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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today's unexpected delight was finding a fairy ring in the industrial estate. I am not sure whether to muse on #folklore or #fungi, so I will just leave these photos here. #blessing #blessings #dailyblessings #mentalhealth

Grass in an industrial estate, with a stripe of darker grass in it.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The sheer unadulterated joy of 50 pencils, complete with rubbers, for four quid at Tesco. #stationery #stationeryjoy #countingblessings #dailyblessings #ablessingaday #mentalhealth

Four red pencils with rubbers on top of a blue box saying "50 Pencils with Eraser Tips"

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Today's micro-joy Speaking to a supplier in Cornwall. I do love a West Country accent. 🫖🥧🍓🍨 #mentalhealth #blessings #dailyblessings

A stylised image of the Cornish coast and sea, in the style of 1930s travel posters

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Sunday and Monday.... Micro-joys have been the pup splashing in the paddling pool, and meeting a delightful couple who are renovating her grand-parents' home to make it theirs. #blessings #gratitude #mentalhealth

A medieval image of people constructing a small building, probably a chapel. One person is mixing mortar, another carrying materials up a tower and the third seems to be pointing with a trowel.
https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/zbs/SII-0043/36v

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Yesterday's micro joys included strawberries. So 🍓 Many 🍓 Strawberries 🍓 #gratitude #blessings #dailyblessings #mentalhealth

A large number of ripe strawberries - too many to see what container they are in - looks like AI, but isn't

A large number of ripe strawberries - in a barely visible black tray - looks like AI, but isn't

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Friday's good thing? Turning a bad situation round by claiming one of my super-powers! Go, it has to be said, me. #blessings #dailyblessings #mentalhealth #gratitude

Norman Rockwell's Saturday Evening Post 1943 cover featuring Rosie the Riveter
In this image, Rosie is sitting down eating a sandwich, with her riveting gun on her lap. She is wearing a blue collar shirt, blue jeans and red socks. She is looking away from the viewer with her eyes closed and a "I don't need your shit" expression on her face. The background is the stars and stripes.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I have thought for a while that part of the problem the English have is no single, clear, national identity. Scots' cultural iconography (kilts, bagpipes, thistles, etc) is really familiar, even if most of it is 19thC, and they embrace their immigrants, making Sikh tartans, etc. 1)

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

So Thursday's micro-joy Picking up a fabulously framed picture. Getting the mount and frame Just Right is one of my delights. Proof positive that if I can over-think a thing, I will. But at least it pleases me. #blessings #dailyblessings #gratitude #mentalhealth

Selection of colourful mouldings for picture frames. Probably AI generated, but there is only so much I can do. They seem to be made by these people: https://stavianmetal.com/en/aluminum-frames/

Coloured picture mounts, again probably AI generated, and certainly tweaked so the background has been removed. Seems to be used as an image by several framers. I do like coloured mounts, though.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Wednesday's micro joy? Clean sheets after a bath. I love the dogs very much, but oh boy, between them and Lighthouse Hubby, the bed gets GRITTY. #dogcytocin #dogsofbluesky #mentalhealth #dailyblessings #gratitude

Painting of a day bed with at least seven dogs on it of various sizes.
Big Dog Bed by Sam Toft
https://www.therosegallery.co.uk/products/sam-toft-big-dog-bed?

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The lack of daily postings was a good sign. The fact I need to start them again... not so much. (Looking at you, #EHRC & #UKGOV) So back to micro joys. Yesterday's good thing ---- how clean and shiny my kitchen is after much cleaning and many shinings. #dailyblessings #gratitude #mentalhealth

Clean glass jars containing pasta and dried pulses, on a shelf with a stone wall behind them.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Monday to Friday, then..... I spent pretty much all day everyday comparing Marxist and Postmodernist approaches to history. My brain is fried, but the assignment is done. 🤯 1/3 #schoolsout #history #historians #mentalhealth #mindfulness #gratitude www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oo8...

