The photo I'm using for my ID card (this is me btw!)

One good thing about darker evenings is seeing St Michael's stained glass windows lit up

Mrs Steere the Lewes gravedigger is my favourite. Fantastic character

Can I just say that being part of a wine & basic cryptic crossword group has cheered up my winter considerably already?

Mr Kemp - bird stuffer. DON'T LOOK INTO HIS EYES

I'll be taking mum & her bit of trouser to West Berks crem for niece's funeral but my car is teeny & won't fit her wheelchair so she was fretting. I've phoned them & it's all fine. They were really helpful 🙏🏻

Old man's beard?

MHRA confirms taking paracetamol during pregnancy remains safe and there is no evidence it causes autism in children www.gov.uk/government/n...

New series of Slow Horses not getting good write-ups. I don't like it when good shows keep killing off my favourite characters. I stopped watching Spooks cos of that. And Gray's Anatomy.

@dnatkinson.bsky.social hello David. Random question but if you could choose a font for a tattoo, what would it be please?

If they're not using ice cream scoops to create horrible mash potato clumps it's no school dinner of mine #gbbo

Delightful daughter bought me this sea otter & pup. Oddly, the pup keeps being found detached & in corners. NOBODY PUTS SEA OTTERS PUPS IN THE CORNER. Or do they?

Calm & chilly

Stunningly starry night (not usually out this late!) ✨

My full job title is Communications Officer - Media. I just typed Medea. Whole other thing....

You'd only call Robert Redford a "dolphin amongst sharks" if you didn't actually know how both those species actually behave

What I'm wearing to the Rapture

First borderline gloves morning

Anyone remember Cosmetics To Go? Precursor to Lush. Early 90s. Catalogue shopping. Was lovely & fun.

What movie do you consider 'perfect'?

Wonderful work by Jo Lamb as part of Artwave. Venue 72. This is the 'new' Cockshut Wetlands

Goddam badgers.

Am I friends with anyone locally who has something sparkly in the clothes department I might be able to borrow? Funeral of niece. I have bright colours as requested but I fail the sparkly bit I know she loved. I'll look in charity shops too obvs 💖✨

"Always alone ― A red dragonfly" Santoka (image: Hokusai)

No a flag in sight & sequins everywhere. A fab afternoon at Abba Voyage. Cried my eyes out. With beautiful nieces, whose mum would have bloody loved every minute

Post a female character you love

Trans rights are human rights.

Orla & sibling & the Gallic & the whole queer energy of the #SewingBee final (& the dance with Esme). Beautiful

Like many other berries this year, the Sea Buckthorn is very productive. Of course, the berries are only on the female plants. Do try and taste this very fruity fruit, it's rich in vitamin C.

Hedgehog highways, Swift bricks. Cheap simple ways of supporting the wildlife humans are devastating. I wish this Government appeared to give a crap

An old Finnish phrase to describe sunshowers (simultaneous sun and rain) is ketut kylpevät. It means “foxes are taking a bath.”

A lovely German phrase for describing a place in the middle of nowhere is wo sich Fuchs und Hase gute Nacht sagen. It means “where the fox and hare say goodnight.”

Floating sauna on Loch Tay? Sounds fun....

Post five pleasures in life; 1) Swifts returning 2) A swim in the Pells pool with sparkly sunlight glittering across the blue 3) My daughter laughing 4) Perfectly crispy roast potatoes 5) Spotting the South Downs, from anywhere but especially from Lewes

Great card from niecey.

Just putting on my Sour Cherry necklace, lovely gift from @archelina.bsky.social Hilda Ogden, eat your heart out

Just had a lovely massage with Katharine Finnegan. Recommend her hugely, local folks. And she manages Ringmer Community Orchard so I left with beautiful treasure too!

Well I've been wanging on about it for 9 months - & today it's my actual 60th birthday! Rescued an escaped whippet on the High Street already. Bloody mad wind out there

Foxes just wanna have fun. Fantastic Fox pics by Glynn Rubidge, posted on the Nature Table

Grange Gardens looking grateful for the rain

Ooh. Just spotted what I think is a mistake in early Endeavour. A GP says digitalis isn't called Deadly Nightshade for no reason. But digitalis is Foxglove innit? Belladonna is Deadly Nightshade

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

Anyone know who sang the female backing vocals on ‘20th Century Boy’ by T Rex please? They make the track extra exciting imo. Have tried to look it up and failed. (Had a massive poster of Marc Bolan on the back of my bedroom door when I was at Primary school).

Oh god, how awful & sad.

The government is full of ideological TERFs. Wes Streeting has blocked contact with many trans rights groups but has met with Sex Matters repeatedly and attended their events. Keir Starmer put a woman in charge of the EHRC who has spent 15 years obsessing over trans people and calling us wrong

Yeah, baby

It's amazing watching that yellowing Downs turn green after the rain

Just been asked to contribute a haiku to an event by someone I don't know who thinks I write them. I don't! #NotAPoet

At Depot Cinema for WOFFF - Women Over 50 Film Festival. Buzzing!