My new colours for autumn

Three months’ grace for claimants about to lose disability benefits Ministers are attempting to placate angry MPs with measures to help people who no longer qualify for benefits under Labour’s tougher rules

Despite U-Turn on winter fuel payment to pensioners, govt won't reverse disability benefit cuts.

Now says claimants will be given 13 weeks before they lose either personal independence payments or linked carers’ allowance.

Are disabilities to vanish in 13 wks? Cruel and inhumane.
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Painting of a dramatic golden sunset or sun rise over the wet sands of an empty beach

"Breathe it in" by Sarah Jane Brown, contemporary Welsh land and seascape painter #WomensArt

Yesterday a week before turning 70 I said goodbye to the many preceding decades with #rainbowhair. Thanks to Chloe at Bolt Salon in Crumlin.

Kelpies statues of silver metallic jigsaw pieces joined together

The Kelpies, Falkirk Scotland

First of many photographs from Scotland this week.
#1 Kelpies from M9 as we travel to Aberfoyle

Brangwyn Hall waiting for @katemossewriter.bsky.social celebrating The Labyrinth 25 years young

The possibility that a new notebook promises.

"Denyer’s activities were not carried out in isolation: it was in this period that the ideas of historic preservation, restoration and cultural heritage were born, and if we broaden our purview to include other media, Denyer’s methodologies appear far from singular." 🎨 via @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social

Shit is not a swear word. Bloody sits on the fence. You can have a bloody finger...

No second state visit for Trump Unbelievable. Keir Starmer has handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and should not go ahead.  This is the...

Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

I l9ve the wonderfully naned Marmalade Hoverfly

‘About time they got some credit’: why hoverflies are an underappreciated insect Prof Dave Goulson is one of the world’s foremost experts on insects. But there’s a special place in his heart for hoverflies, one of the prettiest flies around. Here he explains why we should nominate...

Lovely piece here by @davegoulson.bsky.social in praise of hoverflies
#Insects
#InvertebrateoftheYear

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I should be writing - BUT the sun is shining and I have books to collect from #BookishCrichowell. Lunch upstairs first...

Wishing you a kind 2025.

My first read of 2025... from my mystery dozen selected by my husband.

Happy New Year.

Twenty-four gift-wrapped books once a month throughout 2025 for the two of us

We took stock of the books only one of us had read. We decided to wrap twelve books we thought the other person would enjoy - to be unwrapped on the 1st of each month and read by the last day. Tonight, as we tip into 2025, our reading mystery tour begins!

#BookAdvent Day24
The books that made their mark during 2024. The order is random - There are Rivers In the Sky by Elif Shafak
#skybooks #bookrecommendations #bookaddict

#BookAdvent Day23
The books that made their mark during 2024. The order is random - Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
#skybooks #bookrecommendations #bookaddict #netgalley

I second that. The narrative is lacking and shooting. I will watch until the end, having watched 4/6 episodes.

Book cover of Still Life by Sarah Winman bright yellow background and blue and orange parrot

#BookAdvent Day22
The books that made their mark during 2024. The order is random - Still Life by Sarah Winman
#skybooks #bookrecommendations #bookaddict

A food apocalypse is coming

#FoodSecurity - a huge issue for the coming decades.

And the #FoodSystem Rebanks recommends here, that's @greenparty.org.uk policy: relocalising production, focusing on vegetables & fruit, #agroecology

unherd.com/2024/12/a-fo...

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#BookAdvent Day21
The books that made their mark during 2024. The order is random - Map of Bones by Kate Mosse
#skybooks #bookrecommendations #bookaddict

Fantastic dozen books -

The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey book cover - a crow perched on a container of four-pint bottles of milk.

#BookAdvent Day20
The books that made their mark during 2024. The order is random - List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey
#skybooks #bookrecommendations #bookaddict #netgalley

Book cover of Julia Armfid's Our Wives Under The Sea - A Women Obscured by water

Belated posting from yesterday - #BookAdvent Day19
The books that made their mark during 2024. The order is random - Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield
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The SoA has joined a new creative industries coalition calling on government to protect copyright in the face of generative AI.
See our three key principles and read more below.

#CreativeRightsInAI

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