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· Nov 28
Same. I think the rise of Reform is being underestimated.
#3GoodThings
1. Car back from garage and it handles like a dream!
2. Put together a table and chairs with my mum whilst we narrated to the baby what we were doing - he's never to young to learn, right?
3. That nicely worked out feeling after Reformer Pilates.
1. Car back from garage and it handles like a dream!
2. Put together a table and chairs with my mum whilst we narrated to the baby what we were doing - he's never to young to learn, right?
3. That nicely worked out feeling after Reformer Pilates.
December 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
#3GoodThings
1. Car back from garage and it handles like a dream!
2. Put together a table and chairs with my mum whilst we narrated to the baby what we were doing - he's never to young to learn, right?
3. That nicely worked out feeling after Reformer Pilates.
1. Car back from garage and it handles like a dream!
2. Put together a table and chairs with my mum whilst we narrated to the baby what we were doing - he's never to young to learn, right?
3. That nicely worked out feeling after Reformer Pilates.
#3GoodThings
1. Signed 'love from mummy' for the first time (OMG I'm a mum!)
2. Rhys joining in with my car karaoke. All together now, all together now...
3. Preparing for Christmas socialising.
1. Signed 'love from mummy' for the first time (OMG I'm a mum!)
2. Rhys joining in with my car karaoke. All together now, all together now...
3. Preparing for Christmas socialising.
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
#3GoodThings
1. Signed 'love from mummy' for the first time (OMG I'm a mum!)
2. Rhys joining in with my car karaoke. All together now, all together now...
3. Preparing for Christmas socialising.
1. Signed 'love from mummy' for the first time (OMG I'm a mum!)
2. Rhys joining in with my car karaoke. All together now, all together now...
3. Preparing for Christmas socialising.
Taking effort for #3GoodThings today as the baby has taken a nosedive but:
1. The baby offering to share his blanket with me.
2. Got through the latest episode of Shetland.
3. We've done ward stays enough times now to be prepared and have a routine. If it happens it happens and we'll be fine.
1. The baby offering to share his blanket with me.
2. Got through the latest episode of Shetland.
3. We've done ward stays enough times now to be prepared and have a routine. If it happens it happens and we'll be fine.
November 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Taking effort for #3GoodThings today as the baby has taken a nosedive but:
1. The baby offering to share his blanket with me.
2. Got through the latest episode of Shetland.
3. We've done ward stays enough times now to be prepared and have a routine. If it happens it happens and we'll be fine.
1. The baby offering to share his blanket with me.
2. Got through the latest episode of Shetland.
3. We've done ward stays enough times now to be prepared and have a routine. If it happens it happens and we'll be fine.
#3GoodThings
1. Attempted my own photoshoot with the baby (because how hard can it be...?!) and got some fab shots.
2. Explored a super quirky bookshop on Bold Street with mum.
3. Succumbed to the filthiest of filthy burgers and don't regret a thing.
1. Attempted my own photoshoot with the baby (because how hard can it be...?!) and got some fab shots.
2. Explored a super quirky bookshop on Bold Street with mum.
3. Succumbed to the filthiest of filthy burgers and don't regret a thing.
November 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
#3GoodThings
1. Attempted my own photoshoot with the baby (because how hard can it be...?!) and got some fab shots.
2. Explored a super quirky bookshop on Bold Street with mum.
3. Succumbed to the filthiest of filthy burgers and don't regret a thing.
1. Attempted my own photoshoot with the baby (because how hard can it be...?!) and got some fab shots.
2. Explored a super quirky bookshop on Bold Street with mum.
3. Succumbed to the filthiest of filthy burgers and don't regret a thing.
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Very sad to read of Sir Tom Stoppard’s death. A titan wordsmith. We are the poorer for it. RIP
November 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Very sad to read of Sir Tom Stoppard’s death. A titan wordsmith. We are the poorer for it. RIP
Can't believe Running Up That Hill is 40yrs old!
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Can't believe Running Up That Hill is 40yrs old!
#3GoodThings
1. Finally booked to get me hair done...
2. Icy rain followed by sunshine (cheaper than a spa 🤷♀️)
3. Rhys being a joyous little livewire from start to finish despite his latest infection hitting
1. Finally booked to get me hair done...
2. Icy rain followed by sunshine (cheaper than a spa 🤷♀️)
3. Rhys being a joyous little livewire from start to finish despite his latest infection hitting
November 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
#3GoodThings
1. Finally booked to get me hair done...
2. Icy rain followed by sunshine (cheaper than a spa 🤷♀️)
3. Rhys being a joyous little livewire from start to finish despite his latest infection hitting
1. Finally booked to get me hair done...
2. Icy rain followed by sunshine (cheaper than a spa 🤷♀️)
3. Rhys being a joyous little livewire from start to finish despite his latest infection hitting
Christmas through his eyes 😊
November 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Christmas through his eyes 😊
I'll be taking my boy home in January after what's expected to be gamechanging surgery for him and hopefully have a similar feeling in 2027. At the moment my thanks is to have made it on to the treatment list at all and to have hope of a better life for him!
A year ago, we were leaving Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia after my daughter’s surgery for thyroid cancer.
Feeling pretty thankful this year. Hope you’ve got something to be thankful for too.
Feeling pretty thankful this year. Hope you’ve got something to be thankful for too.
