Barbara Cookson

Rain kissed

Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go.’

@lukejcr @jessicaelgot @alexcholmes From Yorkshire perspective we are good - shame it takes as long to cross the Pennines but @lner links to London are first class if only we could find improve conditions for those who use the line for assisted dying

@jessicaelgot @alexcholmes Should have started construction up north and then continue building southbound

Hard to understand how these levels of incompetence haven’t led to legal action

@taxqueen49 Sending prayers - you will certainly be there in spirit but hopefully the body permission sharing the joy

My son just sent me this! He was 7 when it was taken in 1980, this weekend his eldest daughter, 26 year old Holly, gets married. And I am praying that I shall be well enough to travel tomorrow to see my eldest grandchild tie the knot🙏

Big crowd @ajbell event in Manchester- a lot of du boots investment advice passing between the audience while we wait Nice view from the windows ver Burnham city

@forwardnotback Bollocks

Today’s breakfast I watched as it was a bit of a rush this morning Words of wisdom: The axe forgets but the tree always remembers

@Kesthecollie You’ve been sulking- it’s a bad habit. You must rise above it

I put the ball 🎾 on dad’s toast plate and he didn’t want to frowit because he was eating toast and told me ‘no’ and I’ve been sad ever since despite a million cuddles

Avoiding the politics in @The_Tablet I find @BeardyHowse complaining about the service in his bank but rather than wanting to the glory days of cashing cheques he wants to pay tat iniquitous invention of modern days a credit card bill.

@guildofstclare @RoyalNeedlework Exquisite

Big milestone for me today: I have submitted my final piece of embroidery for my Diploma at @RoyalNeedlework . This is my Whitework (Broderie Anglaise & Richelieu), inspired by medieval manuscript illumination.

@Kesthecollie Try solopress.com/stickers-label…

Question. Should we get some Bess stickers made? And second question. Does anyone know any UK suppliers of stickers?

@militansmariae Prayers and angels dispatched then put the phone down! So should I

Being chronically ill and living alone sucks a lot pls pray for me not having a good day

A new important @Synod_va document to discover! #synodalChurch

@ninapaley You can sell the empty bottle on Etsy and take up drinking cocktails

Today I used up the remains of a 40-year-old bottle of Chambord by adding a few tablespoons to a raspberry syrup I was cooking. Contents of this same bottle flavored a ricotta cake frosting when I was 17, and a few other dessert experiments. It continued living in my parents' house after I moved away for 23 years, and during my parents' stint in Malaysia in the late 1980's to early 1990's. It was still there when I moved back to Urbana in 2012, following my father's death, and moved to our new house in 2016. My Momz left it behind when she moved to the "independent living" place half a mile away. I rinsed out the vintage bottle they no longer produce (sad!), and bought 375 fresh milliliters in an inferior bottle at Meijer, because it was on sale. It will likely outlast me.

@militansmariae When did it become acceptable to take photographs during the most sacred parts of the Mass rather than pray?

Nice Dominican Rite TLM last night

@sharrond62 Hopefully the small minority will be large enough to unseat him

Man decides men can go anywhere they like!

@MadsDavies @WalkerMarcus @HeritageFundUK Sad decisions- our church hall is filled with yoga classes and slimming groups not prayer groups

Another interesting finding from the Theos cathedrals report: ‘lotteryification’ & the impact of @HeritageFundUK. One Cathedral withdrew from applying because of the compromise it would entail.

@Mattisamazing33 Sweaty

Oh my. We’re in these places next week

I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.

@DannyShawNews @christopherhope That expert was incredibly generous and the fee is so modest any client should be happy to pay. Hope it has been

Extraordinary - Andrew Malkinson says the £10k fee for experts to assess the damage from his wrongful imprisonment will be deducted from his compensation. He says it’s “penny pinching” & “vindictive” & calls on David Lammy to change the rules: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@athenaeumbc More accessible

We traded this for screens.

@Mattisamazing33 @SartorialThug Its probably linen, hideously expensive and the waist may be too generous. The camera is unkind and he had been working hard and I suspect he didn’t give it much thought when focusing on horticulture @TheMontyDon

@SartorialThug He looks like an alcoholic uncle at a wedding

I like Monty Don, but I can't condone this suit.