Denise Hanson

Well established and experienced Tour Operator who organizes short breaks in the UK. departing from West Yorkshire

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

There is a mountain of unworn clothes in the driest desert on earth, large enough to be photographed from space. It grows by 39,000 tons a year and almost none of it will ever rot.

The Atacama, in northern Chile, is a place where it may not rain for a decade. On its edge is a duty-free port called Iquique. Every year about 59,000 tons of clothing arrives there from Europe, America and Asia. It is last season's stock that never sold, and the bags people leave at charity shops.

Dealers pick through it for anything they can resell across South America. Two thirds of it is worthless. Nobody will pay to ship it back out, so lorries drive it into the desert at night and tip it.

The local landfill refuses to take it. The reason given is that the clothing does not biodegrade and is full of chemicals. Most of it is polyester, which is plastic, and in a place with no rain and no soil life it will lie there for centuries. Some of it is set alight, and the smoke drifts over a town of 100,000 people.

In 2025 a Chilean court ruled that the dumps had done serious damage to the land.

For most of history this could not have happened. Clothes were wool, linen and leather. They were worn out, handed down and patched, and at the very end a rag merchant paid for the scraps. In Yorkshire, from 1813, old woollens were shredded and spun into new cloth. Anything left went on the fields, where wool breaks down in months and feeds the grass.

Nobody ever had to find a desert for worn-out wool. We invented a fabric that cannot die, and then we started making it to be thrown away.

[Emotion & Music @Emotion78687]

When Rita Moreno appeared as a guest on The Muppet Show in 1976, she created one of the greatest musical comedy sketches in television history.

Attempting to perform the classic jazz piece "Fever" with charm and elegance, she faced her arch-nemesis: Animal the drummer.

What made this act a timeless masterpiece was Moreno's exceptional comedic talent.

Instead of being genuinely overshadowed, she used every annoyed glance, every calculated silence, and every explosive reaction to perfectly counter Animal's chaotic drumming.

Nearly 50 years later, this iconic confrontation remains a classic example of how a talented artist can transform high-level music into pure, unadulterated comedy. 👑😂

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

"We don't hate anybody."
"Well you should. Makes life more fun."

Truly the French spirit.

The Peace of Westphalia of 1648, recreated in a comedy sketch from the BBC program The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (1999).

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In the first series of Clarkson's Farm, a young woman told Jeremy Clarkson his sheep would never make money, and the wool cheque proved her right before the year was out.

Ellen Helliwell was the shepherd he hired when it became clear he could not manage 78 ewes himself. She lambed them through the night, treated their feet, and told him the arithmetic at the start.

Then came shearing. A gang arrives, charges by the head, and leaves a pile of fleeces. Clarkson sent the wool off and learned what every sheep farmer in Britain already knew. The fleece was worth less than the cost of taking it off the animal.

For 800 years that fleece was the wealth of England. It paid for the cathedrals and the wars. A sheep was kept for five or six years for her wool, and the mutton at the end was a bonus that fed the country.

Now the wool is a disposal problem, so the only thing a sheep can earn from is a lamb sold at five months. One income where there used to be three. Clarkson's flock lost money, and he said so on television.

The reason the fleece is worthless is in your wardrobe. The jumper is acrylic, the fleece jacket is polyester, the carpet is nylon, and all of them are made from oil.

Ellen could do everything a shepherd has had to do since the Bronze Age, and do it at three in the morning. The thing she could not do was compete with a plastics factory.

Check the label in your collar before you ask why British lamb costs what it costs.

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

Absolutely amazing!!!! I'm completely smitten!!!! The chemistry between the two of them is incredible!!!! 😍

[steve @bagshaw2112]

Love him or hate him Rowan Atkinson is one very talented guy. Great watch … enjoy . #mrBean

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

A British TV host just SNAPPED on air on the U.K. Government for ignoring clear links between mass immigration and terrorism.

“Let me teach you a thing or two in case you don’t get it yet. I would imagine that whatever has gone down near that base, the people who done it, probably came into the country from somewhere else and came there specifically to do whatever it is they were planning to do”

Look at the men who were caught trying to bomb RAF Fairford air base. Do they look “British” to you? It doesn’t take a genius to see that they are third worlders.

Everyone is sick of being betrayed by their own leaders with suicidal immigration policies. Enough.

[Kirstie Allsopp @KirstieMAllsopp]

To add insult to injury, quite literally, the car’s been nicked!!!! This is the number plate & colour of our Landrover Defender. It’s probably in a container on route to Timbuktu by now but just in case please RT

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

(Former RAF) Wethersfield has 17 new minibuses to ferry 800 illegal migrants into nearby towns.

The local public bus service to Braintree has been stopped.

