Right, time for a bit more cricket. Then some ice-cream later.

The hatred towards women who want to defend, protect and ensure their very hard fought fo legal rights is OFF THE SCALE. Posts are being hidden, regular contributors and the best defenders are being terminally suspended. I applaud and say a big thankyou to the men who're sticking up for us.

Scope here for a Windfall tax.

Devout lifetime Tory voter (family member) complaining that only one reservoir (Carsington) had been built in 50yrs...then moaned about Post Office and railways. I said yeh, Thatcher sold it all off to foreign countries/entities to benefit shareholders...he mumbled and tried to defend her...hmmm.

To combat the resurgent itching of the insect bites I've put anti-histamine cream on sticky plasters and put them on. This also stops me scratching. The bite zapper has worked quite well too. Not sat still enough outside today to get bitten/stung. Weather vane is back up on shed, whizzing round.

Replies and quote tweets of this are informative about a certain range of attitudes indicating some people are very angry that women in Edinburgh have a single sex service set up in addition to the ERCC service which did not guarantee such services for users.

Scott Wortley@scottwortley.bsky.social · 4d ago

It was preposterous that amnesty characterised a trauma informed service to support women who have been subject to sexual and domestic violence as anti rights. There was an impact on service users and this shows an impact on staff. No wonder those involved were and remain so angry

A hard situation deep into the Thai Jungle today after we got a tip off. Nobody lives here. Managed to get the first boy saved (more soon we hope) and medical care. I've never seen a dog go from scared to happy to be rescued so quick

I'm feeling chuffed/virtuous. Freezer is defrosted, cleaned and sorted. Some things composted. Seals are in a poor state really so I'm going to have to look in summer sales for a new one exactly the same size and fully manual, not IT-controlled or anything. Found a bag of chicken pieces, 6mths old.

Isn't it ironic that Nigel Farage hates the BBC & plans to Privatise it when BBC news are one of Reform's biggest supporters. BBC news sets the nation against the boat people trying to claim asylum by continually targeting them which is what drives votes up for Reform. Only GBNews are more devout.

Just collected seeds from 3 varieties of tomato plants hoping I've chosen the very best tomato from each. I always choose 1 from the 2 best plants. Next year some will be grown outside. The 3 I gave to my lovely neighbour haven't grown very big, leaves are small, but good trusses and tomatoes.

In 1969 a human walked on the Moon. Pinnacle of human achievement. In 2026 a human (not mentioning any names) crashed a rocket into it. Accidentally. 🔭 🧪

FACT: In 14 years of Conservative Govt. they added just 500 extra prison places to the system. 14 years wasted & another example of their gross negligence. Don't be fooled by Tory spokespersons, or their news media trying to blame the Govt., which most of them do. Labour are now catching the flak.

She's been working so hard for her first week with us to get healthy. And the first weigh in went super well. 7 lbs down and she is starting to feel herself again! A long way to go but she is off and running

The viewpoint of the “gender critical”: We accept that trans people exist. But we think gender identity is a belief system that we don’t share. Analogous to atheists accepting religious people exist but not God or souls. Sex is an observable, objective characteristic we all have. Gender id is not.

Two thirds of garden watered, well it's the pots and troughs really as stuff that's in the ground can cope for now. Slugs had my little coleus cutting overnight. Coffee then top third to water. Lots of bees about already. I feel I'm putting off defrosting the freezer...will do it this afternoon.

Our planet burns, yet fossil fuel companies knew and still continued their drive for new drilling licences. Now they scale back climate commitments for greater profit, supported by politicians they've bought. #ClimateAction

DB Maggi@dbmaggi.bsky.social · 6d ago

“Civilization could prove to be a fragile thing,” — Shell Oil internal memo, 1989. They knew. They lied. They lobbied for more and more fossil fuel contracts.

I tried to sign a protest form yesterday to press the gov not to release the killer of a Police Officer early. I waited and waited for the "confirmation email" but it just didn't arrive. I hope they get the prob sorted or maybe it's just me. Pity, as I don't tend to sign many such things.

Woken twice in night by milk delivery then someone going to work really early so got up at 6.30. Only 14°C outside so I have a long-sleeved top on. Windows open to let blessed cold air in. Mostly cloudy, zero signs of any rain overnight sadly. Big busy day today. Should get cracking soon.

The sheer spitefulness, the loathing for independent-minded women and anyone saying the wrong thing, runs like a thread though this hateful Guardian piece (And well done Sophie, because they attack when they can’t silence) www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...

Sophie Cunningham isn’t rejecting politics. She’s cashing in on them

Sophie Cunningham’s rise says less about basketball than the incentives of a sports culture where outrage, identity politics and attention have become lucrative commodities

theguardian.com

Well it hasn't rained a drop here and it's also looking very unlikely for tomorrow too, which means an early morning watering round, pick tomatoes and runner beans and then defrost freezer and start prepping tomatoes for freezer.

Just checked 2 of those moving weather radar maps, 1 from the Met Office and other Accuweather. Met Office shows some rain about now (there isn't) and Accuweather shows rain (there isn't). What's fascinating is how clumps of rain avoid the A38 (Trent river valley) and then Derwent river valley.

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

Fuego, one of the region's most active volcanoes, has erupted repeatedly in recent years, forcing mass evacuations.

Guatemala issues second-highest ‘danger' alert after Fuego volcano erupts

Fuego, one of the region's most active volcanoes, has erupted repeatedly in recent years, forcing mass evacuations.

aljazeera.com

If I could be granted one wish that would change the world for the better… Find a dog to adopt. That’s it. Simple as that. There are millions out there waiting ❤️

Leaders 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.

Those who've known dementia and Alzheimers in the family will recognise the state of Trump. He's now past the stage of lying about facts and entered his own reality. He says anything he believes to be true at any given moment. Sadly, he has no-one to care for his welfare enough to intervene.

At the very top of my list of "worst house jobs" is window cleaning on the inside. It's always been top. Second is defrosting freezer and now is the time that has to be done, just after all winter woollens have gone through and just before this yrs harvest of tomatoes starts to go in. Wednesday.

I have slathered myself in biting insect repellent which doesn't exactly smell like my favourite perfumes so I'll be going outside in a bit to test it out. I have 3 brands of repellent, this is applied via rollerball and is very slightly oily, which means I'll have to wipe myself down before bed.

These men are grotesque, delusional perverts. Biological men and boys don’t have periods, only biological women and girls do. There is no such thing as a “transgender period”.

Planet Wild M41 plants 9,000 willows on a 20-ha abandoned fish farm in Poland’s Oder Delta to restart a beaver colony. Those willows are prime early-spring Bombus queen pollen—beaver restoration is pollinator restoration. https://youtu.be/4-qYZiBSK7g -A Bee

We Let Beavers Transform an Old Farm | Planet Wild M41

Mission 41: 9,000 willows planted on a 20-ha fish farm in Poland’s Oder Delta to restart a beaver colony in the Oder River rewilding arc.

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