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Winny May
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Books, Art, Travel, Architecture, Hiking are a few of my favourite things

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Secularist
Pantheist
I practice mindful living and I meditate a lot

Now nearer 70 than 60 😱

Happiest in a forest, in my garden or on water
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I was wondering why the frisbee kept getting bigger and bigger ...

Then it hit me.
January 17, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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January 17, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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New draft guidance from the CPS has classed circumcision as potential child abuse.

www.secularism.org.uk/news/2026/01...
CPS draft guidance classes circumcision as potential child abuse
Circumcision "may be a form of child abuse or an offence against the person", says draft prosecution guidance Read More »
www.secularism.org.uk
January 17, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Forgot I post this only 4 days ago, a week is a long time in politics…so they say. So the defection mill continues

Reform=Same old Tories
With their recruitment of Nadhim Zahawi, Reform are continuing to build their impressive portfolio of opportunist Conservative Party idiots.
January 16, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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"I was a toilet cleaner, then five minutes later I’m trashing a guitar on stage and girls find me attractive."

So many great lines in this.

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
‘We wouldn’t still be playing if we’d got stinking rich’: the Damned celebrate 50 years of punk, goth and holy grail hunting
An appetite for self-destruction left Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible and Rat Scabies hugely influential but financially insecure. They’re back with a big show and their first album together since 1995
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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Wishing all of us many gorgeous nature adventures in 2026. Whatever chaos is happening there is always something beautiful or exciting or funny to see out there.

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January 1, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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January 16, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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Between 🌳 trees🌳 #woodland #treeclub
January 16, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in Newman's day; her autumnal mists, her grey springtime, and the rare glory of her summer days... exhaled the soft airs of centuries of youth" ~ Charles Ryder B.R
Anger, envy, gluttony and covetousness so far, and the only reason lechery doesn't figure is because I'm too slothful.
January 16, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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The forecast calls for spring like weather.
Seems like a great day for a walk in the woods.
Hope you can get outside.
Nature photo day 368
#nature #photography #eastcoastkin #forestfriday #photographersofbluesky #peace #photographersunited #landscapephotograph #hiking #pnw
January 16, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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More appropriate by the day.
January 16, 2026 at 8:21 AM
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The government cancelling local elections threatens accountability and undermines local democracy. Parliament must debate whether the government should have this power. Please sign our letter.
secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/184786/...
A dark day for democracy
The government cancelling local elections threatens accountability and undermines local democracy. Parliament must debate whether the government should have this power. Please sign our letter.
secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk
January 16, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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Mossy hazel (or willow) at Peter Tavy Coombe this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #moss
January 16, 2026 at 12:09 PM
I agree around 12 hours would suffice for me then another 4 or 5 hours in the evening to prepare for bed
January 16, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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The findings of Powys council that Llanidloes school was 'compliant' despite its head routinely promoting creationism raise serious questions about current guidance on religion in schools in Wales.

Our calls for review are covered in Nation Cymru👇

nation.cymru/news/welsh-g...
Welsh Government urged to change guidance on teaching of religion after school teaching creationism is cleared of wrongdoing
Martin Shipton  The National Secular Society has called for the Welsh Government to revise its guidance on the teaching of religion in schools after a county council decided to take no action against ...
nation.cymru
January 16, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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An independent Jewish school in London has been found to have "not taken seriously" issues identified in eight previous inspections.

School standards must be robustly enforced at all schools, no matter their religious character.

www.secularism.org.uk/news/2026/01...
Faith school stops Ofsted asking pupils about other cultures
Inspection finds Bnei Zion Community School has failed to address serious failures for almost a decade Read More »
www.secularism.org.uk
January 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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I try not to post too many things to do with US politics but this made me laugh out loud. So. Sorry.
January 16, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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I once obtained a Nobel Peace prize medal by blackmail
January 16, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Surely it can’t be a coincidence
Robert Jenrick is the MP for Newark - the only constituency that is an anagram of wanker.
January 16, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Introduce yourself with with 5 facts:

1) I talk to trees
2) Trees talk to me
3) I have been here before
4) So have you
5) I am in no way delusional
Introduce yourself with 5 facts:

1.I always flirt with death
2.I look ill but I don't care about it
3.I can face your threats
4.And stand up straight and tall and shout about it
5.I think I'm on another world with you
Introduce yourself with 5 facts:

1. Didn't have the money round to buy a Morry Thou
2. Been around and seen a lot to shake me anyhow
3. Begged and borrowed, sometimes I admit I even stole
4. The worst crime that I ever did was playing rock 'n' roll
5. The money's no good
January 16, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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"Excuse me, exactly how Italian is this establishment?"
January 15, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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I make no apologies for sharing this again.
January 15, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Repost with your home river
January 15, 2026 at 11:08 AM