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Rob McManus

@rfpmcmanus.bsky.social
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One should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of ones life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Orwell had the last word on this
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Statue of Our Lady & Joe Bugner, Valladolid
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
India wants a word …
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If it’s a crisp flavour that’s good enough for me
Packet of Brets La Bretonne crisps - butter flavour
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“I think we should go with the IronBru”. “No, let’s save that for the closing ceremony- I’ve got a better idea” #glasgow #commonwealth
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Must be saving the Iron Bru for the closing ceremony
A giant tunnocks tea cake bringing the commonwealth games opening ceremony to a close
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Not quite Ken Aston 1962 territory but not far off
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Techy Thump surely?
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
‘That little springtime’. Mass at Taizé for the first time in many years: the Community still has the ability to cut through the noise of life and show a path to a simpler, better way #taize #sunday
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The products (but not the tax advantage) sort of exist already
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Did somebody say Hydration Break? #scomar #worldcup
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Did someone say 'Hydration Break'? #WorldCup #ENGCRO
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
More fitting to use the first Englishman to lose in a shoot-out
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Stourhead last Monday - can’t look at this photo and not feel a little calmer
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Lovely bit of “Romanes eunt domus”: hope the wine is better than the grammar…
Text reads “Memoro Italia, Latin for Remember Italy”: it isn’t.
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The latter is John Curtice’s analysis
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This gem from Wikipedia
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATER
A statue of Cybele also known as Magna Mater
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Finally it is about witches! @catneilan.bsky.social @andrewhunterm.bsky.social
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I’ve watched women’s football at Wembley, Old Trafford, The Etihad and Arsenal (among others) but nothing compares to the 20-odd fans of the Curva Inter Women at the Arena Civica yesterday - non-stop singing, fabulous atmosphere! #calcio #internazionale #football
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Cut-price bargain for any occasion - ideal for the Poulenc-er in your life #opera #glyndebourne #whatweretheythinking
A 'Dialogues des Carmelites' greetings card from Glyndebourne featuring nuns being led to the guillotiine. Inexplicably available at less then half price
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
At Japan House London yesterday for wonderful exhibition of ceramics, lacquer and more. Free but recommend booking www.japanhouselondon.uk/whats-on/hya...
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Always an important attitude for a solicitor
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Adriano must’ve been double booked
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Depressingly big…
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Boringly it looks like it’s flats www.holwood-estate.co.uk/development.asp
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Memories of ‘56
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
And hedgehogs
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Only one letter away…
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
This one on a bog standard semi overlooking Port Meadow in Wolvercote is channelling pure ‘90s municipal leisure centre
A standard semi detached house in Wolvercote with an extraordinarily ugly extension
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
If they're interested in Christianity perhaps they could start with this teaching:
Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.  For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,  I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Is that thing still bugging him?
Bald eagle attacking Donald Trump
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Can’t imagine there are many MPs with this on their CV
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Starlings doing their starling thing this weekend at @rspb.bsky.social Otmoor
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Hot milk is the key (however you mash it - my instrument of choice is a precision engineered german Kartoffelstampfer)
An overengineered but excellent German-brand potato masher
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I’m British. You don’t need to explain BBC behaviour to me using ill-informed US sources. It screwed up, then did what it always did. Try reading David Allen Green (who knows what he’s talking about) on the matter
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
here you go
Cover of The Cow who Fell in the Canal showing a cow floating down the canal on a raft
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Reminds me of this from George Orwell
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Stopped the night in Aachen recently en route to a funeral in Cologne. Had always wanted to see Cathedral but knew it wouldn't be open early enough. As we walked past we noticed that the door was ajar. We went in: an elderly gent beckoned us into the chapel and gave us a quick tour. #visitaachen
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Could’ve been worse
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This guy's got form
Tom Cruise in Top Gun laughing and pumping his fist
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Share your favourite black and white movie
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
new party logo just dropped
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
World-beating more like
Bunny sign on M40 Motorway just before junction with M42
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Walking up to Gibson Mill & Hardcastle Crags - reet lovely #yorkshire #godsowncountry
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Similar substance intake
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The festival site has quite a pedigree though...
List of events at the Matterley Estate near Winchester from WW2 to dance music festivals more recently
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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
only one thing for it...
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