Don Ramage

just one bike ride away from a better mood.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is little Grace Lehane playing a polka for some very enthusiastic young cows in Kilmichael, Cork, Ireland

[Paddystinian @Paddystinian]

Epstein files on St. Patrick's Day Ballinrobe, Co Mayo, Ireland 🇮🇪🤣

[Don Ramage @DonRamage]

“Banning smoking would be a slippery slope” …. What? To a healthier population?

[Don Ramage @DonRamage]

@KrisDrever 8 years ago in Oxford

[Oxford Clarion @OxfordClarion]

The @CRCondors have been crowned 'Club of the Year' by Cycling Weekly magazine. The judges praised its inclusivity and friendliness, with both fast and social rides. https://t.co/nOYsfkLVI5

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

🚨 Can't quite believe this response from PM on #Gaza. How can he seriously say that Israel has the right to determine international law for itself? That undermines the very idea of it. He's clearly unable to say that Israel is acting within international law - because it's not.

[Don Ramage @DonRamage]

When you read the review of a film you have just seen that agrees with you in thinking it was brilliant (“Return to Seoul” reviewed by David Sexton in the New Statesman).

[Don Ramage @DonRamage]

A man just walked into the dentists: do you have an appointment? Yes it’s a tooth hurty!

[Oxford United @OUFCOfficial]

On World Down's Syndrome Day we shine the light on the Oxford United Tri-Stars team and the incredible coaches involved in making it possible 💛

We spoke to lead coach Garry Allen about the sessions put on exclusively for people with Down's Syndrome 🙌

#OUFC | #WDSD2023

[Geraint Thomas @GeraintThomas86]

Well, if I couldn’t win, I thought I might as well try and help an old mate out. Call it an early retirement pressie @MarkCavendish 🤣 Chapeau mate 👌 #Giro

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door."
From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else.
When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career.
Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have ... not made it.
What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne.
She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end.
Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame."
In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life."
He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm.
Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend.

Will Stenberg

[Don Ramage @DonRamage]

@J_A_M0721 nice to meet you yesterday: Jayne was only messing (you hadn’t upset her).

[Don Ramage @DonRamage]

#ToHelpMyAnxiety https://t.co/6SbhZKeFyr

[Don Ramage @DonRamage]

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[Don Ramage @DonRamage]

Vemos una oportunidad real de crecimiento para La Rubia Blonde Ale entre los adultos hispanos de los Estados Unidos, quienes tienen preferencia por bebidas fáciles de consumir, colores claros y cervezas con sabor que se pueden disfrutar en cualquier... https://t.co/JOCcT2Szcs

[Don Ramage @DonRamage]

@festivalwickham is there day camping on the Friday?

[Don Ramage @DonRamage]

@LankumDublin @RoughTradeRecs Ordered through my local independent record store: a few steps from where you last played Oxford.

[Gary Lineker @GaryLineker]

Good heavens, this is beyond awful.

[UtdPlug @UtdPlug]

🚨 NEW: Statement from Manchester United Supporters' Trust on bids submitted to buy #MUFC:

@samuelluckhurst

[Don Ramage @DonRamage]

@LankumDublin @TowerDublin @RoughTradeRecs Looking forward to London on May 4th!