Kim

Mother, Grandmother, Retired Nursery Manager...Children are my business. Opinions are my own.

[Kim @Bumpybetsy]

#aurora #Auroraborealis
#northenlights
Northampton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Never thought I’d see this from my garden. Bucket list ticked ✅

@NNweather @BBCNorthampton @ChronandEcho

[JohnBob @JohnRDTaylor1]

The government are contravening Section 7 of The Food Safety Act 1990, which states "It is a criminal offence to add or remove anything from food, or treat it in a way that makes it injurious to health".
Folic Acid raises cancer risk amongst other health issues.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

Britain buried a man among its kings. 👑

To this day, nobody knows his name. ❓

Not his family. Not the army. Not even the officer who chose him. 🤫

It was meant to be that way. 🕊️

In 1916, an army chaplain stopped at a grave in a back garden in France. 🪦

Someone had pencilled on its cross: "An unknown British soldier." ✏️

For four years, he told no one what it made him think. Then he wrote to Westminster Abbey. ✉️

His coffin was made from an oak tree at Hampton Court. 🌳

Dover Castle gave him a nineteen-gun salute, usually kept for a field marshal. 💥

The King walked behind him on foot, as chief mourner. 🇬🇧

The guests of honour were around a hundred ordinary women. Each had lost her husband and every one of her sons. 💔

Today, his is the only grave in the Abbey nobody may walk on. 🌺

They buried him among the kings, because he had done good toward God and toward his house. 🙏

We will remember them. 🌺

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Jane Rochford Boleyn 🇬🇧 @VictoriaHa50399]

At the very LEAST, the Big Supermarkets @waitrose @Morrisons @asda @sainsburys @Tesco @LidlGB @AldiUK @marksandspencer & ANYWHERE which sells food for PUBLIC CONSUMPTION:

Must add a WARNING STICKER to products that contain Folic Acid.

If ANY company does NOT, that means they are withholding information that will harm the health of British people!

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

Britain's national war memorial was only meant to stand for a week. 🕊️

Summer 1919. Britain planned a huge victory parade through London. 🎖️

But the dead couldn't march. They lay abroad, or were never found. 💔

So the Prime Minister asked the architect Edwin Lutyens for a place where the troops could salute them. 🫡

It went up in wood and plaster, right in the middle of Whitehall. 🪵

Fifteen thousand soldiers marched past it. Each one saluted the dead. 🇬🇧

Then the parade ended. But people kept coming. 🌹

In the week it was meant to stand, over a million came. 🤯

Its sides look perfectly straight. They aren't. 📐

No names on it. No cross. It belongs to everyone who lost someone. 🙏

Today, at eleven o'clock, the nation falls silent around it once more. 🕯️

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. 🌺

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Kim @Bumpybetsy]

@FABSITEUK Good afternoon lovely x

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

Britain's first poppies weren't made in Britain. 🇫🇷

In 1921, every one was shipped over from France. 🚢

Back home, thousands of men had come back from the trenches without an arm, a leg or an eye. Many couldn't find work. 💔

One wounded officer, Major George Howson, had an idea. Britain's poppies, made by Britain's wounded. 🌺

He wrote home: "I do not think it can be a great success. But it is worth trying." ✍️

In June 1922, five disabled men sat down at a bench on the Old Kent Road. 🪑

Within two months, they'd made a million. 🤯

By 1924, twenty-seven million. Enough for more than half the people in Britain. 🇬🇧

A century later, veterans there still make the royal wreaths laid at the Cenotaph. 🕊️

So now, when you put yours on, you can also remember where it came from. 🙏

We will remember them. 🌺

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Kim @Bumpybetsy]

This…
❤️💔❤️

[🖤🤍NUFC@SEAN🖤🤍 @NUFC_Sean_]

Give it a watch. 😥😥😥😥

[Kim @Bumpybetsy]

@pevenseyjayne We will indeed…

[Dr Clare Craig ✝️ @ClareCraigPath]

Gov has made it almost impossible to avoid folic acid.

Manufacturers and retailers are not helping either @waitrose

What are people with cancer, heart stents, B12 deficiency and those who don't want an increased risk of cancer meant to do?

[Derek Sloan @TrueDerekSloan]

I am shocked and disgusted by the story of Captain Ken Kunkel who was assaulted by two kids and this woman while supervising air cadets selling poppies. He’s now undergone emergency spinal surgery and may never walk again.

The 11 year old who did this can’t be charged, and the 12 year old will get some minor penalty. This is not justice. The youth criminal justice act needs serious reform.

Who are these kids? Who are their parents?

What punishments can we apply to violent youth crime?

If you’re old enough and strong enough to kick and stomp a full grown man on the ground such that he is paralyzed - you’re old enough to face justice.

We need to know their names, and their parents’ names. This shameful behaviour needs to be exposed. Every element of social and peer pressure should be used to shame families involved in this behaviour. All kids do stupid things, even kids of good parents. But if your 11 year old
is assaulting and paralyzing a grown man, that’s on you parents. Something went wrong years ago.

This is not justice, and we’re seeing an uptick in gangs deliberately using underage kids to commit shockingly violent crimes because they’re not tried as adults.

