Wanted to give a shout-out to 2 charity campaigns I’ve seen that I think are mustard.
First one is this absolute geezer doing great north run carrying a washing machine🤣 https://t.co/u9xNJFW2u4
Second one is a lad called Orkney who is 8 YEARS OLD and is going to run around 5 islands in 5 days. Totalling 55km. Starting young. Incredible stuff https://t.co/U4ocyXR5sM
The worst and the best together species on earth is man!! Some people burn it all without considering the loss and destruction behind them.
And others become a shield of protection to every living thing out there.
#Rhodes#GreeceWildfires
Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
40 years ago today we went ashore in San Carlos Water (known as bomb ally) to retake the Falklands Islands. On the first night I vividly remember digging a trench in a peat bog, got wet and stayed wet until we marched into Stanley 25 days later.
On the left is the last photo I have of my mum alive in May 2020. Living alone with serious illness, she faced the pandemic with stoicism.
We went for a walk around her local park. When she suggested sitting 2m apart in her garden, I said: better not, it’s against the rules.