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John Dallimore

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I've got a t-shirt that says "Grumpy, Lefty, Atheist" to which can be added woke, tofu eating, literati if you want.

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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Obviously looking to see if they've got a copy of The Wolf That Chews Rocks by @russincheshire.bsky.social
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The next familiar oddball is the Staffordshire bull terrier, a dog that has never knowingly expressed an emotion at anything below the structural tolerance of a railway bridge. "The Wolf That Chews Rocks" Out today on Amazon and all major outlets. www.amazon.co.uk/Wolf-That-Ch...
Staffordshire Bull Terrier
A gleeful house-brick with a smile that can split its skull. Engineered for maximum durability and world-shattering tail-thumping affection. Has the emotional subtlety of being hit in the chest by an overjoyed medicine ball.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
To celebrate publication day of The Wolf That Chews Rocks, a selection from the book’s Field Guide to Familiar Oddballs. The dachshund, an animal whose fundamental disagreement with the world is visible from space. It's legs are not visible from the sofa. Out now. www.amazon.co.uk/Wolf-That-Ch...
Dachshund
A vexed draught-excluder that woke up one morning and chose violence. Built to pursue badgers into tunnels, which explains a great deal. Bet every penny you have that it will fail its annual review on the grounds of attitude.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's that time again, National Trust members. Please use the QuickVote or make your own choices but avoid Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing and Omrani. Hopefully one day "Restore Trust" will give up trying to Restore Empire and deny our full and honest history as a nation.
Restore Trust
@RestoreTrustNT Sep 10
"The National Trust, too quick to bend in the wind of fashion, is making historical mistakes and confusing visitors."

Lawrence Goldman on Dyrham Park.

