Catherine Reynolds
@catherinereynolds.bsky.social
Norfolk, UK. Retired. Bacteriologist - human gut flora long before it became 'microbiome'. Professional Science Communicator - long before the skill even had a name. Dog(s) and horse owner. NCFC supporter. Gardener. Left-leaning.
This week’s Guest Recipe from the #CookbookCorner archive is the Ginger Pig Venison Bourguignon Pie from the Ginger Pig Christmas Cookbook by Tim Wilson and Rebecca Seal!
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www.nigella.com/recipes/gues...
December 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Please forgive me if my heart does not break cleanly in two at the idea that uber-wealthy property owners having a fannywobble about their tax-break disappearing are being replaced by… checks notes… different uber-wealthy property owners.
Honestly, you can’t make this up.
Honestly, you can’t make this up.
December 22, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Please forgive me if my heart does not break cleanly in two at the idea that uber-wealthy property owners having a fannywobble about their tax-break disappearing are being replaced by… checks notes… different uber-wealthy property owners.
Honestly, you can’t make this up.
Honestly, you can’t make this up.
My annual reminder to today's professional footballers and managers complaining about playing too many games.
Back in 1951, #NCFC played Ipswich away on Christmas Day and then at home on Boxing Day! 😲
No subs back then either and no big squads to rotate.
The Canaries won both games 2-0. 🥳
Back in 1951, #NCFC played Ipswich away on Christmas Day and then at home on Boxing Day! 😲
No subs back then either and no big squads to rotate.
The Canaries won both games 2-0. 🥳
December 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
End of an era. Take your pick, there are SO many. Singer. Songwriter. Guitarist. RIP Chris Rea.
December 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
End of an era. Take your pick, there are SO many. Singer. Songwriter. Guitarist. RIP Chris Rea.
A lovingly hand-crafted model (no idea by whom) of #NCFC 's old ground The Nest, on Rosary Road - abandoned in 1935 for construction of a new ground at Carrow Road.
The model was made for the club centenary (2002), displayed at Carrow Road for a while and now sits in a local museum.
The model was made for the club centenary (2002), displayed at Carrow Road for a while and now sits in a local museum.
December 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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When sovereignty means less power, less influence, and worse outcomes - all while pretending you’ve won.
Brexit Debunk 4 is now out.
Brexit Debunk 4 is now out.
Debunking Benefit 4: The £1 Billion We “Saved” by Walking Away from Environmental Power
Why celebrating the absence of a fee misses the far bigger cost of stepping outside Europe’s environmental framework.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
When sovereignty means less power, less influence, and worse outcomes - all while pretending you’ve won.
Brexit Debunk 4 is now out.
Brexit Debunk 4 is now out.
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If you’re in the UK and were born between 1970-1990 you can just go to your GP and get revaccinated for MMR because you may have had single vaccines, which are no longer considered valid. I went & did it this summer. Easy way to help protect yourself & your community.
If you are worried this is too big an executive function barrier you can go to a pharmacy and they will probably just jab you. That is what I did.
I'm not saying it's necessarily the right way to do this, that is just how much I am not fucking around with the measles
I'm not saying it's necessarily the right way to do this, that is just how much I am not fucking around with the measles
Go to your doctor and get your measles titers checked to make sure you are still immune and if not get re-vaccinated. It’s more and more likely all of us are going to eventually come in contact with it.
December 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
If you’re in the UK and were born between 1970-1990 you can just go to your GP and get revaccinated for MMR because you may have had single vaccines, which are no longer considered valid. I went & did it this summer. Easy way to help protect yourself & your community.
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The Great 75 Brexit Benefit Debunk has begun. Three responses have been published so far, and more will follow next week.
To everyone who has given their support so far, thank you so much.
This is a helluva long road ahead, and I appreciate every encouraging message, comment and piece of advice.
To everyone who has given their support so far, thank you so much.
This is a helluva long road ahead, and I appreciate every encouraging message, comment and piece of advice.
The 75 Brexit Benefits: A Reckoning Begins
Why I’m taking on a think tank, a pseudonym, and an entire decade of political myth-making - one “benefit” at a time.
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December 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The Great 75 Brexit Benefit Debunk has begun. Three responses have been published so far, and more will follow next week.
