Mrs. G
@janbellina.bsky.social
Re-tyred Englishwoman who’d love to ride her bicycle but is not keen on dying just yet. Sad about the planet. Loves the British Isles / North West European Archipelago (see, we ARE still in Europe!). Don’t expect a cohesive theme; just what’s on my mind.
Happy Winter Solstice! From Royal Wootton Bassett.
December 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Happy Winter Solstice! From Royal Wootton Bassett.
Downloaded the UK Government ID App - all your Government ID digitised! Dissapointed to find it's less than half baked. Still, may be of some use to HM Armed Forces veterans. @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Downloaded the UK Government ID App - all your Government ID digitised! Dissapointed to find it's less than half baked. Still, may be of some use to HM Armed Forces veterans. @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
Thoughts on racial and religious scapegoating.
December 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Thoughts on racial and religious scapegoating.
"Not redacted any politicians' names"? What documents have been shredded entirely? Kill-9?
a group of south park characters standing on a basketball court with the words tell us what you know right now
Alt: a group of south park characters standing on a basketball court with the words tell us what you know right now
media.tenor.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
"Not redacted any politicians' names"? What documents have been shredded entirely? Kill-9?
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“When they are defending their liberal democracy, they are in fact defending ours as well.”
ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus shares a Christmas message with #Newsnight and says that the Ukrainians “deserve all the support they can have from us.”
ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus shares a Christmas message with #Newsnight and says that the Ukrainians “deserve all the support they can have from us.”
December 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“When they are defending their liberal democracy, they are in fact defending ours as well.”
ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus shares a Christmas message with #Newsnight and says that the Ukrainians “deserve all the support they can have from us.”
ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus shares a Christmas message with #Newsnight and says that the Ukrainians “deserve all the support they can have from us.”
Putin's foteign ministry says that Europe's freezing of Russian assets 'indefinitely' is tantamount to robbery. And I suppose attempting to seize an entire sovreign nation isn't?
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December 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Putin's foteign ministry says that Europe's freezing of Russian assets 'indefinitely' is tantamount to robbery. And I suppose attempting to seize an entire sovreign nation isn't?
Understanding is superior to rote learning; it allows for the editing, dismantling and reconstruction of ideas, making it a poweful tool and an even more powerful weapon.
December 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Understanding is superior to rote learning; it allows for the editing, dismantling and reconstruction of ideas, making it a poweful tool and an even more powerful weapon.
BBC News: Parents of children with scoliosis hit out over lack of physio from SIRONA, a private healthcare provider with an NHS contract. Is this because they don't have enough staff to service their contract? Stop NHS stealth privatisation now! @everydoctor.org.uk @jujuliagrace.bsky.social
Parents of children with scoliosis hit out over lack of physio
One parent of a child with a curved spine says therapy cuts have left him in
www.bbc.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
BBC News: Parents of children with scoliosis hit out over lack of physio from SIRONA, a private healthcare provider with an NHS contract. Is this because they don't have enough staff to service their contract? Stop NHS stealth privatisation now! @everydoctor.org.uk @jujuliagrace.bsky.social
Merry Christmas! I used Sketchbook app to make and decorate a Christmas tree. See alt text for details.
December 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Merry Christmas! I used Sketchbook app to make and decorate a Christmas tree. See alt text for details.
Yesterday I paid £1.50 excess postage. Today I received the culprit; a rather nice Christmas card, 2nd class postage paid, and totally anonymous (they forgot to write in it). Maximum permitted length is 24cm and this envelope was 25cm. I may suggest my elderly relatives use the Post Office Counter.
December 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Yesterday I paid £1.50 excess postage. Today I received the culprit; a rather nice Christmas card, 2nd class postage paid, and totally anonymous (they forgot to write in it). Maximum permitted length is 24cm and this envelope was 25cm. I may suggest my elderly relatives use the Post Office Counter.
I decided to shine an ultraviolet light on the supermarket-bought sage and thyme on my kitchen windowsill.
December 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I decided to shine an ultraviolet light on the supermarket-bought sage and thyme on my kitchen windowsill.
Well, what do you know! Vulnerable women ar the bottom of the heap. Again.
A new report shows domestic abuse survivors are often blocked from accessing social housing because of debt-related rules...
👉 newstartmag.co.uk/articles/dom... #housing #councils #LocalGov #news #abuse #domesticabuse
👉 newstartmag.co.uk/articles/dom... #housing #councils #LocalGov #news #abuse #domesticabuse
Domestic abuse survivors blocked from social housing by debt rules
Victims are being blocked from the security of social housing because of property-related debt rules, according to a new report. The study, published by the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) in co...
newstartmag.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Well, what do you know! Vulnerable women ar the bottom of the heap. Again.
Which midwinter (Christmas, Yuletide, Hannukah, Diwali, Yalda &c.) song from your childhood makes your eyes well up? Mine is The Little Drummer Boy.
Bing Crosby, David Bowie - Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy
YouTube video by BingCrosbyVEVO
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December 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Which midwinter (Christmas, Yuletide, Hannukah, Diwali, Yalda &c.) song from your childhood makes your eyes well up? Mine is The Little Drummer Boy.