Vote Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing and Omrani. Leave the Quick Vote unticked.
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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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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nor me, which is really irritating when I'd really like to give it a 5* review. Oh, well! Prospective readers will just have to wait til publication day (next Monday, I believe) to find out just how brilliant I said it was. The Wolf that Chews Rocks - buy it, read it, enjoy it!
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Just completed @russincheshire.bsky.social soon to be published new book The Wolf That Chews Rocks. Utterly hilarious, extremely educational (in a good way) and definitely worth buying at least three copies - you'll want to share it!
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
And here's one that predates the USA
Scotney Castle in Kent, built in the late 14th Century, with its reflection in the moat.
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Also, there's cricket!
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I do wonder whether Christopher Harborne (aka Chakrit Sakunkrit) is the only person to have secretly gifted an eye-wateringly enormous sum of money to Nigel Farage shortly before he changed his mind about running for office…
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Altona 93 Fanzines @altona93fanzines.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Today, in response to the embarrassing farce in Washington, we're awarding the Friedenspreis der Altona 93-Fanszene [Altona 93 Supporter Peace Prize] & you can participate by donating to HAWAR.help's truly wonderful Scoring Girls* initiative and/or sharing this post! #ScoringGirls #DeineSpendeKickt
Photo from the supporters on the Gegengerade of the AJK with banners and the text: ‚Yes, on December 5th, FIFA really did it! We respond to it with the „Friedenspreis der Altona 93-Fanszene“ [Altona 93 Supporters Peace Prize] and kindly ask you to support the Scoring Girls* initiative, founded by Tuğba Tekkal and run by
HÁWAR.help, with donations! You can find more information about the initiative and a donation link behind the QR code. Additionally, donations will be collected during the last matches of the Altona 93 first men’s team before the winter break, the total amount will be rounded up, and then transferred by us.‘ [The link will be posted in reply to this skeet.]
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Lilo Start @lilostartuplilo.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Okayyy ! Gestern noch Rants über FußballFans und #WM26 #Infantino #Trump #PeacePrize ! Heute : Es gibt Hoffnung 👏
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
🔴NEW🔴 Thread 🧵 @bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
bylinetimes.com
‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem
Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Nine jobs Nigel Farage hasn't updated his ­register of interests in months. Potentially hundreds of thousands of ££££ from his many "outside interests" remain undeclared observer.co.uk/news/politic...
observer.co.uk
‘Nine-jobs Nigel’ Farage denies not declaring extra earni...
Roles outside Parliament make Reform leader the highest-earning MP, but register of interests has not been updated since end of May
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
2.4 k views. I once got half a million for a slow motion video of some falling underpants
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Can't think where else you'd look.
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Hi @mrjamesob.bsky.social - just seen this in a @thenewworldmag.bsky.social article on Greenland. I reckon it puts Kiddy with Wales and Belgium as important geographical comparators?
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
It's not often BBC News gets things right these days, but this seems like a reasonable answer to the question.
Screenshot from the BBC News site. The question "What is the weirdest thing in the universe?" coincidentally appears above a photograph of Elon Musk.
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Punctuation is so important in public discourse. Is this a giant picnic for Teddy Bears? Or, possibly, a picnic for Giant Teddy Bears? Tomorrow will tell. Also, I could find no evidence of a Teddy Bears Parade in Dulwich. And I hope the occupants of #12 are aware of the fun run tomorrow at 4!
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
C'mon football (OK, soccer for the Yanks!) - this is brilliant!
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Amazing how the addition of a couple of football goalposts improves an otherwise boring picture of a muddy pool in a park.
A muddy puddle in a park with two football  (soccer) goalposts
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Provide your own first thoughts! Think Trump!
A salt container with the words coarse sea salt.
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Emma Kennedy @emmakennedy.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This is the only flag I’m flying today. For Janey. #Trumpisacunt Let’s make it trend.
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Playing hide and seek with a grey squirrel in the park.
An oak tree trunk with a squirrel seeming to hide.
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Just getting into the mood to see A Complete Unknown listening to some Dylan. Wondering why, in Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts, does Rosemary take a cabbage into town in verse 5?
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Dulwich Park pond this morning looking very abstract!
A frozen pond seems to be an abstract black and white image.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
🤬 Musk’s shameless intervention endangers UK politicians “As Elon Musk’s online attacks spark dangerous threats, MPs across the aisle fail to defend Jess Phillips against toxic, targeted abuse”
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Musk’s shameless intervention endangers UK politicians
As Elon Musk’s online attacks spark dangerous threats, MPs across the aisle fail to defend Jess Phillips against toxic, targeted abuse
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
This is in a South London park. Can anyone help explain it?
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Bumped into this lovely boy on a walk this afternoon.
Grey heron perched on a bridge in Central London.
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
A fabulous exploration of family history based on the sort of ephemera all families have somewhere.
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Evening walk in the park!
A setting sun over the a South London park.The sun setting over a South London park. Some interesting light effects and a family of duck.
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
First band: Mott the Hoople. Support act: Queen
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I am bereft! The Mirror and the Light finished, and Cromwell dead. The BBC gets a regular kicking for all sorts of stuff, but no other broadcaster could do something like this. Well done all involved! Now, can we have A Place of Greater Safety? Please?
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Moonrise over Dulwich Park yesterday afternoon. I'm particularly proud of the Turner-esque additions of the figures in red at the bottom left of the picture.
Moonrise over Dulwich Park yesterday afternoon. The tree line is silhouetted against a pink, cloudy skyAt the bottom left of the picture are two figures walking a dog. The humans are wearing red which, I think, gives the picture a feel of JMW Turner.
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Our local South London park has decided that its annual everglades lookalike competition has begun!
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
It's the Mendelssohn for me. We have two different versions at home - one smooth and serene, the other relatively jaunty. Both work.
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
London looking West from Rotherhithe.
View of the London skyline from Rotherhithe 6th December at approx 5.30pm. The dome of St Paul's can just be seen beyond Tower Bridge.
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I love walking along the South Bank when the Thames is low. It's like having a visual history of London from the 16th Century to the 21st via the 17th.
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Friday's art day! Today was the Tate Modern for Electric Dreams. I think this is very electric.
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Sometimes, looking down can be more interesting than looking up.
The reflection of a winter tree on the opposite bank of a stream, bare of leaves, with autumn leaves still clinging to the overhanging branches of trees on the near bank.
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Grabbed this pic on a morning (well, late morning!) walk in a local park. For some reason, it reminded me of Allen Ginsberg's Howl.
An autumn/winter scene in a South London park. The remains of tree that has been heavily cut back. The remains are very sculptural in appearance.
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Fridays are art days, but we didn't expect to find two pieces of the Berlin Wall in the middle of Lewisham Shopping Centre. The last time we saw an unexpected Stik was in the Amsterdam Moco gallery.
2 sections of the Berlin wall in Lewisham Shopping Centre in South East London.
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
As tomorrow is Friday, POETS day, here's a poem by ee cummings and almost the last leaf on the black mulberry in Dulwich Gallery.
Poem by ee Cummings. It describes the falling of a single leaf from a tree.(Almost) the last leaf on a black mulberry tree in the garden of Dulwich Gallery.
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The Gnomes of Dulwich
Image from late 1960s BBC children's programme The Gnomes of Dulwich.
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Wonderful. Who'd have thought Hedgehogs had long legs? And could run? And washed in slime? Sorry for the spoilers, everyone.
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Shot this through a glass roof at Dulwich Gallery earlier today. I love the fact it looks b/w but isn't!
Tree shot through a glass ceiling. Leaves and needles scattered across the glass. Rain drops are coagulating into squirls.
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hamlet by Francis Bacon?
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
And great to see so many new followers. This is, so far at least, much saner and less toxic than the other place.
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
@bylinesnetwork.bsky.social This supermarket in Agios Gordios on Corfu still doing things the old-fashioned way
Newspaper rack outside supermarket on Corfu selling Byline Times
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John Dallimore @jd58.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
Some walls are built to exclude. Some are built to intrigue and invite. This temporary structure has appeared in the garden of Dulwich Gallery recently. It conceals the work for the new sculpture garden, another wonderful addition to a fabulous space.
A temporary wall telling the history of Dulwich Gallery.Another part of the temporary wall. It shows some of the paintings in Dulwich Gallery's collection. There are, intriguingly, two blanks for windows to be placed.
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