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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

LEADING TO: KING CRIMSON CRESCENT, PINK FLOYD PLACE, YES YARD AND JETHRO TULL TERRACE

An early morning scene showing a corner of a road and its junction. The road's name is Progressive Close.
Behind the road sign on the right is a white building and on the left a bush and another road. The top left quadrant is sky containing a few clouds and ndivided by an angled lamp post.

Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Haters put up many Union Flags when they were enthused by their Glorious Leader Farage to make visual statements pointed towards immigrants (or basically anyone who doesn't look like them). They really love their country... just not enough to put any effort into renewing the flags. Britain Today

A house with a dark grey tiled roof in the background.
Trees in the middle ground.
In the foreground a (street light) pole supporting a Union Flag. The flag is washed out and tattered.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I know she wouldn't approve with what I'm about to ask... but if there's a god why did he let the good one die and not deal with the massive orange shit at the top? It's a rhetorical question as I'm an atheist but the world quotient of 'good' has dropped, particularly as that fuck still lives.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Signs of the time. Welling, it seems, leans to the right but we always go left.

Image of a brick wall in background.
Middle distance contains a lamppost with a blue right pointing sign stating Welling and Welling station. Above the sign is a Union flag tied to the post. To the right is a traffic light on green. In the foreground are two overlapping signs: a blue with white arrows pointing left and a yellow diversion sign also pointing left.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

youtube.com/watch?v=S9tA... For future reference... The song I want played at my funeral. A wonderful song.

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Scattered Black and Whites - #elbowrooms

YouTube video by elbow

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Looking at the moon tonight. It's looking fabulous topped by Venus. I should be watching the England match really. They're playing Croatia who's flag is a crescent moon and star (a little ironically). England are 3-2 up at 53 minutes.

An image of dusk with a thumbnail moon topped by a star (Venus) at the top of the image and a black silhouette of buildings at the bottom.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Cute little drawing of a stick figure. On the corner of a recently bought Julie London "Julie Is Her Name" LP.

Drawing of a haloed stick figure below the word 'Wally'. It appears on the corner of a Julie London LP.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Thinking about my youth and family at that time (see ALT). Lazy Sunday. Bread making, plant repotting, some Jazz on vinyl, a little PS5. But it's Joni with breakfast and wondering what I'm making for dinner tonight. I might stretch my legs with a wander... I might not. I love Sundays.

A tinted black and white photo from the mid to late 60's of my family.
I'm the chap on the extreme left, my older sister is next to me. My mother wearing horn rimmed spectacle with my younger sister on her lap sits next to my older brother on the extreme right.
You will note that my older sister visited the same hairdresser... my mum.
My dad is absent (as he was through most of my childhood) due to his job as a petty officer in the Royal Navy.
I love this photo. I love the colouring, its physicality and smell... I had a very happy childhood.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Sound familiar? But in this case it was the utterances of Hermann Göring - the (politically powerful) lackey of Adolf Hitler. From Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany by Harald Jähner.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Sunday listening... Bought in Greenwich this week and a bargain at 7/6 or, to be more accurate, £10. Someone has starred the tracks with red biro at some point in its long life.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Loving this Sunday afternoon. Listening to a newly acquired double Jazz LP (see ALT). Cleaning discs, making two loaves of wholemeal bread and later goulash for myself, my partner, her daughter and her daughter's partner. Joy can arise out of the blue (despite the crap occurring elsewhere). Peace.

A view across the front room.
Table supporting record player playing Ben Webster & Joe Zawinul. Curtain on left frame. Freshly cleaned Simon and Garfunkel LP.
My partner's slippered feet (bottom left hand corner); she is doing some sowing (out of frame). Background: corner of room with shelves supporting odds and sods.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

A little Antifa Alliteration: A fountain full of five fascists.

A large round fountain containing the bodies of about 5 fascists. My efforts in the PS5 game Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Indiana Jones and I must be antifa. Nothing more satisfying than building a heap of fascists.

An image taken from my gameplay of 'Indiana Jones and the Great Circle' show a heap of dead/unconscious soldiers referred to in the game as 'fascists'. There are about 12 bodies in the pile.
They have been, unceremoniously, dumped in the corner of an ancient building of brown stone walls and sand coloured flagstone floor.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The harvest is in... Yes, one apple.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

On the DLR just outside of West Silver town looking out of the window... Buddleia, buddleia, buddleia, buddleia, buddleia, buddleia, Rosebay Willowherb, buddleia, buddleia, buddleia, buddleia, buddleia, buddleia, buddleia... Observed butterflies? Zero.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Though a man of science I do have a tendency to emotionally imbue inanimate objects with feelings of their own - a soul perhaps. I know it's complete and absolute nonsense but it does, occasionally, cause me a little mental dissonance. Here is a method of transferring the soul of the old to the new.

Two black pairs of slippers with one pair (new) placed inside the old pair.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Oh My God... there's been a terrible accident!

Stalks and stones of cherries on a wooden table are placed in such a way as to depict two human characters interacting.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/uk-news... So... F.A.D. is imminent. Hastings' Herring Gulls will be donning their serviettes and risking life and limb (foot and wing) as they get completely off their faces munching the annual treat from pavement and road. It's an edgy time for both bird and driver.

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What is Flying Ant Day, when does it happen, and how you can prepare

The winged insects are about to descend onto back gardens across the country

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

My Sempervivums are flowering and look no less alien than when the spikes occurred. Bizarre but beautiful.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

So... Tha A.P.D. (Anti-Parakeet Device) has been built and installed. I wait...

