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Helena Riches

@helenafriches.bsky.social
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Mum of boys living in rural Norfolk UK.

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Alexander Fox @alexanderfox1.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I simply refuse to believe this isn’t a Chris Morris sketch:
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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a man is standing on top of a brick wall and says `` i fart in your general direction '' .
ALT: a man is standing on top of a brick wall and says `` i fart in your general direction '' .
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
This poll in The Times is still open. Go to —> compass.pressekompass.net/compasses/ti...
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Red-faced, outdated, and (once primed) designed to explode on the slightest shock, this thing here is a Gammon. I hope it's survived hearing about the new Archbishop of Canterbury.
Gammon hand grenade from the IWM collection. A screw off cap with a red top sits on a metal collar and cloth bag. Unlike many of its namesakes it didn't have a sneaking respect for the Nazis.
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I know @rnib.bsky.social has a strong and very worthwhile campaign to raise awareness of Alt text. I think it's fair to say that @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social has understood the assignment here 👌🤣
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Nationalism is by default unimaginative and paradoxically every example of it is broadly similar to other examples everywhere else in the world. It's always about flags and chants and xenophobic exceptionalism. The mantra of people who don't have the imagination to actually love where they live.
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
👏👏👏😂
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Craig Deeley @craiguito.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
🎵 High on a hill stood a moany boat turd 🎶
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Was going to tag @dreadships.bsky.social into this, but then realised I can't see a naval ship in this picture at all....
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Same energy
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Eddie Mair @eddiemair.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This is the last thing the BBC needs
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🍊🐠💪🦵
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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Be Careful Now GIF
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The pot thickens.... www.edp24.co.uk/news/2522054...
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows
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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
‘I once fell out with the US president so spectacularly that it caused one of the largest outbreaks of online schadenfreude in history’
Bob Mortimer meme
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Jerome @st-ivo.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
There’s been another Tweet Chris! But from who?
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Some days I really can't work out if I'm nausaged or disappoofed.... The replies to this are 👌🤣
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
At this point we can only assume Labour's plan is to make everything as shit as possible so that at some point nearer the election they can undo it all again and everyone will go ahhh, that's better.
The book A Squash and a Squeeze (where the wise old man tells the woman who thinks her house is too small so he says to take in all her animals and then take them out again) but changed to vaguely look like Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I cannot stress enough how important it is to follow @dreadships.bsky.social when there's any kind of waterborne vessel related debacle occuring. And at all other times too, but especially then 🚢😂
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
When analysing Boris Johnson’s post-PM journalism, especially in relation to his stance on the EU, you’d do well to remember he’s a honking, morally bankrupt old spunker who’d fart out the theme to ‘Bullseye’ if you paid him & he writes like a boxing glove full of Scrabble tiles.
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The most ambitious crossover event in history? I think not…
A mash up of gritty police drama Line of Duty and wife-swapping 1980s sitcom Duty Free called, appropriately enough, Line of Duty Free…
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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
*uses time machine to burst into a room ten years ago* "I don't have much time, but for the love of god choose Chaos with Ed Miliband™ "
David Cameron's "chaos with ed Miliband" tweet
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Felicitations to those who celebrate!
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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Send those Aussie twins onto Race Across The World
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
NOT NOW, ICE AGE POND MONSTERS
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Enjoying Rob Rinder sitting in for Jeremy Vine on the tellybox this week. More intelligent and empathetic debate, less deliberate provocation. Also note that, like all the best people, he appears to be left handed 👍
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Never see them in a room together 🤔
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
If you see this, post a ghost 👻
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a man with glasses and a mustache is wearing a yellow tie and a pencil around his neck
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
So grateful to google ai for helping me with this bacon related query 🥓👌. Which leads me on to a not entirely unrelated query: when does a rasher become a chop? 🤔
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
ANNOUNCING The Big Green Books Christmas Raffle! Tickets are just £2 each. All the money raised is going on books for three amazing schools. You can win ALL these SIGNED books + £50 to spend on books of your choice. Details HERE. www.biggreenbookshop.com/index.php Please share far & wide, ta.
A pile of signed books, that I'll be giving as a raffle prize to the winner of Big Green Books Christmas Raffle. Authors include Susie Dent, Bob Mortimer, Rev Richard Coles Sir Trevor McDonald, Angela Harding, Jimmy Anderson and more!
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zach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
What if I told you that the only reason I am bald is that I’m afraid of a Ratatouille situation? What if I told you that I’d have so much hair if not for the fear of a rat using me like a puppet? These are modes of control, Neo. This is how they manipulate us. Ratatouilles, Neo. Rats that pull hair.
morpheus from the matrix
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Colin the Dachshund @dachshundcolin.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
"Middle-class women of a certain age to the south-west, Sir. A handful of 'em."
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
My threads feed is full of people sharing and re-sharing Tom Holland's memorable lip-sync battle. I love that people are still joyfully discovering it, and realising that before Spiderman was Spiderman he was a dancer and gymnast. Can't watch it too many times 😍 youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...
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Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland
YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Today’s poem is dedicated to all those who have taken it upon themselves to correct the grammar or spelling in my poems over the last few weeks. It’s called ‘Pedents’.
Pedents
 
