Lady Leo

Journalist for 44 years. Mixed media mosaics artist. Gardener. Mother. Grandmother. Friend. Animal lover. Vigilant malarkey detector.

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@merkin_about I’ve gone back to reformer Pilates after a long break. Felt very frail after two big ops. It has helped so much, and I like that you have to think about it every second. The class goes so quickly. Some moves I can’t do - yet! - but I’m so much stronger. Hope you keep at it.

[🐀💧🔥 Glenn Gibson @sszinglehead]

Ed Husic should NOT be on the back-bench. Such a waste of talent.
#AfternoonBriefing

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@silverpebble Nice!

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@Ryan_Daigler I saw it with a flatmate at a cinema in London, and he was so out of it afterwards that he stepped straight off the kerb in front of a taxi. Luckily I grabbed his arm and pulled him back. It’s scary as hell.

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@dieworkwear I was once having lunch in a favourite Covent Garden restaurant and the actor Michael York came in wearing a purple cape and oh, my.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

For Halloween, I think you should get a cape. Not a cheap plastic one from Spirit Halloween, but a bespoke handmade one from Casa Seseña. When you put it on, shift your shoulders back and forth and then sweep the front edge across your shoulders, swatting anyone in close vicinity

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@Joseph_Fasano_ I’m all about the process when I’m gardening, and most don’t get it. They want the 45 minute makeover, as seen on TV. They want the end result so they can move on to something else. Taking all day to weed or prune or just ponder that empty patch and what might go there is a joy.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

When you keep hearing people insist that AI will be able to "make art," there are times, friends, when you have to tell them that if all they can think about is product instead of process, they have lost their way.

I could go on and on about how a work of art moves us precisely because it is a testament of another human being's experience with the great questions, how it consoles our loneliness even as it challenges us, how its sacredness is its attempt at the impossible, how art (like love, like life) is not a puzzle to be solved but a mystery to be lived...

But let's just say this:

Louis Armstrong was once asked what jazz is. "If you have to ask," he answered, "you'll never know." If you have to ask why the process of human creation is important (and spiritually fulfilling) in a world of computerized creation, you'll never know, at least until you open your heart to the possibility that we're here on this earth to do something other than make money and die.

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@Graemeinnes Good on you, Graeme.

[Graeme Innes @Graemeinnes]

My appointment as the next Chair of the Board of the National Disability Insurance Agency was announced this morning. I will start on 17 December. I am honoured to take on this role, and will work with people with disabilities and government.

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@JamesMelville At my age I have less stamina than I ever expected, but others I see about are older and frailer. I hope I can stop for them just as some beautiful young people have stopped for me, asking “Are you all right? Can I help?” Honestly, some days just to be seen seems like a miracle.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

A post on the importance of giving time and appreciation to elderly people:

“Twice this week, I have watched an elderly individual, fade into the busy life in which we all live. One man just needed Panadol for his wife but the shop assistant simply said it’s in ‘6’. But he struggled to navigate the supermarket and as I watched him go in the wrong direction, I left all my groceries and took him where he needed to go.

Today, I watched an elderly man struggle in the heat, who had obviously had a fall with a huge scrape and blood on his leg. He walked past people in the cafe, while he slowly made his way to his car. Not one person stopped. Or looked. Or acknowledged him. I took him to his car and checked he was ok. He told me he had a fall and wasn’t sure how the air con worked in his car so he just didn’t use it. I sat with him, until his air con kicked in and heard him talk about the old frail body that he is in, that fails him now, every single day.

When you see an elderly person walking down the street, searching in the supermarket or struggling to their car, take a minute out of your busy schedule and ask them if they need a hand. Think about your grandparents and your parents and how pissed off you would be if someone didn’t stop to help them. But more, think of them as you.

Once upon a time they were you. They were busy, they had work, they had children, they were able... Today, they are just in an older body that is not going as fast as it used to and this busy life is confusing. They deserve our utmost respect and consideration.

One day it will be you, it will be us. I wish more people gave a shit about them and acknowledged them for their admirable existence and geez I hope someday, not that far away, someone does it for me.”

Credit: Adele Barbaro

[Lady Leo @Dunhacking]

@SpudBenBean The olives are a nice touch. Yum.

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@CindyHoedel @biigrem An Aussie/English thing, perhaps?

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@gomichild They literally squeezed all the egg/milk mixture, which would have made the custard, out of the bread because it was “too wet”. So the pudding ended up “too dry”. Well, duh.

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

I created this photo using recent research so it relaxes your brain when you pause to look at the details. I'd so love to hear which is your favourite item in this collection (mine are the striped curlew feathers).
As I'm sometimes too unwell to post here & the algorithm punishes creators who don't post every day, it would help so much if you could maybe RT my photo. Many thanks 🌿

[Lady Leo @Dunhacking]

@CindyHoedel @biigrem When we were first married and stony broke, Rose Elliot’s The Bean Book saved us. It seems pretty basic and ordinary now, but its tattered state shows how often we used it.

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@biigrem Drives me mad, too. There are also some actual cookery books that are way too complicated, full of asterisks and footnotes. Jamie Oliver keeps it simple, nutritious and doable, in my opinion.