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A running, occasional collection of things worth mentioning β€” no particular order, no particular schedule.

November 2026

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✊🏽 Time to wear my poppies. More than one in four Allied troops killed during WW1 and WW2 came from what is now the British Commonwealth. I will wear this RBL badge to commemorate them.

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Truth

October 2026

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🎭 Initially intimidated by the subject matter, but this play starring Rory Kinnear moved me greatly. πŸš—πŸš—πŸš—πŸš—πŸš—
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πŸ‚ No picture will do this justice but my favourite road, the B2026 in its autumnal attire is a complete joy again this year.
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πŸ’„ Maybe it's my age but powder eyeshadows always crease these days so I now use eyeshadow sticks. Most of these are from Beautypie but there's a Lisa Eldridge indulgence here too, in shade Quartz. πŸš—πŸš—πŸš—πŸš—

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This tickled me this week. We LibDems are so scary! Boo!

πŸ“– nopium

/ˈnΙ™ΚŠpiΙ™m/  Β·  noun, informal

The reflexive, almost addictive pull of saying no: pessimism or obstruction used as a comfort, so that nothing new is tried and nothing can be blamed on you.

‘He’s on the nopium again: that’s his fourth rejection of a proposal he hasn’t read.’

ORIGIN  Blend of no and opium, on the model of copium and hopium. Coined by Gita, October 2026.

cf.

copium noun, informal

Blend of cope and opium: an imaginary drug taken to deny bad news that has already arrived. Coiner unknown; Merriam-Webster says various people probably coined it independently in the 2000s. It spread widely from a July 2019 4chan meme of Pepe the Frog breathing from a tank labelled ‘copium’.

hopium noun, informal

Blend of hope and opium: an imaginary drug behind unrealistic optimism. Coiner unknown, but the earliest print uses found are British: a joke about ‘Hope-ium’ in Fun (London), 6 February 1864, and ‘The Band of Hope-ium!’ in The Tomahawk (London), 28 May 1870. It was revived in a Chicago Tribune column by John Kass, 30 July 2008, teasing Obama supporters.

Sources for copium and hopium: Merriam-Webster; Grammarphobia (January 2026); Word Histories (May 2026).

September 2026

✨ September gamechangers
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Proper makeup lighting

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FInally! A mascara that stays put!

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And brown Inglot eyeliner that goes nowhere

This is a Hollywood light; a wrapping mascara from Beautypie and Inglot's eyeliner, available in several colours but posted from Poland, I think.

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How easy it is to be a fascist in a democracy and how difficult to be a democrat in a dictatorship!

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Summer 2026

β˜€οΈ Things I've loved this summer
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Daisies on my jeans

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Daisies on my bag

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Fabulous sunnies

A bench on which to perch

Breakfast in the garden

The Norfolk garden

August 2026

29th August 2026

πŸŽ€ In a world of Donalds, be a Dolly.

RIP Dolly.

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Obsessed with this.

Let us not forget about women in Afghanistan.

πŸ¦‰ Justice
Equality, equity, justice, in one image.

🐾 Fergus has decided that retrieving is beneath him. Working on finding softer training dummies before he unlearns the whole point of being a retriever.

🧣 Finally caving on that Mikuta pink mohair jumper I've seen innumerable times on the socials. I've wanted one since Paris, Texas. Sometimes a jumper is just a jumper. Sometimes it's been forty years.

πŸ“– Reading on the new Kobo. Gisele Pelicot's memoir is riveting in a gut-rending way.

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