Neil Sleat
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Radio 4 Extra babbler & freelance voice. I don’t tweet here anymore. Coz it ain’t Twitter anymore. Let’s resume the conversation on Threads, Bluesky, Instagram?
Somerset, United Kingdom
Joined January 2009
I’ve decided I won’t tweet here anymore. Coz it ain’t Twitter anymore. Let’s resume the conversation on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram…? https://t.co/RDc4jYHWTu (Bluesky) neil.sleat (Threads) neil.sleat (Instagram) It was great. Thank you. See you soon elsewhere.
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Ages since I shared a tune. Nothing groundbreaking. But if I don’t share, it’s just me in a room playing the piano to myself. Which is perhaps how it should stay - you may have an opinion on this! https://t.co/Y4tdPL3wbU
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Trump: “Christians, get out and vote. Just this time – you won’t have to do it any more. You know what? It’ll be fixed. It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote any more.” … “In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.”
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Fact: Kamala Harris and Joe Biden once appeared on the same US edition of Celebrity Fifteen to One. Fact: that was a lie. There’ll be plenty more…
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Blue screens frowning at me, Nothing but blue screens do I see. Windows, all of them gone. Nothing but blue screens from now on.
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I’ve never seen Twitter as poisoned by incipiently noxious disinformation as it has been in the last day or so. And that’s saying something.
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They keep telling me I can use an older person’s railcard as voter ID. Presumably you should ask their permission first?
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At Sandbanks on Tuesday. 15 minutes later we were being peppered with hail.
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Big galaxy eating its small neighbour. Bad manners. (Whirlpool Galaxy last night. Finally, a starry sky.)
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Well this was a treat. Join me on Classic FM this Friday at 9pm to hear Dame Judi's Classical Favourites. An impossible task for her to choose them but there was a lot of laughter.
At 9pm this Friday, join us for a very special show with a legend of stage and screen in her 90th birthday year. Dame Judi Dench welcomes @ZebSoanes into her home, as she reveals her favourite classical music and shares what it has meant to her throughout her glittering career.
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A small smattering of galaxies. Bit blurry - but they are small targets. Well, in fact they’re vast. But from 22 million light years away they look small to my telescope. (The big one is Messier 106.) Not my best photo but it looks OK on a phone screen if you don’t zoom in!
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Don’t worry. I don’t let him drive down the motorway or anything. But he’s so much better at parallel parking than I am.
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Shock news. The Princess of Wales is no better at photoshopping the inadaquacies out of her spouse’s smartphone photos than the rest of us are. (Yawn.)
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Rosette Nebula from last night. Got 2 hours on it before the mist descended. It looks very like a rosette to my eye. But it’s also called the Skull Nebula. I couldn’t see the skull at all until @MartinM_Media pointed it out. Now I can’t un-see it. And it’s licking its nose. Ugh.
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I inherited these handy little fasteners from my mother. I wish I’d asked her where I could get more of them. Search engines draw a blank. Can you help?
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Finally a clearish night! First in a month. 2 hours on the Seagull Nebula. Nope. I can't see a seagull either. But that might be my strange framing - I hadn't quite realised how huge this object is.
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Well @bbcpaddy, when I was a @bbcradio4 continuity announcer, superimposing the pips on Big Ben was a cardinal sin. (I should know, because I once did it. <shudder>) You’re fired! ;-) #PipsAt100 #bbcBH
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