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Try a local auction house?

I did this to my parent's house last year, feels good. Sent a big box of moulding planes to auction (woodworking family)

Now I need to do our house 🙈

There was a study showing women were taking more selfies than men and it was framed as a bad thing, rather than acknowledging that many men don't take good photos of their families. So many friends have zero good photos of them with their families, all blurry or too dark or just terribly framed

The Magnolias are in full bloom

I love looking at them, knowing they are such an ancient plant that dinosaurs would have also gazed upon them

(This thought brought to you by me passing a Magnolia while on the bus)

Same - although I'm in more of a fog all day - it's a nasty one. Pelargonium tablets (herbal remedy but it's effective) are good for suppressing the cough so you can sleep.

I started a couple of days ago

The spin off we all need

The Red Roses men's team aren't very good, are they? #rugby

Ah I think I have the final two

Found 10 so far. This one's a good one!

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

I am still humming it several minutes later and think that's a very good sign considering I can't remember even the slightest bit of anything about the last few (although I do still randomly hum cha cha cha so make of that what you will)

À million times this

Oh I'm glad I'm not the only one to have done this! I got up at 3am once, washed my hair and everything so I couldn't even go back to bed 😭 Only realised while eating breakfast

Browsing the magazines in WHSmiths is one of the little pleasures in life 😢

Horrible disease and it's good to remind ourselves of the very subtle signals that indicate that something is not right

This piano room sessions programme on BBC2 at the moment is a great antidote to the news. I'm currently reliving being told off by my WHSMITH manager for playing Deacon Blue on repeat after I was put in charge of the music department as a 17 year old

Tabby cat called Welly, short for Wellington so named to annoy his French godfather, looking a bit grumpy, which you would be too quite frankly if you were 19 3/4 and your humans insisted on sleeping at night rather than staying up and feeding you at 2 hourly intervals.

Welly says it's getting late, time for bed

Wellington was delighted by them too, but I was concerned he was taking notes and we might end like that poor zebra in the morning

Dress for the job you want?

France as well 😅

We also live in a town that has several centres so you can basically walk or cycle to everything you need in 10 minutes. It's wonderful and the fact apartment blocks are being built on every tiny bit of land suggests other people want that too

Throwing a bottle into the ocean tonight!

And Slava Ukraini always ✊ 🇺🇦

4 years ago I led my company crisis response to the invasion of Ukraine.

4 years on, after 30 years in multinational aviation firm, & working on crisis anticipation and response, I'm looking for a new challenge.

If anyone knows someone looking for an experienced crisis/strategy professional pls dm

View from the top of some sand dunes over the Atlantic ocean. The sun is setting, the sky is orange and blue with some high clouds, ocean has some rollers and the beach has some wet patches on it.

Glorious sunset. Ocean was a bit chilly but the sun was hot so soon warmed up again

Very handsome tabby cat half asleep on someone wearing an olive green jumper. Welly is 19 3/4 and likes starting up all night so it's no wonder he's half asleep, that's tiring business.

Old man Welly

Farage’s fundamentalists are coming for abortion The Reform party now contains a group of prominent christian conservatives who have learned from the US that the way to ban abortion is through the slow erosion of rights

The US shows that abortion rights can be curtailed without sudden shifts in public sentiment. A small organised political movement can restrict rights without ever winning a majority.

Enter Reform UK

@thenewworldmag.bsky.social
www.thenewworld.co.uk/zoe-grunewal...

Deborah Frances-White @theguiltyfeminist.bsky.social is very good on the impact US right wing money and how it's infiltrating UK right wing politics (having used trans issues to divide the left). She's done a series of podcasts and is organising workshops to come up with a plan to fight it

This was fun. I was ok for 1100 by dint of being a German speaker and reading it out loud. But 1000 was a step too far.

It's at the bottom of a big hill. My parents lived close to the town centre and a round trip waking to M&S was a good 1.5h, including lugging the shopping bags back up the hill. Too much for most and only a 5 minute drive.

And don't get me started on the endless nail bars and Turkish barber shops. A small market town does not need 10 of each in a 500yd radius