Karen D Shipp
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Karen D Shipp
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Here to learn. And with others, to face up to the uncomfortable realities of climate change and the need for fairer distribution of wealth in these desperate times.
Pro-Europe, pro caring for future generations, pro Ukraine.
#CovidIsAirborne #BoycottTesla
Completely utterly beautiful. Thank you so much.
December 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Thank you. That's so beautiful.
December 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The much-loved Spike Milligan?
December 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Sometimes our best intentions do not go
amiss; sometimes we do as we meant to.
The sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrow
that seemed hard frozen; may it happen for you.
December 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
A people sometimes will step back from war,
elect an honest man, decide they care
enough, that they can’t leave some stranger poor.
Some men become what they were born for.
December 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
This, by Sheenagh Pugh, was in Poems on the [London] Underground in the eighties. A helpful reminder in these dark days:

Sometimes things don’t go, after all,
from bad to worse. Some years, muscadel
faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don’t fail.
Sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well.
December 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I took great pleasure as a child in the sixties, memorising a version of this, and a few others, from 'Verse and Worse'.

It still springs into my head every so often.
December 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Oh lovely. I looked it up. Thank you!
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Late autumn and winter, these lines of Frost's come frequently to mind:

The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping
To ravel them one by one
And let them go scraping and creeping
Out over the crusted snow,
When others are sleeping.
December 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Magical.
December 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Reposted by Karen D Shipp
And there's this. Two former Tory PMs, Johnson & Truss, with Farage, partying together. Three greedy people. Deluded, selfish, right wing liars and racists - who broke Britain's economy, but they're still laughing all the way to the bank.

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ins...
Inside private members' club bash where guests laugh at Hitler jokes and sing 'we're all racist now'
The dinner was attended by Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Liz Truss, Robert Jenrick and Lee Anderson among other high-profile political figures.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM