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Sam 🍉 😷@spoonsnroses· 27d

Dwr Cymru/Welsh Water emailing me to say "we've been lucky enough to enjoy some nice weather in the last few weeks." 😱 Today was the first morning this week I haven't been able to smell wildfire smoke. Seriously, we've got to stop calling weather "nice" just because it's hot and dry

Start of "using water wisely" email from Dwr Cymru/Welsh Water, reads "Dear Customer

We’ve been lucky enough to enjoy some nice weather in the last few weeks.

With this combination of heat and sunshine, water demand can increase by as much as 29%.

We're doing all we can to maintain supplies and get water to you when you need it, we’d like to ask for your help too."

Sam 🍉 😷@spoonsnroses· Jul 15

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politic... So, Welsh Labour politicians have picked Ken Skates as their new leader, no members' vote. I'm old enough to remember when he was one of 4 Labour MS who voted against a call for a ceasefire in Gaza

Screenshot of BBC news, headline reads "Ken Skates appointed permanent Welsh Labour leader"

Sam 🍉 😷@spoonsnroses· Jul 14

The media's reaction to very visible climate change is sort of what I would expect- lack of urgency or alarm, making people responsible for their own safety etc, but still kind of shocked that this many wildfires isn't being treated as a national crisis

Screenshot of text from BBC news story: "Elsewhere, firefighters remain at the scene of a moorland fire near Dovestone Reservoir in Greater Manchester after the blaze broke out on Saturday evening.

In Derbyshire, high winds caused a wildfire at Tintwistle Moor to escalate overnight.

A major incident, declared on Sunday by Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service, remains in place as crews continue to tackle the blaze, which began on 24 June.

Wildfires over the weekend also affected Hampshire, Durham, West Sussex, East Sussex, Devon and Somerset."

Sam 🍉 😷@spoonsnroses· May 16

Pick a Bond from photos you already have on your phone

Rik Mayall on stage, dressed in tiger-print leggings, a Bros t-shirt, New Romantic make-up and holding a guitar, while giving two fingers to the audience

Sam 🍉 😷@spoonsnroses· Nov 29

Also, All That Heaven Allows

Film still, in which Jane Wyman is looking sadly through a window at the falling snow, her Christmas tree twinkles behind her

Sam 🍉 😷@spoonsnroses· Nov 29

Love love love The Bishop's Wife but haven't seen a lot of these, so thanks for the new 'to watch' list. I also have to rewatch While You Were Sleeping...

Film still of Joe Junior in While You Were Sleeping, standing in the street in front of coloured Christmas lights, wearing a party hat and saying "are you sure? Cause it looks like he's...leaning??"

Sam 🍉 😷@spoonsnroses· Oct 3

Dame Patricia Routledge, what a legend ❤

Patricia Routledge as Kitty in Victoria Wood's As Seen On TV. A middle aged woman sitting in an armchair in a sparkly peach dress with a glass of sherry and dishevelled hair is subtitled saying "If I was prime minister, and thank goodness I'm not,"

Sam 🍉 😷@spoonsnroses· Oct 2

So it turns out this is anecdotes from one Monmouthshire councillor, so should at least be in quotes, if you would bother to publish an unverified story in the first place...

BBC news webpage. Headline reads "parents working from home affecting school attendance"

Sam 🍉 😷@spoonsnroses· Sep 17

Legendary costume designer Edith Head said this and The Sting were her favourite films to work on because they were so handsome and funny.

Photo of Robert Redford and Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid!They are looking at the camera and standing casually by a wall.

Sam 🍉 😷@spoonsnroses· Aug 24

I did not know Davies-Jones approached the campaigners- why would a pro-Israel MP approach pro-Palestine campaigners except to trigger a confrontation? 'Trying to diffuse the situation' my arse www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Screenshot of news article excerpt

Davies-Jones told the court on Friday she was aware of what was on the leaflets and had initially approached the defendants trying to defuse the situation.

She said the defendants quizzed her on her voting record, with them asking why she had abstained on a ceasefire vote in the House of Commons.

Davies-Jones said she had not abstained, but had been out of the country at the time.

The MP ended the conversation with the pair, telling the court it was clear that they were not going to be satisfied with her answers, describing the situation as "quite confrontational".

Sam 🍉 😷@spoonsnroses· Jul 10

This is on my delivery of brown parcel tape 💚

Printed sticker on parcel, reads "Thank you. I hope you have a good time."

Sam 🍉 😷@spoonsnroses· May 23

My 'Emily Bronte' roses looking and smelling wonderful today

Photo of 3 large peachy roses in full bloom, against a background of greenery

Sam 🍉 😷@spoonsnroses· Apr 24

My relative sent me this pic a while back of his cat in a different kind of cone, don't know where it was from. My previous cat was accident prone so had to wear a plastic cone a few times, and, oh, the misery

Photo of a tabby cat asleep in a soft pillowy post-surgery 'cone'

Sam 🍉 😷@spoonsnroses· Mar 9

Just finished @pollyrowena.bsky.social's Much With Body and loved it so much I can't think what I'm going to read next