There’s plenty of kids that know this and laugh. For people who laugh off decency and restraint, the corresponding punishment should do the same. This 11 year old can change this Captain’s life, and that of his wife, kids and grandchildren forever, and yet his life will go on as usual. Absolutely shocking and disgusting. If you can deliberately and maliciously destroy someone’s life, there must be some degree of accountability from either you or your parents, even if you’re 11.

We have 11 year olds assaulting teachers in schools as well. Time to bring back corporal punishment.

Praying for a speedy recovery for Captain Kunkel.

[Kim @Bumpybetsy]

@FABSITEUK Amazing work and what a beautiful sentiment it is. X

[Jane Rochford Boleyn 🇬🇧 @VictoriaHa50399]

BLACKROCK also OWN these companies!

& BLACKROCK have major shares in DSM Firmenich who made BOVAER..

&Are now making the folic acid in our food!

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

A speech by The King at the official Commonwealth Heads of Government dinner.

Watch His Majesty’s speech in full: https://t.co/jhOvJuMdhm

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

In 2012, a man sat at a small desk in the middle of the Olympic stadium and typed four words. 🏟️

"This is for everyone." 💡

It was Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The man who invented the World Wide Web. 🌐

He could have made every person on earth pay to use it. 💷

He made sure it was free. 🇬🇧

He wasn't the first British inventor to make that choice. Not even close. ⚖️

1796. A Gloucestershire doctor proves a way to stop smallpox, a disease that killed three in every ten people who caught it. 💉

He could have kept his method secret and made a fortune. He printed it for anyone to read. 📜

1812. Ninety-two men and boys die in an explosion at a pit near Gateshead. ⛏️

Humphry Davy builds a lamp that can burn safely in the gas. He's urged to patent it. He refuses. 🔦

His young assistant, a blacksmith's son, goes on to build the first electric motor. Then he shows the world exactly how he did it. ⚡

In Glasgow, a surgeon stops infection killing his patients. He publishes his method for every surgeon on earth to use. 🩺

In wartime Oxford, a team turns a mould into a medicine that would save millions. Their leader refuses to patent it. 🧫

You've heard their names. You've probably never heard the choice they made. 🤔

Look around your home. 🏠

The little round scar on your grandad's arm. The switch on your wall. The cream on a grazed knee. The medicine in the cupboard. The screen you're reading this on. 📱

They knew their inventions would change the world. 🌍

So they made sure the world could have them. 🙏

Ordinary people, just like you, helped make it happen. 🇬🇧

Every Proud Of Us film is free, because people like you make it happen too. 🎬

Will you help make the next one? ☝️

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

A 77-year-old monarch, bound by convention, has shown more backbone than the Prime Minister.

Charles: evil didn’t get the last word, because British sailors made sure of it.

Burnham: sorry, fancy some reparations?

[Kim @Bumpybetsy]

@Jacob_The_Pilot I’ve never been so proud of a stranger. You did amazingly @Jacob_The_Pilot and no one can take that away from you. Well done!

[Jane Rochford Boleyn 🇬🇧 @VictoriaHa50399]

On the 13th of December the UK Government will make it a CRIMINAL OFFENCE to import Folic Acid free FLOUR into the UK!

Will this make me guilty of possession of a rather large store of my favourite Polish flour?

FLOUR!?

The STAPLE food of LIFE!

Will the "Folic Enforcement Flour Police" be raiding my kitchen pantry at 2am, in search of my beloved, Polish flour store?

Will I be guilty of "possession"?
...or the heinous crime of intent to SUPPLY my neighbours with folic free Jam Roly Poly?

With this absolutely ABSURD & RIDICULOUS "law" what the gov't is REALLY saying is that WE are only ALLOWED to use.. GOVERNMENT APPROVED FLOUR!

& I swear to defend my imported Polish flour store, for all I am worth!

[Kim @Bumpybetsy]

Absolutely love this…

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Forget all the huge supermarkets and their mawkish Christmas adverts, this was the best Christmas advert - Enniskillen pub Charlie's put out this advert back in 2023. It’s brilliant.

[Kim @Bumpybetsy]

This…

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 Britain sent warships into a friendly country's harbours. 🔥

And burned its ships at anchor. ⚓

That country was Brazil 🇧🇷

More enslaved Africans were taken to Brazil than to any other country on earth. ⛓️

Not America 🇺🇸 Brazil 🇧🇷

Nearly half of everyone shipped across the Atlantic went there. Ten times more than the United States. 🌍

In 1826 Britain made Brazil sign a treaty. The trade would end by 1830. 📜

Brazil signed. Then ignored it. They even had a phrase for laws like that: "para inglês ver". For the English to see. 👀

Tens of thousands of people kept arriving every year. 😔

So Britain changed the law. Brazilian slave ships could now be tried in British courts as pirates. ⚖️

In 1850 the Royal Navy sailed into Brazil's ports, under the guns of the forts. They cut out the slave ships and burned them. 🚢

Emperor Pedro II's government had a choice. War with Britain. Or end the trade. ⚔️

That September, Brazil banned it. Within two years the trade was dead. 🕊️

Yet today only one country is asked to feel ashamed. 🤔

The one that stopped it. 🇬🇧

Be part of us. 🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Kim @Bumpybetsy]

@FABSITEUK Happy Halloween Saturday.
Enjoy your coffee x