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Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

No grim hymns! 'With Mortal Voice' has superb unaccompanied singing by Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social. Soaring snatches from Hildegard of Bingen,lilting medieval stories in English,Shaker songs.Joyful & uplifting, even to this non-orthodox listener! Highly recommended! See Kate's website.

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Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

'How can I keep from singing'? Kate Witney's @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social's singing sounds both highly accomplished & completely natural. 'Albion's Forgotten Daughters' has songs collected by women, including some of Lincolnshire"s liveliest! Highly recommended! Search for KATE WITNEY WEBSITE!

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English Folk Dance and Song Society @efdss.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A musical celebration of two giants of the folk collecting scene; Marjory Kennedy-Fraser and Lucy Broadwood (one of the founders of EFDSS), by Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social and Jonty Nowell at the @edfringe.bsky.social Book now: www.edfringe.com/tickets/what... And tell us all about it!

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Why is everyone worried about the University of East Anglia making a nuclear weapon? Ah, UAE. Sorry. As you were.

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

14% of the steps I do in a day come from swimming and walking, 27% from going up and down the stairs so many times because I’ve forgotten what I went up/down for and the remaining 59% is ftom changing the bloody duvet cover.

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Save the date! Saturday 29th August 2026 2:00 pm and 3:30 pm St. Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh Kate Witney and Jonty Nowell return to the Edinburgh Fringe with a programme devoted to the work of Lucy Broadwood and Marjory Kennedy-Fraser

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

A year 2 pupil is learning a song about fish in the deep ocean so I try to to get the atmosphere across by making gulping movements and waving my arms about like a demented octopus. Pupil: That’s what my daddy does just before he kisses my mum. Moving swiftly on..,

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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Today is Epiphany, when Western Christianity celebrates the three kings' visit to the infant Christ. Peter Bruegel the Elder's 'Adoration of the Kings' [National Gallery] is one of my favourite imaginings of that moment. It's also full of mystery. Quick Epiphany 🧵

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I am listening to Radio 4, where an American commentator is being interviewed. Talk has turned to Greenland. “We don’t have enough ice-breakers,” he says. I find myself, if only fleetingly, wondering why he can’t just ask everyone to say what their favourite colour is and sing something.

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

It’s almost as if FIFA isn’t best equipped to judge.

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I used to think that Trump was a stupid, narcissistic, attention-seeking psychopath, but I take it all back. He's much worse than that.

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

NY Resolutions: Aged 18: Become a better person and work towards world peace. Aged 32: Lose four stone and write a novel. Aged 50: Label things properly in the freezer. Aged 66: Try not to talk to myself in public loudly enough for other people to hear.

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Watching Carols From Kings I noticed the Dean prayed for the joy of Christmas to illuminate arseholes, which I thought was lovely, as I think arseholes are often a forgotten demographic.

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Today I am a little concerned that I might have made too much ice-cream in too many different flavours. Ha, ha, ha! Gotcha! That’s impossible, isn’t it, because there is no such thing as too much ice cream!

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Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · 15/12/2025

It’s a sad indictment of Britain’s ignorance of nature that Sycamore Gap petitions - for a tree that mattered to humans but not nature - received tens of thousands of signatures but a petition to protect entire peatland habitats is stuck at 1,500 actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...

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Sign the petition to end peat sales!

No more delays: Let's get peat out of gardens once and for all. The time for uncertainty has ended.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Tommy Robinson is a Christian in the same way I’m a nuclear physicist.

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Aldi have an English sparking wine from Kent on offer at £7 something and it is very nice. I have been testing it for you, which is very selfless of me, isn’t it.

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I have been extolling the virtues of my lovely wool mattress and suggesting my friends stay over and ‘test the mattress’. I am aware that this phrase has different meanings, depending on one’s age. 20: we all know exactly what it means. 40: will I sleep well? 60: what about my back?!

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BlogMyWiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:

Letter to the Guardian.
The protection of badgers has a long pedigree (Report, 29 August). Arthur Gore, known as "Boofy", the eighth Earl of Arran, was a fanatical defender of them. He was also a tireless campaigner for the rights of homosexuals. In 1967 he managed to push through a law in the Lords that decriminalised homosexuality but failed to pass a bill to outlaw the cruel hunting of badgers. When asked why he had not received enough support for his badger bill, he replied: "Not many badgers in the House of Lords." Tony Lywood Keswick, Cumbria

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

What other honours await, one wonders. The PGA Prize for Physics? The Major League Basketball Prize for Literature?

