MsPottingShed
@mspottingshed.bsky.social
Gardener, reader, observer, dreamer. Married to Mr Oh-I-Thought-It-Was-a-Weed.
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My favourite directions ever was when we were outside listowel, looking for my wife's uncle's house.
"It's where they were going to put the post office before they decided to put it in the town instead."
"It's where they were going to put the post office before they decided to put it in the town instead."
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
My favourite directions ever was when we were outside listowel, looking for my wife's uncle's house.
"It's where they were going to put the post office before they decided to put it in the town instead."
"It's where they were going to put the post office before they decided to put it in the town instead."
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I've just withdrawn my complaint to Trading Standards as all 28 shops & stores (including big names) we outed for giving unlawful and incorrect information on Return Rights have corrected their website. Full info including list of stores here... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/11...
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I've just withdrawn my complaint to Trading Standards as all 28 shops & stores (including big names) we outed for giving unlawful and incorrect information on Return Rights have corrected their website. Full info including list of stores here... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/11...
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
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‘It’s an acceptance of where my body is now’ – the modern-day appeal of workwear
‘It’s an acceptance of where my body is now’ – the modern-day appeal of workwear
Its popularity is as enduring as its fabrics – and it allows men to age stylishly without worrying about their waistlines. One collector delves into the reasons the ordinary clothes of workers past live on in men’s wardrobes today
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
‘It’s an acceptance of where my body is now’ – the modern-day appeal of workwear
Must get my Christmas cards written. A lot of people don't send them now due to the price of stamps these days. My own list has been whittled down to twenty, family (which is small) and friends we don't see very often. My aunt and a friend in Somerset always get a letter from me with theirs 🎄
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Must get my Christmas cards written. A lot of people don't send them now due to the price of stamps these days. My own list has been whittled down to twenty, family (which is small) and friends we don't see very often. My aunt and a friend in Somerset always get a letter from me with theirs 🎄
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Susie Cooper, prolific English ceramic designer. 'Green tango' coffee set c.1930 #womensart
November 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Susie Cooper, prolific English ceramic designer. 'Green tango' coffee set c.1930 #womensart
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"David Cameron reveals prostate cancer diagnosis and calls for targeted screening"
With cheap at home testing kits & non-invasive mpMRI scans now so accurate - there is no excuse for the NHS to not bring in screening for prostate cancer
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
With cheap at home testing kits & non-invasive mpMRI scans now so accurate - there is no excuse for the NHS to not bring in screening for prostate cancer
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
David Cameron reveals prostate cancer diagnosis and calls for targeted screening
Former prime minister says he wants to join ranks of those pressing for more checks on men who may have disease
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
"David Cameron reveals prostate cancer diagnosis and calls for targeted screening"
With cheap at home testing kits & non-invasive mpMRI scans now so accurate - there is no excuse for the NHS to not bring in screening for prostate cancer
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
With cheap at home testing kits & non-invasive mpMRI scans now so accurate - there is no excuse for the NHS to not bring in screening for prostate cancer
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Dug out the circular knitting needles from my sewing cupboard. I need a new hat for this cold weather and I have some spare wool in a bag in my wardrobe. Will do myself a ribbed beanie hat (and maybe one for Mr Shed). I might put a bobble on mine 😁🧶
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Dug out the circular knitting needles from my sewing cupboard. I need a new hat for this cold weather and I have some spare wool in a bag in my wardrobe. Will do myself a ribbed beanie hat (and maybe one for Mr Shed). I might put a bobble on mine 😁🧶
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Sparkling like a festive bauble, Victor Stiebel’s early #1960s cocktail dress deploys a heap of embellishment not just in the form of beadwork at the bodice but a textured cloqué fabric as well. Sold via #AugustaAuction #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Sparkling like a festive bauble, Victor Stiebel’s early #1960s cocktail dress deploys a heap of embellishment not just in the form of beadwork at the bodice but a textured cloqué fabric as well. Sold via #AugustaAuction #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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Are you using AI, as a professional? Check your insurance cover, because a lot of the big insurers are about to pull out of insuring it. Which means that if you let it write your stuff or control your operations, you are potentially personally liable for its errors...
