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Just me being me, living my life as best I can. Kindness is my default setting. Fuelled by tea. Dendrophile From care experienced to foster carer.
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Cauliflower Mac n cheese but with Bold Beans Queen butter beans thrown in… Might never move again.

Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

Long tailed tits on the feeders. One of my favourite garden birds. My foster son used to call them lollipop birds because they have round bodies and long tails.

Looking for a new podcast to listen to. I like true life/crime. Just finished Kaitlyn’s Baby on BBC Sounds. What a tale!

Which animals have the fewest and greatest number of vertebrae? Random things that pop into my head as I’m falling asleep …

Mr Wilfred Toes’ toe beans. This boy has given me so much anxiety this weekend, good job he’s a cutie.

Yesterday this one started having seizures out of the blue. He’s been at the vets all day for seizure watch and toxicology testing. His tox results are clear so they’ve diagnosed idiopathic epilepsy. Having this happen 2 mths after Alistair died has been horrific. Pls send Wilfred some love. 🐈‍⬛❤️

Got my hubby a valentines card for the first time in about 20 yrs. When he opened it he said “really, I should have got that for you”. I guess we tolerate each other quite well then.

Say hello to Mr Wilfred Toes.

Wow. Wow. Wow. What a game of rugby that was!!! Get in England.

I have greenfinches on the feeders in the back garden!!!!! I can’t even tell you how exciting this is. It’s at least five years since I’ve seen or heard a greenfinch here.

That's now 55,000 people calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting. Thanks to all of you who signed, please keep spreading the word. Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... #SayNoMoor

For any animal lovers out there. Wild Justice have a parliamentary petition running asking for a ban on driven grouse shooting. It’s half way to 100,000 signatures but needs a push to get it over the line. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... For info about Wild Justice wildjustice.org.uk

As a reword for being awesome, I took my foster son to for a carvery (his favourite food place). Being a gluten free vegetarian there’s not much I can eat there so when I got home I made myself the biggest stir fry ever! It was delicious.

The first photo is my youngest son. The second photo is Daniel Radcliffe. My son is a radiographer and is constantly asked if he’s Harry Potter. When it’s a child he always says “Yes, but don’t tell anyone!”

Just tried to crochet with chenille yarn. What an absolutely awful yarn to work with. I’ve totally given up and will be donating it to the charity yarn bank. Meanwhile I’ll make the pattern in normal cotton soft!

There’s an awful lot of friskiness going on in the garden at the moment. Yesterday it was pair of randy wood pigeons, today I caught squirrels having acrobatic liaisons half way up a tree and I’m not even going to say what the dunnocks have been up to! 🐦‍⬛🪹🪺🐿️🐿️

Late lunch

PET WARNING CATS: de-icer is lethal to cats. If you must use it please do so sparingly and try not to get it on the ground and risk them walking in it then licking their paws. DOGS: a number of dogs here have had seizures and it’s been suggested by vets it’s rock salt poisoning. Wash their feet!

My granddaughter and Mr Wilfred Toes playing a game on my tablet.

Met office is showing a potential temp increase of 24°c from Thursday night to Monday day time. But climate change isn’t real. Is it. 🙄

When my granddaughter wanted a snow unicorn not a snowman my foster son obliged.

When you’re trying to cut cloth from a large roll and your cat decides to ‘help’. Thanks Mr Wilfred Toes but I’ve got this.

Read this thread. Digest it. It’s not fiction, it’s not exaggerated, it’s life for hundreds of our children. It’s time we all started to bang the drum for our vulnerable children. Let’s stop building more prisons and start building a functioning care system. Break the cycle. I did. Twice.

Today someone described me as a knife with two blades. Sharp in thought and blunt with words. Sums me up pretty well I think.

Love planning my allotment planting as I sit in the warm and the wind howls outside. Every idea is a possibility, every decision is exciting. To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. 🍆🥒🥔🌽🥕🥦🍅🥗🧅🌶️🧄🍠🫑🫛🥬🍎🍓🍒🌱🍉🥙🍏🫐🍐

Morning blueskyers. Any entomologists out there Rabat can identify this caterpillar I found walking on my work too this morning. I think k it’s most likely to have come in on the leeks and spouts we harvested in the past few days.