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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jeffrey Archer “died peacefully at his home between writing sessions on Monday, his publisher Harper Collins said.” - The Guardian Presumably the second session was as a ghost writer.

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They say they came from the Darling Downs, where we happened to be ourselves two weeks ago, but we didn't see any there.

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We've had hundreds, they must think we're a clifftop cave. I've been gently escorting them off the premises (they're actually really good at finding the way out) but there are hardly any today, I guess they've continued on their way.

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes, but pronounced Kasey Kasem

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

What can you tell us about the New Hampshire forest raking program? I believe that state is governed by right-thinking Republicans (but I am in Australia & keen to learn).

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The best thing to do with artist’s impressions is ignore them, just like the developers do.

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

They get in the way of the concrete

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

My eyes sometimes do that for me, but I don’t call it magical 😵‍💫

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Suddenly the price was marked right down to clear, no need for Easter advertising anymore. Julie ran in and came home with this HUGE egg that lasted for weeks & weeks.

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Easter 2019. Julie was in town on Saturday just before the shops closed. Darrell Lea had a GIGANTIC Easter egg in their window, crazy price, clearly there to catch the eye rather than sell it.

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Old Soviet joke: Guy stops by a newsstand every day, looks at the front page, doesn't buy the paper, walks away. One day the vendor asks what he's up to. Guy says: "looking for an obituary." Vendor says "those are towards the back of the paper, comrade." Guy says: "not the one I'm looking for."

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Rori! @roricomics.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Lil' comic about hope and longing 💗

comic:

when it happens I hope people ring bells and blow horns.

if I'm asleep I hope to be woken. I won't mind.

if I'm in traffic I hope to see revelers. If it causes a traffic jam I won't mind.

I don't want to exist a moment not knowing that it has happened.

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I mean you’re lucky not to have to wait for an episode to become available here, when social media has moved on 🙂

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

An Australian replies: lucky for some!

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Fiona Hill, 1979: “And the Russians at this particular juncture were signaling very strongly that they wanted to somehow make some very strange swap arrangement between Venezuela and Ukraine….”

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😎Bulldog Ben @bulldogbenfla.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Yeah, hard to explain that... #TDS #ItsAcult #MAGAtNation

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Which will be 70 before long, unbelievably, I will just be signing out. Any rigmarole is too much!!!

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Get exposure to. I’m sure that I would be a lot stricter if they were my kids. But I think the ban is pointless and foolish. As you say, they’ll find a way, and probably be more secretive about it. The opposite of building good parent child relationships. Meanwhile, if they want me to prove my age

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

2010, when comment sections and social media were not as foul as they became. We were lucky! I heard Liam (8) begging unsuccessfully to be allowed on Roblox where “all his friends go” recently. But they do online gaming, I believe with strangers, sometimes with headphones on, so who knows what they

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I remember that, and few others like it. They just seemed pointless to me so I never did anything to encourage them, and the girls didn’t much care. They went on MySpace and Live Journal more than anything and we had the computer in the living room so it was pretty safe. All were past teen years by

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Doesn’t apply to me? Maybe I’m not using ´certain features’

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

And everyone pretending that it wasn’t traumatic. Not that we knew the word!

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

They also arrived and departed from Pyrmont. I thought you lost the bunny at the zoo in Manchester, but then replacement rabbit is on a ribbon round your neck in photos there. Uncle Alwyn’s wedding - yes you were sick! Did the rest of you stay with the Bowerings? I’ve forgotten that. So traumatic…

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Yes, all that, but did we have Monopoly? I DO remember playing games but not which ones. Coconuts could have been Las Palmas or Cape Town. I still have dreams of Table Mountain! NZ has been lovely: Auckland, then tour of North Island gardens, now South Island sightseeing. In Dunedin, home on Monday

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Melbourne was terrible, I didn’t get over that for 30 years! The best part of the trip for me was that since it came immediately after UK school holidays I had more than 12 weeks off school. Destroyed my work ethic forever!!!

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Definitely Pyrmont, I remember that part clearly, it could have been the grandparents who came or went via Dock 13, I know we were there once at least. I did look up the SMH shipping news, but it hasn’t stuck in my memory. Then we were picked up by Mr Armstrong and his flashy girlfriend.

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Did it work? I don’t know, but I didn’t have to go to the school. I did used to take you to the nursery/creche, which we liked. I was very indignant about having to go to the children’s dining room at the age of 12!

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

You were little! Mum was sick nearly all the time, in the cabin a lot. There was a ship’s school, I remember walking past the notice inviting parents to register their kids to attend and distracting Dad by pointing out some “flying fish” in the other direction.

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Corrections: our cabin had at least two portholes, it was cramped but not as much as others. We didn’t dock at the Overseas Terminal (completely rebuilt since 1968). We sailed under the Bridge (fantastic) and docked at Pyrmont (no 13 from memory) - see SMH shipping news archive if you want to check!

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The new ships are monstrous. We were thinking of a South Pacific cruise (Hawaii, Tahiti etc) but I hate the idea of thousands of tourists being disgorged and competing for fun in these quite small ports. No!

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

It was the port visits we liked the most, but the boat part was OK too. Much more stable than the Fairstar, no seasickness, people walking the decks on Zimmer frames!

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Comment: nearly 13 years ago we cruised (enjoyably) to New Zealand (where I happen to be today) on the Carnival Spirit, which was huge in size compared to the good old Fairstar.

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

A similar view from April last year, but we were allowed outside!

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

AIOTM was one of my favourite things! Still miss it.

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Pneumonia is bad news, but it used to be worse news. Take it seriously anyway and don’t muck about if you feel worse! But I hope you soon feel better!!! ❤️‍🩹

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jgs56.bsky.social @jgs56.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

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