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Jim Hawkins
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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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Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social · Nov 1
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!

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Good. That tosser’s level of cultural (or ‘religious’) appropriation for his own ends renders him a massive fucking hypocrite.
December 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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The Church of England is to launch a poster campaign aimed at challenging the anti-migrant message of Tommy Robinson, whose “Unite the Kingdom” movement has urged its supporters to join a carols event next weekend to “put the Christ back into Christmas”

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C of E to challenge Tommy Robinson’s ‘put Christ back into Christmas’ message
Church leaders respond to far-right appropriation of Christian symbols with ‘Outsiders welcome’ message
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December 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble.
Housman’s A Shropshire Lad 31: On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble; His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves; The gale, it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves. 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger When Uricon the city stood: 'Tis the old wind in the old anger, But then it threshed another wood. Then, 'twas before my time, the Roman At yonder heaving hill would stare: The blood that warms an English yeoman, The thoughts that hurt him, they were there. There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I. The gale, it plies the saplings double, It blows so hard, 'twill soon be gone: To-day the Roman and his trouble Are ashes under Uricon.
December 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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As Christmas draws near, why not dive into the rich folk traditions that make this time of year so special? In my article, I explore the customs and charm of celebrating a true Shropshire Christmas!

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#Shropshire #Christmas #Folklore
December 7, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Mountain paths, towpaths, bridleway paths, wooden paths - we love them all.
a path along a stream between hills - this is shropshire path along a river / canal in London path up a hill. a tree has grown over some of it making a holloyway. this is autumn a path across a field - decked to keep feet dry.
December 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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#SundayThoughts ~ Flashback to Friyay ~ Jinkxie enjoying her chicken 😻🐾🍗🎄 #inthecompanyofcats #seniorcats #villagecats #catrescue
December 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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PERFECT FUCKIT LISTS (art prints and wipe clean ones) LIVE HERE - if you’re looking for the perfect present for our, um, present!?