When local authorities massage the entitlement of aggressive drivers instead of protecting vulnerable road users (VRUs), they are accepting their average road death & injury toll as normal. Also they risk some unbalanced driver, attitude to VRUs unchallenged, snapping like Paul Doyle in Liverpool.
some of you may die but it 's a sacrifice i am willing to make ..
Alt: Lord Farquaad from the Dreamworks animated film Shrek, announcing to the crowd & troops: Some of you may die but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make.
media.tenor.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
When local authorities massage the entitlement of aggressive drivers instead of protecting vulnerable road users (VRUs), they are accepting their average road death & injury toll as normal. Also they risk some unbalanced driver, attitude to VRUs unchallenged, snapping like Paul Doyle in Liverpool.
Am I the only person distracted by the blanked out Elizabeth Tower clock, every time the BBCTV News does a parliamentary piece? I suppose someone complained because they relied on it to be on time. Can't they animate it instead? I stare at it, thinking this, instead of listening to the presenter.
December 17, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Am I the only person distracted by the blanked out Elizabeth Tower clock, every time the BBCTV News does a parliamentary piece? I suppose someone complained because they relied on it to be on time. Can't they animate it instead? I stare at it, thinking this, instead of listening to the presenter.
How is GBN allowed to get away with this, when one of the first statements the academics make is that Somali communities in the UK are commited to FGM being eradicated. www.bristol.ac.uk/policybristo...
December 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
How is GBN allowed to get away with this, when one of the first statements the academics make is that Somali communities in the UK are commited to FGM being eradicated. www.bristol.ac.uk/policybristo...
Part of Chepstow Castle.
December 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Part of Chepstow Castle.
I made a gluten-free, vegan, rich fruit and nut cake for Christmas, tray-bake style. Big mistake. It allowed me to take a test slice without spoiling the shape. Only half the cake now remains. I'm going to have to make another. Now I know why celebration cakes tend to be round.
December 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I made a gluten-free, vegan, rich fruit and nut cake for Christmas, tray-bake style. Big mistake. It allowed me to take a test slice without spoiling the shape. Only half the cake now remains. I'm going to have to make another. Now I know why celebration cakes tend to be round.
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Keir Starmer needs to stand up for the BBC against Trump's outrageous $5bn lawsuit and protect licence fee payers from being hit in the pocket.
Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.
Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.
December 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Keir Starmer needs to stand up for the BBC against Trump's outrageous $5bn lawsuit and protect licence fee payers from being hit in the pocket.
Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.
Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.
Surely another candidate for the George Cross, sadly posthumously, alongside Ahmed al Ahmed. Both these men risked their lives, one losing his, trying to stop the Bondi attack and succeeding in causing delays that will have reduced the death toll.
Man, couple who died trying to stop Bondi Beach attackers praised for heroic efforts
While a Sydney shopowner is being hailed as a hero after disarming one of the gunmen shooting at a Jewish holiday event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, a couple and another man who died after physically conf...
www.reuters.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Surely another candidate for the George Cross, sadly posthumously, alongside Ahmed al Ahmed. Both these men risked their lives, one losing his, trying to stop the Bondi attack and succeeding in causing delays that will have reduced the death toll.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is addressing the Dutch parliament, Powerfully, in English.
December 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is addressing the Dutch parliament, Powerfully, in English.
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social is wasting valuable news time debating potential replacements for Keir Starmer (after priming West Streeting on the subject as a bridge). I will be interested in this when Starmer is on rubber legs, not before. They could have discussed something important with the time!
December 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social is wasting valuable news time debating potential replacements for Keir Starmer (after priming West Streeting on the subject as a bridge). I will be interested in this when Starmer is on rubber legs, not before. They could have discussed something important with the time!
When daughter Rachel made a wedding breakfast speech for her younger sister.
@katjcurrie on Instagram: "reminiscing and had to share this with the world, I simply don’t have any words to explain this feeling 😭😭😭😭😭😭"
61 likes, 8 comments - katjcurrie on December 14, 2025: "reminiscing and had to share this with the world, I simply don’t have any words to explain this feeling 😭😭😭😭😭😭".
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December 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
When daughter Rachel made a wedding breakfast speech for her younger sister.
I just heard on BBC News @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social that ⅓ of us still buy physical calendars (Germany buys most, then UK, then France). I'm one of them, and chose this #RNLI one for 2026: #Lifeboats #art #artist
December 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I just heard on BBC News @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social that ⅓ of us still buy physical calendars (Germany buys most, then UK, then France). I'm one of them, and chose this #RNLI one for 2026: #Lifeboats #art #artist
This is cruel, and just one cruelty amongst many. I would be only distantly concerned, but the US is still shifting the Overton window fascist-wise and dragging sycophant nations with them, including ours.
They were almost American - then Trump cancelled their citizenship ceremonies
Immigrants from among the 19 countries banned by the Trump administration tell the BBC how their citizenship ceremonies were abruptly cancelled.
www.bbc.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This is cruel, and just one cruelty amongst many. I would be only distantly concerned, but the US is still shifting the Overton window fascist-wise and dragging sycophant nations with them, including ours.