Sitting in the garden and my iPad has just informed me that it’s too hot and needs to cool down so that makes two of us and we’re now indoors for a bit 🥵

Good afternoon from your resident feminist (well, one of them!) My task? Whenever anyone posts that society has a problem and is looking to women to solve it by sacrificing their rights and interests I will explain why they should not 🤗

Just explained to younger DD that on social media I never block because I’m here for insight not affirmation and she said ‘you’re a witness to the universe’ and I thought ‘yess!’

It’s … true

Ah lovely sunny Sunday morning, just going to sit quietly in the garden and read a b— *ENTIRE NEIGHBOURHOOD ACTIVATES POWER TOOLS*

Clerical skylarks who drive around large rural benefices and those who pay their expenses, what do we think about the increase to the mileage rate?

Is cheese mentioned in the Bible at all? Can’t get on without cheese.

Feeling so sad for the confused, immature and exploited participants in this more than usually revolting example of what passes for ‘entertainment’ these days.

‘Can you understand these desperate passions?’ said the Countess. ‘All for the sake of being original.’

I’ll say this for period drama, everyone has excellent dressing gowns, not some abbreviated towelling job

I’ve invented a saying. ‘When Twitter sneezes, Bluesky catches cold’. Never doubt that all the same stuff you loathed over there will eventually show up here.

A chuckle for your Sunday

One reason ’Lolita’ leaves us feeling disturbed is because it defies easy categorisation. It’s a story about a predatory paedophile but there are no graphic sex scenes or even any overtly sexual language, leaving the reader to populate the space with whatever we ourselves bring to the mix.

I always read a book before watching a dramatisation of it. But which one to choose? After some online research have opted for the 1977 version of Anna Karenina with Nicola Pagett, Eric Porter and Stuart Wilson. Two episodes in, eight to go.

We appear to have a copy of ‘Resurrection’ which again I’ve never read. So it’s back to Tolstoy for a bit.

Well ‘Lolita’ was a wild ride but why does anyone think it’s an immoral book? Humbert is destroyed by his choices, what could be more moral than that?

What’s next in my Russian literature odyssey? Yes, it’s ‘Lolita’. Only for those who take their humour black.

Oh they are so going to regret this

Let’s face it, we will never civilise the cat. They are incipient psychopaths and degenerate freeloaders 😆

Although I’d probably opt to do it the other way round because downhill is easier

Well I have just finished reading Anna Karenina, a book about a woman who leaves her husband and her child to live with her lover and ends up going mad and throwing herself under a train, as is quite right and proper 🤔

The legacy media of the United States is failing the entire world. @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

This was before planning permission …

Today is International Conscientious Objectors Day. A ceremony will be held in Tavistock Square in London 1.-2pm. Conscientious objection is not cowardice. Many of us who have had COs in our families will know that refusing to kill may exact a heavy price.

‘Only drive downhill whenever possible.’ 😐

Morning skylarks. Will history remember?

Well, look, this is clearly a, and I’m not trying to sugar coat it, but our mission is, and voters are saying, and that’s why we are going further and faster as the only party that can, oops, er, what was it you asked?

Smaller balls for women 😆 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...

Literary skylarks, does anyone have a recommendation from among the various biographies of Dorothy L Sayers?

Pleased to report that Enid Blyton has gone back to what she does best.

If you’re anywhere near us on Saturday morning why not join us to hear Nick Spencer from Theos Think Tank and Markus Campbell-Savours MP speak about ‘Faith, Fear and Flags: a Gospel Response to Christian Nationalism’ grasmoormc.church/faith-fear-a...

For those who believe it would be nonsensical to have a bishop of London who’s not in sacramental communion with his own diocese, there’s a petition you can sign👇

But what if the men wanting to run in the women’s category are simply selfish pricks who like breaking rules, sticking two fingers up at society and embarrassing women, or just have a needy desire to see themselves as ‘winners’. No gender dysphoria or anything. Still in favour?

Having seen various posts about Parkrun and scratched my head about why some apparently sensible people are arguing in favour of men running in the women’s category it’s finally dawned on me. You think these men must be ‘transgender’ don’t you

Dedicating this to any movements with a lunatic fringe 😐

Sunday 3rd of May is International Dawn Chorus Day, by the way. Birds will be giving their best performances 😊

Good morning skylarks. Apparently the collective noun for a group of skylarks is an ‘exaltation’ of skylarks. Wishing you an exalted Saturday 😊

Claire Bretécher (1940-2020), French cartoonist, known particularly for her portrayals of women #WomensArt #Wednesday

‘So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, take it off’; so they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!’ #greatbiblicalexcuses

Sounds like a plan to me.

A better idea - ignore this disingenuous scaremongering and email your MP to protect the integrity of women’s sport.

And here’s a short vid showing highlights of our Easter holiday club 🤗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsdI...

Reflecting on today’s bible readings: if the golden calf was made out of earrings it can’t have been very big. But I guess even a small golden calf is a bad idea 🤔

I always wear a buff when out walking, they are invaluable. But beware in casual conversation, not everyone knows what one is!

Good morning to all those arguing that Parkrun is just a bit of fun therefore it’s petty of women participants to point out that they’re being disrespected. As a feminist I have strong views on the ‘just a bit of fun’ defence.

#ToPray✝️ Jesus: Follow me. Matthew: Me? Jesus: Yes, you. (from The Chosen) Vocations Sunday is for everyone - even you 👣

Today is #NationalPenguinDay so we're remembering that time we made a Penguin out of Penguin Books. It's a Penguin Penguin. 🐧

Everyone in Keswick is mellow in the sunshine today. The locals are mellow, the tourists are mellow, the stall holders are mellow, even the dogs are mellow #mellow #sunshine 😊

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