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BBC One - Bump, Series 5 - Episode guide

Final series of Bump airs tomorrow and will be available on iPlayer. It's been some journey from that toilet cubicle. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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All episodes of Series 5

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Beatrice Romaine Bradford - married surname Brooks - had a quite extraordinary life, it reads like something out of a Bradford Taylor Bradford novel awaiting adaptation by ITVX.

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Ulla Stina Wikander, Swedish designer who uses household appliances and cooking tools as the base to her cross-stitched sculptures #womensart

Photo of an old typewriter covered in cross stitched material while remaining recognisable in shape, viewed from slightly above on a white surface

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#NowPlaying Bad Bunny - Debí Tirar Más Fotos (2025). @djpunctum.bsky.social was right, this really is a very good album.

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Keith Jarrett - The Art of Improvisation

Watched this last night, absolutely engrossing film featuring a very engaging Keith Jarrett. He's asked at one point what he got out of playing with Miles Davis, "I saw him happy," he replies. No longer on iPlayer so here's a YouTube link. youtu.be/_fB5YXgNX-w?...

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YouTube video by inthelawn

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Dean Windass: Former Hull and Bradford striker diagnosed with dementia

This is very sad news, Dean Windass is so relatively young. The phasing out of heading in youth football is the first step, earlier testing for professionals is a must, the Football Brain Health Fund needs serious funding from the sport. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Former Hull, Bradford and Middlesbrough striker Dean Windass is diagnosed with stage two dementia.

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Online restaurant reviews are as random (as our daughter would say) as Amazon reviews, except they never go as far as saying 'I had the cod and chips which I ate for a friend.' How can so many people eat at the same place at the same time and be at polar opposites?

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

How do you get a huge imbalance between following and followers numbers without ever having posted anything? I'm not a bear with a small brain but to borrow from Elton John, 'All this science I don't understand.'

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Grooming Scandal Latest: "He lured me in, promised me money and then abandoned me" Subscribe to Private Eye: subsonline.co.uk

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

One of those 'weekend away' articles suggests a B&B which charges £225 a night. I think at that price I would have to stay awake all night rolling back and forth across the sheets to feel I had got VFM. Having not had a holiday for a long time I appear to have lost touch with prices.

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Francesca Woodman (1958-1981), critically acclaimed US photographer known for her mysterious self portraits #womensart

Monochrome photograph of a woman crouching by a wall in a dilapidated interior, the subject holds one hand to her mouth the other to her chest, she wears a patterned or spotty dress, her hair is dark and tied back, she looks out to the viewer, the floor is wooden and strewn with small pieces of debris

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

'Oxford Circus Underground Station' (1905) by Maxwell Ashby Armfield (Government Art Collection)

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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

For those old ether heads who missed this last night. Also at 12mins, apropos, Peel plays the newly released Gris-Gris for the first time. It drops like a voodoo bomb and sounds like nothing else in the Underground.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Somebody referring to a punch up as a 'fray-kiss,' is my linguistic highlight of the week so far. Brouhaha doesn't allow much in the way of mispronunciation, on second thoughts...

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I have an old (well I'm old) book on West Ham that states with some pride that we had only five managers in our first 88 years. Our new appointment will be our sixth in 8 years and he has signed a contract for eighteen months. Nothing changes quicker than the job expectancy of a football manager.

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Rupert Soames defending Jess Phillips against Ketamine Karen wasn't on my 2025 bingo card. Well done sir.

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

#NowPlaying Ethel Cain - Perverts (2025). 'Perverts is seventy per cent white and brown noise, unsettling whispers and synth throbs,' according to one review, which puts it right up my street. Parts remind me of Jenny Hval, others of Du Blonde, but it's original, unsettling and rather wonderful.

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My god that must be a hot ladder.

Icy terraced street. A stepladder is placed where a car has been parked looking like it has melted the area around it.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

#NowPlaying Leyla McCalla - Sun Without The Heat (2024). When so much music seems to be trying too hard to reinvent the wheel here's an artist and band taking their roots and producing something new. Simply joyous and uplifting.

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I wrote about birds. Lists, robins, greylag geese, fireworks and Jimmy Carter. open.substack.com/pub/levparik...

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The Year of 100 Birds – Week 1

Lists | Robin | Greylag | Fireworks | Jimmy

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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Has anybody looked in on Greenland this morning, checked it hasn't left home.

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Getting a sense of "ah fuck it" from the Kiribatan Town Naming Committee

A map of the Kiribati island nation, showing place names London, Paris, Poland, and Banana.

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Mahogany Opera @mahoganyopera.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Mahogany Opera is thrilled to join the Bluesky community! We are new to the space, so feel free to say hello, recommend us to your friends, and share interesting content related to the world of opera and music theatre with us! #Newbie #SayHello #WelcomeToBluesky #JoinTheConversation #Opera

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

#NowPlaying Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive (2024). Alynda Segarra consistently produces good albums, I keep coming back to this one.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I have a neighbour who drives a manual but thinks it is an automatic. Will nobody think of the gearbox?

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

At 7.15 at Land's End we were attacked by the MG Owners Club.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

When it comes to football there's a right way to do things and there's the David Sullivan way.

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

‘A London Underground Platform’ by Fermin Rocker (1907-2004) (Private collection)

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 07/01/2025

Well, time once again to trot out the story of the guy in my school who got caught using some primitive translation software to cheat on his French homework after turning in 500 words discussing the rise of "Jean Marie Le-Stylo"

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Another feature on a television personality 'everybody is talking about,' who I have never heard of. The world has moved on to a new generation of streaming services and I have a record player with a 33/45 rpm switch.

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Corrinne F @traviata.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

It’s that time of year - I’m looking for gigs for Songdog again. New LP ‘Mirabilia Mundi’ out end of March (IMO the best thing we’ve done) & new lineup of Lyndon, Pod & Bethan cooking on full flame. Any interested promoters/agents/bookers please get in touch youtu.be/nxqH-l5qNqw

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“SO SENTIMENTAL” Live solo acoustic version (Dec 2024) performed by Lyndon Morgans (Songdog)

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

#NowPlaying Saya Gray - QWERTY II (2024). Seven track follow-up to the previous years EP 'QWERTY,' this is packed full of musical ideas and the lyrics sound less a stream of unconsciousness than its predecessor.

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In other football news I see Robbie Keane has been appointed manager of his favourite Hungarian side.

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Along with the LSO and BBC Symphony Orchestra we mark the centenary of French composer Pierre Boulez, born on 26 March 1925, presenting a collection of celebrations and commemorations across 2025.

100 years since the birth of the great man and if you live within reach of The Barbican it has a celebratory programme starting this week. BBC has some programmes lined up for March. www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/ser...

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BOULEZ 100 | Barbican

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I was given a 1,000 piece jigsaw for Christmas, I can't remember the last time I attempted one and consequently my time has been consumed by putting it together and I have developed puzzlers elbow, a condition requiring a small plaster. Six days in and I am a wimp.

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