Louise Broad
@lou65broad.bsky.social
Business owner, mum of 5. Love dogs, nature, horses, solitude. Gardening for wildlife and people. Angry, anxious about climate crisis, greed, bigotry, ignorance. Fibromyalgia and ADHD. Live in a house of neurodivergence and dodgy mental health. Norfolk UK.
#OnThisDay 20th December 2023. I had the best meal I’ve ever eaten at La Belvedere in Lauzerte. Each morsel was exquisite. This was the dessert, chocolate and hazelnut soufflé.
December 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
#OnThisDay 20th December 2023. I had the best meal I’ve ever eaten at La Belvedere in Lauzerte. Each morsel was exquisite. This was the dessert, chocolate and hazelnut soufflé.
#OnThisDay 19th December 2009. Cutie playing in the snow. 😍
December 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
#OnThisDay 19th December 2009. Cutie playing in the snow. 😍
#OnThisDay 18th December 2011, visit to see Father Christmas with my 4 year old twins and 5 year old daughter at Oxborough Hall in Norfolk. They were perfect little angels at all times. 🤣
December 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
#OnThisDay 18th December 2011, visit to see Father Christmas with my 4 year old twins and 5 year old daughter at Oxborough Hall in Norfolk. They were perfect little angels at all times. 🤣
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A mini-story to cheer you up this morning. The other day my teenage son returned to his locked bike to find the back wheel nicked. We went back yesterday to rescue it - and found this note taped to the frame. We have the wheel again. A very happy Xmas to Ollie and his note-writing other half.
December 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
A mini-story to cheer you up this morning. The other day my teenage son returned to his locked bike to find the back wheel nicked. We went back yesterday to rescue it - and found this note taped to the frame. We have the wheel again. A very happy Xmas to Ollie and his note-writing other half.
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Did u know? As the chill of winter bites, small souls rely on seed heads, spent flowers, hollow stems, or leaf piles to hide until the spring warmth returns. In fact, anything that's coloured brown in your garden will be sheltering tiny lives, so don't chop, chip, or tip...believe in brown. 🤎🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🍂
December 18, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Did u know? As the chill of winter bites, small souls rely on seed heads, spent flowers, hollow stems, or leaf piles to hide until the spring warmth returns. In fact, anything that's coloured brown in your garden will be sheltering tiny lives, so don't chop, chip, or tip...believe in brown. 🤎🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🍂
What the actual heck is this abomination? I pass this sign quite regularly and can’t bear to look at it. The eye with zip lids thing really gives me the heebeegeebies. Shudder!
December 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
What the actual heck is this abomination? I pass this sign quite regularly and can’t bear to look at it. The eye with zip lids thing really gives me the heebeegeebies. Shudder!
#OnThisDay 17th December 2022 my two beauties, aged 16 and 15 at The Optus Stadium, Perth WA, to watch Perth Scorchers vs Sydney Sixers in the Big Bash League. (Cricket).
December 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
#OnThisDay 17th December 2022 my two beauties, aged 16 and 15 at The Optus Stadium, Perth WA, to watch Perth Scorchers vs Sydney Sixers in the Big Bash League. (Cricket).
#OnThisDay 16th December 2022. I had to post a video instead of a photo today. These two were living in the garden of our holiday house in Western Australia. Isn’t the Joey just the cutest thing ever?
December 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
#OnThisDay 16th December 2022. I had to post a video instead of a photo today. These two were living in the garden of our holiday house in Western Australia. Isn’t the Joey just the cutest thing ever?
If you see this, WE IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
December 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
If you see this, WE IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
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If you see this, WE IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
December 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
If you see this, WE IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
#OnThisDay 15th December 2017 Maggie in her racing car. She always has a face on like she’s in trouble which she never is.
December 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
#OnThisDay 15th December 2017 Maggie in her racing car. She always has a face on like she’s in trouble which she never is.
#OnThisDay 14th December 2024. Aldo’s snoz, snuggled up on my dressing gown next to me on the sofa.
December 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
#OnThisDay 14th December 2024. Aldo’s snoz, snuggled up on my dressing gown next to me on the sofa.
A lovely day spent in the garden today. It was sunny and not too cold. Aldo helped me to make the first of my new rustic rose trellises from hazel, oak and dogwood branches and a repurposed cane single headboard. I love using free stuff to make new things. I have lots more branches to use. 🙂
December 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
A lovely day spent in the garden today. It was sunny and not too cold. Aldo helped me to make the first of my new rustic rose trellises from hazel, oak and dogwood branches and a repurposed cane single headboard. I love using free stuff to make new things. I have lots more branches to use. 🙂
#OnThisDay 13th December 2014. My youngest three amongst the aerial roots of a giant Australian Banyan Tree in a park in Brisbane.
December 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
#OnThisDay 13th December 2014. My youngest three amongst the aerial roots of a giant Australian Banyan Tree in a park in Brisbane.
