Raechel Kelly
Climate action, regenerative thinking, doughnut economics, circular economy. Mum stuff & rollerskates. Solo project The Liminality & local project Planet Cheltenham.
- We hooked up our rainwater collection tank about 6 weeks ago on our new charity building and it’s already full! Glos and the rest of the south west can’t take much more rain.
- Truly the Mondayest of Mondays today.
- I mean….
- Be more lichen.
- How to be a lichen – adaptive strategies from Earth's tiny titans of resilience www.themarginalian.org/2025/11/02/l...
- This is also true about some climate folks, honestly the most frustrating thing about it is that it’s never the people doing loads IRL (organising, leveraging agency, building community and collectives) but just people hyper online arguing with bots mostly. Joy and humour are ok peeps, touch grass.
- I assume nothing noteworthy happened in the news today. I couldn’t keep up to date as I had to snuggle these kittens. Highly recommend as a strategy for getting through the day. I also looked at the big moon.
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- Slightly less cute at 6am but still worth it!
- I haven’t listened yet because I know I’ll cry 🍞 🌹
- The importance of a pint being proved here. 🍺
- 1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- I’ve accidentally just watched FIFA give Trump a world peace prize and it was the most disgusting sycophantic fascism fest and I wish I didn’t own a tv or eyes.
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- Circular economy hubs of repair and reuse ♻️ storage for Libraries of Things and equipment hire
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- Joanna Macy drew it as a dandelion which I think is an excellent analogy
- Every other train station in the UK: ‘Here is the platform your train will leave from, feel free to head there with plenty of time, perhaps get a tea or have a sit down.’ Paddington station: ‘We have no way of knowing where any trains are, here is your platform for the train leaving in 90 sec, RUN.’
- Not Alan being both the worst and best Traitor ever #traitors
- Alan in Traitors is Tom in Four Weddings and a Funeral: ‘I think I fooled them so far. The great advantage of having a reputation for being stupid: People are less suspicious of you.’
- And in the UK? We’re switching off wind turbines. 🤦♀️
- Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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- Similarly, my 96 year old grandad’s carer got as far as calling out the emergency doctor before my grandad remembered the heroic quantity of beetroot he’d eaten the day before.
- This was such a joy to be part of, with thanks to @lornaprescott.bsky.social Jo Orchard Webb and everyone at Co Lab Dudley, especially the Dudley People’s School of Climate Justice crew! And especially @bridgetmck.bsky.social ‘s insight and ways of drawing connections 🌍 ❤️ 🌱
- Got a bit of writing done. It’s been heartening remembering two days in Dudley this spring with @bridgetmck.bsky.social @raechelkelly.bsky.social and our local collaborators, going about evaluation in a deeply relational and generative way. medium.com/colab-dudley...
- A reminder from the smallest one today. Some excellent activities at The Wilson in Cheltenham for littlies.
- Half term and the kids are alright. I’m fine with the brain rot if it results in baked goods.
- I’m almost there with my Stride for Gaza challenge, raising money for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social please donate if you are able medicalaidforpalestinians.enthuse.com/pf/raechel-k...
- We missed out on funding from a big foundation which would have been perfect for what we need as a charity right now- they said they had hundreds of great applications that were fundable that totalled £30m but only had £2m to give. Surely £28m is pocket change to lots of other funders/foundations?!
- But instead all those amazing orgs will just go without, and have to repeat the whole process again. The system is so broken.
- Was this written… by a car? Lolz to use a photo of miserable traffic.
- Let’s fall in love with cars again on.ft.com/47nn6IG
- Bubble about to pop?
- Meta is cutting around 600 roles in AI unit, Axios reports reut.rs/4opgmAI
- BRB just got to send this to everyone who has ever said ‘feminism has gone too far’. 50% of the population will now be asked about one of the biggest physical changes in their lives, in the year of our lord 2025! FFS.
