Dr Ieithydd (Carys)

I think everyone will be relieved when the new Bishop is finally installed...

Interestingly it was cover out, but the book behind it was a different one. So it felt very much designed to catch me...

I thought Birmingham claimed it

Not quite literally. But it caught my eye and begged to be bought..

And how could I resist a book that helps support @fiascothecat.bsky.social ?

Looks at the detailed forecast. 80% chance of rain on the next hour rising to 94% then 99%

Ponders going to the allotment although it is windy and grey. I'll just check the BBC weather.

Weather warnings issued... inc East Midlands for wind...

Maybe my instinct to curl up indoors is a good one

Could it be that by the time people speak to their GPs about their mental health they are seriously unwell? Perhaps have been ignoring symptoms for months if not years?

BBC News sent a questionnaire to more than 5,000 GPs in England asking if they had ever denied a fit note - often called a sick note - to someone who had requested one because of their mental health. Of the 752 GPs who replied, 540 said they had never refused such a request, while 162 told us they had turned at least one down. A smaller number - 50- said they would prefer not to say.

Woah woah BBC, out of the 702 who responded definitively, 162 (that's TWENTY THREE PERCENT) said they *had* refused a fit note?

Alternate headline : "NEARLY 1 IN 4 GPs REFUSE TO PROVIDE FIT NOTES FOR MENTAL HEALTH CONCERNS"

Sub-headline : "86% OF GPs CAN'T BE ARSED REPLYING TO OUR SHITTY SURVEY"

There was a point when I thought that's it and then realised there was another 40secs left

On this day, 1994 Church of England ordains their first women priests March 12th, 1994: For the first time in its 460-year existence, the Church of England allows females to enter into the priesthood, ordaining 32 women in Bristol Cathedral in Bristol, England. Six years later the church will pass another milestone, as more women than men will be ordained as priests.

Deo gratias - the ministry of women has enriched the church beyond measure. To all ordained women - past, present, and future - thank you for all that you have been, all that you are, and all that you will become.

Simply send the first barrel of oil in the boat with the chickens, then send the fox back with the grain to pick up...no, hang on, send the *fox* first, pick up the oil...where was I?

I feel like learning to recognise the sort of 'leaders' who use up and spit out vulnerable young people is always useful whether what they're offering is salvation or a steady income or anything else.

Two metal book ends in the shape of cats painted to be Cassie (Tortie and white) and Daphne (black and white). Both are mainly white on their tummies. They're on a denim skirt

The same bookends but angled so that you can read Cassie and Daphne under the bases

#TinyJoys got home and leaving the gate on the latch had worked and my present had been delivered at last. And now I have Cassie and Daphne bookends. Named on the bottom, but I know which is which. Thank you @wobblygoose.bsky.social and @ruthh.bsky.social

THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST Fast-paced, tense fantastical and uncanny. a perfect mix of horror and fantasy" THE NEW YORK TIMES PREMEE MOHAMED .

Just got assaulted by this book jumping off the shelf at me. @premeemohamed.com @waterstoneslhx.bsky.social

I assume you did as the king ordered

4/5 We live in an openly “post truth” society that seems to value appearances over either accuracy or trust. It’s become extremely difficult to work out what is true and what isn’t. Sincerity doesn’t seem to be an attribute we value very much any more. It’s easy to assume that's unchangeable.

Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother The long read: Once violently defended from extinction, Welsh is still a part of daily life. By learning my family’s language, I hoped to join their conversation

I often heard English people dismiss Welsh as a jumble of consonants, a nuisance to tourists, a dying language. I took the insults personally, feeling protective of Mum and the family, like a guard stationed outside castle walls, loyal to the life inside”

A lovely piece about #Cymraeg & community👇

It's over twice the size of the cathedral by me!

those massive shipping containers they put one-by-one onto railroad cars, that you can convert into an entire mini-house if you drop them in a field somewhere

a Panamax has *five thousand* of those

Just the trade between China and Europe - not counting everything else, just that, would require six railway tracks in each direction carrying a mile-long train every three minutes to move the amount of containers that currently go on ships.

It's a ridiculous potential point of failure in global supply chains, which is why there is currently a problem, and one of several reasons why no one started a war with Iran all this time. The solution to the problem of the Strait of Hormuz being impassible is "don't attack Iran".

That's *why* we use gigantic boats for it. If there was a means of conveyance that didn't depend on floating this precious but also incredibly volatile and polluting substance across an ocean, through tiny little straits and narrow canals, we'd do that instead.

When a thing gets printed in China, it reaches the West on a massive fucking boat. If it wasn't massive, it would be logistically impossible to get it to where it needs to be on time. Our whole society is supported by an endlessly circling network of enormous boats.

Yes, enormous. As a point of reference: if you're flying over them at normal cruising height (35000 feet or thereabouts), you can see them. Not as a speck with a wake behind it; you can actually see the boat as a boat from the edge of the stratosphere.

Odd to think that Israel will soon have brought down two great empires in the seventy years since Suez -- not, of course, by defeating them, but by recruiting them as allies or confederates.

If you worry that you spend too much time "on your phone", have a look at what you're actually doing on your phone, and consider which activities it might be a good idea to reduce. Anyway, pfft, this flattening of a huge range of tasks that we do online, some good, some not, into "phones" annoys me.

It's like when a tabloid figured out this weird hack of avoiding the plastic bag charge - bring your own bag....⁸

I don’t know, if I spent all my time online claiming that a group of people were so terrifying and dangerous that they should be excluded from public life and any space I am in, I wouldn’t spend money to willingly go to a concert with up to 10,000 of them

Interesting she summed that up as a bunch of people you've never heard of rather than risking her followers realising people they like disagree with them

Wolf Alice has passed me by. But Sugababes and Sophie Ellis-Baxter I know. Partly because I relent the latter's mother breaking her pelvis jumping out of a plane on Blue Peter