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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 19h

[tractor/lorry passes, carrying hay bales] Me, pointing: Hey!!!

Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 28/09/2026

Some really interesting replies/quotes (I'd pick Harry Lime or Steerpike out of those mentioned.) But my top choice would be the truck in 'Duel'. Which I've never got over since I saw the film as a kid

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 28/09/2026

Thank you. Also, I'm sure I saw somewhere on here that you had a spare room..?

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 28/09/2026

Wrapping up my wife's birthday present and honestly this is set to rekindle our marriage.

A big box adorned with a massive red love heart. Inside is a cordless lawnmower.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 24/09/2026

'he literally was at school with Sauron!'

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 24/09/2026

Nonono... I have told YOU now, so you are able to do the 'I knew a bloke from the internet, whose dad...' and actually thinking about it you should now tell your milkman/the guy in the corner shop

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 24/09/2026

Taken a step back from life to care for my dad, and it kills me that he can't remember his own amazing Tolkien story from the 1950s: being an office junior at Allen & Unwin when the first LOTR proofs came in, and poring over them with his colleagues in sheer wonder. What a moment, to see that first.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 23/09/2026

A Lord of the Rings cover band called McFly, You Fools

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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 20/09/2026

Anyone else staying up for the Russian election results? Gonna be a real nailbiter.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 18/09/2026

Going to upgrade all my tartan, to pay my respects.

A shop sign solemnly advertising Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Tartan

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Half-expecting government to announce VAT cut on balaclavas to help with cost of living.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 06/09/2026

Watching Bouchier and Dunkley run between the wickets is one of the most hair-raising things in cricket.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 03/09/2026

Brewing a delicious cuppa on the middle lane of the A11. This is the life. Loads of cheerfully envious overtaking motorists waving at me.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 02/09/2026

...all four of them, on the extension lead...

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 02/09/2026

I've bought an electric car and I'm just stupidly, stupidly excited to discover that you can plug a kettle in the back

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 02/09/2026

Been genuinely happy to see Tilly Kesteven's emergence as a pro as it takes me back to her absolutely marmalising my daughter's bowling in a uni game, and us laughing manically all the way home cos it was such a mismatch.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 02/09/2026

doctor: i’ve looked at your scans and i’m afraid it’s dancer me: you mean cancer? [from the roof we hear hoofsteps and jingling]

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

[spelling bee] JUDGE: your word is "redacted" KID: ████████ JUDGE: correct

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 29/08/2026

Sat in a pavilion watching the rain

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 26/08/2026

Bet I'd STILL get no reception

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 26/08/2026

Guys, maybe make some time this evening to check up on your beloved celebrity neighbours

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 25/08/2026

It really was a lovely place.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 25/08/2026

Some terrific Dolly Parton stories being shared. I don't have one, but taking my family to Dollywood was a brilliant experience. Would heartily recommend.

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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️

Sheep grazing in fields, the one in the foreground with white smoke apparently coming out of its bottom

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Musicians' Union (MU) @wearethemu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Why does BBC Radio matter? 📻 Radio plays generate royalties for musicians, including non-featured artists through equitable remuneration Funding BBC Radio is one way to ensure musicians get paid for their labour ✊ Agree? 🔁 Repost to help spread the word 🔗 theMU.org/ProtectOurBBC #ProtectOurBBC

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 19/08/2026

Being swamped with scam robo-calls this morning. There's a little job for Andy Burnham.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 17/08/2026

I think it was Sean Lock in his early stand up who used the line 'give him a parking ticket and he thinks he's Nelson Mandela'

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Jason @nickmotown.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Talking yesterday about odd times people got angry with you online. When Right Said Fredder, conspiracy theorist and COVID denier Richard Fairbrass got hospitalised with COVID, I said “He had to wait 16 weeks for his bed because Bryan Adams was in it” and his brother threatened to “fuck me up” (1/2)

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 16/08/2026

That would be massively funny

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 16/08/2026

I hate those types of people who are perpetually outraged and gleefully look out for stuff to feed that, but the fireworks really do come across as utterly tone deaf

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 15/08/2026

Keeping track of the Sandringham derby online. My son appears to have bowled well. Disappointing that the Play Cricket wagon wheel doesn't include the big tree inside the boundary.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 15/08/2026

I really like how all the athletes all seem to get on and be nice to each other, though

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 15/08/2026

Enjoying the athletics but a bit baffled by the throwing events. Got these incredibly fine tolerences for where to hurl it from, but basically it hits the ground then some bloke wanders over with a marker post and says 'yeah, about there'

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 15/08/2026

Even as I was typing that I was thinking: hang on...

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 15/08/2026

This reminds me of the story of the man in solitary confinement who kept sane by envisaging Leonard Cohen singing to him. (I say this from within the small Venn intersection of banjo playing Cohen fans)

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 14/08/2026

Poor response, demonstrating why I'd never make it in the clickbait industry.

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Jules @jules111985.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Poorly timed notification from the range there 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 14/08/2026

That alert was both alarming and disappointing. I thought somebody had RTed one of my posts.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 14/08/2026

"Oh good, there's a modern and seemingly well thought through digital process, I can just file all these papers away, unlikely to need them again HAHAHA" Wishing you best of luck and, for all the frustrations, so glad I did lay the groundwork back then.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 14/08/2026

Listening to Betjeman's Banana Blush at the bedside of my very, very old and poorly dad, and I'm in bits. What an utterly magnificent record.

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 14/08/2026

Going through all this at the moment, and deep empathy. Biggest learning for me was how some organisations are surprisingly great at dealing with it and others... less so. ("Look, the other lot lets me bank with the app, which means I can sit with him and go through things on my phone..." etc)

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Alex Marsh @privatesecretdiary.com · 14/08/2026

It's going over old ground of course, but trudging around in the field for two days is *difficult* and there is literally no reason you wouldn't want your opponents to... *Shrugs helplessly*

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