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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

What a wonderful list, thank you 🙏

Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I thought cooked rice was ok for a few days in the fridge as long as you put it in the fridge within an hour of it being cooked.

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Here’s Arthur Bear on my lap, living his best life (apologies for the polka dot fleecy jim jams, it’s cold tonight! )

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

@tracychevalier.bsky.social another excellent read! Thank you for your meticulous research and damn good storytelling. I came across this little gem at the library, remember to support your local library and get fabulous books like this for free 😊

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Been laid up with a wrenched muscle in my back so read this straight through in two days and it was a damn good read! In my 40s when I was desperately unhappy I took up long distance walking and this book resonated with me on so many levels, definitely recommend this @phoebesmith.bsky.social

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I’m glad I’m WFH today, be careful on the roads

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

True. And the Board at ESNEFT should be ashamed of themselves for outsourcing services such as housekeeping, portering and catering in the face of clear evidence which says outsourcing results in poorer care for patients and less job satisfaction for hard working NHS staff.

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

In the UK, or at least the bit where I’m from, we call these ginger nuts. No idea why. I’m not a huge fan of ginger generally but I love these dunked in a cuppa.

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I don’t know about the salary, but I agree he is a grifter

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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I seem to have upset the Nigel Farage fan club - so let me be clear. This man sows hate, lies and division. He is a grifter and a conman. He does not represent the vast majority of Britons. Repost if you agree P.s. multiculturalism is great.

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I’ve just discovered it and it’s amazing, I use the moisturiser and I’ve just bought a smaller size to use as a hand cream. It rubs in beautifully, isn’t oily and leaves my skin so soft. Great product.

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Fun day planned, heading down to the coast to check out two record shops and a few antique shops and a nice stroll along the (probably very foggy) promenade. Whatever you have planned, have a lovely day

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

As someone who was veggie for 9 years then started eating meat again, I can assure you it’s not the sprouts at all but the meat feast that’s is Christmas dinner. If you don’t eat meat, no idea where your methane is coming from 😁 I’m now at the stage of craving fruit lol

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Already playing with our Christmas present, me and me fella treated ourselves to a turntable and very decent Bluetooth speaker, currently enjoying some old British blues, plucked from the bargain bin at a local record shop. I think vinyl will be our new obsession 😁

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I think that’s stunning, and actually very accomplished to achieve that kind of depth of colour with watercolours 👏👏👏

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Agree. If you look into them they are a pretty shady bunch

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Well, this is nice after a bumpy week. Non-working Friday afternoon, enormous cuddly cat on my lap, lovely cup of decaf and a book about the history of art. I should be wrapping Christmas presents but I’ll do me instead 😊

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I used to journal like crazy, for years, then I suddenly stopped. I’m not sure why but perhaps I realised I needed to do something to change my life rather than just write about wanting change. A friend has gifted me a lovely notebook and I just can’t think what to do with it, how I can use it well

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

What a wonderful photo of an extremely courageous woman

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I suppose I’d want to know who else was in the running? Also, this is not necessarily a ringing endorsement is it? Although he undoubtedly would see it that way as he can’t get past his own inflated ego.

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Of course they bloody would 😡

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The patriarchy is alive and well 😡 the more empowered people feel to speak out the more you realise how much misogyny is entrenched in western society. We can fight this as women, but we need our more enlightened men as allies to call it out.

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Ooooh! I like that jumper! I’d wear that with pride 😁

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UNISON @unison.org.uk · 12/12/2024

The rate of unemployment for disabled people is double compared to their non‑disabled counterparts. Discrimination against disabled people is unlawful. It's time to ask your employer to make a commitment to supporting disabled employees by signing the charter.

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Opinion: Inspiring action and change for disabled workers | Article, News | News | UNISON National

UK Disability History Month helps to recognise the valuable role disabled people play and work and in society

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I like it too, scattered over a salad 😊

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Decided to prioritise drawing over chores this morning, a habit I really must cultivate, and re-drew my favourite jug. It’s been months since I worked on my pencil skills and I haven’t got the top of the jug right, but I thoroughly enjoyed drawing it. Now to revisit oil pastels 😁

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Feeling exhausted today, been a bit under the weather all week and today we held our quarterly (they should be more frequent!) bargaining and negotiating forum. Started prickly but managed to warm it up halfway through. Shouldn’t be this hard though to look after our people

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I do like thumbling and fence skedaddler

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I thought the back pack was a different shape and colour in some of the photos 🤔

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

That looks good, thank you I’ll give it a go 😊

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Just finished The Witches of Vardo by Anya Bergman, fictional account of the awful witch trials that occurred on the Norwegian island of Vardo in the 1600s. Grim reading but beautifully poetic too with plenty of myth and folklore. Need something a bit lighter now though!

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I think he was always wise, but as he’s aged he’s turned into a proper wise old man, more people should listen to Billy

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I studied this at school, it is an amazing book, not least because I still find the thought of it unnerving and disturbing. I never want to re-read it but I can’t deny the effect it had on me.

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Please be kind. 12 weeks ago I started on a beginners art course. I had zero experience having not studied art at school. I’ve learned so much about colour, mixing and different formats. This is my final piece of a sea scape and tall ship, in acrylic. I’ve already signed up for next term 😁

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Love this, here’s mine: Atticus Finch Dracula Elizabeth Bennet Severus Snape Arya Stark Sidney Carton

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Good for her for living her values, but what shocks me more is that Elonia was even in the RS! My understanding is that he has no technical knowledge (but claims all the technical credit)

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

It has certainly shaken me out of my complacency and there are positives, my confidence has returned as have my legal skills from a previous career, but it’s very full on!

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Same here, I have less time for reading now so I do like to listen to audiobooks on my commute. Currently enjoying The Familiars by Stacey Halls, makes me want to find out more about the Pendle witches.

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Totally non-work related post, but enjoying day drinking with my daughter. Not regular occurrence with me but it’s been a helluva week. Changing careers at 58 and leaving the wonderful world of libraries for the brash world of trade unionism has been a shock, but, I’ve got this ✊🏻

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

If you oppose NHS privatisation, please could you repost this and follow me? I need to know who to follow next (it’ll be you!) 🌟🌟🌟

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Large parts of adult social care in England face collapse, thinktank says. The budget blamed but there are other factors. Massive real cut in local govt funding since 2010. Privatisation: 30%-40% of money vanishes in profits. Money buys less. End Privatisation www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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Large parts of adult social care market in England face collapse, thinktank warns

Sector will have extra £2.8bn cost burden from April due to tax and wage rises announced in budget, says Nuffield Trust

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

<sigh> well, meeting my new MP last night was a disappointment. He seems a genial, naive sort of guy who admitted to knowing nothing about my nhs trust, in his own constituency, which leads me to believe I’ll get no help there so I’ll look to my union comrades for help instead ✊🏻✊🏻

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Good morning, hope you have a grand weekend

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Why are Guardian and Observer journalists going on strike for four days in December over the deal to offload the Observer onto a failing digital startup? Five reasons here. Please repost 🙏

Five reasons the journalists are striking

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Laura Wilkes @lawkim.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I’m off to the West Suffolk Trades Council event tonight to meet the local Labour MP (an amazing achievement in true blue Suffolk) and to describe what it’s like to support members through a chaotic and totally mismanaged financial crisis brought about by sheer incompetence 😡

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