooks waiting to be threshed. The Wood pigeons are here together what seeds they can. A stoat is on the hunt for fieldmice”
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Other work of the Ladybird artists ‘Sunday Afternoon’ (The design for a jigsaw) Artist: Ronald Lampitt
Idyllic scene looking down on a quintessentially English village scene of cricketers playing on the green, surrounded by quaint houses and a church
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In light of these new allegations about illegal funding, it is my opinion that Nigel Farage should step down as MP for Clacton. He should then stand again in the by-election and let the people of Clacton decide if he’s guilty or not of breaking electoral law. 😉
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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