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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Foiled in my cunning plan to go out for a pint (of milk) 🙄

scaffolding and barrier across a pavement with other builders' clutter on right and brick buildings across the street on left. No ramp down from kerb or dropped kerb nearby.

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Dearly as I love my husband .... only he could pack the soap flakes into a cardboard box open side down ❤️

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Sally Luxmoore @sallyl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Good news - same every time! RNLI fundraiser for 'Flying Farage' hovercraft jumps £5,000 after far-right thugs attack hero volunteers - Mirror Online share.google/uLdCyw3F2SB4...

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RNLI fundraiser for 'Flying Farage' hovercraft jumps £5k after far-right attacks

EXCLUSIVE: After a far-right group confronted RNLI crews on Sunday night in Portsmouth, a wave of good-hearted Brits poured money into the charity once again, to counteract their attacks

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Plotting in miniature: "In a Bath teashop" by John Betjeman. “Let us not speak, for the love we bear one another— Let us hold hands and look.” She such a very ordinary little woman; He such a thumping crook; But both, for a moment, little lower than the angels In the teashop’s ingle-nook.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Sitting at home wondering whether I've done the right thing in sending Himself off to see The Odyssey without me ... Still, I'm not planning to take up tapestry any time soon.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

“Today is August 4, 2026, the city of Allendale, California.”

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Enjoy the Sunday caption contest, give away lots of ❤️s, please repost to encourage more competitors, and include #GirlsOwnCC

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David Jarvis @davidjarvis.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

"... you may only lift and clean the ball when it is on the green. Now, Roddy, no more Rules of Golf. Put your putter back in the bag." @girlsown.bsky.social

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Speak Truth...

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

#NavalHistory An announcement. I may be bonkers (stop giggling at the back there). I have been offered, and have accepted, a place to take an M.Res. (Master's by Research) at Portsmouth University. Subject: The Royal Naval Medical Service in the First World War. September 14th, here I come!

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Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This hurts. This is exactly what I'm doing. And, why yes, I am working on a book! (or trying to...)

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Anyone want to hear my brother talking about Zurbaràn? tixoom.app/richardstemp...

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Zurbarán

On Jun 15, 2026 - get a ticket now!

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

#NavalHistory I've only ever sailed in square riggers (JST's Lord Nelson + Tenacious) and can't get my head round what all these sails are and how they are handled. Could really do with sitting down with somebody and/or finding an idiot's guide to explain...

HMS Eclair 1840s. Two masted paddle steamer with mostly fore and aft sails. Contemporary engraving.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Pope Leo: "Every boat that arrives does not bring only migrants; it brings with it a question: what world have we built, if so many brothers must risk death to seek life?"

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K. W. Knight @kwknight.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Ursula K. LeGuin, "American SF and the Other," 1975.

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself-as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation-you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own real-ity. You have, in fact, alienated yourself.

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Can anyone recommend me a scholar of popular religion in mid-19th-century Ireland?

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Lyra 💕 @lyra-scotland.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The UK is now in a position where if your drug a disabled person enough you can turn of their human rights as the silence becomes consent. You can then shove them in a closet to rot. This cannot be shouted about loud enough. www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...

The new rules

The judgment introduces a regressive legal standard that will fundamentally alter the lives of potentially hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people:

· The vast majority of people currently protected by the DoLS safeguards system in the UK will likely see their existing checks and independent inspections cancelled.

· The Court implies that individuals with profound cognitive disabilities cannot be "deprived" of liberty because their condition limits their ability to experience it—a view that devalues their fundamental rights.

· The Court has suggested that in borderline cases, for a deprivation of liberty to exist, a care setting must closely mirror the extreme confinement of a prison cell.

· If a vulnerable person appears passive or does not actively protest their arrangements, the law may recognise this as "consent" — even if they are subjected to routine physical restraint or chemical sedation or have never known a life without a high level of restriction.

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Swearing at the top of my voice to an empty kitchen because husband walked out mid-argument to keep an appointment. Pointless, but relieves the feelings....

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Barrington Court was looking wonderful yesterday. Roses, Irises and something whose name I can't remember...

Creamy English musk rose, a single blooming opening from a spray of buds, among green leaves

A cluster of big scarlet with a hint of pink roses against a shadow-dappled brick wall, spray of leaves lower left.

Dark purple almost black bearded iris against grass-like tall leaves

Round head of starry flowers open in foreground,.one not open in background, with a pink rose opening between and an open rose behind, all among green leaves.

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Wild roses outside our kitchen window catching the sun.

