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Katherine May Williams
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Books, trees, seeds, poems, Tibet, energy efficiency, passivhaus principles, retrofitting, EVs, sleep, enviro-mental health, do-gooding..? (she/her) 🌍📚🌱⚡
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Happy World Food Day! 🍎🍐🍊🍌🍇🫐🥝🥦🌽🥕🫒🥐🥯🧇🍕🥙🥗🍝🍣🥧🍪 sharethemeal.org
Picture of a notification from the Share The Meal app stating ‘I unlocked the World Food Day 2025 achievement while fighting hunger!’ with the ShareTheMeal UN World Food Programme logo (a blue bowl with a little yellow heart) and text underneath.
October 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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The winds the other day created a pear-fect storm.. 🍐
October 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Happy Autumn Equinox to all in the northern hemisphere! 🍂🍎🍐

Here is an atmospheric photo of the full moon from two weeks ago (Corn Moon, September 7th 2025) 🌝

#AutumnEquinox #Mabon
Photo of the bright full moon in the night sky (September 7th 2025) with clouds passing across it in a pretty/spooky way.
September 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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I missed #BookLoversDay by a few hours, but time is an illusion so here are some pictures of (mostly recent) stacks of books currently teetering in my yet-to-be-organised library.. 📚
A photo of a stack of 13 books, a mix of fiction and non-fiction, mostly new hardbacks, including (from bottom of stack to top) ‘What If We Get It Right?’ by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, ‘Hope’ by (the late) Pope Francis, ‘The Harder I Fight The More I Love You’ by Neko Case, ‘Spent’ by Alison Bechdel, ‘Kissing Girls On Shabbat’ by Sara Glass, ‘The Emperor of Gladness’ by Ocean Vuong, ‘Rebel Girl’ by Kathleen Hanna, ‘Care and Feeding’ by Laurie Woolever, ‘I’m Glad My Mom Died’ by Jennette McCurdy, ‘A Different Kind of Power’ by Jacinda Ardern, ‘Voice for the Voiceless’ (paperback) by his holiness the Dalai Lama, ‘How We Learn to Be Brave’ (paperback) no by Mariann Edgar Budde and ‘Be Gay Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos’ (paperback) edited by Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley. Also pictured (leaning against the book stack, almost out of shot) are the books ‘Misunderstood Vegetables’ by Becky Selengut and ‘Rage Baking’ by Katherine Alford and Kathy Gunst. A photo of a stack of 16 books (10 hardbacks, 6 paperbacks) plus 8 poetry collection leaning against the pile of books. Books in the stack are (from bottom) ‘The Dry Season’ by Melissa Febos, ‘Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert’ by Bob the Drag Queen, ‘A Wilder Way’ by Poppy Okotcha, ‘If You Can’t Take the Heat’ by Geraldine DeRuiter, ‘How to Lose Your Mother’ by Molly Jong Fast, ‘Memorial Days’ by Geraldine Brooks, ‘Songs of No Provenance’ by Lydi Conklin, ‘Girls Girls Girls’ by Shoshana Von Blanckensee, ‘Boys in the Trees’ (paperback) by Carly Simon, ‘Your Wild and Precious Life’ (paperback) by Liz Jensen, ‘Jews Don’t Count’ (paperback) by David Baddiel, ‘Right Wing Women’ (paperback) by Andrea Dworkin, ‘Women and the Piano’ (paperback) by Susan Tomes, ‘Change the Recipe’ (small hardback) by Jose Andres, ‘The Serviceberry’ (small hardback) by Robin Wall Kimmerer and ‘We Will Not Cancel Us’ by Adrienne Maree Brown. A photo of a stack of five books (3 hardbacks, 2 paperbacks) on a wooden surface with full bookshelves in the background. The books pictured are ‘All Fours’ by Miranda July, ‘Great Falls, MT’ by Reggie Watts, ‘The Universe in Verse’ by Maria Popova, ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ by Anthony Doerr and ‘Lab Girl’ by Hope Jahren.
August 10, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Going into hospital for a couple of days. Kidney stones!

