Neill Roberts
@robbo59.bsky.social
Retired teacher of English. Busy doing stuff. 📚 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
Full disclosure: no interest in pets, crypto and sport. And don’t get me started on ludicrous names for shades of paint.
Full disclosure: no interest in pets, crypto and sport. And don’t get me started on ludicrous names for shades of paint.
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Neill Roberts
@robbo59.bsky.social
· Sep 19
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here.
But, while we can, say it anyway.
But, while we can, say it anyway.
93, 332 at time of signing. One last shove needed.
November 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
93, 332 at time of signing. One last shove needed.
There’s more to British history than the bloody Tudors!
The seventeenth century is where the REALLY big stuff happens.
This is a terrific series. Give it a listen.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...
The seventeenth century is where the REALLY big stuff happens.
This is a terrific series. Give it a listen.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...
Uprising: The Civil Wars
History Podcast · Weekly series · On 30 January 1649, King Charles I was led on to a freshly
erected scaffold outside Whitehall’s Banqueting House in London. Thousands of spectators watched in shock a...
podcasts.apple.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
There’s more to British history than the bloody Tudors!
The seventeenth century is where the REALLY big stuff happens.
This is a terrific series. Give it a listen.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...
The seventeenth century is where the REALLY big stuff happens.
This is a terrific series. Give it a listen.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...
If I ever have the misfortune to meet Nigel Farage, I have some ready-prepared banter to share with him.
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
If I ever have the misfortune to meet Nigel Farage, I have some ready-prepared banter to share with him.
I guess that’s why they call it the Reflecting Lake.
Gonna make a nightmare jigsaw.
#Lyme
#NationalTrust
#Cheshire
#photography
Gonna make a nightmare jigsaw.
#Lyme
#NationalTrust
#Cheshire
#photography
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I guess that’s why they call it the Reflecting Lake.
Gonna make a nightmare jigsaw.
#Lyme
#NationalTrust
#Cheshire
#photography
Gonna make a nightmare jigsaw.
#Lyme
#NationalTrust
#Cheshire
#photography
I don’t know what’s in this week’s Budget. And I know that I don’t know. And I wish that all the other people who don’t know would admit they don’t know.
Time for a lie-down.
#UKPolitics
#Budget
Time for a lie-down.
#UKPolitics
#Budget
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I don’t know what’s in this week’s Budget. And I know that I don’t know. And I wish that all the other people who don’t know would admit they don’t know.
Time for a lie-down.
#UKPolitics
#Budget
Time for a lie-down.
#UKPolitics
#Budget
Reposted by Neill Roberts
NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵
Never mind Proust and his madeleine: I just opened a tin of Dubbin. The years just rolled away.
November 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Never mind Proust and his madeleine: I just opened a tin of Dubbin. The years just rolled away.
So … Natasha is married to Amber’s dad …
#TheArchers
#TheArchers
November 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
So … Natasha is married to Amber’s dad …
#TheArchers
#TheArchers
November 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Dear Donald
I think you’ve got enough to worry about. So do one.
Yours
The BBC
I think you’ve got enough to worry about. So do one.
Yours
The BBC
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Dear Donald
I think you’ve got enough to worry about. So do one.
Yours
The BBC
I think you’ve got enough to worry about. So do one.
Yours
The BBC
For what it’s worth …
We have very high expectations of the BBC, one such being that they will tell the truth.
We have very low expectations of Donald Trump, one such being that he will lie.
The BBC occasionally disappoints our expectations. Donald Trump never does.
#BBC
We have very high expectations of the BBC, one such being that they will tell the truth.
We have very low expectations of Donald Trump, one such being that he will lie.
The BBC occasionally disappoints our expectations. Donald Trump never does.
#BBC
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
For what it’s worth …
We have very high expectations of the BBC, one such being that they will tell the truth.
We have very low expectations of Donald Trump, one such being that he will lie.
The BBC occasionally disappoints our expectations. Donald Trump never does.
#BBC
We have very high expectations of the BBC, one such being that they will tell the truth.
We have very low expectations of Donald Trump, one such being that he will lie.
The BBC occasionally disappoints our expectations. Donald Trump never does.
#BBC
Two musical offerings.
A clavichord once played by Mozart; and a piano owned by Beethoven and subsequently Liszt.
Both in the wonderful National Museum in Budapest.
#Beethoven
#Liszt
#MusicSky
#ClassicalSky
A clavichord once played by Mozart; and a piano owned by Beethoven and subsequently Liszt.
Both in the wonderful National Museum in Budapest.
#Beethoven
#Liszt
#MusicSky
#ClassicalSky
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Two musical offerings.
A clavichord once played by Mozart; and a piano owned by Beethoven and subsequently Liszt.
Both in the wonderful National Museum in Budapest.
#Beethoven
#Liszt
#MusicSky
#ClassicalSky
A clavichord once played by Mozart; and a piano owned by Beethoven and subsequently Liszt.
