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Jennifer Blair

@squeakinglyjen.bsky.social
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Feminist lawyer, Classicist, barrister at No5 Chambers. She/her or They/them pronouns

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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
This rescue kitten has been brought to my door (I co-run a local cat rescue group). A foster has been lined up immediately because I should think if you spend more than 5 seconds with him you’d keep him. He is suffering starvation issues but otherwise seems ok. VERY CUDDLY!
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Updated kitten shots:)
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Two week old kittens:)
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
A watched cat *never* births. I swear she’s planning to stay pregnant forever.
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Sleepy Cerberus
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Foster cat looking magnificently pregnant
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Trying to convince my partner that this box that needs to go to the tip is a performance art piece about the impact of single use plastics on native wildlife
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I have seen that Jenrick, the Times and Daily Mail have been targeting expert immigration lawyer Greg Ó Ceallaigh KC, who is also a part time immigration judge (a deputy Upper Tribunal judge). A couple of quick points about the misinformation involved in this.
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Chloe the foster cat is pregnant. I had been going to move her into the house with my cats (she matches their colour scheme - pictured 🤣) but I guess into a separate maternity room she goes.
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Sparrows collecting dog hair for their nests just after I trimmed the dog outside. Might leave it til tomorrow to sweep it up.
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Am in very London today and it’s cheerful to mooch about like a tourist (I’m from London but not living here now).
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Helping a neighbour neuter the cats on her land. This lovely lady was five weeks pregnant so she’s gone to a maternity foster. Very exciting. She is beyond disgusted but hopefully this litter of kittens (probably something like her 10th) will be her last and she will have many child-free years ahead
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Got this new chair warmer
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
It’s a hard life when you get two pieces of bacon so no one will believe you’re still really malnourished and hungry.
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Did you know there’s a type of rainforest we have in the UK, esp on the Scottish West coast
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I also have a wonderful cat fam. Volo, Pounce and Mary Shelley. They’re siblings who were rescued as feral kittens. Mary was trapped later than the boys so is a lot warier, but she loves the boys so much. Volo and Pounce think Radio is their big brother and cuddle him a lot.
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
My dog fam are the best. They are Arthur, Merlin and their puppy Radio Pendragon (Merlin is a girl and she’s Radio’s mam and Arthur his dad). They love beaches, cuddles and every type of food.
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
There’s definitely a look amongst local feral cats. These guys are Charlie (kitten) and He-Man the foster cats and Volo my former feral cat. I guess they’re probably all related in some way.
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Pet donut of Volo and Arthur
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Went to the cafe for a coffee and garlic bread and everyone is bringing Arthur treats and he is *thrilled*
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Pretty Sunday walk with Arthur
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I seem to have ended up with a pet cat on the basis he’s going to be hard to rehome. He was a semi-feral but not doing well at all so I don’t think should go back out. But he’s also quite stinky and keen to throw the furniture around. Hopefully he’ll clean up 😅
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This is Mouse my foster kitten astonished by a TV big enough to eat him
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I'm all for the Home Office pointing out that only regulated legal advisers can give immigration advice, but I'm less in favour or them forgetting that solicitors and barristers exist! [Taken from the Ukraine scheme Gov.UK page here: www.gov.uk/guidance/app...
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
We perhaps didn’t try hard enough to train our pets they couldn’t sleep on the bed. (Furthest pet is one a pet bed the same height as the bed made with pallets but still)
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Normally the barnacle tree is submerged but very low tide today. It’s so cool!
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
My chambers immigration team is recruiting!!!
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I’m too old to collect these mystery kittens yes/no?
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I want to introduce you to Cheddar who is a feral cat I’m fostering. Isn’t he such a handsome doofus of a cat. Fingers crossed he gets a home soon!
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Log fire is very popular with the animals. They keep adding themselves to the line 😂
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Meet Teddy and Cheddar, two feral/outside cats who I’m looking after until they are rehomed. They were trapped today and so are very astonished and displeased. Apparently it’s unlikely that Teddy is a boy, being Tortoiseshell-ish, but we’ll see what the vet thinks.
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Heated blanket on the sofa = every dog on my lap:)
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Oh to be a cat snoozing on a radiator
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The court made a mandatory order in ACR's case - he'd been left without accessible accommodation for more than a year. In other cases the Home Office has seemed to fast track a person's asylum claim rather than finding them housing. Imo they aren't capable of housing disabled asylum seekers.
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
If you look at how severe this little boy's health needs are I think it's clear that a monolithic 'no choice' system where people are put in whatever hostel housing in the UK is cheapest is not suitable. But legally social services has excluded from stepping in to house this family.
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
For disabled children cared for by a parent there is an exclusion from the local authority social services housing under s.122 IAA 1999. It may therefore require a change in the law for the local authority to house disabled children - still worthwhile because the Home Office doesn't know how.
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Just me putting snow cleats on my slippers to put the bins out #Scotland
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
You can see why ‘reading the coffee granules’ hasn’t caught on like reading tea leaves. (A friend got us coffee that’s maybe not perfect for the cafetière but that said this was from the very bottom of the pot)
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Such a cool intro! I now know more about recent legal discussion re property law as a result:)
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
In further pet cuteness, the dogs usually like to sleep all spread out but tonight Merlin wants to cuddle her son Radio <3
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The weather outside is frightful but my cat sleeping on a giant dog bed with a heat pad on is the darned cutest thing
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Is there a specific name for this thing that nasty newspapers are doing where they post ‘positively’ about something in the strong and certain knowledge that their culture war followers will comment in bigoted/offensive ways? Here homophobic/transphobic but often done about a woman’s weight etc too
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
So I discovered these funky fruits in my garden and apparently they’re Japanese quince and I should infuse vodka with them! Very exciting!!
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Met this possible zombie leviathan on the beach today
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Arthur wants to report me to an animal rescue charity after I refused to free him from his ribbon after he turned it into a blindfold. (He doesn’t approve of clothes but I did get my dad to rescue him)
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Five years of this house!
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Wee man loves live music
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Bastard dog ate half a bag of cat food and is now poorly due to the ginormous food baby. Look how swoll her abdomen is!!!
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Had you ever seen a court sketch where the victim was portrayed like this? She’s an incredible woman. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I did not take this picture of my dog. The restaurant diner eating the pictured meal did. I don’t know who brought up this hooligan!
Labradoodle claiming to be malnourished by expression aloneLarge Christmas dinner with piles of meat
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