To everyone who has given their support so far, thank you so much.
This is a helluva long road ahead, and I appreciate every encouraging message, comment and piece of advice.
To everyone who has given their support so far, thank you so much.
This is a helluva long road ahead, and I appreciate every encouraging message, comment and piece of advice.
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🧵🚨 “𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐔𝐊 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬.”
I will lead the petition debate after it passed over 100,000 signatures. Thank you to everyone who helped ensure Parliament must now confront this issue head-on.
The petition is here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74... 1/5
I will lead the petition debate after it passed over 100,000 signatures. Thank you to everyone who helped ensure Parliament must now confront this issue head-on.
The petition is here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74... 1/5
December 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
🧵🚨 “𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐔𝐊 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬.”
I will lead the petition debate after it passed over 100,000 signatures. Thank you to everyone who helped ensure Parliament must now confront this issue head-on.
The petition is here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74... 1/5
I will lead the petition debate after it passed over 100,000 signatures. Thank you to everyone who helped ensure Parliament must now confront this issue head-on.
The petition is here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74... 1/5
@mikereynolds08.bsky.social you must follow the full thread
I feel compelled to write a review thread 🧵 for The Liz Truss Show because in the madness of the content, other aspects - vital aspects - are being missed.
1. The Aesthetics
Unless they were aiming for "Harley Street urologist waiting room circa 1992" this interview area is just unacceptable. 1/
1. The Aesthetics
Unless they were aiming for "Harley Street urologist waiting room circa 1992" this interview area is just unacceptable. 1/
December 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
@mikereynolds08.bsky.social you must follow the full thread
November 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
For the last in our November-long series of pieces on pubs and pub culture, @fred-gs.bsky.social visits The Fat Cat in Norwich, a pub that's close to his heart for many reasons. We hope you enjoy this beautiful salutation of an all-time great.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/11...
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/11...
Cool for Cats — The Fat Cat in Norwich, Norfolk — Pellicle
Night has fallen over The Fat Cat in Norwich, and I’ve been here long enough to watch the clientele change. I saw the post-work crowd rush in; now, as it thins, I head to the bar to order a pint of Ti...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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For the last in our November-long series of pieces on pubs and pub culture, @fred-gs.bsky.social visits The Fat Cat in Norwich, a pub that's close to his heart for many reasons. We hope you enjoy this beautiful salutation of an all-time great.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/11...
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/11...
Cool for Cats — The Fat Cat in Norwich, Norfolk — Pellicle
Night has fallen over The Fat Cat in Norwich, and I’ve been here long enough to watch the clientele change. I saw the post-work crowd rush in; now, as it thins, I head to the bar to order a pint of Ti...
www.pelliclemag.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
For the last in our November-long series of pieces on pubs and pub culture, @fred-gs.bsky.social visits The Fat Cat in Norwich, a pub that's close to his heart for many reasons. We hope you enjoy this beautiful salutation of an all-time great.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/11...
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/11...
@mikereynolds08.bsky.social this year?
If by chance you do have some pounds to spare there's no #gift like a book, and there's no book like a surprise #book.
Do consider giving to @booktrust.org.uk and get children (and their parents) reading 🎄📚
Do consider giving to @booktrust.org.uk and get children (and their parents) reading 🎄📚
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
@mikereynolds08.bsky.social this year?
Beautifully written as befits a beautiful performance. 🏴 observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
Stunning Scotland give the nation a night to remember | The Observer
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November 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Oh, and as your occasional reminder - if you are on UC, a pensioner, a journalist or just generally unable to afford a paid subscription to access the archive, please send me an email to [email protected] and I will be very happy to comp you a subscription.
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In November’s adminny update, I go through what’s been happening behind the scenes in Bearly Politics land, what’s surprised me, and where this whole thing seems to be heading.
If you’d like to be part of the unfolding madness, please do feel free to subscribe, you’re more than welcome here.
If you’d like to be part of the unfolding madness, please do feel free to subscribe, you’re more than welcome here.
November Admin Update: Fifty Months and 900 Posts
Five Months I give a brief update on life, writing, illness, hope, gratitude and the incredible growth of this community.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Oh, and as your occasional reminder - if you are on UC, a pensioner, a journalist or just generally unable to afford a paid subscription to access the archive, please send me an email to [email protected] and I will be very happy to comp you a subscription.
