I’m sorry. I hope that soon the dreams stop or become filled with kinder memories of happier times.

A small little bit of both advice and a plea for using Bluesky.

This platform doesn't have an algorithm for content.

If your default response to seeing something cool is to hit like, take a second to hit the Repost button too.

Especially if it's a cool indie product, a show, some art, whatever.

I hope Christmas is as gentle as it can be for you all. It must be so hard for F to understand it all but I’m glad he’s able to talk with you about how he feels and ask questions around it.

Thinking of you all.

Grab bags, prepping and a year of disasters Professor Lucy Easthope and crisis communication consultant Amanda Coleman will talk about being crisis ready as well as reflecting on 2025.

Amazing that more than 200 people have registered to join
@lucygobag.bsky.social
and me for our latest chat on 16 Dec. Free and online looking at 2025, 2026 and being crisis ready. Find out more here
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Hooray! The first paper of our FACE-UP project has finally been published! And this is actually the last week of funding! Literally too busy to write more now… so more later!
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I’ve never been to Lincoln, I’ll have to add it to my list of places to visit.

What a lovely building!

Photo of a car park showing areas of roof covered in solar panels

Good to see solar panels over part of one of the car parks at the Metrocentre in Newcastle!

Screenshot showing rain forecast for Durham for the next few days.

As eldest’s #photography deadline is now looming, this month’s trip to #Durham is an extra long one to hopefully enable him to get the majority of his final photoshoots completed. This was not the weather we ordered! 😅

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I’m the same, I need to physically write things down. I wish I didn’t as a search in a Word doc would be much quicker than trying to find what I’m looking for in the appropriate notebook. My OH is 100% digital & just sighs at my notebooks, fountain pens & bottles of ink 😆.

That looks delicious!

I am pretty sure that the PCR can differentiate between active infection with chlamydia & antibodies from vaccinations if he’s been vaccinated against it - it’s not standard in vaccinations so some breeders do include it & some don’t.

Apologies if I’ve told you stuff you already knew!!

Personally, if he was a kitten I’d bred I’d be suggesting you ask for a PCR swab to be done if the eye drops don’t clear it up quickly so you know exactly what you’re dealing with as certain infections, such as feline chlamydia, can require long courses of antibiotics.
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I had totally missed you had a cat now, he’s gorgeous!! 😻 Did the vet check for mild entropian?
FHV would spring to mind otherwise with those symptoms. The stress of moving to a new home can reactivate it if he’d been exposed before he was vaccinated.

I haven’t heard of crease releaser before, I’ll have a look for some. Thank you!

Photo of a pile of rosettes in different colours with crumpled ribbons.

Decided to get some rosettes back out & mice have eaten a box in an outbuilding, destroyed a lot of them & those remaining are crumpled to varying degrees 😭

Is there a way to flatten the ribbons without damage? Tried heavy books but it hasn’t worked on most & I’m nervous about ironing them! Help!

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After deciding in June 2023 that I was going to join the gym … I have finally joined the gym!! 💪🏽
I have a fitness planner to log my exercise and food, and I’m feeling very hopeful that 2025 will be the year I manage to stick to it and find a healthier and happier me!

Photo showing a Chanukkiah with 8 candles and the shamash candle all lit for the last night of Chanukkah. There are snowflakes on the window.

Tonight we lit the final candle for the last night of Chanukkah.

“Change is not a bolt of lightning that arrives with a zap. It is a bridge built brick by brick, every day, with sweat and humility and slips. It is hard work, and slow work, but it can be thrilling to watch it take shape.” Sarah Hepola (author)

This time last year I wasn’t in a great place. I spent 2024 working hard on myself, being brave, & pushing myself out of my comfort zones. I learnt a lot about myself along the way.
A recent pivotal moment means I’m starting 2025 happy, & with hope that continuing the work will be easier this year.

*shudders and cries at the memories*

Photo of the sky showing green and red aurora. Stars can also be seen.

Ending 2024 with the Aurora Borealis.

If anyone is wondering why one of his ears looks odd, when his litter were trapped as kittens they had the tip of one ear removed when they were neutered. Rescues do this to ferals so it can be easily seen that they have already been neutered.

A zoomed in photo of a red classic tabby cat with a tipped ear in grass looking at the camera

A zoomed in photo of a red classic tabby cat with a tipped ear in grass looking at the camera

It’s very rare we properly see our feral farm cat Ginge to get a photo of him. Look at his adorable grumpy little face! 😻

My eldest suggested last year that there’s a different spelling for each night 😂 Chag sameach!

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Photo of a Chanukkiah lit for the first night

Chag sameach!
#Hanukkah

Chag sameach!

With the colour of that ink I’m reading the ‘Glad Tidings’ in an Ebenezer Scrooge voice 😂