helenjpr 💙

Living a peripatetic life: mainly in East Yorkshire but often in Monmouthshire.

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Have discovered a place where skies are blue. Not overwhelmed with stuff the other side of the pond. See you there?

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@finstumpf @arealmofwonder 😂

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@sheenzmck Thank you - was very spooky. We were on a small boat & suddenly this huge ship appeared out of the mist.

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[Ben 🇬🇧 @BenInRushcliffe]

All this in two years. @Keir_Starmer.

Feel free to share.

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St Lawrence Parish Church, Ludlow

[Kay Burley @KayBurley]

Morning everyone. So, this is my reading of events. Tell me what you think…

Two middle-aged blokes - Andy Burnham and Keir Starmer - are presently enjoying weekend mini-breaks with their families while Westminster ties itself in knots over whether one of them could be our seventh Prime Minister in 10 years.

Team Burnham are already anticipating measuring the curtains in Downing Street, but what does yet another leadership tussle say about Britain to our allies across the Channel and across the Pond? And somewhere even further afield, is the Bear quietly raising a vodka shot at the upheaval?

I heard an Italian journalist this week musing that it used to be his country that was the byword for unstable politics. Times change. He also noted that England footballers have been known to celebrate before the cup is lifted. Just sayin’.

Closer to home, did the near 25,000 people of Makerfield who voted for Andy Burnham expect him to be unpacking boxes in Number 10 by teatime next Friday?

And should a handful of politicians really be deciding our next Prime Minister? We tried something similar with Liz Truss. Look how that worked out. That honeymoon barely lasted long enough to get the wedding photos back from the printers.

Political honeymoons can appear all sunshine and roses in the brochure, but they don’t always make for happy marriages. And when they end badly, it’s the family, in this case, us that pays the price.

Lots of questions. What do you think?

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The Major Oak. Sherwood Forest.
Sadly in the news yesterday, as it has now died aged over 1000 years.

[𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓵𝓸𝓽𝓽𝓮 @charlotteukcity]

This is powerful!!

The video strikingly illustrates the game of misinformation that’s being played by Nigel Farage & others. It shows who’s actually benefiting from it.

Absolutely worth watching!

Video sent to me by @nowayjomo

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Barrels of Beer

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Big tree

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Neringa, Lithuania

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On Water Street, Vancouver.

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Rather too much water!

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Aqua Vitae - the water of life.
(When I distilled my own gin.)

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Nice day for a walk!