Itsmotherswork
@itsmotherswork.bsky.social
Old Woman who lives in a Shoe.
Cheese. Books. Music. Politics. Children’s Services. Cocktails. Random ❤️❤️❤️
Cheese. Books. Music. Politics. Children’s Services. Cocktails. Random ❤️❤️❤️
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Probably because I've read the Guardian piece on free-birthing. FB served me this announcement from an NHS Trust re suspending their home birth service. The comments are both worrying and maddening: www.gloshospitals.nhs.uk/about-us/new...
Temporary suspension of Home Births: latest update
www.gloshospitals.nhs.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Probably because I've read the Guardian piece on free-birthing. FB served me this announcement from an NHS Trust re suspending their home birth service. The comments are both worrying and maddening: www.gloshospitals.nhs.uk/about-us/new...
When someone’s a casually shitty racist all the time, of course they don’t remember the things they said. But the people they hurt still remember nearly 50 years later, for sure.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage responds to racism claims saying he never ‘tried to hurt anybody’
Reform leader denies racist or antisemitic behaviour ‘with intent’ at school, but says he can’t remember everything from 49 years ago
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
When someone’s a casually shitty racist all the time, of course they don’t remember the things they said. But the people they hurt still remember nearly 50 years later, for sure.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Life in the shoe:
I have a new bottle of Koko Kanu, so ... this is a Mezcal Jackson.
🍸🧚🏼♂️
I have a new bottle of Koko Kanu, so ... this is a Mezcal Jackson.
🍸🧚🏼♂️
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Life in the shoe:
I have a new bottle of Koko Kanu, so ... this is a Mezcal Jackson.
🍸🧚🏼♂️
I have a new bottle of Koko Kanu, so ... this is a Mezcal Jackson.
🍸🧚🏼♂️
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Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
I’ve been on the lash with a work colleague and I’m now slowing down and catching up with 1981 #totp Big Hits, and - my word - it’s banger central!
I was joking about it last night but I really did grow up in The Good Times.
I was joking about it last night but I really did grow up in The Good Times.
November 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I’ve been on the lash with a work colleague and I’m now slowing down and catching up with 1981 #totp Big Hits, and - my word - it’s banger central!
I was joking about it last night but I really did grow up in The Good Times.
I was joking about it last night but I really did grow up in The Good Times.
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The Atlantic has chosen 65 titles to help foster a child’s lifelong relationship with books and to give these formative works the respect and scrutiny they deserve. David Sims explains why he chose "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." Explore the full list at the link: theatln.tc/ktFFrmrR
November 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The Atlantic has chosen 65 titles to help foster a child’s lifelong relationship with books and to give these formative works the respect and scrutiny they deserve. David Sims explains why he chose "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." Explore the full list at the link: theatln.tc/ktFFrmrR
I am on public transport and also quite drunk, so this is quite a test of how civilised we are as a nation.
November 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I am on public transport and also quite drunk, so this is quite a test of how civilised we are as a nation.
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The present government’s bias against children’s homes must be challenged. 🧵
www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/11/21/c...
www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/11/21/c...
Care population falls but number in children's homes rises - Community Care
Fall in care population driven in part by reduction in number of unaccompanied asylum seekers, while data also shows rise in use of special guardianship orders
www.communitycare.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The present government’s bias against children’s homes must be challenged. 🧵
www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/11/21/c...
www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/11/21/c...
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
I’m a mum that chose homebirth for three of my children after a traumatic hospital birth for the first, so you might think I’d lean towards ‘freebirth’ - but the dangerous bullshit on show here is terrifying.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I’m a mum that chose homebirth for three of my children after a traumatic hospital birth for the first, so you might think I’d lean towards ‘freebirth’ - but the dangerous bullshit on show here is terrifying.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Life in the shoe:
18yo comes running down the stairs singing along to Bowie and Queen.
Me: Number 1 in 1981. I grew up in The Good Times.
18yo: And we still like it now. IT really is good.
#totp
18yo comes running down the stairs singing along to Bowie and Queen.
Me: Number 1 in 1981. I grew up in The Good Times.
18yo: And we still like it now. IT really is good.
#totp
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Life in the shoe:
18yo comes running down the stairs singing along to Bowie and Queen.
Me: Number 1 in 1981. I grew up in The Good Times.
18yo: And we still like it now. IT really is good.
#totp
18yo comes running down the stairs singing along to Bowie and Queen.
Me: Number 1 in 1981. I grew up in The Good Times.
18yo: And we still like it now. IT really is good.
#totp
Can’t decide what’s fucking with my brain more, half of BlueSky converting to Catholicism because the pope played a few bangers or everyone else losing their mind because Mamdani stood in the Oval Office and wasn’t instantly spray painted gold and hung out to dry.
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Can’t decide what’s fucking with my brain more, half of BlueSky converting to Catholicism because the pope played a few bangers or everyone else losing their mind because Mamdani stood in the Oval Office and wasn’t instantly spray painted gold and hung out to dry.
Life in the shoe:
I'd been wondering what to do with a bottle of mead, and it turns out this cocktail - La Garde de Nuit - requires a tot.
