Melisa Bishop

Nemo me impune lacessit.
Fife Flyers fan for 40 seasons and counting. MS warrior, music lover and Savannah cat Mum

[Help2Rehome Scotland @H2RScotland]

Ralph’s last appeal didn’t do to well.

He needs a new home through no fault of his own,
Can you please share his appeal to help him?

Ralph is a 3 year old male French Bulldog. He is available and looking for a new home.
Ralph is fine with kids. He would be best with older kids over 7 years old.
He eats anything from dry to wet food. He isn't keen on chicken food as this makes him sick.
Ralph will sleep in his dog bed in any room that it is in.
He loves people and treats.
Ralph would be best as the only pet in the home as this is what he is use too.
He will occasionally have an accident in the house so will need further guidance with toilet training but does seem to be doing well.
For more information or to offer Ralph a new home please email [email protected]

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[Help2Rehome Scotland @H2RScotland]

We’re still looking for a home for Kobe as his previous offer fell through.

Kobe is a 7 year old male black Labrador Retriever. He is looking for a nice quiet home.
Kobe is use to other dogs, however gets anxious with loud noises such as bin lorries etc.
He would be suited to a quiet home with someone who is active and likes the outdoors, preferably away from loud noises.
Kobe loves to run and would run all day given the chance.
He has lived with another dog before sadly he passed away.
Kobe is use to walks with 2 other retrievers, he can be nervous of dogs bigger than him.
He is chipped and neutered.
Kobe eats dry food and is fine to be left on his own if you need to go out - he likes the radio left on.
He is use to sleeping near his owners or downstairs on the sofa with blankets.
Kobe likes treats and is very gentle when taking small treats. With bigger treats such as bones he will not allow you to take these away unless you offer him a smaller treat.
Kobe is registered with the vets.
He would be best in a home with no kids.
Kobe isn't use to cats and will bark at them.
He is excited to meet new people, he will bark as if to say ''what's going on here''.

For more information or to offer Kobe a new home please email [email protected]

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[Melisa Bishop @FiferTHF]

@Daniel281240271 @fifeflyerslover @HanClanSolo77 It's 6, which is well ahead for us on past seasons.

[Help2Rehome Scotland @H2RScotland]

Lucy is a 10 year old female Patterdale Terrier.
She is available and looking for a new home with someone who is home most of the time.
She is chipped and spayed and healthy with no medical issues.
Lucy hasn’t lived with any other dogs before but has lived with 2 cats with proper introductions.
Lucy eats Asda wet food and loves treats.
She can be left on her own and sleeps in her owners bed or her own bed.
Lucy would be fine with older kids and gets excited to meet new people.
She loves toys and will play with a tennis ball and loves to fetch. She needs to work on dropping the ball but does have a lot of fun chasing!
Lucy is house trained and travels well in the car, she may cry to begin with but does settle down.
She is a very loyal and loving dog and would suit someone who is around most of the time.
For more information please email [email protected]

[Help2Rehome Scotland @H2RScotland]

Lucy is a 10 year old female Patterdale Terrier.
She is available and looking for a new home with someone who is home most of the time.
She is chipped and spayed and healthy with no medical issues.
Lucy hasn’t lived with any other dogs before but has lived with 2 cats with proper introductions.
Lucy eats Asda wet food and loves treats.
She can be left on her own and sleeps in her owners bed or her own bed.
Lucy would be fine with older kids and gets excited to meet new people.
She loves toys and will play with a tennis ball and loves to fetch. She needs to work on dropping the ball but does have a lot of fun chasing!
Lucy is house trained and travels well in the car, she may cry to begin with but does settle down.
She is a very loyal and loving dog and would suit someone who is around most of the time.
For more information please email [email protected]

[Help2Rehome Scotland @H2RScotland]

Junior is a 6 month old Malinois cross Mastiff. He is available and looking for a new home through no fault of his own.
Junior would be best in a home with no other pets due to his size and dominance over other dogs.
He is young enough to be trained however we will be very specific in his new home as we'd like someone who is use to the breed and can demonstrate that they can train him and offer him the guidance he needs.
Junior hasn't been around kids much. He would be best with older children of a teenage age due to his size.
He is chipped and eats meat pouches and biscuits.
Junior is use to being left on his own for any length of time and is great meeting new people.
He hasn't met any cats.
Junior is okay on the lead but will need training with this. He is also registered at the vets and loves playing with toys.
He is walked around 3 times a day and likes to go to the park.

For any information please email [email protected]

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If you can't offer Junior a new home at this time please share his appeal to help him on his way.

[Help2Rehome Scotland @H2RScotland]

Ralph is still available, can you share to help him on his way?

Ralph is a 3 year old male French Bulldog. He is available and looking for a new home.
Ralph is fine with kids. He would be best with older kids over 7 years old.
He eats anything from dry to wet food. He isn't keen on chicken food as this makes him sick.
Ralph will sleep in his dog bed in any room that it is in.
He loves people and treats.
Ralph would be best as the only pet in the home as this is what he is use too.
He will occasionally have an accident in the house so will need further guidance with toilet training but does seem to be doing well.
For more information or to offer Ralph a new home please email [email protected]

[Help2Rehome Scotland @H2RScotland]

Ralph is a 3 year old male French Bulldog. He is available and looking for a new home.
Ralph is fine with kids. He would be best with older kids over 7 years old.
He eats anything from dry to wet food. He isn't keen on chicken food as this makes him sick.
Ralph will sleep in his dog bed in any room that it is in.
He loves people and treats.
Ralph would be best as the only pet in the home as this is what he is use too.
He will occasionally have an accident in the house so will need further guidance with toilet training but does seem to be doing well.
For more information or to offer Ralph a new home please email [email protected]

[The Persian Jewess @persianjewess]

Iranian hairstylist Ami Moghadam received death threats for posting videos of women receiving haircuts on Instagram.

