Sally Chicken

my passions are Shotley Pier, credit unions, East of England Co-operative Society, happily married to Steve with 2 grown up daughters and grandson.

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@ee_2017 @Alqrran_ try looking up “retained placenta” it’s life threatening if it does not come out on its own, that’s “natural” but terrible

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@hashnosha @Alqrran_ try looking up “retained placenta” it’s life threatening if it does not come out on its own

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@GhareebAldarrr @Alqrran_ death rates from childbirth were very high in some cultures.

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@hams19962017 @Alqrran_ something “natural” can cause death. Also, the idea that a placenta separated without bleeding is utterly ludicrous

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@robertashton1 @thesuffolkcoast best shirt ever !

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@TrevorPTweets @EHRC I don’t care what people wear, that’s their personal choice. But if a biological male is still in possession of male genitalia, they should not be able to use female spaces: prisons, health care and bathroom / changing rooms

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@HELLSBELLS828 yes i’m in the UK, my family did this gif many years. Also a chunk of crumbly white cheese such as Caerphilly or Cheshire cheese is wonderful with rich fruit cake / Christmas cake

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@Yuzarsiv0 so glad we live where medical emergencies have no charges- thank you NHS which saved my life from sepsis, and my husband who went straight into intensive care

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@Her_Nonymous_D my daughter told me her new friend was called Beefy, when i approached her mum in the playground it turned out her daughter was called Phoebe

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@fwmarqix trying to relocate catfood bowl to other end of kitchen, he keeps standing where it used to be and sighing. when he eventually goes to the new spot he eats the bare minimum amount and then returns to the old spot

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This is a monarch butterfly migration arriving in the oyamel fir forests of central Mexico. None of these butterflies has ever been here before.

Their great-great-grandmothers left this exact grove in March. By July those grandmothers were dead. The butterflies you're watching are four to five generations downstream, born somewhere between Texas and Ontario, and they just flew up to 3,000 miles to a tree none of their parents ever saw.

The brain doing the navigation is smaller than a grain of rice.

The mechanism is a sun compass time-compensated by a circadian clock running in the antennae. Cut the antennae and the monarch loses orientation within hours. The clock corrects for the sun's position drifting across the sky as the day moves. Add iron-bearing magnetite particles for magnetic field detection on cloudy days, and a 0.5 gram insect is running redundant inertial guidance.

The destination is more specific than the navigation.

They cluster on a few dozen oyamel fir groves in the Sierra Madre at 9,000 to 11,000 feet. The microclimate has to sit between 32 and 41°F. Below freezing kills them. Above 41°F burns the fat reserves they need to survive five months without feeding. The right band exists a few hundred meters thick on a few specific mountains. Outside it, the migration ends.

One generation each year is built differently from the rest. Summer monarchs live two to six weeks. The fall generation lives eight months. It postpones reproduction, fattens up, and carries the entire round trip in a single body.

The map is genetic. Nobody has fully decoded how.

A monarch hatched in a backyard in Toronto in September has never seen a mountain, never smelled a fir, never met an ancestor. It flies south for ten weeks, picks the right peak, and lands on the tree its bloodline has been returning to for tens of thousands of years.

The forest knows the families that come back.

[Muse @xmuse_]

I love this porcelain tea strainer like a little umbrella.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is why you should never stay near the exit of a railway tunnel

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@SamaHoole @Hairyloon my mum always overcooked it, and served the horrid parts full of nasty tubes, thr flavour was fine, the gristly nasty chewy parts were awful. We had it one a week because it “was good for you “

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

I'm letting in the duck…

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@Hania16836 that dress will move independently on the dance floor, and when you are sitting at table you will look almost topless

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@june44398280 @Hania16836 I’m old enough to remember “rules” about evening dress, for example shoulders should be covered, cleavage should be conservative, aimed at sparing the waiting staff blushes when leaning over you to bring/remove plates. Look at UK royals for contrast with other countries ladies

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@Hania16836 black dress for a wedding is usually considered disrespectful, but even worse if mother of the groom

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@SarahPedersen2 @cathydevine56 they both look like AI faces too

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@maytweetz01 Give him space then talk to him about his expectations - did he expect them to ask him lots of questions, explain to him your parents were letting him quietly settle in, without being grilled!
But if he can’t cope with parents, give him time to suggest alternatives