- Now on my 10th attempt to contact my grandmother’s GP to ask for a repeat prescription. Pretty sure the ‘you are number 3 in the q’ phone recording never changes. They have hung up on me twice. Main phone no. doesn’t connect, requested a call back,got a text saying they tried to call but they didn’t
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- Saved an owl that had got trapped between panes of glass in a window at about 3am in rural highlands. Snowy white and so so light to pick up compared to its size! Was holding it gently still half asleep deciding what to do next with it and it flapped its wings and disappeared silently into the night
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- George would have Charli’s back. Can’t believe the outrageous slop of Taylor’s ‘interpolation’ 🤮
- Putting the back of my head to good use as the frame for @immykaur.bsky.social what a day this was (used the last chilli 🌶️ ‘borrowed’ from the greenhouse yesterday!)
- WHO IS STILL PRINTING EMAILS IN 2025? I want someone to analyse whether thousands of additional lines of emails containing the words ‘we care about the environment please think before printing this email’ has a bigger footprint than the two people printing emails still.
- I will be good and fix this bag without a zip pull. Locate ingenious German zip fixing device. In order to get the correct size I have to check either the number on the zip pull which doesn’t exist or measure the width of it when done up which I can’t do. Is it circular economy if I set fire to it?
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- One button to rule them all
- Drag name idea: Polly Tickle doing exclusively government/policy announcements and party political broadcasts.
- Lichen subscribe
- This is like when I found out that low oestrogen causes weight gain, and taking replacement oestrogen causes weight gain. Make it make sense!
- Dropped the biggest kid off at uni yesterday, emotional rollercoaster ride of joy and tears. All her kitchen stuff was from my grandparents house which we’re clearing out, my Nana would have been so proud.
- Accidentally caught some vintage unnamed comedy on radio 4 extra where one of the jokes centred on a character saying ‘meretricious’ and the other guy saying ‘and a happy new year’. It has been making my kids laugh all week and now they know the word meretricious.
- Not me winning life by having to pelt it down the road so I’m not late for the school run each day.
- Surely it’s the BBCs job to delve into a ridiculous claim and not just publish it as fact?
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- Why is it quoted to a send parent and not just stated as fact immediately after his claim? Why doesn’t the headline say ‘wrongly claims’? Unless the BBC (and other media) stops parroting Reform and starts doing journalism we’ll all be poorer for it after the next election.
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- It really doesn’t, where is the evidence for his claim and what are the actual figures for fraudulent SEND support? If there is no evidence that should be made 100% clear. ‘Both sidesing’ is infuriating.
- Absolutely worth reading to the last skeet on this one.
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- More that my daughter would explode from embarrassment! Thanks though.
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- Sadly can’t next week, but feel free to use the anecdote! It’s nuts that loans aren’t automatically linked to inflation. So many rely on parents for living costs but what about those who can’t? I can see why a lot of bright kids go for degree apprenticeships but they’re like gold dust.
- My fresher is going off with most of the contents from her great grandparent’s kitchen! My lovely grandad has just moved into a home, so it was perfect timing. I love that she’ll be using my Nana’s saucepans and utensils. Plus easier to spot the 60s crockery in a shared kitchen!
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- Dropping off some film last week, there was a girl in the queue in front of me trying to get a film developed. Barrage of questions from guy behind the counter eg ‘Matt or gloss’ etc and after a while she leant on the counter and said ‘I’m so sorry I’m really hungover this is a lot’. A vibe.
- 3am thoughts. Why are there so many ‘Gilbert ands’? Gilbert and Sullivan, Gilbert and George, Gilbert and Gubar. Why does the Gilbert always go first? Are Gilbert’s particularly creative genetically?
- So Gloucestershire County Council in their wisdom are shutting an A road for a month just as schools go back and all the traffic will be using the tiny road two local schools are on instead. Or possibly the other route which we’ve been campaigning to get a crossing on. Brilliant.
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