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Tony Deighton

@tonydeighton.bsky.social
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A Stranger in a Strange Land. Brother, husband, father, grandfather, friend. Retired but working hard for a fair society. I live in the UK and long for it to rejoin the EU. No Tarts, no Crypto & no secret societies - FFS!

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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s about time women learnt the urinal rule (never use one that’s next to one already being used if an alternative exists). I park my car in a near empty car park & just as I’m about to get out a young woman pulls up and parks next to me on my drivers’ side. Why? Just why?
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The USA prepares to stoop to a new low: live streamed public execution. The last public execution in the UK was in 1868.
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ear Worm I don’t just have a single ear worm, I’ve a whole wormary: Dream On (Aerosmith), Parisienne Walkways (Gary Moore) & Nothing Else Matters (Metallica). Help me expand the wormary - suggestions for more rock ballads welcome.
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fairford With every dribble of news it seems to me that it is increasingly likely that the 5 gentlemen arrested were on a fishing/camping trip and one of them had the foresight to pack a can of petrol. Don’t tell special branch but I’ve been known to pack a can of petrol on long trips.
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m in a small village in Greece, we leave tomorrow. As it was our last night I bought the crowd of locals a round of drinks, turns out the guy in the scruffiest jeans was the local priest and another guy the president of the village! I’m now an honorary member of the village.
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dear Janet (@janmakarta.eurosky.social ) I’d be grateful if you’d pass on my apology to Betina Dear Betina, I don’t ask/expect you to unblock me but I do wish to apologise to you. I’m sorry I upset you, it was never my intention to do so. Much love to you & your family. Best regards Tony
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Penny is my granddaughter, who aged 4 just started school
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’m on holiday in Vasilikos, Zakynthos, Greece. So far I have yet to find a group of holidaymakers who are here for the first time. This is our 16th visit #HotelCalifornia
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hi @memike1.bsky.social , how is life with you?
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A Ableford, petite ville imaginaire d'Angleterre, trois adolescents vont être jugés pour le meurtre, la nuit de la Saint-Sylvestre, d'un prof septuagénaire… That’s right, my friends. If you thought I was tedious plugging #TheCutThroatTrial in English, yesterday we debuted in France. Buckle up… 🇫🇷
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Finally they came for the Daily Mail and my irony meter just packed up and left and I never heard from it again.
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Morning, my eldest grandchild starts school today.
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
1/2 A couple at my church, both 70s, he waiting on corneal transplant & she diagnosed with breast cancer, they don’t have family;
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
My chair suffered traumatic chair failure
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We were gifted this cookbook shortly after we were married some 44 years ago, because it was our first cookbook & pre internet it became our go to reference for recipes & timings. We still use it but dating back to the 1970s spices hadn’t been ”invented“, so we adapt freely.
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Lady Bee Middlemast-Neal @mistyswoman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I never comment on appearances, but I'm going to make an exception in this case, as I think it's warranted; this is Andy Woolley, a #FatCunt who doesn't look as if he's ever missed a fucking meal in his entire fucking life. This pic is on his verified LinkedIn account.
Pic of Andy Woolley Reform leader of East Sussex County Council, taken from his verified LinkedIn account
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Picked this evening, the punnet of cherry tomatoes weighs over 500g & the beefsteak tomato weight over 250g on its own. So far I’ve picked about 3kg of cherry tomatoes & 3 beefsteaks.
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I’m cooking 4 sausages on the BBQ, 1 burnt almost immediately, after 15 mins more cooking 1 has got nicely brown, the other 2 remain deathly white. I’ve been moving them around but 2 remain white.
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
@kinglucythe1st.bsky.social our dinner tonight is pork kebab (converted pork steaks) with ratatouille, using my homegrown tomatoes & homegrown courgettes. If I had space I’d also grow the peppers, aubergine and onions. If you have a garden you should try your hand at growing vegetables.
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I had a slow puncture & needed a new tyre, so for 4 days I’ve used shanks’ pony. I’ve now hit my car back and my first thought was “thank goodness, all that walking was killing me”, but my second thought was “it’s the car that’s killing me, it just hurts less”.
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
In a short while I’ll discover if my odometer has 6 digits.
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Fill the Empty Stomachs Farming Initiative @gify23.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It's about fighting hunger in our society through agriculture. We do this by growing food for the needy. Train and equip local farmers with skills and materials to increase food production ad combat climate change through tree planting. emptystomachs.ug Would you mind sharing with you updates?
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Fill The Empty Stomachs Farming Initiative – We feed the hungry people of Uganda through sustainable charitable economic independence and solidarity.