Foot soldiers in the War on Error,
They’re here to save us from ourselves,
With Fowler’s Modern English Usage
(first edition, nineteen twelve).
 
They scrutinise each word we write
For typos, gaffes, et cetera,
Correcting all our dumb mistakes
To make our grammar betterer.
 
They sigh and tut and tell us off
For the rules we have forsaken
And chart this nation’s steep decline
By the care we should of taken.
 
Custodians of the King’s English,
They merely serve to keep it pure
And restrict, they hope, the ignorant
To three mistakes or less.
 
In doing so, they hold no fear
they will deprive a thing of life:
for it’s not important what is said,
what matters is that its right.


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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 30/11/2024
It's not just the best film version, it's better than the original text because Scrooge ends up sitting down with Bob and not his awful relatives. Dickens must be kicking himself for getting it so wrong, and not including singing fruit.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
And then, because this is arguably the most preposterous country on earth, Speaker Lindsay Hoyle says: "Right, thank you everybody. We're going to move on to the ferrets bill if people wish to leave."
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I've mostly followed today's assisted dying debate via Ian Dunt's superbly concise updates. It sounds like it was thoughtful and respectful from all viewpoints, and demonstrated that our parliament actually can be a place of constructive, compassionate debate. And then there's Robert Jenrick....
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Well I did not have Sir Rod Stewart having such big feelings about Greg(ggg) Wallace on my bingo card for today...
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This is my gut feeling too. Of course there are some who hold genuinely hearfelt views to which they are absolutely entitled, but I fear many others will be swayed by scaremongering and 'whataboutery' which is not supported by evidence from elsewhere. Would be a massive shame.
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I was taught to always avoid the Oxford comma by Mrs Nelson, my year 4 primary school teacher and a formidable dominatrix. But seriously, I love the Oxford Comma. So I made a starter pack of other serial comma aficionados. And I'll keep adding to it as I find more members of Team Oxford Comma . . .
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I've loved watching Lego movies with my two boys, some of them several times over. So cleverly done and so full of joy 😁
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emmett from the lego movie says i think i got it
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
This pupper is an excellent timeline cleanser. What a very good boy 😆
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Helena Riches @helenafriches.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Wondering if it's possible to wire all the "bUt tHeIr wImMiNs" up to the national grid at all? www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2024: Everything you need to know about the iconic evening of sporting celebration
The iconic awards show, famous for reflecting the sporting brilliance that has wowed the public over the last 12 months, will be live on BBC One and iPlayer from 7pm-9pm
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
üpdate: the solar system just got a new ninth planet
A diagram of the Solar System showing the planets in order. Except, between Earth and Mars, there is now a new addition: '19th-century hog', a Photoshopped painting of an extremely big and long hog from The Museum of English Rural Life's art collection.
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T'Other Simon @tothersimon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
As you may know, the word 'banoffee' is a contraction of the names of its two primary ingredients (banana and toffee). What you may not know is that the same is true for the word 'Caramac' (caramel and mackerel).
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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Not to be alarmist about the increasingly frequent floods affecting the UK as a result of climate change, but I’ve just seen David Attenborough in a timber yard ordering wood in cubits while his assistant is in the pet shop buying two of everything.
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