Maureen Preston

Freethinker

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

I’m trying to think of the greatest British warnings. My favourites include:

1. Watch it.
2. You’re on thin ice.
3. I’ve had just about enough of this.

[Maureen Preston @2021Poppy]

@bconin8 @metoffice Er.. no. But it was phrased like that

[Maureen Preston @2021Poppy]

@ThatEricAlper Dead Kennedys

[Maureen Preston @2021Poppy]

@keirwrong @DFrancis1992 @BBCNews Well as Ms Moderate, Middle Fadiddle, I think a mixed, organic, quality diet is ideal. Ive tried them all- incl macrobiotics.

[Humanos @HumanosRaw]

Hermosamente hecho. Evolución de las modas femeninas.

[Maureen Preston @2021Poppy]

@ThatEricAlper The Byrds

[Maureen Preston @2021Poppy]

@ThatEricAlper My favourite new one:
Do you realise you said that out loud?

[Martin Davies 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 @martindvz]

Brexit explained by someone who isn’t a liar and was there and who knows:

[Maureen Preston @2021Poppy]

@RayMairead @RoyalFamily @sustainablist1 Oh shut up

[Suffolk Police @SuffolkPolice]

Police are urging families, friends and neighbours to make their elderly relatives or vulnerable members of the community aware of courier fraud after recent incidents were reported including the theft of £80,000

For the full article and further guidance: https://t.co/zHgpZJDYEC

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

A Qatar-based professor has pioneered a non-invasive eye scan to detect neurodegenerative diseases years before symptoms appear.

The technology uses AI to analyse the eye and can identify early signs of dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and other diseases within minutes.

[Maureen Preston @2021Poppy]

@BeatlesPraise My parents gave me With The Beatles LP for passing my 11+ exam in ?1965. Smitten!

[Maureen Preston @2021Poppy]

@BeatlesPraise True. And the Byrds were pretty cool too..

[Maureen Preston @2021Poppy]

@Glen_Binnie @si_rubinstein Burnham

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A short history of the great British improvement.

They came for beef dripping. We got margarine, then seed oils, then a cardiac ward in every hospital.

They came for butter. They told your grandmother it would kill her husband. The replacement was a tub of palm oil emulsified with rapeseed and a yellow dye, and her husband died of a heart attack in 1989 anyway.

They came for full-fat milk. We got skimmed milk, a vitamin D deficiency epidemic in children, and a cereal aisle fortified to plug the gap.

They came for mutton, the meat that fed every shepherd, miner, and mill worker for six hundred years. We got a chicken breast injected with water and a turkey twizzler.

They came for the kipper. We got a Findus boil-in-the-bag, dyed orange, and a fish oil capsule sold at the chemist to make up for the omega-3 nobody is eating.

They came for wool. We got polyester fleece, and microplastics in human placentas. Every one tested. Sixty-two out of sixty-two.

They came for leather. We got synthetic shoes that delaminate in eighteen months, and a high street with no cobbler.

They came for the cotton nappy. We got the disposable, and a landfill that will outlast the child wearing it.

They came for the cast iron pan handed down three generations. We got Teflon, and a forever chemical now found in 98% of British rivers.

They came for the wooden bowl your grandmother kneaded dough in. We got Tupperware, then BPA, then "BPA-free" plastic containing compounds we have not yet bothered to measure.

Now they are coming for the cow herself. The replacement is a textured pea isolate, extruded in a factory in the American Midwest, packaged in plastic, and marketed as the ethical option by a company called Cargill, who happen to be the third-largest meat processor in the United States.

Every traditional material we have been told to give up was working perfectly, for free, for centuries. Every industrial replacement has been worse for the body, worse for the land, and considerably better for the shareholders of the company that sold it.

The pattern is not subtle, and the people running it are not embarrassed.

Your great-grandmother is no longer here to call it.

You are.

[Paul Vick @PaulVick138203]

Would you be over the moon if Reform UK got hammered in the 7th of May elections?🤔
Repost after voting please.

[Maureen Preston @2021Poppy]

@jmelotz @FoxNews I agree. I don't know his politics, history or personal details but he's a human who did a heroic thing in a terrible situation so let's be humane about this. So much hatred.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A man marching forward, blinded by a flag.

It's Banksy’s new statue appeared overnight in London’s Waterloo Place.

[Maureen Preston @2021Poppy]

@Donna_Dean @Deirdre40316145 @Jan_Leeming 😖

[JT @BritainisCool]

Who is more popular?