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
According to MIL the Antichrist has entered #10, I assume the Daily Express has told her this.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Waking this morning to a national consensus. End-to-end drama throughout. Twist after twist. Impossible to avert one’s eyes. Not wanting it to end. Just so gratified that you all seem to have spent last night reading the ebook of #TheCutThroatTrial for only 99p 🙏 www.amazon.co.uk/Cut-Throat-T...
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Greetings, this Pictish Broch is on the North Coast of Sutherland, Scotland & dates from at least 200BCE, possibly earlier.
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I’m parked up waiting for Mrs D, the car park is less than 50% full, but despite this someone has thought it a good idea to park in the entrance way leaving a narrow gap to squeeze through in order to get in and out. #IdiotParking
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Chris @oakymoron.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
No humility and a reminder why the Tories despised www.channel4.com/news/10-bill...
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£10 billion Covid PPE waste was ‘honest error’ says Michael Gove
We spoke to Michael Gove who was the lead minister in the Conservative cabinet for much of the pandemic, following the findings of the Covid Inquiry.
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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Wasn’t he the one in thrall to Michelle Mone? Who agreed to give her all those millions we have never got back?
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Photos from our walk to Slettel, an abandoned settlement in the township of Skerray Sutherland Scotland
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It’s so hot and sunny here on the far north coast of Sutherland that I’ve just had to put on some suntan lotion & my swimming shorts while sitting in the garden.
Photo shows through trees flood plain at mouth of river Borgie in Sutherland Scotland
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The little village where my MIL lives in the far North of Scotland has a harbour, I discovered yesterday that the chap who collected harbour fees from other villagers using the harbour just pocketed the money. After he died folk asked who they should pay & got the answer “what fees?”
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Enjoying the sunshine on the North coast while counting walkers on the sands on Torrisdale beach with my wife and her Mum
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Walking on the local beach
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We are staying with my MIL, it seems that since we last stayed with her she has become very deaf and needs the TV set to max in order to hear it. It’s physically hurting me, I might need to feign tiredness & go to bed.
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I took a voice recording of oyster catchers that were singing while I took this photo, but have no idea how to attach it to this post
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Three hours of driving is the longest I’ve been cool for a long time
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Joe Hardy @blokeonwheels.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A reminder, Farage IS the establishment. Outsider figures do not receive 5 million quid from crypto billionaires.
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Yesterday, listening to a history documentary about the KKK, it all started to sound very familiar, in fact it started to sound exactly like Donald Trump, even down to the sex scandals & court appearances Catch it for yourself www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Rest Is History - The Ku Klux Klan: American Fascists (Part 4) - BBC Sounds
After 1915, how did the Klu Klux Klan make its move on the next major American election?
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
So who has had carrots cooked on a BBQ before?
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Today we met up with an old school friend of my wife’s, in discussing our respective journeys I mentioned I had spent 4 years driving to Slough. Without warning wife’s friend launched into “I bet the main square was ‘interesting’ with all those ethics”.
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We are looking after my grandson, he has tipped the crayons out of the container & is happily playing with the tin
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Tonight’s dinner
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
At church this morning we had a medical emergency, the main issue was triaging the Doctors, we have 5 who are part of our fellowship!
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
My youngest grandson making a pit stop
Toddler sitting in pedal powered racing car next to a small table in a garden.
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I’ve just changed the BBQ gas cylinder. 1st time I’ve ever done it, previously it was either my son or a family friend. After much Googling (useless) & You Tubing (also useless), I discovered by chance that pushing the off switch inwards released the regulator. I’m going to celebrate with a G&T.
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I have spent today mainly on a motorway; we attended a family party in Hampshire, our route is A12, M25, M3. All going well until the A41 junction, but that’s always busy, then stop/start from A421 to M3. Then M3 closed due to accident. Return M25 closed nr Heathrow, then buggered to M11.
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Arriving back at Stansted yesterday afternoon our plane was met by police and every man had to show their passport at the foot of the stairs. I’d love to know what was going on.
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
My daughter told me how important it is that her children (my grandchildren) have a siesta after spending the morning at the beach and referenced how we made her have a siesta when small. I smirk inwardly that a married woman w/ 2 small children still hasn’t realised why she had to have a siesta.
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I’ll make a prediction: Football’s not coming home, the real issue is who comes home first, England or Scotland.
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Tony Deighton @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
My grandchildren have inadvertently given me a remembrance of my Mum, the smallest was checking his slice of apple with suspicion & I suddenly remembered as a teenager infuriating my Mum by checking the contents of the sandwich she had just made me: “Do you think I’m poisoning you?”
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