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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 16h

Help me!!! I've had the That's Life Theme tune loudly on repeat in my head for the last 24 hrs! Suspect it's a stress response linked to a freelance work deadline of 9am tomorrow. God I hope it's that because at least there's a cutoff point. 🤞🤞🤞Make it stop! 🔇🙉

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The total raised hasn’t been updated yet but donations are still pouring in with individual amounts given in the last 4 hours ranging from £6 to £19,900! If you can contribute anything before the end of today to help this appeal towards its goal, please do. #Rewilding #Nature #Wildlife #Conservation

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Donate to Secure The Rothbury Estate | The Wildlife Trusts

Stretching over 3,800 hectares, the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland is abundant with opportunity. It’s the largest continuous area of land to appear on the market in 50 years. Its sale creates a uni...

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When I was little I had a fear of clocks and time and theme tunes that signified it was late /bedtime such as That's Life. Feeling a wave of existential unease at the news about Esther Rantzen. Let's enjoy ourselves my Gen X friends, it's later than we think. Oof. 🕛

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What I love about the Met Office is its propensity to be consistently utterly wrong about absolutely everything all of the time. Love 'em.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

After turning 51 earlier this month I can confirm that today was the day I finally aged out of getting help from the lads at the tip. Luckily I got help from a fellow conifer clipper in a show of sore-armed solidarity. Armed with an array of kettlebells, I've now entered my badass crone season.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Looking for a way to reimagine the way I dress in winter, since part of why I hate the season is feeling constricted by being bundled up in layers of synthetic clothing. It's a sensory nightmare. There MUST be a way to enjoy this time. Wishing away half of each and every year of my life seems crazy.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Guess who ended up studying dance at degree level and getting paid to teach it in Scottish & Newcastle's top-taking nightclub, riddle me that Lisa?! Oh you now have a PhD and travel the world with your glamorous, well balanced and impossibly photogenic family? Ah well.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bizarre things that happened in your assembly: I convinced my primary school teacher that I could dance, purely because I got some brilliant silver shoes and she let me do an enthusiastic improvised display of my 'skills' in assembly alongside beautiful Lisa Riccalton who actually did ballet lessons

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ahh, Autumn Equinox. And so my watch begins until March when the daylight hours reign once more. Spent yesterday working in the glorious sunshine. The light months certainly went out with a bang. Just three months until Winter Solstice and then we are headed in the right direction.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm enjoying reacquainting myself with my local library service. Need to call and ask a question? You can get straight through to a human. Need to print a document? Absolutely, no ink subscription required. Get a DVD? Yup. Libraries may well be leading the resistance. Please use them!

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Blimey, if the Converse controversy was a genuine oversight then they are going to have to pick a side because an apology just isn't going to cut it. I suspect only a MASSIVE public anti racism campaign would start to pull them out of this hole and that would alienate the other half of US Americans.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Have just seen a promotional editorial for an M&S foodie advent calendar that retails at £100. In my lifetime advent calendars have gone from the flat cardboard affairs with the little pictures behind the windows to these crazy excessive gestures. 'Fun' and 'magic' seem nostalgic concepts now.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My body is beginning its autumn thing where I'm freezing cold, fuzzy headed, and just want to snuggle under my multiple down duvets and weighted blanket eating crap whilst scrolling in between naps. My thermostat is telling me it's 20.5°C, so why does it feel like 13.5°C? 😭 Equinox is on Wednesday.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Pointless venting post: Sigh. Getting notification that your delivery might possibly happen between 8am and 6pm is zero help. Even having an inkling of whether it would be morning or afternoon would be helpful, some of us have responsibilities. Thanks DX.

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Northumberland Wildlife Trust @northwildlife.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Rothbury Estate appeal has reached over £26m of the £30m target! 🎉 www.nwt.org.uk/news/largest-appeal-…

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Despite my best efforts, my elderly mother's diet is now predominantly carbs and she's refusing the protein, vegetables or even vitamin tablets that I try to give her. I've tried different tasty recipes knowing what she used to like, tried softly softly, a more direct approach. Being a carer is hard

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Surprised that the Guardian's current most viewed story is one that includes me in the stats. They talk about changing the system to enable carers to continue to work. When? During the hours that we should be sleeping? It's all-encompassing! That's why we quit! www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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About 1,500 Britons a day quitting their jobs to become unpaid carers

More than a million people have left work to look after loved ones in the past two years, Carers UK says

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yey! I contacted Berghaus again and they're also going to fix the zip on my favourite hoodie! I swear I'm not sponsored to post this, but with leaving work to care for my parents I'm suddenly a woman of extremely limited means, so can't afford to just buy new stuff. Also great for the environment!

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So pleased! I did not know that Berghaus had a 'free repairs for life' policy. Just had an email letting me know that they can fix the sewn -in drawstrings on my 26yr old Gore-Tex hill walking jacket, so I don't need to spend a lot of money that I don't have right now on a new one.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Listening to the best of the Proms whilst having Sunday dinner with the folks and suddenly came over all emotional and ended up here and now I can't stop playing it over in my head and thinking about the communities that have been lost in my lifetime. ♥️ We need to rebuild. youtu.be/WKrn8isOSlI?...

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Concierto d'Aranjuez ~ From the film 'Brassed Off'

YouTube video by David Borg

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Tom McEnroe @tommcenroe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This seems highly relevant again today. Mystic Moose strikes again @mooseallain.bsky.social #Reform #Corruption #Farage

A cartoon by Moose Allain. A man listening to a Collie and asking the dog: "What's that Lassie? So long as wealth can buy power it's not really democracy?"

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Rock band rehearsal today. I sang lead vocal on Weak (Skunk Anansie). The rush of nailing it and having everyone buzzing and harmonising and stuff made all the years of car and living room vocal exercises totally worthwhile. ⚡

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: 1. The BBC schools countdown dots 2. All incarnations of the Playschool clock 3. The Open University channel ident 4. The man at the cash & carry who threatened to lock me in the freezer 5. Shoe polisher machines 6. Road sweeping vehicles 7. ✈️ Oxygen masks

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Got some money for my birthday. Spending it on some new combination Zarges-type ladders so I can safely cut my conifers and put up wire trellis. Lowkey excited at the prospect. I am old.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm learning so much more about myself since my ADHD diagnosis and realising I've been on a descent to burnout for a while. I have a micro caravan, and being here in the Lakes with my dog is the most healing thing I could possibly do. My nervous system finally stands down and I remember who I am.

A nice cup of tea and lunch from yesterday on a table in the awning of my caravan with the mighty Blencathra peering around the corner of the entrance. The weather is cloudy but not unpleasant.

My white fluffy Japanese Spitz boy sitting on the cosy double bed of my caravan looking straight at the camera. There is the word BLISS spelled out in gold wooden letters above the bed with bunting and a rainbow suncatcher because at my heart I'm a massive hippy and need to remember to fly my hippy flag more in real life rather than just in the caravan. The duvet print is green grass (as in lawns, not weed) and there is a blue fluffy blanket with white stars on in it.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm in the Lake District. The Met Office genuinely hasn't got a clue about what the weather's going to be like has it? Why do I keep checking? It's been about 80% wrong for the past week. Conducting a séance with Mystic Meg would be just as accurate.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The irony of the easily led of this country being brainwashed to hate 'foreigners' by a political party illegally bankrolled by richer foreigners.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Times & Telegraph laundered illicitly funded Reform polls onto their front pages as ‘exclusives’ yet not a single word on their sites. UK political journalism is so very broken

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D r e a m k i d @dreamkid83.com · 01/09/2026

