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Polly K

@pollyka.bsky.social
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🎶🎶Retired Principal and Primary school teacher. Enjoying being busy, doing the things I love. A bit of volunteering, singing, reading, a mum, wife, sister, daughter.💟

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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Just home from a fantastic day in Belfast singing with @johnrutter.bsky.social .
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
😭
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Martina Devlin @martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Plenty of Bronte chat with biographer Claire Harman (right) at Seamus Heaney HomePlace. Great readings including from Jane Eyre from actor Ruby Campbell (left).
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This was a wonderful event Martina and congratulations on "Charlotte", I've just finished it.
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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
As you probably heard, Amazon is coming for Ireland. It’ll come for our small shops, it’ll come for our department stores, and it’ll come for our media, our journalism, and our democracy.
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Frankly it's looking less like that every day from an outsiders POV.
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
In milk, butter, cheese and yogurt then also?
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
You were safe enough with "holy" Steve
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
As a teacher just going about my daily work that day, the sadness and shock hit hard with my colleagues and I. Schools were never the same again after that as everyone reflected on protection and the vulnerability of the children in our care and ourselves. Thinking of all of those innocents today.
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
...at your peril 😆
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I believe we is correct
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Have you heard of dropped scones @nigella.bsky.social ? Smallish fluffy pancakes. A thicker batter and just as lovely with the usual toppings. All the rage in our house back in the day.
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Martha Rich Art Projects @martharichart.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!
A poster for the economic blackout on February 28. It is a big red Jack rabbit on an aqua blue back ground. It says economic blackout in hand done black type. There are two black speech bubbles. One says “don’t buy stuff Friday February 28th. The other says we have power. Below it says No Amazon, Walmart, target, gas food, gas. Below that it says OK small business, use cash. Designed by Martha Rich.
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The Irish News @irishnews.com · 16/02/2025
During her political awakening in the early 1970s, Bríd Rodgers wrote to John Hume asking what he was doing about widespread discrimination against Catholics in Lurgan, Co Armagh. The response was short and to the point: “Dear Bríd, what are YOU doing about it?” www.irishnews.com/news/politic...
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Bríd Rodgers at 90: On her personal journey and political transformation
The Donegal-born former Stormont minister reflects on her political career and the transformation of Northern Ireland society
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Belfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 15/02/2025
Ahead of her 90th birthday, former SDLP deputy leader Bríd Rodgers chats to Suzanne Breen about her political career, death threats during the Troubles, sexism in her party, and why she believes Irish unity is inevitable
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Bríd Rodgers: ‘I suppose we should be flattered that Sinn Fein is wearing our clothes, but I can’t forget how viciously we were attacked’
Some say Bríd Rodgers is the best leader the SDLP never had. For decades, she operated in the shadow of the party’s big beasts. Even now, when they are gone and she is still very much here, she doesn’...
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Hatefilled leadership
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Not loom bands?
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Aww love it. I was teaching in Derry and no access to rushes in my early years as a teacher back in the 90s. Art straws came into their own 🤣
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
What a perfect first post @themasu.bsky.social 🕺🕺
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
That would have been a lovely event but I'm looking forward to going to seeing you at the @shhomeplace.bsky.social centre later on in the year Martina. 😊
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Give some of it to your class teachers? No doubt they're ordering it on their requisition.
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
This is beautiful 👏👏👏
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Difficult to argue against the phonics used here 🥰
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
🤣🤣🤣 I get that 🫣☺️
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Those stick men are full of movement and personality 😊
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
All the best Helen x
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Exactly Helen. Us last week coming back from Nantes. Priority standing out in the cold for a good half hour
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
That's a Christmas tradition in our house 😉
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Delicate
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
One of my most favourite stories and characters. Wonderful
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
So clever.
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I've just had the most enjoyable evening at Garvaghy at the launch there. Looking forward to reading this beautiful book.
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Have a blast Helen. 🥂
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Och 😍
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Ham and Scones
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I wonder who they're selling on behalf of?
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
@britishbakeoff.bsky.social the 24 scones was an ideal Signature challenge for the final. Difficult to perfect.
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I sent a personal message through to you on this just there @martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
My rhododendron and camelia are both budding. I'm in Northern Ireland. Too early
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
🤣😂
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Awww no it's just for me but thankyou for the thought.
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Yes all good
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I'm very familiar with the Black Box Martina, I will arrange a shopping day from Omagh and call in 😊
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Just back from Wicked in Omagh. We were all able to enjoy listening to it in peace, full of teenagers and theatre kids. Lots of respect and good manners.
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
@martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social are you doing any signings in Belfast , Derry or anywhere else in the north?
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Not just Dublin. I live in Omagh and had a 9.00am appointment in the Royal in Belfast. Trains were all off so M1 was crazy. Left at 6.30am and got in to my appointment for 8.55am. Crazy
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
All the best Helen. This is an anxious time but hopefully everything will be fine.
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
🤣
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