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In this world, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. ― Elwood P. Dowd

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

Please don't stop!
You're not the reason they got run over.
The culprit is everyone who has closed their gardens off, preventing hedgehogs from travelling through them and forcing them to use dangerous roads.
You are on their route.
All you'll achieve by not feeding them is allowing those who do make it safely across the road to go without food or water.
And I know you wouldn't want that.
Instead, carry on feeding and share your knowledge with your neighbours - your side of the road *and the other side*.
Tell them that hedgehogs are being forced to cross the road because they can't find enough food on one side, and that folk need to open their gardens, create a hedgehog highway, and provide food and water if they can.
Write a short simple leaflet and print a few out, pop them in letterboxes. You can do it anonymously if you'd like.
You'll find most people will be so grateful to have this knowledge and will act on it, and you'll save so many lives.❤️

[Wow+Flutter 🐳 @Wow_Flutter]

@HedgehogCabin Thankyou for your very kind response.
I will carry on.

It’s very distressing to feel that because the road outside is so busy that maybe if they didn’t come to my garden they wouldn’t cross the road in search of love etc.
It’s sad because the opposite direction is very safe.

[Wow+Flutter 🐳 @Wow_Flutter]

I think @HedgehogCabin that sadly my days of feeding hedgehogs is over 😢
That’s now all four of my known hogs that have been run over on the road outside my house.
It does however show how important those that are in safe areas need to help hogs when I sadly cannot 😢

[Wow+Flutter 🐳 @Wow_Flutter]

@JamesMelville And the moon’s made out of Cheese 🧀

[Wow+Flutter 🐳 @Wow_Flutter]

Pretty much sums up Scotland’s tournament 🤦‍♂️

[Simon's Cat 🐾 @SimonsCat]

Keep your cats Cool, Calm & Collected in the heatwave! 🌞😺

[Wow+Flutter 🐳 @Wow_Flutter]

@SkySportsNews

[Wow+Flutter 🐳 @Wow_Flutter]

7% chance of Scotland going through.
Keep Believing 😂

[Wow+Flutter 🐳 @Wow_Flutter]

Well done Ecuador 👏👏👏

[Wow+Flutter 🐳 @Wow_Flutter]

Won’t get much odds on Japan beating Sweden by 4 goals though 😝

[Wow+Flutter 🐳 @Wow_Flutter]

@JamesMelville Ecuador with 40 plus shots in 3 games deserve it much more.

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

For anyone who needs cheering up... here's Britain's smallest bird having a bath today in a woodland puddle. 😁😍🐦❤️

[Election Maps UK @ElectionMapsUK]

EU Referendum Voting Intention:

Rejoin: 63%
Stay Out: 37%

Via @Survation, 19 May - 1 Jun.

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: Trump staffers are reportedly worried that if Trump presents the FIFA World Cup trophy 70,000 spectators from all over the world will boo him and start chants about the Epstein Files.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The Scottish Football Association (backed by the Scottish government) needs a full reboot of the game it governs. Being a small country is no excuse for repeated failures at international tournaments.

Scotland’s population stands at approximately 5.55 million. That is larger than Croatia’s 3.9 million, Uruguay’s 3.4 million. Both nations that have produced World Cup finalists, semi-finalists at major tournaments, and are consistent overachievers. Iceland, with fewer than 400,000 people, reached the quarter-finals of Euro 2016 and the 2018 World Cup through deliberate investment in facilities and a dramatic rise in qualified coaches. These countries prove that population size is not a destiny to failure. What matters is how a national football governing body organises its talent pathways, develops coaches, structures its competitions and better facility and infrastructure investment.

Scotland’s issues run way deeper than the occasional poor result. The SPFL remains predictably dominated by two clubs, limiting the competitive experience available to players and fans alike. Young talent often lack meaningful first-team minutes, with a gap between academy football and senior level. Hampden Park is one of the worst national stadiums in Europe. Coaching education and grassroots infrastructure lag behind the standards set by more successful small nations. And Scotland has lost its street football youth participation. Street football has been replaced with Xbox football. PE has dropped off the curriculum in many state schools. Scotland also has an obesity crisis.

Governance at the SFA has too often appeared reactive rather than visionary, with structures that prioritise short-term elite interests over long-term national development.

A reboot must be comprehensive. An independent review of the entire pyramid — from grassroots to the national team — should examine league formats, youth integration opportunities at clubs, grassroots participation and funding distribution. Expanding competitive opportunities in the top flight, mandating greater youth involvement at senior clubs, and dramatically increasing the number of UEFA-qualified coaches would mirror the approaches that transformed Icelandic and Croatian football.

Investment in performance schools, sports science, and a coherent national playing philosophy (as shown by the Netherlands for decades) could turn raw potential into sustained excellence.

Scotland possesses the raw ingredients: a deep football culture with a population who adore the game, talented individuals who succeed abroad, and supporters who deserve better than constant cycles of tournament disappointment. Other small nations have shown that smart systems, not sheer numbers, create success. The SFA now faces a clear choice. It can continue managing decline with occasional qualification highs, or it can embrace the difficult long term work of rebuilding the game from the ground up.

The rest of the world is not waiting. Scotland should stop making excuses and start building a football future worthy of its history.

[Wow+Flutter 🐳 @Wow_Flutter]

@JamesMelville How many times has this been said before & nothing ever changes.
Berti Voghts think tank anyone 🤷‍♂️
The governing body & the clubs who halt an expanding league with self preservation comes before the national team sadly.

[Wow+Flutter 🐳 @Wow_Flutter]

@Official_T4O You know getting beat, going out, not performing as well as we should, they’re all great disappointments.
But the biggest disappointment of all..
That in 30 years we haven’t got any better.
From Berti Voghts think tank until today.
Nothing
No solution from the SFA
Nothing 🤦‍♂️

[Wow+Flutter 🐳 @Wow_Flutter]

@scotlandscoeff1 Knowing history has shown time & time again it’s the hope that kills you.
You’ve got to feel sorry for all the teams like South Korea that lose so Scotland have to go home 🤷‍♂️