Hi, I’m Charlotte, early 50s and I relocated from London to #Pembrokeshire in west #Wales 8 years ago. Interests include #QualitativeResearch, #books, #cats and capybaras. Bisexual, cis (pronouns: she/her). General CW: I post a lot about living with bipolar disorder, I try to CW individual toots about it but some sneak through, sorry.
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Last Notes npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker I did not, of course, go to the social. Instead I stayed in bed until I had missed my train then cried about what a useless twat I am. Other thoughts: IDK why Tom bothers with me; I just want to get smaller and smaller until I disappear; I would like to chop both my legs off. Even I can see that my brain is absolutely infested with weasels but I lack the strength to see them off npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Good morning (just). I’m off to the dentist to get my teeth bonded after a long and expensive period of straightening. My teeth will never not be a bit wonky but as long I don’t mix with judgemental American people I guess it’s fine. Not looking forward to an hour in the chair. In fact I feel a bit gloomy this morning. Ah well. npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker “unaudited” certainly doing a lot of heavy lifting but I thought it worth sharing at very least to compare Tory and Green membership. What mechanism is there for verifying claims? npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Excellent band name npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker I feel very mentally unwell indeed. Some friends just asked what they can do to help, if jokes and memes would help, or if I wanted to chat. Any sort of interaction would help. I’m crying in the bath because my head’s so messed up and it feels like familiar bad territory. So anything to keep me feeling connected would be wonderful npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker *cat flap noise* npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker OMG you are so lucky you don’t know The Wiggles. They started off in Australia in the late 90s and my kids (born 97 and 99) were OBSESSED with them. They were referred to in the press as “the Fab Four for the under fives”. Over the years they have, like so many great bands, undergone many personnel changes. I could still sing you some of their original classic material. No? npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Unbelievably, pecan won the nut poll. I am shook, I tell you. Thought almond was going to take the crown for sure. npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker I don’t even know what it means, I just know The Kids are all saying it and I wanted to sound down with them npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Six seven just sounds like a London bus number npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Beautiful! npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Best nut npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Men call for a national screening program for prostate cancer quite often. Unfortunately this misses the memo that testing is just not specific enough as yet to avoid creating lots of false positives which could lead to unnecessary invasive treatment. Those treatments can lead to erectile dysfunction and urinary incontinence, diminishing quality of life perhaps needlessly. npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Oof that sounds tough. Sending you cooling thoughts and anti-migraine juju npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker A lovely boy, I’m so sorry to hear he’s been so poorly. Best wishes for the new treatment npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker I’m more of a horror fan and thought #ScreamingSocks npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker The existence of #SilentSocks implies some of your other socks are noisy npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker I am loving The Witching by Silvia Morena-Garcia. Set between Mexico in 1908 and a New England college campus in 1934 and 1998, it’s weaving motifs of witchcraft, mysterious disappearances and malevolent spirits as a lonely Mexican PhD student follows the literary trail of an obscure female horror writer. I don’t want to do anything but read it #AmReading #Bookstodon #horror npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker A scorpion was IN THE BED?? npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker That’s an amazing follower count for Mastodon! I always enjoy your posts npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Is Donk short for Donkey? Or is it onomatopoeic? *donkkkk!* npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker My washing machine displays the word Wilkommen when you turn it on. I always sing, “bienvenue, welcome!” at it npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker I try not to worry about by DNF rate because life is just too short to persevere with a boring or depressing book 💜 npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker All news these days npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Your annual reminder this charity week in the UK that children in poverty getting a hot meal should not be dependent on the public sponsoring non-sporting celebrities to run ultra marathons. That is supposed to be the government’s job #ChildrenInNeed npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker How do you feel about the return to work? npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Yes, in a perverse way I enjoyed lockdown because my local community really came together. There was a secret window painter who went round painting rainbows and messages on ship and house windows. People shopped for each other. We had socially distanced drinks with the neighbours with our chairs about 5m apart. npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Except I think spaces like Mastodon allow us to build connections and networks even if we’re too sick or disabled to get outdoors. It’s a window onto the world for those who cannot access common spaces npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Why shouldn’t you, indeed. It’s easy enough to change your mind. My son has an excellent handlebar moustache because that is his Look. npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Are you growing it for Movember, or are you dressing your face for the job you want, not the job you have? npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker My daughter shared this pumpkin design from her manager’s kid. One to embarrass her with in later life npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker I did meditate but in a quite half-hearted way, bamboozled by poor sleep. I now need to pop into town in the rain once the cat has finished with me (she’s currently using me as a pedestal for an enthusiastic wash). Then I suppose I should get started on some work. There’s nothing pressing today. Maybe I deserve a second breakfast first? npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Oh I’m sorry to hear this. Why does this sort of stuff seem to occur in clusters? I really hope you can get someone reliable and affordable to fix the plumbing npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker When my stepdaughters (35 and 33) were here last week they asked us the dates of the first and second world wars. That’s something I can’t imagine not knowing, but is that tied to me being Gen X growing up around grandparents who had lived through WWII and parents who were born in the 1946 baby boom? npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Good morning. I did not sleep well knowing that I had to be up to catch my train, which is allegedly running on time. I’ve got more postgraduate researcher training in writing skills this morning and then I want to go to the library to return my interlibrary loan (probably setting off the alarm on my way in). npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Rest assured I will never create a free account just to keep reading npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker on Twitter I had 22.5k followers. I once did an unscientific audit of how many of those accounts actually interacted with me and it was fewer than 100. I think I get a lot more human engagement from my Masto followers npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker My stepdaughters have decided to go home tomorrow instead of Sunday. They’re missing their partners and feeling like lone parents with all the nappy changes and night waking. I quite understand but I will be sorry to see them all go. Sometimes I wish we could establish a huge compound so that all of our kids and grandkids could live in close proximity yet autonomously npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker I wanted to read a relevant looking 2025 book on research paradigms. I thought of buying it but it was like £140. My uni library didn’t have it, so I put in an interlibrary loan request. The document supply librarian came back to say that they couldn’t find a copy, but if I thought it would be a valuable addition to the library, I could ask for it to be purchased, so I did. I just got an email to say it’s been purchased, and it’s been reserved for me, and I’ll be notified when I can pick it up. npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker In the break in my deep work session I went out into the garden to capture the very last flowers from the summer. We haven’t had much of a cold snap yet so they’ve lasted well #bloomscrolling npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Good morning. I never want to see the word “dishwasher” again. This is worse than Brexit npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker it’s not worth me even trying to touch the dishwasher, Tom is absolutely anal about it and has rules about the angle of forks and the gap between plates. Just one of the reasons I sometimes wonder if he is on the spectrum npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Is this part of your project to be OK with arachnids? npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker oh I adore artichokes! npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Good morning. I have a mainly lazy morning, apart from stripping and making up the bed, but I have to cook an early lunch to fortify Tom before he sets of for England to start his new job tomorrow. npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker I asked why I am so tired. A locked friend posited that it’s maybe the change of season - or the ongoing fascism. Sure to be one of those npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker 😭 npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker I see you are still going npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Jumping in on this thread to ask if you have any ideas for houseplants that can cope with lower light levels? I really want one for my desk but my office is kind of gloomy npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker French politics as illustrated by Matt npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker This troubled my cat npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker What a national treasure npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker last boost: fucking YES! Working at close quarters with “prolific offenders” committing crime to finance their class A addictions only strengthened my belief that it’s prohibition that drives a lot of drug-related crime. Next up talk about abolishing the prison estate, Zack npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker OK so I fucked something up at work yesterday and I’ve been a wreck ever since. If not for yoga class I think I would’ve really fallen apart. I was so upset and ashamed that I couldn’t even talk to anyone about it and I was awake in the night worrying. I was thinking I might even get a formal warning, and then my PhD supervisor would find out… npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Tom is doing battle with the Disclosure and Barring Service and by extension, the police. He has a new job but he can’t start because they’ve been waiting FOUR WEEKS to someone to press a button to run a search show that he hasn’t got any criminal convictions. He’s in danger of losing the contract. He’s tried to make contact with the DBS via phone (which gives useless information then says “goodbye!”) and web chat (which simply doesn’t open) #and there seems to be no way of speaking to a person. His next step it to ring our local police force, they complain to the Police and Crime Commissioner. npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker I would question whether things were ever better than this. My experience as a schoolgirl in the 80s and 90s was exactly the same. I don’t recognise these great strides in progress that are supposed to have happened in the past npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker I struggle a lot with staying in the happy now without projecting fearfully into the future when my husband (who is 18 years older than me) is gone. I will try to take your advice npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker I have had a lunch composed of salt, fat, sugar and caffeine and I feel much restored npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Oh dear. Despite travel sickness medication Alice and I were both horribly sick on the boat and have had to be deposited at a beach along the coast. The tour company is sending someone in a car to pick us up and take us back to the hotel. I haven’t been sick like that in absolutely years. npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Can’t… wake… up… I was supposed to be at breakfast 25 minutes ago. I had a very intense dream that I was in a particularly dramatic episode of Coronation Street which included car crashes and a grisly murder. Maybe that’s why I’m so tired, emotional exhaustion 😂 npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker 5am is really too early for anything npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker ooh season 3 is coming this autumn, is it? npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker I stood up for ONE SECOND #mastocats #CatsOfMastodon npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Ooh that sounds so simple! npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Hi Caity! Cake sounds amazing npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Is life expectancy in the USA really only 77 years? That’s surprisingly poor npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker My baby, she kneads me #mastocats #CatsOfMastodon npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Miss Cinnamon is not a fan of rainy weather. Disconsolate, she has retired to her boudoir #CatsOfMastodon #Mastocats npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Meanwhile, over in England the flag shagging business is getting to the point where people are risking life and limb to prove how Not Foreign they are https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq58nl2846jo npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Have you spent most of the day saying, “Come on” to amphibians as you try to move them somewhere safer? npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker I also loved Marjory Sharpe’s Miss Bianca books (Disnified as The Rescuers) and Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. And of course Charlotte’s Web! npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker I eat it whenever I can get it. I might grow my own next year npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Stewed rhubarb for dessert. Variety: GOLIATH npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker I got an email saying I’ve been accepted as the PhD student rep on the psychology department equity, diversity and inclusion working group! This is exciting and a great way to meet people in the wider department. First meeting some time before the end of October. npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker I’ve just had a very lovely trip into town: npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker My husband calls his pants knickers, which I find very weird npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker No, fancy pants is designer underwear 😂😂😂 npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker But there will be no choice if magistrates decline to take the cases on grounds of the seriousness of the offending… npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker With a possible sentence like that, I presume these cases deemed too serious for magistrates’ courts? Because there is already a huge backlog of cases awaiting Crown Court trial… npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Obviously the police force attracts people who enjoy exercising brutal power over others, but seriously, who follows orders to bodily arrest frail octogenarian women for holding pieces of cardboard and doesn’t think, “OK, this is just stupid now, and I want no part of it”? npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker I’ve been asleep most of the day 😳 npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Australia has mad wildlife! npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Amazing! npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Outraged that I just discovered two long dark hairs sprouting from my chin. How have they just… appeared there? Is this the future going into menopause? Because I’m going to need a more precise pair of tweezers npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker For all the workers npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Oh Caity, I’m truly sorry to hear this. What a horrendous shock for you. Poor Wonderdog, poor you. Sending love from Wales 💜 npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker I have tried to get my cat to leave my laptop alone by bringing out an old, defunct laptop for her to sit on, but she’s just not interested - maybe because it’s not warm? npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Morning, I had my worst night’s sleep in months, not sure why. I was a bit jittery before bed despite some lovely slow yoga, but usually that vanished after I’ve been asleep for a while, so I don’t think it was anxiety but I woke so many times and was then awake 2-4am. npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker The other truth is that higher numbers of safe, legal abortions probably reflect the fact that backstreet abortions are thankfully becoming a thing of the past npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker I’m a bit nervous about my plan, but tomorrow intend to take the bus to the far side of the woods and jog slowly back. It’s hard to tell exactly but I think it’s about 6k, so I may end up run/walking. Hopefully I won’t get too lost, it’s not exactly a deep, dark, expansive forest. I hope I can manage it. I just thought it would make a nice change from my usual routes. I *think* I’m brave enough…? npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Reading an article in Women’s Running magazine about safety and how many female runners feel vulnerable in the day even though you might think it feels safer than running in the dark. npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Good morning. I slept terribly because I let Tom persuade me to allow the cat into the bedroom with us. She was very disruptive so even when she went off somewhere and presumably went to sleep I was on edge and kept jerking awake. Then at 5am she decided it was time for us to wake up, at which point I took her downstairs and shut the hall door. Tom thought that was harsh. npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker So Bluesky is about to require people to verify their age, which means sharing their real identity. I’ve no problem with people knowing my identity but then I’m not trying to hide from abusers. Or explore my gender. Or be a whistleblower. Or protest without getting arrested. Or or or… there are so many reasons people need anonymity. npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Morning. Having a lot of trouble getting going, mentally and physically, ugh. Trying to throw myself into some work but it’s tricky. Send energy halp npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker So I’ve been trying to lose weight because I was very much in the “obese” weight range and it was starting to impact on my joints. Also I found walking and running very effortful due to carrying the extra weight. Anyway, so far I have lost almost 2st (28lb/12.5kg) and ideally to get into the “healthy” zone I need to lose the same again. But I notice I’m getting a bit obsessive about it, keen to eat as little as possible, and if I eat “too much” I start to feel guilty and panicky. Which is clearly not good and edging towards eating disorder territory. npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker We had nice upholstery once. Then we got the cat. When she wants something, she doesn’t miaow, she claws the furniture to get our attention then we have to try and figure out what she wants. And yes, she has a perfectly good scratching post npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker They went head to head in the 90s, they’ve both dragged their bands back from the dead for financial gain, but who is more annoying? npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Musih Tedji Xaviere - These Letters End In Tears npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker Hello! I’m just grabbing ten minutes to myself while Tom takes our visitors around the garden to show the progress we’ve made. Lots more talking, it makes me very tired. I definitely get more introverted as I get older. It’s not that it’s not nice to see them but I find this level of chat very draining npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n Charlotte Walker I read recently that breasts with higher density are more prone to developing concerts and the article suggested that all women should be informed about their breast density. I had never heard of this before
