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Darren Hemsley
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Not from Helmsley. Birds, Science, Science fiction, gigs, ..
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All that money, yet he looks like a hobo that’s been fired through a bramble thicket from a trebuchet.
February 11, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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One of the maddest elements of Brexit - and there are *many* - is the rewards that continue to be lavished on the blithering idiots who sold it & continue to be proved wrong about everything every day…
Ex Tory MP John Redwood has been made a peer, as Lord Redwood on 31 January, and was formally introduced in the Lords on Tuesday
February 11, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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The RSPB is looking for surveyors to census the UK’s largest Storm Petrel colony on Mousa, Shetland.

We need 2-4 volunteers who are comfortable working and camping in a remote location with limited facilities, to help complete playback surveys during mid-July 2026. 🪺🏝️🏕️
February 10, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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Just over 100 years ago, the ‘Battle of the Isle of May’ took place with the loss of 104 men. The great tragedy took place on this date as the blog explains; isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com
January 31, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Enjoyed the brief potato theme on #totp Skunk Anansie with Charlie Big Potatoe and then E17… of the baked potatoes.
January 31, 2026 at 9:48 AM
The very talented Paddy Steer
January 31, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Boooooongooooos #totp
January 31, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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Other work of the Ladybird artists.
'Hawk above the Downs'
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
January 30, 2026 at 8:07 AM
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Suella Braverman is teaming up with Farage to bring Trump-style chaos to Britain.
January 26, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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Last week no living person had seen a #kakapo lay an egg. Now you can watch it on our webcam: Rakiura laid her second today (15:01 on 25/1/2025). She'll probably lay another in 3 days' time. #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...
January 25, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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that Farage and Badenoch want ICE-style action in the UK should be enough to end them
January 24, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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While Bear Grylls kits out his weapon-laden deathproof dinghy, the REAL survival expert, Ray Mears has just boat a set of stepladders and a cricket bat to offset rising sea levels and the subsequent breakdown of civilisation.
January 24, 2026 at 11:26 AM
He’s gonna give Jools Holland ideas #totp
January 23, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Did they just decide it wasn’t even worth pretending the Rollers were a band? #totp
January 23, 2026 at 9:53 PM
What are the weird mouth shapes all about with the Kemp brothers? #totp
January 23, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Early Foghorn Hadley auditioning for a part in Robin of Sherwood #totp
January 23, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Ruby Murray and totp.. what could go wrong #totp
January 23, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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Creepy racist scumbag JD Vance: “If we're trying to find a sex offender, tell us where the guy lives.”

He lives in the bulldozed White House and crime hub Mar-a-Lago. If you need more of a hint, he’s your fucking criminal boss.
January 23, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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January 16, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Bad miss #totp
January 16, 2026 at 11:34 PM
I’ve had to resort to watching Kim Wilde videos on Vevo - just to keep me hanging on #totp
January 16, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Watched Starfleet Academy and my take home is that I’m not sure and the one thing I never expected from trek was a Klingon birder….
January 16, 2026 at 3:38 PM
I see honest bob’s being honest again with the “I’m only doing this for all of you”
January 16, 2026 at 3:31 PM
We’re into hour 2 of next door’s husky howling ceaselessly and I’m losing all the goodwill I gained from watching Good Boy.
January 16, 2026 at 10:06 AM