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MargaretR @margr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That sounds a grand day out!

MargaretR @margr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good (executive) decision! Cheers! Enjoy.

MargaretR @margr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A very happy birthday to you both! Cake and biscuits? 🎂 🦴 (I was thinking of the dog biscuits that look like bones, nearest I can find!)

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MargaretR @margr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No ghostly echoes of the slosh of the ferryman’s oars 🤔

My cousin used to live in Everton.

😆 Did wonder if it was a catamaran!

There are so many old ferry crossing points along the river. Shame. No longer required and not viable in these days but our ancestors had so many more everyday links from one side to the other.

Will you be swimming? Or waiting for the FerryMan?

Will be following your progress. Hope all goes to plan.

I am not noticing that at all. Meanwhile up in my home villages in Yorkshire there has been theft of broadband cabling. Everyone without broadband, telephones etc. For 2 days now. Reinforces my opinion that digital dependency is not a thing for good.

I love a Eureka moment. Apart from shouting loudly I have been known to dance a little jig!

I think it is my favourite castle. From being a child I have always been drawn to it, a special feeling I get when wandering around like its history oozes out of the walls. I don’t feel that the same in other castles, interesting and fascinating though they may be.

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Can anyone explain why, on tv detective type shows, the professional criminal investigators never seem to close their curtains? So that the unknown person hiding in the hedge outside can take photos of who is indoors and of what they are doing. Or use a weapon. Makes no sense. Except the script.

Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For a moment I thought that said ‘Online Fencing Course’ and was thinking, how 🤔 Until I read it properly!!

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The talented organist Ben Maton recently visited St Mary of the Angels', Brownshill, Gloucestershire and played JS Bach’s Prelude in C Major arranged for the analogue modelling synthesiser.

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That stopped me in my tracks this morning. What a beautiful and serene way to start the day.

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I haven’t seen it at all. I was well down the first column before I found anything I had seen! Just checked through again and must correct myself, I have seen 6. Too busy with my books!

MargaretR @margr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Our Mr TimothyCat was a foodie 😸 Poor little Brownie, he roamed around the house living happily with our menagerie. He had an outdoor pen that my dad built for him. We had a big garden but he could move quite fast! The dog in question belonged to a contractor working next door. Didn’t apologise 😠

MargaretR @margr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Love them both but oh look at Doris 😍 My tortoise was called Brownie (not the most imaginative but I was only 3!). Is Doris still with you? Brownie was murdered by a Jack Russell. A long, sad story. We’d had him 15 years by then 😢😢

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MargaretR @margr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

View through my windows just now 😍

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MargaretR @margr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The writer of Open All Hours was married to my Dad’s cousin. Her family ran a corner shop (just at the top of the road where I grew up) which many are sure was the inspiration for Arkwright’s shop.

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MargaretR @margr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My chocolate coated profiterole just rolled off my plate, across my knee, and onto the floor 😩

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MargaretR @margr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I haven’t done my #MuseumOfFamilyStuff thing for a while, so here is a photo popped up whilst I was looking for something else. Compass belonged to my Grandad, Royal Engineers #WW1 #FWW #GreatWar

MargaretR @margr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Might have to trot (see what I did there?😆) the old poem out again… “As his horse in the silence champed the grass…..”

MargaretR @margr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Congratulations! Becoming a grandmother was (and is) wonderful. Becoming Great Aunt Margaret the same year just sounds old 👵🏻😆

MargaretR @margr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have friends who live between Ely and March. Each time I visit I intend to call into March (then maybe up to Crowland) but I always head straight home. I would like to see St Etheldreda’s church in March, with the tower over the pavement.

Apologies. Now I understand. On my first reading of Whitby Witches I was, as we say in Yorkshire, proper frit! But couldn’t put it down and had to read the next.

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Each to their own. But using profane words against someone’s work is not how I operate. “Not my thing” suffices. Although these books, much to my surprise, were my thing.

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Fantasy fiction for children, which is not my genre but knowing Whitby there is part of it I can feel. Spooky and more! I enjoyed the full series of those books.

7.30pm and my outdoor solar lights came on. Flippin’ ‘eck 😧

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Did you read ‘Whitby Witches’ by Robin Jarvis before you went? A children’s book but I first read it as an adult and couldn’t cope with it being on the bedside table at night 🤣 Love that series. No lingering in the alleyways and courtyards after dark. Or up by the church 😳

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I have known of St Mary’s from visits to Whitby since childhood but only went inside for the first time a few years ago. A delightful surprise.

I thought just the same whilst opening the blinds a few minutes ago.

MargaretR @margr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Facebook memory today. Very me but also thought of you @thebooktrail.bsky.social 📚📚📚 😊

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MargaretR @margr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I just wish he was in my family tree. Or Suckling Spendlove. Much easier to trace than the Frank Smiths of this world 🤣

MargaretR @margr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Facebook memory from a clearing/tidying day 10 years ago. But also something from my #MuseumOfFamilyStuff. I still have it (and a record player to play it on!).

MargaretR @margr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sunset views from my windows just now.

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MargaretR @margr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Another good Facebook memory this morning. The day I waited patiently for the Red Arrows to fly past our windows, and just as I snapped a photo a ‘friend’ joined them! 🐦

MargaretR @margr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The den every child wants! Mine was up in big, old pear tree. A door was the floor 😊

MargaretR @margr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

She is now 14 and 5’ 7” ! I remind her of this conversation regularly 😆