Elle Turner

I predict a riot

[UNITED24 @U24_gov_ua]

On August 18, russia murdered 3 generations of a single family in Kharkiv, hitting their home with 5 drones. Grandmother Halyna; mother Tetiana and father Ruslan; 16-year-old son Artem and 18-month-old daughter Miia💔

Eternal memory to the victims of russia’s war crimes🕯️

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

*One month before her 95th birthday, Patricia Routledge wrote something that still gently echoes:*

**“I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn’t live up to my mother’s hopes. But these days begin in peace, and end in gratitude.”**

My life didn’t quite take shape until my forties. I had worked steadily — on provincial stages, in radio plays, in West End productions — but I often felt adrift, as though I was searching for a home within myself that I hadn’t quite found.

At 50, I accepted a television role that many would later associate me with — Hyacinth Bucket, of Keeping Up Appearances. I thought it would be a small part in a little series. I never imagined that it would take me into people’s living rooms and hearts around the world. And truthfully, that role taught me to accept my own quirks. It healed something in me.

At 60, I began learning Italian — not for work, but so I could sing opera in its native language. I also learned how to live alone without feeling lonely. I read poetry aloud each evening, not to perfect my diction, but to quiet my soul.

At 70, I returned to the Shakespearean stage — something I once believed I had aged out of. But this time, I had nothing to prove. I stood on those boards with stillness, and audiences felt that. I was no longer performing. I was simply being.

At 80, I took up watercolor painting. I painted flowers from my garden, old hats from my youth, and faces I remembered from the London Underground. Each painting was a quiet memory made visible.

Now, at 95, I write letters by hand. I’m learning to bake rye bread. I still breathe deeply every morning. I still adore laughter — though I no longer try to make anyone laugh. I love the quiet more than ever.

**I’m writing this to tell you something simple:**

**Growing older is not the closing act. It can be the most exquisite chapter — if you let yourself bloom again.**

Let these years ahead be your *treasure years*.

You don’t need to be famous. You don’t need to be flawless.

You only need to show up — fully — for the life that is still yours.

*With love and gentleness,*

— Patricia Routledge

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

Can you possibly trust a President who can't spell, has serious problems with grammar, and capitalizes at random? I think not. A President who can't write can't think. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Prof David Bailey @dgbailey]

Israel intensifies bombing of Gaza, killing 89 Palestinians in 24 hours. At least 15 people queueing for food among the deaths, and five people reported to have died from starvation. https://t.co/mtr5vOBHyE

[Elle Turner @ElleTurner78]

Clearly @Harborne_Jayne as a director of Harborne BID hasn't bothered to speak to the businesses at the Library end of the High Street about the lack of footfall on the many days a week the Harborne Library is now closed, thanks to her Labour Council. And voted for it too!

[Cllr Martin Brooks @martinibrooks]

So says “a Harborne BID director and a @BrumLabour councillor” …. and also someone who voted for the library cuts and closures!

[Alan Wylie @wylie_alan]

Librarians told not to express views on cuts
https://t.co/JPpXMcZ1TN
Library Workers are Council staff and as such are bound by their contract & code of conduct BUT can speak out via their stewards so join a bloody union ✊

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

No comment necessary.

[Elle Turner @ElleTurner78]

Oh, don't you know, Martin, we can have Barclays Bank once they leave Harborne Baths? Honestly some politicians do not have a clue!

[Cllr Martin Brooks @martinibrooks]

Hi @PreetKGillMP, grateful if you could explain why you think reducing the best- used library in the city to a part-time facility is in any way protecting Harborne Library?

[Elle Turner @ElleTurner78]

Total lack of support, whatever they might say from @Harborne_Jayne and @PreetKGillMP, for so many things locally. Yet they're all too eager to take credit without fighting the fight.

[Cllr Martin Brooks @martinibrooks]

So says “a Harborne BID director and a @BrumLabour councillor” …. and also someone who voted for the library cuts and closures!

[Elle Turner @ElleTurner78]

Oh how I laughed, too little, too late from both of these Labour politicians.

[Jayne Francis @Harborne_Jayne]

Your support here valued @PreetKGillMP . As a Harborne BID director and a @BrumLabour councillor for Harborne I acknowledge the huge amount of support for keeping Harborne Library on the High St!

[Elle Turner @ElleTurner78]

Well done, bab!

[Test Match Special @bbctms]

Heroic from Chris Woakes 👏

#BBCCricket #ENGvIND

[Elle Turner @ElleTurner78]

Chris Woakes - what a hero!

[Test Match Special @bbctms]

Test cricket.

#BBCCricket #ENGvIND

[Nick Robinson @bbcnickrobinson]

Woakes comes in to bat. What can possibly go wrong ? Extraordinary drama on #bbctms @bbctms

[Elle Turner @ElleTurner78]

Not a single one, I'd say!

[Handsworth Herald @mickattheherald]

Is there anyone you could call a socialist left in the Birmingham Labour Group? I’m hard pushed to think of a single councillor who wouldn’t vote for anything so long as they continue to receive their monthly allowance |

[Test Match Special @bbctms]

'That gesture wasn't just from me, it was from the whole dressing room.' ❤️

Joe Root on his tribute to former coach and mentor Graham Thorpe.

#BBCCricket #ENGvIND

[Elle Turner @ElleTurner78]

things. Liverpool and Birmingham Councils are both Labour but one cares for its constituents and the other doesn't, and guess which one that is? @Harborne_Jayne @martinibrooks @PreetKGillMP @BrumLabour

[Elle Turner @ElleTurner78]

https://t.co/sudfTF0aXo
A wonderful plan here going forward for the next 5 years from Liverpool Council.
Ambitious and aspirational, empowering community of Liverpool and reducing inequalities. They currently have lower use per capita than Birmingham but have a plan to change

[Elle Turner @ElleTurner78]

##saveourlibraries

[Birmingham Dispatch @brumdispatch]

Bartley Green Library is a tiny little thing; a compact, unassuming Edwardian red-brick structure.

And yet, it’s become one of several key fronts local groups across Birmingham are fighting a mostly unreported battle on.

[(((Harry Enten))) @ForecasterEnten]

Benjamin Netanyahu is losing in the court of public opinion in America.

-His net favorable (-23 pts) is his lowest ever
-Net approval for Israel's military acts in Gaza (-28 pts) is at its historic low
-Americans who side with Israelis over Palestinians is at its historic low

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

“The Israelis don't want us film out of the window at the devastation in Gaza...communities are flat... there is nothing left...“

Jeremy Bowen condemns the destruction Israel has inflicted, after the BBC spent two years downplaying and whitewashing it.

Too little, too late.