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A Rachel for all seasons (she/her) @nerak3l.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Watching this week’s Only Connect and desperate to know where @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social got the lovely green white leafy patterned shirt dress she’s wearing (being aware the answer may be ‘ask the Production team’)

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A Rachel for all seasons (she/her) @nerak3l.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Statement no longer on their website but screenshot from elsewhere on Bsky shows most of it:

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A Rachel for all seasons (she/her) @nerak3l.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

Went to the Museum of Civilisations of the Mediterranean (MUCEM) , which is great, if less extensive than I’d hoped). Key points - 1. Stunning building and location 2. Great aircon (crucial for over 30 degrees, ugh) 3. Admirable approach (we are all people of the Med vs we are French, Algerian etc).

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A Rachel for all seasons (she/her) @nerak3l.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026

In France with @salvey1.bsky.social and enjoying the SNCF jingle today on @bouledenerfs.bsky.social’s behalf

The grand frontage of the Gare du Nord in Paris and its weird red scribbly bull statue with wings outside it

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A Rachel for all seasons (she/her) @nerak3l.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

Anyway I need to go and hide in a fridge for a bit

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A Rachel for all seasons (she/her) @nerak3l.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026

Not one I’ve listened to before but really enjoyed this pair of episodes of this podcast - not just because George Fouracres is wonderful (he is) but because of the deep thoughtful conversation - around mental health, family, fame, social class. Quite like Adam Buxton’s at its best, I’d say.

Walking The Dog podcast with Emily Dean, episode with George Fouracres (Part Two)

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A Rachel for all seasons (she/her) @nerak3l.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026

Me seeing that he’s re-opening Tea Discourse

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A Rachel for all seasons (she/her) @nerak3l.eurosky.social · 13/07/2026

May I once again commend this occasional six-part radio series to everyone? One of the finest things on BBC Radio (which is obviously saying something). A journalist goes to a different randomly-generated postcode area each episode and finds a local story by speaking to someone. Always fascinating.

Screenshot of the BBC radio app BBC Sounds, playing an episode of the programme called The Patch. The episode is entitled North Oxford. The cover photo of the programme is the UK in green material stitched onto a denim ‘sea’ background as a patch.

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A Rachel for all seasons (she/her) @nerak3l.eurosky.social · 13/07/2026

So this is a fantastic book btw and will appropriately radicalise people about birth and childcare etc

A book called Matrescence: On the metamorphosis of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood by Lucy Jones.

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A Rachel for all seasons (she/her) @nerak3l.eurosky.social · 22/06/2026

Exactly this. We need to get over ourselves about what class and job roles today really mean - Labour especially does!

In somewhat different ways, they desperately want a movement of big, burly steelworkers and rugged coalminers. But there are more manicurists than miners in the UK by a 2:1 margin. Their image of the working class is an aesthetic, often an entirely imagined one, unconnected from the reality of life for most working people.

The actual centre-left coalition is bartenders, supermarket shelve stackers, and waitresses. People who live in a big city in a small rental with roommates. Nurses, teachers, office staff. Young aspirational couples in the suburbs. Students and recent grads. Progressive professionals and, yes, academics.

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A Rachel for all seasons (she/her) @nerak3l.eurosky.social · 04/06/2026

Ok yeah that’ll own the non-libs and give a constructive response to the impression of people who already don’t like you. Which you don’t have to do I suppose but is this that classy, really? (To be clear I am in general a woke Greenbelty type! But this I just find tiresome)

Greenbelt Festival are releasing t-shirts with the phrase (coined by one of their haters or critics, apparently) “utter woke nonsense” on the front. ‘You spoke and we listened’ apparently.

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A Rachel for all seasons (she/her) @nerak3l.eurosky.social · 24/05/2026

Two possible captions here: 1) the joy of multiculturalism 2) Off to start a food discourse with Americans on Blue Sky dot com

A food cabinet in a cafe showing some Chicken Tikka and Onion Bhaji Yorkshire Pudding rolls

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