When you’re minding your own business and a beautiful butterfly lands on you. Reminds me of my all time favourite quote - “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Only I could cut my finger trying to separate TWO FUCKING ICE CUBES!!! 😂 🥶

You know you’re getting older when you need your specs more and more… 😂

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My eurovision likes and dislikes.

Sometimes, you hand life over to the crystals. 😜

The Refectory - York. Drinks in the sun ☀️

🐣Happy Easter to all that celebrate it🐣

🍊🍊Cute little orange tree 🍊🍊

So my beard appears to be going grey!!! 😭😭😭 #oldage

#SelbyAbbey #NorthYorkshire

Sometimes there’s nothing better than quietly sitting in the garden, listening to a chilled radio station, enjoying the sunshine! Perfect Sunday! ☀️

For years, I’d been on the lookout for this classic album. Managed to find a 2nd copy last year. But today, it’s been re-issued for its 35th anniversary & I’ve managed to get my hands on a brand new copy. Proper chuffed! Only heard about the new release by chance on the radio last week #TracyChapman

Who knew #Lincoln was so pretty (and so so steep!) Well worth the heart attack when you make it to the top and overlook the city though! 😍

Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful mums. Thinking especially of my own. How I wish things would have been different 💔 Thank you also to all the “adopted” mums I was blessed to have in my life growing up. I appreciate you.

This weather this weekend in The Lake District has been absolutely phenomenal! Couldn’t have asked for better. Perfect end to my boys fiftieth bonanza! 🍹 ☀️ 🍹

So I’m late to the party, once again!! I’ve just discovered The White Lotus after I saw it on Gogglebox the other night. I binged the whole first series today. Obsessed. 🤩🤩🤩 (Jennifer Coolidge ♥️)

This shouldn’t be viewed as a negative ❤️

Last nights very pretty spectacle - Venus above the crescent moon, above the Crescent. #planets #stars #stargazing

Wishing you all a very #HappyNewYear. I hope that in 2025, you’ll achieve all you hope to, fulfil every dream that you have and be happy and healthy. ♥️

When you go arse over tit down the stairs 😭😂

Word of the day is a favourite for this time of year. To be ‘crambazzled’, in old Yorkshire dialect, is to be prematurely aged by excess drinking or partying.

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So I have just watched Legends of the Fall for the first time. I am emotionally destroyed. 😭😭😭😭

Merry Christmas one and all. I hope you all have a beautiful day. Particularly thinking of all those who might find Christmas difficult for various reasons. 🎄🎅

Such incredible bravery!

"Forty per cent of men under the age of twenty five in prison today were in care. For me they have already been failed by society." Prison reform campaigner, Matthew Torbitt, explains why early Government intervention could prevent imprisonment and save money. #Newsnight

When did this become a thing? You’re welcome. #pistachiocream 😍

🌲🎅 🌲🎅

Time to put the tree up … well time for the other half to put the tree up whilst I observe and direct where to put things with my feet up and a glass of wine in hand 😂😂

When you force the boy to eat oysters… 😂😂😂

At 7:45am, exactly 41 years ago, I graced the world with my presence for the first ever time. You’re welcome.

❤️ #WestminsterAbbey

There’s no greater relief when you have social anxiety than being on a train with a seat reserved next to yours but they don’t show up. I won’t now need to make small talk with a stranger for the next 90 minutes! 🤣

Word of the Day is ‘gwenders’, from old Cornish dialect: a disagreeable tingling in the extremities (or no sensation at all) due to extreme cold.

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Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.

Can’t say I’ve ever paid any attention to Shawn Mendes before. But I’m loving this new album so much! And he’s very easy on the eye too 😜

Hi everyone! My first post on here. Apparently, it’s the place to be where all the ‘cool kids’ are hanging out these days. *prays it lives up to the hype and doesn’t turn out to be just another Threads’ 😂 I look forward to reconnecting with old friends and making many new ones! ❤️