When my daughter had her kidney evicted a couple of years ago, she wanted a photo of it, then forgot to ask.
Her doctor cousin said she should. (Don't know if they would have done it).
As they say round here, "shy bairns get nowt".
She got nowt!

Farage's Brexit Party MEP had the WORST attendance record, yet now draw massive EU pensions

Last month Farage MP
- 0 constituency surgeries
- 0 votes in Commons

Still a skivver

"How Truant Brexit MEPs are making a Mockery of Britain"
bylinetimes.com/2019/04/11/t...

meme via Fibbymcfibface i

This is so satisfying to watch.
I wish I had studied pottery...

A color, macrophoto of a Robin perched on a branch in Virginia, during late April, 2026. The capture was taken during rain and the photographer snapped the photo at the split second a raindrop fell on the top of the bird's head, making it appear like a "natural" crown. 📸 Dawn Denise Boyer of Gloucester, Virginia

#WonderfulBirdWednesday

Right in the middle of rain, the photo was captured the split second a droplet of water landed on the #Robins head like a crown! 👑
04/2026

#Birds #Nature
#FlawlessTiming 🌟
#FMSPAD
#SomethingThatFlies
#Birdsky #Wildlife
#Photography
#BirdPhotography
#Macrophotography

Now that Farage has ditched the £ for crypto, presumably he won’t object if the UK does the same and joins the €.

A group of tribal belly dancers. The one in front has black, white and orange skirts on, and is swishing them about in the dance.

If you see this,post something orange from your gallery

This 👇

Got the heads up from #1 son out there, who's spending the last day of his leave on Civil Defence duties...
Stay safe, anybody affected!

My son is spending the last day of his leave mainlining caffeine and sweets - he works in GIS with Wellington Council, and CD comes with the job.

Richard Stupid Tice would like to clarify that the £100k in tax he hasn't paid is different to the £92k tax he hasn't paid or the £600k tax he hasn't paid. Just in case anyone didn't appreciate the extent of his tax dodging. I mean fiscal prudence.

Done

I have two or three old dandelion friends in my garden, and even a couple of white and pink cultivars.
However, the cultivars are the only ones I don't stop going to seed, as they aren't as vigorous.
My garden is too small to let the regular ones completely loose.

James Bembridge on X: Hate is too weak a word for what I feel towards the NHS. I'd tear it down and salt the earth upon which it stood.

Lovely people, these Reform UK candidates for the upcoming election, and great to know they're on our side.

I bought the cassette, back in the day.
I was lucky enough to see Clannad, a few years ago, in their final festival season.

Can I have one for when I'm out, there's nowhere to sit, and my sciatica is kicking of?

The two old ladies in the pew in front thought it was hilarious!

Brings back memories of my granddaughter at about the same age being given a tub of raspberries to keep her quiet at a wedding in a tiny Herefordshire church.
All good until she let out the loudest belch...

A cropped image from a group shot: I had already changed for my next dance. Hair in a high ponytail, pvc leggings (very fetching- not), and black tee with "Rock Chick" in crystals, a fringed waistcoat, and a stupid grin on my face.

This was the first performance of the evening with the big group -to a live recording of "Rhiannon". It's not that obvious, but I'm not all in black: my top is a kind of deep teal satin, although I am in a black skirt, and underbust corset... For those who might know, I was mid-Aswaat fade (with 2 others). Behind me are other dancers forming the chorus, to which we returned later.

Some of Friday evening's antics at Tribal Goddess, in Durham School...

I suppose they would prefer to see a line of gleaming white fibreglass gin palace clones moored up instead of a rather nice boat/home with individuality.
I think they're just bloody pig ignorant.
Good on you for standing up to them, although it shouldn't have been necessary.

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

No Reform representatives were available to go on the Laura Kuenssberg show, once we realised that Laura was being replaced by an actual journalist, Victoria Derbyshire.

Just arrived home from the 20th Tribal Goddess retreat, held in Durham School. I thought I was having an easy time this year, but after 2 Friday performances and one, plus 2 drum sets on Saturday night, after earlier drilling torso rotations with Philippa Morai - I hurt.
A lot.

That's a belter!
(I live just down the road in Belford...)

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 302

A recent study utilising computer modelling and focusing on two common European #bumblebees indicates that #bees need food up to a month earlier than when many recommended ‘pollinator friendly’ plant species actually flower.
#nature
#education

So our NHS workers have been offered a pay rise of 3.3%

Our NHS doctors have been offered a pay rise of 3.5%

But all MPs have awarded a pay rise of 5%..

..and as for members of the House of Lords?..

Their tax-free attendance allowance will rise by 5% to £390 a day! 😤
#Labour 🔥🌹
#doctorsStrike 💙

I'm a Robertson by marriage, but my dad was brought up in Portobello...

I'm a Robertson by marriage, but my dad was brought up in Portobello...

I live about 15 miles S of Berwick-upon-Tweed, so it's quite close for me.

Us jet downed over Iran was most likely based at UK airfield

Is the Government still claiming the UK isn't involved in this war?

My "local" circle. I love it.