Over the moon to be speaking this year at the du Maurier Fowey Literary Festival, about my book 'Dancing with Bees'
Do please come if you can... or pass details to anyone visiting, or living in Cornwall who might be interested
Fri 8th May at 11am
Tickets ๐
www.foweyfestival.com/event/brigit...
Does seem to track with their approach to women, though
Same!
Interesting. It seems in Wales they are only sending to the male in the household!
Pictorial textile artwork featuring a landscape with hills under a starry night sky
'Starry Starry night' hand embroidered artwork by Vicki Foster, contemporary textile artist #WomensArt
Absolutely beautiful โจ
UK households made up of straight couples; have you also had electoral โliteratureโ sent to your address from Reform, addressed only to the male in the house?
All other literature from other parties has been addressed to both of us.
Ok, Iโll stop emailing you ๐คฃ
Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater.
This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers โ and winning.
Never doubt your power to change the system.
Incredible! Isnโt it amazing how we are so used to the brighter stars of the constellations guiding us around the sky?
That sounds incredible! What amazing memories that place must hold
Walking through the pitch black dunes in gales and I get the absolute life scared out of me by a Typhoon jet. Was really weird seeing its glowing engines in the dark night. Pretty unusual activity, anyone else been buzzed by them this evening?
It's always a good idea to keep dogs on a lead at this time of year for the safety of livestock and our ground nesting birds.
A Reform UK lead candidate is trying to bully NationCymru and a councillor who left Reform after raising concerns about her candidacy by issuing threats of legal action โ๏ธMartin Shipton
Absolutely. I have read each parties manifesto and only theirs seems carefully constructed and seemed to grasp the nuances of each issue. It also doesnโt just refer to โWalesโ as if itโs one homogenous blob.
Society pushed families into having kids and then turned their back on them the minute they needed support. This is what Plaid understands. I donโt feel like any other party does. Thatโs why this little leaflet actually filled me with hope when it dropped through the letter box. Please vote wisely.
My long and rambling point is - if you truly want our society to have more kids, then support the families, build the village that is needed. I promise you, instances of issues we face in society like anti social behaviour, VAWG etc will start to drop.
I am the only one of my siblings to have finished school all the way to 6th form. The only one with a full set of GCSEโs and the only one to go on to uni. Coincidence? I think not.
I was loaned an instrument, a clarinet, and I treasured that battered old thing. Music and the arts were the first things that were cut from social schemes, and are under attack again from parties like reform who donโt see their worth. But guess what? Those lessons kept me in school.
As the eldest sibling I was โluckyโ in a sense, as I was the last to benefit from social schemes such as free musical instrument lessons. That scheme ended with my year. I loved music, I was very good and it was an escape from things at home and the academic subjects that I struggled with
We started off ok until my dad got sick. Then things got bad, rapidly. My parents did their best, but when there isnโt enough money, it impacts all realms of your life. Those who say money canโt buy happiness donโt know what theyโre talking about, quite frankly. Without stability, you drown.
I know how our society treats and judges families in low economic households. The shame and guilt are crippling and stay with you for life. Society wants you to have kids until those kids need support through benefits and schemes like free school meals. Then they treat you like a societal parasite
You hear the same old arguments โwe got by and made it workโ, โitโs never the right time to have kidsโ and I vehemently oppose these stances. I grew up in poverty, despite having two parents who worked until my dad was too poorly to work anymore.
This is how you tackle the โfalling birth rateโ. You support families and importantly, you support women into work. Many women my age cannot afford a family due to childcare costs and I refuse to quit work to have a child that I would then have to raise whilst struggling @plaidcymru.bsky.social
Sounds dreamy, starry night bike ride? Yes please!
I donโt know about you Mike, I just donโt feel like I can start my day right without my daily dose of bigotism. It really sets me up for the day.
I just looked on a light pollution map, that must be one of the only places left in NL to see stars!
Where was that? Just before the clocks went forward too!
Happy International Dark Sky Week! ๐
When was the last time you remember standing under a truly dark sky? Have you ever?
The Milky Way has been lost to over a third of humanity. Weโve scrubbed it from the skies with light pollution.
Follow @darkskyintl.bsky.social to find out how you can help ๐
Thatโs incredible. I mean what are modern billionaires even doing with their hoards? Itโs just amassing
