Helen

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Service Designer in UK Gov. Made in State School. Anti-fascist.

A landscape photograph of a sand beach covered in thousands of white plastic pellets
A view looking down from seats, at a stage within a large stadium, rammed with thousands of people. A pink/ blue sky above it as the Sun starts to set. System of a down plays the opening chord to ‘Chop Suey’. stage lights start to flash red and white as the crowd roars with excitement.
1. I will cut your taxes, and raise everyone else's. 2. All 99 Flake ice-creams to cost no more than 99p and Wigan Kebabs to be price-capped at £2. 3. Rephase the traffic lights on Liverpool Roadto ease congestion. 4. Corners to be refereed properly in football. 5. People who use speakerphones on public transport to be conscripted. 6. Wifi on trains that works. Also trains that work. 7. The £6.6 million Ashton-in-Makerfield regeneration scheme to be regenerated. 8. Pensions to be double-locked, with an extra little chain on the side. 9. Cyclists who break the highway code to be forced to ride unicycles instead. 10. Elected mayors to be ineligible for Parliament until after their term of office. 11. Free parking at the Gerard Centre to be increased to 3 hours. 12. Auto-renew on all online subscriptions to be abolished immediately. 13. HS2 to be renamed FFS1 and rerouted so it ploughs through rail execs' homes. 14. Galloway Bakers' 'Full Monty Bin Lid' breakfast to be Britain's new national dish. 15. Tries in Rugby League to be increased from 4 to 5 points in line with inflation. 16. Ceefax to be brought back for the entire Greater Manchester area. 17. MPs to lose their subsidy for cheap food and drink in Parliament. 18. The hand-dryer in the gents' toilet at the Crown & Treaty pub, Uxbridge to be moved to a more sensible position. 19. Count Binface to be the UK's entrant at Eurovision 2027. 20. I stand by my past manifestos: croissants, Brexit, Trident, building at least one affordable house: I've got it all covered. Published and promoted by Count Binface, The Count Binface Party, PO Box 818, Tonbridge, TN9
Photo of a corner 60s flat roof pub, called Mangos Landin’. it’s painted green and white with a large palm tree painted on the front of the building. It was a class boozer. It was a community asset. It’s a crime it’s now posh flats.
A left hand stained blue/ purple from black hair dye.
Structure of north Tyneside council- with 51 out of the possible 60 council seats currently held my Labour councillors, 8 by conservatives and 1 independent
A tween child in a blue wheel chair wearing black shorts and a grey hoodie. They have a black knee brace and holding crutches. They are giving a thumbs up sign.
The new grid north by ordnance survey, showing a 24.6 degree change left wards. This means Newcastle is, like, proper northern now.
Picture of a forlorn looking girl in blue dungarees and a pink T-shirt. She’s leaning with her head in her hand in a school desk with a pencil and school work in front of her. The picture accompanies a Sky News headline “Youngers incentivised to get ADHD and Austin diagnoses”
Comedians Vic and Bob as their characters Donald and Davey Stott. They have triumphant black comb over/ bald caps, very high startled eyebrows and the type of moustache that went out of style in the 1940s because of its most famous Austrian owner.
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's BYKER: GIRL ON A SPACEHOPPER, 1971. Black and white Photograph of a young g girl in a woolly jumper with a fabulous sequin covered dress bouncing on a space hopper in a terrace house back lane. The cobbled back lane is immaculate, with no rubbish or weeds, or graffiti.
New article headline ‘scientists might soon cure balding. Here’s how’
BBC news head line that read ‘boss repeatedly shouted “potato” at Irish employee’
A young person in a blue T-shirt and blue jeans, standing in front of a beautiful loch which glows Golden in the evening sunshine. The mountains that surround the loch are snow covered and the small pools of water from the deeper loch are frozen.
A black and white photo of William morris with wild salt and pepper wavy hair and long beard. His photo sits on the background of his famous print, vine leaves in green and blue curl and dance in a beautiful swirl of textural lines.
A screen shot of a very wonky website banner that reads: if this is your first time accessing the member portal since 25 November, you will need to creat a new account. once you have completed the registration process, please wait 15 minutes before logging in to ensure your account has been fully activated. Thank you for your patience.
Graph showing various counties on the better life index with Switzerland, Sweden, Luxembourg, Denmark, Finland and Austria all scoring at the top end of the graph- above US, U.K. And Israel.
View out to sea with beautiful fluffy clouds in the blue sky and a ship out into the distance. 2 children play in the crashing waves.
Hundreds of people in swimming costumes line up along the beach front- many with Santa hats on. A countdown begins, ‘3,2,1’ as they all run towards the North Sea for the annual Boxing Day dip. The sea was 6 degrees today.
A scene from Monty Python. Where an obese man called Mr Creosote, eats an obscene amount of y of food in a restaurant. When persuaded by the waiter if he could handle a final mint as it’s ’only wafer thin’. He then eats the mint and proceeds to projectile vomit all over.
Children’s drawing, of an 8 legged reindeer, with a very happy smiley face, turned into red and white Christmas lights hanging from a lamppost.
front page of the New Yokr Post where they picture Mayor Mamdani with a hammer and sickle in red. It reads, on your Marx, get set, Zo! Socialist Mamdani wins race for the may. In large text The red Apple.
Tommy Robinson papping his pants and falling over backwards, when 3 brown men walk towards him.
Screenshot of a large yellow banner stating next collection: Friday 17 October, household waste
Bus driver saying don’t make me tap the sign, the sign reads in bold capital letters “the opposite of antifa-fascist is pro-fascist”
Photo of a green space with dark green trees lining the space. A wild flower meadow is in the foreground, with large red poppies, yellow, pink and blue flowers growing amongst one another. Bees can be seen on lots of the flowers.
A transport map showing a green and yellow train lines intersecting at stations, shown as white circles. In red circles large numbers show the healthy life expectancy (HLE) of that stations surrounding area. Byker station is 63.8 and beyond the airport is 74.8- making it 11 years of HLE in a 20 minute public transport ride.
2 women, 1 blonde and 1 brunette in checked shirts pulling grotesque faces- holding 1st and 3rd place trophies and rosettes. They are stunning.
View of the Tyne River and bridge, with a orange morning sunlight shining reflecting off the silver clad Sage Centre building below
Headline ‘Pm pledges to close loophole that lets Gazans settle in UK’
Y shaped designer career pathway- with one branch of a designer progresses to expert, another branch leads to design manger, design director, and finally design VP.
A large brown and black spider with white fungus covering its body, leaving only its legs uncovered
Calendar of places to eat in Newcastle/ Gateshead area between 21sr and 3rd January. Christmas Day people’s kitchen Newcastle are servicing Christmas meals 11:30-2pm
Split image- on the left an oil painting of a queue of people with children outside of a fish and chip shop a warm yellow glow shines through the window. On the right the painting is reimagined in a photograph.
Large Brutalist building with vertical concrete columns spanning height of the 2 storeys, resembling stripes on the facade.
Black and white showing a miner with black hair, with prominent sideburns wearing a toy police helmet talking to a police officer in a very long line of police officers. Photo credit Don McPhee. George Brealey, the striking miner in the photograph, was from Yorkshire Main colliery, pictured at the Orgreave coking plant near Sheffield in June 1984. The Battle of Orgreave was a pivotal event in the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike, and one of the most violent in British industrial history.
A young girl in a white cardigan and a purple dress standing proudly in front of an art exhibition ‘we all came here from somewhere’ in large orange text.
Screenshot of an email heading from LinkedIn Editors. It reads- ‘Start your thought leadership journey with LinkedIn’
A orange and blue illustration of a judo throw. The person being thrown is screaming in terror
Advert on train. Black background with a smoke alarm in the centre, it merges into a data life image of earth. White bold writing states, ‘every false alarm costs our planet’.
Green and blue lights outside of a bay window, with a large neon flashing sign reading ‘Betelgeuse Betelgeuse’. A large grave stone reading ‘here lies beetlejuice’ alongside a ropey looking mannequin with black and white striped suit and a black tie sits at the foot of it.
Large orange and black inflatable dinosaur crossing a road
Red glowing lights cut out of black foam, that says ‘here lies beetle juice’
Diversity questionnaire ‘compared to people in general, would you describe yourself as coming from a lower social-economic background?’
Fireplace with glowing fire- Mantle has lots of different size candles on and a poster saying ‘dear Gateshead you are annoying and I don’t want to hang out with you anymore, sincerely Newcastle’.
2024 great north run medal, with a black abstract image of the tyne bridge and 2024 in red
News headline saying ‘police release image of man they want to trace after theft of canned food from service station in Sunderland’
News headline that reads, ‘storms and heavy showers on the way in the North East with Met Office warning in place’
Photo of a large bright green Great North Run running number that’s says ‘Helen, 38744’ written in black.