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Proud of my Lib Dem colleagues for standing up to this. 🔶
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2d agoLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Watering the allotment, back from hols before I’d even unloaded the car. Plants are a leeetle crispy but am hoping will come back 🤞#allotmentlife
You know cycling has become part of your everyday life when cornering in a stiff breeze on gravel with a 5 ft inflatable gecko on your bike doesn’t faze you. Even if others are laughing and pointing. (That gecko may have an unfortunate accident)
On a train listening to four kids (students?) On their way to Rome. They have paper phrase and guide books and are cramming Italian. Never been away without their parents. Me and the other passengers doing the ‘oh bless’ eye roll at each other, silently. The kids are all right.
Parisian deputy mayor blames America (global second largest greenhouse gas emitter) for heatwave after American tourists in Paris complain about lack of air conditioning. VIVE LA FRANCE. 🇫🇷 🔥🥵 www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
France blames US for deadly heatwave
Paris official hits back at mockery over lack of air conditioning, saying America shares responsibility for record-breaking temperatures
telegraph.co.uk
Feel like I crossed a personal cycling Rubicon- went to the Big Sainsbury’s on the ring road by cargo bike. You know what? It’s not that hard. There are paths and crossings I never knew existed. My car trips are vanishing one at a time.
Tfw getting tickets to Hinksey Pool feels like getting Glastonbury tickets…
Oats, banana, peanut butter, bicarb and dry fruit make excellent porridge breakfast bars along with a glass of milk for a small boy and I'm just mad it took me a heatwave and this long to think of it and I've been making porridge each morning for years.
Just gonna sit here, in the rain, with my plants. It’s the most comfortable I’ve been all day. 👌
SEN mum hack if it helps anyone. Too hot for trousers, won't wear school shorts because - different. Cut the legs short of the trousers they are still, somehow 'trousers'. Winning, one tiny battle at a time. Even if he looks like a ragamuffin. 🤷♀️
Never been a Starmer fan but given Trump’s latest statement I’m now rooting for him?!
Wait, Trump signed a treaty on Iran - in Versailles? Does no one in America read history books?
9am and I’ve made dinner, breakfast pancakes, planted celery, sunflowers, cucumbers and peppers, watered the greenhouses. Who needs the gym? Now for three sisters planting #allotmentlife
I have just replaced all my failed veg that died in the hot snap that was Plantmageddon from the Oxford City Farm. It took two bikes to get them home, I also got cake and garlic scapes, plus some food waste chives. Peak East Oxford level unlocked. V. happy.
The incredible soul that is Craig Simmons, my partner in crime on Magdalen Road is deservedly recognised here for decades of community work. So so so pleased for him. He also makes an excellent Santa. 😍
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2mo ago17 Oxfordshire people have been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours. Craig Simmons, former Green city councillor and Lord Mayor of Oxford, is appointed MBE for “services to charitable causes and to the community in Oxford”. Martin Reeves, CEO of Oxfordshire County Council, is appointed OBE.
Small has two days off school because he ate an entire punnet of plums when I wasn't looking. Today, WFH, is going about as well as you'd expect...🙄
Posting in to the ether: have been learning Ukrainian but write very badly. Have now discovered I can dictate Ukrainian into WhatsApp by just speaking at it, and it will write it for me. This is a game changer for communicating with Ukrainian friends and makes me very happy. 🇺🇦
Bike was serviced for first time in like three years. Sailed past half a dozen people on Magdalen bridge, while wearing a giant rucksack. I should get it serviced more often 🤣
In a surprise to literally zero working mothers, researchers at the University of Oxford have found that the careers of women who take parental leave are adversely affected. Conversely men who take extended parental leave are seen as leadership material and therefore more likely to progress.
When men take parental leave, their careers may benefit — but women’s do not
New research using Canadian workplace data finds that men who take six months or more of parental leave are seen as warmer and more leadership-ready by colleagues.
theconversation.com
Posting in to the ether because 😱 Currently with a relative in a hospital for reasons. Also trying to work. Woman in next bed has gangrene 🤢, someone is scream/ coughing and a man has just turned up with a guitar leading a singsong ‘Oh what a beautiful morning’ 🤷♀️ NHS staff are heroes.
I mean I am not made of sugar but today I had to have a word with myself to get on a bike. Zoomed past the traffic though?!
I have very few followers and even fewer photos of today but just want to put out into the universe that every person who turned up to Magdalen Road Festival and danced in the rain today is epic. Retailers and charities had a good day. This is what community looks like. Extra thanks to volunteers 😍
Totally normal Saturday morning. Pirate hat v useful for politely turning round carrrrrs
