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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 14h

Reading this caused spontaneous and unexpected eye leakage. (Look I'm tired, OK?).

Extract from BBC report: Responding to Burnham's comments, French President Emmanuel Macron said it would be "very good news" if the UK wanted to rejoin the EU, while Spain's President Pedro Sanchez said his country would welcome Britain back "with open arms".

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 26/09/2026

I have not posted on Threads since January 2025 🤷‍♀️

From Instagram notifications: You have 2 new likes and 3 new followers on Threads.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 23/09/2026

I don't think that's Nigella Lawson.

Google (AI) headline - 'Nigella Lawson joins new Bake Off season' illustrated with a photo of one of the contestants.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 21/09/2026

I know him well - I walk past him regularly.

A linocut print of a red and black carved wooden devil mounted on a dark green plinth.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 16/09/2026

One and a half hours in the studio condensed into 27 seconds. Printing the fourth layer of a reduction linoprint. Five or six more to go, probably.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 05/09/2026

There seems to be a trend on Instagram of big brands (M&S, Boots etc) posting ads with images of 'must have' items on a stark white background with no indication of context or scale, and I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE. I guess that's deliberate and it's meant to be clickbait? 🤷‍♀️

A pink barrel made from metal or plastic or possibly carved from marble - who knows? It is rounded at one end like a tampon or something designed for insertion. At the opposite end there is a clip or handle. As this is sold by Boots its purpose could be medical, cosmetic, hygiene or entertainment - or all of these.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 03/09/2026

Tempus is bloody fugiting again.

A 2027 diary refill for a Filofax organiser.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 02/09/2026

The scanner progress bar kept him quiet for a few seconds.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 02/09/2026

Go on Nige, insult the whole country 👍

BBC headline: Reform up against 'complainants' society', Farage tells BBC.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 30/08/2026

Thats it, summer's over. We've had hail and I've lit* the fake candles for the first time. *switched on

Three LED wax candles on the corner of a stone mantlepiece.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 27/08/2026

OK Death, you're getting warmer.

BBC headline: Convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Mladić dies aged 84

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 27/08/2026

I call this artwork 'Two Nations Divided by a Common Language' and dedicate it to my online friend @janehill.bsky.social.

A Connections grid: the words are -

PIKACHU, SPUNK, NEMO, DOVE, MISTY, SLATE, LIGHTNING, ASH, PEWTER, BROCK, EMOTIONAL, LIVE WIRE, OVERCOME, ELECTRIC EEL, WRAP, CHOKED UP

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 26/08/2026

No-one is 'lying', least of all the NHS. The reporter made a mistake, that's all, and it's now been corrected.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 18/08/2026

"Two notable individuals" - and correctly listed in order of importance I see. *nods approvingly*

Google AI summary: +3

Jane Duke

Jane Duke primarily refers to two notable individuals: a fine art printmaker based in York, England, and an Australian diplomat who served as Ambassador to ASEAN and Consul-General in Los Angeles.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 12/08/2026

Well the bad news is we have 60 foot trees on the west side of our lane so can't see the evening sun, the good news is that means you don't need a colander.

Crescent shaped light patterns on a white garage door.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 12/08/2026

They go to a different school.

"I guess there was a threat out there," the president said during a visit aboard Air Force One to an event in Ohio on Tuesday. "I didn't really ask too much about it. I get a lot of threats."

He added: "I have a lot of threats that you don't know about."

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 09/08/2026

The 'private' sign is quite unnecessary. I've read enough M R James; there's no way I'm going through that gate.

A large wrought iron gate between stone pillars leads to dark woodland. I have converted the photo to black and white to make it even more spooooky.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 07/08/2026

Ooh you saucy thing, Moose.

Redbubble page saying "Previews for this item are not visible because mature content has been hidden."

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 03/08/2026

I worried probably more than was strictly necessary about this Jersey Tiger moth that flew onto a tube train at Northfields today. How would it find its way home? Should I get off the train and take it back?? (In my defence I had by then been awake for nearly 24 hours and had travelled 4,000 miles).

A jersey tiger moth on the grey metal of a tube train wall. It has black and off-white stripes - more like a zebra than a tiger, to be honest.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 17/07/2026

Let's have a heated debate.

Caroline Aherne in her role as Mrs Merton - an older talk show host with purple tinted grey hair and winged spectacles.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 09/07/2026

FFS what is it with travel firms? First it was Cornish walking holidays in the Canadian Rockies, yesterday it was a mystery tour of York around London, and today it's a UK short break in Germany.

Advert for 'Short breaks in the UK' illustrated with a photo of Cochem Castle in Germany.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 08/07/2026

The biggest mystery is where the fuck this is supposed to be?

Advert for 'Interactve York Mystery Walks' illustrated with a photo of some people walking through an arcade that is very much not York. Google Lens thinks it might be the Harry Potter Experience. Who knows.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 08/07/2026

The Stonegate Printer's Devil says hi.

A carved and painted seated demon mounted on an external wall on a street corner. He is painted red with black horns and a chain around his waist to hold him down. He was almost certainly a marker for one of the many print shops that thrived in this area of York in the 18th century.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 07/07/2026

FFS read the room 🤦‍♀️

A Green Party spokesperson said: "This is a decision for Clacton Green Party but we are a political party - we contest elections.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 30/06/2026

This headline writer has never actually seen Bake Off: The Professionals, have they?

