That looks amazing!

Did you make these? They’re beautiful.

A friend brought me these sweet peas from her garden and they have the most incredible scent!

😂

Congratulations!

Finishing the job: Launching the Pensions Commission An assessment of the state of Britain’s pensions landscape, including the progress made in the two decades since the first Pensions Commission.

For the keen - which should be all of you given we all are, or are hoping to be, pensioners - here’s the launch document for the Pensions Commission, setting out the case for change and approach being taken www.gov.uk/government/p...

When a lovely friend turns up on your #dayoff with some flowers from her garden. In a vase. 😊

🚨 NEW: Labour is lifting 100,000 children out of poverty by expanding access to free school meals.

Alongside free breakfast clubs, cheaper uniform costs and government-funded childcare, Labour is putting money in parents’ pockets and giving children the best start in life.

A busy House of Lords chamber

The House of Lords will meet at noon on Saturday 12 April to consider legislative proposals to ensure the continued operation of British Steel blast furnaces is safeguarded.

Mellow Yellow - in a Dorset Hazel coppice today.

Love this picture of when my sister met the late Queen when she officially opened Fratton Community Centre. That face! ❤️

Work aspirations and support needs of health and disability customers: Interim findings This report presents the employment aspirations, attitudes to work and support needs of health and disability customers.

Important research published today on the work aspirations of DWP health & disability customers.

Worth reading in full. Some of the testimony here is really important.

www.gov.uk/government/p...

I realise you’ve probably already picked a side in the row between JD Vance and Rory Stewart about Augustine but this is interesting

🙏🙏

Café Hope - Grub not garbage - BBC Sounds How one cafe is turning food waste into meals.

If you want a short injection of hope, I commend this lovely chat with Nikki Dravers on the brilliant Refuse cafe. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

May I set ajar
The doors of closed minds. Words come and words go
And poetry is pain as well as passion,
But in the large flights of imagination
I see for one crammed second, order so
Explicit I need no more persuasion

from I Count the Moments,
Elizabeth Jennings
#epiphany

Barter Books is in the old Alnwick railway station. I was sitting in the cafe which is in the former waiting room, hence the sauces…

Barter Books is just the best bookshop ever! This is yesterday’s haul…

One of my happy places when the weather is wild 📚☕️🚂 😊

I’m doing that too! Boxing Day is gammon day…

Eggs, sugar, chocolate, cream & a choc mousse recipe

Mushrooms, parsley, parmesan & sharp knife on a worktop.

Unhurried cooking for people I love on Boxing Day is one of my favourite things. 😊

It’s Saturday & I’m cooking risotto. All is well. 😊

There was a definite seasonal feel to @10dowingstreet.bsky.social last night as
we gathered for a joyful Advent reception with Keir Starmer.

Still opening boxes post house move but this one was a pleasant surprise…. Thankfully nothing perishable in it as some lovely people sent it weeks ago!

‘Jobcentres are intensely hopeful’: how Labour plans to help people find work Employment minister wants to create new ‘public employment service’ to transform the UK job market

I am going to be in so much trouble with my mum for having my feet on the table.

Thank you @guardianheather.bsky.social for coming with me to Hoxton jobcentre and thank you to our work coaches for being the best, and having intense hope for people.

www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Good spot - thank you!

I could read this every day and not tire of it…

Ah farewell to a colleague who never stopped caring.
#RIPJohn

Good morning.

Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.