Julia Laite

What looks like a mine shaft entrance is actually a fox hole, at the base of a recently pollarded willow tree.

I've just learned that our allotment groundskeeper and all-round mencsh has been caring for the allotment foxes' home for years now. He's even made them a grand entrance. ♡♡♡

The celling as your enter and leave the temporary entrance of Great Ormond Street Hospital on Guildford Street. A rainbow blur of happy colour.

I've spent a week in the CICU and on the cardiac ward at Great Ormond Street Hospital for children. It's been a week that's made me feel proud to be British and proud to be human. I have so much more to say but for now:

I am so fucking glad we're home.

...& yes, to find some kind of escape from oppression for them & with luck their families. This visa block deliberately targets nationals from countries that the British screwed over in particularly severe ways. This is so desperately cruel and unfair.

UK puts emergency brake on study visas for four countries’ nationals Shabana Mahmood says UK’s generosity abused as study visas halted for nationals from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan

I have personally seen the applications of many Afghani students to our gender studies programme: people who have started grassroots LGBT orgs; who have fought for women's education; who want to come to the UK to study to make their country & the world better...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

"Foreign-born Citizens" are actually just called citizens.

"Foreign-born voters" are just called voters

"non-citizen voters" (yes, this is a thing here in 🇬🇧) are just voters.

In the foreground, a pink Magnolia begins to unfurnished. Behind it tower London Plane trees. Between them peeks a small bright round moon.

Moon and Magnolia, Coram's Fields.

Joseph Fasano, 'Little Hymn' Little Hymn in response to WB When I wake at night in terror of the world we are leaving to our children; when I fear that the body isn't sacred, and the darkness has fallen on the good earth; when th...

For the text, war-poetry.livejournal.com/1567673.html; for more from the poet, josephfasano.net

I've been chanting this poem over and over these last few days on the cardiac ward with my kiddo, as madmen's wars kill and threaten so many other children.

We cannot save each other now

We can

Thank you @josephfasano.bsky.social, for this precious Little Hymn.

Good lord. I thought the previous image couldn't get worse.

As Canadians we'd never heard of it, and then realised it's what we call 'old fashioned gingerbread'. I have a precious recipe from my great, great grandmother!

The fish fingers were like bouncy balls in texture but the 'Canadian Ginger Cake' and custard was pretty good!

A beautiful artwork by Sophie Layton, hanging outside the cardiac ward at GOSH. Made from the words of staff, parents, and patients, with copper and aluminium hand-embossed hearts. 'My heart is a soldier', reads one. 'It's been through wars but it is still fighting and I am really proud of it.'

Labour must cease taking progressive voters for granted, says Sadiq Khan London mayor criticises PM for calling Greens ‘extreme’ after Gorton and Denton loss, saying it is a ‘flawed strategy’

Yes, couldn't agree more. But as one of these progressive voters, I'm here to say it's already way too fucking late. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is exactly how I feel about it.

omg omg omg I will dream of seeing this some day. Parade of Legends.

Meet the GOSH therapy dogs

Feeling blue? Meet the team of Therapy Dogs at GOSH. Yesterday, Ozzy managed to get the first smile out of Kid the Younger. And I'm thinking of changing my name to Billy Fizz. www.gosh.nhs.uk/working-here...

Thank you Charlotte, so far he's doing really really well. The main challenge is to stop myself from weeping constantly because of all the love and care and heroism I'm seeing every day here from these amazing kids, their parents, and all the workers and volunteers at GOSH.

thank you Sarah-Jane!

As Kid the Younger recovers on the ICU from heart surgery, I'm reading Percy Jackson aloud by his bed. Not only is it the only thing that comforted him in the most difficult hours; it entertained & cheered me too. Thank you @rickriordan.bsky.social. Three cheers for the incredible power of stories.

My god, this image. A bare bones concentration style barracks. Mahmood, in a trench coat reminiscent of the SS, gazes at it with what can only be described as a look that delights in human suffering.

The Labour Party deserves to be eradicated for this.

So just to make sure I've got this straight. Matt 'women should breed young' Goodwin is now suddenly concerned about husbands controlling their wives' votes?

a very cool looking teen girl wearing very cool shades exhales a very cool cloud of smoke/vapour

'European Girls age 13-15 have world's highest tobacco use for age group'....which is why we've chosen an image that makes it look really fuckin' cool.

v v pleased for the greens and here’s sincerely hoping this prompts a major realignment of labour (a man can dream)

More than one, and on a hardwood floor.

Well one good thing about a beside vigil is that you get breaking news that the Greens beat the Racist Assholes. What a bright spot and what perhaps wake up call for Labour to maybe try and stop making decent people hate them.

A painting of a man holding a whaling harpoon

John Sakeouse, a Greenland Inuk whaler and draughtsman who kayaked to and then boarded a whaling ship to visit Scotland in 1816. He’s said to be the first Inuk to visit Scotland on his own free will, though Inuit had by this time been spotted for centuries in kayaks around the Northern Isles.

Truly it is.

Thanks. 'Here we fuckin go' remains the mantra. x

Kid the Younger is out of heart surgery & it went well. A long road yet & still on the ICU, but I'm overflowing with gratitude & love for the NHS & GOSH especially. I'm so proud to count myself amongst a People who created this institution & who fight for it (& within it) every single day.

Streetlights glow amid the greenery of a London streetscape. In the distance, fluorescent hospital lights.

Great Ormond Street, looking west toward the hospital.