Barbara

Retired science teacher; gardener; Christian; grandma; supporter of asylum seekers; opposing hostile environment.

[Barbara @EmilySymons]

Thanks for the cats, gardens, paintings, maps and charts, poems and other nice things. I am going to read more books and grow more plants.

[Barbara @EmilySymons]

To all 125 of my followers (some of whom I know) my Christmas present to myself us to leave Twitter. It was going to be a new year resolution but I've decided I've had enough.

[Barbara @EmilySymons]

BEST winter thread!

[Liam Kirkaldy @LiamKirkaldy_]

For reasons I forget, Scotland now names its gritter lorries.

Here are my top 5 gritters (all real):
1) Gritter Thunberg (new entry)
2) Gritallica
3) Plougher o Scotland
4) Gritty Gonzales
5) Snowkemon Go

[Abbi Brown @AbbiBrown92]

@Twisted0909 @HolyroodLiam This is absolutely my new favourite website

[. @LouiseRawAuthor]

Hate to be the Historian of Doom, but in 1924 the New York Times said THIS about Hitler:

‘Well-informed sources confirmed...that Hitler’s anti-Semitism was not as genuine or violent as it sounded..he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as bait to catch masses of followers’

[PalMedia @PalMediaOrg]

This is what unbridled cruelty looks like. The parents of a ten year old girl from Gaza suffering from cancer have been refused permission by Israel to travel to the WB. Remind me again why it is antisemitic to criticise Israel. Absolute moral savages IMO.

[Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit @GMIAU]

Did your mum cut your hair when you were younger? We all have childhood memories that make us connected to family. Now imagine if through no fault of your own, you were banned from seeing them again. We must let refugee children in UK reunite w. their family. #FamiliesTogether

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

The Tories' decision to drop the commitment to unaccompanied child refugees post-Brexit is a moral disgrace.

The Government should scrap New Clause 37. Retweet if you agree.

#Scrap37

[Barbara @EmilySymons]

Thankyou @autoaidbreakd for excellent service and Paul at #CandE garage for first aid on loose heat shield. 👍

[Safe Passage International🧡 @safepassageint]

Legal family reunion is a lifeline to children who would otherwise risk their lives on dinghies and lorries to reach safety. To seek to remove these protections risks panic amongst refugee families with potentially tragic consequences. Govt must rethink.
https://t.co/HrgHTlsqPB

[Thomas Stone @plantyThomas]

This is a hard time of year for many people.
Suicide Hotline 116 123 (Samaritans) for those in despair.

A simple copy and paste might save someone's life.

Would 3 Twitter friends please copy this text and post under their own name? Pass it on…

[Prof Kalwant Bhopal @KalwantBhopal]

Very depressing #SocialJustice
Boris Johnson's Brexit bill 'tears up' protections for child refugees https://t.co/tGWI0c7e3M

[Barbara @EmilySymons]

@DaleksGamertag I'm with you.

[Garden Media Guild @GdnMediaGuild]

The Queen is looking for a £18,000-a-year gardener and you get to live at Buckingham Palace https://t.co/TTyJp7FH8G

[Barbara @EmilySymons]

@TACTCare @IDickson258 @acamh Very encouraging article; perhaps can extrapolate to suggest that very early, intensive family intervention would promote similar outcomes?

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

The Periodic Table of Endangered Elements. There are serious concerns about running out of certain elements in the next 100 years. Sourced from the American Chemical Society: https://t.co/tQM1WO0XzN

[François Cazals @FCazals]

Les changements d'apparence de la reine Elizabeth sur les billets de banque #TheQueen 👑👸🇬🇧

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Denmark pays its students $1,000 a month to go to university and charge no tuition fees. Students are seen as an investment in the future rather than a cost.

[Barbara @EmilySymons]

@MooseAllain Oh yes!!