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Sadly, it’s for tea - so was switched off for many hours and will now need reheated, which I fear might not help it!

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A small human (3?) is studiously pushing a small trolley along next to Mum.
Small Human has MANY opinions about what can go in his trolley. Chocolate? Yes. Bananas? Yes. Frozen spinach? NOOOO.
He is a grocery connoisseur and knows what he likes. (1)

Same here - very strange!

Sesame garlic chicken thighs from the new Pinch of Nom slow cooker recipe book

Morning 😊 Exhausted this morning - was having a good sleep until woken at 4 by the smell of garlic. OH was not trying to repel an army of vampires, but had decided to make something in the slow cooker. Looking on the bright side, at least he had remembered to use the slow cooker so no fire risk.

Grapes on brown paper drying into raisins after workers harvested them

"Meche" works making raisins in Fresno CA. Fresh grapes are placed on sheets of paper and then laid on the sand between rows. The suns heats the sand and dries out the grapes. She can feel the heat from the sand through her shoes while she earns 35 cents for each sheet. #WeFeedYou

Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference Veteran award-winning investigative journalist David Hencke has attended Conservative party conference since 1987 but is now hundreds of pounds out of pocket after being blocked from attending

The Conservative party's treatment of David, who exposed the cash for questions scandal, is a former political journalist of the year, and has been covering party conferences for almost 40 years, is a disgrace
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Also immediate family members, in my case.

Claudia is my favourite thing about it! The celebrities are making me doubtful about this series too, but like you I’ll probably give it a go

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

It being a ‘celebrity’ version is putting me off this series a bit, I’m not a fan of celebrity culture! But I’ll probably watch the first episode on catch-up to see what I think - I’m not disturbing my pre-bed routine for it 😆

Morning 😊 Home help will be here this morning so everything should be sparkling later! Cinema this afternoon to see One Battle After Another - think I will start to keep a list of the films I go to see as well as the books I read, it will be nice to look back on at the end of the year 🎥

I’m so sorry to hear your news wasn’t good, and hope the new drugs work well for you 🫂

Oh my, that’s a busy day! Hope all your appts/meetings go ok, and that your van is all ready to go after its work at the end of the week.

Hope the TENS machine helps - a district nurse suggested I try one when I had a frozen shoulder a few years ago and it did help with the pain a lot

My reminder for the winter has been no late appointments unless they are in town - last year I found I really hated driving in the dark on unmarked roads!

I don’t usually watch any reality tv shows, but was surprised to find that I really enjoyed Traitors, haven’t watched the start of this series yet though.

Very best wishes to your dad, and also to you - hope they get him sorted out soon 🫂

Hope your day goes well!

Victoria Derbyshire, "You described Reform UK as the right wing fascists of 1930s, why?"

Lord Heseltine, "Because that's what they are"

Keir Starmer calls student protests on 7 October anniversary ‘un-British’ Prime minister urges students not to protest on the second anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel

While I agree that it wd have been a sign of empathy and respect towards the Jewish communities in Britain to pause the protest on this very day, I also do find these attempts to declare who is British and who isn't increasingly worrying.
Who is Starmer to define that ?

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

This is a wonderful party political broadcast from the Greens.
👏👏👏 For the first time, it defines "tax the rich" as it should be defined: "Tax the super rich" – the billionaires and oligarchs who are making allmof us poorer without ever paying their fair share 🌻

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Is any journalist at Conservative conference going to ask Robert Jenrick where he got his new "Let's take our country back," slogan from?

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

Everyone who advocates for turning the UK into the UAE assumes they'll be the one with a marina penthouse rather than the guy working on a building site in 50c heat

As Robert Jenrick accuses David Lammy of having a "chequered past", here's a quick reminder of Jenrick's

Screenshot of an Express article; it says: Robert Jenrick lists 30 'activist judges' he vows to axe in war on UK's open border In a bold move, Robert Jenrick is set to unveil a controversial plan targeting what he calls 'activist' judges, at the Conservative Party conference.

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.