Built from disassembled coat hangers a squirrel resistant bird feeder with extra cage layer.
In the background is my back garden (orange/brown fence on the right, yellow/grey paving at the bottom and various greens, blues atop of sky and vegetation).

Disassembled wire coat hangers.
Twisted wire lengths, hooks and the rest of the coat hangers straightened all laying on a wooden table.

A bird feeder within a cage to deter my arch nemeses... Parakeets!
It didn't work as these birds have surprisingly extendable necks and we're able to reach the food.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Birdwatch: the immigrant species bringing a splash of bright green to Britain www.theguardian.com/environment/... A slightly annoying article (to me) in the Guardian. I'm anti-parakeeting a bird feeder to stop the buggers from mobbing it leaving squat for other birds (which is their greedy nature).

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Birdwatch: the immigrant species bringing a splash of bright green to Britain

Opinions vary on wild ring-necked parakeets but they have become a defining sight and sound of London’s birdlife

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Also... It's worth getting cyclamen if only for their alien looking seed pods.

Cyclamen seed pods encased by their strange spiral stems amongst multicoloured shingle.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I love my 'Love in a Mist' plants though they've gone a bit crazy this year because I lazily left them to seed last year (which they do all to readily). Beautiful all the same.

White 'Love in a Mist' flower. Blurred background of green, white and red-brick.

Blue 'Love in a Mist' flower. Blurred brick and foliage background.

Pink 'Love in a Mist' flower. Fronds of plant inan increasingly blurred background of foliage.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

This chap has been thrown thoughtlessly in a box and left at the back of a cupboard and forgotten. My personal depiction of hell.

Plastic, robot-like figure with dark grey arms and shoulders with cyan coloured face, sternum and stomach area. Rectangular eyes, mouth and specific areas on stomach are all bright red. The object has been put in a brown cardboard box with little thought and it is surrounded by other boxes and green objects. The wall behind is made of grey blocks.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Anarchist beetles in my back garden. Ladybird with an edge.

Black ladybird with 4 bright red spots on a green leaf on a dark green background.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

My partner just pulled this from the tumble dryer. She told me not to touch it as it will give me greater wisdom and understanding of the Universe... that I will, in fact, evolve further becoming an Ascendant.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

This day two years ago in Ortigia (off Syracuse).

A thick, wooden window frame completely filled with stones.
Above the frame is rusty guttering or trunking.
A robe crosses against the wall between the frame top and the trunking/guttering.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Just settling down with a nice cup of black tea and honey...

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Just spent some time actually deactivating my 'X' accounts rather than just uninstalling the app. I feel somehow cleaner. If you see this and have uninstalled the app but not actually deactivated the accounts do so... it's satisfying. I'm probably the only one who has gone about it this way.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I'm hoping the footage uploads but this is what happens when a little sun kisses my Crookes radiometer...

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

So... Parakeets... Three fat balls = 30 minutes.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Sunday morning used to mark Croissant Day and it was so for a couple of years. I had to confess to my partner that indigestion was the result of my consuming 3 large croissants (my choice). Now I make poached eggs on toast. We continue to listen to Joni. This morning is Hejira +.. Sunday is Joni Day

Poached egg on toast on a blue plate with a brown rim. The plate lays on a wood table. There is a steel knife and fork on the plate

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The weird feeling in the pit of my stomach was stimulated again when I re-noticed this ancient dog-scratched area on the kitchen door. Lottie, the culprit, died a few years ago. I've decorated most of the house but the kitchen will require an expert. The door may stay the same... a doggie memory.

A white painted surface scratched over a long period to reveal the previous paintwork of bright yellow.
The yellow/white combination causes, as was mentioned in an earlier post, a visceral feeling. Cause/reason unknown.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Looking from the drowny side of the Thames Barrier on the Woolwich ferry through Greenwich to the Isle of Dogs. Grey skies, grey river... lovely.

A grey railing in the foreground through and over which a grey River Thames can be seen. In the middle ground, protruding from the river, are regular stacks lit with red and green lights... this is the Thames Barrier. In the far ground are tall office blocks and sky-scrapers. All is seen beneath a heavy, grey-leaden sky.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Theres a playground next to where I work and next to the playground grows this tree. I'm wondering if a parent has misplaced a child or child a parent as the tree appears to have consumed someone.

Grey/taupe trunk of a tree. Smooth and skin-like. Knobbly protrusions and wrinkly surface.
(To me) it looks like there's something inside trying to get out.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Mildly disappointed that it's toast for breakfast again. Perhaps, tomorrow, I should make something different... though I'm pretty sure I won't.

A rectangular slate cutting board covered with breadcrumbs with two darker bread shaped patches (caused by condensation from recently toasted bread) bisecting the lower bread patch a line of crumbs where the toast was cut.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

"Yeah, it is a nice little vase..."

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Though at risk of anthropomorphizing this plant I would just like to say a big 'Thank You' to Christmas Tree 2024. You supported the decorations well and kept your shit (needles) together. XXX

A naked Christmas Tree post Christmas and undressed.

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Richard Bedwell @richardbedwell.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Not much to do at work the other day so doodles happened. This is one of them.

A square of ink with random pressings of finger tips creating overlapped fingerprints. The square is bordered by lines on three sides.

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