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Well this is nice ☀️💫🌕
My long life experience finds me grateful for all good things 🤗💐🦋
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A bit of Sir Walter Scott poetry on Prebend’s Bridge in Durham
November 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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I’m gonna keep sharing these ovarian cancer symptoms whenever I see them.

I will add - from personal experience - diarrhoea and fatigue.

Get it checked! Remember, there’s no routine screening for ovarian cancer.
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Is there any possibility that we could all pause obsessing about politicians and their proven mendacity?
Other life forms are available.

Thank you.
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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White chocolate is too cloying just to eat, but it can do miraculous things. And in this White Chocolate Cheesecake, a no-bake affair, it imparts a fragrant vanilla flavour and ensures a perfect, sliceable yet tender set. May #RecipeOfTheDay bring joy to your weekend! www.nigella.com/recipes/whit...
White Chocolate Cheesecake
The white chocolate is only a delicate presence here. It brings a gorgeous, rounded vanilla flavour and helps the cheesecake set in the fridge overnight to a perfect, tenderly firm consistency. And wh...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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I’ll use this recipe, but adding Marmite in place of the salt. Can’t say how much until I make it, though! www.nigella.com/recipes/salt...
Salted Caramel Sauce
Real salted caramel requires patience, dexterity and a sugar-thermometer, none of which come naturally to me, but a salted caramel sauce can be rustled up in a matter of moments. True, in those moment...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Another #solarstorm is approaching Earth 🌍 It's associated with an X1.2-class solar flare, again from active region AR 14274 (same as the CME predicted to arrive late tomorrow). It has an estimated initial speed of 1208 km/s - expected arrival is Wednesday, November 12th around 02:47 ± 5.67 UTC.
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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⚠️ Please report sightings of dead birds for possible testing for bird flu via the forms below ⬇️

📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/rep...
📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/.../daera-de....
📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.services.agriculture.gov.ie/report
Report dead wild birds
How to report dead wild birds.
www.gov.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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A reminder that the original Hallowe'en jack o' lanterns date back to 18th century Ireland if not earlier, were based on a shady boozy blacksmith called Stingy Jack who cheated the devil & was trapped between 2 worlds, were carved from turnips and looked like this:
October 31, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Afternoon
October 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Despite a very strong wind, I managed to salvage about fifteen minutes of exposure out of an hour and a half of tracking before it set, just enough for a last-minute farewell to Comet Lemmon, capturing it a second time after my first shot in early October. 🔭

#Astrophotography
October 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Osteopenia refers to a reduction in bone mineral density that does not meet the diagnostic criterion for osteoporosis.

Read our new 10-Minute Consultation on osteopenia and linked editorial on clinical complexity in osteopenia

www.bmj.com/content/391/...
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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I did ours a few months ago... if you click start now on this link it should take you through the process... you will need a photo of your signature to upload...
www.gov.uk/apply-postal...
Apply for a postal vote
Use this service to apply to vote by post so you can take part in elections in the UK. You must be registered to vote in the UK before you can apply.
www.gov.uk
October 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Parisian arcades.
October 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Vodaphone outage since 3pm UK 🫢🫣😯
October 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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It’s 2 weeks today that British Summer Time becomes Greenwich Mean Time again as the clocks fall back 1 hour at 2am on the 26th of October.

Sunrise on the 26th will be at 6.48am and the sun will set in the county at 4.45pm.
October 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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God love Kew, this is incredible
October 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing.

Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing.

Choose sanity. Vote Binface.

(Photo dated 9th October 2025)
October 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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COVID, what’s changed?
Latest ENGLAND data source @ukhsa.bsky.social

3,049 Cases
7 days to 1 Oct 2025
+19.0%

87 Deaths
7 days to 26 Sep 2025
+3.6%

2,077 Hospital admissions
7 days to 30 Sep 2025
+9.7%

Virus tests positivity
7 days to 26 Sep 2025
+2.2%
ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/respiratory-...
October 10, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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#RecipeOfTheDay is Spinach Baked with Nutmeg and Ricotta! And although it’s intended as a side dish, I have to say I can eat it all on its own quite happily. You’ll see what I mean once you’ve tasted it. www.nigella.com/recipes/spin...
Spinach Baked With Ricotta and Nutmeg
Here is my Italian version, you could say, of creamed spinach. Actually, it tastes rather like the ricotta and spinach mixture that's used to stuff pasta; of course, given the ingredients, this is sca...
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October 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Exciting goings-on in our garden!

2 weeks ago one Grass #Snake in the first clip had opaque blue eyes, indicating he/she was about to shed his/her skin.

Wind forward a couple of weeks... and the 2nd clip shows that newly shed skin, which I found in the same spot yesterday afternoon! #wildlife
October 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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One of my favourite things to eat is #RecipeOfTheDay: Spiced Bulgur Wheat with Roast Vegetables! I’m very happy to eat it as a meal in itself, but it’s a great accompaniment to a roast chicken, lamb or fish, and such an upliftingly beautiful dish, too. www.nigella.com/recipes/spic...
Spiced Bulgur Wheat with Roast Vegetables
This is one of the recipes that is in constant rotation in my house: no matter how often I eat it, I never tire of it. The scorched sweetness of leeks and red peppers, the brightness of tomatoes and p...
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September 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM