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Sam

@samdeane.eurosky.social
769 followers 199 following 16.3K posts

I don’t do drama or tea and I don’t like cats - no, not even yours. I like France, colour, sun, podcasts, language, wit, cities, NYT games, #TheArchers, walking, baking, knitting, dogs, general snark. If I want your advice I’ll ask for it.

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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
We found love in a hopeless place * (* on Bluesky)
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
How it started… How it’s going…
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
Friends fear she’s once again been choosing knitwear based on highlighter pens
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
Age yourself with a childhood crush
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
(Roughly translated…)
(And in case you don't speak French...
You'll see. Everything will be OK. There will be love, laughs and life. There will be wind on your skin and in your open eyes. Comforting autumns and hugs. Confidence, your confidence and your serenity. In life, in beauty, in yourself.
Shivers and the sweetness of summer days. Whispered words late in the night. People you meet, by chance, who become indispensable. Overwhelming emotions. Your perseverance and your pride. Dreams, of springtime, of promises. Exchanged glances and precious silences.
There will be madnesses that leave a mark on you. Sparks.
Stars in the sky. Blue horizons. Books and friends. Liberty.
There will be a thousand faces, a thousand poems, a thousand places. Empty mornings and winter sunshine.
First times and legs like jelly. And then, you know, this feeling of freedom of being there, in your place, here and now. And your relieved face. Life in capital, luminous letters. Life, beautiful, big, unexpected, magic, tumultuous, incredible)
*translation errors mine entirely
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
Last year, fresh from having my heart puréed, I saw this card in a Bordeaux shop window and bought it, to remind me that however bad I felt, one day it would get better
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
At the Bassin des Lumières again. Never, ever disappointed
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
Breakfast filth
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
View from the other side of the river
A view across the river Garonne to the Les Chartrons district of Bordeaux. The river is wide and muddy but the beautiful limestone buildings gleam in October sunshine. There are a few high clouds in a blue sky
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
@robonabike.eurosky.social I’ve had a chocscident…
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
Enjoy this chain of French bakeries
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
The lycéens are out again
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
COME TO MAMA YOU BEAUTIFUL BASTARDS
I am reunited with a bag of Bret’s salt and vinegar crisps. I might have a little cry
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
At St Pancras…
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Got the last one of bakery’s Thursday croissant club batch. Today - blackcurrant cheesecake
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Erich Fried #NationalPoetryDay
Why, by Erich Fried

Not you for love's sake 
but 
love
for your sake 
(and also 
for mine)
Not because 
I must love 
but because 
I must 
love 
you
Perhaps
because I am 
as I am
but certainly 
because you are 
as you are
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
#NationalPoetryDay
Before I die, I want to be somebody's favorite hiding
place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.
Andrea Gibson
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Let me assure you, Apple - ain’t nobody needs this level of negativity in their lives
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
Out with two of my three ladybesties this evening. Now so tired I feel sick. BED
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026
Here I actually am at 20. Look how Laura Ashley I am (though I really did love those shoes which were, I think, from Next)
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026
Binged the latest series of Couples Therapy today, because 4 hours spent in Orna's company is never wasted
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026
Foiled again…
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
Hands up - which one of you is discredited or propagandist?
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
Oh come ON Spelling Bee - we all needed the laugh today
NYT Spelling Bee has all the letters to make the word ‘DICKHEAD’ but they won’t allow it, the joyless bastards
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026
Okay, that was quite a yomp. But what do yomps make, kids? CAKES
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026
Red sky at morning, it had better piss it down today or I will be furious
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026
Message to Mark Carney
A cartoon with the caption ‘never underestimate the seductive power of a decent vocabulary’
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026
I promise I don’t get my relationship guidance from Instagram but this one hit different. Good god, didn’t it just send me a goblin and a half before I got sorted with a massive upgrade…
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026
Reading mattress reviews, and this:
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026
This is on my souvenir tree, bought from Mauritshuis in The Hague
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 21/08/2026
Liberty, I bow to nobody in my adoration of you but on this particular issue, I invite you cordially to Fuck Right Off
An email arrives announcing that the Liberty Christmas Shop is open. It's 21 August FFS. I haven't even been on holiday yet this year
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026
The diet isn’t over, but it is suspended for a favourite London ritual
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026
I am a grown adult, honestly
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026
Their actual words:
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026
This chonky boi
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026
Scenes from today’s #DeliberateSixMiler (actually an accidental 6.6 miler but you know): today marks two months since the last recorded rain here
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026
"Monty, the CONVICTED SHEEP MURDERER" #TheArchers
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026
One for my fellow Paul Simon obsessives tonight
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026
I’m ready for the eclipse
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026
A six-miler this morning. Another dry but beautiful day in the neighbourhood
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 06/08/2026
N’night everyone
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026
Happy New Ted Lasso Day to all who celebrate
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026
I found a photo but have no idea what one this was!
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 27/07/2026
One for all the survivors. Here's to our summers
A meme of a blue sky with high clouds. Superimposed upon it is a quote from Albert Camus: "In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 19/07/2026
Stolen from Instagram because verily ‘slooty little ankles’ hath slain me and I am DECEASED
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 10/07/2026
Morning walk sky. Going to be another scorcher here
A blue morning sky with a very few high white wispy clouds
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 05/07/2026
Pray silence for the passing of another perfume superstar. But only 30 seconds because she was just a miniature
A now empty 10ml of Jardim Real eau de parfum by Granado. RIP, until I inevitably buy you in full-size
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 02/07/2026
If you see this, post your mentor
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 27/06/2026
I was in town and finally remembered to get a photo. Here’s Rosie and her commemoration as a Southampton hero
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Sam @samdeane.eurosky.social · 26/06/2026
Just a reminder - this should drop today. Perhaps the gods don’t hate us after all
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