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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 6h

I'm listening to Melvin Bragg's The Soldier's Return that was on the radio earlier and it reminded me of the breakdown he talked about in his This Cultural Life with John Wilson. One of the greatest episodes. Very... real

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 9h

The oracle that is IMDb tells me that Bryan Murray and Peter Bowles were paired again 5 years after the end of The Irish R.M. in a comedy drama called Perfect Scoundrels. Despite loving TIRM I have no memory of this, but I suppose by 22 I was high in my going-out years, not my tv-watching years.

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 11h

I often wish that, at work, I was afforded the luxury of being able to start my unwelcome emails with "do not reply to this account".

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 11h

A friend found this while going through her father's things. A newspaper report of his landing at Funchal after being torpedoed mid-Atlantic.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 12h

Today, Oct 4, is the feast of St. Francis of Assisi: the day when you can bring your pets to church for a blessing.

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 13h

For some reason whenever I see or hear of Natalie Harp I think of those young women suffering psychosis who write to convents wanting to be admitted.

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 14h

"And me with a stabbing pain in every part of me body that would be the envy of Saint Sebastian". The Irish R.M.

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 15h

Predictive text is great in some ways but it is so completely wedded to the idea that you will definitely have got the first letter of your word right....

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 16h

When I read things like this it *always* makes me think we don't give enough weight to the huuuge political influence of leader's spouses. Everyone needs a trusted (whether worthy of that or not) sounding board/Higher Power.

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Hugh Sykes @hughsykes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Israel & Iran, reacting to films that make them look at themselves in the mirror: almost identical response: "Two-faced, hypocritical & despicable." "Treason against the state." "We will revoke citizenship of anyone who defames our military." Can you tell?? Autocrats shoot the messenger.

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 17h

My favourite... ship... is sunshine plus time.

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 17h

Well, can't say I'd ever thought that Amber was the Eddie of the digital age but... hmm... maybe #TheArchers

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 17h

I suspect the most commonly used phrase in Ambridge and thus #TheArchers is "yes, I had heard".

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 17h

Eddie demonstrating where he sits on the emotional intelligence scale there. #TheArchers (Or perhaps I just mean the common sense scale)

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 18h

Sounds like naming conventions in Ambridge are even tighter than in the royal family #TheArchers

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 18h

I wonder if George's fatherhood storyline will be a representation of the evolution of the welfare state from inception to now. I will be taking no further questions at this time. #TheArchers

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 19h

The older I get the less I like hearing any career being talked down or patronised #DesertIslandDiscs

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 19h

Jeffrey Archer has just talked about larks and owls ....but at the age I'm at now I am whatever that bird is that likes to rise at 9.30 and go to bed at 11. #CentristSingleton

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 20h

This item on #BBCBH is raising a question for me... if told to leave your house immediately what three or four actions do you do before getting dressed and bolting?

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 20h

TFW you're a decade older than the nostalgia....

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I enjoyed the rather meta ending of episode 4 of Marble Hall Murders... Clever.

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Earlier today I followed an account on Instagram called Forgotten Tudor Women. Not really the best name for the account as it turned out it. Might as well call itself "if you're not a Boleyn you're not comin' in".

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every now and then I recall wandering around a gallery in Rye and getting into conversation with someone who said "have you seen the borough exhibition?". Was a bit confused: "no, is that an annual thing?". Then she looked confused... "No we have them at different times. This one's Burra". BURRA!!

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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

New just now in The Atlantic: David Robinson resigned this week. He was among the longest-tenured employees at OpenAI—and oversaw safety reports on 12 frontier launches. He is very worried: “The time for trial and error is over.” You can read his essay here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

theatlantic.com

I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken

The industry’s approach to safety guarantees more failures.

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank my hunter-gatherer ancestors for persevering with onions even after experimenting with them by biting into them, peeling them and then chopping them. It was worth your effort.

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A sign that is catnip to me....

A sign across a driveway saying "no film crew parking" (Hertfordshire County Hall)

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh I do love a couple of hours in the county archive ....this is one Anthony Horowitz should have written a Foyle's War episode about (perhaps he did and I've forgotten it).

