This morning, & several times over today, I have thought about how I want to thank my lucky stars for my kids, my brain, my fortune, my friends & for the crazy mook, @grovedigger.bsky.social

Tucking into Foucault’s Birth of The Clinic this evening, accompanied by a pack of Maltesers. No prizes for guessing which is ingested more easily.

Thought I had a WHOLE day of no clients. Had a text & suddenly reminded I have one later. The panic. The pashmina over my hillbilly dungarees.

I’m morphing into one of those people who sips apple cider vinegar or hot lemon water before eating. Granola. Nutritional yeast. Beans every day. Linen clothes & fucking off shaving my armpits. If I weren’t obviously middle aged already I’d be highly suspicious of myself.

We had rain 💅🏻

I cycled home & the way my legs wobbled post swim, I can confidently say that it has an impact.

𝕎𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 needs pep talks@salix.bsky.social · 19h ago

The scent of hot bedlinen sat on the water surface today: I swim calm, long strokes, reaching through the water like I’m seeking new land. Sometimes a quiet lady swims the early session and leaves a perfumed trail of fennel along the water. A white tonsured giant ploughs the slow lanes; I feel rage

At leisure centre for an early swim. Gym bros already bothering the car park. There is no escape.

Had a Bounty Ice cream in front of fan. It’s not gelato by the sea but it’s pretty good

I have counted over 20 midge bites on myself this afternoon & there are more where I can’t see. Am a raging, histaminey itching exhausted bitch this evening.

I wish Carps were here for this

AJfromBrooklyn@ajfrombrooklyn.bsky.social · 3d ago

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

As a single parent who is carer to disabled children, I work part time only & am therefore entitled to & indeed incredibly glad of universal credit. This month however they’re demanding I provide evidence that my disabled son will remain at his SEND school now he is over 18. I told them about school

This has been the summer of nettle stings up my thighs

Got my baps out too

I got fat white thighs & thread veins, & a little playsuit that shows them all off. You other fat thighed middle aged women can enjoy the sun with me, or be hateful & I still won’t care.

So that thing where shorts are so short you can see buttock crease is a real concern as you age, as shorts get longer and longer & the risk remains. It’s almost empirical.

Guys who lie about their dick size are guilty of phallusy

It’s Lammas Day! In the traditional rural calendar, Lammas Day signalled the annual shift from planting crops to grazing animals. It was the last day on which grass was cut for hay, and the day grazing could commence and the hunting season began.

I just had my marks back for the final module/research proposal: 85!! This bumps my overall average grade to well over 70 which is a distinction.. now I have the research TO DO. But I’m elated.

Wassily Kandinsky - Composition (1922) Watercolor, ink, and graphite on paper, 18.3×16.75 in

Car washes running during a drought.. profit beats everything huh

Watched a young sparrow pluck a meadow brown butterfly midair, lose grip and lose the butterfly.

Talented artist with a lot of responsibility on her shoulders

I got arsey with a GP today for trying to tell me about autistic kids. Started telling me how I was clearly distressed & autistic kids often don’t eat a wide variety of foods because.. i cut him off mid sentence. I mean. I’ve only tube fed one for 18 years.

Your sarcasm didn’t show and so now I think you’re stupid.

Nothing tells me better that we’re right to keep fighting climate change than reading this lunatic bilge from the Telegraph.

Jason Scott-Warren@jes1003.bsky.social · 7d ago

We must shut down these total cunts. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Bigots and NTs who spend countless hours trying to prove adhd doesn’t exist wouldn’t last an hour inside my head. It is one of the most medically documented neurodevelopmental disorder in history and it has been for *decades*. Bastards have persecuted us since.

💕☆ copy this to your profile and let your mutuals tell you their first impression of you ☆💕 Get to it!

Fairy@lafeeverte.bsky.social · last wk.

💕☆ copy this to your profile and let your mutuals tell you their first impression of you ☆💕 Oh god...

riot in the group chat

To combat the drought, (somehow) Here is some water I painted. So cool and refreshing. I have been swimming in this river.