Louise Winters

📸 Willy Ronis.
La Tour Eiffel vue de la rue Saint-Dominique
1957. Paris

Display of books in a Portuguese supermarket, in the middle is a blue cover with the words "Onde està Wally?"

Apparently, he's in Portugal ...

A day where I will mostly be on the sofa, enjoying the sunshine filtering into my living room :-)

May be my winner of the whole internet this year.

😂😂😂

Agreed, that is utterly gorgeous 🥰

Cup of builders tea with milk in a cup and saucer with a homemade Eccles cake hiding in the background. The tea bag label says "Tetley. té Negro. English Breakfast."

Tea and a marvellous Eccles cake made by Dawn, a professional baker before she moved to Portugal. All in aid of fundraising for the Bombeiros.

Sad to be missing this today, though I have just had a fabulous eccles cake & cup of tea in Penela here. Enjoy and have a half for me!

Hahahaha, where would I be without Bebe? In some kind of sticky situation, for sure 🤣

Haha, no it's not that bad! 🤣

FFS.

A tabby cat with a very small pink knit cap with a white puff on her head

Timeline Cleanse ~ what if I put a tiny hat on you?

Ohhh I saw there is a new series when I was briefly in the UK recently. Glad he's back!

Braved new hairdresser in Portugal. Not too happy with cut, but managed to chat in Portuguese!

Learned about her love of travel, what her daughter does for a living, who also works 1 day a week in Lisbon. Also that hair mousse = espuma in Portuguese.

Overall a win.
Considering head scarves ;)

A printed poem which reads: I hav for breakfast Weetabix I hav for lunch some meat I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat Peter Hazel, 5

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone. We will not let hate or those who spread it win. We stand with you.

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

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Kinda like a pokeball, but with holier (arguably) contents??

This sounds like an excellent story!

Love the different colours of arancini!

I wanted to take the opportunity to clarify my reasons for cancelling my membership of Labour Women's Network. When I joined LWN at Conference last year, I took particular care to check the constitution to ensure that trans women were accepted. As a proud trans ally, I firmly believe that trans women are women and that there is no such thing as a women's group that excludes trans women. I was pleased to see that LWN was open to all who self-define as women, and as such was happy to join the organisation. I was disappointed by the statement released in May that LWN would be identifying women as only "biological women", however I noted that this was a temporary position. I ran for a place on the Executive Committee to give those members who feel that trans women should be welcomed and supported within LWN an opportunity to speak. The cancellation of my membership is not due to my lack of success in that election, but due to the change in constitution. I cannot see any reason for this change of constitution than to actively exclude trans women from the group. I made trans inclusivity the centre of my pitch to the executive committee because I feel passionately that LWN could be truly progressive in finding a way for trans women to be included in women's spaces. Indeed, the previous wording in the constitution did this perfectly, making it clear that anyone who identifies as a woman could be a member. There is no legal challenge to this. The Supreme Court and EHRC guidance do not force any organisation to be trans-exclusionary. Transphobia remains a choice - a choice that LWN has deliberately made.

This change of constitution does not clarify the situation. If anything, it makes it more vague and down to interpretation. The very concept of "biological woman" which LWN claims will be the basis for the new constitution is spurious and I wonder how LWN is planning to monitor this. Will all members have to do DNA tests before joining? | suspect some members may be in for a shock if you did this! Should it be judged on hormone levels? Are trans men now permitted to join LWN on the basis of their birth certificate? The concept of "biological women" is anti-feminist and rooted in misogyny, and it is frankly disgraceful that a woman's organisation has chosen to use such horrifying language. My identity as a woman has nothing to do with my biology or anatomy, and I will not be a part of an organisation which thinks of women in such a degrading manner. This does not reduce the risk of legal challenge to LWN; if anything, it increases it. The EHRC guidance is only interim at this stage, and this change seems premature given pending legal challenges. Trans people still have human rights, and the Equality Act 2010 still offers them protection from discrimination. Trans women pose no threat to cisgender women within LWN. They do not possess any advantage; in reality, they face increased discrimination and need additional support to achieve fair representation within our elected bodies. It is hypocritical for LWN to claim that they "reject transphobia" while proposing and voting through an amendment that is intrinsically transphobic. This amendment has only one purpose - to exclude trans women from LWN.

One final thought. I did not feel able to speak at the AGM on this matter. Me, a cisgender woman, silenced by women. I never feel silenced in a room full of men, but I felt uncomfortable and unable to speak truth to power in that forum. That is the society that transphobic women are creating right now, one where cis women who are inclusive of our trans sisters are silenced. I'm sure the more transphobic members of LWN will be delighted to hear this, but is that really the world that LWN strives for? One where women's voices are only heard if they align with a far-right agenda? Follow the money that is currently making scapegoats of trans people, and you will see it's the same money that is making scapegoats of refugees and asylum seekers. These same people are already infringing on women's rights in the USA, and they will seek to do the same in the UK. If that is who LWN chooses to align with, that is the choice of LWN. It is a choice that does not align with Labour values, is anti-feminist and anti-equality. I will not be a part of it. Kind Regards, Felicity Pryke

I needed to think carefully about how to word this.

Labour Women’s Network used to allow anyone who identified as a woman. They have changed the wording to simply “women” and stated this means “biological women.”

Labour Women’s Network is a transphobic organisation and I will not be party of it.

A slice of cake in a cafe cabinet. It's a chequerboard pattern in plain & chocolate cake, 4 squares wide and 3 squares high, with a thin coating of chocolate enclosing the 4 x 3 cake grid.

A Portuguese variant of Battenburg cake?

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Waiting for the sun to come up in Portugal, it's about 10 mins off.

If only people talking too loudly could say *interesting* things to overhear!

Love this SO much!

Oh that's exciting!!