Carole Child
@carolechild.bsky.social
Gardening cat lover and devotee of the diarist Parson James Woodforde.
I have a neighbour in her 90s who reads The Mail (paper form) daily and is the smartest, most clued up, person I know. She doesn't agree with all of it and doesn't read the rubbish. It's just the paper they always took .
January 25, 2026 at 8:41 AM
I have a neighbour in her 90s who reads The Mail (paper form) daily and is the smartest, most clued up, person I know. She doesn't agree with all of it and doesn't read the rubbish. It's just the paper they always took .
But it does have diamond paned windows ...
January 24, 2026 at 11:51 AM
But it does have diamond paned windows ...
Husband has retirement plans for more panels in the garden with battery back up. We'll see.
January 21, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Husband has retirement plans for more panels in the garden with battery back up. We'll see.
Time to mention South East Water 'Investors' ?
January 21, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Time to mention South East Water 'Investors' ?
We've had 12 panels for 15 years. They make us about £ 1500 a year (high tariff which will drop soon). They work as well as they always done and no maintenance. It baffles us as to why all new homes built aren't orientated to take advantage of the sun and have them.
January 21, 2026 at 11:23 AM
We've had 12 panels for 15 years. They make us about £ 1500 a year (high tariff which will drop soon). They work as well as they always done and no maintenance. It baffles us as to why all new homes built aren't orientated to take advantage of the sun and have them.
A child of immigrants Zia Yusuf is perfectly happy to expel immigrants. Will he be sending his parents back to Sri Lanka?
January 14, 2026 at 11:40 AM
A child of immigrants Zia Yusuf is perfectly happy to expel immigrants. Will he be sending his parents back to Sri Lanka?
I hope they do make a film about it. What a wonderful story about two amazing women.
January 2, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I hope they do make a film about it. What a wonderful story about two amazing women.
And day after day more and more Palestinians die and the total destruction of Gaza continues. It is genocide, there's no other word for it. The Israeli Government lies when they say it's all about the hostages. They don't care about them at all, they are just an excuse to continue with the killing.
October 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
And day after day more and more Palestinians die and the total destruction of Gaza continues. It is genocide, there's no other word for it. The Israeli Government lies when they say it's all about the hostages. They don't care about them at all, they are just an excuse to continue with the killing.
And her company entered into administration yesterday? My cat probably knows more about commercial law than I do, but surely this can't be legal?
October 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
And her company entered into administration yesterday? My cat probably knows more about commercial law than I do, but surely this can't be legal?
I have to say the older I get the fewer roses I've got. I used to have a garden full of old roses but now there are only 4. Too much work and too many thorns!
August 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I have to say the older I get the fewer roses I've got. I used to have a garden full of old roses but now there are only 4. Too much work and too many thorns!
I don't know, but I like it.
August 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I don't know, but I like it.
Did they or didn't they enter a timeslip? Two remarkable academically pioneering women who had a lot to lose professionally by making up a story like that. I'll go with the they crashed a party idea.
August 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Did they or didn't they enter a timeslip? Two remarkable academically pioneering women who had a lot to lose professionally by making up a story like that. I'll go with the they crashed a party idea.
Sadly I think you are right.
August 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Sadly I think you are right.
It looks just like something Eliot Hodgkin would have painted in 1953. Amazing.
August 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
It looks just like something Eliot Hodgkin would have painted in 1953. Amazing.
I don't think they'll be popular if they do this. There are about 50 allotments locally and over 80 people on the waiting list for one!
August 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I don't think they'll be popular if they do this. There are about 50 allotments locally and over 80 people on the waiting list for one!
Nancy Woodforde was lent a novel called Joan!!! by Matilda FitzJohn published in 1796. You can find it online - chick lit of its day. Kidnapping, inheritance, bigamy, a hero called Lambert Bryam, a wicked step-mother, even a ghost. It's all there. I bet she loved it.
August 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Nancy Woodforde was lent a novel called Joan!!! by Matilda FitzJohn published in 1796. You can find it online - chick lit of its day. Kidnapping, inheritance, bigamy, a hero called Lambert Bryam, a wicked step-mother, even a ghost. It's all there. I bet she loved it.
In pre- WW1 some of my family lived in London and communicated to each other via post cards which arrived the same day. Pretty much the same as we text but with with the bonus of photos of the family and affectionate notes which have survived 100+ years.
August 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
In pre- WW1 some of my family lived in London and communicated to each other via post cards which arrived the same day. Pretty much the same as we text but with with the bonus of photos of the family and affectionate notes which have survived 100+ years.
Eventually all ley lines lead to it...
July 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Eventually all ley lines lead to it...
There was an interesting find at Shotley Point in March this year. www.facebook.com/shotleypenin...
Shotley Peninsula Shoreline
Shotley Peninsula Shoreline. 635 likes · 271 talking about this. A community interest company set up to protect the Shotley Peninsula from further erosion.
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July 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
There was an interesting find at Shotley Point in March this year. www.facebook.com/shotleypenin...
I seem to have spent all my entire lifetime watching Israel fight one Palestinian group or another - call them what you will. Overwhelming armament power is on their side and hundreds of thousands Arabs are slaughtered. There has to be another way they can live side by side, there really must.
July 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I seem to have spent all my entire lifetime watching Israel fight one Palestinian group or another - call them what you will. Overwhelming armament power is on their side and hundreds of thousands Arabs are slaughtered. There has to be another way they can live side by side, there really must.
It's their bias in favour of Israel that upsets me most.
July 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
It's their bias in favour of Israel that upsets me most.
I miss him. I used to wake up every birthday to hear the National Anthem being played on the radio for me. My first lesson that your parents don't always tell you the truth!
July 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I miss him. I used to wake up every birthday to hear the National Anthem being played on the radio for me. My first lesson that your parents don't always tell you the truth!
I just wish peat free compost was better. I've tried all sorts from cheap to very expensive and haven't been very impressed by any of them - plus far too many seem to contain large chunks of wood. I now mix my own. Part SylvaGrow, part topsoil and part grit sand.
July 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I just wish peat free compost was better. I've tried all sorts from cheap to very expensive and haven't been very impressed by any of them - plus far too many seem to contain large chunks of wood. I now mix my own. Part SylvaGrow, part topsoil and part grit sand.