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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s very cold this morning. I’ve got the fire on. Soon it will go on, and stay on until probably April. Ollie and Seren woke me up at 7. They didn’t want to go out. They were just cold and wanted to be under the blanket with their mum.

Early morning view across the canal from Isobel’s roof hatch showing dramatic clouds flaring diagonally from behind a green hill.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

LGBTQ+ people in Europe should protest against the possibility of closer relations with the UK lowering the bar of EU human rights framework to a place where Russia might as well be in charge. Tell Brussels NO. There’s no way to get closer to us, as we are, without jeopardising YOUR human rights.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The journey home is over. I did it all today. Had a fight with a proper piece of human garbage where I planned to stop today. Gave me the adrenaline to take on the tunnel. 💪🏻 I’m so relieved to be back here, and I can’t quite believe I managed the last leg of the journey today. Time for a rest! ☕️💤

View across the canal from Isobel’s kitchen window showing cows laying down in the field under a dramatic sky with grey clouds.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The sun rises on another day when I shall inch closer to home. ⛵️ Only a short voyage today. Probably. We’ll see. ☕️

Early morning view of the canal from Isobel’s roof hatch showing the sunrise behind tree silhouettes and a horizontal red cloud reflecting on the still water.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m happy because today I scaled a lock flight 💪🏻 and am another step closer to where I call home. The last two days have been very tough boating. It’s possible I could get home tomorrow. Saturday morning would seem more likely. Or maybe Sunday or Monday, if I decide to stop here and have a rest. 🍷

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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lib Dem conference motion Restoring Trans Rights debate about to begin. Starting a live thread to cover what happens. #ldconf

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

💀🧛🏻‍♀️ The Tunnel. 🦇👻 1.7 miles of pitch darkness, which normally takes a terrifying 50 minutes in my boat, but my engine mysteriously broke down halfway through last time. 😨 Soon I will be going back through. 😰 Not sure when, but soon. 😭

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s very cold this morning. 🥶 Thankfully I chopped some wood yesterday and have had my fire going all night. 🔥 I’m quite looking forward to when the fire is on permanently for the winter, and I’ll have permanent hot food and a hot kettle ready! 🔥🥘☕️

Early morning view across the canal from Isobel’s roof hatch showing the sun hitting the field below a blue sky with light wispy clouds.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This lunchtime’s view from my kitchen window. 🥪☕️ I’m cracking on with some writing today ✍🏻🤓 while my mental health allows it. My brain 🧠 has been very overloaded lately. If I feel really capable 💪🏻 I might even have a go at drawing my cover picture. 🎨🖌️

View from Isobel’s kitchen window, across the canal and over the sheep field, under a blue sky with some grey and white clouds.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"I don't want to get political and take sides..." ALWAYS means: "I hate the people you're defending, so shut up about what's happening to them. I fully support their persecution and extermination, but I'd rather not be known for the horrible piece of shit I am. So shut up."

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Seren might be 12, but she’d still ace an agility contest. Just look at this sublime weave through the apples.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’ve put the fire on this morning. 🔥 It’s bloody cold. 🥶

Ollie and Seren on the towpath outside their boat. It’s all looking slightly autumnal.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We set off from the smelly mooring first thing, hoping this spot would be available. It was 🥳 and Ollie and Seren’s friends were waiting. 🐑 All the neighbouring boats are my friends. It will be a lovely weekend here if the weather holds up! ☀️😎🍷👍🏻

A sheep looking straight at Isobel’s camera from behind the fence.

Ollie and Seren on the towpath next to the sheep field. Ollie is laying down watching the sheep. Seren is licking her lips like a hungry wolf.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not content with spreading a fishy substance over the field, the farmer has now decided to set fire to a mound of cow poo. 🔥💩🔥 This is turning out to be an unusually pongy stop. 😓

View from Isobel’s boat roof showing a tractor and a fire in the field next to the canal.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We knocked a bit off tomorrow’s journey this afternoon ⛵️ before I got beaten by the wind and moored up. Ollie and Seren are excited as always to explore a new stretch of towpath. The farmer is spreading a fishy fertiliser on the nearby fields, and it’s really, really smelly. 🤢

Ollie and Seren scampering on a rural canal towpath under a moody grey sky.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The crew being informed that our voyage will resume on Thursday. ⛵️ Vital supplies will arrive tomorrow and Wednesday afternoon, then we shall set off for as far north as it’s possible to go at this time. ⛵️🌍🧭

Seren trotting along the sunny tree lined canal towpath.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If a bunch of trans rights protesters turned up in Snobbells Green and peacefully blocked access to Poshtwat Close, you can safely bet anything you like we’d all be in the back of meat wagons within an hour and on our way to prison.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It’s a bright but very wet start here in the middle of nowhere following heavy rain overnight. 🌧️☕️ Today I have lived as a person called Isobel Gray for 13.6% of my actual life, which didn’t really start until I lived as Isobel Gray, and which the Labour government clearly wishes to bring to an end.

Early morning view of the canal from Isobel’s roof hatch showing trees reflecting in the water below a deep blue sky.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The UK is absolutely enacting a trans genocide, destroying our lives piece by piece, and it's speeding up considerably under Burnham. We are being stamped out everywhere and in every way. It's relentless. I believe it's been settled across the political spectrum. I see no real opposition from MPs.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It’s a dark, wet morning here in the middle of nowhere. 🌧️ My journey back to the north ⛵️ has stalled due to lack of fuel and money, but I’m happy to stop here a while, close to a nice village where I’m always welcomed. The canal is full of yellow leaves and there’s a definite autumnal atmosphere. 🎃

Dark and rainy morning view of the canal from Isobel’s roof hatch.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last picture of the sky from your camera roll.

Ollie standing next to Isobel’s boat as a flock of geese fly by the moon just above the horizon in a blue evening sky.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The 'Gender critical' movement is a science denying, genocidal cult, against the lives of people who don't fit within their bioessentialist parameters. They're Nazis. They should be proscribed, not protected, and certainly not running a human rights watchdog with awful, predictable consequences.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 22/08/2026

Being hit with some big vet bills for this beautiful boy, so if you've ever considered buying any books or art from me, this would be a great time! 💜 t-shits, prints and more: www.helenwhistberry.com/art-links books! www.helenwhistberry.com/book-links Patreon: www.patreon.com/cw/whistberry

Silver gray tabby cat curled up in a cardboard box and looking out at the viewer with big green eyes.

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Aidan Comerford @aidancomerford.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You can literally go on a domestic abuser's podcast - like Graham Linehan did with Joey Barton - and the UK press will still call you a "women's rights campaigner" if you are perceived to belong to the "gender critical" movement. It's Orwellian.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It was forecast to rain all night. 🌧️ I didn’t hear it and see no evidence. ☀️🤷🏻‍♀️☕️ I was out like a light before 8. Ollie and Seren got me up at 7. All my jobs got done yesterday 💪🏻 which means I’ve earned a super lazy day today! I can actually relax knowing I’m on top of everything. That’s quite rare.

Early morning view across the canal and dry brown field from Isobel’s kitchen window. It’s sunny and there are wispy little clouds in the blue sky.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We had very heavy rain last night. 🌧️ I was outside in the early hours, putting my canopy back up. I’m having a slow to get going morning. ☕️🥱 Even Ollie and Seren aren’t interested today. I might go back to sleep 🛌 and move today’s jobs to tomorrow.

Early morning view over the canal from Isobel’s roof hatch, showing sheep in the big dry brown field, under a threatening grey sky.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It was raining when I went to sleep last night 🌧️ and sounded quite heavy. No sign of it this morning. 🏜️🐫

Ollie and Seren standing outside Isobel’s boat with a background of dry brown fields.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

We are now at the place that happened, and today this is happening...

Ollie and a sheep are talking to each other through the fence, but Seren is watching over, ready to stop things.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Been on the move early this morning. ⛵️ Very happy to have found this space in one of my favourite locations. 🤗

View over the canal from Isobel’s roof hatch showing a moored boat, trees, and a dry brown field under a blue sky with a few grey clouds.

View across the canal from Isobel’s roof hatch, showing a dry brown field with trees under a dramatic sky with grey clouds.

Isobel posing next to her newly moored up boat.

View across dry brown fields from Isobel’s boat showing a dramatic sky with the sun behind rippling clouds.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

🔥 The last day of the heatwave begins. 🔥 I’m looking forward to being able to function again. Summer is my least favourite season on the canal. Winter is the best, for many good reasons.

Ollie and Seren in the semi shade outside Isobel’s boat.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The hottest day of a 3 day heatwave begins. 🥵 It will be above 30° well before lunchtime and could get as high as 38°. I can't do anything in these harsh conditions. I'm just making sure Ollie and Seren survive, and putting off all my plans until Monday.

Ollie and Seren on the parched towpath outside Isobel's boat.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Sitting on my boat roof, watching the eclipse with a KFC and ciders.

View of the eclipse through trees from Isobel’s boat roof.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Seren. Do your Clint Eastwood impression. "You talking to me, punk?"

Seren doing a Clint Eastwood style snarl.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I've been the big meanie and called Ollie and Seren in for the day. It's over 30° now. 🔥

Ollie and Seren running back to the boat on the parched towpath.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Another epic voyage and big push north today. ⛵️💪🏻 I’ve got a lot further than I expected. I’m now back in a part of the world where I feel at home, and am about to have local fish and chips 😛 and ciders! 🍎🍺 The landscape looks like Tattooine compared with when we left. 🏜️🌵 Very little green remains.

Isobel’s boat moored in semi shade beneath poplar trees.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I am suffering horribly from chub rub. 😖 Never had it before this year. Maybe I should try to look on the bright side and look on it as a new transition milestone. 😭

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Just a cute little wheelie robot having a wander around Milton Keynes city centre! 😍

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I have a shitpile of extremely threatening adulting to do, but I’m giving myself a second day off from it. Mental health must come first. 👩🏻‍⚕️🍷👍🏻 Might treat myself later. I’ve endured a frugal month, and I think I now deserve a big greasy XL doner and maybe some ciders. 😛

Blur motion picture of Ollie and Seren fighting.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Liars. Your chair is a radicalised genocidal zealot, and the rest of you deserve to be looking forward to getting jailed alongside her as accomplices. You are a disgraced shitstain on UK history and your names will be spat on for centuries. None of you are fit to clean a trans person’s shoes.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The entire justification for the EHRC code is the cretinous belief that sex is a strict immutable binary therefore transition is impossible. The UK today is a breathtakingly stupid, nastily ignorant and regressive country that deserves to be mercilessly ridiculed across the modern world.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

He could have said “no, we’re not going down such a terrible road, ruining innocent people’s lives and becoming a fascist state.” Instead he’s chosen to burn our human rights and even kept Phillipson on. He’s fascist scum and deserves everything we can throw at him. Show the bastard no mercy.

Andy Burnham with “Prime Minister of Apartheid” written in dripping bloody letters.

Trans rights are human rights.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Had my medication review. 👩🏻‍⚕️ All sorted. 🥳 Prescriptions reactivated! 💪🏻 So I slapped on an extra couple of patches and took the dogs for a really fabulous walk around the lakes! It’s going to be very hot this afternoon ☀️🥵🔥 but I can relax knowing everything important is taken care of! 🍷

Ollie and Seren playing on the towpath outside Isobel’s boat.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Talking to my new GP tomorrow morning. Feeling like shit having halved my estrogen to make it last until now, and I’m not coping very well. I’m not well, frankly. I haven’t got a good feeling about this surgery now. Surely repeat prescriptions should just continue automatically? I sense shittiness.

NHS App

You cannot request repeat prescriptions at the moment
This could be because:

you do not have any repeat prescriptions
your repeat prescriptions are not set up yet
There are also certain medicines you cannot request through the NHS App. Find out why there are certain medicines you cannot request.

If you need a repeat prescription…

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I’m in German Doner Kebab. 😛🌶️ They’re rather good. 👍🏻

Isobel’s German Doner Kebab meal. Sauces, a box of chips, doner meat + salad, and a can of Coke.

Isobel drooling maniacally over her GDK meal.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Ollie, Seren, and I, have scaled the Light Pyramid! 🏔️💪🏻

Ollie and Seren walking up the hill towards the Light Pyramid.

Ollie and Seren atop the hill at the the Light Pyramid.

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