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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This year's Xmas cards have arrived already - all the neighbours will be getting these this year.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Mahuchikh chilled approach to joining in the claps for Olyslagers is a level of enthusiasm I can get behind. #athletics

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

There seems to be a bit of noise about Werro's fall today in the 800m semi because the initial impression is that she tripped, but the video clearly shows Bourgoin's left hand swings down and knocks her right foot into the back of her left leg.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Watch the left hand and Werro's right foot.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Time for a temporary bed in the kitchen in this weather... #duvetKnowItsHeatwave

A folding floor mattress on the kitchen floor with a pillow & sheets.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

A genuinely dry cider is quite a rare thing these days. This is one such, and is well worth a slurp.

A recently emptied bottle of Sheppy's Kingston Black cider.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

A favourite seasonal treat in seconds (almost) - asparagus, watercress & feta. Just add olive oil & lemon juice.

An oval plate with steamed chunky asparagus, watercress leaves & feta cubes, covered in olive oil & lemon juice.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Now that the restoration work has finished in the Manor gardens just down the road, it's a lovely calming spot for a peaceful lunchtime stroll.

A spring scene of nlue sky, trees, ponds, and benches.

The same spring scene looking from higher up, towards the sun.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Checking in the #trees by the canal.

View across the canal, looking at narrow boats & a tree in pink blossom.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Who says there's nothing to celebrate in January? Cheers! #BurnsNight

A bottle of Laphroaig, a haggis (not yet cooked) and a mandrake carrot.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Coach and horses. Jeffrey Bernard's old boozer.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Wet walnuts - best treat of the season. Once I start I can't stop. They're like tiny fresh little autumn brains.

Wet walnuts in a brown paper bag, two of which are cracked open, revealing the tiny brains inside

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Stewart Lee, on in 5. My first night out in years

The back of a theatre with a mic stand on the stage.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

The bird bath is cracked and won't hold water, so I've put a bowl on the patio nearby. This pigeon has been looking at me expectantly for several minutes now. I don't think he's going to figure it out for a while... #birds

A pigeon sitting on an empty bird bath, ignoring the plastic water bowl on the patio less than a metre away.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Fivefingers again? They have been around a long time. This was me breaking the style barrier in 2010.

A person wearing a pair of Vibram Bikilas. Definitely not some weird leather option.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

@support.bsky.team Can we have an option to clear Chat notifications please? Without age verification, which I'm not doing, I can neither read the message nor turn off DMs, so the notification cannot be cleared.

A picture of the Bluesky chat option which shows a notification and the message that Age Assurance is required to access the chat screen.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Does everyone else in the UK have these little record cards? The old one shows I had the measles vaccine in 1971 so presumably enough for life, but it turns out I'm overdue for a couple of boosters - Hepatitis A and Diptheria/Tetanus/Polio, which I guess I should sort out at some point.

An old immunisation record card dating from the 1970s, and a more recent Vaccination Record booklet from the early 2000s.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

BBC have literally cut the listing for #Kneecap on the iPlayer West Holts feed. This is beyond pathetic. #Glastonbury

Screen shot of the iplayer feed for the BBC iPlayer West Holts stage. It goes straight from Bob Vylan at 1430 to Yussef Dayes at 1730.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

It's busy season on the sunflower heart feeder. This family of tits are back and forth all day. #birds

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Fortunately the old build-it-yourself Cooper's manual mower still does the job, more or less. Smart-scruffy is about as good as it gets here anyway. #gardening

Looking North at the corner of the garden, showing a tufty newly-mown lawn, with clematis & potato vine in bloom, some tidied shrubs and a smokebush coming to life.

Looking NE across the end of the garden, showing the flowers on potato vine in the foreground.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Caught the baby robin having a bath. #birds

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I always feel a greater keenness for #poetry at this time of year, and particularly at the moment for that of John F. Deane. Delicate rhythms, stark beauty and occasionally a sense of some fleeting & almost impossible grandeur just out of the corner of your eye.

Cover of John F. Deane's recent 'Selected & New Poems'.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Drive *around* the roundabout?? Who's got time for that!?

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I took a screenshot of this because I knew in advance it would lead to a block. The press in this country will happily chat & joke with far-right Tories & Reform all day long as long as they make it 'polite' but will take huge offence when the left point out the damage it does.

