Pat Winfield

Many hedgehogs, seeking the warmth of a compost bin, die this way every year.
Once you've used the pumpkin as decoration it's waste, fit only for the bin.

Please help get this vital message spread far and wide, to save precious lives and prevent suffering.

Please DO NOT compost them either, as a composting pumpkin can produce highly toxic tremorgenic mycotoxins, which will be deadly if the compost bin is not properly secured and is accessible to wildlife (or pets).

Pumpkin has a laxative affect so it would be particularly cruel to leave it out for starving wildlife to eat in desperation, causing them to lose precious fluids that may make the difference between life and death.

Our precious wildlife do not have any magical properties that protect them against food poisoning.
Additionally, this time of year there are baby hedgehogs around, born too late to find natural food, desperate to eat anything to stop the pain of starvation.

Please DO NOT put it out for the wildlife.
Once you've cut it, left it out in the open, unrefrigerated, it will not be hygienic or safe for anyone to eat.
Pumpkins are a low-acid, so once they are cut and left at room temperature, pathogens will rapidly grow on the flesh, producing mould spores.

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Pumpkins:
Halloween is one night.
Tonight.
If you have to waste a food item (and I strongly suggest you don't), please put it out for one night, then safely dispose of it.

Sigh! It's DNS once more. Even the Pets at Home website isn't working. All I wanted was a scratching post but thanks to Microsoft, Timmy will have to use the carpet again...

This season my jeans will be comfortable and not make my stomach hurt. They can be any shape they want!

For a minute, I thought you meant people had sued them for their forecasts!

Ginger cat sunbathing in a flowerbed.

Another real cat.

Just because they play around with the clocks twice a year, it doesn't change my body clock. So yes, I've been up since 4.30. Sigh!

Another good way to annoy people is wait till they're settled in then go to the loo. More than once.

And this is the day you're leaving her to go on holiday? You will have some explaining to do!

Our operations fund disappeared overnight We recently took in a beautiful British shorthair called Honey who was sold for £400 in a car park. Her new owner quickly found that she was a) pregnant and b) epileptic. She gave birth to 10 kittens, of which 8 survived. When they'd all been sold, her new owner decided she didn't want her anymore because of her (untreated!) seizures. And so she came to us. We took her to the vets and ordered some phenobarbital, which we've used with great success on two other epileptic cats. However, before it came in, poor Honey had a severe seizure and then two more in the space of a day. Our fosterer took her to the emergency vet, where she had to be kept in on an IV to get her phenobarbital level up quickly to stop the seizures. She's recovering beautifully, but her treatment has completely emptied our bank account, and we had quite a few operations planned that we still need to do: - Lemon, an old lady found on the street needs a full dental and a scan to find out why she's so wheezy - Thomasina, another golden oldie stray, needs a full dental now she's stable on her thyroid meds - Lenny, who spent 2 years wobbling on the streets, needs his neuter and jabs - Sabrina, who survived the panleukopenia that killed her kittens, needs her spay and jabs - Kirby, a sweet grey wobbler, needs his neuter and jabs - Boots, a handsome orange boy who recently spent his 14th birthday outside as his owners didn't want him anymore, needs a fair bit of treatment, plus a birthday party! If you can help with any of this, we would hugely appreciate it. I'm taking some of my jewellery to be sold at the weekend but I don't think it's worth very much unfortunately. I'm really glad we could help stop Honey's constant scary, debilitating seizures, so I know we did the right thing. It's just that the others have been waiting so patiently for their treatment so they can find wonderful new homes, and I don't want to let them down. Thank you. Love Holly and the moggies x

Honey, who was sold for £400 in a car park and turned out to be both pregnant and epileptic, has single-pawedly spent our whole operations fund. Help please? 😬

Never heard of it. Tesco and Matalan provide 90% of my wardrobe!

Under £30 is my limit!

Great story of absent proofreaders at a party conference, thanks @nataliehaynes.bsky.social
and @aiannucci.bsky.social They should have looked in the @the-ciep.bsky.social directory (www.ciep.org)
Excellent episode for #editors and #proofreaders
Gratias vobis ago

www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

Prepare a questionnaire
Q1: Were you born in England?
Q2: Can you prove it?
Q3: Where did your ancestors come from?
etc.

The seasons have gone crazy. The poor plants don't know what to do.

What is wrong with the ladybirds today? They've gone completely psycho. They've smashed into me every few seconds and the windows are covered in them. Also going crazy are the cowslips. They really shouldn't be flowering now.

What went right this week: the good news that matters Rewilding successes were celebrated, nations slashed fossil fuel funding, and fracking was sent packing in the UK, plus more good news

Rewilding successes were celebrated, nations slashed fossil fuel funding, and fracking was sent packing in the UK, plus more good news

www.positive.news/society/good...

Sorry, I apologise. I thought it was just one of those silly diet fads.

I prefer 3 healthy meals a day.

But, but... it's the greatest plan ever in the history of civilisation!

When I first read that, I thought it said 'Dr Who' served in Gaza...

What happens to people without mobile phones? Will they be provided with one plus the money for a contract?

My ex-husband's family had it and my sister-in-law died. My husband luckily didn't inherit it. Awful disease.

It’s 7.25 now and getting dark and the AA are still not here.
Apparently they will be another 25mins.

Do not use the AA if you are a woman who travels alone.

I'm so relieved to hear that.

Have they arrived yet?