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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 41m

Why do we need to? We have an internationally agreed bill of rights.

Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 2h

Aren't they also guilty of preventing a person from going about their lawful business? Which I thought was a civil crime.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 2h

As long as the winning bidder isn't named McGregor I think Peter can steal radishes in peace.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 2h

During Lockdown 1 I built a bike shed at home. Was chatting to a mate and he said he wanted a project, and a bike shed seemed good...could I send him my plans and a cutting list for timber. Next day we were both inundated with adverts for prefab and build your own sheds. We'd spoken over WhatsApp.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 3h

These are things that we are reall very, very good at. We should be investing more money to these sectors. And these things make us happy!

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 4h

So, 22.4% of people don't know if they want to lose their human rights?

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 6h

Yet there are many out there who claim that "it's just weather".

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 8h

"Some of you are going to die, martyrs of course to the freedom that I shall provide..." Genesis, "The Knife", 1970

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 8h

I've moved further left, and mosy political parties have moved further right. So now I feel homeless in terms of where my vote should lie.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 9h

Good luck waterproofing that lower sash window. Must be a nightmare.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 9h

First bird of my day, a Robin, scalding me from a bush in the pre-dawn gloom. Didn't see him until he flew across the road to another vantage point from which to continue his rebuke to my presence. #firstbirdofmyday

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 9h

So now we have two parties hell-bent on trashing the environment on the altar of housebuilding all over our Green (and "Grey" 🙄) Belt. Start with change of use in our town centres, convert empty office space, build on Brownfield sites, and end land-banking.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 9h

To quote Andrew Griffith "Only we can inject reality, tell the hard truths and make this a country we are proud to hand on to the next generation." By scrapping Net Zero readiness in housing, trashing environmental regulators? Our children will have a shittier future then, won't they?

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 18h

We certainly walked open-eyed into the Second Gulf War, against any reliable evidence of genuine grounds to fight it. Hundreds of thousands died unnecessarily. Then there was Afghanistan, a monumental fuck up.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 18h

Not so much the First World War. And it can be argued that the Russians bore the brunt in WWIi. But yes, they brought us massive amounts of hardware, and brave fighters. Since then, just mad colonial, religious wars.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 18h

It's one of the few TV programmes I regularly watch. A demonstration of skills, and of empathy and emotion. Commodities in short supply in the current world.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 18h

They definitely dragged us into a shit load of pointless wars.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 19h

Thc collective failure to acknowledge the shit we are in is totally baffling...these people pretend that they want to lead us, and in theory carry out the first duty of government, while all the time doing exactly the opposite. We need a revolution.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 19h

A sunset woodland walk in Tring Park last night, gave me a spectacular lens flare.

A woodland scene at Tring Park is illuminated by a superb lens flare at sunset.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It felt weird here for a while as the population slowly grew. But I've managed to reconnect with pretty much all of the accounts that used to matter to me on Twitter. There are a handful not here, but so many new ones to engage with.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Who the hell goes to these dumbfests? Worst stand up in history.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires I discovered via an FOI request that DEFRA’s commitment in the National Adaptation Programme to run a “wildfire risk programme” since 2023 “was not brought into effect”. #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires

FOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as data highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Blimey! XTC's "Green Man" on @bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social No one plays late era XTC. Well done Bobby Friction. A swooning reel of celebration for our historic folklore.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Presumably he also wasn't of fighting age.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Presumably she doesn't, she just fails to function properly in the cosseted world of the politician.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When we moved into our current house a pair of Jackdaws had a favourite chimney. The autumn after we moved in we had fumes from our gas fire. So we had the chimney swept, and out came a pile of sticks about 2m in circumference and 0.5m high. Busy birds Jackdaws...

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Quite a lot of pales this year, which I like of course!

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Walked past last week. Fond memories of being in college just down the road, and slipping into Foyles to browse. Next time the manga section will be perused, with my daughter.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of our locals has Tribute on all the time. It has to be said it's a decent pint. And in Wendover there's a pub which is devoted to Landlord and Boltmaker, both good. BtW if you get a chance to sample the Tring monthly special "Shock Horror" it's a very tasty ESB, probably right up your street.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@stuartmaconie.bsky.social That @ track was superb...I kept thinking it was some previously unheard Elliot Smith song. Apart from the fact that it sounded far too "produced" to be Elliot. Great show today.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If Farage is so certain that "his" pure Brexit has never been enacted, why has he not devoted all his energies to haranguing the succession of governments who have failed? Maybe because he's a self-serving tosser?

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There was a Devon holiday back in 1995 (?) when Doom was everywhere, and it wasn't at all bad. But, as you say, ruined by mass production. Too many pubs near me have this and/or London Pride*. I have to take avoiding action! Thankfully, there are some brilliant ones serving a wide variety.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He made some seriously good music. I find myself listening to "Wildflowers" more than any other of his albums.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Likewise Florence & The Machine for me.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In Tring we're quite a long way out of "Town" and our station is a long way out of our town...but Brill (in Bucks, beyond Aylesbury) was once part of the Metropolitan Line, so here's a theoretical sign... Love this roundel generator by @pixelframe.bsky.social

Tring Station, it's literally miles from anywhere.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This new record is a (another) change of direction, and from what what I've heard is beautiful. Her older stuff was sort of electro pop, then she became more conventional, but as always her voice is incredible. Check out a tune called "Undercover" for the range and the power, and the control.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I got two and a quarter tanks this month.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Honestly my head hurts when I see sh¡t like this! How much ideological contradiction is happening here? Make Fascist Scared Again. Make Ignorance Shunned Again." via Lower The Flags

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 02/10/2026

In 2003, the U.S. military bombed Iraq’s national seed bank in Abu Ghraib, effectively eliminating hundreds of varieties of indigenous seeds adapted to growing in the drought-prone desert climate. A year later, U.S. law prohibited Iraqi farmers from seed saving. (First published in 2025 by Prism)

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Saving Iraq’s Seeds, One Garden at a Time

Comprising a diverse range of backgrounds and ages, the collective fosters a space for voices of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian seed stewards from the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region…

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Albumism @albumism.com · 02/10/2026

Fountains of Wayne released their eponymous debut album ‘Fountains of Wayne’ 30 years ago on October 1, 1996 | Listen to the album + watch the official videos here: album.ink/fow96

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Celebrating 30 Years of Fountains of Wayne’s Eponymous Debut Album ‘Fountains of Wayne’ (1996)

Fountains of Wayne’s eponymous debut album ‘Fountains of Wayne’ was originally released on October 1, 1996.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bloody love FOW. Such great tunes, irresistible singalongs to witty lyrics. Losing Adam during Covid was so damned sad.

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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just don't ever use Amazon. Or any of those cheap shit sites.

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