Pat Winfield
@patbookworm.bsky.social
Retired from editing but still struggling to find time to fit everything in that I want to do! Also on Threads, the prehistoric elephant and the hellsite...
It's a cold, wet Sunday morning and Timmy wants none of it.
January 11, 2026 at 11:57 AM
It's a cold, wet Sunday morning and Timmy wants none of it.
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The Rock’n’Roll Doctor is IN
January 11, 2026 at 9:25 AM
The Rock’n’Roll Doctor is IN
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You don't know what day it is.
You're eating countless meals a day with lots of snacks in between.
You're napping throughout they day.
Either it's the time between Christmas and New Year or you're a cat.
You're eating countless meals a day with lots of snacks in between.
You're napping throughout they day.
Either it's the time between Christmas and New Year or you're a cat.
December 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
You don't know what day it is.
You're eating countless meals a day with lots of snacks in between.
You're napping throughout they day.
Either it's the time between Christmas and New Year or you're a cat.
You're eating countless meals a day with lots of snacks in between.
You're napping throughout they day.
Either it's the time between Christmas and New Year or you're a cat.
This has made me actually laugh out loud. Popcorn definitely needed!
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, is threatening to sue Nigel Farage for damaging his reputation, in the latest webisode of the YouTube sitcom "Pot, Kettle". ~AA
leftfootforward.org/2025/12/tomm...
leftfootforward.org/2025/12/tomm...
Tommy Robinson threatens to sue Nigel Farage over ‘libellous claims’
The feud between Farage and Robinson has escalated
leftfootforward.org
December 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This has made me actually laugh out loud. Popcorn definitely needed!
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I've just updated the available cats page, we have some REALLY special kitties in and some of them have been waiting ages. Their forever home might be on your timeline, please share? 🥰
Moggies looking for homes
After hearing 50,000 times that we should put the available cats on the website, we’ve made a page! Hooray! However, it is still just me doing most of the work in the shelter. So there’…
hollysmerrymoggies.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I've just updated the available cats page, we have some REALLY special kitties in and some of them have been waiting ages. Their forever home might be on your timeline, please share? 🥰
Copied from Hedgehog Cabin on
Witter:
Pumpkins:
Halloween is one night.
Tonight.
If you have to waste a food item (and I strongly suggest you don't), please put it out for one night, then safely dispose of it.
Witter:
Pumpkins:
Halloween is one night.
Tonight.
If you have to waste a food item (and I strongly suggest you don't), please put it out for one night, then safely dispose of it.
October 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Witter:
Pumpkins:
Halloween is one night.
Tonight.
If you have to waste a food item (and I strongly suggest you don't), please put it out for one night, then safely dispose of it.
Witter:
Pumpkins:
Halloween is one night.
Tonight.
If you have to waste a food item (and I strongly suggest you don't), please put it out for one night, then safely dispose of it.
Sigh! It's DNS once more. Even the Pets at Home website isn't working. All I wanted was a scratching post but thanks to Microsoft, Timmy will have to use the carpet again...
October 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Sigh! It's DNS once more. Even the Pets at Home website isn't working. All I wanted was a scratching post but thanks to Microsoft, Timmy will have to use the carpet again...
This season my jeans will be comfortable and not make my stomach hurt. They can be any shape they want!
Jess Cartner-Morley: this season, your jeans should be stiff, smart and straight
Jess Cartner-Morley: this season, your jeans should be stiff, smart and straight
Jeans can be so much more than your standard weekend staple. Pick the right style, add the right accessories and you’ve got yourself a sharp, fresh look
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This season my jeans will be comfortable and not make my stomach hurt. They can be any shape they want!
Just because they play around with the clocks twice a year, it doesn't change my body clock. So yes, I've been up since 4.30. Sigh!
October 26, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Just because they play around with the clocks twice a year, it doesn't change my body clock. So yes, I've been up since 4.30. Sigh!
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Honey, who was sold for £400 in a car park and turned out to be both pregnant and epileptic, has single-pawedly spent our whole operations fund. Help please? 😬
Our operations fund disappeared overnight
We recently took in a beautiful British shorthair called Honey who was sold for £400 in a car park.
Her new owner quickly found that she was a) pregnant and b) epileptic.
She gave birth to 10 kittens, of which 8 survived. When they'd all been sold, her new owner decided she didn't want her anymore because of her (untreated!) seizures. And so she came to us.
We took her to the vets and ordered some phenobarbital, which we've used with great success on two other epileptic cats. However, before it came in, poor Honey had a severe seizure and then two more in the space of a day. Our fosterer took her to the emergency vet, where she had to be kept in on an IV to get her phenobarbital level up quickly to stop the seizures.
She's recovering beautifully, but her treatment has completely emptied our bank account, and we had quite a few operations planned that we still need to do:
- Lemon, an old lady found on the street needs a full dental and a scan to find out why she's so wheezy
- Thomasina, another golden oldie stray, needs a full dental now she's stable on her thyroid meds
- Lenny, who spent 2 years wobbling on the streets, needs his neuter and jabs
- Sabrina, who survived the panleukopenia that killed her kittens, needs her spay and jabs
- Kirby, a sweet grey wobbler, needs his neuter and jabs
- Boots, a handsome orange boy who recently spent his 14th birthday outside as his owners didn't want him anymore, needs a fair bit of treatment, plus a birthday party!
If you can help with any of this, we would hugely appreciate it. I'm taking some of my jewellery to be sold at the weekend but I don't think it's worth very much unfortunately.
I'm really glad we could help stop Honey's constant scary, debilitating seizures, so I know we did the right thing. It's just that the others have been waiting so patiently for their treatment so they can find wonderful new homes, and I don't want to let them down.
Thank you. Love Holly and the moggies x
www.paypal.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Honey, who was sold for £400 in a car park and turned out to be both pregnant and epileptic, has single-pawedly spent our whole operations fund. Help please? 😬
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Great story of absent proofreaders at a party conference, thanks @nataliehaynes.bsky.social
and @aiannucci.bsky.social They should have looked in the @the-ciep.bsky.social directory (www.ciep.org)
Excellent episode for #editors and #proofreaders
Gratias vobis ago
www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
and @aiannucci.bsky.social They should have looked in the @the-ciep.bsky.social directory (www.ciep.org)
Excellent episode for #editors and #proofreaders
Gratias vobis ago
www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
BBC Audio | Strong Message Here | 09/10/2025
Armando Iannucci and guests decode the utterly baffling world of political language.
www.bbc.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Great story of absent proofreaders at a party conference, thanks @nataliehaynes.bsky.social
and @aiannucci.bsky.social They should have looked in the @the-ciep.bsky.social directory (www.ciep.org)
Excellent episode for #editors and #proofreaders
Gratias vobis ago
www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
and @aiannucci.bsky.social They should have looked in the @the-ciep.bsky.social directory (www.ciep.org)
Excellent episode for #editors and #proofreaders
Gratias vobis ago
www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
What is wrong with the ladybirds today? They've gone completely psycho. They've smashed into me every few seconds and the windows are covered in them. Also going crazy are the cowslips. They really shouldn't be flowering now.
October 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
What is wrong with the ladybirds today? They've gone completely psycho. They've smashed into me every few seconds and the windows are covered in them. Also going crazy are the cowslips. They really shouldn't be flowering now.
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Rewilding successes were celebrated, nations slashed fossil fuel funding, and fracking was sent packing in the UK, plus more good news
www.positive.news/society/good...
www.positive.news/society/good...
What went right this week: the good news that matters
Rewilding successes were celebrated, nations slashed fossil fuel funding, and fracking was sent packing in the UK, plus more good news
www.positive.news
October 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Rewilding successes were celebrated, nations slashed fossil fuel funding, and fracking was sent packing in the UK, plus more good news
www.positive.news/society/good...
www.positive.news/society/good...
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It’s 7.25 now and getting dark and the AA are still not here.
Apparently they will be another 25mins.
Do not use the AA if you are a woman who travels alone.
Apparently they will be another 25mins.
Do not use the AA if you are a woman who travels alone.