“Insurers increasingly view AI models’ outputs as too unpredictable and opaque to insure, said Dennis Bertram, head of cyber insurance for Europe at Mosaic. “It’s too much of a black box.”
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
www.ft.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Are you using AI, as a professional? Check your insurance cover, because a lot of the big insurers are about to pull out of insuring it. Which means that if you let it write your stuff or control your operations, you are potentially personally liable for its errors...
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Sir Rowley Birkin QC is looking for love, ladies. What a catch.
West Country OAP aristocrat on hunt for bride 20 years younger
She must be taller than 5ft 6ins, have a shotgun licence, and not be a Scorpio
www.plymouthherald.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Sir Rowley Birkin QC is looking for love, ladies. What a catch.
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Our GP practice was trying to get masks from local DIY shops at the end of February 2020. It’s ludicrous that there are people trying to suggest that the criticism of Boris is due to hindsight
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
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November 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Our GP practice was trying to get masks from local DIY shops at the end of February 2020. It’s ludicrous that there are people trying to suggest that the criticism of Boris is due to hindsight
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Beareaved parents face ‘harrowing’ delays for NHS postmorterms
Beareaved parents face ‘harrowing’ delays for NHS postmorterms
Shortage of specialist doctors means ‘service is in crisis’ according to chair of Royal College of Pathologists
Bereaved parents are enduring “harrowing” delays of more than a year to find out why their child died because the NHS has too few specialist doctors to perform postmortems.
The shortage of paediatric and perinatal pathologists is revealed in a report by the Royal College of Pathologists published on Sunday. It warns that the situation is “dire”, services in some parts of the UK have “totally collapsed” and families are paying the price.
37% of consultant posts in the UK are lying vacant
the UK has just 52 paediatric and perinatal consultants but 13 are due to retire in the next five years
just 3% of consultants think current staffing levels are enough to sustain their service
only 13 resident doctors are in training to become consultants in the specialty Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Beareaved parents face ‘harrowing’ delays for NHS postmorterms
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All my neighbours had ordered goggles to my house before we had any other ppe at work. We had a bathtub full. Every day I’d lay them out and carry some up and distribute - to porters, nurses, anyone I would see in the hallways, filled with fear. The community pulled together when others failed us
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November 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
All my neighbours had ordered goggles to my house before we had any other ppe at work. We had a bathtub full. Every day I’d lay them out and carry some up and distribute - to porters, nurses, anyone I would see in the hallways, filled with fear. The community pulled together when others failed us
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Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
On the bus into town today we spotted a woman who's a friend of a friend. I've spoken to her before when I've bumped into her but today I pretended I hadn't seen her. Easy for me as she was immediately engaged in convo with the woman she'd sat next to. I knew my instincts had been right when...
November 21, 2025 at 11:29 PM
On the bus into town today we spotted a woman who's a friend of a friend. I've spoken to her before when I've bumped into her but today I pretended I hadn't seen her. Easy for me as she was immediately engaged in convo with the woman she'd sat next to. I knew my instincts had been right when...
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Just going to post this today for no particular reason.
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Just going to post this today for no particular reason.