Guardian headline: TV tonight: tense times with biscuits in the Bake Off tent.
Illustrated with a shot from the programme in question which is filmed indoors in a purpose built kitchen. Very much not a tent.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 30/06/2026

In the occasional series "Oh do fuck off".

A slappably smug couple above the headline "We had packed lunches every day for 10 years and retired at 40".

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 27/06/2026

I'm recognising a very specific 'look what I found' happy face. (This photo from a York Archaeology training dig - I'd just found a 17thC trade token).

A beaming woman in a Tilley hat, a green t-shirt and an orange York Archaeology hi-vis jacket holds up a tiny object to the camera.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 19/06/2026

I'm not sure the first word of this paragraph is entirely necessary? Unless it's intended as a contrast with Trump, maybe. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Living former presidents Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Joe Biden attended the event but Trump, who has long feuded with the Obamas, was not invited.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 18/06/2026

Card received today - and the embarrassing thing is I have just been into M&S and bought two tubs of flavoured houmous 😳. (Red pepper and Moroccan, since you ask).

Card with two cartoon women sitting at a table with dips, crisps and fizzy wine. Caption reads 'One day you're young and trendy. The next you're getting excited over different flavours of houmous'

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 16/06/2026

Had a good weekend, and this was the best bit - finally meeting @saskiadanielceramics.com IRL. Also becoming the proud owner of (another) one of her vases, which is what I'm holding in the carrier bag. I love this textured pattern because it reminds me of how I carve foliage in a linoprint.

Two women of mature years stand smiling inside a marquee. In front of them is a stand displaying a marvellous collection of handmade pottery including both plain and striped mugs.

A beautiful blue vase with a single large pale pink rose in it. The vase is quite small, fairly rounded, and the rose is absurdly large. The vase is a strong cobalt blue. It has been covered in a random carved texture of small overlapping chips or dents, and the raised lines in between have been highlighted with a black glaze, so the overall impression is rather like snake skin or perhaps the surface of a fruit, or indeed a piece of carved lino that has been inked up.

A close up of the texture described in the previous photo.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 14/06/2026

That's quite a revamp for Season 2 then.

Cambridge News headline 'BBC shares first look at "Ludwig" Season 2", illustrated with a photo of leading cast members of Midsomer Murders in their roles.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 12/06/2026

That's quite enough bad news today, thank you. Please stop now.

BBC headline - Alison O'Donnell to leave Shetland after 13 years in the role of Tosh.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 09/06/2026

Best bit of today (so far - the day is not over): a visit to the new Toppings in York and finding this. (Yes of course I bought it. Did you think I just took a photo?)

My hand holding a copy of Melissa Harrison's 'The Given World'. Across the cover there is a black wrapper that says 'Signed First Edition'.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 30/05/2026

A rare exception to the rule 'Any headline with a question mark can be answered with "No"'.

BBC headline: Trump's doctor says he's in excellent health - but are US presidents' health checks a PR exercise?

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 30/05/2026

WTF does this mean?? (Unhelpful sign by a tree in the Castle Howard Arboretum - formerly known as the Yorkshire Arboretum).

Sign about a horse chestnut tree with a sentence highlighted by me that says 'These trees may have been here before the Castle Howard Bastion Wall was built c. 1725, but that's impossible'.

Close up view of the sign described previously.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 25/05/2026

Watch this video (from our French holiday) and when you see white splashes on the water those are SWIFTS 😍. Yes I know they're hard to see and yes I also accept this is reminiscent of Michael Bentine's Potty Time. You'll just have to take my word for it.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 25/05/2026

What's that? Well funny you should ask because yes I *have* had a piece selected for this year's Ironbridge Printmaking Competition and I *am* quite chuffed, thank you.

A graphic advertising the 2026 Ironbridge Printmaking Competition - it is a single colour linocut in brown ink depicting a printing press and various tools. I have added the words 'Great news!' in white text.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 24/05/2026

Back from two weeks in France where I discovered yet another Brexit Benefit - being allowed to pay an extra €10 admission to a visitor attraction (that's nearly 50% more) above that paid by residents of the EEA. And everyone cheered.

Two admission tickets for the Chateau de Chambord, stamped 'PLEIN TARIF HORS EEE'. (Full price excluding European Economic Area). The price shown is €31 - the price for EEA residents was €21).

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 11/05/2026

What, all of them? I feel this should be a bigger story.

BBC headline: The Beatles will open a museum on the site of their last gig

Illustrated with a photo of the Fab Four from the early 1960s, smiling and waving.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 11/05/2026

I am British and I am in a caravan. IYKYK.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 10/05/2026

I can walk on a Roman mosaic for free, any time I want, simply by waving my Northern Museums Volunteer card in the appropriate direction. No hypocaust though *wistful sigh*

Three smiling people sit on a Roman mosaic floor in the Yorkshire Museum, York. Behind them is a fresco on the wall, that being the usual place to put a fresco.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 04/05/2026

Oh I was including the surrounding pond thing in my size estimate. I must take some proper measurements next time I'm there and then make an offer. The water pressure might be an issue. I'll have to speak to Yorkshire Water about that.

The same fountain as in the first post, only now you can see more of the enormous round basin that surrounds it. Also the house of Castle Howard in the background - a huge Georgian edifice topped by a dome.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 04/05/2026

I ruddy love this fountain (at Castle Howard). I think it would just about fit in our garden. Maybe. If we knocked down the garage.

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