Kate Witney
@lincolnshirelass.bsky.social
Singer and singing teacher, who also loves cooking, gardening, history. Politically to the left.
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Today is Epiphany, when Western Christianity celebrates the three kings' visit to the infant Christ. Peter Bruegel the Elder's 'Adoration of the Kings' [National Gallery] is one of my favourite imaginings of that moment. It's also full of mystery.
Quick Epiphany 🧵
Quick Epiphany 🧵
January 6, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Today is Epiphany, when Western Christianity celebrates the three kings' visit to the infant Christ. Peter Bruegel the Elder's 'Adoration of the Kings' [National Gallery] is one of my favourite imaginings of that moment. It's also full of mystery.
Quick Epiphany 🧵
Quick Epiphany 🧵
I am listening to Radio 4, where an American commentator is being interviewed. Talk has turned to Greenland.
“We don’t have enough ice-breakers,” he says.
I find myself, if only fleetingly, wondering why he can’t just ask everyone to say what their favourite colour is and sing something.
“We don’t have enough ice-breakers,” he says.
I find myself, if only fleetingly, wondering why he can’t just ask everyone to say what their favourite colour is and sing something.
January 6, 2026 at 5:25 PM
I am listening to Radio 4, where an American commentator is being interviewed. Talk has turned to Greenland.
“We don’t have enough ice-breakers,” he says.
I find myself, if only fleetingly, wondering why he can’t just ask everyone to say what their favourite colour is and sing something.
“We don’t have enough ice-breakers,” he says.
I find myself, if only fleetingly, wondering why he can’t just ask everyone to say what their favourite colour is and sing something.
It’s almost as if FIFA isn’t best equipped to judge.
January 5, 2026 at 7:51 PM
It’s almost as if FIFA isn’t best equipped to judge.
I used to think that Trump was a stupid, narcissistic, attention-seeking psychopath, but I take it all back. He's much worse than that.
January 4, 2026 at 7:35 PM
I used to think that Trump was a stupid, narcissistic, attention-seeking psychopath, but I take it all back. He's much worse than that.
NY Resolutions:
Aged 18: Become a better person and work towards world peace.
Aged 32: Lose four stone and write a novel.
Aged 50: Label things properly in the freezer.
Aged 66: Try not to talk to myself in public loudly enough for other people to hear.
Aged 18: Become a better person and work towards world peace.
Aged 32: Lose four stone and write a novel.
Aged 50: Label things properly in the freezer.
Aged 66: Try not to talk to myself in public loudly enough for other people to hear.
January 1, 2026 at 11:35 PM
NY Resolutions:
Aged 18: Become a better person and work towards world peace.
Aged 32: Lose four stone and write a novel.
Aged 50: Label things properly in the freezer.
Aged 66: Try not to talk to myself in public loudly enough for other people to hear.
Aged 18: Become a better person and work towards world peace.
Aged 32: Lose four stone and write a novel.
Aged 50: Label things properly in the freezer.
Aged 66: Try not to talk to myself in public loudly enough for other people to hear.
Watching Carols From Kings I noticed the Dean prayed for the joy of Christmas to illuminate arseholes, which I thought was lovely, as I think arseholes are often a forgotten demographic.
December 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Watching Carols From Kings I noticed the Dean prayed for the joy of Christmas to illuminate arseholes, which I thought was lovely, as I think arseholes are often a forgotten demographic.
Today I am a little concerned that I might have made too much ice-cream in too many different flavours.
Ha, ha, ha! Gotcha! That’s impossible, isn’t it, because there is no such thing as too much ice cream!
Ha, ha, ha! Gotcha! That’s impossible, isn’t it, because there is no such thing as too much ice cream!
December 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Today I am a little concerned that I might have made too much ice-cream in too many different flavours.
Ha, ha, ha! Gotcha! That’s impossible, isn’t it, because there is no such thing as too much ice cream!
Ha, ha, ha! Gotcha! That’s impossible, isn’t it, because there is no such thing as too much ice cream!
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It’s a sad indictment of Britain’s ignorance of nature that Sycamore Gap petitions - for a tree that mattered to humans but not nature - received tens of thousands of signatures but a petition to protect entire peatland habitats is stuck at 1,500 actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...
Sign the petition to end peat sales!
