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Margaret FH56

@margaretfh56.bsky.social
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Retired librarian. Live in Croydon,UK. Books, art, plants, astrology, folklore, mythology, cats. Photo is Molly, one of our rescue cats.

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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 7h
Tbh I thought Archer had popped his clogs long ago. His books are pot- boiling drivel, charity shops are full of them.
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#wildflowerhour a thistle, but I dont know which one. Over 2m tall, I havent seen one like this before. #wildflowerID
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#wildflowerhour #reflowering #stillflowering hedge bindweed and michaelmas diasy in Croydon
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#wildflowerhour #stillflowering #reflowering nettles, and autumn hawkbit I think, in Croydon
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Went for a walk around ParkHill in Croydon, very cloudy but quite humid.
Trees in their autumnal finery at the top end of Park Hill Gardens.Exotic tree in Park Hill Gardens
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
via Christopher Warner
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cartoonist: Dave Whamond
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#wildflowerhour black horehound in Croydon
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#wildflowerhour my phone tells me this is perennial wall rocket, new to me and not seen at this location before. Waddon Marsh tramstop in Croydon.
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m in a cafe in Beckenham which always plays 70s music- Whiter Shade of Pale just came on😄 #singingalong
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Limping my way round Croydon town centre I counted over 20 boomers with walking sticks/rollators, within an hour’s walking. Ive noticed it in other towns too. What the hell did we do to our knees back in the day to create a tsunami of arthritis sufferers? 😳🤔
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Went into the kitchen this morning and nearly trod on the most ginormous fur-ball Ive ever seen. Perpetrator was sitting on the worktop, totally indifferent to her handiwork. Don't you just love cats?
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“America Is A Gun” by Brian Bilston
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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good morning Bluesky ☀️ 
Two horses chatting, one with its hind Quarter striped like a zebra and saying "I can't say I am entirely pleased with my hip replacement"
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
BBC giving Charles Spencer free publicity for his new book🙄
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Green is a mission @greenisamission.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Oxygen is released into the atmosphere during photosynthesis. At night, some is consumed again by the tree. But the tree releases more oxygen than it needs itself. Deciduous forests release 15 to./year/ha of oxygen, coniferous forests up to 30 to./year/ha into the atmosphere.🌳🌲
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🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @classicbritishtv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Remembering the late Actor, David McCallum (19 September 1933 – 25 September 2023)
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
19 September 1941. Ellen Naomi Cohen known as “Mama Cass Elliot” was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She’s best known as a member of the 1960s hitmakers Mamas & the Papas. In 1998 she was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Remembering ADAM WEST — born 98yrs ago today.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
78 Candles 🎂 today for the Oscar winning JEREMY IRONS
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You may all have gathered that this was a significant birthday - I have reached threescore* years and ten. *Watching everyone count on their fingers and/or wondering what threescore is…
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Had a lovely birthday lunch at Bill’s in Wimbledon with my children and my grandson. Very loud and noisy there but we had a good time. My pudding acquired a ‘foreign body’ which I had to remove pdq cause I didnt want candlewax dripping on it😳🤣 Many thanks to Sarah, Philip and Thomas xx
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A hilarious summary
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Its my birthday, and my husband has bought me my own Bayeaux Tapestry…the paper fold-out version😄
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump really isn't a good advertisement for Wharton, is he?
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Big old house on #AddiscombeRd in #Croydon has had a major fire, road partly closed. Anyone who lives in the locality will know where I mean, just down the road from the vets, has been derelict for years. Shame because it must have been a lovely building in its heyday.
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Dcmfox @dcmfox.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I will post this again for context. The difference between a billion and a million dollars
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Police hunting for the missing little boy in Suffolk have found a body… Poor little lad.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 16/09/2026
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 16/09/2026
“Voilá! … Your new dream home! If you like it, I can get a crew mixing wood fibers and saliva as early as tomorrow.”
“Voilá! … Your new dream home! If you like it, I can get a crew mixing wood fibers and saliva as early as tomorrow.”
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Watched French Connection II again last night. Gene Hackman was such a genius. The poissons d’avril scene at the beginning always makes me laugh. When he finally got Frog One, my son and I shouted ‘Got him’ in unison😄
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just bought the new Gruffalo book in Beckenham Bookshop for my grandson - he's getting a bit old for them but he adores the Gruffalo. #supportyourlocalbookshop #DYK its Julia Donaldson’s birthday today? Happy birthday to the Gruffalo lady!
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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good morning 🌞 Is anyone interested?
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Christina🌊🌊 @sassycc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Do you understand it!!
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Booked my #flu jab for 10th Oct. Looking forward to being invited for my #shingles jab as well, now that I have reached the right age! #vaccines Bring ‘em on!
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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Breaking: 'Odd numbers of Piddington street to break away from even numbers of Piddington street'
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
People moaning about military sites being used to house migrants - you had thousands of ‘fighting-age men’ stationed near you for decades, why didn't you complain then,eh?
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Autumnal embroidery: hawthorn berries, heather & new cow parsley leaf 🌿✂️🧵🪡
A design I’ve embroidered on my jumper inspired by sprigs of hawthorn berries and heather along with a fresh cow parsley leaf
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ReformUK can shout and shriek, but they knew this legislation was in the pipeline…or they would have if Nige had turned up in Parliament more often. Joke’s on you, Nige.
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Tony Lastname @rivernewstc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
😎🪴🌵 A new cookbook
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#wildflowerhour #favouriteplants cornsalad and greater celandine, both found in March, both new to me this year.
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
‘I cant be bought’ he said. What he meant was no one had offered enough till now. #farage #donations
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sat in a cafe in Beckenham and they're playing ‘My Sweet Lord’ and I‘m instantly back in a school assembly c.1971 Woman on next table is singing along under her breath😄 #memories #teens #70smusic
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Hercule Poirot dressed all in black speaks to Captain Hastings in a grand hallway “Please ask the suspects to gather in the library, Hastings: I wish to reveal that our births are random, our lives meaningless, and our deaths absurd.”

Caption “Having investigated so many awful murders over the years, it was perhaps unsurprising that Hercule Poirot turned to Existentialism”


p.s. Poirot had presumably been reading a lot of Sartre recently…

 "It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die," Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant)

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (La Nausée)
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When rightwing protesters get stuck on a sandbank, or their child’s lilo floats out to sea or a relative gets caught by a riptide, I wonder how long it will take them to start screeching for the RNLI to come save them?
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#wildflowerhour #seedheads went down to South Norwood country park and found hogweed and teasels looking very atmospheric
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#wildflowerhour #stillflowering pineappleweed, greater willowherb, michaelmas daisies and (just started flowering) ivy
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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#wildflowerhour #fruits hawthorn, bramble, bittersweet and elder
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...
Title: Methods for Encouraging a Reluctant Young Reader 
 

Panel 1
Caption: Read Together 
Image: A small child sits on a sofa, face buried in a book, between two adults doing the same.

Panel 2
Caption: Bribery
Image: The small child sits on a treasure chest wearing a crown, face buried in a book, in a room full of coins, jewels and precious items.

Panel 3
Caption: Element of danger
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, precariously balanced on a thin branch in a tall tree.

Panel 4
Caption: Reverse Psychology
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, beside a huge bookshelf and a sign that reads “Adults Only”

Panel 5
Caption: Pulleys and Pistons
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, amidst a complicated mechanism that provides endless new books.

Panel 6
Caption: Rituals and Incantations
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, in a circle of candles amidst clouds of smoke and mysterious phrases.
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