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Simon Hendy

@simonhendy.bsky.social

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Bristol, UK 📷 Enthusiast photographer (including film) 🏉 Northampton Saints fan 🍷 Wannabe foodie and wine snob 🏹 Archerist 🍑 Naturist 🚲 Theoretical cyclist Sometimes I combine various of these activities.

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · Apr 3

I'm going to experiment with a Substack blog in place of the underused blogs on my main website - let's see how it goes.
This first post is about how my dad's photos have been used in disinformation in Spain, and how Spanish media organisations are fact-checking it.
open.substack.com/pub/simonhen...

An image of two ladies walking along King's Road in Chelsea in 1970, one of them licking an ice cream. The photo was taken by my dad.

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 1d

An unbiased opinion, obvs 🙂

Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 1d

A good piece about the Bletchley Park computers, highlighting the crucial role of Tommy Flowers.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies

The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...

www.theguardian.com

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 1d

We bought a cheapish one about 3 years ago but upgraded last year to a small Sage oven with an air fryer setting, which works really well for what we cook. We've hardly used the main oven since, its main purpose now seems to be somewhere to store the pressure cooker.

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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 2d

At the end of the summer season Cheltenham Lido drains down the pool and re-fills for winter cold water swimming. But before that, they open it to dogs for the weekend. It's Mabel's favourite day of the year.

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 1d

A bit late to the party?

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A father and ~12yo son cycling up a moderate slope, with the son clearly beasting his dad.
Father: "I'm in pain, don't tell me to 'come on'"

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

Pantogram’s miniature binary typewriter
spoon-tamago.com/pantograph-i...

tiny typewriter with two keys 0 and 1 the paper in it is covered with 0's and 1's

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 4d

We had a tit of some variety in the bedroom today - it found its own way back out of the window, seemingly leaving just a few small deposits on the window sill.

Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 4d

Nope, I'm out there.
a) I don't want to sprain my tongue
b) I don't want to cause a diplomatic incident

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 4d

And now @mogwai.scot in February as well.

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 4d

Suth'rk
Gren-ich or Gren-idge

Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 4d

Gray-me?

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🅢🅗🅔🅔🅝🅐 @sheena-mck.bsky.social · 5d

This made me laugh more than it probably should 😂
#funny

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 4d

In the UK - I used to work for a company with parent offices in New England.
A US-focused internal magazine had a piece on local pronunciations and someone commented that "they pronounce it 'Woos-ter'".
Everyone in the UK 🤷
Mind you, we cope with Towcester, Loughborough and Beaulieu...

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 5d

Booked to see Kraftwerk next summer.

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 5d

It’s World Octopus Day. There were 4,200 Lego octopuses inside the shipping container that fell off the Tokio Express back in 1997. We found our first Lego octopus soon afterwards but didn’t discover another for 18 years. #WorldOctopusDay #oceanplastic

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 5d

A superb show from @daraobriain.bsky.social last night - very funny.
The main part of the second half is a follow-up to his previous show, tracing his birth family - really well told, quite the emotional rollercoaster.
Highly recommended, he's very good at what he does.

Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 5d

I don't share my Wordles very often, but this is worth it. No idea where that came from!

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 6d

Hey! Lots more fun here now.

Original versions of the title images from Cheers: UPDATED.

open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...

Where nobody knows your name...

Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.

open.substack.com

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 5d

I had a 386-20 in 1991, it was over £1k and I couldn't afford a 386-33 let alone a 486.
It had about 2mb RAM and a 105mb disk. The extra 5 was important at that size!
Video memory was something like 0.5mb.
I also remember that the CF card that came with my first (3.3mp) digital camera was all of 8mb

Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 6d

Just waiting for @daraobriain.bsky.social to come on stage
#bristol

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 6d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 6d

We need someone to visualise this route, so we can see its madness in all its glory.

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 7d

We have seen a sign in France for a "Chateau Gonflable"

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 7d

Comedy = tragedy + time

Scarborough Fair = parsley, sage, rosemary + thyme

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