nicolesykes.bsky.social
Charities, charts, cats.
Director of Policy, Communications and Research at Lloyds Bank Foundation. She/herđłď¸âđ
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Ah, but can we be credible AND likeable?
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This is actually very timely. Have just enquired.
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This has become my probably-very-irritating refrain whenever dinners/drinks get bogged down in political despair.
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Weirdly visceral memories of reading these - my grandparents had the whole collection.
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Obviously, this kind of polling doesnât stand up to a momentâs serious thought. Find me a single member of the PLP who seriously believes Marie Curie, Citizens Advice or Cancer Research UK shouldnât be able to challenge government policy.
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South London also really delivering for me this morning, with two total strangers on the train now discussing the pig episode of Black Mirror.
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Yes there's evidence; volunteering levels ain't doing well.
There is some regional variation in formal volunteering (in organisations) - higher in South West, South East and East of England - and much more in rural areas than urban.
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Christ alive.
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The crow came back and flew off with the baby squirrel corpse.
An exercise in futility. Mother Nature always wins.
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And dresses. Lots of pre-loved natural fibre dresses in my wardrobe these days.
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Well, yes, now it appears that the squirrel is dead, the crow's hungry, and I'm cursed to be the target of their wrath for the next two decades.
The worst of all scenarios.
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I was attempting to look like I was casually hanging out on my front wall, and not at all like an insane person.
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Well. The conclusion of this thread is unfortunately upon us.
I moved back inside hoping the squirrel would follow its sibling into next door's back garden, which is reachable under a gate from the street.
Instead, he went back up the tree and two minutes later fell like a stone right out of it đ
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Siiigh. No good deed goes unpunished I guess.
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My reply dudes who think I should go back to ironing shirts and let nature take its course can come listen to this lil guy screaming outside their window.
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OH COME ON. The squirrel's got a sibling who's been hiding in next door's rose bushes.
Now this is a whole Sylvanian family drama??
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If I recall correctly, I read somewhere that theyâre ordered by nation alphabetically in French? Which I thought was strange.
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Oh my God.
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ââTodayâs builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers,â Francis wrote in his last meditations on Good Friday. âTheirs is the construction site of Hell.ââ
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Oh, you really do have this planned! Impressive.
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But there gardens have a natural slowing effect, because everything has its season, things take time to establish, you literally canât do everything at once even if you had both the inclination and the Euromillions.
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Then there's the water features. Obvs Bezos had a whole lake or w/e, but wherever the house is... all I want to hear is water running, bird song and - when seasonally appropriate - bees. I'd have so many bees.
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I feel this. The greenhouses would be spectacular.
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Who'll be the next Pope?
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Youâve rendered a service to your whole neighbourhood
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Worth the lightning strike.
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Funny that the thing that would have helped her with not hearing children was...