John Duncan Burns
@jdburns.bsky.social
Mostly retired payments geek, FRSA, musical omnivore,Woke Humanist,liberal supporter of @whiteribbon_uk, dad to 2 daughters, married for 44
years to Jenny.
years to Jenny.
#deliveries
An announcement for Royal Mail, Evri, Amazon, DPD, Yodel - I don’t have a “delivery experience” to rate. My parcel either gets here in one piece 👍 or it doesn’t 👎 It’s binary. I’m not going to fill in your stupid survey every bloody time.
An announcement for Royal Mail, Evri, Amazon, DPD, Yodel - I don’t have a “delivery experience” to rate. My parcel either gets here in one piece 👍 or it doesn’t 👎 It’s binary. I’m not going to fill in your stupid survey every bloody time.
December 31, 2025 at 11:46 AM
#deliveries
An announcement for Royal Mail, Evri, Amazon, DPD, Yodel - I don’t have a “delivery experience” to rate. My parcel either gets here in one piece 👍 or it doesn’t 👎 It’s binary. I’m not going to fill in your stupid survey every bloody time.
An announcement for Royal Mail, Evri, Amazon, DPD, Yodel - I don’t have a “delivery experience” to rate. My parcel either gets here in one piece 👍 or it doesn’t 👎 It’s binary. I’m not going to fill in your stupid survey every bloody time.
#NewYearWishes
A beautiful song for the New Year. After 2025 these lyrics say it all:
“May this next year go easier on your soul
May the next year go easier on your soul”
youtu.be/0YQ0dtDgYUY
A beautiful song for the New Year. After 2025 these lyrics say it all:
“May this next year go easier on your soul
May the next year go easier on your soul”
youtu.be/0YQ0dtDgYUY
Blue Rose Code feat. Karine Polwart '(I Wish You) Peace In Your Heart' Official Music Video
YouTube video by Blue Rose Code
youtu.be
December 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM
#NewYearWishes
A beautiful song for the New Year. After 2025 these lyrics say it all:
“May this next year go easier on your soul
May the next year go easier on your soul”
youtu.be/0YQ0dtDgYUY
A beautiful song for the New Year. After 2025 these lyrics say it all:
“May this next year go easier on your soul
May the next year go easier on your soul”
youtu.be/0YQ0dtDgYUY
#TateBritain
Excellent visit to the Turner and Constable exhibition at Tate Britain. I’d always thought of Constable as being a bit “chocolate box” for my taste but there are some wonderful works of his here. Also insights into Turner’s approach. Definitely recommended.
Excellent visit to the Turner and Constable exhibition at Tate Britain. I’d always thought of Constable as being a bit “chocolate box” for my taste but there are some wonderful works of his here. Also insights into Turner’s approach. Definitely recommended.
December 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
#TateBritain
Excellent visit to the Turner and Constable exhibition at Tate Britain. I’d always thought of Constable as being a bit “chocolate box” for my taste but there are some wonderful works of his here. Also insights into Turner’s approach. Definitely recommended.
Excellent visit to the Turner and Constable exhibition at Tate Britain. I’d always thought of Constable as being a bit “chocolate box” for my taste but there are some wonderful works of his here. Also insights into Turner’s approach. Definitely recommended.
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Reposted by John Duncan Burns
Ciaran Jenkins and I have recorded another Channel 4 News/BBC News long-distance musical collaboration for Christmas. This year we play The Coventry Carol. To all who are celebrating, wishing you a happy, peaceful Christmas.
For Christmas, a BBC/Channel 4 collaboration: The Coventry Carol
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Ciaran Jenkins and I have recorded another Channel 4 News/BBC News long-distance musical collaboration for Christmas. This year we play The Coventry Carol. To all who are celebrating, wishing you a happy, peaceful Christmas.
Golden Christmas Eve sunset in Merstham, Surrey.
December 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Golden Christmas Eve sunset in Merstham, Surrey.
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Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”
December 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”
#ChristmasBaking
Christmas baking by my wife today. I’ve. Been testing cinnamon coated almonds, marzipan lined mince pies and cranberry and pistachio shortbread cookies, half coated in dark chocolate. It’s a hard job, but somebody’s got to do it!
Christmas baking by my wife today. I’ve. Been testing cinnamon coated almonds, marzipan lined mince pies and cranberry and pistachio shortbread cookies, half coated in dark chocolate. It’s a hard job, but somebody’s got to do it!