Enjoy your summer. Try to be grateful for the good things. 🌻
Photo of a little sunflower enjoying the sunshine.
July 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Unboxing books from last years move. This is not the first time I have stumbled upon two copies of the same book, but it might be the first time I’ve dug out two copies of the same *edition* of the same book.. both containing identical bookmarks. #booksky #kafka
A photo of two vintage near-identical paperback (Penguin Modern Classics edition) copies of Franz Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis and Other Stories’ with two identical bookmarks (from Blackwell bookshop, Oxford) placed above. Gray carpet background. The covers of both books (one slightly more faded than the other) feature a detail of Max Ernst’s lithograph ‘Le Hibou’.)
July 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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#EarthDay 🌎🌍🌏
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A certificate from the UN World Food Programme’s Share the Meal app stating ‘I unlocked the Earth Day 2025 achievement while fighting hunger!’ Picture above the text is a cute little purple cartoon worm.
April 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Just in time for poetry month… #PoetryMonth 🧲🖋️
Photo of four magnetic poetry kits (themed ‘Suffragette’, ‘The Artist’, ‘Mushroom’ and ‘Haiku’) arranged equally atop a closed MacBook Air laptop. A black uncapped biro pen (with ‘Smash the Patriarchy’ logo) is positioned in the top right, pointing in a northeasterly direction, at approx a 40 degree angle.
April 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Saint David. #DavidJohansenRIP
Black and white photo of New York Dolls singer David Johansen who died 28th February 2025.
March 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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#DyddGŵylDewiHapus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Photo of a daffodil for St David’s Day (patron saint of Wales, 1st of March 2025.) Green metal shed in background and magnolia tree (just beginning to blossom) with blue sky behind.
March 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Losar Tashi Delek!

Happy Tibetan New Year!

May 2152, year of the Female Wood Snake (which represents growth, transformation & wisdom) be auspicious & Buddhaful! 🪷

#Losar #Tibet #ཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས
(Here is a recipe for vegan momos, Tibetan dumplings, from the ‘Taste Tibet’ cookbook 🥟)
Picture of the page in the ‘Taste Tibet’ cookbook by Yeshi Jampa & Julie Kleeman detailing the recipe for ‘Heavenly Vegan Momos’ (Tibetan dumplings), a Tibetan food eaten during the celebration of Losar. Recipe reads: ‘Heavenly Vegan Momos’ (Makes about 40 momos) For the dough: 500g (3 1/3 cups) self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting. For the filling: 1 sweetheart (pointed) cabbage, about 500g (1lb 2oz), or the same weight of any other green cabbage. 200g (7oz) spinach. 200g (7oz) Chinese chives. 2 teaspoons salt. 2 tablespoons cooking oil Instructions reads: For the dough, put the flour into a mixing bowl. Slowly pour in about 250ml (1 cup) of warm water - a hot handwash temperature is good - into the flour with one hand, while mixing with the other. Add just enough water to make a dough - you don’t want it to get too sticky. Knead until the dough forms a ball in the bowl, then cover and set aside for 15-20 minutes. Meanwhile make the filling. Wash the cabbage and chop it very finely, then put it into a large mixing bowl. Wash the spinach thoroughly and chop it finely, then add it to the bowl. Add the salt and oil and squish it through the vegetables with your hand- this will help to draw out excess moisture - then set aside for 5 minutes. Tip the vegetables into a colander and press down firmly with your hands to extract as much liquid as possible. Return the vegetables to the bowl. Chop the chives very finely and stir through the filling. Take the dough out of the bowl and knead it for a couple of minutes, then divide it into four equal pieces and return to the bowl. Sprinkle a little flour onto your work surface - don’t overdo it, as too much flour can stiffen the dough, making the momos harder to wrap later. Take the first piece of dough, keeping the rest covered in the bowl to stop them drying out. Roll out the dough into a sausage shape about 25cm (10inches) long, then cut into ten equal slices, lightly flattening each one with your hand. (Continued) Picture of the ‘Taste Tibet’ cookbook (cover) by Julie Kleeman and Yeshi Jampa. (‘Heavenly Vegans Momos’ instructions continued from picture one) Using a rolling pin, and making one wrapper at a time, push and pull the flattened piece of dough up and down quickly and firmly, holding it with your spare hand and turning it little by little as you go. The middle should end up a bit thicker than the outer edges, and it should fill the palm of your hand; it doesn’t need to be a perfect circle. When you’re ready to fill, wrap and fold your momos, follow the instructions on page 146-8 (the process is also shown on pages 150-51), shaping them however you like. For best results, steam these momos (see page 148) over a high heat for 13-16 minutes, cooking them in batches according to the size of your steamer.
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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On Mondays we read banned books. #booksky