No more delays: Let's get peat out of gardens once and for all. The time for uncertainty has ended.
actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk
December 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
It’s a sad indictment of Britain’s ignorance of nature that Sycamore Gap petitions - for a tree that mattered to humans but not nature - received tens of thousands of signatures but a petition to protect entire peatland habitats is stuck at 1,500 actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...
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I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.
December 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.
Tommy Robinson is a Christian in the same way I’m a nuclear physicist.
December 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Tommy Robinson is a Christian in the same way I’m a nuclear physicist.
Aldi have an English sparking wine from Kent on offer at £7 something and it is very nice. I have been testing it for you, which is very selfless of me, isn’t it.
December 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Aldi have an English sparking wine from Kent on offer at £7 something and it is very nice. I have been testing it for you, which is very selfless of me, isn’t it.
I have been extolling the virtues of my lovely wool mattress and suggesting my friends stay over and ‘test the mattress’. I am aware that this phrase has different meanings, depending on one’s age. 20: we all know exactly what it means. 40: will I sleep well? 60: what about my back?!
December 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I have been extolling the virtues of my lovely wool mattress and suggesting my friends stay over and ‘test the mattress’. I am aware that this phrase has different meanings, depending on one’s age. 20: we all know exactly what it means. 40: will I sleep well? 60: what about my back?!
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Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
February 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
What other honours await, one wonders. The PGA Prize for Physics? The Major League Basketball Prize for Literature?
December 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
What other honours await, one wonders. The PGA Prize for Physics? The Major League Basketball Prize for Literature?
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⚠️ Stand-off in Sheringham: Local campaigners have spent the past three nights camping out overnight in an extraordinary bid to save a 1950s Streamline Moderne style bus shelter in Norfolk, thwarting council contractors who attempted to demolish the structure at 2am.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
⚠️ Stand-off in Sheringham: Local campaigners have spent the past three nights camping out overnight in an extraordinary bid to save a 1950s Streamline Moderne style bus shelter in Norfolk, thwarting council contractors who attempted to demolish the structure at 2am.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is, I am reliably informed, International Red Squirrels week. And it’s working. I am aware of red squirrels.
November 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
It is, I am reliably informed, International Red Squirrels week. And it’s working. I am aware of red squirrels.
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Fed up with the John Lewis's website talking to me as if I'm a naughty dog.
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Fed up with the John Lewis's website talking to me as if I'm a naughty dog.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Claire's beloved horse Tango died in terror when holiday-makers set off a firework display at a nearby cottage. Sign her petition to protect animals and vulnerable people from the shock and terror of unexpected explosions. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...
Petition: Ban the public sale of fireworks!
Claire's beloved horse Tango died in terror when holiday-makers set off a firework display at a nearby cottage. Sign her petition to protect animals and vulnerable people from the shock and terror of ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Claire's beloved horse Tango died in terror when holiday-makers set off a firework display at a nearby cottage. Sign her petition to protect animals and vulnerable people from the shock and terror of unexpected explosions. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...
‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Before we get started, here’s a little ice-breaker.’
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. I hope this email finds you well.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
October 31, 2025 at 10:17 AM
‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Before we get started, here’s a little ice-breaker.’
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The sun expends on a fine summer’s day an average of one horsepower on every 30 square feet of the earth’s surface in this latitude, or 1450 horse-power per acre. This great gift of energy is neither utilised nor stored by man at present.
October 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The sun expends on a fine summer’s day an average of one horsepower on every 30 square feet of the earth’s surface in this latitude, or 1450 horse-power per acre. This great gift of energy is neither utilised nor stored by man at present.
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I bought one of those self-assembly bird tables a while back. The lazy bastards haven't even opened the box, all they've done is shit on it.
October 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I bought one of those self-assembly bird tables a while back. The lazy bastards haven't even opened the box, all they've done is shit on it.
You see, the thing I find so baffling and impossible to believe about this whole affair of Farage’s house is that, apparently, he has a girlfriend. Mind blowing.
October 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
You see, the thing I find so baffling and impossible to believe about this whole affair of Farage’s house is that, apparently, he has a girlfriend. Mind blowing.
IKEA do these rather nice cardboard boxes for cats and they will deliver. Jack’s came with some free magazine files for me to organise sheet music, which I thought was a nice touch.
October 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
IKEA do these rather nice cardboard boxes for cats and they will deliver. Jack’s came with some free magazine files for me to organise sheet music, which I thought was a nice touch.
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Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