Helen Dalladay

Today’s tasks, paint a sleeping red squirrel on the lid of a vintage gilt box, started & to be continued. Hoover the house, done. Put the laundry on, started. Clean the bathroom after the dog shook himself all over it, I’d like to know where my moment of calm is?

The PBS NewsHour has documented the Trump family's unprecedented conflicts of interest. Jared Kushner, a 'volunteer' with no official position, has $6 billion in assets from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar-the same governments he is negotiating with on Middle East peace. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have invested in drone companies that are now competing for Pentagon contracts in the war their father started. Forbes estimated that Eric and Don Jr., they were worth about $40, $50 million each before the 2024 election. About a year later, Eric at $400 million and Donald Trump Jr. at about $300 million. They're using war and diplomacy to enrich themselves

A group of guys, an Englishman, two Scots, and a Welshman aren’t allowed to have a dog according to their landlord. They spot a neighbor walking a dog and decide to email, offering to walk it whenever needed. The neighbor responds… with a handwritten letter from the dog.

If you want a practical example of why this fund is bullshit, I have one from the River Roding. The Roding has billions of litres of sewage entering it illegally every year & the EA has refused to prosecute a single one. Separately, our volunteer River charity has been campaigning to restore the channel of the river through Ilford golf course & create a wetland. A large river charity (who will remain nameless) told us they could help us get funding for the restoration: great, we thought. They were awarded tens of thousands of pounds from the water company fine fund & instead of actually restoring the river, they spent it (without consulting us) on staff time & consultant costs to produce a *report* about restoring the river. This report will then sit on a shelf somewhere and meanwhile the sewage still illegally enters the river & the river channel is still not restored. Our volunteers were forced to give up their free time & rely on local donations (a fraction of the amount spent on the report) to begin the restoration work as best we could ourselves. The system is utterly broken and our rivers are paying the price.

What the actual!!! Mass fish die off on the Hogsmill right now, pictures by Carole McCluskey. Council will be on site shortly. So very sad. 🤬 We really don't deserve this planet do we?