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Will Aczel in front of Priory Road play park that has been fenced off.

Will points to a switched off light on the path in Priory Road park.

Will and the local Lib Dems out door-knocking in Pennsylvania.

All over Pennsylvania today: listening to local residents & getting my teeth stuck into issues 🌱

Priory Rd play park fenced off, maintenance declined & lights down. Why are Labour nowhere to be seen?

Such an opportunity to ensure all residents can enjoy the green space, I'm keen to make it happen.

Pub, canal, grey sky

Double Locks

New Wendy's restaurant in Exeter

As seen in memes

Child rearing is always particularly hard on the Grundy men. Sometimes they’ve had to wait an extra half hour for their dinner.
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This is fine meme

Headline from The Guardian: "Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds"

Sleepwalking into hell
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I see Farage is off to Mar-a-Lago to talk down Britain and suck up to Trump.

There's nothing patriotic about cheering on a foreign leader whose illegal war is sending British families’ energy bills through the roof.

White labradoodle looking at a flowering tree (magnolia?). Background: Exeter's Roman wall, covered in some moss and climbing vines.

In bloom

Warning sign: "May contain ill-advised attempts at humour. Enter At Your Own Risk. Side Effects May Include Eye-Rolling, and Mild Confusion."

Maybe I should pin this image to my feed?
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a cinnamon roll is being cooked in a pan Alt: a cinnamon roll is being cooked in a pan

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The not-so-subliminal advertising worked on me...

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Poor Ruairi.

All he did was what any of us would've done 🤣

Facebook post by the Daily Mail: 'I'm not only trappedin a warzone, but I'm going to get fat again as well." "I'm trapped and under attack in Dubai - but worst of all, I left my Mounjaro pen in the fridge"

It's Private Eye I feel sorry for. How do you spoof The Daily Mail these days?

Conservative theatre-making will kill the UK industry, says National’s director Indhu Rubasingham calls in Jennie Lee lecture for renewed commitment to creative risk and new writing

Massive decline in new theatre writing
www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/f...

Yesterday the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) published the official annual snapshot estimate of the numbers of people sleeping rough in each local authority area across England in autumn 2025. Numbers in Exeter? 51. 51 people counted sleeping rough on the night of 12 November 2025. That is a 364% change over the 2024 count, which is in part due to a change in methodology from overnight count to count plus estimate. This is the highest number ever recorded for the city since the snapshot was first carried out in 2010. The previous highest estimate was 41 people sleeping rough in November 2016.

Exeter’s figures place the city within the top 5 local authorities and districts in England with an estimated rate of 36.8 people rough sleeping per 100,000 population count. Our CEO Peter Stephenson said, "The key thing for me is that now we have a more realistic picture of the numbers sleeping rough in our city. This will help to inform the strategy to get people off the streets and into stable accommodation. For too long the number of rough sleepers has been significantly underestimated."

Via @stpetrocks.bsky.social on Facebook

Exeter is in the top 5 English authorities for rough sleeping per 100,000 people.

Numbers are the highest number ever recorded for the city.

www.facebook.com/share/183bWK...

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Which reminds me... Did you see the mixup coming a mile off when Tom garbled the instructions in amongst all the other plans for the day?

Certainly true of the tulip mix-up! #TheArchers

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I'm wondering if he *is* the wise thoughtful man he initially appeared to be, and very good at plumbing; but finding himself accident-prone at his true love farming, because he's so eager to make it work?

Yes, I’m sorry to confirm that Eric Allan, who played Bert so wonderfully, has died.

He was a lovely man.

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Flooded hair salon inside a horsebox

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AKRAM: "I don't know what went wrong... I'm so sorry Chelsea!"

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Is sheep milk trendy these days? It's not a cheese I try much.

Helen strikes me as someone who desperately wants to believe in a passionate romantic love that overrides all else. But has a sharp self-critical inner voice to hold her back from risk. An interesting battle!

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Although she could set up a new cheese-making enterprise in Scotland (Ross-shire Blue anyone?), and she might value a fresh start after the horrors of Rob and Greg, would Helen gamble on having to move Henry & Jack to schools in a different country? And losing her support network?

Interior, Exeter Cathedral, Devon

A forest of stone, Exeter Cathedral #Devon

#StainedGlass

Exactly!

Vegan & gluten-free Welshcakes

It's important for my waistline to forget this Cardiff bakery exists

Community forests helping to 'green the grey' Almost 2.5 million trees are planted across Devon and Cornwall as part of community forest schemes.

Some good news

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Coffee-growing countries becoming too hot to cultivate beans, analysis finds Five countries responsible for 75% of world’s coffee supply record average of 57 extra days of coffee-harming heat a year

Between the nonstop winter rain and the heatwave threat to coffee, I'm beginning to wonder if climate change might not be all that fun
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Man made out of poppies

Poppy Man.

Either a Doctor Who villain or a Reform Party superhero

Seems a pretty good life to me, great view and perched above a radiator 🙂❤️

Sorry for your loss 😢

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