Elizabeth Baker

@lizzieab

Looking for the common ground, there is alway something; for me and slugs it is that we both want to eat the cabbages I grow. Political but not party political. British & European. Brexit was a mistake. I'm too old to bother with age verification.

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Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· 3d

View over the Staffordshire Moorlands looking West from the Mermaid pool. Sun dried grass foreground, greener hills in middle distance, Hen Cloud, The Roaches and Ramshaw Rocks can be seen from centre to right, all under a sunny blue sky with a few fluffy clouds.

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· 27d

Either Evri exists in a different space-time dimension from the people expecting deliveries or it's tracking system isn't worth the pixels used to display it.

Section of a delivery schedule from Evri website for parcel we were expecting:
Status "Out for Delivery" has been ticked.
Then sub sections:
9:00 - Thu Jul 30: Your parcel is on its way to you today
9:28 - Thu Jul 30: Your local courier will deliver your parcel between 16:30 and 18:30 today.

Then a vertical dotted line to Status "Delivered" which is not ticked.

From Everi website FAQ: What can I do if I haven't received my parcel?
Answer: If you're sto;; waiting on your parcel and it's been with us over 7 days, please let the sender know so that they can get in touch with us, and we can look into it.

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· Apr 28

Another heart of our household stopped beating this morning. RIP Ruby. She arrived as a stray in 2015 and was the most affectionate of cats. She will be missed.

Small white cat with black and red/brown markings around the ears and red/brown fluffy tail sitting on a wooden plank over a pond with rushes and reeds. She is looking straight into the camera lens.

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· Apr 2

Forty years ago today. Raadhuis, Apeldoorn. Young, optimistic, in love. Andy & I on our wedding day. The future was bright. At home anywhere in Europe. Opportunities everywhere. <3 months later illness struck. Everything changed, in an instant. Don't ignore the plight of disabled. It could be you.

Wedding photo, bride and groom on steps of Raadhuis, Apeldoorn with both sets of parents

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· Feb 7

Majority of Brits say they want to reverse Brexit and rejoin EU. One community with our neighbours: Safer, stronger, richer. Add your voice. #JoinTheEuropeanMovement www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership-2...

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· Feb 7

More evidence emerging from the Epstein files that the people who funded Trump were also implicated in plots to destabilise Europe. Now more than ever Europe needs to be united. Help to amplify the message. #JoinTheEuropeanMovement today. www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership-2...

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· Jan 31

Join the European Movement. Do it today. Meet new people, make new friends and campaign for a better future. #JoinTheEuropeanMovement www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership-2...

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· Jan 31

Majority of Brits say they want to reverse Brexit and rejoin EU. #JoinTheEuropeanMovement today and help them do it. www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership-2...

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· Jan 31

If you think Brexit was a mistake #JoinTheEuropeanMovement today. www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership-2...

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· Jan 31

Join the European Movement. Do it today. Meet new people, make new friends and campaign for a better future. #JoinTheEuropeanMovement www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership-2...

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· Dec 6

Music fans in North Staffordshire: Don't miss this Girls for Gaza gig at The Sugarmill on 20th December 6pm. Tickets only £10. Admission for age 14+. Book your ticket here: www.thesugarmill.co.uk/gig-guide/

PosterGirls for GAZA: Yasmin Coe, Maria Liddle, Angel B Valentine, Kez Liddle, Crowspeak. Saturday 20th December 6pm, The Sugarmill, Stoke. £10adv. Raising money for medical aid for Palestine.

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· Sep 3

Yes but Starmer is allowing far right to dictate media agenda & falling into the immigration trap. He's reinforcing the message that immigration & asylum are priorities for the public. They're not. Housing, health care, climate are but people are convinced deporting asylum seekers will solve them.

The government in appearing to make reduction of immigration a key priority and using language sympathetic to racists and the far right when talking about asylum seekers is that it gives the impression that reducing immigration and being tough on asylum seekers will solve the problems that are adversely affecting peoples’ lives.

They won’t. And therefore even if the government stops all small boat arrivals and further reduces visa for students, essential worker and family members, no one’s lives will be improved and they will be perceived to have failed. They will be pressurised to go for the next scapegoats (disabled people?), and then the next (unemployed?, women?). Our society will become hostile to almost everyone even, eventually, the people who believe that hurting foreigners advantages them.

Instead the government should be saying: ”We understand that people are concerned about immigration and no-one like to see vulnerable people risking their lives on small boats in the channel or living in crowed hotels forbidden the means to support themselves - so we are working hard to fix the system, particularly the asylum system. But we have to say, even if we stopped all immigration and returned all asylum seekers it would make imperceptible difference to the problems people tell us that bother them” access to housing, NHS waiting lists, skills training, transport, cost of living, climate, and inequality between regions of our country.”

“So yes, we take immigration and asylum seriously, but our main priorities are to fix the problems blighting peoples’s lives - and they are not caused by the immigrant living down the road or small boat arrivals - so we are focusing on the real causes and tackling them.”

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· Aug 12

One of the hearts in our household stopped beating earlier this morning. RIP Cleo 20 December 2010 - 12 August 2025.

Cleo as a kitten (February 2011): Small tabby cat kitten standing on a bed, looking directly into the camera. Background blurred.

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· May 21

Every year on his anniversary I take a photo of the tree planted by my late husband. His ashes were buried by it when it was still a sapling. Now it blooms for him. Bitter-sweet. Fond memories. RIP Andy 11 July 1957 - 21 May 2004.

