John Rimm

Retired - and wish I had more spare time... Fern🌈 but not forgotten.

[John Rimm @john_rimm]

@magsLancashire @LookingBack22 😉

[hullsaddler @hullsaddler]

As I've been plugging our Open Gardens in #Hull, a brief appearance by an old man, in ours, who seems to be me according to the caption!
Crossing the Rubicon, the poem I wrote about trying to cope with the garden as I get older is in the reply.

[John Rimm @john_rimm]

@55North2West "Gave you my heart
Gave you my soul
You left me alone here
With nothing to hold
Yesterday's gone
Now all I want
Is a smile..." 😉

[Paul Crabtree 🇬🇧 @pacrabtree]

It's a damp start with light rain. It's expected to last on and off most of the day. Maximum temperature around 18°c. Next week looking dry and becoming warmer. #Brampton #Cumbria

[Paul Crabtree 🇬🇧 @pacrabtree]

It's a dull cloudy start after a little overnight rain. Remaining cloudy today with some patchy light rain this afternoon. Maximum temperature around 19°c #Brampton #Cumbria

[hullsaddler @hullsaddler]

#flowersonfriday #hull
2nd Sunday of 50th anniversary Avenues Open Gardens this w/e.
40 gardens for a fiver!
You're v welcome in ours. A quick walk down last Sunday in case you can't make it ☺️

[ginty @glassbasics]

https://t.co/0PeMb5Vmrb

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

In 1974, a twenty-six-year-old waitress in Los Angeles quietly gives her exhausted father one final deadline: three more months of music, then she comes home for good.

She has no idea the call that changes everything is already on its way, arriving three days before her own deadline runs out.

Her name is Stephanie Lynn Nicks. As a toddler, she could not pronounce "Stephanie." It came out "Stevie" instead, and the nickname stuck for life.

Stevie was born May 26, 1948. Her father's corporate career moved the family constantly — Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Utah before they finally settled in California when she was a teenager.

In 1966, she transfers into Menlo-Atherton High School as a senior. At an after-school "Young Life" meeting, a junior named Lindsey Buckingham starts strumming "California Dreamin'." Stevie sits down and starts singing harmony without being asked.

Two years pass before they speak again. Then Buckingham calls, inviting her to sing for his band, Fritz. She says yes.

Fritz opens for Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix but never lands a record deal. By 1971, the band collapses, and Stevie and Lindsey — now a couple as well as collaborators — move to Los Angeles to try again as a duo.

In September 1973, Polydor Records releases their album, Buckingham Nicks. Critics like it. Nobody buys it. The label drops them almost immediately.

Stevie takes a waitressing job at Clementine's, a Beverly Hills bar, earning $1.50 an hour. She also cleans houses on the side. Lindsey tours briefly as a backing musician for Don Everly. At night, the two of them keep writing songs nobody has heard yet — including one called "Rhiannon."

Here's what most people miss: by the fall of 1974, Stevie Nicks had essentially given up.

Her father had just undergone open heart surgery. Watching his daughter waitress and clean houses in another state weighed on him. So Stevie made him a promise: three more months. If nothing happened by January, she would come home and go back to college.

She kept the promise a secret from almost no one. She was tired, thin, and scared the music would never work.

Then, in late 1974, producer Keith Olsen plays a track from the failed Buckingham Nicks album for a drummer scouting a Los Angeles studio for new material. The song is "Frozen Love," a seven-minute epic closing the record. The drummer is transfixed.

His name is Mick Fleetwood, and his band, Fleetwood Mac, has just lost its guitarist.

On New Year's Eve, 1974, Fleetwood calls Olsen for the guitarist's name. Olsen tells him: Lindsey Buckingham. But Buckingham and Nicks are a package deal, Olsen warns — take one, you take both.

Fleetwood agrees, mostly because he needs a guitar player and has no particular opinion about the singer. He does not yet know what he has just done.

Stevie doesn't quit her waitressing job right away. She keeps working it for three more days after saying yes, unwilling to leave her boss without notice, unsure the opportunity is even real.

On January 1, 1975, Fleetwood Mac begins rehearsing with its new lineup. The band's next album, self-titled and released later that year, sells 500,000 copies by December and reaches Number 1 on the Billboard 200. Two of Stevie's songs, "Rhiannon" and "Landslide," become instant signatures.

Two years later, the band records Rumours while Stevie and Lindsey's relationship collapses in real time, alongside the marriage of bandmates John and Christine McVie. The album turns their breakups into songs. "Dreams," written by Nicks, becomes Fleetwood Mac's only Number 1 single in the United States. Worldwide, Rumours goes on to sell more than 40 million copies.

Stevie Nicks never went back to college. She stayed with Fleetwood Mac for decades, launched a solo career in 1981 with the album Bella Donna, and built a catalog now credited with more than 120 million records sold worldwide.