And drink tea. #teasky

And contemplate our Buddha nature. #buddhismsky
Photo of a black mug decorated with various titles of banned books in different fonts on white windowsill. A teabag string and label hangs over the side of the mug. To the left of the mug is a set of tingsha (small Buddhist brass cymbals) with the on mani padme hung mantra inscribed. A tiny Buddha statue sits just behind them and on the far left of the picture is a small singing bowl (with wooden sounding wand) on a red and orange embroidered cushion. Pale blinds are in the background of the image and a couple of peace lily leaves hang down into the shot. To the right of the mug of tea, just behind the handle, is a white munchkin pumpkin.
February 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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RIP Tom Robbins. 1932-2025.
My favourite author.

Erleichda. (He did.)
Black and white picture of the late great American comic-philosopher novelist Tom Robbins (circa mid 1990s.). Photo is from the waist up. Robbins his wearing a dark sweater with a large white star on the front. He is wearing sunglasses and looking to the left.
February 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Iechyd da, innit. 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
January 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Happy New Year.

Feed the hungry.

Try to be kind (but if you’re too angry to be kind, at least try not to be the worst.)

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Screen grab from the World Food Programme’s Share the Meal app saying I have unlocked 5 years achievement (meaning I have fed someone every day for 5 years via the app.) Picture has an orange background, black text and a cartoony picture of a can of peas in a purple circle above the Share the Meal and WFP logos.)
January 1, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Celebrating the small achievements: 1. I finally got my new library card! (Tip: get a library card even if you don’t think you’ll use it much. It helps libraries keep their funding.) 2. I reached 8.5million grains on Free Rice! #MerryChristmas #HappyHannukah 🎄🕎🎉
A screen grab from Free Rice dot showing user (Katherine May Williams) has donated 8,500,000 grains of rice to the World Food Program.
December 25, 2024 at 3:07 AM
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My 500th tree! Carbon negative 2024, thanks to the Tree App! www.thetreeapp.org 🌳 #Trees
December 7, 2024 at 6:30 AM
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Phone just lit up and screamed at me with a “red warning” from the UK government. So that was fun. Apparently Storm Darragh is going to be bad. #StormDarragh
Screen grab of red alert storm warning from UK government.
December 6, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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My Welsh is still terrible. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦉 Iechyd da.
An announcement from the DuoLingo language app of 365 days of learning achieved. On a vivid orange background. Text reads: ‘I’m on a 365 day learning streak!’ There is a cartoon-ish picture of a yellow owl alongside the text that is apparently on fire and screaming. One assumes this is meant to represent excitement?
December 4, 2024 at 1:45 AM
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Heartbroken to learn of the sudden passing of Bertie the Pomeranian on Nov 19th.

Newly elected Deputy Dog Mayor of NYC, Paddington lookalike, patron of the arts, singer of songs, pee sommelier, paddle pool aficionado, floofiest lil bobo to ever do it.

RIP Bert. x

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Close-up of Bertie, the cutest little chocolate Pomeranian doggo the world has ever known, in da bath. His lil brown chin resting on the edge of the tub, his boopiest lil snoot aimed straight at your heart, his floofy brown fur water-spiked, his eyes like moons. Pic decorated with four red hearts. In memoriam. RIP sweet Bobo. (May 2013 - November 2024.)
November 22, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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Got my flu jab and COVID booster yesterday morning. One in each arm. Pew pew.
Green neon cross on wall outside pharmacy. Hazy winter sun in background.
November 22, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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This bit of the Earth seems nice.
November 15, 2024 at 9:21 PM