Proof that TV shows had better intros in the 1980s #synth #80s #classic80s

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Oh. It's autumn. 😢🍂💔 At least it's not winter.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My god, Etsy adverts are obnoxiously offensive. All the worst bits of empty influencer overconsumption culture encouraging you to buy drop-shipped tat in the most jumped-up, po-faced, pompous tone. No I don't need your sweat shop produced candle to complete my equinox ritual, love. Eugh.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sadly lamenting the demise of the nut cutlet. Supermarket vegetarian options seem to be on the decline. There's definitely scope to breathe new life into the market. Something protein-rich, tasty and vaguely good for you.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Wahay, FINALLY the deluge of proper rain we were promised in NE England since midweek! Yup, this will get the weed, feed and moss killer exactly where it needs to be and hopefully help resurrect the lawns before the frost starts to get at them.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Can newscasters stop calling them 'settlers'? It's not an 'incursion' it's an invasion. They are not 'settlers' they are invaders. Bloody evil invaders.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

At the back end of wk 2 after leaving my job owing to the worsening burnout of trying to combine caring for my elderly parents with work. Think I'm just beginning to dip out of survival mode because now the exhaustion is beginning to hit. Trying to be gentle with myself as I know it's early days.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“How will we ever replace them?” FUND. THE. ARTS.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

All my pretty chickens? At one fell swoop? Bloody, bloody, bloody hell and damnation. The most glorious ones. This year is 2016 mk2. Trying to fixate on the fact that we were so lucky to have them in the first place, but it's hard.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Yesterday I treated my parents' patio with sodium hypochlorite to get rid of the black spots and it took so long that it was dark when I finished. My dad just called to tell me how pleased he is. We've had a difficult relationship and didn't speak for 8yrs. His surprising call means the world to me

Me wearing goggles, a proper hardcore chemical respirator mask and green chemical rubber gloves giving a thumbs up to the camera

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sitting having a good cry before starting the day's work. I always particularly loved this song, it's there with Wichita Lineman and We've Only Just Begun and serves as a portal to what felt like a kinder, safer time with people who remain in spirit as parts of my heart. youtu.be/uKGguU6knkU?...

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Dolly Parton - Here You Come Again (Live)

YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Gosh it's been a long time since I had a nightmare like that. I was trapped in a building that was a huge mortuary specialising in handling victims of terrible crimes with a malevolent staff team hell bent on messing me up while I tried to pretend I wasn't terrified.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

At the folks house, the news headlines began with a picture of Dolly. Suddenly heard myself pleading 'No! No, no!' One of my go-to songs to perform was 9-5, even sang it at a wedding reception. Loved it. Also loved getting my Moderna COVID vaccine that she invested in. True greatness. Heartbroken.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If I had a lot of money I'd build some play parks for adult kids like me who see pictures like this and can't help feeling that brief initial burst of excitement before I sadly remember that many, many moons have passed since it was socially acceptable for me to enjoy such places.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Aghhh! Android seems to have installed a serif font. Thank you, I hate it. Absolutely not!

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Week 1 of being a full time carer/ handyperson/housekeeper to my elderly parents completed. Managed to get the first layer of muck off their 80million square metres of patio and paths. Sodium hypochlorite going on next week. Have a horrible sinking feeling about the EPIC regrouting though.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Something about the quality of the light this morning feels autumnal. It's primal, you sense it in your bones don't you? Not just yet please Mother Nature. My body's battery isn't quite charged in readiness for the dark months yet.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Day 1 as a full time carer for my elderly parents completed. Managed not to throttle either of them despite being pounced upon the moment I walked through the door, so I'm counting that as a win. New emotionally regulating morning routine involving exercise and singing seemed to help my burnout.

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Jill Chambers @jillchambers.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It's hard not to snap at my elderly mother watching the most beautiful pianists on The Piano and loudly declaring how much she dislikes them. Yes Mum, you also said that everything I ever did was shit and annihilated any trace of self confidence I ever had. And you are so badly wrong about it ALL!

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