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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet)

@georginam2.bsky.social
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Woke, bunny hugging animal lover. Love travelling, history, art, reading and all things to do with wildlife. Miss being an EU citizen. No time for racists and far right populists spouting their crap. I can be very sweary.

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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every single time 🙄
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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We loved this so much we just had to put English subtitles on it, apologies to the French speakers for our translation. But this is what it would look like here in the UK if Farage or Lowe or another of their ilk got their own way.
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Anyone else having problems with their email today (BT specifically)?
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Clever wood tips and tricks. [🎞️ mr.wiafe_0.1] Original post
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@steveemmdubb.bsky.social Good to see you back Steve 👋
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
August 16th 1977. I stayed at my nan's house because I had gone out with my uncle, got too pissed to bus it home (he's only 21 months older than me). In the early hours I heard my nan shouting 'The king is dead, the king is dead'. I thought she had lost the plot & gone back to the 1950's #RIPElvis 😂
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Upbuilding and constructive instead of tearing down and destructive. I like this much better. IG: @wainwrightbookbinding
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This little lad starts school this week 🥰 (he is the one on the left in grey trousers).
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's happened finally 🥳🥳
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Homme danse sous la pluie avec parapluie
ALT: Homme danse sous la pluie avec parapluie
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Still so funny
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My mug 15 years ago. #CurlyHair
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
4 generations, 4 years ago 😊
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
An end cap has fallen off of one of the blind panels that are floor to ceiling. It's been laying there for 4 days. Tomorrow I am going to kneel down and re-attach it. I hope some one is available to help me back up 😂 #GettingOld
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
@dfarb.wsocial.eu Stick a picture up and tell us all a little about yourself.
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
@lafeeverte.bsky.social
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
'Twas only a dribble 🙄
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
OMG I've just seen a puddle!!!
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Resting humming bird hawkmoth. It's the first one I've seen that isn't on the wing.
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Martin 📎🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️ @martinmto.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
@sotired.bsky.social I am absolutely NOT a transphobe! I am an ALLY 💯 please take me off. 🏳️‍⚧️ @dawnbritten.bsky.social is blocking me bc of this list @miffythegamer.bsky.social @topsyscatmum.bsky.social @tarquinfauntleroy.bsky.social @alanwino.bsky.social Please repost so they can see this. 🙏
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
They said it was going to be 33c today but.....
Car thermometer reading 36 degrees centigrade
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
31c here today (average) but actually hotter @ 33c. 33c tomorrow (I expect it will be hotter than that) and 27c on Friday. I just want it to stop 😩
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
6 trains, 12 steep escalators and numerous flights of stairs in less than 24 hours. I'm knackered and have earnt a G&T.
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Silver Y?
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This is going to be a mistake but I don't care!
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I've just seen a full size grass snake in the garden 😍
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
If you love gardening you can't miss these grafting techniques. Original post
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
You never have to look too hard to find one of these.
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
9 years ago 😞
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I've got one of these little bastards in the bedroom 😫
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Day 30 #30Books30Days @ursh.bsky.social @lunabelle.bsky.social @ginny65.blueskysocial Blurb in alt text
Josef K., our protagonist, is unexpectedly arrested on the morning of his thirtieth birthday. The agents who arrest him are unidentified, the agency they work for is unspecified, and the crime for which he has been accused is unknown. When he is released, shortly after, he is told to await further instruction. So begins the manic and emotionless trial of a man beholden to the whims of an unknown force, and his painstaking attempts to find a way out of this existential maze.

The Trial brings into focus the absurdity of life, our universal fear of judgement, and one ultimate question: how much of this endless maze will you explore before you accept the fate life has bestowed upon you?
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Day29 #30Books30Days @ursh.bsky.social @lunabelle.bsky.social @ginny65.bsky.social blurb in alt text
Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver . . .

There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared.

Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another. Each is in a search of a truth. And together they have an extraordinary story to tell...
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I thought I would let you know that I have been lying and stealing. I'm going to resign before I get caught. I will be reapplying for my job once the position is advertised.
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Big Frog Is Now Leaving
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Day 28 #30Books30Days @ursh.bsky.social @lunabelle.bsky.social @ginny65.bsky.social Blurb in alt text
When Sheba joins St George’s as the new art teacher, fellow teacher Barbara senses the possibility of a friendship. But as Barbara and Sheba’s relationship develops, another does as well: Sheba has begun a sexual affair with an underage male pupil. When it comes to light and Sheba falls prey to the inevitable media circus, Barbara decides to write an account in her friend’s defence - an account that reveals not only Sheba’s secrets but her own.
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I know this might be classed as a crime against humanity but I really hate football. 13 more days aaaaarghhhh😫
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Day27 #30Books30days @ursh.bsky.social @lunabelle.bsky.social @ginny65.bsky.social see alt text for blurb
London 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her 'family'. But from the moment she draws breath, Sue's fate is linked to that of another orphan growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away.
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Day26 #30Days30Books @ursh.bsky.social @lunabelle.bsky.social @ginny65.bsky.social 1 of the best (and most famous) opening paragraphs of a book. See alt text for blurb
Vividly interweaving epic historical drama with personal tragedy, Dickens's gripping novel depicts the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, as they become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette, the daughter of a political prisoner. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Trachelospermum Jasminoides. The smell is amazing. This one has been in the same trough for 9 years.
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Day25 #30Books30Days Blurb in alt text. @ursh.bsky.social @lunabelle.bsky.social @ginny65.bsky.social
A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Many years later she tells her story from a hotel in New York, opening a window into an extraordinary half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation and summoning up a quarter of a century of Japan's dramatic history.
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Day 24 #30Books30Days @ursh.bsky.social @lunabelle.bsky.social @ginny65.bsky.social Blurb in alt text.
For years, rumours of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life - until the unthinkable happens.
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Day 23 #30Books30Days @ursh.bsky.social @lunabelle.bsky.social @ginny65.bsky.social See alt text for blurb
It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love. Told with heart-stopping clarity, melding horror and beauty, Beloved is Toni Morrison's enduring masterpiece.
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Day 22 #30Books30Days @ursh.bsky.social @lunabelle.bsky.social @ginny65.bsky.social Blurb in Alt text.
Nobody can leave an island. An island is a cosmos in a nutshell, where the stars slumber in the grass beneath the snow. But occasionally someone tries . . .

Ingrid Barrøy is born on an island that bears her name - a holdfast for a single family, their livestock, their crops, their hopes and dreams.

Her father dreams of building a quay that will connect them to the mainland, but closer ties to the wider world come at a price. Her mother has her own dreams - more children, a smaller island, a different life - and there is one question Ingrid must never ask her.

Island life is hard, a living scratched from the dirt or trawled from the sea, so when Ingrid comes of age, she is sent to the mainland to work for one of the wealthy families on the coast.

But Norway too is waking up to a wider world, a modern world that is capricious and can be cruel. Tragedy strikes, and Ingrid must fight to protect the home she thought she had left behind.
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Fucking power cut. It went off at 8pm. I was just about to start cooking. 16,400 properties across 1200 post codes. Can't even get a takeaway 😡
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Day 21 #30Books30Days I was about 17/18 when I first read this. Another book that had quite an impact on me. @lunabelle.bsky.social @ursh.bsky.social @ginny65.bsky.social Blurb in Alt text
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence.
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Morning Glory 😍
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Day20 #30Books30Days @ursh.bsky.social @lunabelle.bsky.social @ginny65.bsky.social See alt text for blurb.
Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo - until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war, they are forced to escape.

As Nuri and Afra travel through a broken world, they must confront not only the pain of their own unspeakable loss, but dangers that would overwhelm the bravest of souls. Above all - and perhaps this is the hardest thing they face - they must journey to find each other again.

Moving, powerful, compassionate and beautifully written, The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a testament to the triumph of the human spirit. Told with deceptive simplicity, it is the kind of book that reminds us of the power of storytelling.
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
😂😂😂 Pathetic!
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Day 19 #30Books30Days @ursh.bsky.social @lunabelle.bsky.social @ginny65.bsky.social This book is hilarious. Alt text for blurb.
A heartwarming everyday tale of boy stalks girl... My name is Jason – and I have just met the most incredible woman, on Charlotte Street. Well, I say 'met'. I sort of held her bags for a second. But she smiled at me! And it was this amazing smile. Of course, I don't know her name, or anything about her at all. But I do happen to have something of hers. She left behind one of those old-school disposable cameras. I’ve got it. It’s here in front of me. So there are two things I could now do: I could develop the photos. See her again, see her life. Maybe work out a way of finding her. Find that smile. Or I could chuck it in a bin like a grown-up. I’m fairly sure one of those ideas is a good one. I’m fairly sure the other might be illegal. Look, if you were me… what would you do?
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Day 18 #30Days30Books @ursh.bsky.social @lunabelle.bsky.social @ginny65.bsky.social If you remember 'the troubles' in N.I. you will find this very poignant. Blurb in alt text
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman.

But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. The last thing she ever wanted to be.
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
In today's news I have spent 2 hours looking at a plumber's bum crack in my kitchen 🙄
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Gina nd Tonic (Shadow Secretary of the Drinks Cabinet) @georginam2.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Day17 #30Books30Days @ursh.bsky.social @lunabelle.bsky.social @ginny65.bsky.social See alt text for blurb
'Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.'

Meet the gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists of Cannery Row in Monterey, California, during the Great Depression. They want to throw a party for their friend Doc, so Mack and the boys set about, in their own inimitable way, recruiting everyone in the neighbourhood to the cause. But along the way they can't help but get involved in a little mischief and misadventure. It wouldn't be Cannery Row if it was otherwise, now would it?

Packed with a ramshackle joi de vivre, Cannery Row is Steinback's high-spirited tribute to his native California.
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