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John Henderson

@jphendo.bsky.social
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Retired after more than 45 years in journalism on local and regional papers and national magazines. Motoring writer for 25 years. Last paper Bury Free Press. Dog lover, interested in wildlife, intolerant of intolerance. UK.

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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 3h
You're doing better than I am. Every time I go where cranes are supposed to be, they've gone for a day trip. If I go to Lakenheath Fen, they'll have gone to Welney but if I go there, there'll be 20 at Ouse Washes. Yet my wife saw two while walking the dog 300m from home.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 3h
@bestforbritain.org @bylinetimes.bsky.social Another fine example of a Reform run council wasting taxpayer's money. A pointless county-wide referendum on housing asylum seekers.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 4h
I suppose it makes it easier to identify which drink is yours.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 4h
I just can't get over the words "stylish" and "Wetherspoons" bring in the same sentence.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 5h
This ignores the fact that as you get older you really don't want the hassle and cost of looking after a property that's bigger than you need. And it's going to be many years before anyone sorts out NHS-style social care so that's where any money you make on downsizing is most likely to go.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23h
rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived
Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of code she and her team wrote for the Apollo program, which is as tall as she is
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 10h
I think that says a lot about the dated styling of old Skodas.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 10h
The last thing we need is a rejoin referendum because all that will happen is the rich grifters who've profited out of Brexit will return with their lies to ensure the gullible single issue voters keep us out.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 10h
Thought the tuna in the pic had a huge hook in its mouth but when you zoom in it's caught a garfish.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 11h
The Afghans Yuseless claims were "smuggled in" were in danger because they'd served with our troops. He wants to treat allies as badly as Farage's mate Trump.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 11h
Thought that was an original photo until I noticed the tiny hole in the propeller spinner that should be a 20mm cannon.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 11h
Has he said why it's shifting in and out of black?
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 11h
The bearded guy looks as if he's embarrassed to be seen there.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh, that does hinder plants. We had an empty flowerpot in the kitchen of an office I worked in so for a laugh I got a tomato plant for it and stood it in a tall window. We couldn't understand why it grew so spindly until the window cleaner pointed out it was UV glass. We got one tasteless tomato.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How do you know you killed them and not the trip to space?
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Calling Burnham a Paddington Bear PM suggests Badenoch is Pooh, a bear of little brain.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He seems to have missed a major point about Dexter. Dexter only killed criminals who did harm to innocents.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yes, you know, like Joseph Goebbels was a journalist.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tories chose another idiot PM.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Even the 1996 Jaguar XK had pedestrian impact sensors that triggered a mechanism to raise its sleek bonnet far enough above the engine to stop people hitting it.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not necessarily. EVs don't have big multicylinder engines so there's probably an awful lot of empty space under that long bonnet. You can make bodywork absorb the impact of a pedestrian but you can't make a hefty ICE engine do that.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Another EV with an ugly nose. Why do most car makers have problems styling noses without radiator grilles? From Teslas looking like the grille fell off to BMW's sticky-back plastic look. VW seem to be the only ones who've cracked it by running an LED light strip between the headlights like a mouth.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How gullible do you need to be to think Musk would give a toss about people dying of thirst as long as he could have tankers of Evian delivered?
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Don't these people ever look at this crap and think "I can draw it better than that"?
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The one that used to get me was under 40s who didn't know how to email a picture, including iPhone users who managed to send the thumbnail rather than the picture. Had one of the latter on the same morning an 80yo emailed perfectly scanned photos of his dad in his WW1 uniform.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Until she realises she's a Reform deal short of a majority.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mind you, an old farmer round here told me he stopped giving a sack of potatoes to his nearest neighbours each Christmas after they started complaining they were dirty. You get 25kg of spuds for free and washing them is too much bother?
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That's the sort of thing that could never appear in a supermarket because a someone in marketing would insist buyers only want apples with white insides.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I've always thought it wise to only give money to people in shops who give you the goods and/or have access to the till.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The list is ridiculously broad. There are plenty of things that would be listed as flavourings and colours but are natural, like vanilla extract and cochineal. Vitamin C is often used to stop sliced fruit discolouring but could be listed as "preservative" or ascorbic acid.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Usual right wing tactic of when it goes wrong, blame someone else. Anyone will do.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They obviously don't make public swimming pools like they used to. Sudbury's pool is closing after only 39 years but I see the East Dulwich pool, S London, where I learned to swim is still going after 134 years. It only seems to have been renovated just after WW2 and in the early 2000s.
bbc.co.uk
'Sudbury swimming pool closure is very scary and a profound loss'
Swimmers say they are devastated by the sudden closure of Kingfisher Leisure Centre's pool.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The British disease: bosses who never bother to talk to those who do the job. This applies to everything from production lines to prisons. They'd rather pay expensive consultants who've never done the job than ask those doing the job what they think.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Get the impression that US food safety standards seem to be based on cleaning the shit off produce while European standards are designed to stop the shit getting on it in the first place. Then Trump wonders why we don't want to buy your chlorinated chicken.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Mine's the same yet 20 years ago we had a much less sophisticated car on which the clock reset itself when you simply turned on the radio.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
True
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You've read an awful lot into that one sentence that wasn't there. Perhaps you should try reading what people have written, not what your prejudices make you think might be intended?
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Odd attitude. I've done loads of magazine photo shoots in public places and the usual reaction is people stopping because they don't want to spoil the photo, usually when you aren't taking any, they wouldn't be in it or you actually wanted people walking past.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Not unlikely. Firecrest populations are growing and the BTO distribution maps for them show a strong autumn/winter presence in North Kent.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Timothy also wants to do away with ECHR, so God help anyone in jail if he's ever in Government. Don't know why he hasn't defected to Reform yet as he seems to want everything they do.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yes, as in duck when you hear the gun go bang then the bullet hits the tree behind you.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
More likely the owl stretched its wings and she started screaming and waving her arms about.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There are too many people, like her, who believe the TV version of bombs going off. All it does is knock them over. I've worked with people who saw the aftermath of IRA bombs and spoke of screaming people with the flesh ripped off limbs and corpses with no faces, even after small blasts.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I find it amazing that the A14 planting included trees that were unsuitable for the soil and habitat. That's pretty basic.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Get the feeling if he did that it still wouldn't be enough for some people.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Now, who's the intransigent person ignoting facts? The guy who admits he was wrong on camera or the guy who watches him say that and immediately screams "but he's not done this this this this this...."
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Some people do change their minds when they see the evidence. Odd how Farage is also, allegedly, a farmer yet hasn't noticed climate change. m.youtube.com/shorts/wmYcL...
m.youtube.com
Jeremy Clarkson says farming has given him a new perspective on the changing climate.
YouTube video by Times Radio
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hope they do a better job than this. Hectares of dead sticks in plastic tubes don't absorb carbon dioxide. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
How a £1.5bn ‘wildlife-boosting’ bypass became an environmental disaster
A14 in Cambridgeshire promised biodiversity net gain of 11.5%, but most of the 860,000 trees planted are dead. What went wrong?
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
She'll just stand up, say "We won't" and sit back down.
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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the 80s a GP on the North Kent marshes, who's PhD was insect bourne diseases, told me we have malarial mosquitoes in UK wetlands and the only thing that stops them spreading it is temps don't stay high enough, long enough for it to develop in the insect. How much longer can we rely on that?
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