Christine Bell

@facilitation
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Facilitating relaxed and engaging conversations with people, often on themes of sustainability, transport, health and a few other random issues often using the 3Cs.... #Consultation #Collaboration #Consensus #Quaker #Leeds
I love to #cycle #crochet and promise plenty of photos of both along with our #cat Nessa
Companywww.centreforfacilitation.co.uk
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STOP THE #CATURDAY PRESSES!

Second dad just sent me this impossibly heartwarming adorable photo of Emmy  

#catsofmastodon #cats #mastocats

Bean: not a thought in this boy's head

Jelly: may not currently look it, but she's the brains of the operation

#cats #caturday #CatsOfMastodon #catstodon

Leisure pursuits: catnip sticks. #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #TheAdmiral #Catnip #Fun
This is Orla.
She lives up our road.
I am cat sitting for her primary carers.
This morning she wants to play with this box.
I have had inadequate training in Orla play method so after hooking the mouse out of the box twice she went out to the garden.
I feel so inadequate.
#Caturday #CatSitterEsteem #TrainingNeeded

The amount of men who walk into our shop and ask us to fix their clothes is staggering. We are a fabric and craft op shop, we do not do mending and alterations for the general public. We will do no or low cost sewing for people who can't afford new clothing but we simply don't have the staff or the time for well-off men who can be better served going to an actual alterations and mending business.

We struggle to find volunteers simply to staff the stores, much less sort and price all the donations and ready them for display. Our sewing volunteers are making premmie clothes or activity lap blankets for people with dementia or quilts for kids who've had to leave the family home due to violence. Every class we have has waiting lists and we can't find teachers to volunteer.

Men, particularly middle class men, can learn to sew for themselves. Men can make absolutely beautiful garments and other objects. Men do themselves no favours with learned helplessness. Sewing, mending, and alterations are not a feminised favour to men. We get to decide who we dedicate our labour to.

#sewing #volunteering

#BoycottCocaCola
Coca-Cola has been hiding "astronomical levels" of profit in tax havens to shield it from the IRS, a judge found.

They now have to start paying back $16 billion in taxes — enough to wipe out a year and a half in profits.

It's time for every big corporate tax offender to pay up.

Amazing architecture splendor at #antwerp station. A super short break organised by #FlightFree specialist By Ways travel ... now onto Ghent

Rich people are the problem.
Rich people are the problem.
Rich people are the problem.
#ClassWar

https://time.com/6208632/celebrities-climate-impact-private-jets-yachts/

From Private Jets to Superyachts, Here’s the Climate Impact of the Rich and Famous

As Americans bear the brunt of climate change, celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Taylor Swift are being criticized for their exorbitant lifestyles.

Time
After a tough year where we lost our cat Nessa and then my mum...we have adopted Hettie who is bringing joy back to our lives
A rare moment of stillness
#caturday
It is one of my life's ambitions to go out for a plant based meal that is better than I might cook at home. I am not saying I am a chef, it's just that so often veggie food is poorly executed and lacking ambition. Tonight Mildred's in #KingsCross #London delivered big time. #happyveggie #plantbasedfood