A single pale pink wild rose among green leaves under a blue sky

Two budding pale-pink roses upper left, two open ones mid-low r8ght, with bright green sunlit leaves and darker leaves in the background against blue sky

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

#NavalHistory - anyone have access to a French navy list of 1845? I am transcribing a private journal of 1845 whose writer is dining in Sierra Leone with FX (François Xavier?) du ?Thou? Léon, commander of the brig Libre. I'd like to find out more.

Monochrome photo of words in question, dreadful handwriting.

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I was there last weekend and very impressed with being able to get my wheelchair up the scaffolding thanks to the lift 🙂

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

WIP has finally broken the 30K word barrier. Given how long I've been trying to write the thing, this is either a relief or a frustration; I'm not entirely sure. #amWriting

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Somerville College, Oxford @somervillecollege.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Somerville is delighted that Moonrise, the new album composed by Christopher Churcher and performed by The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford, has been selected as Georgia Mann’s Essential Classics Album of the Week on Radio 3. Read more and listen here: www.some.ox.ac.uk/news/somervi...

The album cover of Moonrise shows a purple-pink sunset over the sea, with a crescent moon in the sky.

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Me, cat loving since forever (1965 in this case).

Small girl with short dark hair, sitting on the ground facing left and stroking a black kitten facing right.

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

#NavalHistory is anyone able to tell me whether Harry W. Dickinson is still teaching at King's College London?

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

'The poor become prey to their enemies, while the wealthy will prey upon them.' 12th Century English govt administrative manual.

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

A branch of May, what can I say, Here at your door it stands, It's nothing but a sprout but it's well budded out By the work of our Lord's hands. (traditional)

Pink may blossom and green leaves against a blue sky.

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Sad to hear today of the death in March of Peter Ward Jones, who played the organ when I married my RN reservist. A slight lift of the eyebrows when we asked him, for the recessional, to segue The Wedding March into All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor, but he obliged nobly 😀

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Remembering Peter Ward Jones

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

@petermgilliver.bsky.social I'm trying to report an OED ante-date and the form locks on my phone and won't move. Any work-rounds you know of?

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

For ANZAC Day: Leaving Anzac. Words by Cicely Fox Smith, tune by Martyn Wyndham-Read, here sung by him. youtu.be/TwIxgycI3MM

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Leaving ANZAC - sung by Martyn Wyndham-Read

YouTube video by Martyn Wyndham-Read

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Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The Schwarzman Centre is opening its doors this Saturday (25 April) for a free festival celebrating the humanities. Explore Oxford’s newest cultural space with music, dance, film, family activities & short talks from academics. ALL WELCOME! No need to book; just drop in!

schwarzmancentre.ox.ac.uk

Open House

Curious about what’s inside? The Schwarzman Centre doors are wide open and you are invited. This free-entry Saturday festival brings the building to life, celebrating the launch of our cultural progra...

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Anyone going to National Archives (TNA) Kew in the near future? I need a replacement photo of one page in a ship muster list .... #NavalHistory

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Groggy @grogmeister.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

After the Good Friday services at Sherborne Abbey.

The 9-lancet east window of the Abbey, filled with stained glass and set in sandstone under a ceiling of fan vaulting. The paler section beneath it is the reredos. A bare wooden cross has been propped, slanted leftward, on the altar table, which has been stripped bare of cloth and candles. Projecting towards the viewer on left and right are the double-banked wooden choir-stalls.

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Brian Wernham C.Eng. @brianwernham.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

"Military courts in the occupied West Bank will also be empowered to hand down death sentences" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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Israel passes law to give death penalty to Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks

Knesset approves measure that has been criticised by European countries and rights groups

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The Music Nation @themusicnation.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Happy Birthday to Tracy Chapman.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I’ve said it before and I’ll no doubt say it again. Universities are roughly 1000 years old. They predate most operating models including capitalism and have lasted for a reason. Installing insecure, helpless managers who ape business methods results in bad businesses, not good universities.

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

You've only got a few days left to object to Brighton Marina's application to dump dredged sediment on a rare chalk reek, in a marine protected area. Join thousands of people and send your objection email today. f.mtr.cool/haazgdbxpx

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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Of course, I'd never be so cynical as to suggest this headline grab is Prof Licence's attempt to ensure that running a search for his name doesn't just result in countless stories about him flogging that coin hoard to the annoyance of archaelogists.

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Whit EM @whittyrem.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there

A welcome sign with a tabby cat and behind it are the ruins of Largo di Torre Argentina

One of the cats who lives at the sanctuary hiding behind some bushes

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