1. Make a recent convict the star guest of your annual conference, despite her conviction being about calling for a group of people to be murdered. 'Just hurty words/free speech'. 2. Then getting [rightly] very upset when someone wants to murder you. Yes, it's the latest 'Hurty Words Update'.

the moon is eating the sun and if we want the sun to return we should probably sacrifice a national leader to the bog or something

The Wülferhampton Clarion carries an alarming report that the Trump administration intends to annex the city, citing its vast reserves of slag. A spokesman said: “The Saxons have done a poor job of investment in the city, preferring to spend tax revenues on top table dinners for the elite.”

Following on from my post below... My grandson mentions that, in the past, German woodsmen would train male bullfinches to whistle tunes. If you haven't heard this before, prepare to be utterly AMAZED by the bullfinch's ability to sing a tune so perfectly! #birds www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Lovely pink sky with new moon and Venus

This! 💯

On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful. Join me and @GoodLawProject to file a complaint to Ofcom :point_down: action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...

Dotty and Ives have just completed their second performance in Cinderella this afternoon. Proud grandma moment. It’s a shame the Prince of Wales theatre Cannock is due to close 😢

Atmospheric this morning, had a walk on the Shugborough estate

Dotty is studying the Romans at school so we took her to Wroxeter today. Thank you to @englishheritage.bsky.social who let her hold a piece of Samian ware and she loved listening to the commentary

Great afternoon at the museum of Cannock Chase with Mumming, Stafford morris, wassailing and a play with the oak and holly kings

I think most goths would like a horse skeleton but Feebles didn’t look too sure. Mari Lwyd looked like it was trying to sum up Feebles as well.

Mischievous Mari Lwyd tried to eat my phone today 😂

I highly recommend the Dead of Winter by Sarah Clegg on radio 4 about seasonal traditions, thoroughly enjoyed it 😊

If only all newspapers were presented like this!

Joined a VW camper van convoy to Drayton Manor last night. About 200 vans with festive lights driving through Tamworth

Spooky ghost walk with some history thrown in made a very entertaining Friday night with Lichfield Ghost Walks

The water in your body is just visiting. It was a thunderstorm a week ago. It will be the ocean soon enough. Most of your cells come and go like morning dew. We are more weather pattern than stone monument. Sunlight on mist. Summer lightning. Your choices outweigh your substance. #poetry

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.

The Thames has also been adopted by many other faiths/cultures too. Mudlarks tend to leave the offerings alone unless plastic or broken (eg glass) so they need to be cleared. See link below for a great blog on river deities written by environmental group Thames 21 www.thames21.org.uk/2023/08/rive...

Fun day at the NEC yesterday for Comic con. The visitors who attended in costume had gone to so much effort. We took young peaky blinder Feebles with us, couldn’t get her to visit father Davros!

This walking stick with skull pommel and emerald green eyes once belonged to Charles Darwin. Yep, you read that right! I bet you didn't know Darwin was such a dude. It's now part of the Wellcome Collection in London, and I think you'll agree it's pretty amazing.

"For the first time, Ethiopian wolves have been documented feeding on the nectar of Ethiopian red hot poker flowers. This is the first large carnivore species ever to be documented feeding on nectar." Sweet tooth: Ethiopian wolves seen feeding on nectar www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/swee... #wolves

An important tip, from naturalist Stephen Barlow: Stephen noticed that visiting winter thrushes are most attracted to half-eaten apples. Cutting them in half makes them look like this, and indeed the thrushes prefer the half-eaten apples he puts out to the whole ones! 🍎 #nature #winter #birds 🪶

I think this could heal the partisan divide

The sun made a sudden appearance so went out to watch the last embers with my friend. ✨

Beautiful as long as you haven’t got to drive in it 🙂

Common Grackle doing its best Dracula impression. Gracula I guess? #birds 🌿

'Tis the season. This gingerbread man might make you think twice before taking a bite, though! Photo: Quimmy Shimmy

Crying 😂

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BAE testing the prototype Jaguar fighter.

Definitely fungi season. I love all the different kinds.

It would be so great if you could RT my Etsy shop in the twoots below/above. My🌲 jewellery orders usually make up a significant part of my income at this time of yr but the X exodus has meant I’ve only received 1 order-pretty scary income-wise. A small boost would help so much. Thankyou🌿

Meet Groot, he is a bit of a local celebrity and is rumoured to have been an inspiration to Tolkien when he was stationed in Cannock Chase during the war

Atmospheric walk at the wildlife trust this week

The Future of Orion xkcd.com/3012