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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Things like this make me proud to be British 🤣

Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

At some point, I will catch up with myself and post a few pictures of the summer. Mostly aircraft and vehicle photos, but photos nonetheless. In the meantime, here’s a frankly epic cherry bakewell tart from Props & Pistons at East Kirkby on the August Bank Holiday Monday.

My left hand, holding a half-eaten cherry bakewell tart. A cup of shortcrust pastry is encasing about half an inch of actual cherries, underlying about half an inch of almond sponge. It tasted AMAZING.

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Very much feeling at this point like I’m clinging on by my fingernails until Young Mr R goes back to school tomorrow … It’s been a very busy summer.

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Are you in need of some Bank Holiday reading? SIGNED copies of my novel are available in the Vulcan To The Sky sale for a few £ off, so grab yourself a bargain and support XH558 at the same time. (It’s also on Amazon and all the usual places) vulcantothesky.org/product/bans...

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It was so cool to catch Fubar Aviation’s Lim-5 (aka a MiG-17F) on the ground at Duxford the other week 🤩 Sad I haven’t seen her in the air, but I’ve loved seeing everyone else’s images of her. One of these is going to have to get a mention in Book 2, now 😁

Rear 3/4 view from the right of Fubar Aviation’s Lim-5, also known as a license-built MiG-17F, on the pan at Duxford.

View straight from the rear of Fubar Aviation’s Lim-5, also known as a license-built MiG-17F, on the pan at Duxford.

Rear 3/4 view from the left of Fubar Aviation’s Lim-5, also known as a license-built MiG-17F, on the pan at Duxford.

A closer 3/4 view from the left of Fubar Aviation’s Lim-5, also known as a license-built MiG-17F, on the pan at Duxford. Her wing strakes are more obvious here

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“Large-scale migration is not just a phenomenon of the last few hundred years but has been a central theme of human history". Including British history. And that's without getting into large-scale emigration www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

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The seven faces that tell Britain’s story over 900,000 years

DNA discoveries reveal how centuries of migration, abandonment and near-total population replacement have shaped these isles

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hearing there’s more to this story than ‘family responsibilities’, including allegations of use of council resources for personal gain and pretending to be a doctor… Reform councillor steps down from Sandwell Council cabinet after three months www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-countr...

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Reform councillor steps down from Sandwell Council cabinet after three months

Mona Khurana leaves the role due to ‘increased family responsibilities’

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It was a pleasure to talk to Pieter about my book and Vulcans 😁

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Dave and Young Mr R are out for the morning. I have free time to write! So obviously, I’ve hoovered and dusted the house instead 🤦🏻‍♀️ And now I’m getting sidetracked by the history of the Korean War (which is technically important background info for a few characters …)

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It’s been a busy week. Haven’t had much writing time but I can feel it itching in the back of my brain, for when I get chance … I’ve spent quite a bit of time with my 1950s antagonist (who I kind of like as a person, oddly). Now to do the same with my 2024 one. He’s not such a pleasant person.

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

At the weekend, this happened - we were treated to a flight from Duxford, over Cambridge in a Dragon Rapide 😁 Wonderful experience, and my soft spot for this biplane got even bigger. She’s a lovely thing. If you get chance, do it!

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Reform UK donor and Farage ally George Cottrell carried a fake Swiss passport under the name ‘Oscar Drewitt’. Cottrell was hired under the name by the future Reform treasurer Mehrtash A’zami. A’zami later vetted Cottrell’s mother's donations to Reform, now the subject of a police investigation

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‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder's Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures

Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how hi...

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

As it’s the school holidays, yesterday was baking time with Young Mr R. We made cake dinosaurs, and he thought it would be fun to give the dinos googly eyes. These dinosaurs have seen things. Terrible things 😂

A cake brontosaurus (I think - four legged sauropod of some sort), with a large googly eyes that makes it look extremely shocked.

A cake T-Rex, resting back on its haunches, with a googly eye making it look like it’s sitting there traumatised.

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Today’s writing task is for Sqn Ldr Ormerod & Flt Lt Dickens to take their Canberra PR.7 … well, you’ll have to read the finished* book to find out 😆 *I’m trying to finish it. Honestly** **It’s school summer holidays from today. Need to work out how to survive on no sleep, so I’ve time to write 🥴🤪

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Looking through a kid’s colouring book and came across … whatever in the AI slop induced hallucination this is. 🤦🏻‍♀️ But yeah. Let’s build data centres and give them all our clean water for someone to churn out this 💩

An uncoloured page of a colouring book. No description of mine can do justice to the absolute travesty of this, but I shall try.

It is an airport scene. An aircraft is being towed away from what I assume is a terminal building … by a tug BOAT. Yes. A boat. Yet there is no evidence of water, despite the line between the boat and the aircraft, which is simply generic passenger jet.

Although there’s something on the left hand side of this image that could be a vehicle or a very weirdly proportioned jet. Or possibly just a bit of building.

It’s an AI hallucination. It’s depressing AF.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Nigel Farage is breaking British company law. Missed a deadline to file a confirmation statement with Companies House. Failed to verify his identity, required by law. Failure to comply is a criminal offence. Low attendance in parliament but busy with 2nd jobs, collecting money from foreign donors.

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Revealed: Nigel Farage is breaking British company law

Farage’s personal company has almost £2m in cash but has not filed key documents

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I know my Spotify is eclectic, but even I was not prepared for the mental whiplash going from System of a Down straight to Alice Deejay 🙈😂

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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I don't want to jump to conclusions, but I don't recall the white protestent masked blokes in the northern bit of Ireland rioting about the 10 men, 3 women & 2 children murdered in Northern Ireland over last 12 months. All the accused in these case are white. Could that be vaguely relevant?

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Northern Ireland murder toll 2025 as 15 lives taken in 12 months

Ten men, three women and two children have been murdered in the last 12 months.

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Unreasonably annoyed this morning that the washing machine didn’t run overnight, as I’d set it. Why? Because after I set it and went to bed, it decided it needed a software update. Software update?! IT’S A ****ING WASHING MACHINE. What can it possibly want to update so urgently? 😠

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Streeting has resigned. Labour MPs need to hear from constituents now. Do not hand Farage the chaos he wants. Sign the petition and tell Labour MPs to hold the line: holdtheline.org.uk/petition

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Hold the Line — Sign the petition

Sign the petition. Support Keir Starmer now, don't hand Nigel Farage the keys to Downing Street.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has said there was "no obligation" to declare a £5m gift he received from a billionaire backer before he became an MP. Sky’s Beth Rigby points out the rules

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝖄𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖘 𝕬𝖌𝖔… The Eye delved into Christopher Harborne's background - his dual identity, his cryptocurrency connections, his enormous political donations - long before his undeclared £5 million personal gift to Nigel Farage. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 1511, December 2019.

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Virginia @virginiagjh.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Helping a relative with politics homework and got looking into the past terms of UK PMs. The UK only really got into chopping and changing PMs from 2016 onwards -something else to thank the Tory’s/Brexit for . Could we just stop now please and let the current PM serve his term.

Source if using for politics course work/homework is
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN04256/SN04256.pdf
This is a list of all uk Prime ministers since 1940 stops at 2022 so you need to add in Rishi Sunak 2022-2024 and Keir Starmer 2024-

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

In other news UK news shows continue to fail to call out bull**** like this from Nigel Farage and Reform

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

His closest aide sentenced to 10.5 years for spying for the Russians. Failing to disclose £5m donation and how he bought a house in Clacton. A decade of school antisemitism and racism. Cavorting with Neo Nazis and planning mass deportations. What is the media love about Farage?

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Our plans for the NHS include a voucher scheme for private treatment if you have wait for services. It works like this: -issue voucher to go private -cost comes out of NHS budget -reduces funding for NHS even further -services deteriorate -perfect excuse to privatise NHS -job done

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I wish I’d been able to capture the alarm on the face of the woman who walked past our seats at Young Mr R’s swimming lesson earlier … (rough transcript) Me: Can I bounce something about the book off you? (She walks past, in earshot) Dave: You’re not bumping someone off again, are you?

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 26/04/2026

I cannot over emphasise how important this action is. Most MPs don't know this is going on, and by the time the guidance is laid it will be too late. Make sure you email your MP now – and encourage others to do the same.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Arch-Brexiteer and pretty much Always Wrong Daniel Hannan has become the Director General of the Institute for Economic Affairs, the Right Wing think tank which has championed climate change denial and privatisation of the NHS among others. It’s a registered charity, apparently.

Welcome to the IEA
Lord
Hannan of Kingsclere
Director General
From 1 June 2026

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I haven’t written a huge amount today … BUT I have spent quite some time in Scrivener reorganising past and present scenes so I have a semblance of the final novel structure 🙌🏻 It’s all progress. At least, that’s what I’m telling myself.

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Jo 🕊️💚 @i-do-despair.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

”Impressive asset” vs ”not fit”. Just the usual hatchet job when it suits them. Doing the job their paymasters require. 🤬

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Brain: Young Mr R is occupied, why don’t you try and write some Book 2? Me: Great idea. *sits down and opens laptop* Brain: *silence* Me: Come on. This was your idea. Surely you’ve got something?! A scene maybe? Brain: *shrugs* not really. And don’t call me Shirley. 😭 😭

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This is a crucial report, shining a spotlight on the funding links between Russia, Hungary and the British mainstream right

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

My marvellous husband tracked me down these to help with Book 2 research 🥰. I may be slightly TOO obsessed with getting the details of my 1955 plot accurate and making sure the direction it goes is plausible … 😬 I’m thoroughly enjoying learning about early Cold War reconnaissance, though!

A copy of “EARLY COLD WAR OVERFLIGHTS
SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS
Volume I: Memoirs
Editors: R. Cargill Hall and Clayton D. Laurie”

The cover is mostly grey, with greyscale images of US and UK aircraft and aircrew.

The US and UK flags are in colour across the middle of the book.

A copy of “EARLY COLD WAR OVERFLIGHTS
SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS
Volume II: Appendixes
Editors: R. Cargill Hall and Clayton D. Laurie”

The cover is mostly grey, with greyscale images of US and UK aircraft and aircrew.

