Jill
@gingerjill.bsky.social
Recovering people-pleaser, hoping for benevolent government. Far too optimistic. Gardening and painting allows me to find the strength to follow the politics 🇬🇧🇨🇦
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Jill
@gingerjill.bsky.social
· Aug 28
I suppose as people are following me I should say something. I live in Northumberland. It’s beautiful and wild but only 15 minutes from a M &S food hall, living the dream
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While learning about acrylics I enjoyed exploring the depth of colour that I could achieve. Subject detail in alt description
While learning about acrylics I enjoyed exploring the depth of colour that I could achieve. Subject detail in alt description
December 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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While learning about acrylics I enjoyed exploring the depth of colour that I could achieve. Subject detail in alt description
While learning about acrylics I enjoyed exploring the depth of colour that I could achieve. Subject detail in alt description
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Good morning and welcome to tuna Tuesday
Every mistake is a fallen petal on the path, a quiet reminder that growth is happening beneath your feet.
They show you’re brave enough to keep walking.
Every mistake is a fallen petal on the path, a quiet reminder that growth is happening beneath your feet.
They show you’re brave enough to keep walking.
December 2, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Good morning and welcome to tuna Tuesday
Every mistake is a fallen petal on the path, a quiet reminder that growth is happening beneath your feet.
They show you’re brave enough to keep walking.
Every mistake is a fallen petal on the path, a quiet reminder that growth is happening beneath your feet.
They show you’re brave enough to keep walking.
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This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
I'm starting with this year's favorite, because it's taken me 10 months to learn to use acrylics and paint from the heart. Subject in alt description.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I'm starting with this year's favorite, because it's taken me 10 months to learn to use acrylics and paint from the heart. Subject in alt description.
#ArtAdventCalendar
#ArtAdventCalendar
Just this
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
🌞 till we meet again🌛
― Robert A. Heinlein
🌞 till we meet again🌛
December 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Just this
We finally got to the Ad Gefrin museum in Wooler, which showcases local Anglo-Saxon heritage. Great facility, and nice to meet the yule goat in the carpark.
November 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We finally got to the Ad Gefrin museum in Wooler, which showcases local Anglo-Saxon heritage. Great facility, and nice to meet the yule goat in the carpark.
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Dead chuffed my universal remote control arrived today. As I opened the box I couldn't help thinking ‘this changes everything’.
November 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Dead chuffed my universal remote control arrived today. As I opened the box I couldn't help thinking ‘this changes everything’.
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My favorite advent calendar!! So excited to start coloring!! I love sharing this at my library, and always surprised how many adults take one ❤️
Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
November 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
My favorite advent calendar!! So excited to start coloring!! I love sharing this at my library, and always surprised how many adults take one ❤️
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This ⬇️
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I try to avoid binary thinking, but...
There are only two types of people in the world.
"I had to suffer, so should they."
Or "I had to suffer, and I will work to help others so they don't have to."
There are only two types of people in the world.
"I had to suffer, so should they."
Or "I had to suffer, and I will work to help others so they don't have to."
November 29, 2025 at 6:25 AM
This ⬇️
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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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If divorced dads whose kids don't see them could go back to dressing up in superhero outfits and climbing up buildings instead of ushering in fascism I think we'd all be better off quite frankly.
November 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
If divorced dads whose kids don't see them could go back to dressing up in superhero outfits and climbing up buildings instead of ushering in fascism I think we'd all be better off quite frankly.
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In other shocking news, adjascent apples in same barrel also appear brownish.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
PS I know it shouldn't surprise me, but OF COURSE he lives in France.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
PS I know it shouldn't surprise me, but OF COURSE he lives in France.
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
In other shocking news, adjascent apples in same barrel also appear brownish.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
PS I know it shouldn't surprise me, but OF COURSE he lives in France.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
PS I know it shouldn't surprise me, but OF COURSE he lives in France.
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The state of this from the BBC...
...making it sound like businesses have got Labour...while casting doubt on the 'claim' it's due to the Lords.
We no, as I've been telling you for weeks, the Lib Dems and the Tories in the Lords keep blocking this.
1/2
...making it sound like businesses have got Labour...while casting doubt on the 'claim' it's due to the Lords.
We no, as I've been telling you for weeks, the Lib Dems and the Tories in the Lords keep blocking this.
1/2
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The state of this from the BBC...
...making it sound like businesses have got Labour...while casting doubt on the 'claim' it's due to the Lords.
We no, as I've been telling you for weeks, the Lib Dems and the Tories in the Lords keep blocking this.