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#fuck #swear #profanity #gift #bsnm #smallbusiness
A4 wipe clean tick list with a big blue FUCK (cos blue language obvs) surrounded by tick lists of all the accessorising you can do with that word. From CatastroFUCK to FUCK the fucking lot of you etc etc etc Art version of same printed on lovely watercolour style posh paper for if you like to give a POSH FUCK about everything in this timeline
November 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok
weirdo @JackPosobiec reacts to netflix possibly buying warner bros: “They're going to make Looney Tunes gay They're going to make everything gay”
December 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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… and he SERVED ✨
Bugs Bunny in drag
December 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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FWOG
conniemenefee.bsky.social Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 1d
Bullfrog of the day!
Saturday, 6 Dec 2025
Small, green bullfrog in duckweed world
December 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Really enjoying the Piano Concerto 👍
leahbroad.bsky.social Leah Broad @leahbroad.bsky.social · 16d
IT’S HERE IT’S HERE IT’S HERE!!!! The very first album ever dedicated to Avril Coleridge-Taylor. This has been such a labour of love - please do listen to it, her music deserves to be heard @jkaconductor.bsky.social @tomedney.bsky.social open.spotify.com/album/6EroQD...
Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Concerto & Orchestral Works
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November 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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"We recently announced that Netflix will acquire William Shakespeare, including his plays, sonnets, narrative poems and indeed also his biography and everything he ever said. This unites our leading entertainment service with William Shakespeare's iconic stories. 'All the world's a Netflix!'"
December 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Woman on the tube: We see old people and we make all these assumptions but they are just us, and sooner than will feel possible.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Woman in Camden: Unicorns exist.
Her friend: No they don't.
Woman: Yes they do.
Friend: No they don't.
Woman: Yes they do!
Friend: You're drunk Susan,
Woman: That's how I know.
December 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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When I see myself in the bathroom mirror first thing in the morning.
December 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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🎄 Day 7 of our #Shropshire advent calendar is a wintry morning at Ironbridge, with the trees covered in a hoar frost. I spent about three hours walking up and down the gorge making the best of the conditions until the sun started to melt it all away. ☃️
December 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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The Sixth Window. The Feast of Saint Nicholas. Well-wrapped up in an enormous rose-coloured muffler, carrying a sturdy wicker basket in paw, Babcia had taken the early bus into Dorchester to do some Christmas shopping on her own.
Babcia the Pine Marten Genge & Co in Dorchester Dorchester
December 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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#OldFoxAdventCalendar
Post See new posts Conversation Anne Louise Avery @AnneLouiseAvery The Sixth Window: The night of the Feast of Saint Nicholas. The Newcomer's wagon had appeared on the village green. A thin plume of smoke wreathed from the chimney, and red and yellow and blue and green lamps were draped between the surrounding trees. But where was he? Inside, by the stove, fur as white as snow, eyes the colour of sea amber. He was spinning a silver apple in a wide silver saucer & looking upon the world in miniature. There were the tall creaking ships in the grey Atlantic swell, gulls following in the dimming skies, there were the little children playing in a harbour street in Rotterdam, there were the cravatted and moustachioed gentlemen sipping their Picon-bières in the cafes of Lille, there was the King of England coughing and wheezing by an embering fire in Craigweil House in Bognor, and there were the street lamps glimmering through the windows of Duke Humfrey's Library in the Bodleian as a scholarly fox carefully opened a 13th century manuscript at a well-remembered, well-beloved point and began to read – "SEyn Nycholas þe holi mon þat good confessour was Icome he was of heie men In þe cite of patras …"
December 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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#OldFoxAdventCalendar
The Seventh Window. St Ambrose's Day, the Honey-Tongued Doctor, Patron Saint of Bees and Beekeepers. At first light, making his way through the snow and pausing to admire the delicate rosen-gold of the dawn, Old Fox had gone to the orchards to check on the bees. They were wintering now, but a messenger bee emerged to talk to Old Fox, to hear his news and tell him theirs. With Old Fox's skill as beekeeper, they always survived the cold months, never losing even one fellow. Their winter stores were sumptuous and plentiful, and the hives were very comfortable and warm. How they loved their Old Fox! How happy they were to be bees in those quiet old orchards in that quiet old corner of Dorsetshire!
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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#OldFoxAdventCalendar
The Seventh Window. It was a glittering, snow-swathed Sunday morning of pale sun and wood-smoke and summon bells. After a hearty breakfast, Old Fox walked up to the Sheep Church, pausing on Maygad Hill to call down to the Little Girl's Aunt who was walking along a lower track. She decided to come with him and they talked happily of Christmas and the village carol concert and the research for her book on local folklore. A little robin greeted them at the porch, singing a high and rather ancient song of frozen ground and barrows and hidden gold. Inside, it was very still and a beautiful sea light fell through the blue soda windows onto the uneven stone floor. The Little Girl's Aunt sat down on a chancel pew, and Old Fox stood for a while in the silence. Then he lit the second Advent candle in the tangled wreath on the altar, and it flared straight and golden and steady. This one is for Peace, he told the Little Girl's Aunt and the robin and the faint, lonely ghosts of that lonely chapel. For Peace.
December 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Estate agent here. The biggest wankers that we have to deal with are almost always the ones who have painted their house grey. It's got to the point where I've started giving them deliberately low valuations so they go elsewhere
December 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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We've picked up a couple of fellas in 2 days - see what we can do by the end of the week.
December 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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The ‘Race Against Time’ to Save Music Legends’ Decaying Tapes

New problems are plaguing old reels, putting decades of history at risk. One man, armed with hair dryers and a love of tinkering, is leading the charge to rescue them

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/a...
The ‘Race Against Time’ to Save Music Legends’ Decaying Tapes
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December 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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The normalisation of racist slurs and bigotry is just sickening. Oh, and Bridgo is full of flags now Jim. No-one seems to be batting an eyelid.
December 7, 2025 at 7:57 AM