#OnThisDay 12th December 2022 Lovely family bush walk in John Forest National Park, Western Australia.
December 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
#OnThisDay 12th December 2022 Lovely family bush walk in John Forest National Park, Western Australia.
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Remember when it was the 1% v the 99%, well it's the 0.001% against everyone else
#BackZack @zackpolanski.bsky.social back a #WealthTax
#TaxBillionaires
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
#BackZack @zackpolanski.bsky.social back a #WealthTax
#TaxBillionaires
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
‘The 0.001%’: a quick visual breakdown of the world’s wealthiest people
About 56,000 people control three times as much wealth as half of humanity. Here’s one way to illustrate that
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Remember when it was the 1% v the 99%, well it's the 0.001% against everyone else
#BackZack @zackpolanski.bsky.social back a #WealthTax
#TaxBillionaires
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
#BackZack @zackpolanski.bsky.social back a #WealthTax
#TaxBillionaires
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Well done Scotland. 👏
The change, secured by @scottishgreens.org MSP @markruskell.bsky.social will ensure that all new buildings over a certain size must include #SwiftBricks as part of their design.
#Swifts #birders
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#Swifts #birders
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December 11, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Well done Scotland. 👏
#OnThisDay 10th December 2022. First morning in Western Australia. I really need to go back very soon.
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
#OnThisDay 10th December 2022. First morning in Western Australia. I really need to go back very soon.
#OnThisDay 9th December 2010. My sweet little shepherdess in the school nativity play. She really struggled with things like this, which I now know were early signs of RSD (rejection sensitive dysphoria) Look at her anxious little face. It breaks my heart. 💔
December 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
#OnThisDay 9th December 2010. My sweet little shepherdess in the school nativity play. She really struggled with things like this, which I now know were early signs of RSD (rejection sensitive dysphoria) Look at her anxious little face. It breaks my heart. 💔
#OnThisDay 8th December 2012, who has had Mummy’s phone?
December 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
#OnThisDay 8th December 2012, who has had Mummy’s phone?
I think this is a slippery slope.
"A move towards an authoritarian state": what those with trial experience think of removing juries
David Lammy plans to cut the number of jury trials in England and Wales. A defendant, a victim, a barrister, a KC, a judge and a juror have concerns
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
David Lammy plans to cut the number of jury trials in England and Wales. A defendant, a victim, a barrister, a KC, a judge and a juror have concerns
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
‘A move towards an authoritarian state’: what those with trial experience think of removing juries
David Lammy plans to cut the number of jury trials in England and Wales. A defendant, a victim, a barrister, a KC, a judge and a juror have concerns
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I think this is a slippery slope.
#OnThisDay 7th December 2020. Trying on bridesmaid’s dresses for my eldest’s wedding the following summer. Two of the girls weren’t able to be there, and joined in by zoom. 🙂
December 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
#OnThisDay 7th December 2020. Trying on bridesmaid’s dresses for my eldest’s wedding the following summer. Two of the girls weren’t able to be there, and joined in by zoom. 🙂
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Make your Christmas cards even more special by slipping a packet of seeds inside 😊
Our packets of seeds are just the right size and will also make the wildlife happy🐝🦋🌱🦇🐛
Most are only £2 each, available from
www.jemimasgarden.co.uk
#MHHSBD
Our packets of seeds are just the right size and will also make the wildlife happy🐝🦋🌱🦇🐛
Most are only £2 each, available from
www.jemimasgarden.co.uk
#MHHSBD
December 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Make your Christmas cards even more special by slipping a packet of seeds inside 😊
Our packets of seeds are just the right size and will also make the wildlife happy🐝🦋🌱🦇🐛
Most are only £2 each, available from
www.jemimasgarden.co.uk
#MHHSBD
Our packets of seeds are just the right size and will also make the wildlife happy🐝🦋🌱🦇🐛
Most are only £2 each, available from
www.jemimasgarden.co.uk
#MHHSBD
#OnThisDay 6th December 2023. Salthouse Marshes on the North Norfolk Coast. Acres of reed beds, salt and freshwater pools, Brant geese, teal and mute swans. I was there with Aldo and not another person in sight. Bliss!
December 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
#OnThisDay 6th December 2023. Salthouse Marshes on the North Norfolk Coast. Acres of reed beds, salt and freshwater pools, Brant geese, teal and mute swans. I was there with Aldo and not another person in sight. Bliss!
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This needs to happen!
I know I have some people in the music industry following me. This is a great idea. A live aid type of concert benefitting Gaza on the same night that Eurovision airs, with hopefully all countries who are boycotting Eurovision participating here
I could see the Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign trying to organise something like that in Ireland. It would be great if we could do something jointly with the other countries that are also boycotting. I see Zoe Lawlor sometimes - chair of the IPSC - so will sound her out.
December 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
This needs to happen!