Deb Sunter

Born at a young age. Life is short; smile while you still have teeth.

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@DaveGorman Great news Dave, looking forward to seeing them

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@BBCLookNorth In Bradford

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Never did I think I'd see the #Auroraborealis from my garden in #WestYorkshire but here we are 🥹

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@arrivayorkshire Beyond a joke the hourly 255 service is cancelled all afternoon - how am I supposed to get home from work? You are massively unreliable and cannot justify this level of service - hopefully @WestYorkshireCA will remove this from you soon as you can't be trusted

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@AlanLaw @jrdzvl Exactly the same situation for my Labrador - we're paying the renewal premium this year, which went up an extortionate amount, in case it goes again, but seriously considering whether we can do this when renewal comes around again

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@alicevjones She gave him her passport to 'quench his insecurities'?!!! 🤯

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@ShirleyBallas Fabulous Shirley, didn't have a clue 😊

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@davidmbarnett I so wanted a Care Bear - looking at them now, it would probably have given me nightmares.

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@puppymom93 I had an ECV when pregnant to try and turn my breech son - the most pain I've ever experienced. I was told by the male Dr 'If you think this is bad, what will you be like in labour'?'
I was badly bruised as a result and no one was bothered - it was 'one of those things' 😡

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Thank you @DaveGorman for a top show in #Halifax this evening - I had forgotten just how wonderful your #FoundPoems were 😆

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Dear #WhiskySanta, please may you put @DiplomaticoRum Seleccion from @MasterofMalt under my tree? I've been really good this year! https://t.co/KuwyT2zaWd

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@davidmbarnett Bolling Hall is ridiculously creepy in the height of summer, so that sounds awful 😱
Although I've just told my two boys (16 & 13) that story and they loved it, so thank you for sharing

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@WMount I remember her as my RE teacher some 20-odd years ago - a lovely teacher 🩷

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@sianharries_ I wasn't offered one as I turned 40 during the pandemic - I've seen my future reminders on the Dr's system and I'm pencilled in for my over 75 check up in 2056 😆😱

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@joibella19 @vinn_ayy Yes!

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@MartinSLewis Coop's are amazing (as many have rightly said), but I recently tried these from @TwoFarmersHfd when on holiday in Wales, and they were beautiful

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@Alicelevine A wonderful series as always - but there really should be a warning about Matt singing as Liz 😆

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@ruskin147 Same - quoted 70% (!) more, rang them with a quote from the comparison sites, and saved myself £108 a year from that quote ; still a 40% increase though 😡 The process makes a tedious requirement more tedious

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@WMount I'm so proud of Ciaran - thank you to all the teaching staff for getting him this far

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[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Which square do you see most clearly: orange or yellow?

Normally yellow is the most visible colour: it grabs our attention and we can see it from far away.

Hence warning signs, high-vis jackets, road markings, police tape, school buses, and taxis are almost always yellow.

But yellow isn't always the most visible colour. See, orange is *more visible* in one specific context: when it is contrasted with blue.

That's because orange and blue are complementary colours. This means that, when mixed, they cancel each other out. But, when placed alongside one another, they create a powerful, luminous, highly visible contrast.

And this fact is important because... lots of the world is blue: the sky and the ocean.

Hence lifeboats and lifebuoys and liferafts all around the world are orange — rather than yellow, the usual colour of safety equipment. If you pay attention, you'll notice that most objects relating to safety and caution around the ocean are, indeed, orange.

It's why the Golden Gate Bridge was painted orange — a particular shade which has come to be known as "International Orange" — so that it would stand out more clearly against the water and in heavy fog.

And it's also why astronauts wear orange suits during lift-off and ascent, and when they return to Earth; this makes them much easier to spot if they land in the ocean.

The "black box" recording device in aeroplanes is not actually black; they are legally required to be painted bright orange because that makes them much easier to find when planes go down over water.

The fact that orange and blue are complementary colours was also exploited by the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists of the late 19th century.

Think of Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night or Café Terrace at Night, in which he contrasted oranges and blues to create his famously vivid swirls of colour and light.

Claude Monet, too, in his paintings of Haystacks and of Venice, frequently used the complementary contrast between orange and blue because of the clarity and luminosity they produced.

Many things in the world are a coincidence, but the fact that lifeboats, space suits, the paintings of Vincent van Gogh, and the Golden Gate Bridge are all orange is not one of them.