mighty aphrodite

Enjoying Mid Life, Proud Leo ♌️ 🦁 Tarot Reader ☀️🌙Yoga 🧘 Junkie and Mum. All my views are my own🌟

[mighty aphrodite @DinazMighty]

#PawsOnTheWharf thrilled that I’ve found each of the gorgeous guide dogs 😁 loved the trail @wildinart

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

You would be lying if you can't see or refuse to see just how powerful her presence is, how articulately she speaks- with passion, intent and true purpose.
Meghan Sussex is changing the world around her. And I for one, welcome her using her platform to help others.

[mighty aphrodite @DinazMighty]

@AvantiWestCoast Thanks Sam but we are already on our way to Bedford station so wanted to know if we can use our existing ticket from there to London St Pancras

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

Being average at work is normal.

Not everyone wants to be a leader, be passionate about projects 24/7, and build a personal brand.

Showing up, calmly completing a task, getting paid, and leaving to live your life is definitely a sign of mental health.

[James 𝕏ond @james_xond]

Working 7 hours a day doesn’t sound bad until you realize it’s not just seven hours. It’s the mental load before work, the commute, the recovery after, and the version of yourself that’s too tired to show up anywhere else.

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

The phrase "nobody wants to work anymore" is hilarious..

Like, no dude, people don't want to:

• Commute 2 hours daily
• Miss their kids growing up
• Trade their entire life for rent
• Get laid off with zero warnings
• Work 50 hours for 40 hours pay

Fix the system. Not the workers.

[Schönbrunn Palace @schonbrunn]

☀️❄️ The view from the #Gloriette feels almost magical - the kind of scene Empress Elisabeth herself might have paused to admire.

Here's to a lovely week from #Schönbrunn!

© SKB

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

A dazzling ocean of tulips stretching endlessly in Hokkaido, Japan.

[mighty aphrodite @DinazMighty]

@peacocks big thank you to the lovely staff at your #walthamstow branch. Helpful, friendly and spot on customer service, I’ll be back!

[Michelle Cowbourne @Glastomichelle]

'On the way down' After getting very windblown this morning I took this on the way down Glastonbury Tor shortly after sunrise.

[Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @alfienoakes63]

If I could offer one piece of advice to people in the UK it would be don't believe a word you hear on BBC news or any other mainstream media.

[Lily Craven @TheAttagirls]

Woman of the Day social reformer and animal welfare pioneer Maria Dickin, born OTD 1870 in Hackney, who was branded as “dangerous” by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons after she founded the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals for working class people who couldn’t afford vets fees.

Feeling constrained by marriage and domestic responsibilities, Maria became a volunteer social worker in the slums of the East End helping women and children hit hardest by the poverty and deprivation brought about by WW1, yet poor people depended on their animals: donkeys and ponies as working animals and dogs and cats as pet companions.

“I was amazed and horrified to see the sufferings of these animals. In the streets were many dogs and cats walking on three legs, dragging along a broken or injured limb; others nearly blind with mange or covered with sores; nearly all looking dejected and miserable and searching for food in the gutter.”

“The suffering of my own dog became not only symbolic of all the animal misery I was witnessing in our slums, but also of the vaster world of animal pain whose cry nobody seemed to hear.”

Never one to sit still at home and knit, she enlisted the help of a local clergyman who gave her the use of his small cellar and in November 1917, she hung a notice outside. “Bring your sick animals. Do not let them suffer. All animals treated. All treatment free.” The PDSA was born.

On Day 1, there were four animal patients. One was a donkey with an injured leg and although Maria had no veterinary experience, she’d talked a sympathetic vet into helping. The donkey’s owner was so grateful, he conducted a one-man PR campaign. Critics said the poor wouldn’t bring their animals, either because they didn’t care or because they were too busy trying to look after themselves, but they were wrong. As word spread, crowds of people queued for hours at Maria’s clinic.

By 1926–27, the PDSA was operating 57 clinics plus three travelling caravan clinics, and was treating almost 41,000 animal patients a year. It didn’t go down well in veterinary circles. The Secretary of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons sniffed, “The lady [Maria Dickin] is dangerous and energetic; the RSPCA is timid and apathetic.” She retorted, "If you are so concerned about the proper treatment of Sick Animals of the Poor, do the same work we are doing. Instead of spending your energy and time in hindering us, spend it in dealing with this mass of misery."

She was variously described as “an abscess in need of lancing”, “a thorn in the side of the veterinary profession” - or simply “That woman”. (Does that sound familiar?).

By the time WW2 started, she’d founded five animal hospitals, 71 dispensaries and eleven mobile caravans. The PDSA attended to over 250,000 pets injured during the Blitz.

In 1943, Maria established the Dickin Medal honouring the valour and service of animals during WW2 or in civil emergencies. It was awarded 54 times in six years: 32 pigeons, 18 dogs, three horses - and Simon the cat.

Simon, a stray who served on HMS Amethyst and slept in the captain's hat, carried on with his duties of stopping rats from eating the limited food stores and keeping up morale despite being very badly injured when the ship was bombarded by shelling.

Maria died in 1951 aged 80.

“If you want something doing, do it yourself!”

[lets heal and recover @recovery_your]

Depression isn’t always crying.
Sometimes it’s just…
•Not eating
•Not sleeping
•Not caring
•Not moving
•Not even feeling sad, just… nothing

It’s the silent heaviness that people don’t see.
And that makes it even harder.

[mighty aphrodite @DinazMighty]

@LissaKEvans Such a evocative and poignant story, shows so clearly how choices reverberate through the years, listened to the adaptation on @BBCSounds last year

[Stone Temple Gardening. @dr_places]

Summer solstice is nearly here!

[mighty aphrodite @DinazMighty]

@Matineegirl I’ve got Dear Ms Lake on pre order 😁

[Barbara C💙🇺🇦🏝️ @barcann]

Good morning. I know no one reads my tweets.maybe it's the algorithm or maybe I just am boring.
But I thought I would share with you some beautiful flowers that are blooming in my garden here in the Caribbean.
This is the road to my house.
My late husband planted all of these.