Oh FFS!

Crikey, terrible nights sleep. Anxiety is a hideous thing, that I haven't had to deal with for a few years now. Three more days and then I'm off for 3 weeks. Four more days and it's the eclipse cruise!!

Love to all trans folks. I am sorry that some people are shit.

This little sod has been digging up my newly planted (and watered) plants! See also Deacon on the wall above!

I have been doing ressie conveyancing since 2000, I was admitted as a FILEX in 2007 and as a solicitor in 2012. Today I was nearly reduced to vomiting with anxiety 😟

I wish to report a parkrun injury. Worse than when I fell over a lump of air at the velopark, then 2 weeks later fell over a tree root at Lanhydrock. I appear to have been bitten by a horse fly on the back of my leg whilst visiting Andover. I have a huge itchy red lump & am looking for sympathy 😟

@katebevan.com this is one of the Jessica litter from Animals in Distress in South Devon. I would remain him Hercule Purrot! Or Kitler!

Please I beg you, go through this thread!

AJfromBrooklyn@ajfrombrooklyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

I dare anyone to come up with a worse album cover than this.

The very idea of bootnecks forcing channel crossers ashore in France when (a) the French haven't agreed and (b) the channel crossers don't want to get off any boat is for the birds. And not the kind of birds bootnecks are interested in. 🙄🙄🙄

Reform will order the Royal Navy to turn back boats in the channel? Really? REALLY? They are utterly, utterly foolish. Well, you knew that 🙄

Lovely trip to Birmingham and thence to Andover for parkrun on the Trafalgar Way. Home via pongo country-Tidworth, Bulford, Larkhill, passing something called RifleFest which is I assume members of the Rifles Regiment polishing their equipment & sleeping under hedges. Or something. I did not stop!

I've had the best day. The quilts on display were just awesome, mine are childlike in comparison

I try not to be judgy about people's sense of dress of body shape but I draw the line at BO-dorous men 🤢

And now there is a major gas leak in east Cornwall. The police have put out a warning about naked flames and smoking in case of explosion 🫢

Happy parkrun eve eve, everyone! I'm off to the NEC for the festival of quilts on Friday and thence to Andover on the trafalgar way! Happy days 🥰

Look at this hat! I've never seen a wren wearing one 🥰

Slightly out of focus@normandy661944.bsky.social · last wk.

Patricia Turner, WRNS, by William Dring , 1942. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 2420)

Me : educated to postgraduate level. Can't work a drill Mr W : left school at 16, joined RN. Can do electrics, plumbing, building works, computers, ant eradication, water purification.

Philip Stephens@philipstephens.bsky.social · last wk.

PM: "From today Britain will value the hard hat as much as the graduation cap" Hope everyone's got that.

The French firing warning shots in the channel today! Good grief!

#transrightsarehumanrights Trans rights, gay rights, women's rights. One struggle, one fight.

Paul Cotterill@bickerrecord.bsky.social · last wk.

In advance of Aug 5th, anti-trans extremists are ramping up the attack on parkrun for being inclusive. Added bit now is the 'Sophie Cunningham point' (I had to look it up tbh), which feels adapted/adopted as a deliberate "we will single you out and target you for hate and humiliation" message.

Woooaaahh there! We're only making plans for Nigel was from the 70s? Surely not!

I'm not convinced it just plugs into a socket. We have them and the connection is absolutely not plug and play.

Helen Czerski@helenczerski.bsky.social · last wk.

Plug-in solar panels are coming to the UK from August 27th! It's been in the pipeline for a while & it's already common in Germany. But it's BRILLIANT because it opens up these technologies to renters & ppl w/o their own roof. Plugs into a normal socket & supplies ~ 10-20% of household needs. ☀️🎉

I am not manning anything. I don't do lean manning. I certainly don't do unmanned vehicles. Pah!

The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · last wk.

Nick Clegg is urging people to "man the barricades" when it comes to "indefensible" tuition fees... The fees he helped introduce. "Im sure the generation of graduates paying tax rates of nigh on 50% will be terribly grateful for his conversion... of his conversion".

Do we think a plinian column is much the same as pyro cumulus nimbus clouds in its effect?

Lunch rudely interrupted by colleague nearly setting fire to air fryer!

And now Bill Oddie 😕

Hey Jude@judew.bsky.social · 2w ago

Oh Ed Stourton has left us. He was so lovely to listen to on R4. Could the grim reaper turn its attention to less nice people please? I have a list if he needs one.

I am so horrified for the little haggis caught up in the Cairngorms fire. They only have little legs and won't be able to run very fast 😞

Update on the incident at parkrun last week, chap doing well waiting in hosp for an operation. Learnt that if the defib is used it has to go back to parkrun HQ for something and replacement pads, that the local run has to pay for! Also the runner who used it was sick all over the defib!

Lovely day for my 200th parkrun! Lots of tourists, first day of the summer hols in beautiful South Devon

Wish I could be I. London for Trans pride day but there are only so many weekends before I go on holiday, normally I would do stuff during the week but I'm working and thus the other stuff has to be done at the weekend 🙄