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Veronica
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Mum, gran, cat lady, coffee drinker, hope over fear, tolerance over tyranny.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Hi, I’m Veronica, came here because I could no longer deal with the stress and vitriol on the other site. Looking forward to kinder conversations ❤️
youtu.be/q9IYGku0CJ0 Happy St Andrew’s Day🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
CALEDONIA (2013) DOUGIE MACLEAN with BARBARA DICKSON, EDDI READER/MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER/RALPH McTELL
YouTube video by Barbara Dickson
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November 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Happy Thanksgiving to my Bluesky fiends. Wishing you all good health, happiness and prosperity. Have a great day
November 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Recipe for iced coffee☕️
1. Have kids
2. Make coffee
3. Forget you made coffee
4. Drink it cold
November 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Happy Hallowe’en 🍁🎃

Violet Jacob (1863-1946) wrote the poem Hallowe’en after the death of her son at the Battle of the Somme. It was published in 1921 in her book ‘Bonnie Joann, and other poems’. Jim Reid set the poem to music.
October 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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A13th century Highland castle has been named the SECOND most magical in Europe
13th century Scottish castle on tidal island named SECOND most magical in Europe
www.thenational.scot
October 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Dr Jane Goodall filmed an interview in March 2025 with the understanding it would only be released after her death. This is her final message.
October 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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RIP Jane Goodall. You can't spell Goodall without All Good!
October 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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September 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
“Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind”
September 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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We had to say goodbye to our baby boy yesterday after 14 wonderful crazy years- I’m totally heartbroken. 💔
September 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
We had to say goodbye to our baby boy yesterday after 14 wonderful crazy years- I’m totally heartbroken. 💔
September 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This is my baby boy, Peanut, 14 yrs old. He has heart failure and melanoma. Vet says he is comfortable for now but he does not have long, and when he deteriorates we will have to say goodbye- don’t know how I’ll do it💔💔💔
September 6, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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An ‘ultracrepidarian’ (19th century) is one who loves to give their opinion, at length, on matters they know nothing about.
September 2, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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"We've sold toys, clothes, ornaments, even used my kids' old birthday money, just to keep things going."

The parents struggling to feed children during school holidays
news.sky.com/story/weve-s...
'We've sold toys, clothes, and even used my kids' birthday money': The parents struggling to feed kids during holidays
The threat of hunger casts a long shadow over the school holidays for many children, with data revealing a hidden crisis striking classrooms and communities.
news.sky.com
August 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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While we’re still figuring out life on Earth, Voyager 1 is 15 billion miles away, cruising on 69KB, an 8-track, and 1977s Fortran like it’s nothing.
August 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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RIP Jim Lovell astronaut who flew four missions, Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8 and Apollo 13, who has passed away aged 97. A true rocket man.
August 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Blowing a hoolie here today. Day for coffee and a good book
August 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducing).
July 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
July 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Word of the day is ‘forwallowed’ (15th century): extremely weary from tossing and turning all night.
July 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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The use of swearing to relieve stress, anger, pain or frustration is known as ‘lalochezia’.
June 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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AS PREDICTED, A STRONG SOLAR FLARE: We thought sunspot 4114 might flare, and it did. On June 15th at 1806 UTC, the growing active region erupted with an M8.3-class solar flare (almost X-class). NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the extreme ultraviolet flash spaceweather.com
June 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
June 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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The Pillars of Creation, seen here in mid-infrared by #NASAWebb, adds to decades of research about star formation by helping astronomers analyze the densest dusts and gases of the region, and improving the precision of their star-formation models: bit.ly/45ayCYi 🔭 🧪
June 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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May 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM