CEO of Citizens Advicehttps://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3m2way2an6227Fascinating rural/urban contrast in Parkrun demographics. I’m VW60-64, my son is SM25-29. Today at Hogmoor in Hampshire there were 11 in my age category and 12 in his, of a total 200 runners. Last week at Clapham Common there were 8 in my category and 99 in his, of 785 total.11 Oct 2025 13:08 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2way2an6227https://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3ltqwx5di722p📣📣📣 Reasons to come to our @elysiansingers.bsky.social concert this evening: - cracking tunes from Mr Handel - fab performances from choir & orchestra - it's in a cool church 😎 Do come along! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Jul 2025 08:29 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltqwx5di722phttps://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3lsv6egv2gs2yIf the UCPIP Bill becomes law it will cut PIP for over 400k disabled people & UC for over 700k people who are disabled or have a long-term health condition by 2030. Government’s own impact assessment says the cuts will plunge 150k people into poverty by the end of this Parliament01 Jul 2025 07:27 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsv6egv2gs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3lsv6dgvcoc2yIf Parliament votes in favour of the UCPIP Bill it will enshrine an arbitrary cut in law. We welcome the Timms Review but once again the government is doing things in the wrong order. @CitizensAdvice is asking MPs to vote against these proposals and calling on government to step back and think again01 Jul 2025 07:27 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsv6dgvcoc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3lsm6b2gg7227Proposed changes to disability benefits will create a two-tier system. If this goes ahead, from Nov 2026, new claimants who need help to cut up food, dress, wash, or use the toilet will be denied the lifeline that PIP provides 1/227 Jun 2025 17:31 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsm6b2gg7227https://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3ls5ihqkk2c2bWe started this glorious #SummerSolstice day with a sunrise swim at the ever-lovely Petersfield Open Air Pool and ended it watching the sunset from Butser Hill, the highest point of the South Downs21 Jun 2025 21:24 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls5ihqkk2c2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3lphqakbems22Completely endorse your view @joeoharadcu.bsky.social but I should point out that the author is not me but my brilliant namesake @quiteclare.bsky.social. Honoured as ever to be mistaken for her! [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 May 2025 18:54 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lphqakbems22https://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3low7h7icuk26Carnivorous plants were much in evidence in Connemara last week. So for this week’s #WildflowerHour, here is round-leaved and oblong-leaved sundew, and delicate flowers of butterwort11 May 2025 19:39 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3low7h7icuk26https://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3lolmwk4gjc2yThe Committee on Standards in Public Life has published a fascinating report on early warning signs of major failures. It got me thinking about times in my career when things went wrong, and what I learned. Mostly a lot about risk. https://cspl.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/02/risk-and-responsibility/07 May 2025 14:41 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lolmwk4gjc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3lol7w5crtk2oLate entry for last Sunday’s #WildflowerHour #HighUpPlants challenge. St Patrick’s Cabbage just coming into flower close to the summit of Binn Idir an Dá Log, at 702m the highest of Connemara’s Maum Turk mountains07 May 2025 10:48 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lol7w5crtk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3loenab3auc2tClosest I can offer to a #HighUpPlant foot #WildflowerHour are these from a Connemara hillside: milkwort & tormentil04 May 2025 19:57 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3loenab3auc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3loekiwpyts2tPlus some other beauties in shades of white, pink & purple: lousewort, sea campion, marsh orchid, green-veined orchid #WildflowerHour #Connemara04 May 2025 19:09 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3loekiwpyts2thttps://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3loekchoagk2tIt’s all about the sea pinks on the Connemara shoreline this week - masses of clumps in varying colours #WildflowerHour04 May 2025 19:05 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3loekchoagk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3lndlifbk2s2rMissed #WildflowerHour but these beauties were crying out to be shared. Green-winged orchids locally abundant on an outcrop at Trá An Dóilín (Coral Beach) in Connemara21 Apr 2025 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lndlifbk2s2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3ljxtvbo67c2yMeanwhile in the Dublin mountains, which got more of the week’s sunshine, gorgeous gorse & coltsfoot brightening forest tracks verges #YellowFlowers #WildflowerHour09 Mar 2025 20:11 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljxtvbo67c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3ljxtdij6rk2ySpring is still barely arriving in Connemara, and flowers few and far between. But the rare ones I found last week did have the good grace to be #YellowFlowers - almost-out celandine, catkins & some slightly bedraggled primroses #WildflowerHour09 Mar 2025 20:01 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljxtdij6rk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3ljkpkp5on222At first glance, this is a pile of shells in a rockpool. Keep watching and you’ll see it’s a hermit crab colony. Look out for the one that falls on its shell and flips back over, and the one that triumphantly pulls out a shell from underneath it. #Connemara #AnDóilín04 Mar 2025 14:49 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljkpkp5on222https://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3liyk62qcec2aToday’s announcement of a 3rd consecutive rise in the energy price cap is really worrying for millions of people already struggling to afford their energy bills & in debt to energy suppliers. Govt plans to expand the Warm Home Discount are welcome but don’t go far enough @citizensadvice.bsky.social25 Feb 2025 09:25 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3liyk62qcec2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3lid4lb3spk2wDurford Wood and Rogate Common in Hampshire were notably short of flower today. Just some European gorse bravely bringing colour to the scene #WildflowerHour16 Feb 2025 20:55 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lid4lb3spk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3lhrhksjifs2dI’m intrigued by the variation in hazel behaviour. Some trees have catkins and virtually no sign of female flowers yet; others have a good sprinkling of female flowers while the catkins are still forming #WildflowerHour09 Feb 2025 20:24 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhrhksjifs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3lhrhh7q3lc2dSpring is creeping into the Ashford Hangers. Dog’s mercury unfurling and, on a sheltered path, stinking hellebore and the first primroses #WildflowerHour09 Feb 2025 20:22 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhrhh7q3lc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3lheqbqhyxc2oI was due to have 4 meetings this afternoon with Westminster/Whitehall folk. 3 were cancelled/postponed with between 1 day & 2 hours notice. That’s not uncommon & suggests a system issue - nowhere else are meetings so freely rearranged. Logistical nightmare if you’re not Westminster based04 Feb 2025 18:56 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lheqbqhyxc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/claremoriarty.bsky.social/post/3lhckrmb3ds23Huge thank you to the person who handed in the bag I left on a train at Waterloo last Thursday. And props to South Western Railway for an unexpectedly efficient lost property experience03 Feb 2025 22:12 +0000at://did:plc:yihonul6wrvs6ixzg5jsyo7b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhckrmb3ds23