''lifting the two-child benefit cap is the "best way" to alleviate child poverty'' Can anyone say no shit Sherlock?

Have a very buzztastic #InsectThursday with wee #bee looking like he’s caught mid-bite, savouring the very last munch of summer captured yesterday #macro #macrophotography #EastCoastKin #photography #wellbeing #mindful Gonna miss these wee fellas when they finally disappear for the seasons ahead 😔🐝

#LunchtimeWalk #Photography #EastCoastKin Fading warmth departs, shadows stretch on tired ground, summer waves goodbye.

Spreading racist stereotypes Inciting hostility against migrants Undermining social cohesion And of course... Distracting from real issues: Scapegoating migrants with myths shifts debate away from genuine challenges facing UK & poisons democratic discourse with misinformation Quick, over there 👀

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMemories #EastCoastKin #photography Here, memory lingers in shadows & glass, not gentle but insistent, pressing itself forward in the stillness. In Portobello’s hidden corners, the past does not sleep; it watches. A Corridor of Memories

#AlphabetChallenge #WeeKMforMemories #macro #macrophotgraphy #photography #bee #EastCoastKin Back in the day when a major life event occurred - a death, a wedding, a birth, the bees were formally told of it. Guardians of memory keeping the family’s story whole, across generations.

Have a splendid #RoseWednesday Hump Day. Not to many roses left to capture - all starting to look a wee bit droopy, but you gotta love a wee rain drop or two on a rose petal 😊 #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Photography

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMemories #ClassicMono #EastCastKin #Photography Cobblestones glisten with centuries’ tears, The mews holds its breath for forgotten years. Windows stare hollow, the lamplight is cold, Whispers of memory, restless and old.

Trump: Pregnant women 'have a responsibility' to endure pain & should only use Paracetamol if they 'can't tough it out' Far Right: Duty, suffering, sanctity of life, & women’s reproductive exp. tied to moral/spiritual character, emphasising sacrifice & endurance. The circle is complete

On her spotted shell, raindrops signal the turning of the insect tide. #macro #macrophotography #photography #wellbeing Not a bee 😉

When my fella was still alive we'd head out of town on the weekends to old ruins so I could snap and explore. He is 5 yrs gone this month and so as a wee nod and obvs for #WeekMforMemories #AlphabetChallenge have a dead old ruin we visited together(details in ALT) #photography #EastCoastKin

Far right women all in with sexual assault by proxy So much for the safety of women and girls 🙄

When I was 10 I got stung in the throat by a wee #bee & my neck swelled up so much I ended up in casualty cause I couldn't breathe. As #WeekMforMemories start for the #AlphabetChallenge not the most uplifting but it is #MacroMonday #macro #macrophotography #EastCoastKin so obvs gotta get a bee in 😉🐝

Softly curling petals, delicate lines and subtle folds #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines #BloomScrolling #photography #SundaySharing #flowers #EastCoastKin Flower power and poetry all lined up for perfection production

#SundayYellow #SundayShring #BloomScrolling #EastCoastKin #flowers #photography Sunshine on stems.

Last wee #bee in 4 #AlphabetChallenge #WeeKLforLines 📷 yesterday making a beeline 4 last orders to pack in the pollen before the nectar bar shuts 4 the year😉 #SundaySharing #macro #macrophotography #EastCoastKin #photography “Fill me tum, then I’ll be done, last wee sup an’ I’m on the run!”

It all looks so ye olde englande until you notice the pesky double yellows 😉 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines #photography #EastCoastKin

Have a buzztastic Saturday wherever you are #macro #macrophotography #photography Wee #bee clinging on as the season fades

Have an absolutely splendid #FlowersOnFriday #FloralFriday #BloomScrolling #photography Friday flower power 😊

I'd a really bad dream last night where I was banned from using #macrophotography to manage my #wellbeing cause 4 me 2 be still in the moment is #mindful. To cheer myself up have an obvs wee #bee for #InsectThursday #macro #photography Not many more of these to the pound left for the year😔 Love 💣

That was me. Here’s what you don’t know: I’m a US citizen who has been living here with my British husband for 21 years. I don’t live near London; I took a day of holiday from work and took the train down for the day.

