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Westmorland Wood

@ruraldad.bsky.social
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Once a RuralDad to boisterous, busy, Westmorland-Lancastrian PostKids, onto Camb, both now flown. PhD. Cat.

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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#Nigella ❤️ #BakeOff
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Week 3 La/le jog n’snaps no. 3. Week 3 coach to 5k 🥔 FINIS.
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🤔
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Couch🥔to5k. Week 1 FINISHED (4 runs). Wk 1 exer 3+ & carried on home. Never done this 3.3 miles, 5.3k in under 1 hour 1? min walking.
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
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Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
First ever Park Run 5km. First ‘jog’ since since school. Zero practice. Lol. Sub 40. 39min 54 sec at 62.75. 🙏
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Last day of six remarkable years
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Cool puss. Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun (& gnomes)
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The people have spoken. ‘what does the fox say?’
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Lisbon: 15 DR Congo fans and 20,000 Portuguese. “gooaaalllll”
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
yellow rattle now throughout the lawn 😊 however, snowdrops? in June 🧐
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Fields, fields, peasants, plague, hovels, pigs, disease … ❤️ 😮‍💨 … another year of Cont Edn signed up for: Medieval England - archaeology, ‘landscapes’, art.
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Why do cats befriend garden gnomes? and gnomes cats? Discuss
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Love emoji
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Old. Seeking every bit of the sun’s warmth (know the feeling)
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Carney & Brown. Happy
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Spring
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
@it-se.bsky.social @hbsj.bsky.social @paulineridley.bsky.social @jacpow.bsky.social @paulrk.bsky.social Michelle xxx. Monday elevenses
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Host Cafe. The City. St Mary’s Aldermary, rebuilt after the Great Fire of London. So so much in London; should ‘retire’ to country to put down roots; if had unlimited funds, London would never bore.
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Wondrous things. L’pool
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
1880 AHC watercolour vs 2026 Jan image. Had wondered if watercolour had faded. Perhaps not - larch trees. (The c19th Windermere 21 class yachts)
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
“The test of a great university is not whether it attracts those already trained to succeed, but whether it can recognise and cultivate potential wherever it exists”
theguardian.com
No, private schools aren’t victims of ‘reverse discrimination’ – and Cambridge should know better | Lee Elliot Major
Trinity Hall’s plan to target elite schools sends the message that privilege equals talent, when the reality is that poorer students are already on the back foot, says professor of social mobility at ...
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
A new dawn. The Wordle Gang have moved to BlueSky, where all is light, the air be fresh, and birds do tweet without an X. All be welcome, come and see, it would be dull and cloudy without thee. Wordle 1,666 5/6* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
going #underground
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Manze’s Pie Shop, Deptford High St a long way from fair Westmoreland for a #Manzes pie, mash & gravy. 12.45 already 😭 sold out; end of a century old London legend this January (GII listed - pie shop, not the pie). The days of jellied eel, whelks, pie & mash at their end 🙏 😮‍💨
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Twilight zone #ConistonOldMan #LakeDistrict
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Should morn bring snow? will all aglow. Cold crisp breath to gasp, no sound to pass, so quiet a peace, a new year feas’t.
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
blissfully unaware that ‘Mrs Doyle’, the mesmerising actress Pauline Mclynn (aged a tad & rather more, for her role in C4’s ‘Father Ted’) designs & knits tea cosies of equally utter style & humour, a Westmorland home is now transformed.
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
as the bells of Christmas ring out, wishing all a happy & peaceful festive season, and adventurous year ahead
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Polly put the kettle on
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
if the shoe fits
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
tallest spire in the British Isles. Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Salisbury:
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
gateway to a distant realm. time to pass ?
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Westmorland Wood @ruraldad.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
youngest’? English porcelain cat. Limehouse manufactory, East End London c1746. Big chap, blue & white. Somewhat vociferous.
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