Trasie Einig Jones

Hello :-)

[Connor Lounsbury @ConnorLounsbury]

There will never be a more iconic entrance. Tim Curry, you will never be forgotten. 💔

[Trasie Einig Jones @Duckiepuddle]

@matt_77r Happy Birthday! 50 is the new 30 😊 #rockonTommy

[Météo-France @meteofrance]

Avec les fortes chaleurs qui vont s'intensifier ces prochains jours, la santé de la population dans son ensemble peut être affectée.

📞 Contactez le numéro vert « Canicule info service » ouvert par @Sante_Gouv, de 9h à 19h : 0 800 06 66 66.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”

Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget

[Tropical Cowboy of Danger @FlynonymousWX]

A thread of videos from today’s flight into Hurricane Melissa

In this first one we are entering from the southeast just after sunrise and the bright arc on the far northwest eye wall is the light just beginning to make it over the top from behind us.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

British.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Rest in peace, Patricia Routledge 🙏🏻

In memory of her, I encourage everyone to read these words of hers from February last year.

Whether young or old, you're bound to get something out of it.

*****

"I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn’t live up to my mother’s hopes. But these days begin in peace, and end in gratitude.

My life didn’t quite take shape until my forties. I had worked steadily — on provincial stages, in radio plays, in West End productions — but I often felt adrift, as though I was searching for a home within myself that I hadn’t quite found.

At 50, I accepted a television role that many would later associate me with — Hyacinth Bucket, of Keeping Up Appearances. I thought it would be a small part in a little series. I never imagined that it would take me into people’s living rooms and hearts around the world. And truthfully, that role taught me to accept my own quirks. It healed something in me.

At 60, I began learning Italian — not for work, but so I could sing opera in its native language. I also learned how to live alone without feeling lonely. I read poetry aloud each evening, not to perfect my diction, but to quiet my soul.

At 70, I returned to the Shakespearean stage — something I once believed I had aged out of. But this time, I had nothing to prove. I stood on those boards with stillness, and audiences felt that. I was no longer performing. I was simply being.

At 80, I took up watercolour painting. I painted flowers from my garden, old hats from my youth, and faces I remembered from the London Underground. Each painting was a quiet memory made visible.

Now, at 95, I write letters by hand. I’m learning to bake rye bread. I still breathe deeply every morning. I still adore laughter — though I no longer try to make anyone laugh. I love the quiet more than ever.

I’m writing this to tell you something simple:

Growing older is not the closing act. It can be the most exquisite chapter — if you let yourself bloom again.

Let these years ahead be your TREASURE YEARS.

You don’t need to be famous. You don’t need to be flawless.

You only need to show up — fully — for the life that is still yours.

With love and gentleness,

Patricia Routledge

*****

Once more, rest in peace. 🤍

[Prof Janina Ramirez @DrJaninaRamirez]

I’m over the moon to share this with you!!!!! My book baby is coming!!!!! #Legenda

How beautiful is this trailer 😍😭😍

[Trasie Einig Jones @Duckiepuddle]

Happy happy 18th birthday Emilia!! 🎂 🍸 🧉 🥛 🫖 🍶 🍷 🍸

[GamingPlace @offergamescouk]

COMPETITION TIME! 🚨

We're giving you the chance to win a FREE Nintendo Switch 2 Console + Mario Kart World! Here's how to enter...

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#MarioKartWorld #Win #Competition #Free #Gaming #NintendoSwitch

[Everton @Everton]

In case you couldn't already see Goodison Park from Hill Dickinson Stadium... you definitely can today! 💙

@EvertonStadium 🔵 #EndOfAnEra

[Premier League @premierleague]

The end of an era.

Thank you for the memories, Goodison Park 💙

[Liverpool John Lennon Airport @LPL_Airport]

From one of our city’s icons to another���

Farewell, Goodison Park (sort of)! 👋 Wishing our friends at Everton all the best for an emotional afternoon at the Grand Old Lady. 💙

[Liverpool City Council @lpoolcouncil]

The end of an era. Goodison Park 💙

For one last time, the Grand Old Lady rises. There’ll be plenty of tears, both happy and sad. Take it in today, blues! 🔵

📸 Additional photos by @_laurag23

[BBC Archive @BBCArchive]

#OnThisDay 1982: The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was launched.

Later that year, Jeremy Beadle asked inventor Clive Sinclair about how he saw the future of computers. Could they be even smaller?

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

English is not my first language, so I must ask: Is it normal to express excitement about a funeral?🤔

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Tove Jansson (Finnish, 1914–2001), Moomin and the Mymble paint an #Easter egg #womensart

[Becky Holmes hates spinach @deathtospinach]

Excuse my language but I am fucking LIVID

Keanu Reeves asked me for a $200 apple

I went out and got him one and he was SO ungrateful

I am FURIOUS

(This might be one of my all time favourites 😂)

[Met Office @metoffice]

Have you noticed skies becoming a little hazy towards the west?

Strong winds across the Sahara have transported particles of dust northwards, which can be seen on satellite imagery from earlier this morning over the UK 🛰️