Doing her bit Captured on the tube on way my home tonight - protesting the arrival of the new King of Gilead aka Trump #photography #TrumpVisit Love to see it

Doing her bit Captured on the tube on way my home tonight - protesting the arrival of the new King of Gilead aka Trump #photography #TrumpVisit Love to see it

Have a lovely ##RoseWednesday #BloomScrolling #photography #EastCoastKin A yellow rose, nature’s way of sending you a friendship emoji😉 Happy hump day

He came in like a wrecking ball Congress shall make no law... establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, & to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Paving stones create intersecting horizontal and vertical #WeekLforLines for the #AlphabetChallenge while painting in the park. #EastCoastKin #photography Have a lovely day 😊

All of the people all over the right wing media insisting they are not racist, after attending fascist tommy 10 names stomp through London, showing their real face to the rest of us 👇

#MacroMonday #macro #macrophotography #photography #EastCoastKin #bee #bokeh #weebee All fur coat and no knickers😂

Have a splendid #MacroMonday lovelies, and cause obvs I have to do this at least once in the #AlphabetChallenge have a wee #bee making a bee line to a wee flower for #WeekLforLines #macro #macrophotography #photography #EastCoastKin Making a bee line to pack his pollen pouch 🐝😉

Of course for todays #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaraoke it has to be #SundayYellow with Coldplay obvs 😉 #BloomScrolling #flowers #SundaySharing #EastCoastKin 🎵I swam across I jumped across for you Oh, what a thing to do 'Cause you were all yellow🎵

#Stunday #SundaySharing #SundayReflections #photography #EastCoastKin Have a lovely Sunday everyone 😊 The water is a mirror the sky forgets

#BloomScrolling #Flowers #Photography Abandoned

Great idea❣️ i have one too and did not think of that. And here I did not think I had any pics that would work. 😉

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaraoke #macro #macrophotography #photography #EastCoastKin Do love a wee raindrop You know what it is gonna be, right? 🎵Purple rain, purple rain Purple rain, purple rain Purple rain, purple rain I only want to see you bathing In the purple rain🎵 ☔😉

Why swarm the 'shithole that's been given away to Islamists, renamed Londonistan & is one big no go area' according to pretty much everyone draped in a St Georges flag, smelling of cheap booze & fags – & no doubt pissing up a wall in 3..2..1..? The utter state of them Why can't they just do one 😠

For the #BlueSkyArtShow a capture I took last time I was #home #photography #EastCoastKin Above, the flock wheels westward, finding home, As I return, like them, to where I begin.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaraoke #macro #macrophotography #photography #bee #weebee Wrecking Ball - Miley Cyrus 🎵I (he) came in like a wrecking ball🎵 😉🐝

Blooming good and ready for the weekend Petal to the metal, here I come 😉 #FlowersOnFriday #FloralFriday #BloomScrolling #photography #flowers Happy Friday lovelies 😊🍷

Have a fab #InsectTursday everyone with a wee #bee obvs #macro #macrophotography #photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaraoke with an Abba classic - got to get at last one Abba song in 😉🐝🍯 🎵Honey, honey, how you thrill me, ah-hah, honey, honey Honey, honey, nearly kill me, ah-hah, honey, honey🎵

Had a really long day - thanks to the Tube strike & an all day meeting in Brighton I left at six am & got home about 15 mins ago, with LOTS of steps in between🚶‍♀️ On the bright side for #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaraoke I caught this Simply Red Sunrise As I look into your eyes I see the sunrise

Thoughts and prayers 👀

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaraoke #photography Willie Nelson ‧ 1980 🎵On the road again I just can't wait to get on the road again🎵

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaraoke #BloomScrolling #photography A wee bit obvious, but heh😉 Poison ‧ 1988 🎵Every rose has its thorn Just like every night has its dawn Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song Every rose has its thorn🎵

#ClassicMono #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaraoke #photography #streetphotography Going Mobile The Who ‧ 1971 🎵I'm going home And when I wanna go home, I'm going mobile🎵

Snug as a bug in a pinktastic rug 😉 #MacroMonday #macro #macrophotography #photography #wellbeing #LunchtimeWalk

#MacroMonday #macro #macrophotography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaraoke (gonna love this theme 😊) #EastCoastKin #photography “Have You Ever Seen the Rain” – Creedence Clearwater Revival 🎵I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain? Comin' down on a sunny day🎵 Do love a wee raindrop or 2 🌦

Happy #MacroMonday lovelies with a #Bee Gees for the new splendid #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaraoke cause this #weebee is Stayin' Alive, Stayin' Alive even in September #macro #macrophotography #photography #EastCoastKin

#SundayYellow #BloomScrolling #flowers #photography And it was all yellow

Have a glorious Sunday lovelies - woke up this morning and was convinced that it was Monday - oh the joy when I realised I was just being fuzzy! #WeekJforJetBlack #AlphabetChallenge #macro #macrophotography #EastCoastKin 🎵Look into his Jet Back eyes One look and you're hypnotised🎵 😉🐝 Soz Sheena😂

#Stunday #SundaySharing #SundayReflections #EastCoastKin #Photography The ending of a season One bird drifts low where waters mourn, Its shadow stretched, the light is torn. The season dims, the cold wings near, A hush of endings draws us here. 😉