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Book loving, allotment gardening, cat loving Geordie now exiled in Brummagem. NUFC. Likes a bit of that “woke” stuff, thinks there should be a bit more of it. No DMs unless I know you

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I remember trying to sort that out for my husband years ago and failing miserably. Just how do you do it ?

05.03.2026 08:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I live in the LTN area and the number of pavement parking w@ankers who tell me to walk on the road if I complain to them still hasn’t reduced

04.03.2026 17:00 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s very brave of Kevin from Nebraska

02.03.2026 22:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Who or what are her daughters furious with? I need to know

02.03.2026 15:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Fabulous! We saw it passing through our local line a couple of years ago and it’s quite a sight to see

01.03.2026 13:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🤣🤣

28.02.2026 09:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What have the US, Israel and Iran got in common? All run by delusional old men trying to distract from their own failures and the fact their citizens don’t like them. ☹️🤬

28.02.2026 09:28 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Ours went straight into the shredder. I wasn’t going to contaminate my compost bin with it

27.02.2026 13:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’d be inclined to to start with Thatcher on that front

26.02.2026 15:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Careful now. I once made a snidey comment about his column btl on the Graun website. It was deleted and I was banned from commenting under that ID.

26.02.2026 15:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New research on the positive social impact of Canadian public libraries, which have seen greater government investment in recent yearshttps://culc.ca/project/social-impact-study/ Canadian Urban Libraries Council (CULC)

24.02.2026 10:30 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

He might be right and all that but if I’m ever on a train with him I’ll make a point of having loud and long conversations on speakerphone

24.02.2026 10:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fine reading until 1400 and then it just got increasingly difficult and too much for me to know what became of the poor blogger at the end 😀

22.02.2026 12:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Our local butcher hangs his meat in the window, and tbh I strongly suspect he’d be a reform sympathiser

21.02.2026 13:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dessert of champions 🏆 . That’s proper nostalgia pudding

21.02.2026 12:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Reading is fun, setting daft targets makes it into work. I’ve spent a glorious few weeks with all 800+ pages of Hilary Mantels A Place Of Greater Safety. By his metrics I’d be worrying about missing my target

21.02.2026 11:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

To be fair they used to just murder them back in the olden days

19.02.2026 12:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a cartoon of an ice cube with heart shaped eyes ALT: a cartoon of an ice cube with heart shaped eyes

Mr Pip can bark at what he wants. Those puppy dog eyes of his just melt me

15.02.2026 21:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hasn’t it bin good?

14.02.2026 20:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When Labour came to power in 1997, a staggering 283,866 people were waiting 6 months or more for an operation.

By 2007 the number was down to 199.

Just one astonishing fact I came across while recording this and it's a reminder that government really can change things - for the better.

14.02.2026 11:03 — 👍 603    🔁 183    💬 46    📌 6

Ssshhhh. 🤫

14.02.2026 10:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Cunting arse” is one of my favourite swears these days

13.02.2026 23:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It was a first for me!

12.02.2026 22:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This bird was tiny and definitely smaller than a sparrow

12.02.2026 20:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you! I did wonder about the curved bill

12.02.2026 20:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Photo of a tree trunk with a small brown bird perched on the bark. It’s got a longish beak ( the bird that is!) so suspect it’s a wren

Photo of a tree trunk with a small brown bird perched on the bark. It’s got a longish beak ( the bird that is!) so suspect it’s a wren

#shitbirdphotos
I think it’s a wren though I’m honestly not sure

12.02.2026 15:53 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 6    📌 0
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Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil | Good Law Project Good Law Project has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK

"A conservative network led by Michael Gove and Nigel Farage’s senior adviser James Orr has spent more than half a million pounds pushing far-right and anti-trans voices – some of it fuelled by profits from Russian oil."

12.02.2026 11:15 — 👍 522    🔁 273    💬 19    📌 15

Is there a less offensive gif you could post? Speaking as a smug retiree

01.02.2026 19:44 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

One more hour to go until the Longest Month is over #Februaryatlast

31.01.2026 23:03 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Guess I’m lucky as my local Evri delivery man always gives a two hour window. Although some he’s a bit early 😀

28.01.2026 15:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0