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Wayne Connolly

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Still the luckiest person in the world. Living in NE England. Body failing, spirit soaring, walking with Gusto in Pontburn Wood. Plymouth Argyle supporter. Monument Maker. MD ANT.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 29/09/2026
I’m Gail, a one woman (and a feline assistant) business, based in Manchester. I create prints, homewares, T-shirts & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk
A grid of twelve illustrations featuring music designs, architecture designs, books, retro abstract designs and swimmers. Bold and colourful.
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 11h
The Interrail sale ends today with some passes at half price. I have a three month unlimited pass and I'm buzzing about the number of trains I can ride all over Europe next year.
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When will politicians stop talking about the bloody housing ladder and ‘encouraging’ developers, and start building homes for people to live in?
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Miklos, mate, don’t wear a sloppy joe on a date. It makes you look like a kid who hasn’t learned to dress himself yet.
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For most of my life I used to watch tv all the time. And then I stopped. That doesn’t make me a better person, but it gives me a lot more time for other things. Reading and music, mostly.
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I was in the Kunstmuseum in Basel last week, and this painting made me stop and stare. John the Baptist by Juan Bautista Maino.
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Does anyone know where this is? It’s a stock image attached to an article on the Museums Association’s website, and it’s just about the worst display of paintings I’ve ever seen.
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mamdani is giving away 70,000 free Met opera tickets. Burnham wants people (ie blokes) to be able to drink beer in football stands. Now I like football and beer, and I don't kike opera, but I know whose side I'm on.
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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm scheduling anthologies for the autumn and winter, so if you love short stories and can narrow that love down to JUST 12 STORIES and write about them, then get in touch! You'll be joining 300+ previous guest editors and helping build an archive that now features 3,600+ story recommendations!
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A Personal Anthology
Writers, critics and others dream-edit a personal anthology of their favourite short stories
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
After flying home from Geneva last weekend I now have a raging bout of flu or something worse. The whole journey home was terrible - overcrowded airports, long shuffling boarding queues and packed planes. Flying really is the worst way to travel.
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This will be good
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Pickled eggs!!??! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
What food items should you stock up on in case of an emergency?
Extreme weather may be changing the way we need to shop, with the UK government urging people to stock up on canned goods.
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Looks like autumn has landed
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Having spent a lot of time in Wetherspoons in dismal Durham towns, I can see they have an important social function. Old people meet their friends for lunch, lonely middle aged men enjoy a burger and pint(!), families out for a cheap tea. Hubbub of conversation everywhere. Nationalise Spoons now...
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s World Gratitude Day, so I’m going to thank Jemima who donated her stem cells to treat my blood cancer, and then two years later, her lymphocyte cells to rescue me from relapse into leukaemia. Without her, I almost certainly wouldn’t be here today.
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Basel- Bern train play area
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hans Holbein the younger and Egon Schiele in the Kunstmuseum Basel, five centuries apart.
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
That feeling when you glimpse one of your favourite paintings in the next room of the gallery. Kunstmuseum Basel.
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The iconic clock, Zurich station.
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’ve spent too much of my holiday in Switzerland looking at pen knives, trying to find the perfect combination of all the gadgets I need. It doesn’t exist.
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A very telling story of the Fraumünster in Zurich. A succession of 29 abbesses was broken by the Reformation in 1524, and followed by 27 male pastors. The Reformists took all the colour out until Chagall put it back.
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In Zurich, the original Cabaret Voltaire
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
She nearly swooned at his macaroons
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
From Bonjour to Guten Morgen. Yesterday it took ten hours to get from Geneva to Zurich using five trains and a suitcase full of unhealthy snacks. Today will be a day of idle mooching and proper food. Los geht's!
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Bloomin heck, Switzerland #GoldenPassExpress
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SparkAlistair @alistairspark.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
He nearly took the net off 😱 #OliverIrow scored this belter for #PlymouthArgyle in their win over #Barnsley 👏 #Plymouth #PAFC #LeagueOne #England #footballnews #footballculture #news #football #soccer #bluesky #viral #fyp #calcio #fútbol #futebol #futbol #fotboll #fußball #fussball #voetbal
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Unexpected takes from Geneva: - the best Mexican food I’ve ever tasted - the number of prostitutes on street corners - everybody looks like they’re a long way from home - a city in which I feel entirely at ease
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Looks like there's a Swiss referendum on the way
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Lake Geneva from France
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I've been on a paddle boat
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Things I was frightened of as a child: - monsters under the bed - monsters in the wardrobe - monsters in the attic - enclosed spaces (boxes, cupboards, coffins) - my willy falling off
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm not sure the Reformation was quite for me. Give me the icons and paintings any day. #GenevaCathedral.
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Jet bow
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sat at a cafe in Geneva watching four people with a fondue at the next table. It looks like the least fun you can have with a loaf of bread.
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm in Switzerland and found this in the hotel minibar. A snip at 6 francs. And now I can't get the song out of my head. 'Triangular honey from triangular bees...'
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A couple of highlights of a touristy day in Paris - the Sacré‐Cœur and Musée d'Orsay
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm in Paris
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Well, I'm in that France and I have to say that belting towards Paris at 180 mph is a very pleasant exoerience.
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Slim fit XXLARGE is the best menswear joke I've seen this year.
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I can't believe it has taken me over 50 years to find out that this is the same woman
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
All I can say is that I'm glad no one tried to teach me Voyage in the Dark and write an essay on it. Or any of my other favourite novels. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
theguardian.com
‘Bold, brilliant, thrilling’: leading authors on the novels every school should teach
A new term, a new PM … time for a new English curriculum? We ask writers from Ben Okri to Samantha Harvey to pick books that will inspire a lifelong love of reading
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It’s just pronunciation. It doesn’t matter. youtu.be/UpIT1W5wf-0?...
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Back in the Oxfam bookshop and I'm in charge of the music! Today we start with Hypnoprism by Monus.
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Overheard in the Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland today: 'No, I'm going to Wetherspoons. It's common.' So here I am in Spoons with a post-tour pint of Poretti, being a commoner.
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When I was 5 years old my older cousin Julie put me in a big cardboard box and sat on it so I couldn't get out. 55 years later I had a panic attack during an MRI scan and don't think I could ever have one again. The past comes back at you eventually. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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A moment that changed me: I had a panic attack on public transport – and it led me to a horrifying secret
For a decade I lived with a fear so bad that I once tried to climb out of a tube carriage while it was in motion. Then a hypnotherapist told me to ask my parents one very important question
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"ChatGPT, where are my glasses? I can't find my glasses. I know I left them here somewhere..."
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The weather’s changing and I have a yen to buy a chunky cardigan. Please somebody stop me…
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'm a fairly passive person, not to mention a coward, but I'd happily go to war on 'motorists' to stop them killing children so they can drive how and where they like.
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Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
How about 10 acts you've seen that were very disappointing, just to show how smug you are: Jesus and Mary Chain Bruce Springsteen David Bowie (Serious Moonlight) Sonic Youth Lambchop Antony and the Johnsons The Adverts Primal Scream Cowboy Junkies Meat Puppets
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