Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 18hThis has raised many questions for me... Was there always a bucket of wee handy? Or would the whole family have had to do an emergency wee in a bucket to provide the appropriate quantity at short notice? 100
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Being a traitor is clearly taking a toll on Maya Jama 000
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 08/10/2026My main thought is I wish I had 'By chance the Cycladic people' on a decal on the wall. My second thought is I need to actually read 'The Wrong Norma' and take it back to the library. 000
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Holding out in North Yorkshire. Let's see how far through October I can make it (pros Flat quite heat retentive, gets afternoon sun, Cons prone to chilblains, and the current strictures of managing my stupid body means I am not as clothed as as seemly (tmi)) 020
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yes. In my extended research love affair with the Daily Herald Picture Archive Battle of Cable St. was notable by its absence. There were lots of other DH photographer and agency photographs of 1930s anti Mosely protest marches as well as anti Jewish events, so it's not that issue wasn't covered. 010
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I was going to suggest that, but only stayed 1 night, and thought I may have been fooled by the Beatles connection, and the flayingly bitey wind. Also I didn't fall in love with like the others. 000
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I haven't visited many German cities, sadly, but not Munich. 100
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026i'm sticking with my 'Glasgow is the Scottish Liverpool' developed c.2001, about the time I also discovered 'Marseille is the French Liverpool' but about 10 years before the revelatory Naples is the Italian Liverpool'. All fabulous. 100
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader...libraryofshortstories.comThe Luncheon by W. Somerset Maugham“I never eat more than one thing. Unless you had a little caviare. I never mind caviare.” - The Luncheon by W. Somerset Maugham 000
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026agree with you about teenage taste. Gobbled then up at 11/12/13 ish, along with Dick Francis. The post Christie years... He committed the unforgivable sin of ripping off a perfect Somerset Maugham short story. The Luncheon. Just off to reread - hope its as good as I remember... 120
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026IHG Accessible fail #4 from last year No I can't limbo from my wheelchair under the grabrail. Hope you have a comfy bed &/or ibuprofen gel 020
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Is that the one in the Walker? What a treasure chest that gallery is. 000
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes. Gen X here as I moved through various jobs / possible pension schemes in my (public service) career it was noticeable that the terms kept changing for the worse, and the defensive union action was always to protect the better contracts and pension arrangements of earlier cohort. 190
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Looking forward to your take before I imbibe multiple Guardian Sport pieces by writers I like ( @jonathanliew.bsky.social @barneyronay.bsky.social ) 000
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I have no religion but Thomas Tallis's spem in allium, and some Duccio Madonnas make me weep. Intense beauty. Am I a faith voyeur?? I know quite a lot of Christian stories... Art is a good teacher. 150
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It's utterly magnificent. I've watched it 3 times now, & cried in the same places every time. Funny,quirky, moving And I'm celebrating the arrival of Paris Police 1910 on iplayer by revelling in delightful anticipation by rewatching 1900 and 1905. Has anyone smoked more beautifully than Marc Barbe? 001
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'm *around* your age. Mum and stepdad's early relationship soundtracked by Phil Collins (bad) and Stevie Winwood (fond of that album). 40 years married in November - 11/11 at 11:00 which is my personal proof that the minute's silence has massively increased in observance 010
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I've been suspicious of it throughout, but might be my age (55). Much detoxification felt like a thin veneer. Inclusion in flags/terminology (English/British) is now slicing and dicing to cut out 'them' - whoever 'them' is decided to be at any moment by the self appointed 'us'. Retrograde bullshit 010
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026nearly as punchable as Kevin Hassett. Thankfully for everyone I'm in the UK 🤷♀️ 010
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 15/09/20266th in the queue! Looks like North Yorks library service (huge) has 5 on order 000
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I enjoyed the diversion. Also start thinking about my friend who has a very very very narrow palette and is bored by food. I'll keep an eye on her just in case. 010
