Sara Brasington 💙

💙💙💙! Hello world ¡ 🌎 especially in Dorset 💙💙💙💙 🐝 kind ! 💙💙💙Let me count the ways to be grateful 💙💙💙#NHSblueheart 💙💙💙

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Keith is a three-year-old Anglo-Nubian goat in a field in Devon.

Keith has opened 7 gates, occupied a barn roof for 11 consecutive days, cleared an entire knotweed stand worth £4,000 to remove chemically, eaten Steve's bindweed, been in the churchyard twice, been in the road an estimated 14 times, eaten the water heater instructions, been in Dave's kitchen (standing there, not eating anything, just standing), and filed the structural details of every fence on the farm into a memory that has never once been cleared.

He has done all of this while also being the single most cost-effective conservation intervention on the property.

These are not separate facts. They are the same fact.

Keith does not distinguish between the work and the escape. The escape is work. The work is escape. The fence is a project. The project is completed. The project leads to the next project. The knotweed leads to the churchyard. The churchyard leads to the road. The road leads back to the east ditch. The east ditch was cleared in one season.

There is a man named Steve who has filed twenty-nine formal complaints about Keith.

Steve's bindweed is gone.

Steve does not yet understand that these are the same story.

Dave has £387 in gate receipts, a positive net outcome column on every row since entry seventeen, a churchyard booking for next month, and a corner post with a 4mm flex that Keith has known about since Margot's visit and has not yet acted on.

Not yet.

Keith is not done.

Keith is never done.

Keith is ten thousand years of Zagros Mountain goat compressed into a Devon field, and the fence between him and the rest of the world has always been a negotiating position rather than a boundary.

Be ungovernable. Do the work. Leave the field better than you found it.

The knotweed is at 6%.

Keith is thinking.

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

I held back on posting because I couldn’t believe it was genuine. This is n exciting, Hollywood style movie they watch from the safety and comfort of afar their children, women, families not subjected to the terror too many in the Middle East endure daily, hourly, minutely… it’s beyond … anything… and then not..

[Paul Hudson @Hudsonweather]

What a picture from Scarborough this morning !
Pic from sleeplessinscarbados

[Sara Brasington 💙 @auntysheep]

@MegMundell @susie_dent @hayfestival I agree. I couldn’t understand why my parents fell about laughing when I was trying to tell them I was feeling “Mell-ANN-cho-lee” / sad.

I blame Enid Blyton.

[Sara Brasington 💙 @auntysheep]

@_RGArmstrong @susie_dent @hayfestival As a 5 year old “messy” instead of “merci”. 🚬 💩

[Paul B | 💚💙 Overhaul UK's democratic system @Paul_Briley]

@1goodtern Kindness is everywhere if it is just allowed out

[Mr_Fireside 🔥 @Mr_Fireside]

In 1939 one company secretly poisoned the planet.

The poison? A “miracle” chemical.

Then came the cover-up.

This is the shocking story of how a single invention contaminated everything and everyone on Earth. 🧵

[Vipin M. Vashishtha @vipintukur]

🔥Wow!

A recent study identifies a gene that appears to reverse Parkinson's disease symptoms!

Researchers discovered that increasing the amount of the #Cdk8 gene (human counterpart CDK19) in flies with Parkinson's causes the disease's symptoms to reverse. 1/

[Ronny Allan 💙also on Bluesky @RonnyAllan1]

14 years since diagnosis of incurable and metastatic #NeuroendocrineCancer At age 69, I climb up big hills just to piss my cancer off. #LetsTalkAboutNETs rather than zoological issues

https://t.co/TeZDMugILx

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

If everyone who has been grateful for the NHS over the past 76 years followed and retweeted we’d reach a million by midnight

Please take just two seconds to show you’re right behind NHS staff

[Neil Duncan-Jordan MP @NeilForPoole]

One of the big issues that came up during the election campaign from local residents was the state of SEND provision in BCP.

Today I submitted the following question to the minister responsible.

Alt text available.

[Sara Brasington 💙 @auntysheep]

@NeilForPoole Thankyou Neil. I have friends with SENDS kids and young adults under 25; they are struggling with the basics to fight for their kids. They shouldn’t have to do this.

[Paul W @paul_wildsmith]

#NeuroendocrineCancer

[Sara Brasington 💙 @auntysheep]

Great news; much needed lung NET trials are recruiting now. Pls retweet to help recruit… 💙

[Ronny Allan 💙also on Bluesky @RonnyAllan1]

PRRT Clinical trials for Somatostatin Receptor Positive Advanced Bronchial Neuroendocrine Tumours #NeuroendocrineCancer
@Ja_Capdevila @thomashopemd (also shared on my large Facebook outlets)
https://t.co/5h7jIAFvNS

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

There are still lots of late born hoglets being seen out in the day.
Please remember these little babies are sick.
It's the parasites living inside them that have driven them out in the day.
No amount of warmth, love, or food will fix them.
If you keep them they will die.
They need medicines and experienced nursing from a knowledgeable rescue (never a vet).
And every minute of delay reduces their chance of survival, even when finally in the very best rescue.
So please be their ambulance, not their jailor.
Don't just add captivity to their list of sufferings. Give these trusting little babies a chance to live and take them straight to a rescue.
This site has a directory of UK wildlife rescues: https://t.co/e8RUeVjOlV
If your local rescue is full, please try others, there is ALWAYS a space. It may not be as close as you'd like, but it's just one journey and will save a life.
https://t.co/oPl5yHjZEK

[Kit Yates @Kit_Yates_Maths]

I am really struggling with this.

Imagine knowing you have had covid, deliberately choosing not to test and then going into work in a healthcare setting where you could infect vulnerable patients (not to mention your colleagues).

It’s crazy advice.

[Jaack @Jaack]

Wow. Norwich City FC have created one of the most powerful adverts around mental health I think I’ve ever seen.

Watch this until the end. Hits like a tonne of bricks.

Talk to someone.

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

Opening biscuits rule #1

[Today Years Old @todayyearsold]

MORE PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW THIS!!

[Sara Brasington 💙 @auntysheep]

Seagulls need more art lessons. More maths lessons too for chip division.

[Kit Yates @Kit_Yates_Maths]

I like to think of this as a bird self-portrait.