Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 13/10/2026And how much heavy lifting will the "Factual" in "BBC Factual" be doing? 1530
Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Cricket captain: it's a ploy to lure the batter into getting a leading edge by playing across the line 130
Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Let's hope for questions on chocolate in the next quiz 020
Reposted by Louisa Whittonwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Mitjili Napurrula is an Indigenous Australian painter from the Northern Territories #WomensArt 61840348
Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Could it be the B4357 in eastern Radnorshire? Or is that a little too obvious? www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/B4357sabre-roads.org.ukMaking sure you're not a bot! 000
Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026All the best people scored five today ... 🧠 Quiz of the Day - Oct 9 🟩 ⬜ 🟩 ⬜ 🟩 🟩 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ Score: 5/10 Think you can do better? quizoftheday.co.ukquizoftheday.co.ukQuiz of the Day | Daily General Knowledge QuizThe UK's premier online general knowledge quiz. Challenge friends and colleagues with our 10-question daily quiz. Original & hand-curated trivia since 2015. 110
Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026David Gower, during his golden summer of 1985 011
Reposted by Louisa WhittonGeorgia Harper @mindtheflap.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I really do not have time to get into a newspaper headline despair hole today, *and yet*. It almost doesn't matter what the detailed content of the report actually says, if this is the messaging people will take away. Autistic people have always been here and we are not going anywhere. 0286
Reposted by Louisa WhittonBut Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 08/10/2026This is actually really good. 1143
Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A few days ago, the CRS code of my starting guess was an anagram of the answer Loconundrum #202 🟨🟨🟩 🚂🚂🚶🚂 🟩🟩🟩 110
Reposted by Louisa WhittonBlog Preston @blogpreston.co.uk · 02/10/2026Bemused Saturday shoppers and motorists watched on as the White Coppice cricket club took their victory bus through the streets of Chorley. Having nearly folded in 2017 it marked a turnaround of fortunes for the club which is now thriving. 🏏👏blogpreston.co.ukCricket club take celebratory open top bus tour through Chorley town centre – Blog Preston<p>White Coppice was on the brink of calling time on the game in 2017, now they’ve won the league</p> 153
Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The greatest riches I ever had were collecting the conkers from under the tree in my grandparents garden, also in about 1976. I took home a boxful. 170
Reposted by Louisa WhittonEmma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I’m 54 and I honestly think this is as joyful now as it was when I was 4, in 1976: 5878042
Reposted by Louisa WhittonEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Why must it always be about planting trees, when they managed just fine for 100s of millions of years before people came along? Just let them seed out. Yes, planting does have a role, but so often the underlying subtext is continued human domination of nature. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comHalf a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says governmentExclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather 3024751
Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So that's their opening gambit? I wonder what their next move will be? 010
Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In those days, to find the definition of "googol" you went to the library and their copy of the OED would tell you the answer. And you could be confident it was the right answer and not a hallucination. 120
Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Be the kind of friend who writes you a treatise as a gift. Along with treats, of course. 010
Reposted by Louisa WhittonGodwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A good day to share my memoir of growing up on the East Coast Main Line, where I witnessed of the demise of the steam age & the rise of diesel-electric locomotives. #RailwayHistory #SteamTrains #Deltics #Northumberlandpamelaclemit.wordpress.comNew Post: A Railway Memoir in ArchipelagoThis piece by Pamela Clemit was first published in Archipelago, 2.2 (Spring 2023), 152-61. The essay is a recollection of her early childhood years as a station master’s daughter, and an eleg… 063
Reposted by Louisa Whittonwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026At the age of 90 year old, Czech former agricultural worker Agnes Kasparkova continued her 13 year project to decorate her small village with hand-painting traditional Moravian motifs on the local houses #womensart 204591782
Reposted by Louisa WhittonRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Start to finish making of process for one of my porcelain tentacle handle cups! Throwing, trimming, glazing You can buy a unique cup like this on my website, www.roseschmits.com 271053235
Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Ditto. I also didn't get the Tetris one. 🧠 Quiz of the Day - Sep 25 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 ⬜ 🟩 🟩 Score: 9/10 Think you can do better? quizoftheday.co.ukquizoftheday.co.ukQuiz of the Day | Daily General Knowledge QuizThe UK's premier online general knowledge quiz. Challenge friends and colleagues with our 10-question daily quiz. Original & hand-curated trivia since 2015. 010
Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026That was tough. I managed 7 too, but I was only absolutely certain of two of them. 010
Reposted by Louisa WhittonSmylers @smylers.uk · 24/09/2026If your directions include What 3 Words locations, you're relying on a business that's currently losing millions a year staying in business (as well as all its other problems). 132
Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Admittedly, it's only because my washing machine died a couple of weeks ago (new one being delivered today) 010
Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This has never happened before, so it may be like the ravens leaving the Tower of London 140
Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If the Apocalypse happens today, I'm sorry, it's my fault - I've finished the ironing pile 140
Reposted by Louisa WhittonTW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026this is fantastic and I learned something new 563232435
Reposted by Louisa WhittonGlobal Cricket @somuchcricket.bsky.social · 23/09/2026With overtly racist violence becoming more and more prevalent, and racist ideology entering the mainstream it's time for everyone - including the cricket establishment - to pick a side. somuchsportoutthere.wordpress.com/2026/09/23/t... 41610
Reposted by Louisa WhittonIceland Cricket @icelandcricket.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If India had lost today to Japan, that would have been like us losing to Jan Mayen. Utterly unthinkable loss to a small volcanic island. 0162
Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026In May, Japan lost to the Cook Islands by 3 wickets at Sano. Today, they were just 3 runs short of beating India at the same ground. 🏏 #cricket 1134
Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There's a new cricketing superstar - Charlie Hara-Hinze! #JPNvIND 🏏 010
Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026And Japan starts off their first ever match against India with an excellent over from Charlie Hara-Hinze! #JPNvIND 🏏 010
Reposted by Louisa WhittonRev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Bluesky / Twitter 0196
Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Finishing with two blank lines for the closed stations in Tavistock? 020
Reposted by Louisa Whitton👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 20/09/2026appropriate amount of bookshelves www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...rightmove.co.ukCheck out this 3 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove3 bedroom detached house for sale in Underhill Lane, Westmeston, BN6 for £775,000. Marketed by Chatt Estates, Ditchling 2814013
Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Maybe next year they can hold this in Leeds? Oh, wait ... 030
Reposted by Louisa WhittonDread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Happy Tram Champs to all who celebrate! 152
Reposted by Louisa WhittonAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Kākāpō numbers pass 300 for the first time in 75 years. New Zealand’s flightless, nocturnal parrot now totals 325 birds, after a record 90 chicks fledged this season, built on the Department of Conservation’s recovery programme, which started with just 51 birds in 1995. DOC buff.ly/7YIOBd9doc.govt.nzKākāpō population reaches new milestoneThe official population of the critically endangered kākāpō has reached a recovery-era high of 325 birds. 10738250
Reposted by Louisa WhittonHelen @helenintgarden.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I called in at #ParkHill on my way home from choir today... The sculpture is beautiful... and well worth paying a visit... if you are in #Sheffield... 2235
Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I hope you get some good, or at least useful, answers 010
Reposted by Louisa WhittonEmma writes songs ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026If ever a good person needed to be protected, it's this woman. Until yesterday, she was living her life with the usual daily struggles. Now she's found herself in the sights of some of the worst people - all because her curtain twitching neighbours stamped their racist feet. 1203
Louisa Whitton @whittipedia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Just as well you weren't sending a boulder www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/large-...huffingtonpost.co.ukA Sheriff Department’s Attempt To Describe This Boulder Goes Delightfully AwryMeet the Internet's newest rock star. 010