When we prescribe to extremes, it is often because life has gotten so out of control we need radical change as a diversion from the personal pain we are feeling in the moment.
It's the shortest day of the year. Which means from tomorrow our days will start to get lighter and brighter. Before we know it, there'll be the delicate colour of blossom on the trees. #WinterSolstice#EveryoneNeedsNature
Thanks to all those people who use this platform to portray thier winning lives , if you child has done something, or you're going on holiday or have saved the planet or political issue , fuck off I dont want to know.
Hard to believe that he's been gone for 5 years. Partly because I carry the-Dad-in-my-head everywhere I go, which means I always have to order Bananana daiquiris whenever see them. This is how I like to remember him - laughing with a bird on his head.
Today in my garden, amidst the thrust and hurl of wind; this Robin, perched still & steadfast just sang, for so long. There and then, all I felt was hope and the strongest surge of determination. Nature does that, it forges unimaginable purpose. In fragility there is strength.
@blueapplebunch I will continue to vary my diet, in the knowledge that less meat protein and more plant protein overall should be better for me and our incredible planet , one step at time 🙂
Don’t get old.
Don’t get sick.
Don’t get disabled.
Don’t get unemployed.
Don’t get zero hours contracted.
Don’t get poor.
Don’t get unlucky.
Don’t get depressed.
Don’t get vulnerable.
Don’t get abused.
Don’t get ideas above your station.
Britain, 2020.
I don’t think any of us who witnessed what happened in the House of Commons today, whether in person or on TV, will ever forget it. I think the genuine, inhuman, toxic horror of it will remain etched in my mind for the rest of my life.
@HughFW@alicesalisburyj@rivercottage Hugh are you really saying that river cottage can trot out the same "working on it" excuse that every business you have ever lambasted uses ?
@MollyMEP I haven't needed to listen to this yet , other than the subtitle the body language says everything , finger pointing aggression has always disgusted me, always will , the harm is magnified when I think that there are millions of people that could think this represents us , shame