Rachy

“Age shouldn’t affect you. You’re either marvellous or you’re boring, regardless of your age.”

[🙏🌧🌍 @godblesstoto]

I watched the video again and all I can think is "What if it was my son?". What they put him through. His final moments. Scared, in pain, being sneered at, handcuffed, having his rights read to him while his murderer lies. I don't cry all that often but this has had me in pieces a few times. That poor innocent boy.

[Rachy @RayRay_x_]

@hilltopjennifer 'Scone' impersonator aside, the flower sprinkles look like a dead fly trapped in the honey 💀 🪰.

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@marktheman2010 @CazSut People who work in Supermarkets need to do their shopping too - in fact they probably earn less than a lot of people coming through the doors of Sainsbury's so deserve those discounts even more.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

My mother-in-law kept every broken earring, every loose button, every tiny trinket in an old Folgers can for forty-three years. When she passed last spring, my husband wanted to throw it all away.

I stood in her kitchen, holding that rusty can while he loaded boxes into the truck. The morning light caught a piece of costume jewelry at the bottom - a butterfly pin missing one wing. I remembered her wearing it to my wedding, proudly telling everyone her late sister had given it to her. My chest got tight.

"Just old junk," my husband said, reaching for the can. But I pulled it closer, feeling the weight of all those little pieces. The smell of her lavender hand cream still lingered on some of the fabric buttons. I couldn't let go.

For weeks, that can sat on my dining table. I'd catch myself running my fingers through the contents while drinking coffee - finding theater ticket stubs from 1987, a child's hospital bracelet (my husband's, from when he broke his arm), single earrings from sets she'd loved. Each piece whispered a story I'd never hear.

Then I remembered seeing these shadow box displays on online shop when I was browsing for vintage frames to sell some of my own crafts. This seller had turned her grandmother's sewing notions into art. Something clicked. Maybe I didn't have to let go of everything.

My sister helped me sort through it all one rainy Saturday. We found her first driver's license, a locket with a photo of her as a young bride, keys to houses long sold. "Mom would've loved this," my husband said quietly when he saw us working, his voice catching. He sat down and started telling me what each piece meant - stories I'd never heard in twenty years of marriage.

We ended up making three shadow boxes. The butterfly pin sits at the center of one, surrounded by all her other broken beautiful things. When we hung them in our hallway, my husband stood there for the longest time, just looking. "She would've pretended to be embarrassed," he said, wiping his eyes. "But she would've loved that we kept it all."

Now when guests ask about them, we get to tell her stories. How that tarnished thimble helped sew my husband's Scout badges. How those mismatched buttons came from her father's Navy uniform.

Turns out it wasn't junk at all. It was proof that she'd lived, loved, and held onto the things that mattered - even if they were broken. And now, finally, I understood why.

[Rachy @RayRay_x_]

@johnlewishelp Thank you, I have sent that information over via DM now.

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@johnlewishelp Hello, I ordered a boys Aztec fleece and have been sent a blue/green checked fleece instead and now the original is showing as out of stock. Please can this be looked into before I have to pay to return the incorrect item?

[Jenna Guillaume @JennaGuillaume]

The Joshua Jackson and Katie Holmes reunion will be my whole personality for the foreseeable future

[Rachy @RayRay_x_]

@RoyalMailHelp I've still not had a reply to my DM but the online tracking update is advising my parcel will not be delivered until Monday. That's almost a week after I posted it!

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@RoyalMail Paid almost £10 for guaranteed Special Delivery on Wednesday and my item still hasn't been received by the recipient 2 days later! Tracking update on website is useless and now I'm going to lose my monthly trade-in discount with EE. I may as well have used freepost!

[Rachy @RayRay_x_]

@RoyalMailHelp DM sent. Thanks

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@wiseconnector 500 Days of Summer or The Wedding Singer

[Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm]

It seems to me that the portrayal of the Labour win as shallow because of the vote share is misleading. This was a ‘get the tories out’ election. For different people that generally meant voting Labour, Lib Dem, Green or Reform. But in doing so they all knew they’d get a Labour government and did it deliberately. In reality even Reform voters actually voted for Keir Starmer to be PM.

[Rachy @RayRay_x_]

Make your vote count today 🗳

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Election Special 4: The Conservatives.

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Election Special 4: The Conservatives.

[Rachy @RayRay_x_]

@modsoftoday Homely Girl or Kingston Town.

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@ilovenostalgia Clunk click every trip!

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@realgirl_fieri Me! Lady on gym reception commented on me wearing make up to my spin class (I came straight from work!) Did a Sat am class bare-faced and same lady told me loudly she'd "never seen anyone with such a red face" - told her I have rosacea and she quickly said "it suited me" 🤣🤣🤣

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@ECWilsonWriter I understood - age 35!

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@TheRealDudja Golden Brown - The Stranglers