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Jim Hawkins
@jimallthetime.bsky.social
Podcaster at Hello You the Shropshire Podcast (jimallthetime.substack.com). Charity worker. Ex BBC radio presenter/journo

Also a photographer, musician, MC at Shrewsbury Folk Festival. Good listener, empath, creative. He/him. Say hello?
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Thrilled and honoured by this appreciative comment on the most recent episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast - The Lost Art of Noticing - by the super-noticer herself, @mirandakeeling.com 🥰

Hope you enjoy it as much as Miranda did!

jimallthetime.substack.com/p/hello-you-...
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Apparently Shirley said something to Marilyn about a man you'd had who was very good - I must borrow him.
December 6, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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🎄 It’s Day 10 of our #Shropshire advent calendar, and here are the radar domes standing like sentinels on Titterstone Clee. I spent a bitterly cold few hours up on the summit, walking around taking pictures in the late afternoon sunshine with the frozen grass crunching beneath my boots. 🎅
December 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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‘… a little bit of equality in human society does not strike me as a stupid or cruel thing to aim for, in the long run’

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Entrepreneurship and Solialism.
A heady mixture?
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Recently single, went on Tinder, found an incredibly hot guy, put on my best frock, went for a drink. He was so boring that at one point I started calculating the square root of 17 in my head - it's 4.122 something - and stabbed my wrist with a fork. Still shagged him.
December 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Me & the wife don't bother with Xmas/birthday presents for each other, instead we wrap random things from around the house for the kids to give us. Best presents so far have been a single flip-flop and a remote for a TV we don't own. Makes life so much easier.
December 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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You can't put someone or something "back" into where they already are and always have been.
December 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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A woman in Holborn struggles to close a very large, gold suitcase. Her black suede boots have many silver buckles: she’s serving just-offstage-from-a-panto-matinee-and-the-only-item-from-her-costume-that-won’t-fit-in-the-case vibes.
December 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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The Ninth Window: The Dragon of Kensington Church Street, accompanied by his best friend, a lady who ran a charming flower shop on the High street, had just hailed and climbed into a cab.
December 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Wonderful, exciting news – my Reynard the Fox is now an audiobook! Completely unabridged and read by the perfect narrator, Joseph Edward Degnan. It's available now at all the usual places, see below for links and a clip!
Sometimes the Maleperduys kitchens were cold and bare,
with only potage and pea soup and coarse dark bread and lean
scraps of bacon and dull, cheap dishes like peas-on-a-stick...

The new #audiobook of #folktale Reynard the Fox, by @annelouiseavery.bsky.social @bodleian.ox.ac.uk 🦊

➡️ lnk.to/Reynard
December 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
😲😲😲

How has British politics descended into becoming a biggest-bastard competition?
December 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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That’s going to be used to deport “anyone the nice white Nazi trending people in Shropshire don’t like” including any other white people who won’t pay them bribes or fealty.

An utter *DISGRACE* of a policy
December 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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"In South Shropshire with the continued rapid collapse of the Conservative Party, at the moment it appears the next general election will be between the Liberal Democrats and Reform. We need to help stop the UK descending into a very dark place."
Matthew Green to fight South Shropshire again
At the last election Matthew Green and his team in South Shropshire achieved a remarkable 23 per cent swing from the Conservatives, finishin...
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December 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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*New Post*

In my latest post I revisit the subject of witchcraft in Shropshire and discuss its historic and folkloric legacy. This is my most comprehensive study of the subject so far! I hope you enjoy!

nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2024/01/witc...

#witchcraft #history #folklore #witch
December 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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The Government's ambition's for the future of the railway must not ignore places like Shropshire, where transport links are nowhere near good enough.

#railwaybill #railways #Whitchurch #Oswestry #NorthShropshire #Shropshire
December 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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It was not the 'Guiness effect', nor was it a Friday afternoon special, but it does hold a very peculiar charm. #Shropshire
December 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Recently discovered, surprisingly good, slow shutter mode on my phone. #photography #Nature #landscape #shropshire #LandscapePhotography
December 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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🎄 Day 9 of our #Shropshire advent calendar takes us to historic Fish Street and St Julian's Church in Shrewsbury with - amazingly - no parked cars in sight! The street takes its name from the open air fish market which was held here until Victorian times. ☃️
December 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Incoming for 2026..

Event 1.0 Season 4.0 Matinee

#shrewsbury #shropshire #forthecurious #season4 #sygigs
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
A place in the sun: How do a bankrupt charity boss and his councillor partner afford a “luxury” flat abroad?

More (yet more) grubby goings-on from Merseyside, revealed by the excellent @liverpoolpost.bsky.social

www.livpost.co.uk/a-place-in-t...
A place in the sun: How do a bankrupt charity boss and his councillor partner afford a “luxury” flat abroad?
Peter Mitchell and Colette Goulding signed a contract for a £2,700 per month apartment in one of Gibraltar’s “finest buildings”
www.livpost.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Asylum overhaul in UK could lead to rise in homelessness and backlogs, says report

National Audit Office says Shabana Mahmood’s plans may have ‘unintended consequences’ on stretched system

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum overhaul in UK could lead to rise in homelessness and backlogs, says report
National Audit Office says Shabana Mahmood’s plans may have ‘unintended consequences’ on stretched system
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Knife threats and racial abuse all in a day's work, say Birmingham’s bus drivers

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Knife threats and racial abuse all in a day's work, say bus drivers
The BBC has spoken to passengers, transport staff and bus drivers about a growing national trend of antisocial behaviour on public transport.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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France and UK ‘failing to tackle anti-migrant activists’

Migrant support groups in France say lack of action over British activists is ‘encouraging violent and xenophobic practices’

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
France and UK ‘failing to tackle anti-migrant activists’
Migrant support groups in France say lack of action over British activists is ‘encouraging violent and xenophobic practices’
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Social media, not gaming, tied to rising attention problems in teens, new study finds

theconversation.com/social-media...
Social media, not gaming, tied to rising attention problems in teens, new study finds
A study of 8,000 children suggests social media, not screens in general, may be fuelling a rise in inattention.
theconversation.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM