Very happy to have been longlisted in the 2025 National Poetry Competition 🙂 Over 21000 entries so down to the last 100 feels like an achievement👍

Im sorry if Jim Ratcliffe was offended when I called him a cunt but I stress we do need an open debate on the "Jim Ratcliffe is a cunt" topic

In Gareth Writer-Davies' poem 'In the Dales', the speaker beautifully evokes both a sense of place and of 'what might have been'. After John Ashbery and on inksweatandtears.co.uk/gareth-write... @garethwd.bsky.social #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions

Clematis Lambton Park 🙂 flowers in and on 👍

Those Reform nutjobs reminded me: "Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, grabbing an Indian curry or Turkish kebab takeaway, then going home to sit on Swedish furniture & watch American shows on a Japanese TV, while being suspicious of anything foreign."

Finally succumbed to the hype and started washing my hands with soap and water this year. Big fan so far. My hands smell better in general and I’m spending less of my time violently ill. Highly recommend if you’re not already doing this.

Today's marvellous bloom 🙂 #leahtuturose #rosesofbluesky #roses

Blooming at last! #rosacooperi #roses

Vance has brief visit with Pope, Pope dies; just saying....

Canada’s Conservative Party leader. Post on the left is Pierre 3 months ago after our election. Post on the right is today.

How did my cat get in there 🤔

Dems/media condemning Joe for pardoning Hunter right after a psycho who has spent 4 years ranting that he was going to go after him is the most toxic kind of phony virtue signaling imaginable. Don’t forget to pat yourselves on the back from your perches on the moral high ground.

Central London hotel gym and I choose the mountains and woods option which is exactly what I've just left for a few days 😳😅

So did the normies who voted for Trump because they think Biden made bacon more expensive realize that Matt Gaetz would be AG, a Putin propagandist would be DNI, and a Fox host would be SecDef? I have a feeling this won’t be the first time we say that we tried to warn you.