You know what would be fun? FOI’ing all the cathedrals to ask how much they spend on teabags each year

Clare M. Dowding@claredowding.bsky.social · 19h ago

I'm just wondering how long the teabags are expected to last, and therefore when you'll need to get another 1300.

Here is a starter pack of people and organizations working for trans rights in the UK, plus people who regularly post on the topic. The UK press is hopelessly anti-trans, so give these folks a boost: bsky.app/starter-pack...

If I keep playing my 'Rain Music' playlist and staring hopefully at the remaining grey clouds in the sky, do we reckon they might get the hint?

Seagulls flying towards the sunset at Porthcothan, Cornwall. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEphemeral #Sunsets #Cornwall #Gulls #Coastal #Photography

Good morning and welcome to marvellous marmalade Monday You don’t have to climb mountains today. Sometimes getting up, opening the curtains and simply facing the day is enough Not every day has to be about achieving great things.

Oh to create a mosaic sphere, from shards of stained glass; fragmented and gathered, chosen and precious, translucent, transformed, fastened & framed. Out of destruction; lit from within, reflected outside, turning and turning, falling and rising. Church.

Rosemary Griggs@ragriggsauthor.bsky.social · 4d ago

The unusual tracery in the Bishops eye window in Lincoln Cathedrsl resembles two leaves and was re- built in 1330. It contains randomly arranged fragments of medieval glass from windows smashed by Cromwell’s soldiers in 1644 . #StainedGlassSunday

"Being trans is sad Being trans is horrid." Shut up. Being trans is great. Look. I've got inner peace and a fucking scythe.

Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 5d ago

Today at the convent: the nuns have been teaching me to scythe.

This is frankly ridiculous and I hope Burnham takes the chance to reconsider the government's position.

Lizzie Dearden@lizziedearden.bsky.social · 4d ago

The number of terror-related arrests in Britain has risen 1,200% a year following the ban of Palestine Action The number of people arrested for holding signs - under a law originally designed for IRA uniforms - is higher than total terror arrests over the previous decade inews.co.uk/news/retired...

Perpetual mood, tbh

"Receive what you are: the body of Christ." I love these words for the distribution of communion, and will be using them tomorrow. And trying very hard to avoid repeating the previous incident in which I somehow managed to come out with: "You are what you eat: the body of Christ."

Gearing up for a Choral Evensong rehearsal at the glorious @gloucestercathedral.org.uk. ✝️ 🎶

substack.com/@goodgirlsgu... An excellent post on common experiences as a late-diagnosed #AuDHD woman, for anyone else who also needs to read it. So much of this resonates with me. 🧠💫

5 Things every Late-Diagnosed Woman needs to hear

Late-diagnosed with autism or ADHD as a woman? Here are 5 honest truths about masking, grief, and self-worth after an AuDHD diagnosis

substack.com

This month marks 30 years since my first visit to (my now beloved) #Eryri! ⛰️ Return visits have, mercifully, not featured The Hat. Good grief.

The flames have gone, but the loss will last for decades. Dunwich Heath's wildlife, rare habitats and unforgettable landscapes have suffered a devastating blow, writes David Jobbins.

What we’ve lost at Dunwich Heath

Dunwich Heath has burned. The wildlife may take decades to recover

eastangliabylines.co.uk

Haikuing Ecclesiastes 9:7 on Lammas Day (tomorrow, August 1) Almost Lammas day, the first Summer wheat harvest. Eat your bread with joy. #FridayHaiku ⚓

We love Mandy Burnham!

Glyn Bach@llanfrancisco.bsky.social · last wk.

I am pleased to report that Andy Burnham has a Welsh lesbian Quaker chaplain lookylike. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

30 July 1927 | A German Jewish girl, Chana Pilz, was born in Berlin. She emigrated to Belgium. She was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

We just the shortest of rain showers here - so brief I didn't even hear it - but the sudden scent of petrichor wafting into my flat is glorious.

If you're a praying person, I'd appreciate prayers for discernment following an unexpected nudge towards something simultaneously terrifying and intriguing. Not yet sure whether it's a God-given nudge... thank you. ✝️

Gold octopus ornaments from Bronze Age Mycenae, some 3,500 years ago. Probably sewn onto a funerary garment or shroud. Grave IV, Grave Circle A. National Archaeological Museum, Athens 📷 by me #Archaeology

the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.

Sandhurst Hill #sunflowers, seen on yesterday evening's walk 🌻

2/2 Oxhill Church, Warwickshire. Inside is a wreath discovered hanging in the roof and a brilliant font with Adam and Eve. Outside the South door is a feast of Romanesque with lots of power flowers. www.apotropaios.co.uk

!!! Something good has happened for once! Autistic people like me who find train travel basically impossible, look!

Bennett McKenna@bennettmckenna.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you're based in the UK, be aware that the eligibility for a Disabled Persons Railcard is expanding in September, and you might now be able to get one even if you couldn't before. www.disabledpersons-railcard.co.uk/eligibility-...

No idea whether it's your kind of thing, @thelabandfield.bsky.social, but I love Helen Burgess's work. folksy.com/shops/HelenB...

I feel horribly seen, but in fairness it is a very nice pasta bowl (albeit not a shallow one).

The Daily Tism@thedailytism.com · 2w ago

Abeer Zaki, 40, thought all her friends were on the same page as her, but after a lunch where she was forced to eat from a large, flat plate, she is beginning to wonder whether she can trust anyone anymore.

Built for people long forgotten, now called Hetty Pegler’s Tump remembering a seventeenth century landowning woman, and, judging by the flickering candle in the heart of the chamber and the rich smell of incense in the air, still very much a place of gathering and commemoration five millennia later.

Excellent 🧵 on common late-diagnosed autistic experiences #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD

Tim Clare@timclare.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's common for late diagnosed autistic people to find that they can't do some of the things they used to do before diagnosis - they seem to have a drop in function, which to friends & family can make it look as if the diagnosis made them worse. I don't know if I've exactly experienced this, but...

A familiar walk to round off the day.

Barrister Rajiv Menon KC is facing potentially two-years in prison for doing his job. This has never happened in British legal history. Sign the petition 👇 https://netpol.org/2026/07/15/stop-the-prosecution-of-rajiv-menon-save-britains-juries/