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helen
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planetarium presenter. stars in my eyes and space in my heart. love a good sunset, love a good storm more. Pluviophile, opacarophile and book lover. 🩷💜💙🏳️‍🌈
any doctors out there? how much amoxicillin does it take to stop my tooth hurting?

confirmed abcess.

500mg azithromycin yesterday 12 midday

3 x 500mg amoxicillin doses today.

MUCH improved, but still sore.

(dental appointment monday pm as its due to a broken tooth that needs extraction)
October 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
eldest child texts. ARE YOU AWAKE.

me yes? and not panicking honest.

EC my girlfriend's dishwasher is leaking. can u help?

me. breathes. I will try.

20 mins later, all mopped up and switched off.

then.......twat cat Nyx singes her tail on the candle i have lit.

send gin.
October 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Well. toothache is a twat isn't it?
October 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
so I am back. again. I think I prefer it here.
October 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
people: I didn't know that about u, omg thats so interesting! you know so much.

* I don't, I like to learn.

Me: I think that this is the case, related to everything i have learnt since I was a kid.

1/2
October 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
today we said #byefornow to the bravest girl I know. sleep tight Eden. never forgotten, always loved and making us laugh til the end. ❤️
October 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
aaarrrgh,! I want to make a silver lego piece, but I dont know what its called. will have to sift through the boy's lego and find it, will take me at least a week. 😳😬😂
August 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I work at,and love my job.

paid for this year's family holiday, even though husband earns 5 times as much (literally).

paid as much as I could for the eldest on his short tour of europe. (a few hundred £)

paying to take youngest on hol to spain next year to see an eclipse next year 1/2
August 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
#insomnia so let's start again......

#StrangerThings
July 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
dear universe.

Stop letting me buy books. its getting silly

😂😂😂

( I don't mean it universe. as you were 😘)
July 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
got to love finishing work for the summer and coming straight home to bed with tonsillitis 🙄
July 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
so whilst having lunch in my car yesterday, I had a visitor. 🖤
July 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
7/7. the day my Dad caught a different train, and made it home ❤️

remembering those who didn't ❤️💔❤️
July 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
#Petrichor. at last! 💙
July 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
well. would you look at that. a Common Blue butterfly on my lavender. new species for my garden this year ❤️🦋
July 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
#Bumblebee on my #lavender

💜🐝💜
June 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
more hatchlings ❤️🦋❤️
June 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
tmw yr bestie is trying to work out why all yr kids are summer babies, and then remembers you are a witchy, October, halloween lass 😂😂😂
June 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
no, you are watching the Manics perform La tridstesse durera at Glastonbury back in the day with Ritchie and crying. 💔
June 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
my day started in a similar manner.

I also had to spit out the tablets in my mouth before I swallowed them to check I had remembered them all. #Lovely

nb there is only 5, 2 of which are the same 🙈🙈🙈😂
June 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Reposted by helen
This one's causing a gammon implosion on Facebook 😂
We've spent hours preparing a map where we suggest you should consider voting Reform at the Senedd election in May 2026. The constituencies selected are coloured turqoise for easy reference #SE2026 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👍🏻👏🏻
June 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
anyone else guage their mental health by what they eat? Currently in a white wine and buttered toast era, so its looking shaky at best.
June 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I am SICK of mad old white men trying to end the earth.
June 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
no storms forecast for me.

but the sky is maybe suggesting otherwise........
June 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Reposted by helen
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM