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Laura

@kelpiewrangler.bsky.social
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Vellichorist, frustrated sculptress/painter, gardener, collector of flotsam, and jetsam.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 10h
[1981] Willo the Wisp - When an intergalactic beauty pageant is going to be held in Doyly Woods, Mavis the fairy intends to enter, but Evil Edna has other ideas. Voiced by Kenneth Williams.
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ReelStreets @reelstreets.bsky.social · 11h
Do you recognise these buildings seen in the title sequence of 1963's 'Billy Liar'. If so, please let us know and the first to tell us will be credited with the identification. The film was mainly shot in Bradford, Leeds, London and Manchester. Thanks in advance for looking.
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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 23h
I'm already considering going to bed.
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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A very unhappy earthball? I think
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That’s not good. www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague - The Moscow Times
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...
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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 03/10/2026
[1985] Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds - In 17th century France, young Dogtanian travels to Paris to fulfill his ambition to become one of the King's Musketeers. He befriends Athos, Porthos and Aramis and falls in love with Juliette. First episode. youtu.be/qmuqbeqkGJc?t=27
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Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds S01E01 - Dogtanian's Journey
Dogtanian is fighting his rival François LaVache, son of the Mayor, with wooden swords and beats him easily. A Musketeer from Paris watches on his way to mee...
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For I am a salt-hag. I know gull gossip. I know the calling and quelling of storms. My hair is wind-braided. My lips wear rough salt kisses. I stand on the cliffs and read omens pulled by the tide. Be well and avoid my anger. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #FolkWitchFriday #WitchSky
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Many thanks for letter from Mary Danby. I'm toying with the idea of sending her my 'waxwork' horror story, rejected by H. van Thal. It's certainly horrific. Expect 'Pan' will say the same as 'Fontana', but always worth trying. Beautiful, huge green dragonfly in garden yesterday.
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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Having one of those "I'm ravenous days" had to have a second pud.
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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time traveller!
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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why is everyone saying it's warm today, I'm frozen to the core.
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Beautiful everyday Ladybird things Before the blue Smartie Artist: Harry Wingfield (First Picture Book, 1970)
Photo-realistic illustration of a tube of Smarties with Smarties spilling out onto a white background 
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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wish I had something of great value to take to antiques roadshow. Right now It wouldn't be staying in the family. I'd sell it. God knows how much the insurance costs on these things, never mind the worry of it getting damaged or nicked.
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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just realised this was on ⬇️
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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Guy sitting in front of me on the bus: mid 20s, sinewy speed-weasel affect, tats, vest, big chain necklaces, Ibiza tan, absolutely rocking out to whatever he’s listening to on his big DJ cans. And KNITTING. What the genuine fuck. I want to pat him on the head and beam in a nanna way
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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's European Day of Languages, so here are some of our favourite untranslatable and wonderfully-specific words from across Europe that we wish we had in English ✨
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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The sky has gone a weird yellow colour here.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by cyanotype process were among the first ever to be published in a book #WomensArt
Image of a white poppy plant against a blue background
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Erica @briteeyedviolet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Does anyone know how to turn off automatically expanding windows on a Mac? Every time I move my internet window it expands to full size, which is really, really annoying when I'm trying to easily navigate between different applications.
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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on
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🖤Impy🖤 @infernal-imp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Keep the faith, lovely ones. 💙🩵🤍
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Brigitte Webster @tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Monday vibes #SouthAcre St George.
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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 21/09/2026
[1980] The Two Ronnies - "Mastermind", a contestants specialist subject is answering the question before last.
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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Managed to pot up the Echinops ritro and some yellow chard seedlings. Planted some more snakeshead fritillary blubs as well. Collected lots of perennial seeds from the garden as it was a nice dry afternoon.
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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There's a fantastic exhibition of her work on at the Lady Lever Gallery, Port Sunlight, right now.