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Alice Cooper - School's Out (from Alice Cooper: Trashes The World)

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

So... Thursday to Monday. (You can tell that the days are lighter and longer because I am skipping this as a daily practice). Nuggets of pleasure have included: 🌑the shiny round bounciness of a gym ball, like a planet in the living room #mentalhealth #blessings #gratitude #mindfulness 1/2

An AI image of an un-named "rogue planet" used to illustrate this story - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260101160859.htm

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Good things about Wednesday. The house is full of daffodils and narcissi. #spring #flowers #mentalhealth #mindfulness #gratitude

Painting of Narcissus looking at his reflection
Echo and Narcissus (1903) by John William Waterhouse. The painting captures the tragic moment from Greek mythology where Narcissus, entranced by his reflection, is oblivious to the forlorn Echo who watches him in despair. Credit: Google Art Project. Public Domain.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Five days since my last daily update. Ho. And as you might say, Hum. Lovely days, which included cousins, family, friends, wine, chili, dogs & board games. I am however very tired, so I'll have a bath and listen to a podcast. Photo of free range eggs for no good reason. #countingblessings

An egg box with three free-range eggs of different colours and sizes

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Monday and Tuesday The weather was lovely. Sunshine makes SUCH a difference. They also featured some rather good soup, vino verdhe (which is insanely good value), much laughter, and daft dogs. A random photo of Orkney for no particular reason #mentalhealth #minfulness #gratitude

A field with a ruined building, a spit of water, and some land behind it.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

1. Sunny days with little wind 2. Baths 3. Living somewhere so flat, I can look straight ahead and see the sky 4. Dogxytocin

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Sunday was a bit shit, hence no update on Saturday. But it did involve bumping into some friends and having a quick blether. Saturday's good thing.... well I can't really remember that far ago. Which is why this needs to be a daily practice! #mentalhealth #mindfulness #gratitude #dailyblessings

The pup looking ridiculously cute aged about four months. I didn't really appreciate how cute she was at the time, because last year was all a bit shit.

Picture shows a young golden retriever in a laundry basket.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Friday's good things. Eating in company. #mentalhealth #mindfulness #gratitude PS - Google REALLY needs an "exclude AI" option in its search tools

What looks like a medieval image of people eating at a table with a white cloth, there is a dog under the table, and someone next to the table is playing the bagpipes. It could be AI.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Thursday's good things. Hot-water bottles. Because I got rather cold during the day. [I asked google for a painting of a child holding a hot-water bottle, and it gave me this rather disturbing image. Different times. Different times.] #mentalhealth #mindfulness #earlymodernart

18th century painting of a male child swigging from an earthenware bottle.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Tuesday's good things A productive meeting with a lovely co-volunteer. And truly excellent home made shortbread. #mentalhealth #mindfulness #gratitude #scotland #shortbread

Photo of tea and shortbread from the BBC Good Food website
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/shortbread-biscuits

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I am gently pleased that the combination of Getting Rid of Stuff and Getting Storage for Stuff is finally making a perceptible difference. We temporarily have three Rooms of Doom, not the previous two (or targetted one). But that is partly because some of the Stuff is waiting to be taken away.

Illustration from The Hobbit showing Smaug on his hoard.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Monday's good things. Lovely weather. And these gorgeous daffodils which Lighthouse Hubby grew in the Lighthouse Garden. Half a century ago, my grandfather planted an entire trench of daffodil and narcissi, so I love them and think of him every #spring. #mentalhealth #mindfulness #gratitude

A glass of water with unusual daffodils and narcissi

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Saturday ---- Catching up with our next door neighbours over a bottle or three of wine. #mentalhealth #countingblessings

Painting by PJ Crook - THE FRIENDS
The painting depicts three women drinking wine in a bistro, with two waiters behind them

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Oh, and another absolute treat yesterday was listening to a guy cleaning the next room, singing Neil Young to himself. An absolute treat. ☮️🕊️✌️ So glad I remembered it today. This is the value of the daily practice ---- it pulls happy memories forward, and helps me remember them. #gratitude

The cover of Neil Young's eponymous album showing a stylised portrait of him

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Good Friday - Good things today included the cat, sarcasm, and dying some slightly stained towels a rather gorgeous yellow by adding a teaspoon of orange dye to the yellow. I really like dying fabric. #mentalhealth #mindfulness #gratitude #dailyblessings #countingblessings

Medieval image of people dying fabric red.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Oh, and I posted my patch for the @transunityquilt.bsky.social organised by @transactualuk.bsky.social yesterday. I am annoyed that I overshot the margin in one corner, but life is imperfect, right? #translivesmatter #transequality #transrightsarehumanrights

A piece of pink fabric decorated with a continuous wiggly red line

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Thursday had many good moments. I am enjoying reviewing the day to remember them. I found Oyster Mushrooms with a yellow-label reduction in Tesco. I can never quite bring myself to buy them full price, but they'll be a treat in a creamy pasta sauce. #mentalhealth #mindfulness #gratitude

A page from the facsimile edition of the manuscript "Book of Mushrooms" showing an illustration of red capped Agar toadstools, drawn by Robert Wilson (1787-1871).

