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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

An olive? In an English garden? Surely some mistake?

Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Please forgive me, Bluesky people, but my novel, Blotto, is on a renewed surge it would seem. A few must have bought it. I only make about a quid on each sale on @amazon so won’t be retiring just yet. Ha! Brahms and Liszt, a loosely based sequel in the trilogy is coming along. Do wish me luck.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Hottest day. I’m sleeping in me Chunky-Monkey in the garden. It’s cool and lush. Sweet dreams all. x

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Sorting through my books. Amazing what you find within the pages, innit? 1995 ad for Sainsbury’s and Vodafone. Ha!

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Twitter/X is so much fun. I’m now an ‘influencer’ there apparently. I do get paid. Anyway, the abuse I get is astonishing - water off a ducks back - but occasionally they make me smile. Check out the before and after. Ha!

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

On a much lighter note, this is a 5ft painting in one of my local and favourite pubs. I love it. Who can name all the figures depicted? I might send a prize to the first correct answer. A signed copy of my book, Blotto perhaps? Links on my profile.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Performing for a paedophile rapist and a felon is the kiss of death to all musical artists of any worth. #Trump

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

How very decent of Bradley P, a follower on another place to send me confirmation of his purchase. Lovely. Hope he enjoys it, or is it a present for someone else perhaps? Think you might? Go on. Put a smile on my face. #GetBlottoThisChristmas There's still time from Amazon.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

How very decent of Bradley P, a follower on another place to send me confirmation of his purchase. Very considerate. Hope he enjoys it, or is it a present for someone else perhaps? Think you might enjoy it? Go on. Put a smile on my face. #GetBlottoThisChristmas There's still time from Amazon.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

‘A PROPER PAGE TURNER’ #GetBlotto #GetBlottoForXmas Link’s on my profile. Cheers!

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I snapped my bloody quadriceps tendon 3 weeks ago (ouch!) but the wonderful NHS repaired it within the week. Still, at least 2 months of physiotherapy to go. Not great as a self-employed tradesman. You could always take a look at my book - Blotto on the dreaded Amazon - and cheer me up. #GetBlotto

Snapped quadriceps tendon, leg in brace.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Could I cheekily request that you #GetBlottoForXmas? It might make a good and affordable present for someone you know and put a huge and grateful smile on my face too. It's on Amazon, as you can see. Please check out the reviews. Meanwhile, I push on with the sequel, Brahms and Liszt. Hey-ho!

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Coming on. Another in the ‘Pugilist’ series of papier-mâché life size masks and inspired by the quick sketch I did here. Made the eyes too. I’m very strange I think. Paint next. Great fun, but would you hang it on your wall when finished? Ha!

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Only £8.78 It’s a bloody bargain! #GetBlotto Thank you in anticipation.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Still pushin’. Care to help me along?

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Gets even better! Blotto is in the top 9k! Thank you. Bloody marvellous! Please buy it if you haven’t already. Send it even higher. Over the moon.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Gets even better! Blotto is in the top 9k! Thank you. Bloody marvellous! Please buy it if you haven’t already. Send it even higher. Over the moon.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Blotto's on a bit of a surge. 14,571 is excellent but love to get higher. Care to help? Only a tenner. As a single father to a 13 year old girl, it would mean a lot to both of us. amzn.eu/d/fkL9yFc

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

One of a series of strip cartoons I did as a very young man.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

In my everlasting deference, respect and overwhelming love to my ol’ mum and dad, how would you pronounce this? Nug-et or Noo-gah? Just interested.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I’m sure similar words might have been said about Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. Will these people never learn?

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Did I ever tell you all about the time I was stung by a wasp and on the scrotum as a 9 year old boy? Fortunately, on that occasion, my dear ‘ol mum didn’t insist on sucking the sting out! I think the damage might have been far greater had she have done so. Ha!

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Never before have John Lennon’s words rung so true to me. Trouble is, religion, racism, xenophobia, and greed fuck it all up. We are all destined to ultimate failure until we realise this.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Nice to see a bit of American humour.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I’ve just suggested to my 13 year old daughter, Isadora, that I cut my hair off - trim and nice. She said no, unequivocally! What do you think? I normally wear it tied up in any case. Oh, please forgive the dark specks in my hairline - busy day removing ancient old paint. The things we do, eh?

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

AI, eh? I wonder whether I might use it to create an audiobook? Do they do Bristolian accents I wonder? German? Link’s on my profile. Love you to have a look if you haven’t already.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Here I am, home alone and sleeping in the garden. The temperature out here is perfect, a still night, not a breeze even, and this is what I’m looking at. A blurred image as you might notice, but strangely apt with my myopic vision and considering I’ve had a couple of beers. *hic* Good night all. x

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Bit of a long shot, but do you follow me here Mrs Williams? Love to know how you progress with Blotto. #GetBlotto Link’s on my profile if others might wish to voice their opinion.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Or you could #GetBlotto instead. Reviews are very good overall. Link’s on my profile. You never know, you might enjoy the diversion whilst fantasising about winning millions. Ha!

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

This embarrasses me. We are very lazy in the UK when it comes to food. No wonder there is so much obesity.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

From the ‘other place’. Do you agree?

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Still pushin’, a shameless task but got to keep going. Here’s a most recent review. Do you know Bristol? If so, Blotto might entertain you too. #GetBlotto #Bristol @RealBristolNews @BristolLive @BBCBristol @WestonSeafront

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Brilliant from @Keir_Starmer on @Nigel_Farage #Reform Th’wack! Take that Nigel, you toad.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Doesn’t get much better than this. Care to take a look yourself. I’d be honoured.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Here’s a selection of reviews of my novel, Blotto. I think I must have something here, but, rather like my life at the moment, it’s rather difficult to see the wood for the trees. Please take a look if you haven’t already. It would help me immensely. Link is on my profile. Thanks.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

A portrait artist friend of mine, Dale Webster, painted this of me. Rather good I thought.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Just this. Quite eloquent, I thought.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Evil eyes, there is NO denying. #FuckTrump #WankerInTheWhiteHouse #RIPUSA whilst this man is its leader. End of.

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Fuck me, if Trump is 6ft 3inches, his ‘Hotel Transylvania’ lookalike son must be 7ft tall! Who’d o’ thought it?

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Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @tedsmith.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Tom Jones - Green, green grass of home. Sad ol’ padre, eh? I think AI has someway to go as yet. Ha! Anyone got even funnier ones?

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