#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I have resorted to blocking my first account on Bluesky because I DO NOT NEED TO SEE PIX OF MALE CHESTS, UNSOLICITED OR OTHERWISE. Thank you for your attention in this matter. 000
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Ditto. In fact, a stroll down the road on a Sunday morning to watch them play* against the village team in the Sleepy Hollow League (North) is quite appealing. *After clearing a week's dog shit off the playing fields. 010
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Apparently, it's a pull-out-and-pull-out-and-pull-out-and-pull-out-and-pull-out-and-pull-out-and-pull-out-and-pull-out-and-pull-out-and-pull-out-and-pull-out-and-pull-out-and-pull-out-and-pull-out-and-pull-out-and-pull-out-and-pull-out-and-pull-out-and>pull-out-and-keep guide to the Bayeux Tapestry. 000
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I haven't. I read a smattering of sci-fi & criticise most of it for something or other: too sci-explanation, too little sci-explanation, too much characterisation, too little characterisation, too much plot, too little plot. I shall add it to my (currently) very long list of books to read. 210
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"Stay with us here on Fox News, as we have an exclusive pre-execution interview with the squad's lead fussilier. That's coming straight after this word from our sponsors ..." >> BBC News - Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon / Pete Hegseth says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukFort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon saysPete Hegseth says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the "unprecedented" decision is on "uncertain legal terrain". 130
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Good morning. I really don't do well at this time of the year. Can we just skip the next three months and get on with 2027, please? 140
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Exciting evening coming up. First log fire of the autumn. Probably time to have heating on for half an hour in the morning, too. These old houses are resistant to insulation. 010
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 08/10/2026And I'm just showing off, because I'm bitter I'm never the winning entry. 110
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 08/10/2026You were correct - in that you were wrong! The answer to 2D (Crazy Scary Spice's first to go "Vulgar!" was RACY. This can be explained as an anagram (crazy) of scary minus the s (Spice's first [letter] to go [remove]), and the whole meaning vulgar. I should have got this! 110
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 08/10/2026In NHS news: More waste uncovered as precious £££s spent on duplicate notices via paper mail (x2,exact same wording but from different sources by the look of the paper & envelop), & this despite having an e-account where other appts appear & my records are kept. My upgrade is expected before Xmas. 000
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This photograph of two early 21st century marionettes is such a good editorial choice for the BBC News article. Trump wants a new Camp David-like retreat at his Florida golf club. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 011
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 08/10/2026No, it's not a spoiler! If you don't know what's been going on in the Celebrity Traitors castle so far (six days after transmission) then either you don't watch the show or you've been too busy this attending the Tory Party conference - so shame on you. 010
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Tonight? The banishment of Richard E Grant. Has to happen, surely? And the (regrettable) murder of Professor Hannah Fry too, unless Maya Jama & James Acaster extend an offer to recruit her & Fry accepts. And she would, wouldn't she? Professor? Bite their hands off for a grant. Celebrity Traitors 110
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Badenoch calling Reform UK a 'circus' is an insult to hard working clowns. >>BBC News - Kemi Badenoch says Tories would scrap inheritance tax on family homes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukKemi Badenoch says Tories would scrap inheritance tax on family homesThe Opposition leader made the pledge as she said the Tories face a "battle for the soul of the this nation". 010
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The Royal Mail's delivery service is already (not to put too fine a point on it) absolute shit. Focusing on parcels (TBF, where the money is), but apologised this week for failing to deliver 2 parcels to me! >>BBC News - Royal Mail plans to cut 2,500 head office jobs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukRoyal Mail plans to cut 2,500 head office jobsThe postal service firm wants to cut the head office and other jobs by the end of 2027. 000
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026You appear to know far too much about the Spice Girls. Therefore, I have no option but to put you on a watch list. 010
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Alternative clickbait headline on Doomscroll reads: Full list of 48 counties in England to lose daylight hours next week. 🌞🧪🔭 051
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Daylight hours lost to sun's ongoing 'work to rule'. Meteorologists and astronomers reassure public. "Breakthrough likely by 21 December ... improvements will be noticeable quite widely by mid-January," says pointy-head with top pocket full of pens. 🌞🧪🔭 050