So she decided to troll the Islamic Regime and their oppressive mandatory hijab laws in the most epic, hilarious way possible. 😂

[Melisa Bishop @FiferTHF]

@1991Steelers @FifeFreePressEd @FifeFlyers We appreciate your finely honed skills of typo correction. Years of Steelers announcements have clearly taught you well 😉

[Melisa Bishop @FiferTHF]

@MrsBr0wn_82 @SamaHoole @DairiesMcqueens Same. I started to get deliveries from a local dairy during COVID. They brought milk, bacon, eggs, bread and latterly veg boxes. They were bought over by McQueens. They don't deliver everything the other one did but still a great service.

[Help2Rehome Scotland @H2RScotland]

Peppy is a 6 year old male Chihuahua. He is available and looking for a new home.
He hasn't lived with other dogs before. He would be best in a home without other animals.
Peppy has been around children. He can be quite nervous to begin with so ideally we'd like to find him a new home with someone who is on their own, or a couple with a quiet home.
He is chipped and healthy with no issues,
Peppy is also registered at the vets and up to date with his vaccinations.
He loves treats and eats a mix of dry food.
Peppy will sleep next to his owner at night.
If he is playing with a toy or picks up a ball he won't let them go.
He travels well in the car and is good on the lead.

For more information please email only to [email protected]

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[Melisa Bishop @FiferTHF]

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[Melisa Bishop @FiferTHF]

@DeJaen_NP @SamaHoole Define "always".

[Melisa Bishop @FiferTHF]

@CharlesNF_no2 @ckwrightphd @SamaHoole Yes, never forget the bees. It's tragic.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The funniest maths in modern environmentalism.

One almond requires 12 litres of irrigated water to produce. Peer-reviewed, ScienceDirect, 2017. A glass of almond milk contains roughly 50 of them. 600 litres of water before the carton is filled.

The water comes from the San Joaquin Valley in California, which sits over one of the most over-extracted aquifers on earth. The valley floor has subsided by up to nine metres in places due to groundwater depletion. The carton is then refrigerated, sailed across the Atlantic, refrigerated again, lorried to a Manchester Tesco, and bought by someone who is concerned about the environmental impact of dairy.

Meanwhile, in Cheshire.

A British dairy cow drinks roughly 70 to 100 litres of water a day and produces around 28 litres of milk. That's about 3.5 litres of water per litre of milk. The water is rainwater that fell on her field or came from a local stream fed by the same rainwater. The rain was going to fall on the field whether the cow stood in it or not. 80% of her moisture intake comes from the grass itself, which is also rain.

She converts the grass, free of charge, into a litre of milk containing seven times the protein and four times the calcium of almond milk, and shipped roughly 18 miles to the same Tesco.

To recap.

600 litres of stolen aquifer, flown halfway round the world for nutritionally worthless beige water.

Or 3.5 litres of rain that was already falling, converted by an animal you can pet, into actual food.

The shopper picks the almond.

She has been told this is the ethical position.

The aquifer would like a word.

[RG | BEATS @DR_BEATS_KICK]

Can you rt this? Maybe we can make a difference

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A solar farm just opened where a beef farm used to be.

This is a real sentence about a real place. In Lincolnshire, near Glentworth, on land that grew British food for six hundred years. 1,214 hectares of grazing pasture and cropland, the size of Heathrow Airport, now under panels for the next forty years.

It is called Tillbridge Solar. It was approved in October 2025. The locals were against it. The local council was overruled by central government. The farmer who used to graze cattle on that land will not be grazing cattle on that land in your lifetime.

Down the road, Springwell Solar got the nod the same month. 1,280 hectares. The largest in the country. Same story. Beef and arable, gone.

This is happening everywhere. CPRE found that 59% of England's biggest solar farms are on productive farmland. In one Lincolnshire district, 7% of the land is now solar panels. Three solar farms, Sutton Bridge, Goosehall, and Black Peak, are built entirely on the highest grade of agricultural land we have.

Now here is the part nobody mentions at the dinner party.

The roofs of the warehouses on the A1 are empty. The supermarket distribution centres are empty. The Amazon sheds, the MoD car parks, the industrial estates outside every town in England, all empty. CPRE's own numbers show that putting panels on the roofs we already have would meet the entire 2035 solar target on its own.

The panels are not going on the roofs.

The panels are going on Lincolnshire because leasing one field from one farmer is easy, and leasing a thousand roofs from a thousand owners is hard. The shortcut is the pasture.

You will not be told to stop eating beef.

You will simply find that the farm that produced it is now a power station, and the beef in the supermarket has come from Kansas, and it costs more, and the cow is no longer in the field, because the field is no longer a field.

Cover the roofs. Leave the pasture.

[Melisa Bishop @FiferTHF]

@SMC2502 @flyerinYork @FifeFlyers But Huntsy has been announced so that seems unlikely.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.