Both in the wonderful National Museum in Budapest.
#Beethoven
#Liszt
#MusicSky
#ClassicalSky
Now, more than ever.
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Now, more than ever.
If you can, get vaccinated! I can’t understand why so many of my over-65 cohort haven’t done so yet. Come on guys - get those sleeves rolled up.
Definitely worth paying for a flu jab this year, about £15 at pharmacies!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
If you can, get vaccinated! I can’t understand why so many of my over-65 cohort haven’t done so yet. Come on guys - get those sleeves rolled up.
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
A couple of weeks ago I was reading the book. Now - on a trip unplanned at the time - I find myself in the National Museum in Budapest looking at this display of items relating to the events of ‘The Picnic.’ My wife says Fate; I say coincidence. Either way, incredible!
#HistorySky
#ThePicnic
#HistorySky
#ThePicnic
November 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
A couple of weeks ago I was reading the book. Now - on a trip unplanned at the time - I find myself in the National Museum in Budapest looking at this display of items relating to the events of ‘The Picnic.’ My wife says Fate; I say coincidence. Either way, incredible!
#HistorySky
#ThePicnic
#HistorySky
#ThePicnic
I do try to be tolerant of other people’s concerns when they differ from my own. Honestly, I do.
But if your biggest concern today is the John Lewis Christmas advert, then you really need to Get A Life.
But if your biggest concern today is the John Lewis Christmas advert, then you really need to Get A Life.
November 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I do try to be tolerant of other people’s concerns when they differ from my own. Honestly, I do.
But if your biggest concern today is the John Lewis Christmas advert, then you really need to Get A Life.
But if your biggest concern today is the John Lewis Christmas advert, then you really need to Get A Life.
That was rather splendid. The Hallé Orchestra and Choir performing ‘Harmonium’ - just awesome.
Very excited about going to see some of these pieces being performed by the Hallé Orchestra later this week, conducted by none other than the composer himself.
#JohnAdams
#HalléOrchestra
#MusicSky
#ClassicalSky
#JohnAdams
#HalléOrchestra
#MusicSky
#ClassicalSky
November 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
That was rather splendid. The Hallé Orchestra and Choir performing ‘Harmonium’ - just awesome.
A terrific read. Not just as the history of a key moment; but as a timely reminder that the worst oppression can be overcome through courage, hope and no small amount of cunning. And when enough good people come together to do the right thing.
#HistorySky
#BookSky
#MatthewLongo
#ThePicnic
#ColdWar
#HistorySky
#BookSky
#MatthewLongo
#ThePicnic
#ColdWar
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
A terrific read. Not just as the history of a key moment; but as a timely reminder that the worst oppression can be overcome through courage, hope and no small amount of cunning. And when enough good people come together to do the right thing.
#HistorySky
#BookSky
#MatthewLongo
#ThePicnic
#ColdWar
#HistorySky
#BookSky
#MatthewLongo
#ThePicnic
#ColdWar
Very excited about going to see some of these pieces being performed by the Hallé Orchestra later this week, conducted by none other than the composer himself.
#JohnAdams
#HalléOrchestra
#MusicSky
#ClassicalSky
#JohnAdams
#HalléOrchestra
#MusicSky
#ClassicalSky
October 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Very excited about going to see some of these pieces being performed by the Hallé Orchestra later this week, conducted by none other than the composer himself.
#JohnAdams
#HalléOrchestra
#MusicSky
#ClassicalSky
#JohnAdams
#HalléOrchestra
#MusicSky
#ClassicalSky
Autumn is the most beautiful season. The clocks go back tonight, but it’s not winter yet.
#NationalTrust
#QuarryBank
#nature
#Autumn.
#NationalTrust
#QuarryBank
#nature
#Autumn.
October 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Autumn is the most beautiful season. The clocks go back tonight, but it’s not winter yet.
#NationalTrust
#QuarryBank
#nature
#Autumn.
#NationalTrust
#QuarryBank
#nature
#Autumn.
May they grow up as friends in a Ukraine without war.
An unexpected reunion of two friends at a train station.Illia&Nazar once lived together in Zaporizhzhia, but Russia’s war separated them
Their parents decided to surprise them:one boy thought he was going to Zaporizhzhia,while the other believed he was meeting his mother’s friends
📹mariia.tsapenko
Their parents decided to surprise them:one boy thought he was going to Zaporizhzhia,while the other believed he was meeting his mother’s friends
📹mariia.tsapenko
October 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
May they grow up as friends in a Ukraine without war.
If you voted for Brexit, then I nominate YOU to pay me what that has cost me. It’s only fair.
No crypto, thanks.
No crypto, thanks.
October 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
If you voted for Brexit, then I nominate YOU to pay me what that has cost me. It’s only fair.
No crypto, thanks.
No crypto, thanks.