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Miranda Arnold

@mirandaa.bsky.social
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Ex-ad person, retired, winner of best onions at local veg show

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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@themerl.bsky.social Absolute units at auction for our delight.
An article from Antiques Trade Gazette about a high-priced sale (£3000) of a blue and white China oval platter with a HUGE bull - the Durham Ox, bred in 1796.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Watching game on phone, dodgy Spanish-language YouTube channel, (on account of being in France, no handy sports bar) to find we’re 1-0 down! What the hell!?
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
If you’re not following this guy on Instagram’s day-by-day account of building a lightweight Phoenician war-elephant outfit centered around his toddler in the command seat so that he can hike over the Alps in it in the footsteps of Hannibal—you should be. www.instagram.com/reel/DaOO7iV...
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
#Arsenal
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Sitting in garden, glass of wine, just listening to the huge hubbub from the stadium, fireworks going off, car horns, cheering, omg, it’s fantastic
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Highbury is just car horns and cheers and crowds and joyousness.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Omg I can’t wait to get home to Highbury. Trying to get the number 19 driver to go faster.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Sodding Connections.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Just responding to a customer service survey about a recent phone call …
The dialogue box says “To what extent do you agree or disagree with the statement: ‘Stalin cared about my needs’”, followed by some reply options (0-4)
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Got the winner in the family sweep for the Grand National, husband got the second. Buying everyone a drink in the pub tomorrow with our vast winnings. 🍻🥂🍸🥳
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I have dyed some eggs for my granddaughter’s first Easter egg hunt tomorrow. Massive palaver. But think they look great. Suspect she’ll have no bloody clue what’s going on but GOOD GRANNY.
Four hen’s eggs, dyed a deep pinky-red, on a blue and white china plate. Eggs a bit patchy, tbh, first time I’ve done it.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 09/03/2026
Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music Several dozen folks did Some even dubbed music over the original clip. I haven't been able to get this out of my head. So I give you A Bluesky exclusive: Reservoir Ducks 🐣 🪶
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
@ferguscraig.bsky.social I am reading my first Roger LeCarre, and am massively annoying my husband by continually sniggering. Loving it.
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Medieval Food With Jennie @medievalfoodjennie.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Lossenges Fried In Lent, 'A Noble Boke of Cookry', England c.1468. I thought this would be a very austere dish, but the sugar makes it a nice snack. Flour, water, sugar, saffron, a pinch of salt, make dough, roll it thin, cut into lozenges, fry in oil. Lovely sweet treat!
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Spring is springing in Finsbury Park.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The furious cat doesn’t really seem to be getting into the Christmas spirit.
A short-haired grey cat, gazing into the camera with a furious expression. This is his perma-expression tbh. Never happy with his lot.
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 10/11/2025
Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply. Link below. Please share :)
christinapoultoncreative.co.uk
Boring Fund | Christina Poulton
Applications now open! £200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I have a Sports Injury. It is groin strain. I don’t really know what to think about this, given I don’t do sports.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
And the slackly pronounced book is a Penguin!
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Just been listening to an audiobook SO FULL of mispronunciations that I am furious. So slack not to practice. E.g “preparatory” pronounced “preppetory”. Got names wrong etc etc. V v annoying.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Got sent to Moorfields today for torn retina. Amazing. From triage to back out on street, via laser surgery on retina, four hours. #NHS
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Lordy, loving catching up on the R3 Julie Andrews 90th birthday homage. Singing along, weeping every now and then. Fab.
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Oku ΘΔ @oku.mow.haus · 17/10/2025
Repost if you have more followers than the Official White House BlueSky Account
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Searching for an 8 letter capital city, I turn to Google … Such bollocks.
Screenshot of a Google AI search result, telling me there are no capital cities of 8 letters in length. Which is nonsense, there are loads of them.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
My onions looking pretty good. Show in two weeks. #onions
Five big onions. Looking good, I think. Kelsae variety. Grown specifically for a show on Bank Holiday Monday.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
28 days of no cigarettes, and my skirt seems to have shrunk. It’s rather tight now.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
3 weeks of not smoking. 3 weeks of almost non-stop vaping.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Day 17.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Day 14 of no cigs. Which means two weekends of temptation resisted.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
If a hornet drowns in your bottle of wine, is it okay to still drink it?
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
And therefore Day 10 of much vaping.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Day 10 of no cigs. 👀
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Have had to stay very busy as distraction.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Day 8. Surprisingly full of craving for proper cigarette, despite vape and lozenges.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Day 6. Much vaping. No smoking.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Day 5 no cigs, too much wine, lovely weather, chilli con carne in a mo, salad from garden. On the up and up.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Here we go. Day 5. I’d like to thank my vape for all its support in these trying times.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Day 4. No cigs. But not yet a non-smoker.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Nearly end of day 3. Still no fags.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Stopping smoking is a full-time bloody job.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Day 3, no smoking. Massive craving despite vape. Eek.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I am now a single-issue poster.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
No cigs today.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
36 hours with no cigarettes. Day 2 coming up. 😱
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
So it’s 24 hrs cigarette-free, I’m drunk because in desperation for stimulation turned to wine too early (won’t do that again), going to go to bed soon to escape, to read my book, v tired because trying to stop smoking after 45 years makes you knackered.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
And I still haven’t had a cigarette.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I have still not had a cigarette today.
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Miranda Arnold @mirandaa.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I have not had a cigarette today.
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Matt Round @mattround.com · 02/07/2025
It's not even 7:30am but this'll probably be the best web page I see today thick-coins.net
Screenshot:
The Mint
I have converted my garage into a mint. I am dedicated to producing enough thnickels for everyone in need of respect.
Photo showing man sat at a table with “Theo’s Thick Coin Mint” sign attached
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Christopher Hilton @chilton-bb.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Exploring some of the churches north of Ipswich today and called in at Crowfield, where Roy Hudd's gravestone is laid out like a theatre poster as a nod to his work as a historian of the music hall.
The gravestone of comedian Roy Hudd OBE (1936-2020), which is laid out like a theatre poster in a nod to Hudd's work as a historian of music hall.
The full text reads:

Roy Hudd OBE
Hudd's Here!
16 May 1936 Croydon | 15 Mar 2020 Crowfield
Historian of Music Hall
Author * Actor * Comedian
Brother * Husband * Father
Grandfather * Loved
"Well it made me laugh!"

"Hudd's Here" is a reference to Hudd's theatre show of the same name. Beside the scrolled banner carrying that title there is a little line-drawing of Hudd's round face.The gravestone of comedian Roy Hudd OBE (1936-2020), which is laid out like a theatre poster in a nod to Hudd's work as a historian of music hall.
The full text reads:

Roy Hudd OBE
Hudd's Here!
16 May 1936 Croydon | 15 Mar 2020 Crowfield
Historian of Music Hall
Author * Actor * Comedian
Brother * Husband * Father
Grandfather * Loved
"Well it made me laugh!"

"Hudd's Here" is a reference to Hudd's theatre show of the same name. Beside the scrolled banner carrying that title there is a little line-drawing of Hudd's round face.A small church, with a little spirelet over a bell-cote and a half-timbered chancel.
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