Jay Hulme

A lack of recycling bags, and a lack of action from the council in providing any, has truly led to a whole new world of neighbourly experience here.

For four years my neighbour and I exchanged "hellos" and nothing else. A few days ago he asked if he could have a recycling bag because he's out, and now we're texting each other because we've both requested more bags from the council and haven't received any.

British bin day culture is UNMATCHED.

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Always always always look around and enjoy your surroundings, especially when you're in a new place. There's fun stuff everywhere, even on the most random walls.

An old stone wall with an antique looking rusted metal plaque reading "the square. CCTV area"

How... How old is this CCTV, exactly??

On behalf of trans men everywhere: This blows. It is much worse to be included as women than excluded from women-only things. None of us want this.

If you don't pre-order this you're missing out.

This is my book of 2026. I've been waiting for years.

The door at Ampney St Mary is a thing of beauty. Sturdy, simple ironwork on lovely bleached, silvery wood.
#Adoorableday
#AdoorableThursday
#IronworkThursday

just for anyone who lost track;

The inch bigots were given a decade ago has turned into several miles and my friends are suffering for it.

The indignity of sharing society with trans people is quickly becoming the crime

Making gendered organisations legally compelled to exclude trans people is just fascism. It's cruelty for its own sake. It protects no one from anything but exposes a minority to hatred and oppression. This government is fucking disgusting.

So the WI will be asking for all their members birth certificates or just demanding trans women out themselves (or else?) or what?

This seems completely impractical. I mean and cowardly, obviously.

Proposal to give Jersey churches £50k a year for maintenance Constable Karen Shenton-Stone says the buildings suffer from

If Brits wants to keep heritage buildings standing, we'll need to seriously consider measures like this too. Church assets look pretty small once you divide them amongst the thousands of buildings that need urgent work.

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Thames Water boss addressing shareholders on its half year profits of £400 million

An easy way to explain luddites:

Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.

And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.

That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.

Can't believe anyone would take a soulless megachurch over this.

Within an hour of arriving in Munich I stumbled upon the bejewelled skeleton of Saint Munditia clutching a goblet filled with dried blood, martyred in 310 AD, beheaded with a hatchet. Standard...

Hello Mr David Lynch!

the village I grew up in is so funny, our one claim to fame is that we have a castle (We call it [Village] Castle but it's really not a castle) that is famed across the country for it's beautiful wrought iron gates, except we don't have the gates anymore, because they were stolen by the brits.

I’ve seen a number of people sharing this story with the comment, why didn’t he tell Stoppard, and I think the answer is probably “because people either don’t think to or think there will always be time to.” If someone has done something you admire, tell them.

But also, look at this nonsense. It's definitely giving "tell me your Churchwarden and Treasurer are, with their ages combined, under 60, without telling me that your Churchwarden and Treasurer are, with their ages combined, under 60."

Also big thanks to the Cathedral for letting us use the new heritage and learning centre which has heating and a big screen in it for this meeting.

Like I have come away from a 45 minute budget presentation reassured and informed and also... Entertained?

I am obsessed with the way we do the annual church budget presentation at St Nicks because it involves a slogan and a soundtrack and the treasurer photoshopping her head into the chancellor of the exchequer, but also... really clear financial information and sound budget planning. Simultaneously.

When I was a Subdeacon, one of the priests in the parochial house said his two main daily prayers started with: “Well Lord this is all a mess … “ and “Dear Lord, keep my fists by my side through this day’s ignorance and strife …” After a few months, I understood why.

Sometimes at church someone says or does something so stupid that the only thing you can do is lock yourself inside the vestry, open up the cupboard, and scream into the robes so that the fabric muffles the sound. It's a form of prayer.

Recently, as I was doing some deep breathing exercises in the vestry to cope with some nonsense at church, someone came up to me and said "these days I have to ask God for patience, because if I ask him for strength I'll deck a bitch." and honestly? Biblical levels of wisdom there.

It's a church tower with a very still stumpy extra bit, and then a little metal thing on top of that. The scale makes it look like it's melted, or sort of slid down inside itself like a novelty light saber.

A wider view of the stumpy tower with the full church in frame. The church is also stumpy.

Can I interest you in a VERY silly church tower?

A rough wooden carving of a face high in a church. He looks... Unimpressed.

Waking up and it's still dark outside like

Wish me godspeed, etc.