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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I remember seeing this at the time. It has always stayed with me and it is just as powerful to watch now. Esther Rantzen did many wonderful things as well as organising and presenting this.

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

😱 we avoided this as we had eclectic rules to be in my gang - had to be artistic; a socialist; have been to India & know what the prize in the Tro Bro Leon is. And we added “voted against Brexit”

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Was an (eccentric) member of a cycling club for years. Met an eclectic group of men who I never would have met in real life & they became my best friends. 1 joined after his wife died - very quiet for months/years but eventually found a zeal for life again. Cycling’s good

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Seen him in both Widow’s Bay and the Beast in Me. Well worth watching, esp WB

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Same experience. Lovely neighbour resisted all attempts to help her regain mobility after hip fracture, took to her bed, did not get out , and died there 2 years later

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sending you Bluesky kinship and hope this passes for you.

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

2/2 immense distress & we watched the nurses that were there working under immense stress. #Badenoch needs to intro rent controls to limit rent instead but she won’t do that as landlords vote Tory (worked in homelessness for decades)

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#Badenoch on radio just now saying she would not raise the Local Housing Allowance as “people should not live where they can’t afford it.” Thing is tho, in London, when my mum was dying & we spent long hours/days in A&E they were only half staffed as nurses couldn’t afford to live. Mum suffered 1/2

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@dextercrisp.bsky.social I’m not so good with words but others have given you really good advice - hope today is better. I like your presence here and our occasional interactions

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You’ll have to go to France for that (although the quality of some are declining alas)

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I thought Miliband was great - 1st thing I’ve heard from a government for many many years that chimes with my thinking. I was proud of today

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’d rather concentrate on net zero to ensure my descendants can live reasonable lives than save £500 tax - however hard it is to afford things right now. We should, I think, reverse the effects of Thatcher & brexit. #labour speaking for me right now. There’s hope at last. I hope.

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Have they really gone?? I have avoided the area for months.

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Have you heard the awful child in #sainsbury - makes me want to scream. Usually avoid but have to take dad shopping there - he is deaf fortunately for him

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Since the day my son has been born, once a month, the #DollyParton Imagination Library...has mailed my son, like millions of American kids across America, a book for his parents to read to him to foster a love of reading" "This is what she spent her money on instead of buying Twitter."

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Quite! Switched over from BBC5live to R4 and they were at it too! Coverage sounded rather bitchy - it’s a non-story & people just need to be nice. Listening to music instead now

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Wish my mum had lived to see it. She coughed constantly and the doctors said “nothing wrong other than the air pollution” 🤷🏻‍♀️ She just had to live with it. Sadiq Khan has done a great thing.

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I ❤️ how clean London is now. Live in the suburbs & prev if you went up town you had to wash when you came home as you felt so dirty, & the air stank. It’s so great now, the air smells sweat & so many are walking that you barely see a car some evenings. It’s a great place to hang out. Love it

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

#bbcaq #anyanswers real concern in callers re climate change & “what to do”. Yet I despair as a new family in the road have taken out an orchard in the back garden & replaced with paving & astroturf. Do people realise too that many asylum seekers are forced out of their homes by climate change 😳

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Daughter in law’s British (born here) Turkish heritage mother in her 70s (v successful business woman, contributed loads to GB, employer etc - if any of this matters) was walking along & à propos of nothing a man told her to fuck off back to Pakistan

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My friend has one - it’s about 50 - hibernates itself in the garden each year and then appears in the spring

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I got 958 today. Ye ha. Had to share 😎

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I have not even seen one but believe they’re popular

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Not enjoying Jolene and Kenton behaving quite unlike their usual characters - they just wouldn’t react so. So that disappoints me.

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yep - I didn’t even see the duck thing - just the water! 👀

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Wowzers - a puddle of actual water!

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Oops - thought this was today’s so now I’m slightly less in awe haha. Even I got 1 x 100 yesterday (876)

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I tried the rivers and towns thing - just the wrong rivers. When I saw your score I thought it would be things like “Paris”etc not obscure Russian cities etc. You’re good at this. Damn!

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Completely normal (south Londoner)

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Bromley has no clue at all about how to design for cyclists. Look at the interchange near West Wickham station - that’s a shocker.

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A Dutch style roundabout, there was room. Now, as a v experienced road 🚴🏽,it’s best avoided, unless you want to start start constantly & mix with 🚶🏻, which I don’t. I’m a road user trying to get somewhere. Currently you are not IN the traffic flow but are stopped & have to re-enter constantly

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Exactly this Dexter. Sums Bromley up exactly. Having nothing better to do, read the article. Appaz they need their cars to “go shopping”. They are literally 7 mins walk from the entrance to the huge Glades Shopping centre.

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Lantern rouge @lanternrouge.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Do you think? I was rather relieved TBH!

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