1/2
...making it sound like businesses have got Labour...while casting doubt on the 'claim' it's due to the Lords.
We no, as I've been telling you for weeks, the Lib Dems and the Tories in the Lords keep blocking this.
1/2
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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All the Right Wing apologists are cheering the fall in UK immigration announced today while missing what could be a huge problem - 99% of emigrants are under the age of 35. That’s a big brain drain.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
All the Right Wing apologists are cheering the fall in UK immigration announced today while missing what could be a huge problem - 99% of emigrants are under the age of 35. That’s a big brain drain.
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Night night sweet dreamies
It’s okay to feel sad and let the feelings sit with you.
They’re real and human.
Even when it feels endless, it won’t be.
Feel what you feel, you won’t stay here forever
I promise
It’s okay to feel sad and let the feelings sit with you.
They’re real and human.
Even when it feels endless, it won’t be.
Feel what you feel, you won’t stay here forever
I promise
November 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Night night sweet dreamies
It’s okay to feel sad and let the feelings sit with you.
They’re real and human.
Even when it feels endless, it won’t be.
Feel what you feel, you won’t stay here forever
I promise
It’s okay to feel sad and let the feelings sit with you.
They’re real and human.
Even when it feels endless, it won’t be.
Feel what you feel, you won’t stay here forever
I promise
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A good day for Ed Miliband: mansion tax introduced, green levies moved off bills to taxation, ban on new North Sea oil and gas licences confirmed.
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A good day for Ed Miliband: mansion tax introduced, green levies moved off bills to taxation, ban on new North Sea oil and gas licences confirmed.
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The two-child cap pushed half of children in larger families into poverty. Today, Labour abolishes it.
I stood for office to stop drawing charts and start changing them. This change will see the biggest drop in child poverty of any parliament on record.
Know what that is? Hope.
I stood for office to stop drawing charts and start changing them. This change will see the biggest drop in child poverty of any parliament on record.
Know what that is? Hope.
November 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The two-child cap pushed half of children in larger families into poverty. Today, Labour abolishes it.
I stood for office to stop drawing charts and start changing them. This change will see the biggest drop in child poverty of any parliament on record.
Know what that is? Hope.
I stood for office to stop drawing charts and start changing them. This change will see the biggest drop in child poverty of any parliament on record.
Know what that is? Hope.
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"having changed my mind about the OBR, my internship there has begun smoothly"
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"having changed my mind about the OBR, my internship there has begun smoothly"
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LES PEINTRES ET LA VENDÉE.
St Gilles Croix de vie.
JEAN PARRAUD
Artiste français contemporain.
St Gilles Croix de vie.
JEAN PARRAUD
Artiste français contemporain.
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
LES PEINTRES ET LA VENDÉE.
St Gilles Croix de vie.
JEAN PARRAUD
Artiste français contemporain.
St Gilles Croix de vie.
JEAN PARRAUD
Artiste français contemporain.
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Good morning & welcome to Whiskers Wednesday
Kindness is free.
Go on and sprinkle that stuff everywhere.
A smile, a gentle word, a tiny moment of patience , it all adds up to something bigger than we realise.
Be kind
Kindness is free.
Go on and sprinkle that stuff everywhere.
A smile, a gentle word, a tiny moment of patience , it all adds up to something bigger than we realise.
Be kind
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Good morning & welcome to Whiskers Wednesday
Kindness is free.
Go on and sprinkle that stuff everywhere.
A smile, a gentle word, a tiny moment of patience , it all adds up to something bigger than we realise.
Be kind
Kindness is free.
Go on and sprinkle that stuff everywhere.
A smile, a gentle word, a tiny moment of patience , it all adds up to something bigger than we realise.
Be kind
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Normalize saying this instead of, "𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢".
November 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Normalize saying this instead of, "𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢".
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November 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Today in Hearing One Half Of A Phone Conversation: a woman on the train going 'all the more reason to empty your freezer, then. ALL THE MORE REASON.'
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Today in Hearing One Half Of A Phone Conversation: a woman on the train going 'all the more reason to empty your freezer, then. ALL THE MORE REASON.'
WIP acrylic surprise present for a friend. She has had a tough year, and her 18 year old cat died last month. I have the facial likeness. Now if there is any decent natural daylight over the next couple of days I can do the fun stuff.
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
WIP acrylic surprise present for a friend. She has had a tough year, and her 18 year old cat died last month. I have the facial likeness. Now if there is any decent natural daylight over the next couple of days I can do the fun stuff.