Read it and weep. So many children let down. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

Feeling old & tired & I think maybe it’s time to move to a cul-de-sac & get into busybodying: some low stakes peering & meddling, a bit of light stickybeaking & curtain twitching. In my Mrs Mangelmaxing & Martin Brycecore era - moridund petty little cheese & wine affairs, knitwear & fussbudgetry

Erasures from Institutionalism and Schizophrenia: A Comparative Study of Three Mental Hospitals 1960-1968, G. W. Brown J. K Wing

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As a child, when I first heard about the Speaking Clock I assumed it was a person with a really good internal chronometer who was just shut in a room with a telephone and had to estimate the time whenever someone rang

This is my kind of news🍯 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

How to be a writer: First, plant the tree on which the leaves of your book will be printed. Next, hatch the bird from whose quill your ink will flow. Water the tree. Feed the bird. Learn the patience of things that grow and the joy of things that sing. Make tea: you've got time.

🧵TW: PIP & Mental Health My new FOI further exposes the 4+ rule’s cruel impact on mental health. 1 in 3 MH claimants will be cut off, including those with the most severe disability. It shows a system built to erase cumulative + fluctuating need. #TakingThePip #WelfareNotWarfare

Who will rid me of this -

The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages... 8. Little walnut (Bulgarian) 7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese) 6. Thumbling (Finnish) 5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish) 4. Fence-master (Hebrew) 3. Druid bird (Irish) 2. Mouse-brother (Faroese) 1. Little king of winter (Dutch)

Brat summer is over, time for bog spring

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