Carol Long

background engineering, business transformation, board advisor. adventuring with Long Covid. Opinions my own. RT not endorsement.

[Carol Long @fixing_projects]

In 2023, life has been “interesting”. I end the year with @routledgebooks publishing a book on Strategic Portfolio Management that I’ve seen develop and added a few words.
#strategy #programme #project #Management

https://t.co/AY5lYbDvA2

[Carol Long @fixing_projects]

100 years of the special bear.

This is worth reading about the location.

The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring the Real Landscapes of the Hundred Acre Wood https://t.co/57aamhVyLb

Kathryn Aalto writes nonfiction like a beautiful story.

[Carol Long @fixing_projects]

That moment when you realise that you didn’t start saying 6-7 when everyone did because “comme ci, comme ca” is still in your volcab, and that means you’re gonna get called” old”

[Tiny Owl Publishing @TinyOwl_Books]

Farewell from Tiny Owl! After many years of sharing stories close to our hearts, Tiny Owl is closing its chapter. This journey hasn’t always been easy, but your support made it meaningful.
💛 Thank you for being part of our story.

[Carol Long @fixing_projects]

@terryandrob I would never disrespect a book, especially a Sir Terry book but this seems like an enhancement.

https://t.co/GYIggL9Gv8

[Carol Long @fixing_projects]

@Helen_Fields He’s on laundry duty this week?

[Carol Long @fixing_projects]

Free speech is alive and well in UK. It is because uncivil violence-inciting people are challenged by a law to protect others.

Where are the meaningful discussions that used to happen here?

[Carol Long @fixing_projects]

I joined Twitter to be informed and entertained, in bite-sized text from real sources. On X, most is now video adverts or political spin without fact-check. The level of misinformation takes too much energy. /1 of ?

[Carol Long @fixing_projects]

This week’s outrage about arrests for offensive speech omits that the majority of those arrested were actively harassing their targets - words and threats can be terrifying and debilitating. Have you seen someone so shocked and shaking they can barely stand?

[Carol Long @fixing_projects]

@Telegraph @CliveAslet @haveigotnews this one is too good for you to miss. Telegraph photo editor doesn’t know Dorset (Corfe) from Cornwall - or did they not fact check the AI?

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

So my neighbour’s house was on fire. He came running out saying “please call the fire brigade!” I said of course but only if he gifted me half of his possessions. He said no, so I told him to get stuffed. Do I get a Nobel Peace prize?

[Tim Dunn @MrTimDunn]

V pleased with news that @NetworkRailSE has signed a partnership deal with @bluebellrailway. NR gets to recycle old rail components by reusing them at Bluebell; Bluebell also gets promo space at London termini and NR staff can use volunteering days on the line.
It was an early ambition of the @Railway200 project for this to happen and whilst it’s not spoken of in the press release I think I’m allowed to say that there’s a hope that this ‘Route Agreement’ is replicated with other @networkrail regions and heritage railways around the UK.
Whilst asset relocation to heritage lines already happens a lot, these new Agreements provide a templated framework and process for it, and for other interesting partnership activities too. Nice.✅ https://t.co/hvMmBwSZ91

[Carol Long @fixing_projects]

@RNLI Have you seen the LEGO project? https://t.co/V1CTYBmf7C

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Look, I'm a @Wharton grad and a capitalist, meaning that I believe capitalism and free markets are the most efficient way of distributing goods and services worldwide and providing for the most economic benefits to the maximum number of people. But I'm also a Catholic priest who can see that free markets are not perfect. How can we tell? Just look around and see in even thriving capitalist economies millions of poor people, or, as they were often called at Wharton, the "transitional poor" (as if the poor are with us only until the ultimate flowering of the free-market system). Capitalism and free markets needs safety nets and they also need to be critiqued, regularly. Shutting down those critiques, or pretending that free markets are perfect, helps no one, especially not the poor. But of course who cares about them any longer?

[Carol Long @fixing_projects]

@MrTimDunn @festrail I’ve been lucky to ‘play’ on Chaloner at @buzzrail on more than one occasion

[Carol Long @fixing_projects]

entertainment @richardosman notes lack of bands in UK charts. in 2015 a change of licensing laws - solo artists and duos didn’t need venue performance license. Great for singer songwriters (finally) but musicians said it would change UK music forever. Perhaps they were right.

[Father Didymus ✝️⛪️🙏🏻🎸🏊‍♂️🥃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⛷🧶 @FrDidymus]

Speaking as someone who is proud to have worked with safeguarding victims, to those in the church who think it’s okay to hint at identifying a victim of sexual harassment without their permission you should (a) be ashamed (b) consider your position. It’s a fucking outrage. #rage

[Carol Long @fixing_projects]

@RevRichardColes - I hope @imacelebrity have a therapist and priest on hand to return him to ‘factory settings’, or I’m going to find it hard to trust him after his excellent performance as a con-merchant.

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Does anyone know why life saving air ambulances have to rely on funding from charities

But helicopters for the Royal Family are paid for by the tax payer?

[Carol Long @fixing_projects]

@TheWomanfredi I will always struggle with type B. Not a fan of the pink cardboard but love ginger biscuits .

[Carol Long @fixing_projects]

@3NNARD We can’t throw stones from our side of the Atlantic. We decided to vote for independence from the biggest driver of our economy - being part of the European economic system. We’ve still not recovered from Brexit after 8 years.