Liz Cokayne-Delves

Rachel and her Dad with a cairn in snow

Circa 1985 - Dad never let a whiteout stop him walking in his beloved Lakes, and how I loved to follow him 🤍🤍🤍

What's an opinion you have that would make a bunch of people angry?

Write it down in a notebook called, "Why would I want to make a bunch of people angry right now?" and then close that notebook and have some tea.

We don't need more remakes of old movies. We need more MUPPETS remakes of old movies.

I can never understand why children's books get left out of "great book" lists. The books we call "children's books" are really books written for an audience that includes children, but excludes no-one. They are books for EVERYONE - and if you exclude them, you miss the most important books of all!

Earlier this year I had the great pleasure of discussing the taboo topic of death & dying with Andy Coulson for his Crisis What Crisis podcast.

Please consider listening - I hope it frames some important context for today's momentous vote.

open.spotify.com/episode/1DXf...

Bertha Clayden in the 1919 or 1931 women's uniform with her three brothers in front of a shed in a station yard. From left the brothers are a Sergeant in greatcoat and helmet, an Inspector in a peaked forage cap and a PC in a helmet and greatcoat. She was head of the Met’s female officers from 1922 to 1929.

Perhaps the ultimate example of a #PoliceFamily in our collections is the Claydens. Not only was Alice Bertha our first Woman Inspector with arrest powers, her father, three brothers, husband and stepson were all also Met officers. #EYAfamily #family #ExploreYourArchive

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want a bookshelf with a rolling ladder?

Ooh that’s me ☺️ 📚 🛌

Woman who accused Conor McGregor of rape wins civil assault case - and is awarded damages Nikita Hand has been awarded €248,603 (£206,000) in damages after a jury at Dublin's High Court found McGregor assaulted her in a Dublin hotel in 2018.

This weeks #SundayThread The Courage to Report. The verdict in this case for me highlights a need to believe victims. Let me explain

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Alas neither Labour UK nor Wes Streeting on here yet, but could we all agree that however MPs vote on AD next week, this is a huge opportunity for the government to announce - finally, after decades of successive governments failing dying people - proper NHS funding of palliative care?

it’s not “retreating into a bubble” to want to see posts by people you like and want them to see yours

A fascinating thread 🧵 I’m learning so much on here.

Well well glad you have caught up🤣🤪 @wecopscaroline.bsky.social

If you find yourself wondering if a new book will solve all your problems today, the answer is yes

Highly recommend reading this piece on the increasingly widespread use of PAs to replace doctors in the NHS. It’s an issue that horrifies many of us.

Don’t like a book? Don’t read it. Pretty simple.

Goddamn, The Marvels really was done dirty. This is a delightful movie. WTF is wrong with people?

More likely 💯 doesn’t matter which streamer. Otherwise I tend to watch one epi and then forget to go back for ages.

All this talk about echo chambers.

My take is this.

I look at social media spaces as an extension of my living room, if I wouldn't want you in my home I don't want you here.

And my home doesn't welcome racists, homophobia, Transphobia, misogyny and all other manners of right wingers.

daily reminder to support your local library, even if that’s just by checking out ebooks! 📚

I tend to use my kindle for the 4 books I generally have on the go at one time. Then paperbacks for specific books I want to own. Hardbacks as trophies.

A police officer was put in a headlock and had a gun pulled out on her. Constable Erin Lee was given the bravery award at the Merseyside Police's annual 'Community First Awards' on Tuesday, November 12 #police #policeofficer #thinblueline

The hardest thing to get used to about Bluesky is not getting nasty replies from people who don’t know the difference between ‘your’ and ‘you’re’.

A TBR room. A whole room. I want one!

“The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it”

R.Peel 1829

Police cloud project raises data protection concerns despite legal reforms | Computer Weekly On-going data protection issues with the use of hyperscale public cloud infrastructure by UK police could complicate the ambitions of nine forces to move their common records management system onto a ...

I simply could never have predicted I would end up such an avid reader of Computer Weekly! But honestly, I am always reading it. Another great investigation into #policing data and computing issues: www.computerweekly.com/news/3666154...