After holding on the phone for half an hour they’ve said they’ll get to me by 7.25pm. I asked the AA guy if he thought this was acceptable, if he would be happy for his daughter or sister or mum to be treated as I have after a car accident. He refused to answer.
September 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
It’s 7.25 now and getting dark and the AA are still not here.
Apparently they will be another 25mins.
Do not use the AA if you are a woman who travels alone.
Apparently they will be another 25mins.
Do not use the AA if you are a woman who travels alone.
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Rather than trying to reproduce species we have already driven to extinction, we might put our efforts into preventing the extinction of existing species that we have driven to the brink.
September 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Rather than trying to reproduce species we have already driven to extinction, we might put our efforts into preventing the extinction of existing species that we have driven to the brink.
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This from @holliemcnish.bsky.social is wonderful
September 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This from @holliemcnish.bsky.social is wonderful
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Every decent politician should be ‘disturbed’ by Tommy Robinson’s fascist march in London and Musk’s calls for violence on our streets.
Every decent politician should stop claiming this horror is an expression of ‘free speech’.
It’s vicious, racist incitement.
DO something about it.
Every decent politician should stop claiming this horror is an expression of ‘free speech’.
It’s vicious, racist incitement.
DO something about it.
September 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Every decent politician should be ‘disturbed’ by Tommy Robinson’s fascist march in London and Musk’s calls for violence on our streets.
Every decent politician should stop claiming this horror is an expression of ‘free speech’.
It’s vicious, racist incitement.
DO something about it.
Every decent politician should stop claiming this horror is an expression of ‘free speech’.
It’s vicious, racist incitement.
DO something about it.
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‘Over the months and years to come, we will have to fight for our values like never before. That means proudly making the case for diversity and openness … The government is unwilling to do it, so it will be up to us to do it instead’
Encountering the Fascists
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Encountering the Fascists
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo
It's clear now that we are in a battle of terrible proportions.
open.substack.com
September 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
‘Over the months and years to come, we will have to fight for our values like never before. That means proudly making the case for diversity and openness … The government is unwilling to do it, so it will be up to us to do it instead’
Encountering the Fascists
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Encountering the Fascists
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Unite the Kingdom protestors my arse! They're just a mob of rent-a-thugs. They are the ones who make me feel afraid on the streets, not immigrants.
September 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Unite the Kingdom protestors my arse! They're just a mob of rent-a-thugs. They are the ones who make me feel afraid on the streets, not immigrants.
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Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants".
-seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.
-seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.
Silencing the drumbeat again: seeking asylum is legal
Hundreds protested in Ashington against so-called "illegal immigrants" - though seeking asylum has been legal since 1951
northeastbylines.co.uk
September 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants".
-seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.
-seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.
Hopefully the government reshuffle will keep Farage lower down the news items than usual. Too much to hope for that he'll disappear altogether.
September 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Hopefully the government reshuffle will keep Farage lower down the news items than usual. Too much to hope for that he'll disappear altogether.
Reform will need a bigger barrel to fit in all the rotten apples they are accumulating. And they will also need to hide the keys to the drinks cabinet.
September 5, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Reform will need a bigger barrel to fit in all the rotten apples they are accumulating. And they will also need to hide the keys to the drinks cabinet.
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Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants".
-seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.
-seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.
Silencing the drumbeat again: seeking asylum is legal
Hundreds protested in Ashington against so-called "illegal immigrants" - though seeking asylum has been legal since 1951
northeastbylines.co.uk
September 1, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants".
-seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.
-seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.
I'm far more frightened to see a man draped in a flag walk towards me than any immigrant. But then, I've only ever been violently assaulted by a white man so maybe I'm biased.
August 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I'm far more frightened to see a man draped in a flag walk towards me than any immigrant. But then, I've only ever been violently assaulted by a white man so maybe I'm biased.
Once all the migrants have been processed and the hotels emptied, who will the mindless mobs turn their wrath on next? Some of them seem to treat protesting as a hobby. Maybe they miss the days of football violence.
August 30, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Once all the migrants have been processed and the hotels emptied, who will the mindless mobs turn their wrath on next? Some of them seem to treat protesting as a hobby. Maybe they miss the days of football violence.