Sue Vanstone

technophobe and morris dancer.

[Sue Vanstone @VanstoneSue]

@theaschop @DocPriyamMD Maybe intermittent fasting folk don't stuff their faces with pizzas, processed food and burgers and fries once their fasting window is closed?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

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."

[Sue Vanstone @VanstoneSue]

@BradfemlyWalsh Looks fine to me.

[Sue Vanstone @VanstoneSue]

@kezori82 @BradfemlyWalsh They are.

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

She's been holding that laugh in since World War II 😂

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

The song "Voilà" (live version), performed by teenage singer Emma Kok with André Rieu's Johann Strauss Orchestra.

Emma Kok (then about 15 years old, Dutch) – A girl with a rare condition called gastroparesis (stomach paralysis) but with a powerful, emotional voice, she sang beautifully in French.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Well done St Ives

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A beautiful red wolf. There are fewer than 20 red wolves left in the wild.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

22 YEARS LATER AND NOBODY HAS ANSWERED FOR WHAT HAPPENED TO DR DAVID KELLY

His name was Dr David Kelly. Most people have forgotten him. They shouldn't.

He was a quiet, mild-mannered scientist who spent his career inspecting weapons facilities around the world.

He knew more about Iraq's arsenal than almost anyone alive.

In 2003, Tony Blair's @InstituteGC government published a dossier claiming Saddam Hussein could deploy chemical weapons within 45 minutes. That claim was used to justify a war.

Kelly knew the intelligence behind it was being exaggerated. He said so, privately, to a @BBCNews journalist.

That one conversation destroyed his life.

The government found out he was the source. Instead of protecting a man who had served his country for decades, they quietly let his name reach the press. He was publicly identified, dragged before two parliamentary committees, and grilled by his own employer.

His wife said he came home a broken man.

On the afternoon of 17 July 2003, he left his house for a walk in the Oxfordshire countryside. He was 59 years old. He never came back.

His body was found the next morning in woodland. A knife beside him. A blister pack of painkillers nearby.

Here is where it gets worse.

Tony Blair personally intervened to replace the normal coroner's inquest with a private inquiry run by Lord Hutton.

The original inquest was suspended before it even properly began. It was never resumed. To this day,

Dr David Kelly is the only person in England and Wales in living memory to have died in unexplained circumstances without receiving a full coroner's inquest.

Lord Hutton concluded suicide. Case closed.

Except eight senior doctors and a former coroner wrote to @thetimes saying the verdict was medically unsafe.

The wound found on Kelly's wrist, a severed ulnar artery, would not cause fatal blood loss in a healthy person.

There were no fingerprints on the knife. The painkillers found were not in a quantity that experts considered lethal.

The government's response, delivered by Attorney General Dominic Grieve in 2011, was essentially: the Hutton Inquiry was good enough, stop asking questions.

Think about that. A man quietly raised concerns about the biggest political deception in modern British history, a war that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He was publicly exposed, professionally destroyed, and found dead days later and the government personally made sure there would never be a proper independent investigation into how he died.

Tony Blair went on to become a Middle East Peace Envoy. He has a knighthood.

Dr David Kelly got a private inquiry, a rushed verdict, and a sealed post-mortem report that was not released to the public for years.

Nobody was ever held accountable. Not for any of it.

This story should be on the front page every single year. Share it if you think it matters.

Sources: @BBCNews @guardian @thetimes @PrivateEyeNews

[Sue Vanstone @VanstoneSue]

@LairdOfThManor All be it.

[Sue Vanstone @VanstoneSue]

@SamaHoole @4thTurning101 Mrs Beeton had a recipe for beef tea in a book I got as a wedding present - involved scraping the cooked meat into the broth and feeding at regular intervals.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

That little patch of moss on your fence or shady spot is doing work on a planetary scale.

Moss stores 6 billion tons of carbon globally. It pulls carbon out of the air, holds moisture, and supports tiny ecosystems.

So maybe stop spraying it with chemicals and power-washing it off.

Your moss is on the job, let it stick around.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Please Be Kind To Moles.

They are beneficial to soil health, acting as natural aerators and pest control by consuming lawn-damaging grubs, beetles, and larvae.

They do not eat plants, and their removal often leads to new moles occupying the vacant tunnel system, making it a futile effort.

Apart from that, it is CRUEL!

[Tock @yvan_theriault]

🌿 Je suis une ortie.

Oui, je pique.
Et c’est souvent pour cela que l’on m’arrache.

Mais peu de gens savent que plus de 40 espèces de papillons dépendent de moi.

Sur mes feuilles naissent les chenilles du paon-du-jour, de la petite tortue et de nombreux autres papillons.

Sans orties…
pas de chenilles.

Sans chenilles…
moins d’oiseaux pour nourrir leurs petits.

Ce que nous appelons parfois “mauvaise herbe” est souvent un pilier invisible de la vie sauvage.

Alors si vous avez un jardin…
laissez peut-être un petit coin d’orties.

Pour les papillons.
Pour les oiseaux.
Pour la nature.

🌿 Parfois, ce qui dérange l’humain sauve la nature.

[Sue Vanstone @VanstoneSue]

@KamichiSullen @SketchesbyBoze The History of Mr Polly
Whisky Galore (the original)
Hobsons Choice
These were very old films when I was a child and I love them still at almost 70.

[ALEXIS ™I ❤️🇷🇼• @dufitalexis1]

This is a ladybird larva. It looks nothing like a ladybird. It looks like a tiny black alligator with orange spots — and most gardeners crush it thinking it's a pest.

That mistake costs the garden dearly. An adult ladybird eats around 50 aphids a day. Its larva can devour up to 500 before it pupates. Ten times as many. That strange-looking creature working its way along your tomato stems is the most effective phase of a ladybird's entire life.

Once you know what to look for, the larva is unmistakable: an elongated blue-black body with six orange spots along the sides, six short legs, slow and methodical movement up and down stems. It doesn't fly, doesn't jump, doesn't hide. It moves from one aphid colony to the next and feeds continuously for two to three weeks before pupating.

The pupa looks like a small, still orange droplet fixed to a leaf — and it too gets removed during routine plant tidying. Inside it, the adult ladybird is forming.

If you find aphids on a plant and ladybird larvae among them, leave them alone. The biological control is already working.

🐞

[Sue Vanstone @VanstoneSue]

@everydaiisy I hope so.

[Фусина территория 🇮🇱 🐾 @fusinaterritor]

"В домах Шотландии делают специальные гнёзда для стрижей. Согласно закону, такие гнёзда должны быть во всех новостройках, где это «технически возможно». Так пытаются восстановить популяцию, которая из-за нехватки мест гнездования сократилась на 60% за 30 лет."
(kreuz)

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

No gas, no noise, just pure efficiency.

This man and his scythe are unstoppable.