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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Off to bed. Night night all
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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Salmon quiche and veg for tea, followed by pineapple upside down and custard.
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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Dug out another dvd, one of my absolute favourite films "Charade"
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ALT: Charade Shock
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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The homemade mushroom soup was just what I needed
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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I have watched the weather forecast at least four times this morning, but have no idea what's going to happen weatherwise as I've completely zoned out each time, this occurs regularly as they always tell us what weather we've had rather than get on with what they think is going to happen.
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cat Island, Aoshima Island, Southern Japan. Photograph Thomas Peter. Oddly reminds me of Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs.
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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 19/09/2026
[1998] Funny Women - Documentary series showing the careers of women in comedy. This episode was about Stephanie Cole (R.I.P.). Featuring clips from various roles throughout her career and interviews with Cole herself.
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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ridiculously beautiful garden on beechgrove tonight.
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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Is it too early to go to bed to watch telly?
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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you're near #Penrith on Fri 25 Sept, I'll be celebrating the amazing lives of garden birds in my favourite illustrated talk: Four & Twenty Blackbirds at the Brilliance of #Birds exhibition at Rheged: me-l.co/2xrnctb6 Pls share 🙏🙏🙏 @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @summerfieldbooks.com
A poster of a long-tailed tit in its nest with the text: Four and Twenty Blackbirds: how to create a bird-friendly garden.
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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 18/09/2026
[1989] North West Tonight - "Liverpool had the Beatles, London had Carnaby Street, Manchester is now flying the fashion heights with the flares." North West Tonight's Bob Whittaker reports on the renewed popularity of flared trousers amongst the youth of Manchester.
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Thea (Learn Birds) @learnbirds.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Goldcrests weigh about as much as a 20p coin, yet many cross the North Sea from Scandinavia each autumn. Fishermen once called them woodcock pilots, thinking they hitched a ride on the bigger birds. They actually make the flight entirely under their own steam. #BirdOfTheDay #AngryBirds #Goldcrest
A photo of a Goldcrest.
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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I definitely have caught the lurgy that's running rife through work. Scratchy eyes and throat.
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Little Ole Wine Drinker Me aka Steve @afi1955.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Caught up with an old pal yesterday
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Omg new cat just dropped www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just had a cheese and onion pasty.
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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 17/09/2026
[1978] Barrat Homes advert. Featuring Patrick Allen in a helicopter and houses for 14 pounds a week.
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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Is anybody else feeling really meh today?
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Lorna the Sloven @duffycaramole.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very sad to learn of the death of Bonnie Greer. The world is poorer without her. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bonnie Greer: British-American author and critic dies at 77
Her husband says the playwright and cultural and political commentator died after a brief illness.
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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Got a birthday card design, though it’s only good for one particular celebration.
A very fluffy orange and white cat (not my cat) standing glumly in front of of a wheelie bin with the number 23 on it.
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#RecipeOfTheDay is Linguine with Mushrooms, Lemon, Garlic & Thyme! The mushrooms are not cooked, just sliced and left to soak up the aromatics along with olive oil, which makes this fabulously easy – and deeply delicious. www.nigella.com/recipes/ling...
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Linguine With Mushrooms, Lemon, Garlic and Thyme
This is one of my proudest creations and, I suppose, a good example of a recipe that isn't originally from Italy, but sits uncontroversially in her culinary canon. I don't think it would be too presum...
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The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society @letterappsoc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fear not, Alice, this (rabbit) hole also leads to a wonderful journey via our lovely posties… 😄📮🕳️🐇
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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Happy birthday, Agatha Christie 🔎 136 years after her birth, we're still reading her books, watching her plays and debating whodunnit We can't wait to celebrate her from 30 October 2026, when Agatha Christie: A World of Mystery opens - you coming? link.bl.uk/ubb
Black and white photograph of Agatha Christie. She is sat in an armchair in her living room, looking up whilst writing maybe a chapter or some notes on a notepad.
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