@reading_buses why is Sky Blue 10:06 from Brock Barracks running so early - and not stopping at scheduled stops? What is the point of a timetable if you arrive at bus stop 5 mins early to find bus already left?
@Photobox I paid extra to ensure my package would arrive by 28th. No communication and hasn’t arrived so I check on website and it states now being delivered 29th! Not good enough. Too late. Appalling service. Order no SPB021983677194
@nextofficial - my order was “damaged” and returned without me being told. You have refunded me instead of sending out a replacement but not refunded postage! So the expectation is that I spend time reordering it all and pay postage again - shambolic and woeful customer service.
Fifteen years. Five prime ministers, seven chancellors, eight foreign secretaries, twelve culture secretaries and sixteen housing ministers.
A thread, for #RantyTuesday.
Useful to remind ourselves of this:
"I’m closer to a Jamaican born brickie than I am Jacob Rees-Mogg.
I've got more in common with a Polish hotel maid than I do with Nigel Farage.”
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I don’t know why people complain about perimenopause. It’s a fun way to play new games such as - Why am I swearing at inanimate objects? Is it my period again or am I haemorrhaging? and my personal favourite - Will my ankles painfully giveaway unexpectedly sometime today?
Final Words ✨
“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.
“I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.
“I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, of adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.
“This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable.”
— William Shatner, actor
@Jon_Heath_@CambsBirdClub I have two colonies - one in the back garden and one in the front. “Neglected” mature garden in Reading town with plenty of food supplied - appears to work well for them.