Wordle 1,594 2/6 🟩🟨🟨⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Bragging is so unattractive. But some of us have to take our wins where we can. Currently defending inner city Brum against flag sha**ers on SM. 🙄

❄️It's time for Old Fox to plan his Advent Calendar! Throughout December, I will be writing one frozen fragment each day, blown in by the North Wind. Join my patreon or buy me a chocolate on Ko-fi & write Christmas in the message, a theme or a dedication, & I will add you to my list of 24 windows❄️

Old Fox's series of ghost stories begins on my patreon today with "The Scarlet Crown"! A collection of blood-tingling, gothic stories of unquiet graves, haunted rings & long-dead Roman legions. Join for these & thousands of other tales & recipes! patreon.com/annelouiseav...

Love via the middle aisle at Aldi… Didn’t even have time to take the label off.

Musical prodigy Charles Yang breaking into a heart-rending and soulful cover of Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come.' Yang is an American violinist, composer and singer, and a graduate of the Juilliard School. #music #blues #vocals #soulful

Anne's Patreon truly is a respite from the evils of this world. They're not ignored but they're never praised/always deplored. And good folks and good food abound. Today is a good day to subscribe.

Having another one of my regular treatments tomorrow to keep the cancer at bay, which always makes me ill for a couple of weeks, so any support, either via kofi ko-fi.com/annelouiseav... or my patreon is very, very welcome, and enables me to keep writing and creating.

For $3, @standupforscience.bsky.social will hand deliver a rubber duck to your rep with a message to get rid of the quack. Gimmicky, but maybe having a visual reminder will help them to remember that we want him gone. Also, a petition: www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm...

Labour promised to end the badger cull. Instead, it continues. Badgers aren’t to blame for bTB – this is our last chance to #EndTheCull.

Antiwordle #1287 6 guesses 🟥⬛⬛⬛🟥 🟥⬛⬛🟨🟥 🟥⬛⬛🟨🟥 🟥⬛⬛🟨🟥 🟥⬛⬛🟨🟥 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 Wasn’t a good starting word…

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“this £85 billion represents a direct transfer of value from the public to private owners — a sum extracted while storm overflows proliferated, leakage targets were missed, and river health declined”

With few seats in Parliament, no coherent policy platform beyond his usual outrage machine, and no serious political capital in Europe, Farage is not being snubbed by Emmanuel Macron. He’s being treated according to his actual political relevance. www.frenchdispatch.eu/p/macron-snu...

Oh good grief. Followed someone back and immediately they went to DMs. This isn’t OKC Sir.

🌕 A new long story and recipe over on my patreon. Ermine and Sea Otter's Moon-viewing Rum and Coconut Cake! Join for this and hundreds of other tales and essays and recipes! patreon.com/posts/ermine...

Antiwordle #1191 14 guesses ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟥⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟥🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟥🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟥🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟥🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟥🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟥🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟥🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟥🟥⬛🟨🟨 🟥🟥⬛🟨🟨 🟥🟥🟨🟨⬛ 🟥🟥🟨🟨⬛ 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 Should have been 15 but made the wrong choice.

Antiwordle #1172 11 guesses ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 ⬛🟥🟨⬛🟨 ⬛🟥⬛🟨🟨 ⬛🟥🟨⬛🟨 ⬛🟥🟨⬛🟨 🟨🟥⬛⬛🟨 🟨🟥⬛⬛🟨 🟨🟥⬛🟥🟨 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥

Antiwordle #1170 7 guesses 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟥⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟥🟥⬛⬛ ⬛🟥🟥⬛⬛ 🟥🟥🟥⬛⬛ 🟥🟥🟥⬛⬛ 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥

Antiwordle #1169 7 guesses ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟥🟨⬛ ⬛⬛🟥🟨⬛ ⬛⬛🟥🟨⬛ ⬛⬛🟥🟥🟥 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥

Antiwordle #1166 6 guesses ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟥 🟥🟥⬛⬛🟥 🟥🟥⬛🟥🟥 🟥🟥⬛🟥🟥 🟥🟥⬛🟥🟥 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥

Antiwordle #1165 6 guesses ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟥 🟨⬛🟨⬛🟥 🟨🟨🟨⬛🟥 ⬛🟨🟨🟨🟥 🟨⬛🟥🟥🟥 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥

Antiwordle #1164 5 guesses ⬛🟥⬛⬛🟥 ⬛🟥⬛🟥🟥 ⬛🟥⬛🟥🟥 ⬛🟥⬛🟥🟥 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥

Antiwordle #1161 5 guesses ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟥🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟥🟥⬛🟥🟥 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 Damn.

Antiwordle #1160 6 guesses ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟥 ⬛⬛⬛🟥🟥 ⬛⬛⬛🟥🟥 ⬛🟥⬛🟥🟥 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥

So excited to announce my second collection POYUMS ANNAW in a special colour in collab with Portobello Bookshop! Signed and dedicated copies are available here. www.theportobellobookshop.com/978183726547...

Antiwordle #1159 8 guesses ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ 🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟥 🟥🟥⬛🟥🟥 🟥🟥⬛🟥🟥 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥

Antiwordle #1156 7 guesses ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟥 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟥 ⬛🟥⬛⬛🟥 ⬛🟥⬛🟥🟥 🟨🟥⬛🟥🟥 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 Another way to waste time…

Looks like selecting Discover is the wrong thing to do on here. That’s the second set of undercarriage I’ve had to report then block. Jeez. 🤮

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If you haven't read Sinclair Lewis' IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE, that's okay. It's good and short and makes a lot of excellent points about the creeping spread of fascism, but you've seen these same points retread over and over again since he wrote it... ...in 1935.

@comedywriter.bsky.social Went to a funeral in Brighton yesterday of one of the Sacred Harp folk. I don’t remember it being so hilly when I came over to see you…. Now living in West Sussex. S.

For sale! A rare 1958 GPO poster by John Minton from the "Please use the correct address" series, depicting Iwerne Minster, Blandford Forum, Dorset. First edition, excellent condition, framed, very large - 95 x 77 cm. DM for details or buy directly on my Etsy shop here: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...