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?!
22.10.2025 16:55 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@rosamundlc.bsky.social
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?!
22.10.2025 16:55 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I 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.
09.10.2025 10:09 โ ๐ 523 ๐ 101 ๐ฌ 59 ๐ 7me 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
11.09.2025 17:06 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0sitting 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 ๐ not ideal when youโre stuck under a nursing baby! what a classic NHS experience
02.09.2025 13:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0put on a playlist designed to get baby to sleep and it turns out spotify DJ merges each song into the next even if itโs in a completely different key, creating a discordant nightmare โฆ presumably not the intention
20.08.2025 21:37 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0all 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 ๐ญ
16.08.2025 12:00 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0iโm 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 isnโt even mentioned, as the very concept of doing washing on the sabbath is just unthinkable
13.08.2025 20:51 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0eschewing screen time for the delightful nursery rhymes of the past, which seem to vary between mindless violence and outrageous moralising
13.08.2025 13:47 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0i seem to remember TfL were proposing overnight DLR services on a friday and saturday just before the pandemic but this got shelved
19.07.2025 13:20 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0the today programme just referred to a district council in cambridgeshire as โsouth east englandโโฆ. now who do i write to at the BBC about the erasure of east anglia ๐ฉ๐ก
17.07.2025 08:17 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0keep making notes of food i want to try once baby is out - like iโve ever had a slice of opera cake or entremet in my life
04.07.2025 19:23 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0iโm not sure why i chose this moment, when iโm temporarily struck down with diabetes (๐คฐ) to binge watch the entirety of the last seasons of great british bake off
04.07.2025 19:22 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0this should be illegal and i will back any party whose manifesto promises to rule out temperatures over 30 degrees
29.06.2025 09:18 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0probably the only park in london that gives you views of the shard, the city, canary wharf and the O2 centre within a few metres
22.06.2025 06:05 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0summer solstice morning โ๏ธ from hilly fields
22.06.2025 05:14 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0:( very scottish coded of you
22.06.2025 05:09 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0people keep asking me, as someone whoโs eight months pregnant, how iโm coping in the heatโฆ. but iโm not just pregnant, iโm pregnant and ginger
21.06.2025 17:07 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0This week, MPs will vote on whether to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales. 
As the police issue guidance to search womenโs 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 ๐ this is peak womanhood
05.06.2025 10:29 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0An astronaut, looking at the planet Earth, saying: โWait, itโs all social care obligations?โ Behind him, another astronaut, pulls out a gun and preparing to shoot the first in the back, says: โAlways has been.โ
Reformโs โBritish DOGEโ when they finish up looking at Kent Council:
02.06.2025 09:54 โ ๐ 862 ๐ 199 ๐ฌ 21 ๐ 15it was bromley next to tufnell park that pushed me over the edge ๐คช
24.05.2025 12:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0campaign to make map based products accurate again ๐ฉ women deserve to be able to buy geographically accurate cute purses!!
23.05.2025 18:07 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1i think iโm the only person in the world likely to receive a personalised card of former defence minister sir gavin williamson for their birthday ๐ฅฐโค๏ธ and i love it
18.05.2025 12:16 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Why 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
18.04.2025 12:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0the fact shostakovich attended two live shows of jesus christ superstar and loved it always seems to surprise people but it shouldnโt! itโs uncompromising and complex music, some of andrew lloyd webberโs best ever writing - and a (pretty) accurate portrayal of jesusโ last few days
18.04.2025 12:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0spider-man point meme
me walking slowly down the bus aisle because iโm scared itโs about to move off // the bus driver waiting for me to sit down first because he spotted iโm pregnant
31.03.2025 15:46 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0