Left-leaning, green-leaning, green-fingered
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These are the slime balls who 30 odd years ago would’ve pinched your bum in the office, or whistled at a schoolgirl in the street, or stood way too close on the tube, and told you it was flattering. And those women are the kind who would’ve gone along with it.
Green carpet?
They were amazing. Really great live band 😍
Consider it done. This is (another) big disappointment from this government
Irreplaceable habitats are on the line. This is the reality if an unamended Part 3 of the Bill passes. It must not.
Was it the Dutch roundabout in Cambridge? The keyboard warriors love that one…
Just listened to this and I think Rory needs to read this from Adam Rutherford on the sinister business of de-extinction: arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...
We’ve been watching the West Wing (never seen it before🤷🏻♀️) and have become convinced Trump is also watching, and doing the opposite of anything Democrats suggest, and adopting the wildest policies of the maddest Republican
That’s gorgeous!
I have never understood how so many people believe that all those who would have to be in the know to successfully fake it could keep it to themselves. Mad!
Did a little squeal myself in the car when I saw the first two in Cambridge today!
Labour are driving me mad with their tactics and messaging. To the extent that I cast a rare vote for someone else (NOT Reform!). It’s definitely the Green vote they need to appeal to
I’ve lived there and still only got two groups 🤷🏻♀️ (I vote for “names for woodlice” as a category)
Just 850 more signatures will bring us to 100,000 and trigger a debate in parliament. Plz share widely - I’m holding my breath! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Our petition has passed 97,000 signatures and just gone up to 13th most-signed petition in the list. Thank you for all your support! We aren't there yet but we are very close to 100,000 signatures which will trigger a parliamentary debate. Plz keep sharing! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
That's 90,000 signatures! 90,000 of you calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting. If we reach 100,000, we can get this debated in parliament. So please sign and share - help us get there!
It’s sinister. What are they up to?
It’s not just journalism. Conservation sector for example is shockingly low paid - not going to name and shame (you’ve all got Google!) but jobs requiring a degree, experience, often a second language and often a higher degree regularly £25k.
And I’m guessing this would count as organic fertilizer?
Thanks for the prompt @quietriotpod.bsky.social - I’ve just written to my MP for the first time in several years.
There’s a mud season in New England- before proper spring and after the snow melts.
This seems apt…
We are very, very belatedly watching The West Wing (how have we not seen it before?!). Have commented a lot on its foresight; last night’s episode was about this… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I love them.. the ’we made this up on our bedroom’ dance routines are just so great 💃
It’s disgusting. How Zelenskyy kept his temper I don’t know. What revolting men Trump and Vance are
Thanks. I’ve now got the music from the ad in my brain…
Same. It’s bloody scary.
It definitely needs much better infrastructure- especially water supplies (we’re basically a desert), and public/ active transport. It’s a can of worms locally…
There are plans to double the size of Cambridge. And it’s absolutely awful to get to/ through/ out of. Massive employers like biomedical campus have way too many staff driving to work because alternatives take so long
They probably have bought it but she immediately lost it…
This is one of my favourite things about Bridget; they’ve never tried to give her good hair. It suits the character I think
Nope. At max 20 books per year I’ve only got around 500-600 books left. Not reading the ones I don’t enjoy
He wants to turn it into a golf course. Obsessed with beach front property.
The tangerine dictator lets out a bunch of violent convicted rioters, and meanwhile in the totally sane uk… www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Flipping anyone they want to the other side?
Certainly feels like it. It’s addictive too
I’ve also seen them in huge numbers in the trees in Burleigh Street. Lovely!
Isn’t this an everyone complaint? See also food on things that aren’t plates - my X complaint
That’s what I thought. Why would they take the risk?
He’s too clever and reasonable to last. And why do they all think there was a traitor in that game of chance?
A double when they say 110% 🙄
It’s a good one in our house because we can have the perennial argument between me (committed Duranie) and husband (er, not) about the merits of the theme. (It’s the best one, obvs)
I remember hearing an interview with Michael Caine where he said for perfect roast potatoes put in cold fat… I don’t care whether it works or not, I want to hear them sizzle!!
