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Selfie61

@selfie61.bsky.social
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Retired from the NHS, now enjoy writing. Pookins Saves Santa and Pookins of Beauchamp Road are on Amazon. Spent the last year chasing lidos with some crazy ladies. A happy snapper who loves taking photos of nature. Interested in world events and politics.

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Selfie61 @selfie61.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Hi James. Our high street has survived though it went through a lot of barbers, mail bars etc. Now new greengrocers, complementing the butchers and bakers. People will turn from the retail parks as less money to spend and less time so turn to local.
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Selfie61 @selfie61.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Autumn at Bushy Park
Stag amongst autumn coloursOld water pump amongst autumn leavesCabadian geese on a bank of a streamDeer hiding in plain sight in a lake
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Selfie61 @selfie61.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
A little bit of cheer, Herefordshire last week
Bee on blue flowerWooden horse statue in wildflower meadowOutside of a folly made from wine bottles Inside folly showing light shining through bottles
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Selfie61 @selfie61.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
@fidpod.bsky.social here's a thought... several Man U players have been told not to turn up to training. Why not invite them to train at Wrexham so the lads get a bit of Prem League experience. Rashford, Gnacho good players just not valued and need a place to train.
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Selfie61 @selfie61.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Why no mention of massive Pro Palestinian protest in London today? Come on journalists do your job, don't silence the news.
Lady with huge poster saying "killing children is never justified, open your eyes to genocide"
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Selfie61 @selfie61.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
After all the fabulous documentaries made by the wonderful Sir David Attenborough I cannot understand why so few vote green in the UK. He has been telling us for decades to look after our planet but the heads of government all over the world aren't listening.
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Selfie61 @selfie61.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
A little bot of RHS Wisley to brighten your day
Cacti at WisleyOrange cactus flowerBird of paradise flower
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SirKidStarverIsGone @sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
If ever you need an reason to cancel your BiBiCorp TV license, this is it www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you...
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Selfie61 @selfie61.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
@monicaharding.bsky.social Can you look into a fairer system for booking driving tests. Getting up and logging in every Mon to find bots have taken all the slots is sole destroying. Perhaps putting in a theory test number would stop the bots. My son doesn't have £400 to pay a third party.
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Selfie61 @selfie61.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
@wrexhamafc.co.uk I hear Kevin De Bruyne is free for next year. Perhaps the boys can use their charms on getting him for a season 😃
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Selfie61 @selfie61.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Anyone else having problems with Microsoft 365 family share?
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Selfie61 @selfie61.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
@mrjamesob.bsky.social My mum's cousin was in the Berlin White Rose and got arrested when they found her printing press in her room. Unlike the Munich spur she wasn't executed but sent to a concentration camp. Ending up living the otherside of the wall. Mum and her reunited when it came down.
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Selfie61 @selfie61.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
RHS Wisley yesterday.
Copper barked cherry treesFlowering cherry tree by pondPlanted bed
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Jon Savage @jonsavage.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Harbinger of spring
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David Hewson @davidhewson.com · 02/03/2025
Amazing how a good long walk through lovely countryside on a beautiful day can help you put the troubles of this stupid world in some kind of perspective.
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Brooklyn Rousseau 🏳️‍⚧️ @gothicwtf.eurosky.social · 01/03/2025
When injustice becomes law rebellion becomes duty (pictured: Guy Fawkes Mask)
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Selfie61 @selfie61.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
What a lovely young Ukranian man Maxsym Talovierov is. Plymouth Argyle may not have won against Man City but this lads goal and post match interview were class.
