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Adviser @aqaeducation.bsky.social, MAT and @RSPH.bsky.social trustee, ex-senior civil servant; classical music, #LCFC 🦊, England⚽️🏏, walks, photos, words (no politics); husband, father, generally curious
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📍 Leicestershire, UK
Chaos at Leicester station. Nothing’s going where it should be, everything’s running slow, and no one knows what’s going on.
All of which feels quite familiar to those of us who’ve spent the afternoon at the King Power. 😐😭
#LCFC
All of which feels quite familiar to those of us who’ve spent the afternoon at the King Power. 😐😭
#LCFC
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Matchday. Five games to go, and excruciatingly #LCFC is a point behind Portsmouth in 21st, and five behind West Brom in 20th. Win against Swansea this afternoon and I’ll continue to think we have a chance of avoiding a calamitous, humiliating relegation. If we can’t win today I’m giving up hope. 🦊💙
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Late stroll. A graffiti-goods train is a performing art gallery. The desire path snakes wistfully. Blossom watches me quizzically. A telegraph pole offers a choice of loose tightropes. Mischievous twilight pretends I can see, but shows me a speeding bikelight with no bike.
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Ten years ago today, Claudio Ranieri was getting understandably emotional. #LCFC
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Late stroll. A hedgehog gloom-scuttles surreptitiously across the road. Two cones patiently guard a roadworks sign, lying exhausted from a hard day’s warning. A drying puddle mischievously pretends it’s a ghost. My headlight-shadow smears itself fleetingly on a fence.
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Reposted by Jeremy Benson
What Artemis II astronauts saw in Moon fly-by. 🔭 🧪 #ArtemisII www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cx29pz0k8e2o
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Late stroll. Evening light decorates longshadowed branches against lightbluesky, serenaded by a springbird. The sun feeds evening fluffclouds with pinkness. Endless mudsteps walk between a skip and a memory of something being unloaded, a tiring echo of a hard day’s work.
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Reposted by Jeremy Benson
In which I tell Arthur why Britain is in trouble but not "broken”, why British pluralism is admirable yet fragile, how this country is both impressively global and weirdly insular, and why it is (even) better to be allowed to work for the BBC than to be invited to a royal visit.
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Late stroll. The winter switch is stuck slightly on. A tree like an upturned hand. Pink planetracks skid across the clear, blue heavens, aftermath of a cross-sky race. A For Sale sign leans rakishly on a wall, all Sold out. The bikelight glides ghostily along the old railway.
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Reposted by Jeremy Benson
It's honestly kind of mind-blowing that this is the first time in over fifty years that anybody has been able to take a picture like this. Images of the earth are completely familiar to us, but a human hasn't pointed a camera at the whole planet for half a century.
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