Heledd Wyn

@crimegirl.co.uk Any suggestions?

Slight fangirl moment at Lady Hale’s 80th dinner party 🥳

It is very real. Even now. And I hope we can do all we can in our power to prevent anything so horrendous again.

BVL: Improving Social Mobility in Law A social mobility charity, working to get a new generation into law

Lawyers! Social mobility charity, BVL (www.bvl.org.uk) is looking for lawyers to judge our mooting competition on the following dates, all taking place via Zoom between 6:30-8:30pm: 20 Feb, 6 Mar, 20 Mar & 3 Apr. Pls get in touch if you can help on any of those dates. The students are AMAZING

Croeso!

Kate Garraway confronts Wes Streeting over husband Derek's 'unpayable' care costs On the anniversary of her husband’s death, Kate Garraway said she had been left with ‘excessive, unpayable debt’ over his £16,000-a-month care costs

Hear Kate Garraway’s voice on #socialcare costs - £16K a month - 2 unheard appeals for funding

“Now I've got excessive, unpayable debt because of it, & if I'm in that position, what are other people going to be? People can't afford four more years of this?"

tinyurl.com/mer8x3th

Care costs money

Who pays?

💫 Happy New Year y’all! 💫

Nothing revolutionary from me today - save to say that if you are going to spend online this year - consider using www.easyfundraising.org.uk/panel/ to help support your favourite charity.

A tiny but hopefully easy resolution!

Now go get 2025! 💪

👋 I’ve only recently come in & yes big thanks to @seanjones.org for the prompts to follow! Maybe we’ll get back to the levels of chatter from ‘that place’ in due course? Anyways - here’s to 2025!

Are you

Team James T Kirk?

Or

Team Jean-Luc Picard?

Either way - live long & prosper 🖖

Happy birthday to Ivor The Engine!
The little Welsh railway engine from the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company first chugged onto our screens today in 1959.
Toot-toot! 🚂
#onthisday #wales

Greetings from the mothership #llanddwyn

Photographer's astonishing archive of Welsh Santas David Owens He is a Welsh photographer renowned for his documentary photography work illustrating the communities of the South Wales Valleys, however every festive season, Walter Waygood, can be seen…

Award-winning photographer Walter Waygood has been taking pics of Father Christmas stretching back 42 years

Nadolig llawen, here's hoping you have a lovely Welsh Christmas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Watch: The hilarious video of a Welshman coming home for Christmas Picture the scene. You’ve been away from Wales living in London. You’re heading home for Christmas and you’ve just driven across the Severn Crossing. You are heading into Wales. Excitement rises as…

This brilliantly funny clip titled ‘Every Welsh person returning to Wales from England’ will be instantly recognisable for anybody who has lived away from home

Welsh care home group hit by £725,000 double whammy in “ruinous Budget” Martin Shipton A company with five care homes in south Wales has claimed that it’s facing a £725,000 double whammy as a result of controversial Budget measures. According to Dr Bikram Choudhary, direc...

Of course care costs money

nation.cymru/news/welsh-c...

Family left 'in tears' after Sikh man's beard cut - BBC News The man's family say "everyone's belief systems need to be respected".

Cultural understanding is crucial. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hahah! Especially as it was you who finally pushed me to get an account !

I witnessed a peaceful death—it made me question our approach to dying Why do people here know so little about what ordinary or natural dying looks like?

An article for @newsweek.com about palliative care, ordinary dying and underfunding across the UK www.newsweek.com/i-witnessed-...

From Canada #AssistedDying and discrimination driven deaths. An analysis of the data blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2024/...

#BlackSky @11kbw.bsky.social has launched this year's scholarship round to help support black students who want to train to become #barristers #UKLegal.

How much would a care home cost you? What you need to know With the cost of care at an all-time high, more people paying, the number of people forced to pay out thousands in later life is on the rise.

Yup

“South West England has the most expensive care costs on average, at £1,419 per week”

www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/pensio...

Surge in pensioners with progressive diseases losing NHS funding for vital care More families are seeing withdrawal of health help for elderly loved ones in system branded ‘complete con’, says Age UK

“Everyone should have access to high-quality, compassionate care, from diagnosis through to end of life”

Ah NHS CHC and the myriad ways people are not eligible…

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12...

Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths For the first time, the annual report delved into race and ethnic data of those who underwent assisted dying.

Makes for interesting reading in light of the assisted dying bill going theough Parliament at the moment www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Important garb for office Christmas party 🎄🥂

Fab beanie - thanks @helenburness.bsky.social

Festive tights (found at back of cupboard)

Ooh! It depends. Wills are deemed to revoke earlier ones - but the validity of later wills can be challenged in a number of circumstances. So in short, it depends!

BBC Sounds - Shadow World - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of Shadow World on BBC Sounds.

This is going to be worth listening to
“Giving someone else control of your finances and decisions – through Lasting Power of Attorney – is meant to come with a guarantee that they always act in your best interest. But that doesn’t always happen…”
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Oh goodness me … have just come over from (that place) to here and I am sideswiped by your news. There are no words. X

For a heartwarming story - have a look at this

Gympanzees an epic charity