Verity
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UK Midlands based nature loving and cat servant married human. Working hard adding things up in the public sector. BBCR4 and #TheArchers fan.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Can someone explain why George Grundy isn’t running his drone business? I think I have missed something. #TheArchers
December 2, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Can someone explain why George Grundy isn’t running his drone business? I think I have missed something. #TheArchers
Alan Carr pulling faces after suggesting he (dis)likes women as much as he (dis)likes olives 🫒 in the advert for his sitcom is as bad as heterosexual people pulling faces about homosexuality.
Stop shaming genital preferences, it’s not like any of us have a choice.
Stop shaming genital preferences, it’s not like any of us have a choice.
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Alan Carr pulling faces after suggesting he (dis)likes women as much as he (dis)likes olives 🫒 in the advert for his sitcom is as bad as heterosexual people pulling faces about homosexuality.
Stop shaming genital preferences, it’s not like any of us have a choice.
Stop shaming genital preferences, it’s not like any of us have a choice.
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Love this especially as the bar looks like tiled 30's pub and this is one of those bleak street photos of drunks folk say looks like a Caravaggio
'Syphilis', 1912, from a series of depictions of disease by Robert Tennant Cooper.
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Love this especially as the bar looks like tiled 30's pub and this is one of those bleak street photos of drunks folk say looks like a Caravaggio
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More macabre paintings by Richard Tennant Cooper here.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
More macabre paintings by Richard Tennant Cooper here.
Minnie watching for other cats in the garden.
November 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Minnie watching for other cats in the garden.
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I tried to do something that was (for me) quite a challenge: describe precisely how the word "that", in the right place, can make "all the difference" to a poem someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/that-vase
That Vase
Thinking about what "that" can do in a poem
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November 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I tried to do something that was (for me) quite a challenge: describe precisely how the word "that", in the right place, can make "all the difference" to a poem someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/that-vase
So Phoebe is definitely having the baby in the castle - Brian’s bought a crib they’ve got to lug up there this week - very handy.
#TheArchers
#TheArchers
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
So Phoebe is definitely having the baby in the castle - Brian’s bought a crib they’ve got to lug up there this week - very handy.
#TheArchers
#TheArchers
Haha Amber is as impressed with George’s cleaning as George would have been if it had been the other way around. #TheArchers
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Haha Amber is as impressed with George’s cleaning as George would have been if it had been the other way around. #TheArchers
So is Trump going to stop the BBC and defund #TheArchers with his £1b lawsuit?
a bald man is sitting in a chair with his finger in his mouth and the words `` one billion '' above him .
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November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
So is Trump going to stop the BBC and defund #TheArchers with his £1b lawsuit?
Poor Susan, George is going to throw her volunteering job for Bridge Farm in an instant. #TheArchers
November 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Poor Susan, George is going to throw her volunteering job for Bridge Farm in an instant. #TheArchers
Minnie found a warm place out of the wind in the greenhouse.
My seedlings may not be benefitting from her choice of seat.
My seedlings may not be benefitting from her choice of seat.
November 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Minnie found a warm place out of the wind in the greenhouse.
My seedlings may not be benefitting from her choice of seat.
My seedlings may not be benefitting from her choice of seat.
My visit to Dracula (blood donation) today has been cancelled. I guess he’s a bit busy on #Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM
My visit to Dracula (blood donation) today has been cancelled. I guess he’s a bit busy on #Halloween
When my other half has had Covid (twice) he’s been really poorly.
Finally persuaded him to book a private Covid vaccine from Boots, £99. I’m getting one too.
Neither of us qualify for NHS vaccine. We’re lucky we can find the funds.
Finally persuaded him to book a private Covid vaccine from Boots, £99. I’m getting one too.
Neither of us qualify for NHS vaccine. We’re lucky we can find the funds.
a cartoon drawing of a syringe with covid vaccines save lives written on it
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October 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
When my other half has had Covid (twice) he’s been really poorly.
Finally persuaded him to book a private Covid vaccine from Boots, £99. I’m getting one too.
Neither of us qualify for NHS vaccine. We’re lucky we can find the funds.
Finally persuaded him to book a private Covid vaccine from Boots, £99. I’m getting one too.
Neither of us qualify for NHS vaccine. We’re lucky we can find the funds.