The US and UK flags are in colour across the middle of the book.

A greyscale map of Europe, showing part of the Soviet Union. It’s titled “28-29 April 1954 RAF Overflight Routes”. Various lines cross Europe, into and over Soviet territory, from RAF Sculthorpe in Norfolk, England.

Part view of a copy of a typewritten memo dating from August 1954. It’s headed: “MEMORANDUM FOR: DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE, USAF
SUBJECT: USAF Clandestine Intelligence Collection Program”

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

This article by @yarotrof.bsky.social strikes me as a well balanced description of where we are in the US/Israeli attack on Iran. Both sides think they are winning and both sides could miscalculate. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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Iran Believes It’s Winning—and Wants a Steep Price to End the War

Tehran sees an opportunity to control the Middle East’s energy as it bets on outlasting Trump’s will—a risky gamble.

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 08/03/2026

Things may have improved, but we still have a long way to go, It is not that long ago that women were not allowed to open their own bank accounts or take on a job without their husbands permission. This ingrained prejudice is still present in people’s minds. @jolk.bsky.social @bylines.scot 2/ #IWD

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International Women’s Day 2026: Women EICs at the Bylines Network

This International Women’s Day, the Bylines Network invites you to celebrate the women who make the Network what it is

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Young Mr R loves baking. So we made some chocolate cupcakes today. I then asked if he wanted to ice them. He said yes. So we made chocolate buttercream as well. Considering it must be at least 10 years since I made any kind of icing, I think we did good 😄

6 chocolate cupcakes sitting on a cooling rack. They’re iced with swirls of chocolate buttercream and dotted with milk and white chocolate chips.

We used a star shape icing tip to avoid the cupcakes looking like poos. No one wants to eat a cake that looks like one of those.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Churchill has retrospectively been turned into a cartoon like superhero who could do no wrong and who we all owe a debt of gratitude forever. The gold standard of leadership. A man of supreme wit and gifted with statesmanship unrivalled by any other It's far more complicated and interesting 1/3

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Alex is getting grumpy in Book 2. He’s just told his US Air Force counterpart he has neither the time nor the crayons to explain something to him 🙈🤣😬 These two have *history* … #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Young Mr R occasionally enjoys doing jigsaw puzzles with us. This is the first 500 piece one we’ve started. I find myself going to it for a few minutes, adding a couple of bits, then going back to whatever I was doing. Clearly my brain is tuned for recognising Hurricanes and very little else 😂

A 500 piece jigsaw puzzle on green felt, partly done. The edges are complete, and so is the large Hawker Hurricane in the foreground. Also complete are three smaller Hurricanes … but not much else of the British countryside scene.

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

It’s been a good writing day. Not only have I written more of the 1950s plot (and developed a deep dislike of Tom, one of the other Canberra pilots), I enjoyed reading some of this brilliant book. Definitely recommend this one if you’re interested in anything EE Canberra related. #Writing #Author

Me holding the hardback edition of Canberra: The Greatest Multi-Role Aircraft of the Cold War, Volume 1, by Ken Delve and John Sheehan. Two Canberras in flight adorn the cover.

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

One of the most disgusting, brutal and unpunished child‑abuse networks in the world… And the usual voices who claim to care about ‘women and girls’ have nothing to say. We see you.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Another Epstein to Bannon text from May 2019 predicts Boris Johnson’s leadership victory - and then enigmatically refers to a ‘Peter’ making contact with an ‘Eric’ about the turbulence. Any clues which Peter or Eric? There aren’t that many in this political sphere

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Our important work at Kent Council to spend £600k on a car park to provide free parking for Reform councillors while staff have to pay, is all part of our 'We don't give a shit about anyone but ourselves' policy.

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I’ve FINALLY got the beginning of Book 2 into a state I’m happy with 🙌🏻 Part of me is panicking that the word count has dropped with all the recent edits. The other part is glad the rest can now be written from a solid start. So I guess it’s progress 🫠 #writers #authors

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 20/01/2026

Annoyance time This artwork by Piotr Forkasiewicz was created for the cover of my Fairey Swordfish book from Mortons. We decided on the composition after studying all the accounts from the aircrews involved and photos of the op But whenever it is posted online, people decry it as inaccurate…

Digital artwork of a Fairey Swordfish biplane attacking the battleship Bismarck. POV is behind and below the Swordfish, showing the torpedo slumg beneath the fuselage, with Bismarck sailing away and to the left, roughly parallel to the course of the Swordfish, while streams of flak tracer shoot all around the aircraft. Above is thick cloud which the aircraft has just emerged from

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

We've spent ten years being proved right about all the things the loudest, biggest voices in the UK media insisted, often obnoxiously, we were wrong about. The real kicker is that there's no consolation whatsoever in being correct. Brexit, Putin, Johnson, Truss, Trump, Twitter, Netanyahu etc etc...

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Lesson learned: my writing brain cannot focus on two different projects at once. I’ve been pushing to get a short story done (for an anthology later this year). That has taken up ALL my writing run time for the last 6 weeks. Despite itching to get on with Book 2, I just couldn’t switch tracks 😖

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