@shorthandwitch.bsky.social
Former university senior lecturer, ballet dancer, merchant navy officer, & HR professional - weird career path. Loves cats & all things witchy.
Flowers are definitely flowerin' now!
25.06.2025 19:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Must be summer, I've swapped the wreaths out!
01.06.2025 10:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Flowers are starting to appear...
30.05.2025 08:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tomorrow I'm teaching my first seated exercise class for older adults, having qualified just over a month ago. I'm a little nervous. Need to practise the routines today.
29.05.2025 09:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Last year, my rose got a really bad case of black spot. I followed all the RHS directions on how to remedy this, but they warned it might be difficult to rescue. This is how it looks now. I did it!
19.05.2025 19:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I've had just over a week off from my exercise classes (I do 8 per week) to catch up with appointments and administrative tasks. Today is my first day back and I feel like it might be a shock to my system!
12.05.2025 06:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Finally remembered to switch my bunny lights on for Easter, in the front garden.
19.04.2025 19:52 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just been for my 2nd shingles vaccine. Walking back, it was nice to see foliage coming back to life after the winter.
10.04.2025 10:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Watching the Figure Skating World Championships. Loving the skating but some really tedious music choices, especially in the ice dance free skate.
29.03.2025 18:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sometimes, a few little flowers are necessary.
21.03.2025 19:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We can only hope. Sadly, I don't trust analysis of anything by Andrew Pierce.
08.03.2025 09:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0That woman is an absolute menace.
08.03.2025 09:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Made this a while ago for a fundraiser for Ukraine. Probably time I made another one for my own door.
06.03.2025 10:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0St Patrick's Day decor.
03.03.2025 08:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Freudian slip.
01.03.2025 10:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I've never seen such disgraceful, unstatesmanlike, undiplomatic behaviour from a sitting US President & his VP as we witnessed yesterday. The politics of thuggery. Absolutely shameful.
01.03.2025 10:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0As a small moment of calm amidst the chaos, the start of spring flowers in the hedgerows.
24.02.2025 18:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Anyone (UK) noticed Fiona Bruce's peculiar fashion style on tonight's BBC 6 o'clock news? I refer particularly to what appear to be white boots with capri length trousers. She looks like the dispensable people from Star Trek!
10.02.2025 18:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you! At my age, new opportunities aren't likely to crop up very often so I'm seizing the day, despite the nerves. β€οΈ
07.02.2025 09:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I started an exercise programme 48 weeks ago. Now my instructor has asked me to train to be an instructor for some of her other classes (which, unlike the ones I do, are for elderly people). I've just enrolled on a course. Nervous!
06.02.2025 18:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 01st February, so my Valentine's Day decor is up for the month.
01.02.2025 12:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0En route to a coffee date yesterday, I saw a pop up gazebo for Tesla. They tried to engage me and seemed taken aback when my response was just a teensy bit negative.
25.01.2025 18:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Dear heavens, all those peculiar plastic-faced people! Musk the usual bizarre figure. Zuckerberg shifting uneasily in his seat and smiling nervously at nobody in particular. If the devil could cast his net right now he'd be doing everyone a favour.
20.01.2025 16:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Watching every Tory/Reformite now toadying up to Trump.
Their grim sycophancy ties them to all Trumpβs acts of degeneracy, to his cruelty, personal greed and ruinous prejudice.
It exposes their disloyalty to us and their readiness to undermine our country and our democracy.
Keep the receipts.
They still stay as part of your follower count and list.
20.01.2025 11:05 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Can you get in on the action with a "Remove Follower" button, please.
20.01.2025 07:59 β π 38 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0