Siobhan

This really pees me off 😡 WOMEN exist!!!!!

Just a couple of little ladies sleeping through last nights thunder & lightning ⚡️

@KirstieMAllsopp I love a separate sink, haven’t got one at home though. When one person splashes water everywhere & doesn’t rinse out the basin! It’s fab

In other news, does any normal couple need a double sink? Do people really do their teeth at exactly the same time? They same to me to be the weirdest thing.

@LadyHaywire Just finding a cool spot

So Karen, what are you doing on the hottest day of the year? Trying to find Dusty 😑

@LadyHaywire Beautiful x

Baby Haywire came equipped with the 'sure it'll be grand' vibe. Talk about relaxed 😌

@LadyHaywire Perfect name perfect calf

Earrings for everyone this morning. Not too impressed by them but now she's part of the crew. Stardust! Or Dusty for short ☺️

@LadyHaywire So pleased happy mum happy calf. I thought you meant moss rock then saw the photo & realise you do actually mean Mass rock. Wow 🙂👍

Change of plan🫣😬 Wasn't happy at all indoors, tried to jump out & was getting quite stressed so back outside again to see how we get on now that the feet & nose have appeared. Happy out beside the mass rock which has witnessed many a birth.

@LadyHaywire She’s beautiful 💕

The oldest man in the parish came to visit the youngest little lady of the parish yesterday. A 92 year difference! 🤯

@Alan_C_1 @NorthEastTweets Beautiful

Tonight's #Sunset here at #Seahouses @NorthEastTweets

@LadyHaywire Fabulous news Karen 💕 biggest congratulations on your birth of such a beautiful & precious little girl 💕

Whoever guessed 'Lucky For Some' 13th of May for Baby Haywire wins! Born at 1.32am & arrived so quickly she was delivered in the caul so already made a name for herself in the delivery room. 6lbs 15oz & absolutely beautiful even if her speedy arrival meant only gas & air 😍

King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £125m a year tax free from the tax payer and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed. But he still needed a 45% pay rise. Like if he needs a pay cut. RT if you want the Monarchy gone. #NotmyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy

@SmartSmartsus @JeremyVineOn5 You need to do your homework

@JeremyVineOn5 Why are you even mentioning this? You know as well as most people that they bring Billions into our economy every year via tourism. Is this Chanel another anti- monarchy Chanel 🤦🏻‍♀️

Do we need to slash taxpayer funding for the king? More than half of people want to cut the amount of public cash handed to the monarch, according to a new poll. The Sovereign Grant has increased by £50 million in three years. Do you think that's fair?

@bo66ie29 It’s gorgeous, need to add in a garage, parking with electric charging point too

Dear Architects, what’s preventing you from designing new builds that look like this?

@Shannon79053723 @JeremyVineOn5 They didn’t want the limelight yet now court it, they use their “royalness”. Yes they can choose to be visible, I wish they wouldn’t, I believe they’re right to protect their children

@siobhanmte @JeremyVineOn5 Harry and Meghan choosing to be visible adults has absolutely nothing to do with whether their children should be exposed to the public. Strange how some people struggle to separate grown adults from small children.

Are Harry and Meghan right to keep their children out of the limelight? Their children's faces are rarely seen on social media and they don't make public appearances with their parents. Are the Sussexes right to keep their children out of the spotlight?

Is it fair to say that being on benefits is a 'lifestyle choice'? That's what Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has suggested. She said people need to be reminded that welfare is a safety net, not a lifestyle. Do you agree with her?

And there is the reality. All of the promises, all the rhetoric, all the empty, meaningless words. Welsh Water at its finest.

On the second Sunday of April, a couple from Birmingham walked the footpath that crosses Brian's fell. Their dog, a young border collie named Otis, was off the lead. There were sheep in the field. Otis went after the sheep. The owners called Otis. Otis did not return. Otis was, in dog terms, six months into a lifelong relationship with sheep that had, until that moment, consisted entirely of seeing them on television. Otis chased a small group of younger ewes for approximately eighty metres, which is, in Otis's own assessment, a successful afternoon. Doris, who was on the section above the wall, observed this. Doris did not run. Doris walked, deliberately, at a measured pace, to a position approximately fifteen metres from where Otis was, by then, pursuing the younger ewes in a circle. Doris stopped. Doris looked at Otis. Otis stopped. There is, in the literature on livestock guarding behaviour, a phenomenon known as the calm interdiction. It does not require aggression. It does not require display. It requires only a confident, settled animal placing itself in the path of the disturbance and refusing, with absolute mildness, to be impressed. Otis, who had, until that moment, been having the best afternoon of his short life, was suddenly looking at a Texel ewe who was not running. The category had broken. Otis sat down. The owners reached Otis approximately two minutes later. Otis was on the lead by then. The owners apologised, profusely, to Brian, who had walked up from the gate at a measured pace and was holding his stick in the way that people who have not been to agricultural college nevertheless know how to hold sticks. Brian: "You'll need to keep him on the lead from now on." Owner: "Yes. Of course. We're so sorry. We didn't think." Brian: "Most don't." He could have said more. The law gives him the right to shoot a dog worrying livestock. The literature on stress-induced lambing failure is extensive. The young ewes, by the time Brian reached them, were panting hard enough that Brian made a mental note to check them again in the morning, and to tell the apprentice to do the same. He didn't say any of this. He said: "Have a nice walk." He went back down to the gate. Doris, by then, was already grazing again. The young ewes recovered. The lambing in autumn was unaffected. British footpaths cross approximately 140,000 miles of farmland. They have done so since some of them were carved by mediaeval cattle. The system depends on dogs being on leads near livestock, on walkers closing gates, on the basic countryside code that takes about four minutes to read and is, somehow, still not being read. Doris has not read it either. Doris does not need to. Doris simply stops, and looks, and the dog stops with her, and the system holds for one more afternoon. It would be nicer if it didn't have to.

I’m not sure if anyone else feels the same but I don’t like it when Camilla is called Queen. Our Queen died. She’s not the Queen

@JamesMelville Discombobulated 😃

I’m rather fond of quirky old fashioned words. Here are some of my favourites: Skedaddle Nincompoop Highfalutin Malarkey Gobbledegook Comeuppance Skullduggery Kerfuffle Flummoxed Thingamajig Tomfoolery Shenanigans Hoodwink Blethering Hullabaloo Curmudgeon Bamboozled Numpty