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The arguments appear to now completely ignore the original intention (a person's choice to end suffering). I wonder if all those advocates of better hospices/ palliative care will now agitate to make that happen. 010
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Several people I know are taking a general 'go Tigers' Hull interest. 000
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I'd still be there if the vertiginous nature of its geography, and the steepness of the steps in my mill terrace weren't impossible to adapt to my new reality as a wheelchair user. 001
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Ach... Tod's brilliant. Simultaneously the centre of the universe, and the ends of the earth. 110
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I ditched acrobat because it kept on trying to summarise menus. Surely the point of a menu is to perv over all the options of things you might like to eat 010
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Not sure I agree. With a few honourable exceptions (I enjoyed Harkaway because I love Smiley, rather than the family connection) much of it feels redundant - a Marvelization of writing. Endless IP utilisation bores me. 111
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 06/09/2026she looks positively papal! Get the girl a zuchetto! (Yes, I had to search papal headgear...NOT a biretta) 020
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Also, wall to wall white men of this certain type... Not a surprise to be honest. 000
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I realise you're not asking for picture recommendations, but this is all purpose and works for a) wolves b) saints c) put upon (aka eaten) townspeople d) pacts and promises www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/sa... 030
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026don't you want to hear MY opinion/experience from 40 years ago? 000
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026open.spotify.com/track/1YEMMR... overenthusiam bodges linkopen.spotify.comGroovin' With Mr. BloeMr. Bloe · Groovin With Mr. Bloe · Song · 1970 010
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Groovin' with Mr Bloe. 2:47. Also a one hit wonder. Please humour me, I love it. 110
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026costume divas: Curry, Parton, Kusama, and (that hat!) Mladić. God's putting together a hell of a wardrobe department. 271
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026not on topic, but when I see this photo I immediately fill in the gap. Surely the Leeds office must be Ey Up? 000
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026It reads like he's genuinely thinking about the answer, rather than starting from a point of defensive suspicion. So even if the answer is similar, the tone/vibe is poles apart. 070
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 25/08/2026the sorry tale of social care supports your thesis. Hope this time it's different (though I'm expecting cheeseparing/tight criteria + labyrinthine eligibility/herculean DM/DT wailing and gnashing of teeth 010
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026over 100 years ago? (depending on job - I'm thinking Lancs cotton industry) 000
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 20/08/2026are these dating profile pics? Tower asks self: Is this my best side? Does this lighting flatter me? 000
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I picked up a beautiful rock from the sea on a walk between Scarborough and Whitby c. 1992. It looked like a delicious peach! When I got home I vanished it. It's remained on display ever since, but at some point people started asking me 'why have you got an old baked potato on your shelf?' 000
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I know this ignores the central issues and their seriousness, and the brilliant piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social yesterday, but your post just made me want to rewatch The Holdovers. 010
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 17/08/2026yes, I was quite dispirited by the general 'we want action, but not like that' wailing about action that might disturb. 130
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026“Whatever the ideals were, we never lived up to them, but at least we had them. Now it’s all so cynical and sordid and stupid.” Read Maus in 1990s. Due a reread I think www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...theguardian.comArt Spiegelman: ‘The US needs a counter-revolution’More than four decades after his Holocaust story Maus transformed the graphic novel genre, Art Spiegelman discusses Trump, the shadow of 9/11 and the rise of fascism in America 000
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Question - is this similar to DWP turning down PIP? A bet that the claimant won't have the tenacity/resources (energy/support) to see the process through? Costs when appeals favour claimant (as they usually do with PIP), but if they drop out... 000
Rebecca Smith @lennysmith.bsky.social · 13/08/2026ha! I used to get a similar thrill on a stores tour when people were allowed to hold a daguerreotype (comparatively minute time span I know, but the thrill of holding a unique singular image of someone from c 170 years ago was real) and you also have to manoeuvre it till they appear. 010
