Today is the end of the pier for Gabrielโs Wharf. For nearly 40 years itโs been a happy, hippy, happening place for food, independent traders and brilliant free happenings. So of course it had to go.
We paid our last respects and saw Alina Bzhezhinka (harp) and Tony Kofi (sax)
Barack Obama at his last press briefing with reporters, 2017:
"I have enjoyed working with all of you. That does not, of course, mean that I've enjoyed every story that you have filed, but that's the point of this relationship. You're not supposed to be sycophants. You're supposed to be skeptics. You're supposed to ask me tough questions. You're not supposed to be complimentary, but you're supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power."
Former Palace keeper Kevin Miller has passed away at the age of 57. ๐
In recent years, Miller worked closely with Joe Whitworth at both Exeter and Wigan. ๐งค
RIP Kevin. Our thoughts are with his friends and family at this incredibly difficult time. ๐
#CPFC
Three years ago, I came to this club and could never have imagined everything that would follow. From Wembley to European nights, we've had some fun.
Palace has become so much more than a football club to me. Itโs where Iโve grown as a player, a leader and, most importantly, as a person. Itโs where my children were born and where my family has shared some of the most special moments of our lives.
So to be able to sign a new contract and continue this journey means an incredible amount to me. We've achieved so much in the last few years, but we've got so much more to go!
Iโm proud to be the captain of this club. Proud to wear this badge. And, above all, proud to call Palace home.
The story isnโt finished yet. โค๏ธ๐
PALACE. ๐๐
Dear councils, 97% of UK meadows are gone. So if you have wildflowers like ox-eye daisies on roadverges and in public spaces, don't spray them with weedkiller or over-mow them. Let's give pollinating insects like bees and butterflies a chance ๐
Penrhos is a unique site, it has a variety of wildlife living and visiting
They will have their habitat destroyed so another holiday tourist village can be built ( itโs not a need ) Ynys Mรดn /Anglesey has plenty of places to stay for holiday makers who come for the beautiful wildlife habitats and the landscapes/seascapes dark skies.Tourists come from built up areas to Ynys Mรดn /Anglesey they come to escape from the hustle bustle of daily life to relax in nature.
Destroying what brings tourists to the island doesnโt make sense !
#SavePenrhos #AchubPenros
๐ธDavid Vaughan Hughes
This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about โNATO not being there for Americaโ is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And youโve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
We canโt survive without bees.
We canโt survive without forests.
We canโt survive without healthy oceans.
We canโt survive without clean rivers.
We canโt survive without fertile soil.
And somehowโฆ
we still act as if humans exist separately from nature.
Northern Arapaho girl wanted to wear her regalia beneath her gown to graduation.
The principal of her Wyoming high school told her, โIf I let one minority do it, then I have to let the rest.โ
Should Native graduates be allowed to wear their regalia, beneath their gowns?