Awake before 5am (body clock rather than alarm clock) not so bad when it starts like this. Properly bacony clouds this morning - streaks of pink scudding past my bedroom window. 😌💗

Sometimes I swim with my eyes closed… 😌 It’s not on the banned list - I checked - and so far I haven’t crashed into anyone… 🙃 Absof*ckinglutely dreamy this morning, and much-needed. 💙 🧜‍♀️

Walked off a bit of a strop ;)

Evening from Malvern ☺️

Yesterday 💜 Today 🩷

Post you in another country… School History/French trip, 1993 ⚜️

Easing into Sunday with some gentle Johnny Lynch. 💞 ☕️ 😎 Haven’t enjoyed vocoder this much since heady days of endlessly folding khakis in Cardiff Gap, ‘98, with Cher’s Do You Believe on shop cd’s heavy rotation (earned about £3ph for the privilege 🙃😁) youtu.be/9d--hJaYkJ4?...

Not going to lie, prefer looking at British Camp than climbing up it 🙃

Good colours in the shire today 💛💚🩵

While I’m about it, another of my treasured humans did a remarkable thing last weekend. Looking forward to more of her ethereal soundscapes at our local community space in the coming months. Things are shit, but not completely: big up your people (especially the creatives!). 🙌 🤟💛

When I was 16 I was looking after my little cousin, carrying her on my shoulders round Shrewsbury (got some 👀 - think people thought I was a teen mum). Lost her in the racks at Miss Selfridge for a few painful seconds. Anyway, last night she won a games bafta and I am actually bursting and broke 😭 💖

Cooking to this (dirty fries - altho not very dirty truth be told 🤠) and it’s the perfect accompaniment ✨

#bloomscrolling Love these babies outside the library. 🩷💛

First one of the season. 💪 😌 ✨ I am not as nails as some - but feels like a win - endorphins are high! :) Such a friendly crowd there too - trauma-bonding probs. 🥶

Ever read a word that runs over a line end and just momentarily get it completely wrong, or am I the only village low-watt bulb? Today’s was dog-mas… 🐶 🎅

Home 🩵

Love this door and alleyway. Those hooks are a bit ominous tho, eh…

Al fresco James Hollis (for we worship at many temples and Rex can’t hog all the love today) and a phat magnolia. Side-plate sized, go-big-or-go-home bombastic blooms. Love. 🩷

Wasn’t sure what we were going to wake up to this morning. But at least there’s this.

Just had to throw away (will go in the hot bin, but seriously 💸 😭) a tonne of rancid walnuts. At least I have a post-punk band name lined up now tho.

Morning, world.

In Sweden and would like to read some Swedish poets. Any recommendations? @liamsprod.bsky.social @poemakontsa.bsky.social anyone?

Hadn’t planned on a post-work, bank holiday Monday elevenses session, but that’s how it’s rolling… :) I thought I was going to have questions for my 18yo self, but actually enjoying it 🤓

Ohhhh Message to You Rudy - The Specials - hit record on the blank tape I kept for catching just such tracks lightning fast! ⚡️

Dana Wsye Pills & Remedies from the series ‘Jesus Had A Sister Productions’ 1996-2018

Spent a happy couple of days with old friends whose love languages are exchanging socks, rolling meals to the point of near-explosion, and making excessively strong cocktails. 🙃 Woke up with this between my ears - a gentle, ease-into-the-day moment… youtu.be/YfPIMoYWN24?...

No complaints.

#LookAndSee 363 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Go-to rain song - love it. First heard at a tender age covered by Bette Midler on Beaches. 🙃 All well and good but will stick with the OG - plus it suits the picture… youtu.be/k9Fn8VhkK5g?...

#bloomscrolling Love that little almost-heart in the middle…🤍 ☁️ #soppyoldgoat

Oh - love this…

Took a lot of pics of graffiti and posters/city wall noize (I love it - contrast to Malvern no doubt), but also snapped this one of Phoebe being all grown up but also Quite Little… Love the two random people on the left 🙃

We went. We cried. ✨

Mother’s Day has featured heavily this week at work… Much reflection… Came across this choice pic from my Mum’s graduation day. She went as a mature student which had a big impact on me I now realise (altho the yawn belies this - sorry, Mum 🙃). I wish I could say thanks for doing a brave thing 🙌

41 years!! Give over!

Happy Mam’s Day, kids… Rebecca Solnit reminds us the feminist cause is a two steps forward, one back trajectory; the US is not representative of the whole world; and maybe we’re getting there?! I’ll take that scrap of hope… www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Next in the Borderlines outings, went to see this with my home-for-a-week eldest bab 🥰 Enjoyed it very much but The Love That Remains is still my favourite so far…

#emojisounds #musicchallenge 14: 🪩 From one of my favourite singing-very-loudly-in-the-car cds :) A 2014 cracker - love a bit of Danger Mouse ✨ #cdsinthecar youtu.be/NeiqMuky3oo?...

This morning’s ear-worm - I think because it’s springy and sunny out there?! 🌞 🌱 A gentle, underrated track from an often overlooked album imo 😌 💜 youtu.be/sLh3L6aJWLs?...

The Love That Remains - really got swept away in this - some absolutely genius surreal moments (neither jarring nor twee) woven into the brutally real. Funny; painful; beautiful (oh, Iceland… 🩵). V lucky to have @borderlinesff.bsky.social film festival on our doorstep. #filmsky

Now do the costs of *not* meeting Net Zero.

Enjoyed this, but not as much as Paterson… Worth it for Tom Waits alone; Adam Driver and Mayim Bialik gave convincing siblings; and motifs peppered across the 3 segments were pleasing… 🛹

#emojisounds #musicchallenge Day 10: 👠 I laughed as you wobbled In your platform shoes… Always find an excuse to post this one… 🥰

Brizzle in the mizzle today, catching up with an old friend 🥰

As it’s international women’s day am also going with this - which is always the first track I think of when violins are mentioned. Have posted it before so went with Seth but should have stuck with my guns (and not Seth’s 🙃). Love a bit of Beth 💕 #emojisounds #musicchallenge 9: 🎻

#emojisounds #musicchallenge 9: 🎻

I’ll kick myself in a minute when I remember who I’ve missed, but some of my hard-hitters: Tove Jansson Margaret Atwood Deborah Levy bell hooks George Elliot Ann Patchett Françoise Sagan Natalia Ginzberg Elena Ferrante Tove Ditlevsen Virginia Woolf Rose Tremaine Jane Austen Judy Bloom (😜🥰)

If you do anything today, take a few moments and see if you can hear the women's inner screams, then take another moment to imagine a world without women in it. #InternationalWomensDay youtu.be/TrW699mjzbE?...

FBI agent-level acknowledgement: babysitting ain’t for wimps

One of my school friends taped this off her big sister, and we thought we were very cool to be ahead of the power curve (‘power’ doing some heavy lifting there 🤫) 🙃 Same friend just booked us tickets for October so we can be 13 again - Wendy James, oh my life… 💕 youtu.be/r26krlXFmOI?...