Deb Kendale

Professional: #membership growth, #scientist, marketer.
Personal: family #food #comedy-phile #gardens #feminist @reengage host #European. All views my own.

[Deb Kendale @debkendale]

#TheTraitors - so it's not Judy! The person getting the most screen time and who appears to be the #secrettraitor is Ellie. Thoughts??

[Deb Kendale @debkendale]

What an anachronism #UniversityChallenge has become. @EdinburghUni doesn't have a single undergrad student on its team or probably anyone <35. Maybe I should enrol on a masters in my retirement. I could realise a schoolgirl dream and enter for a place.

[Deb Kendale @debkendale]

@Channel4News Why was this the last story on tonight's programme? Thousands of people without basic sanitation and businesses losing pre Christmas takings. You should be asking the water bosses to explain themselves. American politics is sexier but this story affects your primary audience.

[Deb Kendale @debkendale]

@Jackiebailey25 #Saturdaykitchen this is the second week in a row that chefs have been seen double dipping.
Tony Singh also did it last week. Doesn't make me want to go and eat out any time soon:(

[Deb Kendale @debkendale]

@LeeChildReacher great to hear your support for #libraries today. A trust or bequest for this valuable resource that kick started your success would mean so much. Please put your money to helping others that need it now. #charitybeginsathome

[Deb Kendale @debkendale]

@EdmondsonSandra @BBCSport @fredsirieix1 isn't a chef,he's a highly skilled maitre d. Like calling a driving instructor a mechanic!

[Deb Kendale @debkendale]

@WorsnopD @BBCSport If you had watched #Olympics before would know there are never any events until after the #OpeningCeremony

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

We owe it to them: all our female ancestors who were denied that democratic right. Patriarchal forces still attempt to hold us back by pushing apathy, telling us that “politicians are all the same”. They’re not - and you have the right to choose, to vote from the heart, for our future, for all our children - and to make your voice and your vote count.

[The Man of Hidden Shallows @Richiemuso]

This is Mike,

Mike joked about allegations of rape and sexual assault,

Mike called one of his constituents a twat,

Mike said Boris faced a Kangaroo Court,

Mike said Nurses and Teachers partied in lockdown just like No.10 did,

Mike got given a Knighthood

Don't vote for Mike

[Deb Kendale @debkendale]

Jumping to conclusions is not a good thing... However if E. coli outbreak is linked to lettuce and a major input to lettuce production is water. Daily reports of excessive sewage spills into our water system. Let's see if these are connected. #FoodSafety
https://t.co/Qoe06O3LFd

[Deb Kendale @debkendale]

@ITVTonight where did you get those chairs? I know politicians like to bang on about 'taking back control' and 'restoring family values' but this interview looks like something from my grandparents living room. I thought this was the 2020's not the 1950's! #Elections_2024

[The Poke @ThePoke]

"I don't suppose you have a copy of 'Convincing People You're the Tory Party Now' by K.R. Starmer? You do! Oh, that's wonderful! Can you keep it for me? ... My name? Oh yes ... it's K.R. Starmer."
#NatalieElphicke

[Deb Kendale @debkendale]

Even the download speed test is slow on @LNWRailway Wi-Fi. Trying to do anything is like dialling up the Internet in the 1990's. Can you please do better before #TRAIN fares increase again? #CustomerExperience

[Deb Kendale @debkendale]

@KiuSum ably kicking off the @ifstnews SE branch annual lecture @LondonMetUni . Looking forward to hearing about the use of #ArtificialIntelligence in #food and other related topics.

[Deb Kendale @debkendale]

@LizTray @MichaelWolffNYC Absolutely agree with you @LizTray . Especially the para in the rhs beginning with ' The old script of homeless Jews,,,
@Baddiel also asserts the rights of Jews to oppose a right wing authoritarian state. This is not the land of milk and honey - sadly...

[Deb Kendale @debkendale]

@MishalHusain WhatsApp does save your messages to the cloud. Google backs them up #CovidInquiry #r4today

[Deb Kendale @debkendale]

@Tesco have you stopped stocking one of my favourite #healthy products? I swapped to this when Ryvita started tasting like cardboard. This has great flavour and crunch and is full of valuable fibre. Why is it disappearing? #sad

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

I absolutely love this story........ It made me cry.

"An 87 Year Old College Student Named Rose
The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know.

I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned round to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me
with a smile that lit up her entire being.

She said, “Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?”

I laughed and enthusiastically responded, “Of course you may!” and she gave me a giant squeeze.
“Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked.

She jokingly replied, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids…”

“No seriously,” I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age.

“I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!” she told me.
After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake.

We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months, we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this “time machine”
as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.

Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I’ll never forget what she taught us.

She was introduced and stepped up to the podium.
As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor. Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said, “I’m sorry I’m so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I’ll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know.”

As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, “We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop
playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success.

1) You have to laugh and find humor every day.

2) You’ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.

We have so many people walking around who are dead and don’t even know it!

3) There is a huge difference between growing
older and growing up.

If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don’t do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old.

If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight.

Anybody can grow older.

That doesn’t take any talent or ability.

The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change.

4) Have no regrets.

The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those
with regrets.”

She concluded her speech by courageously singing “The Rose.

She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives.
At the year’s end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died
peacefully in her sleep.

Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it’s
never too late to be all you can possibly be.

When you finish reading this, please send this peaceful word of advice to your friends and family, they’ll really enjoy it!

These words have been passed along in loving memory of ROSE.

REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS
OPTIONAL.

We make a Living by what we get,

We make a Life by what we give."

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

This will warm your heart! 🤗

https://t.co/9WrXTYbkuG