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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I’m the subject of a @mrjamesob.bsky.social legendary ‘hook and tease’ ™️🫣 Is this better than the Ray Liotta? It could be?!

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Planning to be in the fantastic medieval Painted Room at The Commandery, Worcester this weekend doing book signings.

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Spent all afternoon wondering if Will, son of John, the winner of the Ray Liotta on @mrjamesob.bsky.social Mystery Hour today is a relative. I mean he must be from the same Langley stock as we all descend from it I’m sure. From now on, only Langley’s to win a Ray Liotta. New rule, ok?

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

My new book is out! Published by Pen & Sword, available in the usual places. @penandswordbooks.bsky.social www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Life-and... #nonfiction #bookrelease #newbook #thisweeksbooks #medieval #knight #familyhistory #warwick #coventry

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

finally well enough to return to social media, and I discovered I’d never finished my wedding video from 2024! #adhdproblems please do give @nerdofhappiness #youtube a like if you want biennial videos! content is educational, rather than commemorative. youtu.be/kRGL_pSbUgY?...

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What happens at a Medieval Wedding? We got married so we could show you!

YouTube video by Nerd of Happiness

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Not well at the moment. My baby girl sent a daisy up to me with her big sister. She’s not one for sentimental gestures usually.

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Massive thanks @mrjamesob.bsky.social for talking about ‘A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court’ this morning! I’ve been trying to remember the name of this film for a while now -and now, I am watching the Michael York version, so very happy.I’m sure it’s why I’m like I am. I loved it as a kid.

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Been off @bsky.app whilst i finished my book. It’s turned political. Where have the cats and books gone? Why did you bring the outside into this beautiful sacred place. We know it’s bad. That’s why we are here. We know what they are doing. This was the haven from it

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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Works for me.

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

What about putting a trans female into the toilets where all these predators are? Is that safer? Or does she somehow deserve or ask for trouble? How about trans men, where do they go? Does he know they exist as well or are they ok? How about we let people use bathrooms in peace? Same with disabled.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 23/11/2024

Let's review another youtube video by The Infographics Show, yes that lot again... they have 14 million subscribers. This one is called: How Did Bubonic Plague (Black Death) Actually End? It was seen by almost 5 million people... Can you see the first error already?

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I did six references into my end notes today before I broke and had to come back to bed, but I did remember to email myself my work AND had a really lovely conversation with @turiking.bsky.social about a box of bones. All with Astra sat on my knee eating a dippy egg.

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Xmas has started: 5 year old doesn’t believe in Santa, wants ‘peace and quiet’ off him for Xmas & the Nativity story is ‘so funny. Babies don’t want sheep presents’. My eldest refused to believe as he ‘never published his success criteria’, and has to smell the decorations before they go up.

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This is what home education looks like here: 1) many trips to wales, to collect rocks and to visit castles. 2) Big one comes with me to exciting things as they’re my carer and so is my voice, gopher and responsible adult 3) working together or side by side with small one 4) exploring the arts

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

And, whilst on the subject, why didn’t the seven education secretaries change it when they could? My homeschooled teen is now in FE and has a job. They make tea, use a bank app, cook for the family, talk to all ages, do the gardening, do a grocery shop, do their own wash @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Listening to talk about education on @mrjamesob.bsky.social and never been more certain that I did the right thing home educating my kids. I left teaching in 1998 and there was no way they were taking my child’s spirit too, and I pulled her out of the same school I’d taught at in 2018.

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

“Elfshot” is my preferred term for fibromyalgia. An Anglo-Saxon way of describing a condition which felt like you’d been shot by lots of elf arrows. With the invention of the motor engine though, it could be updated to ‘Elf Shot, and then reversed over by an elf truck’

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I woke up with so many plans. Fibromyalgia has the upper hand today unfortunately. I was hoping I would finish my end notes before it started getting too hard to deal with 🥹 Time to get the laptop out instead of the desktop, and strategically placed cushions so I can write in bed!

