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Velocipedestrienne, flâneuse, solivagant, bibliophile, needlesmith. #RosamundiWalks and #VignettesFromTheBikeLane. Swans. Cricket. If I'm talking about politics, it's probably British politics.

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all unmarked swans in open water belong to the King, but the right is enforced on some stretched of the Thames only.
(Sorry, I'm a nerd).

13.03.2026 12:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I photographed it in Windsor, it's fine.

13.03.2026 12:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That's OK, then. 🦢

13.03.2026 12:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

my lock screen is a picture of a swan. I assume I now can't buy anything?

13.03.2026 12:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Behind a plant pot, too. Maximum hassle, you're not riding that bike anywhere, are you?

13.03.2026 11:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You can make mayonnaise cake, can't see why you can't make mayonnaise bread.

13.03.2026 11:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Why would I holiday in a failed state that makes me submit all my social media for scrutiny in order to get an ESTA? Plus, I might get arbitrarily detained or shot.

13.03.2026 11:19 👍 35 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

I don't use the Discover feed, there be dragons. 😁

13.03.2026 09:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And it's not like we have a uniform "culture", either. I live in London, I'm not learning Highland dancing.

13.03.2026 08:36 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

That innocent face could never do crimes.

12.03.2026 22:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's none of his business and he can get knotted, frankly.

12.03.2026 21:20 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ugh, I'm sorry.

12.03.2026 21:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And if everyone who can is walking, wheeling, cycling or taking public transport, necessary vehicle journeys for those who can't will be quicker and easier. Not to mention ambulances won't get stuck in traffic any more either.

12.03.2026 21:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please stop forecasting bad weather, you're only encouraging it.

12.03.2026 19:31 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

swearing at autocarrot, especially when it swaps "duck" for "fuck" will also be compulsory.

12.03.2026 19:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"can't complain," is acceptable as an alternative.

12.03.2026 19:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If they do, you invoke the Direct Debit guarantee and your bank gets to give them a kicking.

12.03.2026 19:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Enforced cultural assimilation?
You must go "wahey" when someone drops a glass in a pub?

12.03.2026 18:47 👍 24 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0
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Intestacy - who inherits if someone dies without a will? Find out who is entitled to a share of someone’s property, possessions and money if they die without making a will

both Duchies publish their accounts & last time I looked at the Cornwall accounts, there was a line item for intestacy receipts which were spent in the local area. In England you really have to be going some for your estate to end up with the Crown, there's a workflow here www.gov.uk/inherits-som...

12.03.2026 17:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

make a will, and you avoid the risk of your estate going to either that horrible cousin you never liked, or the Crown.

12.03.2026 17:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If you die without a will and no legal heirs within the boundaries of the Duchy of Cornwall, your estate goes to the Duchy. The current Duke is William. If you die without a will and no legal heirs within the boundaries of the Duchy of Lancaster, your estate goes to that Duchy, held by the monarch.

12.03.2026 17:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I am so sorry. AN GUD BOI FOREVER. 🫂

12.03.2026 17:14 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One of each bank note. £85.

12.03.2026 15:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
LIST OF BUSINESS FOR
THE PRIVY COUNCIL MEETING,
HELD BY THE KING AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
ON 10TH MARCH 2026
PRESENT AT COUNCIL
His Majesty The King

LIST OF BUSINESS FOR THE PRIVY COUNCIL MEETING, HELD BY THE KING AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, ON 10TH MARCH 2026 PRESENT AT COUNCIL His Majesty The King

1. PRIVY COUNSELLORS
Dame Sara Cockerill DBE, Sir David Foxton, Sir Robert Miles and
Dame Amanda Yip DBE were sworn as Members of His Majesty’s
Most Honourable Privy Council.
An Order striking out The Lord Mandelson from the List of Members
of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.
2. PROCLAMATIONS
Three Proclamations determining the specifications and designs for a
new series of coins:-
1. celebrating the Lunar Year of the Sheep;
2. depicting the music group the Spice Girls;
3. depicting six character tokens from the board game Cluedo;
and an Order directing the Lord Chancellor to affix the Great Seal to
the Proclamations.

1. PRIVY COUNSELLORS Dame Sara Cockerill DBE, Sir David Foxton, Sir Robert Miles and Dame Amanda Yip DBE were sworn as Members of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council. An Order striking out The Lord Mandelson from the List of Members of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. 2. PROCLAMATIONS Three Proclamations determining the specifications and designs for a new series of coins:- 1. celebrating the Lunar Year of the Sheep; 2. depicting the music group the Spice Girls; 3. depicting six character tokens from the board game Cluedo; and an Order directing the Lord Chancellor to affix the Great Seal to the Proclamations.

The juxtaposition of the first and second items of business for this Privy Council meeting is hilarious.

privycouncil.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/u...

12.03.2026 12:26 👍 193 🔁 42 💬 11 📌 6

Oh, no, I'm so sorry 😿

12.03.2026 14:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tax bill?

12.03.2026 11:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Really long paper straw.

12.03.2026 10:56 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

Permitted bathroom use carefully calculated to be just slightly less than the average usage of the subscriber.

12.03.2026 09:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Where do these people think I'm going on my bike at 7am, with my work laptop in one pannier and my work clothes in the other?

12.03.2026 08:21 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I suppose "techbros inventing renting (but worse)" makes a change from "techbros inventing buses (but worse)."

12.03.2026 08:10 👍 41 🔁 7 💬 6 📌 0