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Thérèse
@tiggertherese.bsky.social
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European, veg grower, archaic surfer, economist & extremely appalled ex-central banker.
RT ≠ endorsement. I may not entirely agree with all my own views either.
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Santa's assistance not required.
A box of assorted Christmas decorations and toys with some hung up on the garden fence. A notice says "Help yourself".
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Nice afternoon for a walk.
A view across North East London from Parkland Walk below Muswell Hill on a sunny late November afternoon. A view across North East London from Parkland Walk below Muswell Hill on a sunny late November afternoon. A view across North East London from Parkland Walk below Muswell Hill on a sunny late November afternoon. A view across North East London from Parkland Walk below Muswell Hill on a sunny late November afternoon.
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Well done @yougov.co.uk!
Do I strongly disagree or do I strongly disagree?
🙄
A screencap of a typically sloppy/dishonest YouGov online poll. The options are: Strongly disagree, Slightly disagree, Neither agree nor disagree, slightly agree and Strongly DISAGREE again.
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Siri, show me a polling question designed to get one answer more often than it should.
🤬
#immigration
An online poll question about immigration from Survation - one of many in the same format. The tick boxes have been reversed relative to the statements so that careless people will probably click on "Immigration is bad for..." in each case more often than they would otherwise have done.
November 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Certainly a large yellow blob heading straight this way now!
A screencap of Wundermap covering London and the area to the west at 14.57 on Sat Nov 22. The radar shows green (rain) covering everywhere but Ilford, Romford, Harlow etc, with a yellow blob heading for North London from the west and an even larger yellow-orange (heavy rain) area approaching behind that.
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
tiggertherese.bsky.social
Not as heavy as the stuff passing west over Northern France and up the channel!
A screenshot of Wundermap's phone app. A large area of rain is heading eastwards across Southern Britain and Northern France (green) with a large area of very heavy rain (yellow and orange) over Brittany and the Channel Islands, heading towards Normandy and further east. There are also some smaller yellow/orange areas of heavy rain over Dorset and Hampshire.
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Christmas is cancelled in the Socialist Republic of North Islington!
Err...
Oh.
A quite large decorated Christmas tree near Archway tube station.
November 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Black Friday, eh? 🙄
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Weird colour changing rapist mask. Or something.
November 18, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Limes don't tolerate frosty weather.
A heap of Lime Bikes on the edge of the road. A heap of Lime Bikes on the edge of the road. A heap of Lime Bikes on the edge of the road.
November 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Oh. Is Starmer going to have a winter of discontent?
🤣
Leicester Square, London piled up with rubbish bags in 1978.
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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The sopping wet Richard E Grant and Paul McGann Withnail and I Holiday Mistake meme: "We Chose Keir Starmer By Mistake!".
November 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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One of the neighbours being more than a bit previous! 😱
Mid November. A small brick house with red Christmas baubles and greenery hung along its railings.
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
tiggertherese.bsky.social
“Where’s your fucking poppy?”
A green lizard alien in a dinky short pink patterned dress is looming over Captain Kirk in a rocky desert. Kirk is wearing a yellow shirt, so he is not about to die.
November 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Extraordinary traffic hold ups in Highgate!
(Mainly caused by Thames Water digging up almost every road at once!)
@bbclondon.bsky.social @london.gov.uk
Almost everyone who isn't a bus has turned round and left this traffic jam. 4pm, Thursday Nov 6th 2025. Almost everyone who isn't a bus has turned round and left this traffic jam. 4pm, Thursday Nov 6th 2025.
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Interesting clouds above North London this afternoon.
@cloudappsoc.bsky.social
Stripey clouds with the sun behind, 3pm on 4th November, looking west from Highgate, London. Stripey clouds with the sun behind, 3pm on 4th November, looking north west from Highgate, London. Stripey clouds with the sun behind, 3pm on 4th November, looking west from Highgate, London. Stripey clouds with the sun behind, 3pm on 4th November, looking west from Highgate, London.
November 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Nice weather for ducks.
November 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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I've lived in London for more than 40 years and never worked out where the Camden canal boat picks people up from until now.
Part of Regent's Canal in Camden, with various new and old buildings on either side. The sun is shining but there are some quite large clouds in the sky. In the distance there is a canal boat picking up tourists from a lock beside the bridge over Kentish Town Road.
November 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Time to go!
Sun trying to peep through some very threatening dark grey clouds above a North London allotment.
November 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Crowdfunder for campaign against tall student tower at Archway.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/EW62avo...
An artist's impression of the proposed student hall of residence tower block looming over Archway, blocking the view up to Highgate.
November 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Anyway, this nearby house was more seasonal.
October 31, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Happy Halloween - especially to Thames Water.
October 31, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Post a perfect album from the '90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
Cover of Tubthumper by Chumbawamba. By Scanned by User:Markaci, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2238867 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubthumper
October 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Autumn.
October 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Post a perfect album from 1989.
The cover of Neneh Cherry's album "Raw Like Sushi". [The cover art can be obtained from Virgin., Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6354777]
October 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Cloud update. It's just started to rain.

There are no buses going down the hill because of the endless roadworks.
A view of a very grey sky above Whittington Hospital, looking towards the City from Highgate Hill.. A view of a very grey sky above Whittington Hospital, looking towards the City from Highgate Hill..
October 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM