Kate Ashman

[Tiger @tiger26931]

Bill Oddie
So true.

[ACHUB PENRHOS / SAVE PENRHOS NATURE RESERVE 🍃💚🍃 @PenrhosSave]

This petition, which could help protect red squirrels across the UK, closes on the 19th July.
I would have hoped more people would care about our iconic red squirrels. No animal should have to suffer a slow, painful death when action can be taken to help prevent it.
If you haven't already, please take a moment to sign the petition before 19 July. Every signature could make a difference for the future of our red squirrels.

[Pam Ayres MBE @PamAyres]

Look what’s been built in Cardiff for swifts. My niece sent me these photos and said the structure was alive with birds. Heartening to see. It’s shaped like a swift in flight I think. Other towns have created similar swift nest sites including Exeter. Thank you for caring.

[Kate Ashman @KateatRhws]

@Number10cat I never knew that how wonderful 🩵

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A British egg in 1955 came from a hen that had been outside that morning.

The hen had eaten grass, slugs, beetles, worms, and whatever the farmer's wife had thrown into the run from the kitchen. The yolk of the egg was orange, occasionally so deep an orange it looked almost red. It stood up in the pan when you cracked it. The white was thick enough that you could lift the egg by its yolk on a fingertip if you were careful and the egg was fresh enough.

The hen produced perhaps 180 eggs a year. The flock was small, twelve to twenty birds, attached to the farm or the smallholding or the back garden. Eggs were seasonal, abundant in spring and summer, scarce in autumn, almost absent in winter. A British family in 1955 ate eggs when the hens were laying and ate something else when they weren't.

A British egg in 2026 comes, in the overwhelming majority of cases, from a barn of 16,000 birds confined under artificial light at carefully controlled temperature, fed a formulated diet of soy, wheat, and synthetic vitamins, producing 320 eggs a year per hen by extending the lay through the winter dark months.

The yolk is yellow because the feed contains a synthetic carotenoid called canthaxanthin, dosed to produce the colour the consumer expects. The yolk does not stand up in the pan. It collapses under its own weight, spreading thin across the surface like a slow puddle.

The pasture-raised egg contains roughly three times the omega-3, twice the vitamin E, considerably more vitamin A and D, and more folate than the commodity egg. The peer-reviewed literature has been saying this for twenty years.

The egg has been the standard breakfast protein on the British plate for four hundred years. The modern egg looks like the old egg, costs roughly the same, and delivers approximately a third of the nutrition.

The British shopper, examining the box at Tesco, has no way of knowing this. "Free range" means the hen had access to a door that was theoretically open at some point during her productive life.

A pasture-raised egg from a small producer at the farmers' market costs approximately 50p. A commodity egg from Tesco costs approximately 25p. The price difference is the entire reason the system exists.

Find a small producer. Pay 50p. The yolk will tell you what an egg used to be.

[Motion Control Dance @MCD_ance]

Save the Date! 17th May 2026

[Antwn Owen-Hicks 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @Pibydd]

This Senedd election is like the Brexit vote all over again! Can't believe that so many people can be conned by Farage twice! Stupid is as stupid does & it's pretty stupid to vote for a load of ex-Tories, Billionaires, liars & conmen.
Instead, vote for Wales, vote @Plaid_Cymru

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Britain has more sheep than people in most of its upland regions.

In Wales, there are approximately 9 million sheep.

The human population of Wales is approximately 3.1 million.

The ratio is roughly 3 sheep per person.

This is not an accident of agricultural history.

The ratio reflects the land.

Most of Wales: the Cambrian Mountains, the Brecon Beacons, the Snowdonia massif, the upland plateaus of the mid-Wales hills, is sheep country.

Not sheep country by preference or tradition alone.

Sheep country by geology, hydrology, elevation, and climate.

The sheep are there because the sheep can be there.

Nothing else can be there at scale.

The hill farmer in mid-Wales is not clinging to a heritage practice that has outlived its usefulness.

He is doing the only thing that produces food from that land.

He is doing it with a margin so thin that the end of a subsidy payment or a bad lambing season is the difference between viable and not.

He is doing it while being told by people who have never walked his land that the sheep should be removed and the fell rewilded.

The people doing the telling are in Cardiff and London.

The land they're talking about is in Powys.

The sheep know which one is worth listening to.

The sheep have been right about this particular piece of ground for a very long time.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The history of breakfast.

Pre-1900s: People eat when hungry. Sometimes that's morning. Sometimes it's not. Nobody cares.

1917: Kellogg's creates cornflakes. Needs to sell them.

1920s: "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!" Heavy marketing begins.

1940s: Breakfast cereal industry explodes. "Start your day right!"

1950s: "Skipping breakfast is unhealthy!" No evidence, just marketing.

1960s: Breakfast mandatory. Cultural norm established.

1970s: "Breakfast boosts metabolism!" Still no evidence.

1980s: "Eat breakfast or you'll overeat later!" Opposite is true, nobody notices.

1990s: Breakfast cereal is a £5 billion industry in the UK alone.

2000s: Intermittent fasting research emerges. "Actually, skipping breakfast might be healthy."

2010s: "But I was told..."

2025: People still think skipping breakfast is dangerous because Kellogg's said so 100 years ago.

Your great-great-grandfather ate when hungry. He was fine.

You eat on a schedule because corn flakes needed a market.

[Stage Sound Services @stagesounduk]

We're excited to announce the Shure Best Practices & Techniques Wireless Masterclass, to be held at SSS-HQ!

For more information, or to register please visit our Eventbrite page: https://t.co/wnj0amtfxW

#StageSoundUK #ShureMasterclass #WirelessAudio #RFSpectrum #LiveSoundUK

[Linda @LndamyDark]

Different sugars are for different reasons. Did you know the difference between all of these? I bake a lot and I didn't know all the differences.

[Joel Willans @VFinnishProbs]

These 1310 NATO deaths are what “doing nothing” looks like according to a five-time draft dodger.

[Kate Ashman @KateatRhws]

@HOUSEPORN___ @PatAshmanCymru That's awesome 👌

[Motion Control Dance @MCD_ance]

Motion Control Dance charity is offering new children and young people a chance to dance for free this year.
If you live close to our dance studio at the YMCA in Barry and want your child to be active, make friends, and build confidence, we would love to welcome them.
Contact us

[Motion Control Dance @MCD_ance]

𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲-𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀! 📣 Looking for a fun & creative activity your child
Our new Creative Dance classes are designed with you in mind! 🏡
No prior dance experience needed – just bring your enthusiasm! https://t.co/1Q7JQN6DqZ

[Kate Ashman @KateatRhws]

@PatAshmanCymru Brilliant 🤣🤣🤣

[Motion Control Dance @MCD_ance]

Spooktacular news, dancers! 🎃👻

Our "Trick or Treat!" Sale is on: Half-price registration for all new dancers!

This scary-good deal ends November 2nd.

DM us or email [email protected] to sign up!

[Plaid Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Plaid_Cymru]

The people of Wales have an opportunity to vote for new leadership that will stand up for Wales, change our nation for the better, and stop Reform with a vote for Plaid Cymru.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✨

[Motion Control Dance @MCD_ance]

Our award winning Local Motion Dance programme is now enrolling new members into our kids programme
The Local Motion Kids club, funded by Children in Need, is based at the YMCA Hub.
Please visit our website for more details: https://t.co/WYir3Uk6yr