Kate ✨🐱

I’m absolutely not saying that if you, as a Brit, choose to live in Dubai, you deserve something bad to happen. I would never say that.

Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era.

PLEASE, yes

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

The Suicide Squad (2021)
dir. James Gunn

Brave, visionary and queer: the Bohemian brilliance of author George Sand With her radical politics and flamboyant affairs, Sand was no stranger to controversy, but it’s time to debunk the myths surrounding a writer ahead of her time

More on the brilliant George Sand, who died 150 years ago, here

Invisible Rainbows The tale of the invisible Universe and the LGBTQIA+ astronomers discovering it

UK folks!! Marvelous new book coming out there in May from @drcarpineti.bsky.social! It's very 🔭 and very queer, so very 🌈🌈🌈🌈!! 🧪

Could we get this for Ireland too, please

MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine Find out about the MMR vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella, including who should have it, when it's given and possible side effects.

Measles is on the rise in London.

It’s highly infectious and can be passed on even before a rash appears.

Protect yourself and your family from becoming seriously unwell by making sure you are all up to date with your MMR vaccinations.

a man wearing a mercedes shirt sits at a desk with his hands folded Alt: Kimi Antonelli, a young formula one driver for Mercedes, with brown curly hair, laughs then hides his face in his hands

#DriveToSurvive s8e1, key takeaway: protect Kimi Antonelli at all costs

A linocut print of a black leopard (or panther) with the words “HAVE YOU SEEN THIS CREATURE?” underneath. It’s printed in black ink on off-white paper.

I made this linocut print as a tribute to the hundreds of mysterious big cat sightings reported every year in Britain. Have you seen this creature?

No but seriously, please take note

😞

Taps now very fragile-with-age sign

Medieval illumination from the Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry featuring the month of March in which we see a ploughman at work with oxen and farmers working in the field preparing the land for the coming year. A large castle appears on the horizon behind.

Welcome to the Droghte of Marche, as Chaucer puts it or, in the words of the Gawain-poet, the season of the crabbed Lentoun, þat fraystez flesch wyth the fysche and fode more symple (the harsh Lent, which tests the body with fish and plainer food). The Trés Riches Heures seem to capture the mood!

Diolch y fawr, Nigella - a thithau!

Welsh Cakes I feel that if I’m talking about Welsh Cakes, I should really introduce them first by their proper, Welsh name, Picau ar y maen, which simply means “cakes on the stone”, and the stone being the flat g...

As is only right and proper, Welsh Cakes are #RecipeOfTheDay, with thanks to Heulwen Williams who let me play with her granny’s recipe. Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 www.nigella.com/recipes/wels...

Cymru Am Byth by Kate Neilan on Apple Music Playlist · 179 Songs

If the hiraeth’s hitting today, this Cymru Am Byth playlist might help… music.apple.com/gb/playlist/...

Welcome!! Join us!!

Astonished we’ve not seen any of these fellas in Hastings tbh

The furry Slovenian monsters who chase winter away [FREE TO READ] Every year, the weird, Womble-like ‘kurents’ gather in a medieval town in northeast Slovenia for one of the world’s most flamboyant carnivals

I can never recommend ignoring the news but maybe read this first as.ft.com/r/d2b6ae74-d...

Draig Goch Get ready to experience the Draig Goch (Red Dragon) of Wales.

Want to bring y draig goch with you, wherever you go? #cymruambyth
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don't go to the shoe shop to buy plates or vice-versa. one of the most valuable things I've learned in therapy. plus! under the line: 17 free or not-expensive things that have brought me disproportionate joy this month

I wrote about one of the most useful things I've ever learned in therapy. It can actually change your life - certainly did mine.

naomialderman.substack.com/p/dont-go-to...

Refuse to compromise!

🌏The Women’s Asian Cup is underway!!! Make sure you are following great journos at the tourney and PLEASEE share more I need to follow too!

➡️ @battledinosaur.bsky.social @shelatneel.bsky.social @thefarpostpod.bsky.social @joeylynchy.bsky.social

A detailed photo of a spray of Blackthorn blossom, with more out of focus in the background. The blossoms are plentiful, white clusters, with a slightly pink ring around the stamens in their centre

A big yellow daffodil in the spring sunshine, with more daffodils and smaller narcissi around it, and a mossy stone wall in the background

A clump of white narcissi with orange central flower trumpets, in the sunshine at the foot of a tree

Dydd gŵl Dewi hapus, bawb! Croeso i’r gwanwyn

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and seemingly bound for a dive. Strange!