My next read, written by Wilde's grandson. A present from Mr Shed, who knows how much I love a bit of Oscar (Bluesky, like X failed before it, needs a green carnation emoji)
November 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
My next read, written by Wilde's grandson. A present from Mr Shed, who knows how much I love a bit of Oscar (Bluesky, like X failed before it, needs a green carnation emoji)
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Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons to ensure justice for survivors
Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons to ensure justice for survivors
Classification plan will create basis for ‘significantly stricter’ prosecutions, says interior minister
Germany plans to treat the use of date rape drugs like the use of weapons in prosecutions as part of measures to ensure justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
“We classify date rape drugs, which are increasingly used as a widespread tool in crimes, as weapons. This creates the basis for significantly stricter prosecutions,” Alexander Dobrindt, the interior minister, said on Friday. “We are committed to clear consequences and consistent enforcement. Women should feel safe and be able to move freely everywhere.” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons to ensure justice for survivors
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Sets for Batman Returns were kept very cold for the comfort of the real-life penguins involved. This meant that cast/crew repeatedly got sick during filming. The real-life penguins though would often fall in love with their animatronic counterparts or feel so settled that they began mating.
November 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Sets for Batman Returns were kept very cold for the comfort of the real-life penguins involved. This meant that cast/crew repeatedly got sick during filming. The real-life penguins though would often fall in love with their animatronic counterparts or feel so settled that they began mating.
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The latest performance data for major Welsh EDs, released today, showed that one in every seven people who attended ED in October 2025 waited 12 or more hours to be discharged, admitted or transferred.
Read our full response here: rcem.ac.uk/press-releas...
Read our full response here: rcem.ac.uk/press-releas...
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The latest performance data for major Welsh EDs, released today, showed that one in every seven people who attended ED in October 2025 waited 12 or more hours to be discharged, admitted or transferred.
Read our full response here: rcem.ac.uk/press-releas...
Read our full response here: rcem.ac.uk/press-releas...
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What a fascinating thread! #geography
When I wrote about the ancient Zanclean megaflood filling the Mediterranean in as little as 12-18 months (!), it was wistfully.
I'm English. Lovely place, England, but Big Geological Drama? None of that round 'ere, sadly.
Imagine my delight at what geophysicists found in the English Channel.
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I'm English. Lovely place, England, but Big Geological Drama? None of that round 'ere, sadly.
Imagine my delight at what geophysicists found in the English Channel.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
What a fascinating thread! #geography
Back from town where we spotted a fun busker doing early Beatles songs. His clothes were John Lennon, 1965. Polo neck under jacket. Hair just the right length, too. I love Brighton for this sort of thing 😁
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Back from town where we spotted a fun busker doing early Beatles songs. His clothes were John Lennon, 1965. Polo neck under jacket. Hair just the right length, too. I love Brighton for this sort of thing 😁
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German gymnast Johanna Quaas, who holds the Guinness world record as the oldest competitive gymnast in the world, turned 100 yesterday.
She started gymnastics at the age of 56 and broke the record in 2012, at the age of 86, when she performed a floor and beam routine.
She started gymnastics at the age of 56 and broke the record in 2012, at the age of 86, when she performed a floor and beam routine.
November 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
German gymnast Johanna Quaas, who holds the Guinness world record as the oldest competitive gymnast in the world, turned 100 yesterday.
She started gymnastics at the age of 56 and broke the record in 2012, at the age of 86, when she performed a floor and beam routine.
She started gymnastics at the age of 56 and broke the record in 2012, at the age of 86, when she performed a floor and beam routine.
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'He'?
That tells me the level of bias underlying this uninformed post.
Surgical training is so rigorous that the surgeons '20 years from now' are already at med school, and I can tell you from direct experience they are brilliant, innovative, and better communicators than their forebears.
#MedSky
That tells me the level of bias underlying this uninformed post.
Surgical training is so rigorous that the surgeons '20 years from now' are already at med school, and I can tell you from direct experience they are brilliant, innovative, and better communicators than their forebears.
#MedSky
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
'He'?
That tells me the level of bias underlying this uninformed post.
Surgical training is so rigorous that the surgeons '20 years from now' are already at med school, and I can tell you from direct experience they are brilliant, innovative, and better communicators than their forebears.
#MedSky
That tells me the level of bias underlying this uninformed post.
Surgical training is so rigorous that the surgeons '20 years from now' are already at med school, and I can tell you from direct experience they are brilliant, innovative, and better communicators than their forebears.
#MedSky