@ThePosieParker We have just come back from Butlins Skegness, we have gone every year for the past 5 years, my 7 year old loves it! This year is the first year we didn’t catch the open top bus to go into Skegness last year we’re on edge all day - it’s not worth it.
Goodbye to the marvellous Ann Widdecombe who once ran a survey about the importance of equality of the sexes and got two replies, one from a woman and one from a man.
Immortalised here by the marvellous Victoria Wood.
Ta ta Ann, you turned out to be not only fun, but right, about many things.
Goodbye to the marvellous Ann Widdecombe who once ran a survey about the importance of equality of the sexes and got two replies, one from a woman and one from a man.
Immortalised here by the marvellous Victoria Wood.
Ta ta Ann, you turned out to be not only fun, but right, about many things.
My son called me from college and said he needed to drop out.
Not because of grades.
Not because of money.
Because he couldn't do laundry.
Me: You're nineteen.
Him: I know how old I am.
Me: Then explain the laundry crisis.
Him: I tried. Three times. Everything came out gray or pink or smelling like chemicals.
Me: Did you read the instructions on the machine?
Him: I read a lot of things. Didn't help.
Me: What did you wash together?
Him: Everything?
Me: Whites, colors, darks, all together?
Him: You're supposed to separate them?
I sat down.
Me: What have you been wearing?
Him: The gray-pink stuff. It's fine if I don't look too close.
Me: Your roommate didn't say anything?
Him: My roommate is worse. He just Febrezes everything.
Me: I raised you better than this.
Him: You raised me with a mother who did laundry.
He had a point there.
His mom had passed when he was fourteen. I'd learned to cook. Learned to talk about feelings. Did not, apparently, teach him how to separate laundry.
Me: You're not dropping out over laundry.
Him: It's not just laundry. I also can't fold a fitted sheet.
Me: Nobody can fold a fitted sheet.
Him: Mom could.
That stopped both of us for a second.
Him: I just feel like I'm missing the manual everyone else got.
Me: You're not missing it. You just didn't get certain chapters.
Him: The important ones.
Me: The learnable ones.
I drove four hours the next weekend with a laundry basket, detergent, and a list I'd written at 2am on hotel stationery because I couldn't sleep thinking about what else I hadn't taught him.
We spent Saturday in the dorm laundry room.
Showed him whites separate, colors separate, how much soap, what temperature, how to actually clean the lint trap which he didn't know existed.
His roommate joined us halfway through.
Roommate: Are we having a laundry tutorial?
Me: Yes.
Roommate: Can I stay?
Me: Do you know how to do laundry?
Roommate: I Febreze everything.
Me: Sit down.
By the end, three other kids from the floor had joined.
I taught a laundry seminar to five nineteen-year-olds in a basement that smelled like fake spring meadow and regret.
One kid took notes.
Before I left, my son walked me to the car.
Him: Thanks, Dad.
Me: You're still not dropping out.
Him: I know.
Me: And you're going to call me when you can't do something.
Him: Like what?
Me: Anything. I don't care. Cooking, taxes, oil changes, asking someone out. Whatever you think you need a manual for.
Him: You don't know how to ask someone out.
Me: I married your mother, didn't I?
Him: That was thirty years ago.
Me: Principles haven't changed.
He hugged me longer than usual.
Him: I miss her.
Me: Me too.
Him: Think she'd be mad I almost dropped out over laundry?
Me: No. But she'd have driven up here faster than I did.
He laughed.
I got a text from him two weeks later.
"Successfully washed towels. They're white again. Roommate cried."
Missing !! 18 year old Ariana. Last seen in Milton Keynes on Monday wearing black a black T-shirt and jeans. She is 5ft 3 and has blonde hair and brown eyes! This has never happened before and her parents are distraught! Pls repost and DM us with information! 🙏🏻
Both @AldiUK and @LidlGB are using horror farms run by Muslims trading as 2 Sisters - there are numerous sites around the UK and they all have Halal licences to religious slaughter.
@LidlGB lied to the public in 2023 about being supplied by 2 Sisters until they were found out link to report below, and I visited an Aldi in Cumbria this morning, photographed random meat products and found 4/5 products are from facilities which have licences to slaughter using Halal methods, 3 of the products are supplied by yes, you guessed it, 2 Sisters horror farms.
GB2037 - 2 Sisters Food Group - Halal Licence
GB1100 - 2 Sisters Food Group - Halal Licence
GB7176 - Kepak Group Ltd. (trading as St. Merryn Foods) Halal Licence
GB1106 - 2 Sisters Red Meat (T/A McIntosh Donald) Halal Lic.
GB2060 - Malton Bacon Factory - No Halal licence that I can find
So anyone believing the meat they buy in supermarkets is fully stunning before slaughter, it’s not - every product has a code, google it - make your own choices.
https://t.co/LjJHiG64ut
Barnaby Philip John Webber
11/01/2004-13/06/2023 💔
If you can, share these images of the beautiful soul stolen from us by the worst of humanity.
Let his face today burn bright.
Barney, I promise you there will be accountability 💛💚
For You. For Grace. For Ian.
@WhisperWyrd @MichelleDewbs Haven’t heard or thought about that song for a long time. I know I’m not the intended recipient but, you’re correct it did indeed uplift - thank you.
Dear @elonmusk,
Please make a change to X so that grey checkmark government accounts aren't allowed to close their replies.
Sadiq Khan should NOT be allowed to close his comments like a coward while being an elected official.
🙏🏻
Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere."
Farmer: "Where did they get it?"
Activist: "What?"
Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere."
Activist: "From... eating?"
Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it."
Activist: "The soil?"
Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from."
Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere."
Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it."
Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."
Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."
Activist: "It's not that simple."
Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."
I submitted my tax return to HMRC one day late.
I was fined £100. And I didn't even owe them any tax!
Angela Rayner tried to avoid paying £40,000 stamp duty for nearly a year and could have been fined £8,000 by the HMRC after she recently coughed up the money, (shortly after being gifted £50,000 from a refrigeration company for 'Office Expenses').
She wasn't fined a single penny. No fine. No penalty. No comeback whatsoever.
Is it any wonder that us little folk are getting so pissed off with these freeloading, opportunistic, money grabbing, holier than thou, two faced charlatans?
As an MP, I will not comply with Digital ID.
I just won't do it, and I hope many millions of British men and women will join me.
Send a message to Starmer - share this graphic absolutely everywhere.
I will not comply with Digital ID.
@Gracie_Blue89 I would have called him a lot worse than a c.u.n.t if he’d done that to me! Then tonight bullard had the audacity to say he threw Adam under the bus because he’d get paid more! Adam looked so upset! Bullard and David are bitter and pathetic.
Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish children escape the Nazis. His efforts went unrecognized for 50 years. Then in 1988, while sitting as a member of a TV audience, he suddenly found himself surrounded by the kids he’d rescued, now adults.