In December 2018, she is announced as an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for a second time — first as a member of Fleetwood Mac, now as a solo artist — making her the first woman ever inducted twice.

Decades later, a new generation of artists, including Taylor Swift, would cite her as a direct influence. Swift has called Nicks one of her childhood heroes, brought her onstage as a guest, and referenced her by name in a song of her own — a small tribute passed from one generation of songwriters to the next.

None of it happens if that three-month deadline runs out one phone call too early.

The waitress at Clementine's had no way of knowing how close she came to walking away — or how close the answer was to finding her first.

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

It may not seem like it some days, but I can tell you the world is still full of truly good people with kind, loving hearts.
There are people who see the broken hedgehogs here, and want to help mend them, so they send supplies from my Amazon wishlist, or donate towards the cost of medicines via PayPal.
Without being asked, without expecting reward or praise.
Without fanfare.
Every day I am reminded of the sheer depth of humanity that abounds, despite eager reports to the contrary.🥹
Thank you to everyone who spares time, money and effort to help the hedgehogs, either in their own garden or by retweeting my infograms, or donating.
Plus all your words of loving encouragement.
Whether or not you realise it, you are all quite extraordinary.
You are my heroes, life savers.
And I couldn't do what I do without you.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
The parcels with notes were from Kay W, Wendy B, Phil E, Karen and Bertie, Susan R, In honour of Christopher Viney, Ray and Sue H, Christine R, Susan D, Amy C, Jennifer R.

[Paul Crabtree 🇬🇧 @pacrabtree]

It's a dull cloudy start after a little overnight rain. Dry at first today with a few showers expected mid morning. Dry spot then light rain this afternoon lasting into the evening. Max temperature around 19°c which is around normal. #Brampton #Cumbria

[Malcolm Clark @TwisterFilm]

Everything Andy Burnham proposes was tried 60 years ago by another PM from the North of England who represented a Lancashire constituency. In 1966 UK debt was 84% of GDP and falling. It’s now 95% and rising. If Harold Wilson’s policies didn’t work then why would they work now?👇

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 BREAKING: THE MASK HAS COMPLETELY SLIPPED ON THE NEW PRIME MINISTER.

Andy Burnham has just delivered his very first major policy speech as the presumptive Prime Minister, and his true authoritarian colours are already on full display. 🤡

He literally stood at the podium and declared: "The political direction I will set is not up for negotiation."

You honestly have to laugh at the absolute brass neck of this man!

He is not even inside Downing Street yet, and he is already dictating his terms like a tin-pot dictator.

He spent the last 9 years pretending to be a soft-spoken champion of local democracy and "collaborative politics" just to get his foot in the door.

But the second he gets within touching distance of absolute power, he admits the truth.

He is going to force his hard-left, pension-destroying, pro-EU agenda on this country, and he is telling the British public that you have absolutely zero say in it.

This is not leadership. This is a hostile takeover by the globalist uniparty.

RT to expose the real, dictatorial Andy Burnham before they officially crown him on July 20th! 🔁🇬🇧🔥

[John Rimm @john_rimm]

@pattinso9 Here are a few of ours...👍😉

[John Rimm @john_rimm]

@pattinso9 Day Lily, Hemerocallis, they are a good reliable show - the many flowers will each bloom for one day. We have several of them... That one is very pretty.🥰

[Paul Crabtree 🇬🇧 @pacrabtree]

If anyone has any damage from today's hail or strong winds can you please let me know. Collating information, especially Smithfield and towards Roadhead areas. Thankyou #Cumbria #Weather #Thunder

[Paul Crabtree 🇬🇧 @pacrabtree]

It's a dull cool cloudy start with a few showers not far away. Rest of the day should be mainly dry but often cloudy. Maximum temperature 18°c. Some light rain expected overnight. #Brampton #Cumbria

[Paul Crabtree 🇬🇧 @pacrabtree]

A collection of hailstone photographs kindly shared by local residents in the Roadhead area of NE Cumbria. Taken yesterday afternoon as a severe thunderstorm moved through. Damaged caused to cars, greenhouses , some flooding and power loss #Cumbria #Thunderstorms

[Paul Crabtree 🇬🇧 @pacrabtree]

It's a dry cloudy start and feeling a little fresher at 19.5°c. Mainly dry today with sunny spells. Maximum temperature around 24°c so a much more pleasant day. Can't rule out a few showers later but no thunder anticipated this time. #Brampton #Cumbria

[Paul Crabtree 🇬🇧 @pacrabtree]

It's a warm start 23.3°c with a few spots of rain. We have missed out on the storms overnight. Risk is still there for the next couple of hours. So some rain this morning but clearing. Back to the sun by late morning. Maximum temperature around 28°c #Brampton #Cumbria