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Wednesday's good thing. Reducing the Piles of Stuff in the Room of Doom. #mentalhealth #mindfulness #declutter #decluttering #tidying

A stock photo of piles of cardboard boxes

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I thought I’d already signed a section 28 petition but I clicked the link to check and it turned out I hadn’t. This is so important, both to own and atone for the historical harms inflicted on LGBTQ+ people by successive governments, but also to draw parallels with current anti-trans legislation.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Yes. This. I felt very nostalgic for Old NASA. And very worried for New NASA.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Tuesday had some frustrating moments - but what day doesn't? I am however pleased that we now have three usable bedrooms in the house. #mentalhealth #mindfulness #countingblessings #achingmuscles #hotbath #bathsalts

Medieval illustration of two people lying side by side in bed

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

So, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday - which is a sign that my mental health is better than it was. But still, a daily practice is a daily practice. So 🧵 Friday - I painted my @transunityquilt.bsky.social organised by @transactualuk.bsky.social #translivesmatter #translives #mentalhealth 1

Pink fabric painted with a swirling design in pink, red and red-glitter paint

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Thursday's good thing.... The highlight was a cosy evening with Lighthouse Hubby, watching CrapTV™, him doing his emails, me knitting. We followed this with good conversation, and boardgames. Domestic evenings like this are rare for us, and I value them. #mentalhealth #mindfulness #gratitude

Two ancient Greek warriors playing a boardgame, probably an image from a vase

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Our lodger works for the NHS. They do shifts. They have a cold. So Wednesday's spark of joy was buying Night Nurse for the night nurse. 🤧🥄👨‍⚕️⚕️ #mentalhealth #physicalhealth #mindfulness #nhs #supportthenhs

Painting by Anthony Rossiter, "Night Nurse at Desk" - date unknown but purchased by the Royal West of England Academy in 1971.

The RWA blurb says

The Nurse here is seen in a cluttered workspace, as though she will not be able to stop working. It is as if she is the light in the painting that is otherwise dark. It resonates deeply at this time, as we consider NHS and care staff who have been under such workload pressure and upon whom we most depend in the darkness of night.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Tuesday's good thing? I cleaned & I cleaned & I cleaned. Ye gods, the muck in the house that I cleaned! I comfort myself that some houses are harder to clean than others. And old ones, with dogs, are harder than new ones with no animals. If cleanliness is next to godliness, I am now a saint!

This image is a miniature painting depicting a scene of medieval women washing laundry.
The scene, titled "The great washday before the city" from the alchemical handbook Splendor Solis (1531), shows various stages of the laundry process, including beating clothes with wooden bats (beetles) to loosen dirt and hanging them to dry.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Splendor_solis_das_grosse_waschfest_vor_der_stadt_1531_detail.jpg

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Tuesday's good thing --- The new lighthouse keeper came round & coped with the dogs. Looking for today's picture brought me a list of Medieval dogs' names. I particularly like Rowte-Owte, Brayneles & Beste-of-all, so today's pic is Jake, the best dog ever. www.medievalists.net/2024/11/dog-...

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I am getting tired of how ChatGPT writes things --- in half ideas that don't really connect. Three word paragraphs. Fragments. No linking words --- just em-dashes. Is this how we think now? No coherence? Just units of meaningless? An interference pattern --- The endless scroll? #FuckAI

A robot looking at a phone - almost certainly generated by AI - but fuckkit all.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Sunday's pleasure was making good progress stitching together the panels of the jumper I have spent (ahem) a year knitting. Hopefully done today! Yesterday also include good craik, and some excellent biscuits. #mentalhealth #mindfulness #dailyblessings #countingblessings #ablessingaday

A late Victorian painting of a girl knitting in a room with a cat under her chair.

Title
A Girl Knitting

Date
1874

Medium
oil on panel

Measurements
H 64 x W 36 cm

Accession number
BORGM 00880

Acquisition method
bequeathed by Miss Emmeline Young, 1940

Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
Bournemouth

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Saturday's good thing - Getting a vast amount of Stuff to the tip and the charity shop. My mojo is coming back. It's pleasing but a little disconcerting too! #mentalhealth #mindfulness #ablessingaday #dailyblessings #countingblessings

A medieval image of one peasant digging the ground, and another with a load on their back

https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Thursday's good things - Having a lovely catch-up and blether with a neighbour. Friday's - Driving for hours in the sunshine listening to The Rest is History about Boswell and Johnson. Of course our scenery isn't bad either. #mentalhealth #dailyblessings #countingblessings #mindfulness

A vintage postcard showing an illustration of Scottish mountains and a loch. A man in shorts and a woman in a tartan skirt, both with rucksacks, are standing next to a road. A red sports car is speeding past. The text on the card says "I know where I'm going!" and "Central Scotland".

