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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · Jan 7

Obligatory introduction to the spoiled goblins behind my username. Mabel, Minnie and Margo. They’re the best. #GuineaPigs

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 10h

My mother has tamed a local squirrel to eat nuts out of her hands. And he is now boldly walking into her kitchen, and even her living room, in his ongoing quest for more nuts… 🥜 🐿️

🤦‍♀️ I’m going to show up for Christmas dinner and the squirrel will be seated at the table…

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 11h

Off work until Monday and feeling very happy about it.

Then I remember I have a big garden to “put to bed” before the cold weather arrives, and a house to deep clean, and a load of errands to run, and TWO different gyno appointments to attend.

And I’m ever so slightly less happy about it.

Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 1d

Someone posted this Carver poem earlier. I had never seen it before and it has stuck with me all day. ❤️

Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 1d

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 1d

Dyed my hair a few shades redder than usual, because autumn 🍂

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 2d

I bought the exact same thing today to take to my mum’s house! She was also delighted by a bit of early festive grub!

Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 2d

The honk that I honked on reading that part of the article this morning…

Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 2d

The pain of reading the Guardian’s blind date column, and getting all happy that the couple seem really into each other, only for the second person to deploy “Sure, as friends” to the last question about whether they’d see each other again.

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 3d

Diane Keaton, a legend. x

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Jason @nickmotown.bsky.social · 3d

Ah well, never mind.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Lost Prophets singer Ian Watkins killed in prison

Ian Watkins was serving a 29-year sentence imposed in 2013 after admitting 13 child sex offences.

www.bbc.com

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 4d

Love when this happens. I have no idea who the blocked person is, but I had clearly already clocked him as a huge knobhead.

Well done, past-Katie…

Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 4d

The guinea pigs are currently attempting to pull the “you forgot to give us dinner” stunt. Grifting little ratbags…

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 4d

This is the vibe I aspire to.

Unfortunately I’m more “dishevelled redhead quietly swears at her phone while picking random bits of hay off her coat”

Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 4d

A woman on the tube, her beautiful silver hair cascading in waves over her vivid red cape, nods to herself as she reads a book about tigers.

Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 4d

Argh. Someone from work just matched with me on Bumble.

There isn’t a HELL NO big enough.

One Big Rule: No boinking people from work.

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 4d

An excellent mission for someone with such a good grasp of the fundamental issues. 🤦‍♀️

Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 5d

I’m sorry… WHAT the proof? 🤬

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 5d

I think if you are caught using your phone when driving your phone should be seized and crushed into a cube

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 5d

Me having a friendly check in call with the Head Honcho and somehow ending the call on the hook for another massive strategy project that will take at least a year and require every senior leader in the organisation to be involved.

Bugger.

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 6d

Overheard at the office: “I wish I was the age I am now when I was born. I would have been less of a twat.”

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 6d

Yeesssss… 🪩

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 7d

Does Dolty Parton want one of my kidneys? I don’t even care if she needs it. She can just have it if she wants.

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 7d

Meeting one of my FWBs tonight to honour the memory of Jilly Cooper in the most appropriate way possible. 🍾 🍆 😆

Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 8d

Got three of these - one for each of the pigs. Popped them into the Pig Palace earlier and after a lot of suspicious exploration, they each moved into a strawberry and haven’t emerged since. 🍓

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Katie and the Pigs @katieandthepigs.bsky.social · 8d

The nights are rapidly drawing in and it’s getting chilly, so I have officially entered my annual “All I Want To Eat Is Pie, Mashed Potatoes And Gravy” era.

(Salad? I don’t know her…)

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Laura @rural-laura.bsky.social · 8d

No Scottish people in the Tesco design team it seems

Photo of a bag of Tesco's "mini roaster" potatoes

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