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a bench on a path directly facing a very unattractive utility building

i try not to criticise councils but really - who decided to install this new bench here?!

I really don't know what to do about a situation where a plurality of the group that (rightly!) takes up most government spending thinks that it is unrepresented in politics.

me on social media: i will
not be posting pictures of my child online! parents should not be creating a digital footprint of their child before they can consent!

me on whatsapp: please receive these 187338 unsolicited images of my child doing exciting things such as sitting, smiling & breathing

jaw droppingly condescending

sitting in a pitch black silent room at lewisham hospital, as the lights in the designated windowless breastfeeding room (ie a cupboard) are on a ten minute timer 🙃 not ideal when you’re stuck under a nursing baby! what a classic NHS experience

put on a playlist designed to get baby to sleep and it turns out spotify DJ merges each song into the next even if it’s in a completely different key, creating a discordant nightmare … presumably not the intention

all for a non urgent issue! is this what all NHS care is like outside of london?! also - you can actually call this GP and they answer the phone instead of putting you on hold for 45 mins and telling you to use the app instead 😭

i’m unexpectedly out of town at the moment, and had to go to the doctor. yesterday i:
- temporarily registered with the GP at 11am
- had a F2F doctor appointment at 2.30pm
- had a text informing me of the prescription at 5pm
- had a text telling me it was ready for pick up at 6pm

i like how sunday isn’t even mentioned, as the very concept of doing washing on the sabbath is just unthinkable

eschewing screen time for the delightful nursery rhymes of the past, which seem to vary between mindless violence and outrageous moralising

i seem to remember TfL were proposing overnight DLR services on a friday and saturday just before the pandemic but this got shelved

the today programme just referred to a district council in cambridgeshire as “south east england”…. now who do i write to at the BBC about the erasure of east anglia 😩😡

keep making notes of food i want to try once baby is out - like i’ve ever had a slice of opera cake or entremet in my life

i’m not sure why i chose this moment, when i’m temporarily struck down with diabetes (🤰) to binge watch the entirety of the last seasons of great british bake off

this should be illegal and i will back any party whose manifesto promises to rule out temperatures over 30 degrees

probably the only park in london that gives you views of the shard, the city, canary wharf and the O2 centre within a few metres

summer solstice morning ☀️ from hilly fields

:( very scottish coded of you

people keep asking me, as someone who’s eight months pregnant, how i’m coping in the heat…. but i’m not just pregnant, i’m pregnant and ginger

British women are being jailed under archaic abortion laws. MPs can act to end that this week | Frances Ryan Women will really have the right to choose if politicians vote to revoke this Victorian-era legislation, writes Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

This week, MPs will vote on whether to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales.

As the police issue guidance to search women’s homes for abortion drugs and seize phones to inspect menstrual tracker apps, I wrote about why reform is more vital now than ever. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ah this is interesting devo news. London will get an integrated settlement after all from next year.

It'll be interesting to see how the model differs in London compared to the combined authorities, and whether it'll require constitutional change in the GLA-Council relationship to make it work

at the antenatal clinic and there is a woman wearing a beautiful dress, so every midwife, sonographer and even the obstetrician has been brought out to admire it 💃 this is peak womanhood

An astronaut, looking at the planet Earth, saying: “Wait, it’s all social care obligations?” Behind him, another astronaut, pulls out a gun and preparing to shoot the first in the back, says: “Always has been.”

Reform’s “British DOGE” when they finish up looking at Kent Council:

it was bromley next to tufnell park that pushed me over the edge 🤪

campaign to make map based products accurate again 😩 women deserve to be able to buy geographically accurate cute purses!!

i think i’m the only person in the world likely to receive a personalised card of former defence minister sir gavin williamson for their birthday 🥰❤️ and i love it

Police could search homes and phones after pregnancy loss | The Observer New national guidance suggests officers look for menstrual tracking apps or abortion drugs

Why we need decriminalisation to pass and fast

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

doing my traditional good friday re-listen to the soundtrack and it never disappoints

the fact shostakovich attended two live shows of jesus christ superstar and loved it always seems to surprise people but it shouldn’t! it’s uncompromising and complex music, some of andrew lloyd webber’s best ever writing - and a (pretty) accurate portrayal of jesus’ last few days

spider-man point meme

me walking slowly down the bus aisle because i’m scared it’s about to move off // the bus driver waiting for me to sit down first because he spotted i’m pregnant