Missile thrushes you say? Sounds like a case for @carlbovisnature.bsky.social
Yes. Watching him in concert now at Wembley arena. I was there on Christmas Eve 1984… he was an absolute diamond
On the plus side, it’s lasted ages 🤷🏻♀️
I made this a few years ago with home grown chillis from a 10 year old chilli plant. They were so hot my fingers were numb for days, oldest son accused me of making chemical weapons, and we can only use about a quarter of a teaspoon at a time 😂
Same, but add “mother comments that I’m lucky he cooks at all “🙄
It’s designated it as bathing water in order to get it tested more often in the hope the quality actually improves… not sure this tactic ever works
That china is a real flashback to my 70s childhood! Mum still has some 😊
Ten thousand 🙏 to everyone who has signed our petition to ban driven grouse shooting! The Govt will now have to respond. But we're not finished yet - we want a parliamentary debate and for that we need 100,000 signatures. Can you help us reach our target? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Dougal and the Blue Cat.
Oh come on Labour - so depressing to hear Pat McFadden say UK has no plans for a youth mobility scheme with the EU. We have schemes with NZ, Australia, Canada, Japan, Iceland, Uruguay & more - only reason not to have one with EU is fear of right wing press. Such cowardice @bbclaurak.bsky.social
Why is it always Wensleydale that gets picked on for this horror? 🤢
Big hole, motorbike. Wall of death style 👍🏼
Have a pic of our regular garden visitor. She likes cheese and burying eggs for later
A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.
Agreed. Public transport is pretty woeful and building more and more science parks in the middle of town isn’t going to help
Agreed! Devonshire Road is awful, and it beggars belief that they designed station square without a cycle route 🙄
If you need to take the car to Mill Road, you can still use Queen Anne’s or Gwydir St carparks…
An eccentric local where I live used to wear a variety of food on his head- loaf of bread, whole chicken, and yes, a whole salmon. Now we know where he got the idea…
Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards." Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
Expecting these to turn up to @rhodri.biz #duvetknowitschristmas this year
Knitting, shepherd’s pie for tea, finishing painting newly-vacated-by-youngest-son spare room
It’s like he’s creating an anti-cabinet. Must be against the laws of physics?
The Winchester?
I’ve met him too… 😱 on the set of Jim’ll Fix It. Madness were playing as one of the fixes. I came away unscathed
Bumped into Jimmy Somerville on Oxford St in the late 80s; was surprised to be nearly as tall as him (I’m 5ft2)
Tesco bog standard one is the best. This is in the same category as crisps- posh expensive ones are rubbish
We were there for my Mum’s 84th birthday a few weeks ago and the staff and food here were lovely: www.picotte.fr/accueil
The Cluny museum has had a refurb and is lovely. There’s a great outdoor photography exhibition outside Notre Dame with portraits of all the people (from bishops to stone masons to foresters) involved in the renovation.
This song is also an excellent Only Connect question
Are you still sure there’s a less bad option? 😬
It’s a shame you can’t smell them too- gorgeous!
Anglesey Abbey near Cambridge is showing off with theirs at the moment 😊
Took the precaution of having a late summer holiday. Not looking forward to the shock when we get home (from lovely Greece)… but no heating until October half term!!
Yes it does. I didn’t say it didn’t…
They’re consulting on more 20mph limits in Cambridge, and my goodness, ‘motorists’ have a lot to say about how fast the average ‘cyclist’ can pedal. I say ‘ … ‘ because aren’t most of us, at some point, pedestrians, cyclists, *and* users of public and private motorised transport?
Wonder what the price of coffee was? Cappuccino is almost £4 round here now…
The false widow spider on our kitchen velux window caught and consumed one of these a couple of years ago. She’s not to be messed with…
David Attenborough
And no one goes to such lengths to retrieve their bodies either…
Made me laugh all the way round my boring lunchtime hospital campus walk. And got some funny looks. Bravo!