The migrants have their own GP surgery and nurses. 20% have TB, a disease eradicated in the UK.

Sometimes, I wonder whether this is an experiment to see how much provocation the British people can take before they finally snap.

What do you think?

[Abhi Ai @Heyabhi29]

Most home Wi-Fi routers haven't been rebooted or reconfigured since installation day — some for 4+ years straight, just sitting there untouched.

A family paid for a $90/month "premium speed" upgrade because Zoom kept freezing mid-call and YouTube kept buffering on 4K every single evening.

Their IT-guy neighbor came over on a Sunday and spent just 10 minutes in the router's admin panel — a page most people have never even opened once.

He didn't upgrade the plan.
Didn't buy a new router.
Didn't call the ISP.
Didn't run a single speed test.

He changed 6 settings.

Zoom stopped freezing immediately. YouTube stopped buffering in 4K. Every device in the house — phones, laptops, the smart TV, even the video doorbell — got noticeably faster at the exact same time.

Same internet plan. Same router. Same house. Same walls.

"Your Wi-Fi was never too slow for this. It was just never configured past the day the technician plugged it in — and nobody, not your ISP, not the store that sold you the router, not the box on the wall, was ever going to tell you the fix was free."

🧵 Here are the 6 settings that fixed it:

[Abhi Ai @Heyabhi29]

Millions of 3-year-old laptops get blamed for being "slow" when the hardware is barely the problem — it's almost always what's silently running underneath.

A student was about to spend $900 on a brand new laptop because hers took 4 minutes to boot and constantly froze mid-assignment, right when deadlines mattered most.

Her older brother, who builds PCs on the side and has fixed dozens of laptops for friends, sat down with her laptop for 8 minutes on a Sunday afternoon.

He didn't reinstall Windows.
Didn't add RAM.
Didn't recommend an SSD upgrade.
Didn't suggest buying anything at all.

He changed 8 settings.

Boot time dropped from 4 minutes to 20 seconds. Chrome stopped eating 90% of her CPU in the background. Word stopped freezing mid-sentence while she typed.

Same laptop. Same specs. Same age. Same everything.

"Your laptop was never actually slow. It was just never cleaned up past the day you bought it — and nobody, not the store, not Microsoft, not tech support, was ever going to tell you the fix was free."

🧵 Here are the 8 settings he changed:

[Linzi 🖤🤍 @RightNUFC]

A bit of feel good for your timeline this morning.

Melani is back with another We Do Not Care Club announcement.

The clutter edition, and I felt every part of this. 😅
#WDNC

[Bruce Bowman @boswelltoday]

This is superb.

The lesson begins with the usual catechism: J.K. Rowling has “bigoted opinions”.

Then someone makes the unforgivable mistake of reading what she actually wrote.

Suddenly, certainty requires definitions. Slogans require evidence. “Everyone knows” requires rather more than everyone saying it.

Critical thinking really is murder on a fashionable consensus.

[Denise Hanson @DeniseHanson2]

@KirstieMAllsopp The tourism industry is fragile at the best of times, at the mercy of world wide events. 5% per person per night will be disastrous to many travel businesses. How are they going to police it?!

[𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐕𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐬 ❤️ @NgocThach74]

The 1999 performance of "After the Gold Rush" by the trio of Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris on the *Late Show with David Letterman* stands as a deeply moving, historic moment.

This live performance served as a powerful statement of their comeback, propelling the album to Gold status and earning a prestigious Grammy Award.

A highlight that lent an ethereal quality to the performance was the inclusion of the unique glass harmonica, played by Dennis James, which left the studio audience spellbound and silent in awe.

To this day, the video of that performance remains an iconic pinnacle of the art of acoustic vocal harmony from the pre-digital era.

In an age before Auto-tune, the crystalline soprano of Dolly Parton, the powerful vocals of Linda Ronstadt, and the impeccable harmonies of Emmylou Harris blended together in perfect unison.

The performance serves as an exemplary lesson in artistic generosity, where three major talents listened to one another to elevate each other's contributions, creating a true sonic paradise.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

They are so brilliantly funny:)

[I Choose Birmingham @ichoosemag]

Rush hour, but make it Dolly. 🤠🎻
The brilliant @TheCBSO brought a little Tennessee to Birmingham New Street with a surprise performance of 9 to 5.

Even Ozzy the Bull woke up for it. ❤️

[Jeremy Clarkson @JeremyClarkson]

Until last week, men over 50 were entitled to a free PSA prostate cancer check. But the government has now decided to withdraw that right. I cannot for the life of me work out what their reasoning might be.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

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[Brick Cop©️ @Brick_Cop]

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One Million people standing together to do the right thing for Andrew’s memory and legacy.

Please take a few minutes today to sign it and share it.

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