#Wordle 1,636 6/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Made it by the skin of my teeth this morning!

So true.

It’s such a beautiful day.

#Wordle 1,635 2/6 🟨⬜🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Well this doesn’t happen often…..🎉

#Wordle 1,634 4/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Happy with a 4!

Cosy evening ahead with our first watch of #AMuppetChristmasCarol

Just had to leave the room as the sound of my husband eating a satsuma was too distressing.

#Wordle 1,633 5/6 ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Challenging but good fun for me today.

Latest from me: on overdiagnosis, a craze/bandwagon the govt is indulging by commissioning an official review, complete with the clunky blurring of mental illness & neurodivergence www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s a day for hunkering down. #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #Catsky #TuxedoCats

Tree is up. Gilly has shown no interest whatsoever. It’s his first Christmas with us - or #Chonkmas as we are now calling it.

#Wordle 1,632 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Made a silly mistake today but got away with it!

Marvelling at the range of involuntary noises “one” finds “oneself” emitting in middle age: *Standing up - dying manatee winched from mineshaft *Sitting down - air escaping from punctured pouffe *Bending over - concussed bison wrestled into sack *Sneezing - final roar of once-proud warrior race

🖼️ Lennart Helje

I am standing out in the rain waiting for Father Christmas who is coming round our street tonight, helped by the Round Table. I am 48. I can hear the sleigh bells……

Seems about right..

“You do not have to carry everything you’re handed.” Cheryl Richardson. Some days are just heavier than others. It’s ok to set something down. More than ok! You don’t have to hold it all at once. 🧡 #SelfCompassion #kindness #gentleness Picture by joyfulsmolthings

Oh good lord

Two strangers have looked at my right boob this morning…. And the good news is I don’t have a melanoma. Feeling relieved and slightly manic. (I probably shouldn’t have gone to Tesco afterwards….🥴)

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things.” Robert Brault The smallest moments often mean the most. The simple things really do matter. 🧡 #kindness #gentleness #humanness Picture by simply anxious

What could this be? What is it doing among the food? In any case, when I want to examine something unknown more closely, I always do so with caution.🐈‍⬛ #cats #catsofbluesky

Contentment. #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #Catsky #TuxedoCats

Graeme Hart, 42, was hired by an unnamed Fortune 500 company as part of their Neurodiversity Celebration Week – a brief reprieve from their regular Neurodiversity Pain in the Arse Year.

"Well this is coming down" 📷: Lily and Holmes, owners of @kristyeverington.bsky.social

#Wordle 1,626 4/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I ran out of wrong guesses!

I think you’ll find the joy is in the picture - as my mum always said!

December. Time for twinkles & feasting. Tradition has its place but don’t let it strangle you. Scent the home with orange, cinnamon & pine. Light candles against the shorter days, be cosy with books & films. Root vegetables, citrus & dark greens. Smoked fish, candied fruits. Take a frosty walk.

And now for some of my very favourite Smol Paul moments in no particular order, starting with the first ever yeet

I wrote about systemic medical bias, chocolate medals and Eamonn Holmes

#Wordle 1,625 5/6 Phew! ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

More from the Christmas trail.

Christmas trail walk.

Had a lovely time on a #Christmas trail last night which has put me nicely in the mood for #Advent

No matter how tired you are, your cat will always be more tired. #catsky #catsofbsky #caturday

#Wordle 1,624 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Lucky to get it in 4 today.

#Wordle 1,623 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I couldn’t see this at all, until suddenly I could!

camouflage

"Dickensian"

Lovely contrast of colours at football training this evening.

Ellie Mulligan, 35, reportedly sentenced herself 15 years ago to life without parole, doing hard emotional labour for the crime of spontaneously choking on her own spit in front of a university crush whose name she now doesn’t remember.

#Wordle 1,622 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 So close to a two!

I missed #StirUpSunday so it’ll be stir up Thursday in our house. Just soaking my dried fruit in brandy ready for tomorrow.

#Wordle 1,621 4/6 Tricky. Couldn’t see it for ages. ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

this is mesmerizing

This afternoon the boy is bringing home a plasticine cat which he is supposed to animate, using software I don’t have, for his art homework. I confidently predict this is not going to go well. 🥴

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. There’s something magical about letting people be. Letting them shine in the ways that make sense to them. 🧡 #kindness #positivity #belief #compassion

#Wordle 1,619 3/6 Very happy with this today. ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wild Chonk…. #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #Catsky #TuxedoCats

A quick one for me this morning. #Wordle 1,617 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