‘you know if you’re not actually dead you have to feed me’

I’ve just read it’s #NationalCatDay so here’s some of my fave snaps including some of my beautiful Flossie 🖤🧡💛

First mince pie 🥧 of the season 🫖

Caution, tortie about to pounce ⚠️ #Caturday #catsofbluesky

Duchess Pearl with the massive ears #caturday

Proof of the power of bereaved parents to do good in memory of their lost children 💙 Congratulations @myjessbrady.bsky.social, you are an inspiration and I’m sorry this is your reality. #Jess’slaw www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Big day today. I carried the Baton of Hope in memory of my beautiful daughter, lost to suicide at just 13. This was for you Flossie, and the other 200 school-age children we lose to #suicide every year 💔 I miss you baby 💛 #childloss #BatonofHope

Happy #Caturday. Duchess Pearl naps on fleece whilst her brother, the pauper Pablo, looks on with jealousy 🖤🧡

My beautiful girl. Tomorrow you should be starting Year 11. But you never finished Year 8 💔 How intensely I wish you were here, ticking off these huge milestones like your peers. I miss you Floss 💛 #childloss #backtoschool #BoHTour2025 #suicideawareness

The Labour response to Farage policy of leaving the Refugee & Humam Rights Convention should not be “he won’t deliver”. It should be “this is not morally right” (not “British values” even). Voters want to see authentic consistent leadership. Not debate the workability of cruelty.

I’m a self-confessed cat person 🐈, but this video made me happy. Beautiful dog 🐶 #dogsofbluesky

Danish activists have been painting their flag on roundabouts. Either that or British 'patriots' are a bunch of thick twats, which I find hard to believe.

Anyone else get a reading hangover when they finish a great book? Like, takes you a few days to feel emotionally ready to move on with new characters? Read This Love by Lotte Jeffs and it was so good I’m sad it’s finished #booksky It’d be good for Max’s library @jontr.bsky.social #lgbtq+literature

Sending #internationalcatday greetings from Istanbul, a city with 150,000 street cats who are welcomed and cared for by residents 😻 Here’s a ginger miss who chose to hang out with me at dinner #caturday (almost)

So brilliant watching the Lionesses’ victory last night. But really hard knowing how much my beautiful Flossie would have enjoyed watching it #childloss

💎 league 🏃🏼‍♀️ 🏃🏾🥇🥈🥉

“The Department for Education (DfE) announced on Tuesday that lessons discussing suicide prevention would be compulsory in secondary schools from September 2026.” Good. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When I DM’d Kate Nash on Instagram I did not expect this! Thank you.Thank you. I’m in floods of tears. Kate Nash is a legend. Please spread our message and help make the world a safer place for trans people, for women, for all of us. Sign the @nionwomen.bsky.social letter change.org/NION_Women

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Sending my love to all who find Father’s Day hard, for whatever reason. I see you 🩵 #fathersday

Tomorrow would be my birthday if I celebrated. Since my 13 year old daughter died, it feels wrong to mark turning a year older when she can’t 💔 It’s another shitty milestone to endure but there are some who expect me to behave like “old me” on this day, making it feel especially crap #childloss

A reminder not to store red sauce in Tupperware.

My sad is big, heavy and also sharp today. Insensitive friends accidentally highlighting exactly what I’ve lost. Everything feels very unfair. I want my daughter back, that’s all. Nothing else. #childloss #grief #bereavedparent

I am very lucky to have a living cushion 🐈 🧡 #catsofbluesky #catsky #gingercat

Two years without your beautiful face 💔 Forever heartbroken to have to live in a world where you don’t get to grow up into the wonderful woman I know you’d have become. I miss you endlessly Floss 💛 #childloss #grief #forever13

When I lost my beautiful daughter Jess to stage 4 cancer, diagnosed too late, we were flooded with media requests to talk about what had happened due to the petition for Jess’s Law. 🧵1/8

Happy April Fools Day!

I hate the clocks changing because it makes me feel stupid

Getting through #MothersDay can be an ordeal if you’ve experienced #childloss - and for lots of other complicated reasons too. Sending love and solidarity to all who find themselves in the same boat today. I miss my Floss so much 💔

Age yourself with a cartoon you watched as a kid #Trapdoor

100 weeks without my beautiful girl. It feels unbearable that this is the case and yet here I am, heartbroken but still here 💔 #grief #childloss

In a piggy 🐖 twist of fate, we have ended up with free McDonalds brekkie as it got delivered to our address by mistake 🥓🍳🍔🧋

Going to a SOBS @sobscharity.bsky.social meeting tonight. Very grateful for them but, almost 2 years on, I still cannot believe this is my life 💔💜 #childloss #bereavedbysuicide #grief #suicideawareness

Feel this deep in my soul 😑#childloss #grief #braveface

I have a new, furry plant 🪴 🐈‍⬛ #catsofbluesky #tortitude #Pearl 🖤 late #caturday

There is still so little understanding of the suicidal mind. We must have more compassion and learn that it is something that happened to them rather than something they did.. #mentalhealth #suicideawareness

There is so much more we want to achieve. We plan to make a difference in Jess’ name and for all the other young people who were told they were too young for cancer. Please support us. 🧵8/8

Grief involves ugly crying. It’s messy. Some days are impossibly sad. We’re simply bereft. There are no silver linings. We need to see loss & grief, up close, from all sides. Every one of us has experienced it or will during our lives. Let’s normalize it. kayesteinsapir.substack.com/p/no-silver-...

Thou shalt not spend millions on Super Bowl ads about Jesus when you could’ve used it to feed the hungry.

15 years ago I became a mum to a tiny dot who we named Florence Rose. Life didn’t go the way we planned as we lost her to #suicide in 2023. My heart and soul are broken as we mark her 2nd birthday without her 💔 Life feels very unfair, she has left a huge void & had such potential #childloss #grief

Flashback to baby Pablo watching a show with little Floss. Miss her so much. Think he does too #childloss #catsofbluesky #catsky 💔

The CEDAR Trust was created in memory of the wonderful Jess, who died far too young, at 27, following a far too late cancer diagnosis. Jess grew up in a world surrounded by drama & appeared in her first play at 7. 🧵1/6

For me, the arrival of February brings dread and dark thoughts. My beautiful Flossie should be turning 15 next week. Instead, it will be the second birthday she’s missed since she chose to leave by suicide at just 13. #Childloss is just brutal, not one loss but many, the big things & the small 1/2

I think going to the gym before work deserves a medal. I also think having to de-ice your car before the gym deserves a trophy 🚙 🏆 🥇 🧊 🏋🏼‍♀️ So well done me 😂

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...