UK journalist 'Jim Pickard' asking for more right-leaning folk on Bluesky to "liven the place up". My reply: "No surprise to hear the UK press saying this - the same people who've been forcing Farage & co down our throats & normalising the far-right for years in the name of viewers & clicks."

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Caught the robin having a bath today. Spideog: small chubby masterpiece, to quote John F. Deane. He's a bit of a tyrant this one, always trying to scare the other birds off the feeder, although they do seem to get their turn eventually. #birds

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

We had snow, but it's melting already. This was at 2am, when it more or less peaked.

A street at night covered in pristine snow.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Pick a selfie from your gallery and make it black & white

Selfie of a bespectacled, bearded fellow.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Help me out here please bsky - what is this name? Looks like Erykala, but there's no search results for that, which is a bit odd.

A handwritten name that looks like 'Erykala' to me.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Has anyone had success with gardenia on a windowsill? This one is already turning brown-leaved and sad. #gardening

A small gardenia plant in a pot on a windowsill.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Post a picture YOU took. No description.

A very green May scene in the village by the duck pond, under a bright blue sky.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Time for the best Xmas movie of all - which is, of course, In Bruges.

Brendan Gleeson & Colin Farrell drinking beer in Bruges.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

12 years ago I was here in NY watching the results. Feels like a forgotten era of innocence.

A tall building in NY which is used to convey the US election results by the means of some kind of mobile window cleaning boxes.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Follow me, I look like this:

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

If only there was a ready-made solution from history

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Today is Patrick Kavanagh's birthday. Fun fact - the song 'Raglan Road' made famous by the Dubliners (and others) is a Kavanagh poem put to the tune of Fáinne Gael an Lae.

Cover of Patrick Kavanagh's Collected Poems.

On Raglan Road from the collected poems.

On Raglan Road on an autumn day I met her first and knew
That her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue;
I saw the danger, yet I walked along the enchanted way,
And I said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day.

On Grafton Street in November we tripped lightly along the ledge
Of the deep ravine where can be seen the worth of passion's pledge,
Synthetic sighs and fish-dim eyes, and all death’s loud display-
O I loved too much and by such and such is happiness thrown away.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

I've been meaning to try out the new video feature for a while, so here goes. Some first person action to enjoy.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Reminds me a bit of the mobilitywod "gemini" t-spine massager that I have - it has raised some eyebrows in the past. (It's intended as a step-up from the old 'two tennis balls in a sock' massager).

Picture of a blue t-spine massager with two curved sections pointing away from each other & a gap in between.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Repost with something you own that most people don’t. The 20-volume OED in a huge, 'compact' 9-pages-to-a-page edition. Just about readable with light & good reading vision, but also comes with a magnifying glass. I still use it regularly.

The Oxford English Dictionary compact edition, showing 18 pages over a 2 page spread.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

reskeet with a tweet you still think about

Tweet by user @blainecapatch from 2020 (original story was that someone had played 'In the Air Tonight' to some teenagers for the first time). It reads: "i played Sussudio to some teens and they beat the shit out of me"

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

How old are you in Internet years without telling your age? My favourite rebuke to today's proliferation of buggy bloatware - 1K ZX Chess. A working chess program (with a few limitations) in 672 bytes of code. www.chessprogramming.org/1K_ZX_Chess

Screenshot of ZX Chess, with ASCII characters to represent the pieces.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

Self-inflicted high jinx today - locked myself out with the keys *in* the lock. Drove to my Mum's & filled up a shoe box with a load of my Dad's old tools & bits & bobs. Coat hanger thru the letterbox not stiff enough, but eventually got the keys out with this custom tool. Maybe I should patent it!

A bit of runner from an old drawer lashed up with wire to a short pointed piece (to slide through the key-ring) and another u-shaped tool of unknown name.

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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Took my mother to Anglesey Abbey this week. Definitely a day for brollies & coats, but the gardens are well worth a gander, particularly this #dahlia fest. There's also one of the 5 (relatively) famous shields of Achilles.

Close up of some bright red dahlias. I didn't record any of the names!

Shield of Achilles hanging in the house.

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