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Paul Gathercole
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Restlessly retired from children's services, children's cancer support and safeguarding. SW. Trustee Safeguarding Lead. Charities / child bereavement / children's cancer / DIPG. Guitarist in pub band. 2CV curious.
A moment of joy when a Hummingbird Hawkmoth visited our Lincolnshire garden today Also a reminder of climate change and the increasing frequency of previously rare visitor sightings.
#moths #butterflies #climatechange
June 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
1/2 Changing the language and narrative about child pornography - briefing by the Lucy Faithful Foundation. Terminology guidelines below in 2/2
April 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
@privateeyenews.bsky.social looks behind the Kooth App. Kooth has become a byword for digital mental health support for 11-25s. Private Eye explores the crisis in mental health support for young people and how the private owners of Kooth coined £12.7m in 2024 (UK & US).

#KidsMH #mentalhealth
February 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Short term fostering this lovely old chap for my daughter. It's messed up his familiar routines and he's just done 48 hours of wee in the hall. That's pee if you're in the US.
#cats #catsofbluesky #pets #caturday
February 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
If you see this quote with flowers from your gallery
January 26, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I was tailgated through Woodhall Spa today by an Austin 7.
January 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Some sparkles for you from the field next to our place. Glinting in the sunlight yesterday, mud today. Treasure moments of joy in nature as they may not last.
January 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Tonight Helen-Ann Hartley, Bishop of Newcastle again spoke plainly and with courage about accountability following the Makin Report. @channel4news.bsky.social Shamefully she's one of pitifully few church leaders to call out those who repeatedly failed to protect victims of John Smyth.
December 5, 2024 at 8:04 PM
with just a tiny Sanderling for company.
November 28, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Lincolnshire coast this morning. A Robinson Crusoe moment.
November 28, 2024 at 3:50 PM
November 25, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Cat 2 - if I'm honest a bit wild and intolerant of humans. He's a big boy, apparently the love child of a Maine Coon and a Bengal gangster cat. Here pictured trying to break through the patio window before we relented and got a cat flap.
November 24, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Cat 1 - rescued from a cardboard box in Bradford as a kitten and still with us 19 years and a lot of life later. He's had his best years but still the boss cat in our household.
November 24, 2024 at 8:17 PM