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Wednesday's good thing was the laughter when two friends came round to help me de-flat-pack a new bed. Who am I kidding? They did 90% of it. My days of scrabbling around on the floor are almost over. I did provide soup, though. I can cook! #mentalhealth #mindfulness #dailyblessings

A medieval illustration of a man doing carpentry, a woman with a distaff, and a child with a basket of eggs or bread rolls.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Tuesday --- I thoroughly enjoyed Seven Dials on Netflix. (And I am now an instant fan of Mia McKenna-Bruce) But my favourite TV genre is posh people killing each other. History too, as traditionally taught, is much the same thing. #mentalhealth #mindlfulness www.netflix.com/gb/title/813...

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Watch Agatha Christie's Seven Dials | Netflix Official Site

When a lavish country house party ends in murder, a witty young aristocrat sets out to solve the mystery in this adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

So Saturday, Sunday & Monday... I put petrol in our diesel car on Sunday, so that's fun. But blessings in the last 3 days have been 🌞sunshine (I do not take it for granted after the brutal weather in Jan & Feb) 🫂supportive friends ⌛having time to sort out the mess #mentalhealth #mindfulness

The Storm, by JW Turner --- an open boat overcrowded with people is almost awash in a very heavy sea, with rocks nearby and storm clouds overhead

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

So having read the thing, Fukuyama's argument is that history is the playing out of a Darwinian struggle of ideologies, and that liberal democracy has won that struggle. It's a very specific definition of history. If it's not about forms of government and governance, it isn't history. Hmmmm. 🧵1

Banksy's painting of the British House of Commons full of Chimpanzees.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Did you know there is a word for visible sheets of rain falling from clouds? Wikipedia call them "precipitation shafts", but the other word is "virga". I first saw them here, where clean air & a low horizon make them a regular sight These were Friday's #blessing. #mentalhealth #mindfulness

A single track road in sunshine, with a low grey cloud in the sky with visible veils of rain falling from it.

A single track road in sunshine, with a passing place sign and a derelict building. There is a low grey cloud in the sky with visible veils of rain falling from it.

The sea with a low grey cloud in the sky with visible veils of rain falling from it.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 12/03/2026

Undated, unsigned painting depicting... well, something. 1700s.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Finally reading Fukuyama's article "The End of History". I thought the phrase naïve bollocks at the time, & that was before 9/11, the resurgence of China, & the kleptocracies in Russia & now the West. How anyone could reach such a senior position without reading Ozymandias is beyond me. 1

A photograph I could not source showing the head of a broken statue of an Egyptian Pharaoh on the ground, with the legs of the statue behind it. I do not know if it a genuine photograph or AI.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Feeling very 'meh' today. Probably because I would be having a migraine if it weren't for triptans. No pain, but a very low mood. Wednesday's good thing was Lighthouse Hubby's response when I told him I was prodromal. He very gently said "I know". 🫶 And today's is probably sumatriptan.

A painting of a woman by a window, she is leaning back in a chair, tired after using a sewing machine.

Christian Krohg (1852–1925), Tired (1885), oil on canvas, 79.5 x 61.5 cm, Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo, Norway. Wikimedia Commons.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative. My kick-ass, vegan, pea and "sham" soup. (The secret ingredient is Lighthouse Hubby's home-made seitan). The comforting feel & smell of my dog's fur. Being able to bung dirty clothes into a machine & have them come out clean & fresh.

A late medieval woman in a red dress bending over a tub of laundry. Detail of a laundress on the Beach, The Decameron (BNF Arsenal 5070), 1432

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Monday's good thing..... Bright sunshine again - never underestimate the effect of the weather on mood. Eating a bit less, and not thinking much about it. #mentalhealth #ablessingaday #dailyblessings #mindfulness

Jack Sprat is an English rhyme first published in 1639.
“Jack Sprat could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean.
And so between them both, you see,
They licked the platter clean.”
In the 16th century, the name "Jack Sprat" was used of to describe people of a small stature.
Illustrated by Frederick Richardson (1862-1937), Mother Goose, 1920.

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