Full moon's got into cat - he's gone completely lunatic tonight. 🙄🐈‍⬛

2025 e-advent calendar deleted. 2026 wall calendar up. Trimmings on way down - had intended to keep till Epiphany, but after entertaining final festive guests last night, felt I'd had enough. Yes, it's official - Helmickton Christmas '25 is now OVER. 🥹

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@brexitpirates.bsky.social I'm 65 now, you know. 🧑‍🦳

Phew. All quiet on Wakefield front now. (At least, till some dickhead rolls in pissed at 2.30 & starts with the deafening air-bursts because hey, it's just a bit of fun, only once a year, you boring old killjoy blah blah).

jlcards.com/Qo9gV8 Given my loathing of drunks & fireworks, this is NOT my favourite night of the year - but have a good one anyway, wherever/whoever you are! x

Hope you had a good one! This comes with love & a donation to @humaneworldeurope.bsky.social jlcards.com/8Ml7dH

Correction: it goes out to all the American Bluey friends except the one I find has, after cordial DM conversation, blocked me for some inexplicable reason!

jlcards.com/jd4jS2 This one goes out especially to all American Bluey friends, with a donation to @ifawglobal.bsky.social xx

Having just turned into official OAP, I declare self officially on Christmas holiday until whenever I can be arsed to go back to work. 🥳

jlcards.com/EY1LM2 To all maritime Bluey friends including @brexitpirates.bsky.social, with a donation to the RNLI - have a good one, & stay safe xx

jlcards.com/XY4gp0 Today's e-card goes out to all cat-loving Blueys, with a donation to local charity henryshaven.com whence came our former feral Foxy. Do spare a few quid if you can, or help out practically if you live in Wakefield area - they're v dedicated & do amazing work.

Yup. We need to be closer to Europe, not further away.

Naive trimmings R Us! Little Town of Bethlehem comprised of sundry old, treasured ornaments like Angel & my late Mum's Nativity, + some more recently acquired. Looks better in real life than in photo. 😊

Here is a leader I could follow... today's e-greeting goes out to all Blueys who'd like to see a new broom sweep clean the dross of decades of maladministration, with a donation to the @greenparty.org.uk: jlcards.com/8LR5wS

BILL BURR: “If someone’s working 160 hours a month and can’t make their rent, you’re not paying them enough. Maybe you should just be worth $900,000,000… How does a CEO take a f*cking 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?”

Today I have mainly been baking gluten-free apple & brandied plum crumble, & Old Jamaica Cake (chocolate with rum-soaked fruits & chocolate chips) to be served with spiced rum smietana. 😋

Yee-hah! My tactical vote will almost certainly have to be Labour to keep the fash out, but I'd love to have a Green government under this guy - reasonable & inspirational, the kind of leader we need in these troubled times.

Today's Advent donation goes to the Brooke charity, with a virtual gift of hay on behalf of a donkey-loving friend: www.thebrookeshop.org/collections/...

@redbulllitter.bsky.social Good for you! I hate the stuff - doesn't even give consumers the energy to carry can to nearest bin 🙄

How old is fascist Farrago? Can't pop his clogs soon enough for me.

jlcards.com/bd9ao4 Festive greetings to all fellow cat-lovers, coming at you with donations to @catsprotection.bsky.social & local charity Henry's Haven Cat Rescue, whence came our fabulous former feral Foxy. 😚

Always great to see Deform shooting itself in the foot... 🤣

These conditions have always existed, they're just better defined/understood now. And if neurodivergents ruled the world instead of narcissists too fucked up to realise how fucked up they are, the world would be a safer, happier place/less triggering to those of us on the spectrum.

Whoa. Mega hailstorm.

Reform U.K. Ltd just don’t care!

About sums it up...

Favourite Kurdish barber listening to Koran morning service when went in for usual short back n sides. Ensuing chat emboldened me to say 'salaam aleikum' on leaving. One young guy's face lit so bright as he wished me peace back that it made my day. Determined to learn more words before next visit. 😊

Steve Miller Band The Who Ozzy Osbourne The Mission Christy Moore

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74... Hell, yeah! Please sign & share!

Dear all: just started getting emails from 'People's Postcode Lottery' (which we play) re an advent calendar or scratch-card prize. IT'S A SCAM! If you get one, please don't reply/click any links, just report & block.

I grew up loving/feeling proud of the Beeb. Not so much now - would like to see a return to the good old days of integrity & impartiality.

Been off-line because I've been writing - Chapter 17 of my coming-of-age sporadic serial Blood Magic coming soon! 😁

A cause worth supporting, whether you surf or not: www.sas.org.uk/water-qualit...

Oh. Surprise, surprise. TY, Gary - keep 'em coming! 👍

Oh. Surprise, surprise.

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Whoo. Hysterics on other platform from one who dismisses anything that doesn't fit their narrative: 'There's no evidence for that!' Um, yes there is, I've seen it. Contradictions too confusing for me to reply. Unpleasantly combative. Ugh. Something seriously wrong there. *runs away fast*

Keep posting the truth, maybe some potential voters will see it & realise that yes, the leopards WILL eat their faces too.

Totally. Substitute Farrago for Drump & hey presto! Reform UK...

Genuinely bizarre obsession with negative reporting of Labour. The bbc deliberately omitted the very interesting and obviously balancing point that under the tories 2 prisoners were wrongly released every day for a year ! People needed to know that fact

Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations! His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind. It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.

Here is our daily update on the achievements of this Labour government. skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

OK, so you might think Labour are a disaster - however: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

Great. Week just started with 2 irksome little admin/tech tasks dumped on me at short notice by people who couldn't be arsed to do/learn for themselves. I'm happy to help, but hate having my time wasted in these petty ways. Moan moan. Must have Words at suitable moment, try to prevent recurrence.

Lovely lovely lovely! Yes folks, here's how we do it - turn out in droves & vote tactically, every chance we get. :-D theconversation.com/could-tactic...

fb.watch/D4caFUpFjN/ Tells it like it is.

Pass it on. Farage is a traitor who, given chance, would sell the 'sovereignty' he so vaunts to the corrupt foreign billionaires & oligarchs he sucks up to. No sense, no policies, nothing to offer except the same sort of shit the USA's enduring now.

More political enjoyment: www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/mar...