December 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
#ChristmasBaking
Christmas baking by my wife today. I’ve. Been testing cinnamon coated almonds, marzipan lined mince pies and cranberry and pistachio shortbread cookies, half coated in dark chocolate. It’s a hard job, but somebody’s got to do it!
Christmas baking by my wife today. I’ve. Been testing cinnamon coated almonds, marzipan lined mince pies and cranberry and pistachio shortbread cookies, half coated in dark chocolate. It’s a hard job, but somebody’s got to do it!
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Reposted by John Duncan Burns
#gardening
First snowdrops have appeared in our garden
First snowdrops have appeared in our garden
December 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
#gardening
First snowdrops have appeared in our garden
First snowdrops have appeared in our garden
#RugbyUnion #GlasgowWarriors
Wow!!! Glasgow Warriors 28 Toulouse 21, Toulouse having been 21:0 up at half time. Well done the Warriors indeed.
Wow!!! Glasgow Warriors 28 Toulouse 21, Toulouse having been 21:0 up at half time. Well done the Warriors indeed.
December 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
#RugbyUnion #GlasgowWarriors
Wow!!! Glasgow Warriors 28 Toulouse 21, Toulouse having been 21:0 up at half time. Well done the Warriors indeed.
Wow!!! Glasgow Warriors 28 Toulouse 21, Toulouse having been 21:0 up at half time. Well done the Warriors indeed.
#FolkMusic #ChristmasMusic Watching this again, as I do every Christmas. I recommend you do the same if you want to get into the Christmas spirit. youtu.be/vWAsUuXws_Y
B B C Four Sessions - The Christmas Session
YouTube video by Lee Nicklen
youtu.be
December 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
#FolkMusic #ChristmasMusic Watching this again, as I do every Christmas. I recommend you do the same if you want to get into the Christmas spirit. youtu.be/vWAsUuXws_Y
#Photography #Nature
Jeweled spider webs on a misty Merstham morning (which is surely the first line of a folk song)
Jeweled spider webs on a misty Merstham morning (which is surely the first line of a folk song)
December 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
#Photography #Nature
Jeweled spider webs on a misty Merstham morning (which is surely the first line of a folk song)
Jeweled spider webs on a misty Merstham morning (which is surely the first line of a folk song)
#FolkMusic #ChristmasMusic
At Union Chapel for @jonboden and @elizacarthy.bsky.social Christmas Wassail.
At Union Chapel for @jonboden and @elizacarthy.bsky.social Christmas Wassail.
December 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
#FolkMusic #ChristmasMusic
At Union Chapel for @jonboden and @elizacarthy.bsky.social Christmas Wassail.
At Union Chapel for @jonboden and @elizacarthy.bsky.social Christmas Wassail.
#ChristmasMusic
We are off to @ tonight to see Jon Biden and Eliza Carthy’s Christmas Wassail - looking forward to seeing and hearing this live.
If you’re looking for something to get you in a Christmas mood, try this - just gorgeous.
youtu.be/QnWMIbwt-7Q
We are off to @ tonight to see Jon Biden and Eliza Carthy’s Christmas Wassail - looking forward to seeing and hearing this live.
If you’re looking for something to get you in a Christmas mood, try this - just gorgeous.
youtu.be/QnWMIbwt-7Q
Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden - Beautiful Star
YouTube video by Hudson Records
youtu.be
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
#ChristmasMusic
We are off to @ tonight to see Jon Biden and Eliza Carthy’s Christmas Wassail - looking forward to seeing and hearing this live.
If you’re looking for something to get you in a Christmas mood, try this - just gorgeous.
youtu.be/QnWMIbwt-7Q
We are off to @ tonight to see Jon Biden and Eliza Carthy’s Christmas Wassail - looking forward to seeing and hearing this live.
If you’re looking for something to get you in a Christmas mood, try this - just gorgeous.
youtu.be/QnWMIbwt-7Q
@jonnelledge.bsky.social My ‘Secret Santa’ from the company Christmas party on Monday. Looking forward to diving in.
December 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
@jonnelledge.bsky.social My ‘Secret Santa’ from the company Christmas party on Monday. Looking forward to diving in.
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Started laughing thinking about this again so am contractually obliged to repost it.
Written by @quantick.bsky.social
Written by @quantick.bsky.social
The greatest description of Star Wars ever by a non-fan.
Take it away, Malcolm Tucker
Take it away, Malcolm Tucker
December 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Started laughing thinking about this again so am contractually obliged to repost it.
Written by @quantick.bsky.social
Written by @quantick.bsky.social
Reposted by John Duncan Burns
It's being reported internationally. In the UK, mostly, silence.