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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

⚠️ Stand-off in Sheringham: Local campaigners have spent the past three nights camping out overnight in an extraordinary bid to save a 1950s Streamline Moderne style bus shelter in Norfolk, thwarting council contractors who attempted to demolish the structure at 2am. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

It is, I am reliably informed, International Red Squirrels week. And it’s working. I am aware of red squirrels.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Fed up with the John Lewis's website talking to me as if I'm a naughty dog.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

www.worldofmoose.com/products/dou...

Cartoon of two people looking down a garden towards a house, with high hedges on either side. One says "Nice lawn!". The other replies "To be honest it's a bit of a double-hedged sward".

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Andrew T. @spudfish83.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Claire's beloved horse Tango died in terror when holiday-makers set off a firework display at a nearby cottage. Sign her petition to protect animals and vulnerable people from the shock and terror of unexpected explosions. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...

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Petition: Ban the public sale of fireworks!

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Before we get started, here’s a little ice-breaker.’

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The sun expends on a fine summer’s day an average of one horsepower on every 30 square feet of the earth’s surface in this latitude, or 1450 horse-power per acre. This great gift of energy is neither utilised nor stored by man at present.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I bought one of those self-assembly bird tables a while back. The lazy bastards haven't even opened the box, all they've done is shit on it.

Packaging for a SELF ASSEMBLY BIRD TABLE

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

You see, the thing I find so baffling and impossible to believe about this whole affair of Farage’s house is that, apparently, he has a girlfriend. Mind blowing.

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

IKEA do these rather nice cardboard boxes for cats and they will deliver. Jack’s came with some free magazine files for me to organise sheet music, which I thought was a nice touch.

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 05/10/2025

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

MOST interesting: the bronze of the Lion of Venice was sampled by Padua Uni last year- and lead isotopes show it's Chinese, Yangtze River basin, probably a Tang dynasty 'zhènmùshòu' horned tomb guardian of more upright stature, c.600-900. Possibly imported by Niccolò and Maffeo Polo, then modified.

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Come and hear me sing songs of women’s experience of the sea at Weelsby Hall, Grimsby, as part of the Heritage Open Days. www.linkage.org.uk/wh-hod-2025/

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Weelsby Hall Heritage Open Day | Events | Linkage Community Trust

Find out more about the 2025 Weelsby Hall Heritage Open Day and book your place today.

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Come and hear me sing songs of women’s experience of the sea at Weelsby Hall, Grimsby, as part of the Heritage Open Days. www.linkage.org.uk/wh-hod-2025/

linkage.org.uk

Weelsby Hall Heritage Open Day | Events | Linkage Community Trust

Find out more about the 2025 Weelsby Hall Heritage Open Day and book your place today.

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I just misread the term ‘counter-terror’ police as ‘counter-tenor’ police, which conjured an interesting soundscape…

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Hello church crawling people. St. Peter’s Church, Clayworth in Nottinghamshire has some very striking murals by Pheobe Traquair, which dominate the church. The funny thing is that Pevsner doesn’t mention them at all. Does anyone know why he didn’t?

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

This whole heat thing is relative, though, isn't it. A pupil of mine is going to India. She was already worrying about the heat and then she had an email from her aunt: 'Do bring warm clothes. It'll be the monsoon season and it can get very cold. Sometimes it's only 30 degrees'.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Everyone loves sausage dogs, but are you familiar with the other sausage animals? Here's a handy guide. If you like this cartoon, I can draw one for you. www.worldofmoose.com/products/sau...

Cartoon drawing of various animals with sausage bodies, sausage dog, sausage camel, sausage crab ...

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

A list of the ten most difficult words to say aloud… 10. Specificity 9. Ignominious 8. Statistics 7. Defibrillator 6. Magnanimity 5. Pulchritude 4. Worcestershire 3. Anaesthetist 2. Asterisk 1. Sorry* * Seems to be the hardest word

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I was at Southwark Cathedral the other day and it was an honour to meet Hodge, the resident cat.

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Some creep on here crept into my messages, with ‘Hi, how are you doing?’. I blocked him, of course, but I have to say that, before doing so, I couldn’t resist replying with, ‘Doing what?’.

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Has anyone else noticed this new thing of ‘two times’ for twice. Now, I do know language evolves and all that, but I’m a bit baffled that two words would replace one. Any thoughts?

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

A little word of advice: do not use the term ‘a lick and a promise’ to anyone under about forty…

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Kate Witney @lincolnshirelass.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I’ve just had an advert pop up for a ‘merino base layer.’ That’s a woolly vest, isn’t it?

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