JackyG

Love watching the seasons. Gardens and dogs are a must have.

[JackyG @GJRedleg]

@englandcottages That is pushing it as a 'cottage'

[JackyG @GJRedleg]

@PamelaHensley22 Its the boots effect.....

[Normal Gay Psychiatrist @NormalGayPsych]

I’m a gay man and I’m done staying silent.

I survived bullying, the coming-out wars, and actual hate for who I am.

What I won’t accept is importing millions from cultures where they throw us off rooftops, hang us, or jail us for life.

Pride flags in Tehran? Laughable. Open borders + unchecked migration from places that treat gays like vermin isn’t “compassion” — it’s suicide for everything we fought for.

Protect Western values or watch them disappear. Gay rights aren’t compatible with mass immigration from the most anti-gay societies on Earth.

Change my mind.

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

And now I’m here. People ask me why pubs have turnstiles at their entrance. Well here’s your answer: there are a lot of alcoholic horses in the New Forest and if you didn’t put a turnstile up, they’d all be in boozing away. I’ll admit that I felt sorry for them this evening and sneaked them in. So now I’m sat drinking with a load of horses.

[Danny conlin @dannyconlin76]

Please share this guys, it need a to be stopped 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[World Cup 2026 Daily @TotalFootball]

The Norwegian team and fans doing the Row are just beautiful.

[Lion @LionInCrisis]

Today is International Yoga day

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In England, you're allowed to clear about 20 metres of silt and rubbish out of a river on your own. Anything past that needs a permit from the Environment Agency. Paul Powlesland's volunteers cleared a 250-metre stretch of the River Roding with a hired digger, which is why a barrister who hauled out 200 bags of trash is now under criminal investigation.

The Roding runs through east London. Powlesland lives on a boat moored on it, and for years he and a group of volunteers have pulled out shopping trolleys, needles, old appliances, even weapons. Kingfishers, herons and dragonflies came back to water that used to be buried under junk. This one job took 10 days and a digger that cost £1,000 to hire.

The rule that caught him is oddly specific. Under England's water rules, scooping silt off the bottom of a river the agency officially manages counts as a "flood risk activity", and the law treats that the same as building a structure in the water. Do it without a permit and the offence carries up to two years in prison. The agency says it is also looking at waste the volunteers left on the floodplain. Powlesland is an environmental lawyer who has used these exact laws to protect rivers and trees, and a conviction could cost him his licence to practise.

The agency's reasoning isn't unreasonable. Dredging done badly can push flooding onto people downstream and wreck the habitat that protected animals need, which is what the permit is meant to prevent. The 20-metre allowance is there for small jobs. And no decision to prosecute has actually been made.

While investigators were knocking on a volunteer's door within a week of his cleanup, water companies discharged raw sewage into England's rivers and seas for a combined 3.6 million hours in 2024, more than 400 years of spilling packed into a single year. Only 14% of English rivers are in good health. Between 2015 and 2025, the Environment Agency investigated water companies for pollution 11,474 times. Fifty-eight of those ended in a prosecution. For serious pollution over the last five years, the number of water companies actually taken to court and convicted is zero.

So the message comes out backwards. Spend ten days and a thousand pounds making a river cleaner and an officer turns up within the week. Pump sewage into that same river for years and the chance of seeing a courtroom is close to zero.

[Ramblings @ramblingsloa]

Somewhere out there,
Someone is listening to birds instead of breaking news
And the world feels a little more hopeful there.

[JackyG @GJRedleg]

@Avabelly__ Astounding talent 😍

[Lozza @lbrewer190]

This is a joke. @NHS I’ve just received my repeat prescription and there was a fuck up.

I’ve been given Naproxen instead of Zapain. So being a good guy and all that I went back to the chemist and said I don’t need these naproxen.

Oh we can’t take them back,

I said I’ve not touched them or opened them what are you talking about,

They said I could have tampered with them.

Ffs. WTF

They thrown them away.

How many hundreds of millions of wastage is this in a year ffs.

[Emma @MrsEmmaWebber]

Barnaby Philip John Webber
11/01/2004-13/06/2023 💔

If you can, share these images of the beautiful soul stolen from us by the worst of humanity.

Let his face today burn bright.
Barney, I promise you there will be accountability 💛💚

For You. For Grace. For Ian.

[The Farmer's Dog @FamersDog]

This time last week the celebrations were flowing! 🎉

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

In this photograph, a single poppy stands in a field in Calvados, Normandy, bathed in the soft light of the evening sun.

They were, and remain, the Greatest Generation.

We will remember them.

[Robbie @Robbie_Reasons]

The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them £2,000 for a review.

They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead 😆.

Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.

[Kyle Sheldon ⚽️🇺🇸 @kylesheldon]

Is this the best World Cup team photo of all time?

Bravo, Norway 🇳🇴⚔️

[Freddie Webb @FredsDotW]

It was a privilege to cover the funeral of Jack Meacham, a Portsmouth WWII veteran who died aged 106. Serving sailors and former personnel lined the route to the Crematorium in tribute to his service. The family described the experience as 'phenomenal' ♥️

[JackyG @GJRedleg]

@FredsDotW Absolutely perfect

[John Donoghue @JohnDonoghue64]

Why spelling is important…

[Britain's Lost & Living Pubs @Britains___Pubs]

Gather round 🍻