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Living Streets @livingstreets.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Today marks four years since the consultation on a #PavementParking ban in England - and we're still waiting for action. Disabled campaigner and journalist Katie Pennick says: "In this photo you can see what happens when parking places are put on the pavement. My wheelchair does not fit!"

A street with cars parked on the pavement. A line of bins further obstructs the walkway.

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Had to call someone back and they asked me my name. I went off on a long story about how that basically depended on who they were, how long is been waiting for the appointment and which child it was for…it was for the one which had also changed their name since, which bares no connection to mine.

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Smug time:I’ve excelled myself today! I have done all my Christmas shopping apart from chocs and booze. I have also bought this to start my five year olds training.

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

#Coventry Charterhouse from the air! I believe the garden is planted to show where the monks cells were (Carthusian’s lived almost in total isolation in a single cell). The Priors house (top left) is sometimes open to the public, and would be where the rectory and guests were. Photo by my husband 🦋

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Doing something very similar myself and also avoiding things which will stress me out. Aka politics

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Whereas the historians have been watching through their fingers with their heads in their hands muttering about the Weimar Republic for ten years or so now!

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If you were me and you looked like this (green dress), and you already had the black fabric to make the Knights Hospitaller nun outfit, would you entirely abandon it to make a Spanish infanta inspired dress instead? And would you make your teenager walk next to you translating?

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Just my 2 cents. But my goal is to ignore the trolls. Give them zero attention. Block them if they annoy me. I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

#OnThisDay 1272 Edward I became king of England. It was the first time since 1066 that a reign began without a coronation. bit.ly/2rcGnME

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Read to them. Talk to them. From birth. You only have a short time to change their lives.

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

We should not be less educated now than 800 years ago but here we are…

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Nathen Amin ✒️📚 @nathenamin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Life is short. It's cold outside and world is scary. Get your Christmas Trees up! 🎄

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Is it just me that reads the name handles as “bskyb” and thinks back to when we had two satellite tv companies that merged?

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Kids in Living History Part Two: the WW2 years. It helps if they like eating mud, and their jabs are up to date…

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I made this #historicallyinspired jacket for my daughter to wear this year at events so she matched daddy. She wore it once and was sick on it and refuses to believe I’ve washed it since. Get your kids reenacting! Your arguments (and washing basket) become next level weird! 🦋💕🤪

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Everyone needs a bridesmaid that looks like they stepped off a tomb, right?! Having my best day, or at least surrealist day ever, this year at #raglancastle home of William Herbert and a young ward, Henry Tudor. A bit #wibblywobblytimeywimey but #medieval none the less!

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Found this photo (speak up if you took it!) doing the rounds of a late #14thcentury man looking thoughtful. In #Worcestercathedral. I made the clothes and I married the man. He’s 100% squinting to read something as he hasn’t got his glasses on 💕💋💋

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Simon Groth @simongroth.com · 17/11/2024

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.

The copyright statement from Ephemeral City which reads in part: No part of this book may be used as data for ‘training’ any large language model or as part of any machine learning or neural network architeture. Human creaivity cannot be replicated by doing maths with stolen art. Altman, Andressen, and all their cronies can get fucked. Enquires should be made to the publisher.

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

My whole feed is books, cats and art. Some history. Please stay like this you beautiful innocent thing 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Interesting find yesterday when this caught my eye in the MGH. “Langley of Prestwich” cockatrice, with “Langley of Warwickshire” quartered twice. With “Higgins”! And it’s not my line- or at least not yet! Confusing? Nah, heraldry has gone mad by 18th century…

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

End notes. I love them in a book. I hate writing them, even more than an index. I’m literally hiding in bed rather than do them at the moment!

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Sandy Wainwright @sandywainwright.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I finished the manuscript for my first book yesterday. A non-fiction medieval one. I thought I’d be elated but I’ve gone paranoid now. But not as much as I was waiting for my jumper to be released into Good Omens lore.

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