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Ooooof.
According to Fox News, if you are a racist Young Republican you are still a "kid" when you are 34, but if you are an Epstein victim, you are an adult when you're 15.
November 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Ooooof.
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This from @status.news is all true. But an even wider campaign is to punish and intimidate those who would theaten his *freedom from fact.*
Here we have to learn to group the news media with the research universities, vax confusion created by RFK, Jr., the Bureau of Labor Statistics mess, etc.
Here we have to learn to group the news media with the research universities, vax confusion created by RFK, Jr., the Bureau of Labor Statistics mess, etc.
November 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This from @status.news is all true. But an even wider campaign is to punish and intimidate those who would theaten his *freedom from fact.*
Here we have to learn to group the news media with the research universities, vax confusion created by RFK, Jr., the Bureau of Labor Statistics mess, etc.
Here we have to learn to group the news media with the research universities, vax confusion created by RFK, Jr., the Bureau of Labor Statistics mess, etc.
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GB News hosting Trumplethinskin so he can have a fannywobble about Panorama is the most utterly deranged media crossover of the year and is absolutely peak 2025.
Reader Discretion - I went sweary.
Reader Discretion - I went sweary.
Trumplethinskin Goes After the BBC - Because Facts Keep Hurting His Feelings
The man who demanded people "fight like hell" now insists the real injury was a slightly compressed quote on Panorama.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
GB News hosting Trumplethinskin so he can have a fannywobble about Panorama is the most utterly deranged media crossover of the year and is absolutely peak 2025.
Reader Discretion - I went sweary.
Reader Discretion - I went sweary.
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Can I please ask all my followers in the US (a surprising number from Kansas for some reason, which is epic) to pass two messages on for your orange grievance merchant in chief?
First - Leave the BBC out of your lying mouth.
Second - #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles.
Please and thank you.
First - Leave the BBC out of your lying mouth.
Second - #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles.
Please and thank you.
Trumplethinskin Goes After the BBC - Because Facts Keep Hurting His Feelings
The man who demanded people "fight like hell" now insists the real injury was a slightly compressed quote on Panorama.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Can I please ask all my followers in the US (a surprising number from Kansas for some reason, which is epic) to pass two messages on for your orange grievance merchant in chief?
First - Leave the BBC out of your lying mouth.
Second - #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles.
Please and thank you.
First - Leave the BBC out of your lying mouth.
Second - #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles.
Please and thank you.
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QUICK THREAD 🧵: This is another excellent article from Bearly Politics @bearlypolitics.co.uk coming out of the Sky News investigation into Twitter now called X, that I posted about yesterday.
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
QUICK THREAD 🧵: This is another excellent article from Bearly Politics @bearlypolitics.co.uk coming out of the Sky News investigation into Twitter now called X, that I posted about yesterday.
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October's the yellow month in @kateblincoe.bsky.social's @theguardian.com country diary today.
#countrydiary #naturewriting
#countrydiary #naturewriting
Country diary: There’s something cooking in the woods | Kate Blincoe
Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: In this moment of great seasonal change, I go looking for butterflies and find a ‘feathered’ fungus
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October 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
October's the yellow month in @kateblincoe.bsky.social's @theguardian.com country diary today.
#countrydiary #naturewriting
#countrydiary #naturewriting
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When I first heard about Project 2025, I thought it was conspiracy nonsense - too brazen, too cartoonishly evil to be real.
Then Trump called it “severe right”… and started enacting it.
Part One of my two-part deep dive into the authoritarian playbook now shaping the United States.
Then Trump called it “severe right”… and started enacting it.
Part One of my two-part deep dive into the authoritarian playbook now shaping the United States.
Project 2025: The Manual for Making America Obey Again (Part 1)
Heritage Foundation’s playbook for Trump 2.0 shows what happens when authoritarian ambition meets bureaucratic precision.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
When I first heard about Project 2025, I thought it was conspiracy nonsense - too brazen, too cartoonishly evil to be real.
Then Trump called it “severe right”… and started enacting it.
Part One of my two-part deep dive into the authoritarian playbook now shaping the United States.
Then Trump called it “severe right”… and started enacting it.
Part One of my two-part deep dive into the authoritarian playbook now shaping the United States.
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