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Selfie61 @selfie61.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A different perspective
Shadow of an oak
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DamonTheDemon @damonthedemon.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Im a Green voter now. Previously a lifelong Labour voter (Even held my nose for Blair). I have long held disdain for the Lib Dems, especially after their various betrayals during abomination of Tory/Lib coalition. But recently, Ed Davey has been saying all the right things. I respect the man. 👏
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Absolutely @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
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Feargal Cochrane @feargalc.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
That would have short term symbolic impact-but a more structured revert from #Brexit is now a national security imperative for UK, aside from being sensible in its own right. The gov needs to fast track a mutually acceptable course in that direction with EU. Starmer can’t ’both sides’ it any longer.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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UK Government Petitions @petitions.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
New petition: "Tax banks to recoup the £23bn they lost taxpayers in the banking crisis" Deadline 7 July 2025, created by Jonathan Bell #NewPetition
petition.parliament.uk
New petition: Tax banks to recoup the £23bn they lost taxpayers in the banking crisis
To recoup the outstanding/lost £23bn from the financial/banking sector, following the bailout during the financial crisis. We think this should be recouped through emergency taxation on banks, and that this could be used to fill what has been described as £22bn black hole in public finances.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
misty river Thames this morning
tow boats in the mist with the picture framed by dark tree branches in the foreground
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I’m still processing what we saw in the Oval Office and it’s difficult to put into words how disgusted and ashamed I am. This was a coordinated assault on an ally to benefit a dictator and authoritarian regime. Trump and Vance aren’t just Putin’s puppets, they’re his assets.
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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Now that’s a State visit
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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
If you've woken up still angry about Trump's treatment of Zelensky, please help out by sharing this petition around to cancel the UK state visit over it. It's now at 15,000 and growing.
stoptrump.org.uk
Petition: Cancel Trump’s state visit
Stop Trump Coalition
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.
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🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @kusiana.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Tesla’s shareholders just lost another $38,640,000,000 today — a total $TSLA loss of $600 billion since December. Tesla’s CEO was not in the office. In literally any other public company ever, this would be the point where the CEO gets fired.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.
Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. The agony in his face…he looks overwhelmed with disbelief at the sheer cruelty.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Trump cannot be given a state visit to the UK. It should never have been offered. The invitation must now be withdrawn. You might as well hand it to Putin.
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Barbra Streisand @barbrastreisand.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
America has totally lost its status in the world. Countries that were our allies are worried. People in our country are worried. What is Trump going to do next? What more can he destroy with our allies? it’s not the America I grew up in and love anymore.
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Selfie61 @selfie61.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Just a little something to cheer us all up. Snapped in Bushy Park digging up worms on a rainy day.
A rather wet Kestral
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Trump and Vance just made Zelensky one of the most popular leaders in the world.
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 24/01/2025
“Expanding our airports will not produce the economic growth that Rachel Reeves so desperately wants,” said Alex Chapman, a senior economist at the New Economics Foundation. “[It is] also completely incompatible with the government’s aim to be a climate leader.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Are Rachel Reeves’s efforts to win business confidence ‘fiddling while Rome burns’?
Pro-growth charm offensive aimed at getting Labour back on the front foot has drawn concerns and questions
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"It makes no sense for Starmer to pretend he would die in a ditch over Brexit – the sooner he abandons it the better" 👏👏👏
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Labour’s Brexit problem: why Starmer must soon face a rejoin reality check
It makes no sense for Starmer to pretend he would die in a ditch over Brexit – the sooner he abandons it the better
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Tim 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🖖🏻 @timwhotravels.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
#booksky #tea ❤️❤️
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Joe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Europe has a message for Elmo.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
This billboard says it all.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I Would Do Anything for Growth (But I Won’t Do That) 🎶 #Rejoin
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Andy Roo @viewfromessex.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Is not rat .....is Siberian Hamster....is called Basil
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 11/01/2025
“As the UK’s attempts at a “reset” with the EU continue behind closed doors, No 10’s most senior aide made the trip to meet counterparts in Brussels before Christmas.” Brexit #BrexitDisaster www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Starmer’s top aide made low-key Brussels trip as No 10’s EU reset efforts continue
Morgan McSweeney met EU counterparts before Christmas as Downing Street poised to hire new foreign adviser
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Cats That Look Like Middle Aged Men's Facebook Profile Pictures (An Occasional Series) 📷: instagram.com/marleykatz
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Let’s get one thing straight: the cost of the Green New Deal is far less than the cost of losing our planet to the climate crisis.
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