Harry 🇺🇦

Project Management & Comms. Search & Rescue Dog Team @hsardogs. Fundraiser. Happy.

[Harry 🇺🇦 @Haz882]

Spanna cuddles are the best cuddles #internationaldogday

[Hiroshi Suzuki @AmbJapanUK]

Happy St George's Day!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌹

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

I don’t know how you can hate AI video when it gives us new meme formats like “cat electrician”

[Metropolitan Police Federation @MPFed]

Met Police officer who snared three of London’s most dangerous child abusers wins top award
https://t.co/vUeLjPEyri

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

Happy 91st birthday to actress Dame Judi Dench, born on this day 1934 in Heworth, York. Appeared in many Shakespeare plays before starring in films such as A Room With A View, GoldenEye, Mrs Brown, Chocolat, Notes On A Scandal and Philomena.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Rest in peace, Patricia Routledge 🙏🏻

In memory of her, I encourage everyone to read these words of hers from February last year.

Whether young or old, you're bound to get something out of it.

*****

"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 watercolour 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

*****

Once more, rest in peace. 🤍

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

Made in Manchester: suffragette leader Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958) co-founded the Women’s Social and Political Union with her mother Emmeline and drove the campaign for votes for women in a militant direction. 1/7

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

The most important news from today's reshuffle:

[Andrew Brooks @AndrewPBrooks]

Swizzels sweet factory(where Love Hearts are made)in New Mills, on a winter morning.

[Admiral Sir Tony Radakin 🇬🇧 @AdmTonyRadakin_]

Ukraine continues to confound the world with its resilience, ingenuity and sheer courage. Their sense of nationhood has never been stronger, and her people will never return to Moscow’s orbit. Putin will continue to lose. And Ukraine will prevail.

[Irena Buzarewicz @IrenaBuzarewicz]

A cartoon by Bill Whitehead

[Andy Slye @slye]

That feeling when your girlfriend from high school finally gets engaged.

I used to tell myself: Andrew, it’ll be ok. She wasn’t right for you.

I just hope her husband isn’t some handsome buff football player.

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

Boy in a tin hat and his friends eat apples and read a comic, Liverpool, 1940, photo by Bert Hardy for Picture Post (Hulton/Getty).

[Matt Cartoons @MattCartoonist]

My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph

Buy a print of my cartoons at https://t.co/ILFJjPmckx

Original artwork from https://t.co/CVzTP7rF2f

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

Piccadilly, Manchester, early 1940s. Reservoirs were created to provide firefighters with water in the aftermath of bombing raids (Greater Manchester Police archive).

[TheMonk88 @themonk1967]

Friday innit 😎

[Jim Corbridge @MrBonMot]

I noticed in the garden today that the Fox I planted last year is growing nicely.

[Banx @Banxcartoons]

From today's @ftopinion @FT #trump #NobelPeacePrize

[Active Patriot @ActivePatriotUK]

Yorkshire Karaoke

“working 9 till 5” Something the people in tarn have never said 😂

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

Blackpool, 1980s, photo by Barry Lewis.