Es1794

Travel bug. Wild swimmer. Radiographer. NHS supporter

[Es1794 @Es17941]

#bbcqt dunno about anyone else but I’m just backing Fiona for this election 👍🏼☑️ (please run)

[Sky Sports Rugby League @SkySportsRL]

'It's very rare you lose someone who's so special to so many different people' ❤️

Kevin Sinfield pays an emotional tribute to Rob Burrow CBE

[Remembering Ruby @KindlyLoudly]

None of us knows what’s around the corner.

Carpe diem. Seize the day.

Don’t put too much trust in tomorrow.

Hug your loved ones tight & don’t take anything for granted. 

#rememberingruby 

/ends

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Throwback to the 90s when celebrities all looked naturally unique

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

its crazy to me how anyone can see this and still think god isn’t real

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Read why Jessica’s tragic case is a wake-up call for the primary care systemRead why Jessica’s tragic case is a wake-up call for the primary care systemRead why Jessica’s tragic case is a wake-up call for the primary care systemRead why Jessica’s tragic case is a wake-up call for the primary care systemRead why Jessica’s tragic case is a wake-up call for the primary care system.

[Adam. @AdamSouthwell]

I like to think I ‘believe in everyday people making positive changes to our country.’ Actions like this make me question my positive thoughts. Senseless, disgusting and a prime example of thugs choosing to attack someone who is defenceless in their situation.

[Clara Bee @bakerlouline]

Amy Dowden choosing not to wear a wig on #Strictly tonight has just shown every little girl going through chemo that bald is beautiful. What a role model ❤️

[2000s @PopCulture2000s]

yeah i think about the roman empire daily

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

On Wednesday it’s going to be 10°C at night. That’s going to be a beautiful sleep. With the duvet fully on. Can’t wait for that.

[Shannon Adams @CPAmom6]

Got a call today telling me the recipient of my son’s heart wrote us a letter. The family wants to meet our family It’s like my son sent us a love letter today. It was 19 months ago today his heart stopped beating for us … but started beating for another family. #grateful

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[Louis Peitzman @LouisPeitzman]

Underrated divas.

[Gary Lineker @GaryLineker]

Wonderful 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[Charlie Smith @charliersmith1]

Exactly two years ago, I planned to take my own life & was devastated when it went wrong…

Fast forward to today - out for a walk earlier, reflecting on all that’s happened since, I couldn’t help but smile. It hasn’t been easy, but I’m so bloody glad I stayed! 😀

[Es1794 @Es17941]

Any other #nhs worker just sit in their car at the end of a 13 hour shift in utter shock at how the government is letting our system crumble? Or is that too deep for a Thursday night

[ITV News @itvnews]

An ambulance has been captured rushing away from a Merseyside picket line to attend an urgent call for a young child.

https://t.co/R6C9cm02Ym