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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I reckon that’s a faint aurora with the Plough in front of it. In France at 47 degrees north.

Trees silhouetted against a sky with red and green highlights. The Plough constellation is visible.

Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This window has a reflective coating to reduce sun heat. The bird has no idea there’s anything behind it. It’s driving Layla *bonkers*.

A round porthole window with blue sky and buildings visible to and a sparrow perched outside on the frame. On the inside windowsill in the foreground there is a small black and white cat watching the bird intently.

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Did this box contain ‘nip impregnated toys? Why yes Layla, yes it did. I now have two stoned cats. #caturday

A black and white cat inside an empty Zooplus cardboard box.

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

As an alternative look, how about this? I just need to photoshop in a zebra crossing...

Four wildebeest crossing a dirt road in the manner of the Beatles album cover.

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Bouncing tonight for the Nocturne Gourmande du Cardinal in Richelieu. A strange shift from seeing L’Odyssée in the local cinema a couple of hundred metres away.

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Great picture! I see your bison and raise you this Glacier moose who came way to close for comfort on the trail but was utterly chilled… there was a small hiker jam as we carefully and quietly took turns to circumvent it at maximum distance.

A large moose with impressive antlers standing between the bushes it has been browsing, facing the camera.

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Well worth the trip. Beautiful place. Many nice places to eat in town. Also kids get an AR tablet with their entrance which is super engaging. And there’s dressing up in the clock tower!

A pair of hands holding a tablet on which there is an artists impression of the current wider scene of ruins as seen in medieval times.

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Dear IKEA, if you call something a hanging rail, and put this picture on the listing, don't be surprised that your customer is pissed off to be driving a 2 hour round trip to get the tiny perpendicular bar above from which the bloody shelf struts are supposed to hang. 😠

An Ikea item called 'Rail de Montage' (Hanging Rail on the English site) with a picture of shirts hanging on a rail.

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Here come the storms - YAY Corresponding bangs and flashes around us, but not a huge amount of rain.

A screenshot of the Lightningmaps site. This site shows the location of lightning strikes as red, orange and yellow dots. There is a huge cloud of dots stretching from the French coast a long way inland.

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Processing endless photos from Namibia. This pelican is 100% channelling @daphnethecat.com although the target is fish, not ham.

A close up of a large pelican perched on the chrome rail of a boat. It is staring straight down its long yellow and blue beak at the camera with a very judgemental look on its feathery face.

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Mega holiday draws to a close, leaving Namibia shortly, so here are some edited highlights. Highly recommended destination.

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Only a few days of mega holiday left…real world is encroaching. Started scribbling a short story by the pool yesterday which is a good sign of a proper rest and reset. And I think this is the most impressive random iPhone snap I’ve ever taken.

Classic image of an ancient petrified tree on the Deadvlei dried lake pan under the Big Daddy dune of Sossusvlei. The image is clean layers of light cream in the foreground, darker cream as the dried lake bed stretches into the distance, an orange dune rising above the pan, and blue sky above. The dead tree is to the right, trunk against the cream of the pan and bare branches on the background of the orange dune.

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Haven’t posted any holiday snaps yet but this for the nerds, I have found the Southern Cross, and the second big star to the left is Alpha Centauri. The Namibian desert sky is making me very happy.

Star scape. The southern cross (four stars in a kite shape) is clearly visible to the right. In line with the horizontal cross pieces are two stars. The one on the left is Alpha Centauri. If you zoom in you can see the Milky Way. It’s insane.

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

No internet for days so nice to be here briefly. As a treat here are yesterday’s elephants, a termite mound and a dikdik pic.

A dozen elephants standing in a waterhole in Etosha national park, Namibia

A tiny, shy antelope with a pale brown coat and big dark eyes.

A termite mound of somewhat phallic design.

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The FB pile-on reached its peak with this: “You only have to look at her profile to know what type of family they are“ My profile picture:

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Currently being piled on by the keyboard parking wardens of the local Facebook group. It’s incredibly entertaining. No council enforcement or police or indeed pitchfork-wielding hordes have popped round yet. 🤭🤣🤣🤣

A black and white movie still of a firebrand-wielding horde crossing a stone bridge into a castle.

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone #ProofOfCat

A black cat fast asleep on his back against a jogger-clad thigh. His front paws are tucked neatly up. His ears are pricked to ensure any sound of food wakes him.

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

My favourite line from @privateeyenews.bsky.social Wes Streeting Post Mortem. May I say I would still pay good money for this.

In October 2024, the government launched its Change NHS website as part of its "plan to develop an NHS plan" , asking the public how
to fix the NHS. Many of the best suggestions never made it into the plan, including: "To raise essential funds for the NHS, we should fire Wes Streeting out of a cannon and charge people to watch it."

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

1. It will get better. I firmly believe this and will fight for it. Cat for - well, cat 🫂

A tuxedo cat with yellow-green eyes and a pink nose gazing up at the camera.

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

OH on the way to France for work & play. Two cats making sure the other meal ticket stays put.

A black and white cat in the foreground, sitting on a blanket which appears to have a human beneath it. Slightly further back is a pile of black fur with ears, snoozing against the human’s legs.

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Someone is trying to tell me it’s nearly time to stop for the day.

A head and paws portrait of a black and white cat sitting on a wooden desk, very firmly blocking access to the keyboard that is in soft focus behind her.

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

We were given one of those contoured scratching-pad-cum-bed things in France and it was an instant hit despite many sofas and beds and other alternatives including a basket by this fire. If Layla leaves it, Fred takes possession.

A black and white cat sprawled on a cat bed in front of a fire. The bed is on a floor of old and somewhat damaged terracotta tiles.

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

A cat and a cat! My annual SciFi Scarborough trip does not disappoint, although a few more book sales would be good 🙃

A bearded Danny John-Jules, resplendent in a green baseball cap and wild green patterned top. Perched on his shoulder is a small black kitten wearing a Supergirl costume.

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Yes true! 16 Lily Crescent. Pic here from my oldest comic… But they were all at school in Heaton. Thought that was what you meant 🤭.

* Viz Comic N° 12a © 5/85 VizHouse 16 Lily Crescent NewcastleuponTyne NE22SP
Published by House Of Viz. All material copyright of the original artist and cannot be reproduced without permission. Executive Responsibilities Director: TED BENSONS
Responsibilities Executive: BENNY HEDGES Wicket Keeper: PHIL TURTIP Contributing Associate Executives: DAVE, STEVE Associated Executive Production Sub-committee: NICK, SALLY, FENELLA and GEORGE Mixing Engineer: PETRA MOOLENAAR Manager of Everton: HOWARD KENDALL 4th of July:
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY. All back issues sold out. See back page for subcription details.

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Kate Baucherel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @katebaucherel.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Not sure if Fred is trying to hide or to sun puddle. Either way, not totally effective.

A black cat lying on a wooden floor with his body perfectly aligned in the shadow cast by the door frame and his paws and tail sticking out into the sun on either side.

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