Katherine Trill

Daughter criticises Australia cruise operator after mother dies on island Katherine Rees said her mum, 80, had fallen ill during a hike on a remote Australian island and was told to return to the ship by herself.

Daughter criticises Australia cruise operator after mother dies on island

What terrifying thing are you dressing as this Halloween? I'm dressing up as "mum i just threw up".

The person who replies to articles posted on social media without reading them first.

My open letter to Rachel Reeves (cc @ofcom.bsky.social, DSIT)

Now O2 has broken the taboo, the big risk is other firms will likely follow suit... the Govt must step in to stop mobile, broadband and pay-TV firms increasing prices mid-contract by MORE than they said they would when people sign up.

Come along and enjoy a drink and a selection of home bakes in the cabin whilst listening to the brownies singing carols.

If you think your home-baked chocolate brownies are singing to you, then someone added something interesting in the ingredients.

"Hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon."
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

Art by Vincent Van Gogh, Windmill on Montmartre (1886)

The Year of A Hundred Birds, Week √1,444 Gullible goose

I wrote about birds. AGAIN.

This week:

– perhaps I’m gullible, but I love a herring gull

– I’m also a silly goose

– what’s the Finnish for ‘Osprey’?

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This is not a poem   more a desperate attempt to bring your attention to our gigs in Banbury tonight and London on Saturday, for which there are tickets left   similarly, why not come along to Norwich next week, Stamford or Milton Keynes – or even Brighton for that matter –   but on no account come to see us in Chelmsford, birthplace of the Britvic range of soft drinks, because that is not a city we shall be visiting on this tour   Brian Bilston

I think this may be the finest thing I have ever written.

Surprised they didn't just build it without them and then ask for forgiveness.

Berkeley defends decision to cut affordable housing to 8% in controversial Peckham scheme Planning Inspectorate launches eight days of hearings into 877-home Aylesham Centre redevelopment

Southwark council said proposals “well short” of its aspirations for site & represent a “significant missed opportunity”.

We need ecure, affordable places for people to live. Relying on private sector failing to deliver
www.building.co.uk/news/berkele...

Magpie hanging is now finished.
I love the blues and greens of of the surround and how the silver stain of the coins in the nest zings!

#glassartist #glassart #magpie #birds #designermaker #kilnfired #handmade #unique #norfolkartist #norfolkcrafts #treasure #coins #handpainted #detectorists

Come, take this hand in yours   Come, take this hand in yours –   bury it beneath the trees,   while I go and get the rest of him   out of the deep freeze. Brian Bilsto

Today’s Halloween poem is called ‘Come, take this hand in yours’.

Frank the crow, in our living room.

Standard morning. Got up, made a coffee, found a crow in the living room, striking theatrical poses and showing off to the other birds who have to make do with living outside.

There is a story behind this...

Eric G. Thompson (American Artist, born 1970)

"Down The Road", 2025.

Egg Tempera.

Private Collection.

We’re told nature is already protected by existing rules.
If that’s true, why are precious habitats still being damaged?

#ProtectNature #PlanningandInfastructureBill

Full text 👉 bit.ly/4oqUHbK

Two small 3D faces made from recycled cardboard tubes and attached to wooden spoons.

Half-term offers me some time to make what I want to make, rather than just 'work' stuff. Here's a couple of faces that are currently on the desk.
Recycled tubes and two spoons.
www.darrellwakelm.com #sculpture #edusky

George Fox, the founder of the Quakers, interrupted a sermon in Derby today in 1650, and was imprisoned for a year for the new crime of blasphemy, which had been introduced two years earlier. The sermon was being delivered by a Colonel in Cromwell’s army, and when Fox was arrested and put before the local magistrates, he told them that they should ‘tremble at the word of the Lord’. Justice Bennet replied that with all his trembling, Fox was a quaker, and the name stuck. Fox was against the whole apparatus of the established Church, with its sacraments, tithes, buildings, and even bell-ringing, saying it was all pointless, as God is everywhere.

Anyone who has ever wondered why people in the Society of Friends are known as Quakers can finally put their mind at rest. It’s 375 years to the day since the founder of the Society was up in court for interrupting a sermon... www.shipoffools.com/time-travel-...

That is definitely a large part of it for sure. We have had to make changes though to cater for donnys need to avoid overwhelm.

I miss “Share If You Agree”. When social media was a marginally happier place

Two ponies lead me up a fern-flanked path on Dartmoor, while trying to make it seem all exciting and mysterious, when really all there is at the end of it is a branch of Screwfix

Often you’ll be walking on Dartmoor & some ponies will be like “Follow us, we will lead you to the castle where the wizard lives & life is perfect!” My advice, from experience, is to ignore them. Ponies are known liars who will make up any old shit to briefly relieve the vast boredom of their lives.

Tolkien understood masculinity to a level Elon Musk and fascist tech bros can NEVER understand.

All the shit they do in Call of Duty he did for real in the mud and blood of the Western Front.

He came out of that rejecting all of the macho bullshit they claim it teaches you.

Fuck 'em.

Let’s be real: approximately ten seconds after you told Tolkien that Catholics couldn’t go to Mass because they were afraid of being disappeared by agents of the government, he’d be out there protesting.

The paramedic who wakes up wondering: 'Will I make it home tonight?' Araf Saddiq has been assaulted five times, spat on and verbally abused on countless occasions.

The paramedic who wakes up wondering: 'Will I make it home tonight?'

Chad Powers is fun, Glen Powell is excellent — but it’s hard not to see it as a Venn diagram of Ted Lasso, Mrs Doubtfire, and Elf

Thousands on benefits could have energy debt cancelled by Ofgem Regulator Ofgem plans to cut £500m from the stack of customer debt - but other billpayers will cover the cost.

Thousands on benefits could have energy debt cancelled by Ofgem

North East modern slavery victim 'treated like a dog' One man says he was forced to crawl naked through sewers to steal electricity for a gang.

North East modern slavery victim 'treated like a dog'

Illustration by A.H.Watson of a skating princess surrounded by elves.

❄️It's time for Old Fox to plan his Advent Calendar! Throughout December, I will be writing one frozen fragment each day, blown in by the North Wind. Join my patreon or buy me a chocolate on Ko-fi & write Christmas in the message, a theme or a dedication, & I will add you to my list of 24 windows❄️

My mother-in-law does the full works every year even though all she does is talk about how much effort it is. Then eats leftovers for days. But it's how her mum did so she can't be swayed as it is her last link to her mum.