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I'll be taking my boy home in January after what's expected to be gamechanging surgery for him and hopefully have a similar feeling in 2027. At the moment my thanks is to have made it on to the treatment list at all and to have hope of a better life for him!
#3GoodThings
1. Lunch with a different crowd
2. Seeing Liverpool glow in natural light on the drive back
3. Beginning the baby's first Christmas season(!)
1. Lunch with a different crowd
2. Seeing Liverpool glow in natural light on the drive back
3. Beginning the baby's first Christmas season(!)
November 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
#3GoodThings
1. Lunch with a different crowd
2. Seeing Liverpool glow in natural light on the drive back
3. Beginning the baby's first Christmas season(!)
1. Lunch with a different crowd
2. Seeing Liverpool glow in natural light on the drive back
3. Beginning the baby's first Christmas season(!)
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„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
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Are we really at a stage in public education where we consider it OK to have literally Google-branded schoolchildren whose learner identities are tied to being "responsible AI" users of private for-profit technologies?
November 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Are we really at a stage in public education where we consider it OK to have literally Google-branded schoolchildren whose learner identities are tied to being "responsible AI" users of private for-profit technologies?
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Feeling queasy now I've learned that Google is not only now offering Gemini ambassador certificates to teachers but also awarding students and *children* to be corporate AI mascots. Coercive normalization of commercialized digital education. blog.google/outreach-ini...
November 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Feeling queasy now I've learned that Google is not only now offering Gemini ambassador certificates to teachers but also awarding students and *children* to be corporate AI mascots. Coercive normalization of commercialized digital education. blog.google/outreach-ini...
Got to be up there for one of the most tender songs ever written.
November 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Got to be up there for one of the most tender songs ever written.
My my, the moon is looking fancy. Quick! Catch it before the sun steals its glow...
November 17, 2025 at 5:48 AM
My my, the moon is looking fancy. Quick! Catch it before the sun steals its glow...
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One person caring about you 100 percent is worth so much more than millions caring for you by fractions. Fame always derails those who don’t find this
November 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
One person caring about you 100 percent is worth so much more than millions caring for you by fractions. Fame always derails those who don’t find this
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At some point, for the love of God, will someone ANYONE at long last take the council funding crisis seriously?!?
Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.
Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and children’s social care
English councils are planning to sell social clubs, sports centres and shopping arcades as they bet on a fire sale of assets to balance the books, according to a survey of local authorities.
The key cities group of councils, which represents second-tier cities in England, said 60% of councils were planning to sell assets to meet the escalating costs of adult and children’s social care. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
At some point, for the love of God, will someone ANYONE at long last take the council funding crisis seriously?!?
Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.
Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.
Social class is about the choices people have and the trade-offs they make. The higher up the classes a person is, the less they think about (or need to make...) any trade-offs.
November 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Social class is about the choices people have and the trade-offs they make. The higher up the classes a person is, the less they think about (or need to make...) any trade-offs.
Docks looked resplendent this afternoon and there is hope on the horizon
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Docks looked resplendent this afternoon and there is hope on the horizon
Watching episode 3 of @davidolusoga.bsky.social's Empire series and we're up to the partition that created India/Pakistan.
'The violence that accompanied it became part of the histories of many people'
'The violence that accompanied it became part of the histories of many people'
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Watching episode 3 of @davidolusoga.bsky.social's Empire series and we're up to the partition that created India/Pakistan.
'The violence that accompanied it became part of the histories of many people'
'The violence that accompanied it became part of the histories of many people'
Thought-provoking segment on ITV News this eve re immigration and social cohesion. My takeaway is @sathnam.bsky.social's comment:
"What we've got in Britain is the most successful multicultural living in the world"
(That, and chicken tikka kebab)
"What we've got in Britain is the most successful multicultural living in the world"
(That, and chicken tikka kebab)
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Thought-provoking segment on ITV News this eve re immigration and social cohesion. My takeaway is @sathnam.bsky.social's comment:
"What we've got in Britain is the most successful multicultural living in the world"
(That, and chicken tikka kebab)
"What we've got in Britain is the most successful multicultural living in the world"
(That, and chicken tikka kebab)
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My new series - Empire With David Olusoga - starts 9pm on BBC Two. Whole series on @bbciplayer.bsky.social from tonight.
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
My new series - Empire With David Olusoga - starts 9pm on BBC Two. Whole series on @bbciplayer.bsky.social from tonight.
Only seen episode 1 of this but for me it joins up the idea of empire across the globe and how the areas interrelated/rose and fell based on each other, which I've not thought about before.
My new series - Empire With David Olusoga - starts 9pm on BBC Two. Whole series on @bbciplayer.bsky.social from tonight.
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Only seen episode 1 of this but for me it joins up the idea of empire across the globe and how the areas interrelated/rose and fell based on each other, which I've not thought about before.
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Don’t forget to watch this much needed and long overdue series on the British Empire. Remarkably, it’s not based on the opinions of a travelling ‘personality’, but on what historians who’ve actually researched it say!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Two - Empire with David Olusoga, Series 1, Episode 1
David Olusoga tells the story of the beginnings of the British Empire under Elizabeth I.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Don’t forget to watch this much needed and long overdue series on the British Empire. Remarkably, it’s not based on the opinions of a travelling ‘personality’, but on what historians who’ve actually researched it say!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...