So here we are.
🍸🧚🏼♂️
I'd been wondering what to do with a bottle of mead, and it turns out this cocktail - La Garde de Nuit - requires a tot.
So here we are.
🍸🧚🏼♂️
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Life in the shoe:
I'd been wondering what to do with a bottle of mead, and it turns out this cocktail - La Garde de Nuit - requires a tot.
So here we are.
🍸🧚🏼♂️
I'd been wondering what to do with a bottle of mead, and it turns out this cocktail - La Garde de Nuit - requires a tot.
So here we are.
🍸🧚🏼♂️
Those damn leopards eating faces in public again.
President Trump told incoming New York mayor-elect Mamdani 'you can just say yes' after a reporter asked whether Mamdani thought the president was a fascist
November 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Those damn leopards eating faces in public again.
An online store has just messaged me to say: “Great News! Your order will be delivered by the date given when you placed your order.”
But this is not ‘great news’. This is merely the bare minimum I’d expect. Blow your trumpets if you deliver early.
But this is not ‘great news’. This is merely the bare minimum I’d expect. Blow your trumpets if you deliver early.
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
An online store has just messaged me to say: “Great News! Your order will be delivered by the date given when you placed your order.”
But this is not ‘great news’. This is merely the bare minimum I’d expect. Blow your trumpets if you deliver early.
But this is not ‘great news’. This is merely the bare minimum I’d expect. Blow your trumpets if you deliver early.
Life in the shoe:
DH is playing Stone Roses “Waterfall” at top volume, and I guess that’s how I know that he knows Mani died.
DH is playing Stone Roses “Waterfall” at top volume, and I guess that’s how I know that he knows Mani died.
November 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Life in the shoe:
DH is playing Stone Roses “Waterfall” at top volume, and I guess that’s how I know that he knows Mani died.
DH is playing Stone Roses “Waterfall” at top volume, and I guess that’s how I know that he knows Mani died.
They’ve always been like this.
Nestlé accused of ’risking health of babies for profit’ over added sugar in cereals sold in African countries
Nestlé accused of ’risking health of babies for profit’ over added sugar in cereals sold in African countries
Campaigners say the company is contributing to rising rates of childhood obesity, while the firm says it is helping to combat malnutrition
Nestlé is still adding sugar to most baby cereals sold across Africa, according to an investigation by campaigners who have accused the company of “putting the health of African babies at risk for profit”.
The food firm was accused of “double standards” over the researchers’ findings, which come at a time when rates of childhood obesity are rising on the continent, prompting calls for Nestlé to remove all added sugar from baby-food products. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
They’ve always been like this.
Life in the shoe:
3,000 cocktail recipes in my book, but not this one!
The Bon Vivant Martini calls for a tobacco liqueur, and this gives me a chance to get out the Perique.
🍸🧚🏼♂️🚬
Smokin'!
3,000 cocktail recipes in my book, but not this one!
The Bon Vivant Martini calls for a tobacco liqueur, and this gives me a chance to get out the Perique.
🍸🧚🏼♂️🚬
Smokin'!
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Life in the shoe:
3,000 cocktail recipes in my book, but not this one!
The Bon Vivant Martini calls for a tobacco liqueur, and this gives me a chance to get out the Perique.
🍸🧚🏼♂️🚬
Smokin'!
3,000 cocktail recipes in my book, but not this one!
The Bon Vivant Martini calls for a tobacco liqueur, and this gives me a chance to get out the Perique.
🍸🧚🏼♂️🚬
Smokin'!
Economisty types are gonna do economisting, but sincerely - fuck the economic case! These are children. Immiserating half a million children just because you can was utterly toxic policy from the Tories and it’s shameful that it wasn’t at the top of the list of things Labour wanted to scrap.
The limit was introduced to cut the welfare bill, but at what cost?
Is there a strong economic case for dropping the two-child benefits cap? This is what the evidence tells us
The limit was introduced to cut the welfare bill, but at what cost?
tcnv.link
November 15, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Economisty types are gonna do economisting, but sincerely - fuck the economic case! These are children. Immiserating half a million children just because you can was utterly toxic policy from the Tories and it’s shameful that it wasn’t at the top of the list of things Labour wanted to scrap.
Life in the shoe:
Me: How old is that guy? He looks about 45 but I think he must be about 22. Why?
…
Me: Lead in the petrol maybe.
18yo: Asbestos in the ceilings.
#totp
Me: How old is that guy? He looks about 45 but I think he must be about 22. Why?
…
Me: Lead in the petrol maybe.
18yo: Asbestos in the ceilings.
#totp
November 14, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Life in the shoe:
Me: How old is that guy? He looks about 45 but I think he must be about 22. Why?
…
Me: Lead in the petrol maybe.
18yo: Asbestos in the ceilings.
#totp
Me: How old is that guy? He looks about 45 but I think he must be about 22. Why?
…
Me: Lead in the petrol maybe.
18yo: Asbestos in the ceilings.
#totp
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What a tribute
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
What a tribute
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
This is why I mostly drink at home. 😬
November 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This is why I mostly drink at home. 😬