Meet our new cat, Daphne. Hopefully eventually a friend for Cassie

Since I don't know for sure that @girlinthe.bsky.social has seen this, it is necessary to repost. I think @wobblygoose.bsky.social would also appreciate it.

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage. When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig. Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

My "Heck, is this project even going to work????" nerves are starting to subside a little! I reckon we've sewn at least 2/3rds of the streets in the town, and I've got 29 memories/favourite places marked on the map and recorded in my little folder too. It's not quite a couple of metres square

New exhibition is alive. Here: history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/... and in the physical real world @rcpmuseum.bsky.social. There are books in it. More to follow when I've had the customary lie down in a darkened room.

The 'Seeking the Disabled Christ' Exhibition has been extended until 8th September, so you have more time to see it if you haven't already. Free in @newcastlecathedral.bsky.social Or online at www.wobblygoose.com if you can't get to the cathedral

There's still time to book for this Saturday's Networking Lunch and Quiet Afternoon for disabled, neurodivergent people and those with lived experience of mental health conditions. Details: newcastlecathedral.org.uk/event/seekin... or DM me to book

Delighted to purchase some prints of @wobblygoose.bsky.social 's Disabled Christ artwork from www.wobblygoose.com ✝️⚓

Lovely to see lots of people in @newcastlecathedral this afternoon to launch and celebrate my exhibition. Thank you for all the great questions and conversations. The exhibition continues until 27th August so there's still plenty of time to visit. Or you can see it online at wobblygoose.com

There's still time to book for Saturday's exhibition celebration. 2-4 pm @newcastlecathedral.bsky.social It would be lovely to see you there. You can book using the link below

Yes, more people could potentially work with the right job, the right employer, and the right adjustments/support. But many still won't be able to. This is just a fact. And actually it's cruel to have someone work, if it would mean they don't have any capacity left to live.

People enjoying looking at, and interacting with my exhibition in @newcastlecathedral today. You can visit for free whenever the Cathedral is open until 27th August Or online www.wobblygoose.com #SeekingDisabledChrist

It would be great to see people at a networking lunch & quiet afternoon for disabled, neurodivergent and those with lived experience of mental health conditions near Newcastle. Saturday 16th August 1-4 pm Newcastle Cathedral Cafe, then nave Message or email me to book and for access requirements.

Come to the Launch and Celebration of 'Seeking the Disabled Christ' Exhibition This time next week: Saturday 9th August 2-4 pm Book using this link: newcastlecathedral.org.uk/event/seekin... Come to meet me, hear about and celebrate the exhibition with drinks and nibbles.

Homemade jam, using plums from the vicarage garden! Yum 😋

Postcards and prints are available! Postcards from @newcastlecathedral and online Original prints available online via my website www.wobblygoose.com Sadly it isn't possible to ship to the EU at present due to the new regulations

Seeking the Disabled Christ Exhibition Open today until 27th August Free, @newcastlecathedral And online, www.wobblygoose.com Tactile, large print, dyslexia friendly and braille available onsite. Videos with captions available online. All welcome #SeekingDisabledChrist

Rachel's art is amazing and you can go and see it in Newcastle Cathedral for the next month. Find out more at her website www.wobblygoose.com

My brilliant friend Rachel has an exhibition of prints in Newcastle Cathedral and online: www.wobblygoose.com. Rachel's perspectives on disability theology have informed a lot of what I know -- and try to practise -- about disability justice.

Exhibition installed! 'Seeking the Disabled Christ' Exhibition Free, @newcastlecathedral.bsky.social 30th July -27th August All Welcome

NEW: The government has delayed the implementation of the welfare reforms. They were due to come into effect in November 2026. They will now come into effect after the conclusion of a review by Stephen Timms. The contentious four-point rule has reportedly been entirely removed from tonight’s bill.

A former minister told the BBC it is easy to ‘game’ the PIP form based on knowing what to fill in This is untrue. PIP forms are not only notoriously difficult to fill in but require huge swaths of evidence - and even then many people don’t get what they are due until tribunal.

I’m always pro-disabled people leading what affects them but the reality is, many disabled and chronically ill people are paying a huge physical price for fighting tomorrow’s welfare bill. Many are suffering more pain and exhaustion from campaigning, all whilst in a brutal heatwave. 1/2

Let me be clear: this is actively traumatic for disabled people. We’re treated as economic bodies—worth less if we can’t work—and not even consulted. It’s retraumatising after years of this, worse because it’s Labour, and worse still because of the scale of cuts. #TakingThePIP

'The reason we have PIP is because it costs Disabled people £1,000 more each month to live to the same standard as non-disabled people, because of decisions Governments have made to not address that.' Kill the Welfare Reform Bill! 🎙️DR UK's Mikey Erhardt on LBC News today

Debate ~12:40. Vote 7pm. Be gentle with yourself today. You don’t have to watch or follow along as they debate our lives and reduce us to numbers. You don’t have to spend your last spoons on this. It’s enough to get through the day. We’ll hold the line together. #TakingThePIP

These proposed concessions to the Welfare Bill don’t go far enough. ❌ No consultation with disabled people ❌ No government impact assessment ❌ No OBR analysis ❌ No publication of PIP or Mayfield Review The Reasoned Amendment was clear. Disabled people are being ignored.