Horse chestnut tree boughs in blossom, in sunshine. Meadow grass and cow parsley in foreground.

Horse-chestnut tree between two oak trees partially shown, behind barbed wire stranded fence, with assorted meadow grass in foreground.

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· May 14

Found this today stuck to the inside of an old document folder. The good old days! My mortgage was £73,000 over 20 years.

Notice from Britannia Building society of mortgage rate rise dated 23 September 1988:
I am wringing to advise you that the interest rate charged on your mortgage account ill be amended to 12.45% gross from 11.200% with effect from 1st October 1988.
Your new monthly repayment is £838.05 and should be paid commencing with your October repayment.
As you make payments by internal transfer we are enclosing a revised authority. Please complete and sign the authority and then return it to us in the enclosed prepaid envelope.
Yours sincerely ...

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· Feb 10

Which parties are you including as hard Brexit parties? They certainly add up to more than Labour's individual share but I can't see anywhere near 70%+ from the Electoral Reform Society figures here: election2024.electoral-reform.org.uk

Table from the website https://election2024.electoral-reform.org.uk/ showing share of the vote and seats for each party in the UK general election of July 2024.

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· Nov 22

Blue sky and snowy landscape with icicle on the greenhouse. Peaceful scene. Staffordshire Moorlands 20 November 2024. Taken just before I heard my cousin had died. RIP Tim. Please help his kids with their charity fund raising. Link in reply. #PancreaticCancerUK

View through window from inside greenhouse. Icicle hanging down from gutter. Blue water butt covered in snow in foreground with sunny, blue sky above snow covered fields with a couple of horses in the distance.

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· Nov 20

Young man in the tractor says he's from Scrase Farms. Looks like a nice business built up over a couple of generations. No doubt he works very hard but he doesn't grow our food & race horse owners aren't usually considered hard up. IHT may sting them but what are our priorities? scrasefarms.co.uk

Screen shot of text from website reads: Over the years the whole farm has been turned over to hay production and we now produce 40,000+ small bales per year specifically for the equine market. Our own knowledge gained over the years, from owning children’s ponies to racehorses, has left us well placed to know the forage needs of our customers.

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· Nov 20

I would be interested to see them. I can't even get good iphone pictures of a #Robin posing in my garden. He/she follows me everywhere when I'm working in the garden.

Small robin on paved brick path with grass between the bricks. Stone kerb and brown leaves in the background.

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· Nov 18

Harvested the last chilis (Lemon drop) of the season today just before it started to snow. Grown in hydroponic system in poly-tunnel. Given the weather forecast I decided not to wait to see if any more of those still green would ripen. #GrowYourOwn

Six punnets (one only half full) of Lemon Drop chilis - some still green, on black granite work surface in front of small blue watering can, small jars of home made preserves and a magnetic knife block.

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· Oct 2

I had an outpatient appointment at Royal Stoke recently. The appointment letter dated 5th August 2024 included a section on Covid and instructions that masks needed to be worn. I would have anyway, but when I was there no one else was wearing masks.

If you have any covid-19 symptoms, please do not attend your appointment, book a PCR test and stay at home.

Please bring with you to your appointment
• Your appointment card or letter.
• Afacemask or covering.
• Any medication you are taking.
• Details of existing medical conditions and/or allergies you have.
• Samples fi requested.
• Proof of entitlement to free prescriptions and/or travel. You may be entitled to claim your travel expenses fi you are receiving supplementary benefits.

When you arrive for your appointment
Anyone attending our hospitals, either as a patient or visitor, should come alone where possible and wear a facemask at all times and follow infection prevention
measures including washing hands/using antibacterial hand gel and will be asked to keep a distance from other people. Hands, Face, Space.

Please could you attend as close to your appointment time as possible. Most clinics at Royal Stoke have a self check facility in the main entrance.

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· Sep 23

I've monitored quarterly averages mapping units generated v daily sunshine hours* for almost 8 years. We don't have a battery, our system was installed way back on one of the earliest schemes when they weren't easily available. *From national statistics so not necessarily precise for my location

Graph showing the close positive correlation between average daily sunshine hours (x) and units of solar power generated (y) by my solar panels.

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· Apr 23

But to be fair to voters it wasn't in their manifesto. They made up this particular "will of the people" themselves and then their newspaper mates persuaded a noisy minority that it was what they voted for. What they actually promised their voters:

From Conservative manifesto 2019: We will continue to grant asylum and support to refugees fleeing persecution, with the ultimate aim of helping them to return home if it is safe to do so.

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· Feb 11

Desire to return to the white male entitlement in the labour market was found to be a significant factor in the vote for Brexit in some places. Interesting study research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publicati...

“Although the structural inequalities that deny the working class access to opportunities, resources and power are not particular to our cohort, UKIP and the broader Leave campaign used the 2016 EU referendum to justify a gendered politics of white self interest that galvanised a majority of those in Sunderland to vote Leave.”

“They were persuaded to vote leave in opposition to a system they perceived had quashed their labour market capabilities though the reconfiguration of the gender and race order.”

“The deterioration in what had been the normative or standard employment relationships for white men was associated with EU policy supporting growing diversity of the labour market.”

Elizabeth Baker@lizzieab· Oct 31

Gathered in the last harvest of Summer crops from my greenhouse on Sunday. The aubergines have already been pickled and bottled. The tomatoes will become jam. The plants are still flowering but it's time to clear them out ready for the winter crops. Makes me sad but they won't survive over Winter.