For those who miss the 'best before' (BB) dates on perishables...
They still put them on, but they try to make it look like a code.
The grapes on the left were BB 29th June (F for the 6th month).
The grapes on the right were BB 7th July (G for the 7th month).
You're welcome😉
Absolutely School Uniforms should stay. They are the leveller. Kids don’t need another way to fail, another route to mockery. Surviving adolescence is trial enough.
I first learnt about textile designer Anna Maria Garthwaite over 30 years ago now, when I was studying for my MA. It was so refreshing to discuss a named woman designer from that period, one of the few whose legacy survives. This 1770s fabric is one of her creations @museumatFIT
Bluebells at St Johns Church in Ballachulish on the banks of Loch Leven . One of my fav locations for weekend break 👌🏴 pic c.o. Mystic Scotland .
Sarah Ward is a UK-based textile artist, weaver, and founder of Lark & Bower and The Aviary Studio who is renowned for her "off-loom" woven rock and stone art #WomensArt
(via L.Young FB)
Before wine and cheese, England paired ale with cheese.
For centuries, ale wasn't just something people drank at the pub. It was the everyday drink at the breakfast table, with dinner and at supper, enjoyed by rich and poor alike.
Even visitors remarked how unusual it seemed to ask for water instead of ale.
Until recently, cheese wasn't accompanied by a glass of wine. More often than not, it was paired with a pint of English ale.
That began to change in the late 19th century, as attitudes shifted and wine increasingly became associated with dining and sophistication.
Within a few generations, a tradition that had lasted for centuries slowly faded away.
Should we bring back the tradition of ale and cheese?
Follow @oaksandlions for more on England’s history and heritage.
#England #EnglishHistory #EnglishHeritage #TraditionalFood
I read that Pakistan has set out its demands for taking back their Rochdale rapist.
Here's the official Restore Britain response to the Pakistani Government.
You can piss right off.
We would end all Pakistani visas. No more Pakistani immigration into Britain. Scrap foreign aid, unquestionably. Tax remittances/dividends into Pakistan.
We would work with international allies to ensure that all Pakistani visas into those countries too are cancelled along with ruthless trade sanctions.
Our deportation NATO.
Britain will not be bullied or blackmailed by a rogue state that has supplied us with endless child rapists and paedophiles.
A Restore Britain Government would retaliate with the full force of the British state.
Watch how quickly the Pakistanis fold.
We would do it so hard and so brutally, it would never be needed again.
We will not allow Pakistan to bully Britain any longer.
This seems to demonstrate again that Islam demands
respect for its traditions, while showing no intention itself of respecting the traditions of others
This is the polar opposite of multiculturalism
ISLAMIC SCHOLAR SAID:
"This is our country. We don't like the cross on the England flag. You should replace it with a plain white flag with just 'England' on it."
What’s your response to this ??
Customer: "Oat milk, please. Trying to lower my footprint."
Barista: "Course. Happy with the rapeseed oil in it?"
Customer: "Rapeseed oil? In milk?"
Barista: "It's not milk. It's oats, water, and a good glug of seed oil for the creaminess."
Customer: "I avoid seed oils."
Barista: "You're about to wear a moustache of one."
Customer: "...Almond, then?"
Barista: "Lovely. How do you feel about draining California?"
Customer: "The soy?"
Barista: "Comes with a complimentary top-up of oestrogen. On the house."
Customer: "...Coconut?"
Barista: "Flown across an ocean, and more saturated fat than lard."
Customer: "What's the little carton at the back?"
Barista: "That one's just milk. Cow, field, grass, done. No factory, no solvent, no asterisk."
Customer: "And the footprint on that?"
Barista: "She made it out of rain. Yours is the taxi you took here to ask."
There have been 65 Kings & Queens of all England since Aethelstan became the 1st recognised monarch in the year 927 (let the arguments begin 🤴)
This tree hasn’t just witnessed all of them, it was born up to 2,000 years BEFORE Aethelstan
The Linton Yew, Herefordshire
@ArturNadol7566 Society in Britain is fractured and being dismembered across every facet of life by the very people who are paid to manage and protect it.
Is there any part of our public sector, which stands out as a world class exemplar for the second quarter of the 21st century?