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Dog lover, reader, lover of nature, respect & courtesy. Proper F1 fan. Proudly European 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺 Fella🇺🇦NAFO 🇺🇦 BLM ✊🏿LGBT 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 Enjoyer of the light-hearted & humorous side of life. 🌈🌈🌈🦄💕💕💕

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Rosa @rosalindanne.bsky.social · Aug 21

@dlbowman76.com
Ten movies to know me:
A matter of life & death ( Powell & Pressberger version)
Lawrence of Arabia
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Breaking Away
The Draughtsman’s Contract
Galaxy Quest
Gladiator
Jean de Florette
Master & Commander
The Leopard

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Rosa @rosalindanne.bsky.social · 8h

We have lots of
buddleia dotted about for maximum Butterly joy. Pond is for newts & dragon flies.BEST news is signs there are dormice in our Hazel hedges. Also had a huge grass snake visiting a couple of years ago. Molehills in the orchard & dozens of rabbits! Some days I feel like Snow White!!

Rosa @rosalindanne.bsky.social · 8h

My childhood home bought by my parents in 1956. Very Darling Buds of May. My grandparents were born in the 19th Century.Brilliant tree houses, camp fires, ponds & a stream & old potting sheds. In the barn there was huge black diesel generator like the engine on a Russian train.
Benenden Kent

A family gathering. I’m the girl in the turquoise dress who’d rather be up the stream building a dam !

This is the house I grew up in, in 1950s & 60s in the Weald of Kent. No mains electricity or central heating. Built in the 14th Century. Oak beams from ships. Not a level surface anywhere. You could roller skate down our bedroom floor.

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Rosa @rosalindanne.bsky.social · 8h

Enjoy!!

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Rosa @rosalindanne.bsky.social · 8h

And a long run of stone with holes in it, so you could chat to your mates plus a fancy gutter running with freshwater to rinse your sponge on a stick in. Seen one at Ephesus.

Rosa @rosalindanne.bsky.social · 8h

Probably thousands.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 2d

Fieldfare and Redwing, Tunnicliffe, 1947.

As described, both perched in a tree eating berries, illustration

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Rosa @rosalindanne.bsky.social · 8h

On the Westesy/ Cromwell Rd as you enter London proper. Lovely arched windows.

Rosa @rosalindanne.bsky.social · 9h

Crikey. Draconian !

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

Dedication in PG Wodehouse’s autobiography, 1957

To Who
J. Alastair Frisby
Who
Told Me I Would Never Have A Book Published
And
Advised me
To
Get a job selling jellied eels
SUCKS TO YOU, FRISBY

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Rosa @rosalindanne.bsky.social · 9h

Some are pretty obvious, some are slightly harsh.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

Hertfordshire County Council rules for library use, 1930

RULES FOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
BAN ON LIARS AND DIRTY FACES
Strict rules, which have been approved by the Hertfordshire County Council, are to be imposed by the Hyde Institute Library, Barnet Vale.

LIBRARY USERS iN FUTURE MUST NOT:
Enter the library if their faces are offensively dirty.
Fall asleep on the tables.
Eat their lunches whilst reading papers, books, &c
Smoke in the building.
Leave their business cards behind.
Make themselves a nuisance.
Kick or damage the furniture.
Bring dogs within the portals.
Tell lies to the librarian.
Enter when they are in an inebriated con- dition.
If they have small-pox.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 1d

The official answers

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 2d

An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old

“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”

Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)

Black-and-white picture of two children playing in woodland. Also in the picture, there are 12 hidden animals including an owl, a bat and a squirrel.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 1d

Tulip says ELLO

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

Derwent village’s drowned church in Ladybower Reservoir, Derbyshire

two people looking at a church spire above the water level of a reservoir

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Rosa @rosalindanne.bsky.social · 9h

Yes! Yes! Yes! Heartfelt agreement. I am keeping my local
Gelateria going single handedly! Plus the Indie cinema. And little independent knick knack shops when all
the tourists have gone.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot stress this strongly enough: Support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. They need us, and more importantly, we need them.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

Clifford Harper’s illustration of WWI soldiers in the trenches.

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a trench scene, two soldiers embrace, while one sits and another looks over the top of the sandbagged trench

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Rosa @rosalindanne.bsky.social · 9h

It’s a much tidier & prettier version of me!’

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 1d

On #BookshopDay

Ladybird book character Jane, choosing herself a new Ladybird book

Artist: Harry Wingfield,
(Read and Write, 1965)

Jane stands browsing at the stand of Ladybird books in a small shop. She is wearing her customary outfit of pristine white frock, bright yellow cardigan and red shoes.

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Chris Drew @mesnilman.bsky.social · 1d

I'm virtually joining my very good friend @richienb.bsky.social in a glass of Calvados.

The week we have #WorldCalvadosDay and it would be remiss of me not to mark this important date in the calendar...

This is the label on the bottle of my 20 year old, double distilled Calvados. You can just make out the glass on the right of the photo.

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Rosa @rosalindanne.bsky.social · 9h

My love for different animals was formed in childhood. Reindeer pull Santa’s sleigh thus forever Christmas. Roe Deer Bambi. Rabbits, mice hedgehogs, all Beatrix Potter. Beavers & Fauns the Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe. Water Voles ( Ratty) Moles & Toads Wind in the Willows. Dogs 101 Dalmations

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 1d

Lapland beauty

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Rosa @rosalindanne.bsky.social · 9h

Beetroot. Gladiator2. MacArthur Park.