A book cover: The Little Berkamsted Spy Ring, featuring a black and white photo of a manor house and three B&W photos of 1940s men

The back cover of the book describing the suspicious comings and goings at the Manor House.

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They're having a bit of a Daphne du Maurier morning on Radio 4 Extra this morning. Love these Conversation Extra strands... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Radio 4 Extra - Listen Live - BBC Sounds

Listen live to Radio 4 Extra on BBC Sounds

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Had to do a bit of a double-take looking at this picture in this week's Radio Times. It's Jamie Winstone but she looks for all the world like Caroline Flack.

A write-up in the Radio Times featuring a brunette in a short, glamorous, shimmery dress doing a dancing pose.

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The writer Henri-Alban Fournier, better known as Alain-Fournier, was born #OTD 3 October 1886. His only novel, 'Le Grand Meaulnes' is a magical book about a romantic friendship between two boys on the verge of adulthood, set in a mysterious, remote wooded countryside. 1/4 🧵

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't know why I didn't think of it before but I wonder if any of the plot lines in the Marble Hall Murders will have any thematic connection to the story of "I dreamt I dwelt in...".

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

AOAN "Extensive research" tells me that James Bl(o)unt is married to the granddaughter of the Duke of Wellington #Traitors

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The character of Eliot in Marble Hall Murders is giving me strong Brooklyn Beckham vibes.

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I find myself half-obsessed with efficient laundry arrangements and I was in a (small) house yesterday with a square (ie four-corridored) landing above a central area downstairs and there were... quilt covers hanging down from the landing banisters drying. I was in laundry bliss....

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You know your new gate catches the wind too hard when the peephole pops out...

A close-up image of a gate with the "eye" of wood peephole poked back in.

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've been listening to some old episodes of Desert Island Discs from the 60s and 70s recently and let me tell you, quite a lot of things are better these days than they were then... ("And what did you do after that?").

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I bet that screenwriters around the country are pacing the floor with impatience, awaiting more fascinating detail about the Fairford incident, pens poised... .... because of course it'll make a glorious "Ealing" comedy.

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The thing I love about working part-time is having the space to spend the best part of an hour role-playing the 999 call on Sunday between the Gloucs police (near USAF Fairford) and the London crims with my brother.

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Beautiful walk with an old school friend this morning who is in an airbnb for a month in the grounds of a grand old gothic Victorian house that HCC used to own (and I worked there for a while). These grand old government buildings that can't cope with modern cabling will soon be a thing of the past.

A girl in blue jeans and a white top stands looking at the camera in an old Victorian garden with trees around.

In the distance a red brick gothic house surrounded by trees and a renovated Victorian garden in the foreground, with a very blue sky and clouds.

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Surprised to hear on In Our Time that in Sheffield at least (but probably common throughout UK cities) cinemas (in 1940s) sat over 500, often up to 1000. Not what you'd think watching films set during WW2.

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Found myself idly wondering this morning whether The Irish RM was sold into other (post)colonised territories. Its theme of the little man getting one over on the colonising establishment must be a popular one....

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Have just remembered that - once again - this film started with a shot of a girl lying in a field of long grass looking up at the sky. This must be my fifth. Surely there's another way of depicting someone as a free spirit.

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just had a gloriously tut-worthy moment at the cinema. Sense and Sensibility. Devastating news of a marriage arrives. Woman in the screening gasps. Her friend says (ridiculously loudly) "no, don't worry. Have you not read the book? It's his {humongous spoiler}". 8 or 9 heads swivel towards her ...

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Have just heard a question on BBC news that I think I can use elsewhere in life (particularly perhaps with public school boys): "Can you give me an idea why you're confident?"

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here's hoping Emma and Eddie are going to be The Enablement Team rather than The Doing Team #TheArchers

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I see that all of tonight's headlines are coalescing into one story...

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Kate Ramsey @kateramsey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Have just heard mention of sheep rustling (in connection with the story you can imagine) and remembered that while I was at junior school a friend's father was prosecuted for that. Even then it felt humorous.... like something from a 40s film....

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?

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