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Dymvue

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Retired librarian. Wrote 3 books (see pinned post). Now carer for OH with dementia. Likes music, books, cats, choirs & silent films.

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Dymvue @dymvue.bsky.social · Oct 17

From Doodlebugs to Devon: one woman's letters & curious wartime tales
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C8Y4RMHV/
The secret diary of a 1970s secretary: romance in a BBC lift
www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Diary...
Short skirts and shorthand: what being a secretary was really like.
www.amazon.co.uk/Short-Skirts...

From Doodlebugs to Devon: Amazon.co.uk: Shaw, Sarah O: 9798223341840: Books

Buy From Doodlebugs to Devon by Shaw, Sarah O (ISBN: 9798223341840) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

www.amazon.co.uk

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 4h

"Another Reform MP has been accused of being in breach of Parliamentary rules, after its deputy leader Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality he received from Lubov Chernukhin – wife of a former Russian deputy finance minister"
leftfootforward.org/2025/10/refo...

Reform’s Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister’s wife

'Tice and Oakeshott stayed at the Chernukhins’ “turreted villa” with “a stunning view of the Mediterranean” and had supper with them at a Michelin-starred restaurant'

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Tyson Cole @tysoncole.bsky.social · 2d

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 13h

Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 7h

You’re gonna need a bigger government.

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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 7h

Completely forgot that I wrote to the FT a couple of weeks back, and just found this purely by chance while googling for something else that I've think I've written but currently can't find.

Letter: It’s black hole baloney
From Jo Michell, Professor of Economics, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Published SEP 24 2025

I was disappointed to see the FT reporting warnings of “a new black hole in the public finances” (September 9). A black hole is an astronomical body so dense that its gravity prevents anything from escaping. It is not the difference between a relatively arbitrary target and an uncertain forecast. As the BBC has acknowledged, journalists have a responsibility to take particular care when reporting on the public finances. Misleading and emotive metaphors should not be used — at least without caveat or quotation marks — in a serious newspaper such as the FT.

Jo Michell
Professor of Economics, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

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slowdriver25.bsky.social @slowdriver25.bsky.social · 1d

#blackcats #cats #scooter #escooter #ebike #EV #catsky #catsofbluesky #blueskycats #felines #kitty #pets #animals #animalphotography #photosky #PhonePhotography #photo #MobilePhotography #photography #catpics #mouser

a black cat laying in loaf position facing to the right and looking in to the camera, while laying on the rear seat of a black e-bike scooter

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Dymvue @dymvue.bsky.social · 9h

£98 at Boots. Both Tesco and Boots would require considerable car journey. Maybe I will just chance it and if I am very ill leave social services to pick up the consequences.

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Dymvue @dymvue.bsky.social · 9h

Tesco!!!

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Oscar Lozada @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social · 12h

#HillfortsWednesday Dumpdon Hillfort, with its distinctive clump of beech trees, sits on one of the largest and most striking hills in the Blackdown Hills of Devon

Closer up it has some impressive Iron Age earthworks too!

📸 Blackdown Hills AONB

#archaeology #ancientbluesky #photooftheday 🏺

A landscape of rolling hills, patchwork fields and woodland, with a distinctive hilltop in the distance with a clump of trees

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christhecatsmum.bsky.social @christhecatsmum.bsky.social · 11h

bbc.com/news/article...

Then MP's should too.

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

The tougher rules will come in force in January as part of wider plans to cut immigration.

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 13h

Fayaz Khan will not be "walking the streets" in 18 months.

Under a law change by the Labour government he'll be instantly deported upon release.

Fartrage knows that. He also knows his lie will convince supporters that Britain has gone soft and Deform is the Viagra the country needs.

Cocks.

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Dymvue @dymvue.bsky.social · 11h

Update - GP now says no. So no vaccination for me.

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Dymvue @dymvue.bsky.social · 11h

Good news! And hello from Bridport.

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Dymvue @dymvue.bsky.social · 13h

And hooray for the Public #Library

'Beaminster Library said it was offering free wi-fi from 10:00 to 13:00 for anyone who needed it.'

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Dymvue @dymvue.bsky.social · 13h

And hooray for the Public #Library

'Beaminster Library said it was offering free wi-fi from 10:00 to 13:00 for anyone who needed it.'

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Dymvue @dymvue.bsky.social · 13h

When I worked at The Langham in the 1970s bomb damage to the building was still visible.

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Lady Weathergirl @ladyweathergirl.bsky.social · 14h

What with accidents and increased cyber attacks, we’ll all be back to pen and paper as well as digital! Crazy.

Dymvue @dymvue.bsky.social · 13h

Not sure but I think cell phones are out. The greengrocer is taking his handset home to Loders and uploading the daily transactions using the internet connection at home.

Thanks for the picture!

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Steve Worcester @stevewfolds.bsky.social · 14h

Curious American fan guessing that cell phone coverage is not available? The 14 miles to Loder for an internet connection seems dangerous.

Books by Sara Shaw.

- Secret Diary of a 1970s Secretary, 2015

- From Doodlebugs to Devon, 2025

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Dymvue @dymvue.bsky.social · 15h

I gather the greengrocer has to upload all his transactions from the card reader when he gets home to Loders! And cancelling a flu jab required entering details on a PostIt!
Interesting that there is no backup system. This must apply to many areas, do you think?

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Richard Sims @simsre.bsky.social · 15h

Apparently the car could not be moved until the forensic evidence had been collected.
It is surprising that the cables are not underground. Either that or have a second route as back up.
Never the less all the Beaminster shops were open and the Doctors flu jab service was in full operation.

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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 12d

Congratulations to Dame Sarah Mullally on becoming the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury.

Dame Sarah was in Cambridge to install the new Master of Selwyn College @@selwyn1882.bsky.social, Suzanne Raine @suzanneraine.bsky.social, yesterday evening.

📸 Nigel Cooper

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Selwyn College @selwyn1882.bsky.social · Jun 11

Congratulations to alumnus Dr Dmitri Levitin on winning a @dandavidprize.org. Dmitri says: “It's no coincidence that I turned to early modern history while studying at Selwyn: for the last 50 years, it has been one of the world’s great centres of excellence in the subject.”

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 16h

Unbeatable Times picture/caption combo on Oxford PPE student who led chants of " put the Zios in the ground” at London rally.

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Dymvue @dymvue.bsky.social · 15h

Following a collision between a car and a pole, Beaminster, Dorset has had no internet connection since Monday. Worrying consequences for local businesses and residents reveals how dependent we are on tech.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Car fire cuts off internet to Beaminster homes and businesses

Customers in Beaminster have had no broadband since a car crashed into a telegraph pole.

www.bbc.co.uk

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