"Representatives from the crypto industry have held meetings with Reform feeding into the party’s strategy... Farage has championed several industry causes since including picking a fight with the Bank of England over regulation." ~AA
"Representatives from the crypto industry have held meetings with Reform feeding into the party’s strategy... Farage has championed several industry causes since including picking a fight with the Bank of England over regulation." ~AA
December 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It's being reported internationally. In the UK, mostly, silence.
"Representatives from the crypto industry have held meetings with Reform feeding into the party’s strategy... Farage has championed several industry causes since including picking a fight with the Bank of England over regulation." ~AA
"Representatives from the crypto industry have held meetings with Reform feeding into the party’s strategy... Farage has championed several industry causes since including picking a fight with the Bank of England over regulation." ~AA
@katerusby.bsky.social Thanks for a wonderful gig at the Royal Festival Hall tonight. Christmas has begun for us now.
December 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
@katerusby.bsky.social Thanks for a wonderful gig at the Royal Festival Hall tonight. Christmas has begun for us now.
#ChristmasMusic
At the Royal Festival Hall for Kate Rusby’s Christmas Tour. Loads of the traditional Christmas Carols as sung in the pubs of South Yorkshire in prospect. A fixture by our seasonal calendar for years.
Jon Biden and Eliza Carthy at Union Chapel coming up on Friday.
At the Royal Festival Hall for Kate Rusby’s Christmas Tour. Loads of the traditional Christmas Carols as sung in the pubs of South Yorkshire in prospect. A fixture by our seasonal calendar for years.
Jon Biden and Eliza Carthy at Union Chapel coming up on Friday.
December 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
#ChristmasMusic
At the Royal Festival Hall for Kate Rusby’s Christmas Tour. Loads of the traditional Christmas Carols as sung in the pubs of South Yorkshire in prospect. A fixture by our seasonal calendar for years.
Jon Biden and Eliza Carthy at Union Chapel coming up on Friday.
At the Royal Festival Hall for Kate Rusby’s Christmas Tour. Loads of the traditional Christmas Carols as sung in the pubs of South Yorkshire in prospect. A fixture by our seasonal calendar for years.
Jon Biden and Eliza Carthy at Union Chapel coming up on Friday.
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"Hezekiah Moscow, the man himself."
New trailer's out - Series II #AThousandBlows
Historical consultancy by myself and Hallie Rubenhold.
Streams 9th January 2026.
I won't be banging on about this series as much as the first. Too busy writing a book about the lads 😅🥊
youtu.be/e0FBRcf40FM?...
New trailer's out - Series II #AThousandBlows
Historical consultancy by myself and Hallie Rubenhold.
Streams 9th January 2026.
I won't be banging on about this series as much as the first. Too busy writing a book about the lads 😅🥊
youtu.be/e0FBRcf40FM?...
A Thousand Blows | Season 2 Trailer | Hulu
YouTube video by Hulu
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"Hezekiah Moscow, the man himself."
New trailer's out - Series II #AThousandBlows
Historical consultancy by myself and Hallie Rubenhold.
Streams 9th January 2026.
I won't be banging on about this series as much as the first. Too busy writing a book about the lads 😅🥊
youtu.be/e0FBRcf40FM?...
New trailer's out - Series II #AThousandBlows
Historical consultancy by myself and Hallie Rubenhold.
Streams 9th January 2026.
I won't be banging on about this series as much as the first. Too busy writing a book about the lads 😅🥊
youtu.be/e0FBRcf40FM?...
#Glasgow #Farage
Given Farage’s latest racist outpourings on languages spoken by Glasgow children and the sainted Stanley Baxter’s forthcoming 100th birthday, my mind went immediately to this youtu.be/T_Lk7qivXbw
Given Farage’s latest racist outpourings on languages spoken by Glasgow children and the sainted Stanley Baxter’s forthcoming 100th birthday, my mind went immediately to this youtu.be/T_Lk7qivXbw
Stanley Baxter - Parliamo Glasgow - Mia Farra's farra, the marra & the barra
YouTube video by Cheeseford
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
#Glasgow #Farage
Given Farage’s latest racist outpourings on languages spoken by Glasgow children and the sainted Stanley Baxter’s forthcoming 100th birthday, my mind went immediately to this youtu.be/T_Lk7qivXbw
Given Farage’s latest racist outpourings on languages spoken by Glasgow children and the sainted Stanley Baxter’s forthcoming 100th birthday, my mind went immediately to this youtu.be/T_Lk7qivXbw