Pru Madeley

I love the community spirit in Taiwan. The absolute kindness of people to strangers, the greeness of it, the birdlife and butterflies everywhere. It's not perfect and there are big inequality issues.But I'm so glad to have got to know just a tiny bit of it.

Oof! If true, this says a lot about how really nasty and vicious the far right are.

Jeeze, I am in Taiwan in the middle of a bloody scary typhoon. Crazily loud and gusting. Not much sleep tonight I think!!

69 years, and finally I stumble across Spinoza!

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Happened to see Ardingly Reservoir on a walk yesterday. Truly, shockingly low. Here the Guardian reporting it is only 19% full.

Rafael Behr always worth reading and and in this case, listening to.

#MybestCartoons👀 actualiteitjunk @actualiteitjunk #Trump #DieselDeal #Putin #Ukraine #TrumpTraitor #TrumpIsARussianAsset #PutinOwnsTrump...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... A good article by Rafael Behr.

Well this has gone up in the field behind us today. No idea what it is.??

Our hotlips salvia has gone beserk in the summer sun and the bees and hummingbird hawk moth are totally here for it!

So I'm very confused, Badenoch would extend free child care to high earners while according to the Guardian, they would make over £47 billion of cuts across all Govt departments.

www.theguardian.com/business/202... Good article. The Economic Consequences of the Peace, takes me right back to my A levels.

This makes my heart sing!

Just looking at the weather forecast for next week on the south coast as we head towards October. I swear it's as warm and dry as a good summer's day would have been when I was a child in the 60s.

The barmy Siamese who is 15, is very happy I cut down the euonymos which smothered the trunk of a cordyline. She is loves climbing it and going for a walk over the rooftops.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... I am just sick to death of the utter arses in this limited company who masquerade as a political party. Sick of their crap nonsense, sick of their inhumanity and sick of the chaotic division they are wreaking on this country.

Just back from a brilliant week walking in the Lake District. I have been going since I was 11 and it works its magic every time .

Last night I awoke at 2am and remebered I'd left the washing on the line. After a bit of deliberation I hauled my body up and out. Woke up to a deluge this morning and feeling smug!

The Times

www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026... This is a really lovely article about Paul Smitj. What a great bloke.

This is really a massive achievement.

This is horrific. And Farage stands and makes a joke about it.

Wowzers!!!

Am I the only one who finds this concept soulless and depressing?

The one good thing about having been laid up with covid this week is that my plantar fasciitis flare up has lessened a lot. This is good news as I'm really hoping to climb a few lake district fells later this month. Silver linings and all that.😃

Funny how the cruelty you were happy to advocate for others ,apparently really is terrifying when it happens to you.

Covid was not on my bingo card for this week! 🤒

😂😂

The Siamese has now decided, that as the temperature outside is now below 25c, she will be back to residing most of the day in the airing cupboard.

As always, Larry is spot on.

The day when Richard Tice's opinions on anything are no longer newsworthy, just can't come quick enough.🤦‍♀️

I know nothing about this Trump aide called, Natalie Harp. I have now read two letters to the President purporting to be from her on this site today. Are these for real?!! Surely, I am being had? Tell me they aren't real.

Got to love Private Eye!

On the train to London.Rammed and noisy. Note to self,remember ear plugs when coming next week!

Allelujah it is still raining here in West Sussex!More than two hours worth. You can almost hear the garden sighing with relief.

Well those two 100m relays at the European championships were utterly brilliant! Congratulations to both the men and the women's squads gold medal victories. You were all fantastic!

It's always, "woe is me",with Nige. Thanks to his idiocy, we've had an expensive, unnecessary by election , which he can't be bothered to turn up to the result for. Furthermore, his explanation for failing to attend the result appears to be dodgy. How very typical.

Well I for one, am very much looking forward to part 2. Congratulations Count Binface. All power to the bin!

For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton

Great to share this solar eclipse with our grandchildren. Lots of lovely people on the South Downs who kindly shared their solar glasses with us. What an awesome spectacle it was too.

Okay Clacton. Let’s go.

Dear people that know about these things,is Qwant a good alternative to Google?

This is an absolute scandal.

@chadbourn.bsky.social In a long, hot, parched summer,I am so sick to death of Trump, making everything in the world so much harder to deal with.

Gianni Infantino, the latest in a long line of people who thought they could involve themselves with Trump and his circle and prosper. How foolish you greedy people are. You were doomed to come off worse,whilst Trump just slinks away and baits his next lickspittle. What a world.

How ironic that a huge American company, which has nothing to do with the Commonwealth , is able to outbid everyone to broadcast the Commonwealth Games, rendering many of us unable to view a major sporting event we are hosting!! But we must all kow tow to the market ugh.

Omg, 3 days of really loud music pounding across the village from the race course is now driving me nuts!!

Just two of the monumental blue cobalt,ceramic sculptures at Petworth House by Felicity Aylieff and her incredible team. Part of an exhibition, inspired by the Chinese pottery collecton at Petworth House. Personally, I loved it.

So yesterday in her very jet lagged state my daughter lost her phone on a train. I got a call to say it was handed in at Paddington Station. Don't believe all the bilge Farage spews about London.

Liz Truss was outlived by a lettuce, Nige is in the fight for his political life with a bin. Perfect.