No photos of Minnie recently, she was bitten on her right back leg and has been having VET treatment. She’s starting to feel a little better, so here’s a pic of her relaxing (I’ve cropped the picture to exclude the gruesome wound).
October 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
No photos of Minnie recently, she was bitten on her right back leg and has been having VET treatment. She’s starting to feel a little better, so here’s a pic of her relaxing (I’ve cropped the picture to exclude the gruesome wound).
Does anyone else find it fascinating that Americans are protesting “No Kings” against their tyrannical President, when it’s our King and constitution which stops our Prime Minister from making themselves a tyrannical King?
October 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Does anyone else find it fascinating that Americans are protesting “No Kings” against their tyrannical President, when it’s our King and constitution which stops our Prime Minister from making themselves a tyrannical King?
Introduce yourself using only 1 food you refuse to eat, 1 movie you'll never watch again and 1 song you can't stand.
Cucumber, I can taste the bitterness of cucurbitin
I’ll never watch Dead Poets Society again. Loved it as a teenager, don’t want to ruin it.
Song I can’t stand is Imagine by Lennon
Cucumber, I can taste the bitterness of cucurbitin
I’ll never watch Dead Poets Society again. Loved it as a teenager, don’t want to ruin it.
Song I can’t stand is Imagine by Lennon
Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again and one song you can't stand.
Very specifically, the ocean pie they served at my school 40 yrs ago. Awful.
The Emoji Movie.
Re-rewind the Crowd say Bo Selecta (the school ocean pie of pop music)
Very specifically, the ocean pie they served at my school 40 yrs ago. Awful.
The Emoji Movie.
Re-rewind the Crowd say Bo Selecta (the school ocean pie of pop music)
Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again and one song you can't stand.
Raw tomatoes*
A Serbian Film
Agadoo
*All other forms are perfectly acceptable.
Raw tomatoes*
A Serbian Film
Agadoo
*All other forms are perfectly acceptable.
October 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Introduce yourself using only 1 food you refuse to eat, 1 movie you'll never watch again and 1 song you can't stand.
Cucumber, I can taste the bitterness of cucurbitin
I’ll never watch Dead Poets Society again. Loved it as a teenager, don’t want to ruin it.
Song I can’t stand is Imagine by Lennon
Cucumber, I can taste the bitterness of cucurbitin
I’ll never watch Dead Poets Society again. Loved it as a teenager, don’t want to ruin it.
Song I can’t stand is Imagine by Lennon
@louisenorgate.bsky.social You have beautiful curly hair. I see you.
a tarot card with a hand giving a thumbs up and the words the like below it
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October 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
@louisenorgate.bsky.social You have beautiful curly hair. I see you.
More or Less on BBC Radio 4 Today stating that 45% of all tax revenue comes from the richest 20% of people in UK society.
This was surprising to me.
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This was surprising to me.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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October 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
More or Less on BBC Radio 4 Today stating that 45% of all tax revenue comes from the richest 20% of people in UK society.
This was surprising to me.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
This was surprising to me.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Minnie the climber, up on the gazebo.
October 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Minnie the climber, up on the gazebo.
Oh dear, George has discovered the issue with snitching on Markie. #TheArchers
September 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Oh dear, George has discovered the issue with snitching on Markie. #TheArchers
I wasn’t paying attention to Mastermind…
Clive M:Which school in Walsall did Chopin attend…
Me, half listening: Wow I didn’t know Chopin was from The Midlands!
My brain: Warsaw not Walsall, idiot!
Clive M:Which school in Walsall did Chopin attend…
Me, half listening: Wow I didn’t know Chopin was from The Midlands!
My brain: Warsaw not Walsall, idiot!
September 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I wasn’t paying attention to Mastermind…
Clive M:Which school in Walsall did Chopin attend…
Me, half listening: Wow I didn’t know Chopin was from The Midlands!
My brain: Warsaw not Walsall, idiot!
Clive M:Which school in Walsall did Chopin attend…
Me, half listening: Wow I didn’t know Chopin was from The Midlands!
My brain: Warsaw not Walsall, idiot!
September 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Handsome gentleman in the field we had to walk through twice today. Luckily he was very chilled about us passing through his kingdom. #Dorset
September 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Handsome gentleman in the field we had to walk through twice today. Luckily he was very chilled about us passing through his kingdom. #Dorset