No matter what the results of tonight's vote please remember that your life has value no matter how much 'work' you can do and no matter what the ableist pricks in government tell you! YOU ARE NOT A BURDEN! WE ARE NOT A BURDEN! #TakingThePIP #DisabledRights #WelfareNotWarfare

As MPs vote on massive cuts to Universal Credit & PIP today, they should bear in mind: - This does not have public support - This is not the change the public voted for - The public don't believe the only way to meet fiscal challenges is to make disabled people poorer and iller

With the UC and PIP Bill having it's second reading today, we're using #CoproductionWeek as an opportunity to say: Any reform to disability benefits should start and end with Disabled people and our lived experience. This bill MUST be voted down.

Just so everyone is on the same page: PIP is a top up benefit. You can’t live on PIP, it’s there because being disabled is more expensive than not being disabled. PIP recipients *in work* may only be able to work because of PIP. This government is just unnecessarily cruel.

NEW FROM ME - Britain is abandoning international medical consensus on disability. Every other developed nation recognizes cumulative impairment as genuine severity. We're about to become an anomaly—and the logic of 4+ suggests it was deliberate. tinyurl.com/mwwb5xv4

Whatever Starmer does, he’s already cast disabled people as the reason why they “can’t balance the books”. The Labour Government has already scapegoated disabled people as the reason why your life sucks. It’s unforgivable.

A MESSAGE FOR MPs. As a consultant clinical psychologist, I must be clear: this Green Paper will cost lives, deepen despair, and worsen inequality. Vote no to #DisabilityBenefits cuts.

Could the media please stop equating not slashing disability benefits quite so much with potentially needing to hike taxes in the autumn? This narrative fuels hate against disabled people. The public purse isn’t just benefits and taxes—there are countless other spending choices.

Disabled people are not a political deal. As these back-room conversations happen, has anyone thought of the Disabled people whose lives will be impacted? The Government is still attempting to slash billions of pounds from a system that doesn't provide enough support as it is.

The Green Paper may be on life support, but don’t exhale yet. Labour could repackage it in kinder language—but the harm will be the same. We need to kill the ideology, not just this version. #TakingThePIP

Brilliant. Martin Lewis destroying the defence minister on Good Morning Britain. ‘Minister can I interrupt you. You keep talking about getting people into work… but PIP is not an out-of-work benefit. I don’t know why you keep talking about getting people back to work’. #TakingThePIP

Just read To Exist as I am, 2025, by Grace Spence Green. She expresses brilliantly the realities of being a disabled person through her own life changing experience & her career as a doctor. An honest & moving memoir ♿️ 💙📚 https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/bee27c95-a24d-4f42-82d9-e548a131ebb9

And I view PIP the same way, if you are disabled, you will incur costs and whether you work/ are a carer/ get other benefits/ study/ have some assets, you should still expect to have a fair chance of claiming PIP because giving disabled people independence is good!

It feels like a particularly pertinent time to receive this book, when it feels like disabled people are in the midst of a fight for life, dignity, access and justice. Thank you @rachelcdailey.bsky.social #TakingThePIP

@girlinthe.bsky.social @rarh3.bsky.social we had 'Jerusalem the golden' at church yesterday. Made me chuckle and think of you 😀

Labour want the vote to go through before the Impact Assessment because they are f’ing terrified of what it will say. #WelfareNotWarfare

47% of UK adults face economic precarity, with disabled people hit hardest (32% also face health/housing issues). Benefits cuts will hugely deepen this crisis, worsening mental health. Long NHS waits (2 million on MH lists) + poverty = a toxic mix. Labour must rethink these cuts.

Interviewers, please nail Starmer on what he means by “severe disabilities.” The public—and many MPs—hear that and think it means “those in genuine need.” In reality, it means “those provably on the brink of death”.

Keir Starmer can find billions for weapons factories, drones and a submarine but not for disability benefits or the two child limit. One more time for those at the back: Poverty Is A Political Choice.

“We just want to help people work.” That’s why we’re cutting PIP which enables many people to work. And scaling back Access to Work. Because… well… the goal was never inclusion. It was disappearance. #TakingThePIP

The new UC proposals treat illness like it’s temporary, linear, and neatly resolved. But chronic pain, psychosis, and neuroimmune illness don’t heal on cue. This isn’t a system that misunderstands disability. It’s one that’s designed to exclude it. #WelfareNotWarfare

As a consultant psychologist, I’ve seen what fear of reassessment does. It doesn’t motivate people. It destabilises them. It makes people stop attending therapy, stop taking meds, stop eating. Cuts don’t save money. They cost lives. We must protect LCWRA. #TakingThePIP

Disability benefits cuts would, unequivocally, kill a lot of disabled people. Some would die by suicide. Others through the slow violence of stress, malnutrition, untreated pain. It’s that simple. It really is. Vote against #DisabilityBenefits cuts. #TakingThePIP