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Anyone, absolutely anyone, considering spending £130,000 on a tin box with a wheel at each corner should give their head a wobble. Jaguar Type 01? My ego's fine thanks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukJaguar unveils its polarising Type 01 electric carTwo years after JLR relaunched Jaguar into a blizzard of controversy, it has launched its new EV. 111
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026🤣 Oh ... hold on ... it fits the missing letters. Wait! Are you serious? But why would that be? I still don't get it from the clue. 100
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Good morning. I'm missing summer. Come back. All is forgiven. 000
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I guess it's okay to post this now as: 1. The competition closed last Friday 2. There's a new Private Eye out tomorrow (subject to the new & sadly degraded Royal Mail delivery service). The only clue I still can't solve is 2D. I am retiring to bed. (That is not the clue!) 100
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Good morning. First person who dares mention "...mists and mellow fruitfulness' is going to get lamped. 120
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Maybe Trump needs his B-1 bombers for something closer to home? d. Canada e. Mexico f. Any state likely to vote Democrat. 000
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026What's Trump up to now? Because surely the US isn't afraid of a few silly boys? Is it: a. Putin asked him to withdraw from the UK? b. A product recall on the B-1 bomber? c. Posturing again, a negotiating tactic, a threat from which Trump will ultimately back down? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukUS removes all bombers from RAF Fairford back to home stationsNo reason has been given for the withdrawal, but it follows a major incident last week when police were alerted to "suspicious vehicles" near the airbase. 111
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026New brownfield site available for house building. >> BBC News - US removes all bombers from RAF Fairford base www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukUS removes all bombers from RAF Fairford back to home stationsNo reason has been given for the withdrawal, but it follows a major incident last week when police were alerted to "suspicious vehicles" near the airbase. 010
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Good morning. And we start the week with an oversleep. Well, it's still quite dark at 6.30 am. 000
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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Several of my neighbours seem weird. I probably seem weird to them too. So that's all right. We're all weird. Must be something in the water. 000
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Whenever I'm in the garden attending to something on the boundary - e.g. hedge trimming, weeding, or, as today treating the old bench to a coat of teak oil - my neighbour Uptight Ernest (not his real name) makes a point of coming out and 'rattling his bins'. Pavlov would be so proud. 000
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Good morning (2). On this day, 90 years ago, Sunday, 4 October 1936, the people of east London (and from elsewhere) rallied in Cable Street to halt the march of the fascists led by Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts. 120
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Gosh. Bletchley Park has upped its game since I was last there 15-20 years ago. A very enjoyable & educational four hours in the company of the WWII Enigma cipher breakers, plus coffee & cake (of course), plus lunch. Lovely October weather too. A positively balmy 20°C. 010
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"Resigning's too good for 'em. String 'em up, I say." >> BBC News - Tennessee prison chief to resign after Christa Pike's failed execution, governor says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukTennessee prison chief to resign after Christa Pike's failed executionPike survived two lethal injections on Wednesday and is currently in critical condition in hospital. 110
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Good morning. Today I am off to somewhere I've been before, but not for several years. Wish I could tell you more, but must keep mum. Loose lips sink ships, and all that. 000
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Ex-HSBC wanker banned for dodging £5,900 in train fares share.google/RzQ5OO60tggd...share.googleEx-HSBC banker banned for dodging £5,900 in train faresJoseph Molloy was convicted this year of using a ‘doughnutting’ scam to avoid paying for tickets 000
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 02/10/2026✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ 📚💙 Reading, socialising and doing puzzles can help preserve cognitive health – large study shows theconversation.com/reading-soci...theconversation.comReading, socialising and doing puzzles can help preserve cognitive health – large study showsOur study shows that brain remains malleable and can learn new things well into older age. 040
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Good morning. When the ex-shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, the ultimate Mr-Bland-Someones-Uncle-At-A-Wedding-Middle-Manager-In-An-Office-Supplies-Company Mel Stride pops up without any provocation or reason in a dream, then you know it's time to get up. 110
#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'm quite excited by the return of Celebrity Traitors tonight - particularly as I had both Professor Hannah Fry & Joe Lycett on my list. (It was a long list, but still!) 000
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