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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My other half’s suggestion that I get rid of some books has resulted in a trip to buy a new (to us) bookcase. 😁
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
3 pasties, 2 sausage rolls, 1 bacon and cheese turnover, 1 ham and cheese baguette, 2 pain au chocolat, 2 croissant and 3 apple danish - all for £4.59. If you are in the UK and don’t already have it, look at the Too Good To Go app for you or anyone else who might find it helpful
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@moviessilently.bsky.social would it be OK to DM you, please? I'm trying to locate a very early film and, while it might be lost, if anyone knows where it is I thought you might! May I send you a note about it to see if it rings any bells? Thank you.
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Went to see Madra Salach last night. Sold out crowd, mostly of oldies, a young band and the timeless power and poetry of music with teeth. Songs with a thousand yard stare.
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Big decision made today, to abandon something big half way through because to complete it would be too expensive in terms of time, energy and money. Take that, sunk costs fallacy and terror of non-completion!
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Honestly Bluesky I looked at you for a brain rest after a meeting and now I'm going to two research events. 🤓
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Well that was an eventful half an hour. A robin flew into the living room and then when I was hanging out the washing I clonked my head on a glitter ball.
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@kittyfisher.bsky.social You will have seen this but I thought of you!
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I have the BEST neighbour. Came home from ‘emergency picking family member up from hospital day’ to this:
A tub on which a handwritten note says You Deserve Cake
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just found a picture of me when I’m old
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just done the first coat of limewash on the fireplace. 9 more to go!
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Found in the roof - we are having the roof fixed and this was wedged in. It’s going back up.
An old bottle - looks like a Victorian perfume bottle with a thick amber residue still inside
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Lovely hazy evening down in the shires
Glastonbury tor seen from a distance, in a soft yellow light
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New catchphrase just dropped:
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I've just submitted a very, very long piece of work, which has taken 6 months and a ridiculously huge amount of effort. Only now do I realise that I have probably broken all of the required rules but it's too late now. It was only a 'recommended' word count anyway.......🫠. Fingers crossed.
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Stepping into a shoe to find it full of cold tea was not quite what I was expecting just now.
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Great letter. I was at an RNlI station a few days ago and noted their Commitment which was on their notice board: Many of our crew members are volunteers with day jobs and commitments. They are ordinarily people doing extraordinary things. Our crew are regularly called away from their families /
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sometimes the Stay Belows don’t. #hookland
An abandoned boat way above the shoreline….in a wood
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
…are probably no longer on the farmer
Pub sign for The Farmers Arms featuring a  pissed off looking sheep and a massive scythe
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Visited an RNLI shop today, bought books, made a donation.
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I have guaranteed torrential rain by coming camping this weekend. We needed it. You’re welcome.
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
6 hour power cut here but never mind, the builders tools all still work! Bastards.
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Amongst the tributes rightly being paid to the wonderful Dolly Parton, I am struck with gratitude to her for showing the world that even people who don't have children can and do want a better world for everyone's kids.
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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️
Sheep grazing in fields, the one in the foreground with white smoke apparently coming out of its bottom
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
oooh I've just made a dinner reservation for a restaurant that warns you that the road will be impassable 2-3 hours either side of high tide. Dress code: nice but wellies 😀
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hmmm - shall I fling in a quick conference abstract before the end of the week? (laughs incredulously at how I used to be a paid academic and now here I am in August doing this for nothing because I finally have the time and the space and the energy to do so)
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I still absolutely hate referencing guidelines with a passion though.
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Nearly finished a 30k word thesis on a *very* specific piece of early stage magic history that I have written for no other reason than sheer curiosity. So very nearly there.....
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Crying…🤣🤣🤣
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
On my bookshelf
the spine of a ladybird book that has been ripped so that the cover looks like it says Learn About Sin
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The trouble with writing about something obscure &previously under-researched is that every other version of its history is SO VASTLY different to the last one that I really do start doubting myself / my own sanity / memory. The writers are all so sure of themselves and their alternate histories.
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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
21.00 DETECTIVE SEMAPHORE
Prequel to Inspector Morse.
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I have just given some (I think hideous) vases that used to belong to my nan (and her mum) to someone who thinks they are gorgeous. I am extremely happy about this and so is she. Isn't it brilliant that we don't all like the same things.
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Just got back from being up the hill. 4 sets of neighbours, 1 colander, 3 pinhole cameras, 1 dog who came up when it was cool enough and lots of chat. Lovely.
A solar eclipse colander image
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Right I'm going up a hill with a colander...
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
BIN DAY TOMORROW FOLKS!
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
(Had a few requests for prints of this one so I now have a limited edition print of it available in my shop. Link in my bio.) #comic #cartoon #comedy #sketch #language
Print of a comic strip by Stephen Collins. Script is as follows:

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[Scene is a GREGGS interior. A lone MAN, the only customer in the shop, is standing at counter]

MAN:
Please can I have a sausage roll.

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GREGGS SHOP ASSISTANT:
Certainly sir 

[She pulls a leaver on the panini machine and WOOSH the man disappears through a trapdoor].

Whoosh 

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[The MAN appears through a chute in an underground bunker. A voice from off-scene greets him]:

Welcome, friend

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[We see the voice is of a military-looking resistance COMMANDER with a moustache]

COMMANDER:
You said "please can I have" instead of “can I get”…

So now you're one of us. 

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MAN:
W-where am I ...?

[We see him looking at a hi tech UNDERGROUND MILITARY BUNKER - it has resistance vibes, and has lots of screens with maps etc]

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COMMANDER:
You've joined the resistance…

...against people saying things all American.

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COMMANDER:
We are an underground network of sleeper agents poised to have a right go at young people the moment they say "mom" or "bangs”.

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LIEUTENANT [Staring at screen]:
Agent 244 has just given a Zoomer in Halifax the “could/couldn't care less" speech, sir

COMMANDER:
Very good

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[Show the map of the UK with digital pop ups on it saying ‘GOTTEN’, ‘ZEE’, ‘MATH’ etc

COMMANDER:
You may have heard our name... We are...

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COMMANDER:
...the Fight Against New Yankee Pronunciations and Americanisms Corrupting the King's English!

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[Show the military command center panel. It says on the wall in big metal letters]:

F.A.N.Y.P.A.C.K.E.

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MAN
You've called yourselves the 'Fanny Pack'
 
COMMANDER:
We didn't spot the acronym 

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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Thursday 13th for Clacton!
The Scrooge meme: Scrooge leans out of a window and asks: You there boy, what day is bins?
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Can anyone decipher this word (the last one)? #paleography #victorian. I'm stuck.
Victorian handwriting - part of a document.  The words I can read are " wanders - talks very illogically - & never (line break) in connection leaves the object of his ILLEGIBLE WORD"
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Oooooh! 🤞
A bank of dark grey clouds
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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Limping towards a first draft of a dissertation. Limping.
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
only 9 months of newspaper advertisements to wade through .....(until this very small piece of research is done!)
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I’ve just had half a pint of Revenge (Lyme Bay Brewery)
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Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Going away for two nights and temperatures are due to drop to 12-21 degrees! Cue slow motion race of me and my fleece towards each other like lovers who have been parted for a decade
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Bronzefinger
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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