Kate Baucherel

My husband’s grandparents hid downed airmen in an empty water tank under the garden before smuggling them out. I have many stories from my mother-in-law.

You can’t say you’ve won if you haven’t defined the goal. It’s going to be long and it’s going to be hard.

I think it’s even worse, that in their arrogance they assumed the regime would capitulate, and that listening to experts was a fools game. And Bibi will have waved the issue away to ensure he secured their firepower.

Unmissable 🙄🙄🙄

My cis daughter swims competitively and is 6’1 and 160lbs. Ridiculous argument.

Knife every time for pastry. Using a Magimix / Robochef with the blades makes perfect pastry.

One of the conditions of prescribing was a physical examination to ensure that puberty is complete. 16-17 majority are past puberty.

That’s bad transphobic reporting which helps no one, but I’m guessing the edict also ignores intersex people. They really don’t care. It’s unspeakable.

I genuinely don’t know, I’m sorry.

My two didn’t join me on this trip so I am finishing the Christmas jigsaw while keeping half an eye on builders. So far I’ve made sure the door opens in the correct direction 🙄 and reminded them they’re taking out part of a stud wall 🙄.

Fantastic!!

Ah yes. Caveat: civilised countries.

Almost as if it’s the correct health care that every other country offers.

It’s absolutely inhumane. We missed puberty blockers by months but threaded the needle for hormones (with the lovely Paul, no less). That may have been the difference between a kid accepting her uni offer this week with all the points in the bag vs a total mental health breakdown.

Terrifying…

As the sun creeps over the barn I am also waiting without any clue of timing for the builder who is due to start today. The plan: stud wall for the buanderie (now that the plombier has shifted his position from ‘pas possible’ to ‘ça peut se faire’) and a staircase to the upstairs of the barn.

NHS England pauses new prescriptions of cross-sex hormones for under-18s The health service said young people who already receive the drugs will continue to do so.

Absolutely appalled by this. The conditions are extremely stringent and adhered to by the clinics. That prescription at 17 (from Paul himself) was life changing / possibly life saving.

BBC: NHS England pauses new prescriptions of cross-sex hormones for under-18s www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Three shouts now. I think I can feel the stress resonating from our U.K. sofa 😁

A solitary shout echoes around the silent French village. Good start 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #SCOvFRA

I believe there’s a company in Korea that’ll sort that for you 😳

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Did the big snake eat your friend, Chonk?

This is all ridiculous. I had a student from Cameroon last year, fabulous girl, husband was a lawyer. I hate what we are doing to bright minds who will inevitably build the country, not drain it.

When did my children move in with you?

A packet of Brets “fromage du Jura” crisps and a bottle of judgy cat rum.

IYKYK 🇫🇷

🎉🎉🎉 great news

Three musicians on stage with the heads of the crowd in the foreground.

Hoping that going to see Franz Ferdinand today of all days is not some terrible portent. Excellent gig though!

I need to be careful what I write in future. My last novel included heavy betting on war and AI deciding who lives and who dies. Add to that the 2018 novel with the pandemic and destroying Notre Dame, and lots of cybercrime. I have been accused of witchcraft.