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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 6h

Putin sells some oil, Trump’s ceasefire idea immediately goes up in flames and the US gets humiliated - again. Trump looks weaker by the day and Putin will exploit it

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 15h

Britain couldn’t go to sleep without a milky drink back then. Ovaltine, Horlicks, cocoa were almost medicinal. Perhaps that’s what the anxious 21st century needs, to calm our nerves and avoid night starvation

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Nothing like walking down the foreshore of the Thames at low tide and realising that it’s all old bits of London history underfoot. Bricks, oyster shells, pottery, glass, tiles and clay pipes.

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Go to pottery class and make your own. Here’s one I made earlier. Not sure if it’s a leg or a boot but it holds plenty of beer

A smoke fired stoneware rhyton (drinking vessel) in the shape of a leg and foot, made by yours truly

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Umbrella by Goya, which I have loved from childhood. We had placemats with famous paintings on them so I saw it daily. I would do as I did then: admire the graceful figures and wonder ‘Why the dull blank wall on the left? What’s behind it?’

A well dressed lady sits on the ground with her pet dog in her lap. A young servant shields her face from the sun with a green umbrella. Behind them to their right the are trees and clouds. On the left a blank grey wall

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oh Alan you landed yourself in the soup there #TheArchers

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Publicly coveting the Peace Prize should result in immediate disqualification. Can that be added to the Nobel guidelines?

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Being animals is nothing to do with it.Gromit cannot speak for the same reason as Sooty: they don’t have mouths

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hang on a minute. You never hear Sooty speak because he doesn’t have a mouth??

Sooty of the greatest ever children’s tv show reveals Matthew Corbett was just “making it all up”

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They keep bringing up Labour in the 1970s which might as well be ‘the days of yore’ to voters these days; while Conservative rule is still fresh in the memory and far from fragrant

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

How can ICE thugs live with themselves?

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Great portraits, with the rolling seas and sailing ship as backdrop Those three lads with cigarettes look like they just arrived from the quayside in their dirty work boots

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Lord Snooty vs Bash Street vibes 😁

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Can’t wait to get started on my latest needlepoint design which will be a 49cm square cushion - my biggest yet. It’s features one of my noisy London neighbours: a green parakeet. Hope I can do it justice #stitchsky #craftsky #needlepoint

Outline drawing of a parakeet and foliage ready to trace onto canvas, with green blue and orange yarns

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That’s assault. Completely unnecessary violence against a man who was just shouting. He wasn’t struggling or resisting them.

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Slightly apprehensive about this episode as they wrote ear worms that could keep me awake at night

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Podcasts ahoy! Britain’s Strangest Terrorists in production right now!

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The mind of the President revealed in one sentence. Silly, pompous and making chaos out of order

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I can’t read the article- does it back up the headline? Or is it just the Telegraph having a fit of the vapours?

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Latvian authorities say there’s been deliberate damage to surveillance cables and equipment along the Latvia-Belarus border. Border Guard chief Guntis Pujāts called it a targeted action to disrupt border surveillance.

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I BEG YOU please check out The Hebridean Baker: Faroe Islands on BBC iplayer. It is one of the great food shows. In stunning scenery he bravely tries out some of the least appealing food ever seen on tv. Incredible stuff 🤢 Boiled fulmar anyone?

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The face that launched a thousand* shits *final figure tbc

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Are military buildings except from city planning rules or something? So he can get this wretched carbuncle built, unopposed?

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Eight hours would be amazing. Can’t stay asleep atm so 3am is the start of the day for me and frankly, it’s rubbish.

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s wonderful to discover a writer who can make you snort with laughter - Barbara Pym is definitely on my list.

Miss Doggett and Lady Beddoes discuss widowhood at the garden party in Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Not only the US - this is going to be a global crisis

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“It was a bad question and he had a right to defend himself” will be the excuse when he does it.

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Also heavy chap on right has distinctive leg tattoos so had to cover up. Bet he’s sweating in there

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Kid with the white cap didn’t get the memo

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The RNLI exemplifies British values. They absolutely deserve support - I have donated. Hope you will too

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Time to donate to the RNLI again folks

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Christopher Harborne - the Reform mega donor who gave Farage £5m - is suing ex-Reform deputy leader, Ben Habib. The particulars of claim have now been published. And we need to talk about them. 1/

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Maybe he was making his face brown and just stuck his whole head in the bucket

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

To begin liking something you have previously detested for 50 years, is disturbing wtf #tunawithsweetcorn

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If a march has been prearranged and given permission by the police, you can be arrested for wearing a mask. But if no permission was given, at an impromptu event - which this certainly was not - being masked is not an offence 🤷‍♀️

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In the recordings his aides say they were struggling to find donors willing to contribute. Of course a new source of cash would have got Farage’s attention

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Climate protesters close a road and there’s arrests. Close a port and they get escorted to the railway station?

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nadine has this lemming-like urge to throw herself in front of an oncoming camera in order to defend a leader - usually ill prepared and always over confident 🫣

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Nadine Dorries Hair Flick

Alt: Nadine Dorries Hair Flick

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

OMG Laila Cunningham comes across badly in interview - stilted, sulky, defensive, rude. It wasn’t a tough set of questions, considering the headlines, but not one good answer from her #BBCR4PM #Reform

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Outstanding work by #Channel4news tonight to expose criminal behaviour at the very top of #Reform Great to see proper investigative journalism on tv

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sometimes you pick up a discarded book and it feels like time travel. It’s 1957, you’re an Oxbridge student on a 32,000 mile expedition. You are the cook and a) nobody will eat food cooked in olive oil and b) you don’t know how to cook rice 🤨

Map of journey showing overland route from London to Singapore (and back)

How long and will it be worth the attempt to convert and expedition to Greek olive oil, which to say the least has plenty of body in it? The answer to this one is Definitely no

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Penny Briers @pocketdisco.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Damn, forget swanky supercars. If you want to be the envy of every man in town, this is the vehicle

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