Lesley Burt

@muddymuddymum Husband has just been in hospital, shared room with a farmer who is, yes, in the middle of lambing - with calves to follow. 🙏🏼

Apologies for any typos. I am sooooo tired. It put my lambing shifts to shame. Ps. No disrespect to the marvelous team in A&E who were very kind and had to put up with a lot from people. I just wish they'd listened in the first instance!

@ZwartblesIE Thank you!

Someone mentioned that they love to watch my dogs walking particularly the fluffy floof Java. Hopefully this distracts you from all the world’s political turbulence and brings a smile to your face

@muddymuddymum I hope both of you are ok.

A&E with farmer was not on my Easter weekend bingo card. 2 hrs in MIU followed by 11 hours so far in A&E. It feels like the never ending story.... 💤 😴 💤

@scotdrone @boswelltoday @scottishcanals @HelixFalkirk @VFalkirk @VisitScotland Well done! Huntigowk!

A view of the Scottish Canals maintenance squad assessing damage to the Kelpies in Falkirk. Apparently one of the team had accidentally used the wrong dilution of cleaning solution on Baron’s teeth, resulting in this unfortunate ‘just back from a holiday in Turkey’ look.

@woolismybread Look after yourself, flu is awful. Hope it doesn’t last long.

Easter 🌼💛first lambs 🐑and I have the flu 😷 🫣💊💊🍋🍯

@HWarlow So glad you’re getting Stee home! What a relief. xx

Finally today. (I’m here all day tomorrow with more) Gonzalo Sicre Spanish artist ‘ Blue Hour’ Mysterious painting Thanks my XTwitterarty Stee is ok and looking forward to being home. I have a bed due Wednesday. Just a package of care needed . Helen😊Stee 🏥 Max🐶💚

@muddymuddymum Personally I like ‘well-fired’ crunchy pastry!

Last night I made an egg and bacon pie completely from scratch. Then got caught up in emails and forgot my pie. So it's a little bit tough. 1

@LBFlyawayhome When I worked with secondhand/antiquarian books I had several customers who collected Ladybirds, I had to check date/edition etc. No ISBNs back then!

I’m afraid my project to stop buying Ladybirds is not on track

@HWarlow It’s beautiful, it would make a lovely textile wall hanging.

I’m sorry I don’t know anything about this. It’s stained glass but when I tried to research it I had a red message saying the site would lead to spam. I could make some Monty Python puns but I’m not going to. Sorry. It’s too lovely to leave behind

@SketchesbyBoze I’m always wondering about where words come from!

We just hosted a dinner party, and someone said, “I wonder where the word raspberry comes from?” I leapt up, shouted, “LET’S FIND OUT” and ran to my study, emerging a moment later with Skeat’s Etymological Dictionary (1883). (This is why I don’t get invited to parties.)

@Arnbeg Hope it goes well. Good luck!

I’d like to apologise for the torrential rain and high winds we will experience this week… we’re shearing at the weekend 🙄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #arnbegfarmstayscotland #valaisblacknose

@sarasheridan This was hilarious, thank you Sara! 😂

Last night I visited my daughter in Glasgow to chat perfume stuff (more about that soon) & we had dinner up at the bar near where she lives. High excitement for me, when ordering, cos the barman, I swear to God, *winked* at me. Now I am 51 & (as you know) a serious novelist ...

@CanDoo2 @LBFlyawayhome Came here to say the same!

@LBFlyawayhome We made these with golden syrup cans!

Tin can stilts (Things to Make, 1963) Artist: G Robinson

@HWarlow Look after yourself too, Helen. Sending hugs to both of you. x

Good Afternoon Not many pieces of art today sorry. I feel exhausted ! Stee is very unwell. Sad to see him. His spirit is not broken though as he’s still joking Melissa Scott Miller Fabulous work . Pleasure to post

@HWarlow Wonderful light on the water, it’s so peaceful.

George Callaghan Irish painter remembering scenes from childhood in Ireland I won’t be here in the morning. Not sure what Lincolnshire Social Services adult care are playing at . I’m disgusted. Stee is in their care for now 30 years I’ve cared for him No care from them

@HWarlow So sorry Helen, that sounds awful. Poor Stee and poor you as well. My own dear man is very ill but thankfully starts treatment on Monday, we’ll be thinking of both of you too. xxx 😘

Jenny Devereux art . Lousy day. Stee has been re admitted to hospital. He was being sick and had two lots of incontinence whilst here as well as not being able to swallow. I can’t give him the care he needs so he’s been re admitted to hospital. He’s so weak Miserable

@muddymuddymum So sorry that you lost her. Nature can be so cruel.

The vet tried but couldn't get the ewe to open up. We decided to go for the lambs. We now have three alive ram lambs. Which is the best outcome I could hope for. Worst case scenario we could have lost them all. It's a shame as she was only seven years old.

@bookishsylvia @SketchesbyBoze My son lives in the USA. When the family go out for a meal, everyone - mum, dad, 3 teenagers, + the visiting Grandparents, has to put their phone on a pile in the middle of the table.

@SketchesbyBoze This is disturbing, I would also say a lot of adults are like this now too. I’ve been to restaurants where entire friends/families are all on their phones, no one is talking to each other. Seriously, what the heck are we doing as a society? I weep for the future.

This is profoundly disturbing. When I was young we had the DEAR program (Drop Everything And Read) where kids would read a book of their choosing for half an hour in the middle of class. How are they ever going to acquire literacy if they don’t even read in SCHOOL?

@JLewisStempel Bon ap’!

A friend of my wife has given us a 'gigot de chevreuil' (leg of venison) from a roe deer shot by her husband. Plus her favoured recipe for cooking the gigot. What you call a good Sunday in the country #lachasse #venison #chevreuil

@armadalefarm Yes, it’s quite different! 10° in Edinburgh - before the rain started again. 😟

Feels milder this morning without the windchill. 😎👌🏻