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Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 1d

I have the tiny ickle equivalent

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Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh will definitely check them out

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Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 3d

"Your train will be delayed by 8 minutes. Mussolini made the trains run on time"

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Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 5d

Grandad, not Uncle Jimmy...I feel very old these days but that might be pushing it a bit.

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Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 5d

My jaw dropped a bit. So many other windows into a bygone world like Uncle Jummy who died of fever in the Transvaal during the Boer War, and way more drunken antics than I would ever have associated with him mind you, he died when I was 8)

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Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 5d

Coincidentally am going through my grandad's old papers. Seems my great grandad was at school with J. M. Barrie

..temporary spell of great popularity!

One of his fellow pupils at the Academy, a little lad called Jimmy Barrie, afterwards became an author of some note. My father said "we didn't think much of him at the time".

Concluding his education at the Academy (my father had several school-prizes to show for his work), he had a short spell of doing office work in a Glasgow business firm, but it did not appeal to him: he hated to be cooped up in an office. During this time he joined a Scottish Territorial Regiment.

My grandfather wished one of his sons to return to St. Kitts to look after the family business, and remarked that Charlie had the largest appetite, a prerequisite for success as a West Indian planter, and there were childhood memories of warm and sunny days to make him wish to return to the West Indies.

My father after his arrival in St. Kitts, aged 24, became a well- liked and respected citizen of the island; he was handsome and athletic, an enthusiastic cricketer, and a strong swimmer. His early photographs him with a moustache and a closely-clipped pointed beard, which never varied throughout his life. I have seen an amusingly-posed photograph of a card-party in progress with three other young planters, playing poker, revolvers, bowie-knives and Winchester rifles displayed...

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Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 7d

Like a warm cocoon :)

Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah yeah, warm colour, whatevs

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Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 8d

I suspect i love Halloween simply because orange is a fecking cool colour

A room littered with oranges, pumpkins, and orange lit Halloween decorations

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Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 8d

Honestly it just made me wonder if there was a Welsh character in the MCU

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 9d

If eating scotch eggs in an Austin Allegro had a face.

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Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 9d

I suppose if Hhitler is your hero then invading Norway is the logical next step

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Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 10d

she'd turn in her grave looking at the like of Jenrick citing her though.

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Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 10d

I remember my older brother returning from Our Price with that one, a classic.

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Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 11d

what the hell are they supposed to be conserving if not knowledge?

Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 12d

First time I've not seen it described as a war in MSM. Bit late, but it's important for framing what's happened over the last 2 years. TWO YEARS?!?!?!

Israel-Gaza: two years on
The ruin of Gaza: how Israel's two-year assault has devastated the territory
IDF's bombs and ground offensive have killed tens of thousands of people and reduced entire cities to rubble

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Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 13d

That time of year again

A dimly lit kitchen. A carved pumpkin glows on the tabletop, a Skeleton straddling a jar alongside.

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Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 13d

He forgot to set the ring to anonymous chousing.

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Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 16d

Is "your man" a thing in Britain? I've only ever heard it here in Ireland

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Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 16d

Will check it out, thanks.

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Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks so much.

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Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 17d

Joyful album, love it.

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Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 17d

Geese - Getting Killed
Will definitely be in my top 10 this year. I'd never heard of them, but it's brilliant, slightly janky, layered, melodious Rock.
I get the feeling the singer's Clap Your Hands Say Yeah adjecent vocals might wind people up, but I loved that and I absolutely love this.

Album cover of Getting Killed by New York band, Geese.
Image depicts a trumpet(?) player silhouetted against bright sunlight and a blue sky.

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Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 17d

I have a couple of their albums, I always wanted to like them more than i actually did, not for want of trying. I've no idea what didn't gel.

I loved School of Seven Bells though (RIP)

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Piersy @mockneypiers.bsky.social · 17d

@chrischirp.bsky.social
Is that you being brandished as evidence? Cool.
youtu.be/HQFrHUTcsPk?...