Charlotte Lillington

Tea drinker, sausage dog owner, Man Utd fan and proud Guern

[Charlotte Lillington @lills1981]

@SussexTW It’s still closed at Hickstead, everyone is coming off here (10.21)

[Charlotte Lillington @lills1981]

@SussexTW Doesn’t feel cleared to us (been on A23 since 7.30!)

[National Highways: South-East @HighwaysSEAST]

The #A23 in #WestSussex is closed northbound within the #A2300 #Goddard following a collision.

Traffic is being diverted via the exit and entry slip roads. Delays are currently 40 minutes above normal travel time.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

The horrifying reality of being a woman, perfectly summarised by @_CaitlinORyan

If you give even the slightest shit about women, watch it all. This is what it’s like.

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

Take it in. The first female chancellor. The first housing secretary who's actually lived in social housing. The first education secretary who was on free school meals. An energy secretary who actually believes in aggressively fighting climate change. Not a bad afternoon.

[BBC Sussex @BBCSussex]

The Liberal Democrats have gained Mid Sussex from the Conservatives.

Latest updates: https://t.co/AuRaOFujkn

[Charlotte Lillington @lills1981]

@richardosman Lots of absolute bangers that have been mentioned, but Dogtanian must be included in the running.

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

Rishi Sunak's Big D-Day Snub - A Definitive Thread...

Rishi Sunak skipped out on the main D-Day commemorations yesterday to rush home and record an ITN interview that won't even air until Wednesday next week.

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[John O'Farrell @mrjohnofarrell]

Sunak being drowned out by Things Can Only Get Better 😂

[M🍥 @Mo_utdred]

*Man United are leading the game*

Ten Hag substitutions:

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Rare brick that turned into Wine, saved the U.S. Wine Industry during Prohibition :

During chaotic days of Prohibition, wine producers, including those in the Inland Empire, were barred from producing most wine products. Some tried to keep their vineyards operating by offering a variety of legal products, such as grape juice and sacramental wines, but it was tough going.

The 3-inch by 4-inch grape bricks became popular in the late 1920s because federal laws did allow people to produce small amounts of wine for home use only. A grape brick is a dehydrated block of grape juice and pulp that was sold–quite legally–during Prohibition for people to make their own wine at home.

On the stained original box of the grape brick in the museum is the “warning” telling users NOT to use this to make alcohol. Beware, says the box, because the grape mixture in water will ferment in about 20 days. The box says if you wanted to “prevent fermentation, add 1/10 percent benzoate of soda.” There’s no evidence of a rush for benzoate of soda in those days. The box says the “juice” could also be used “for medicinal purposes,” though it advised checking with doctors first.

Informing consumers that using the grape brick for making alcohol was mostly illegal, the wording on the box also said the juice could be mixed with yeast and sugar to make different flavors, all with rather suggestive and familiar names: sherry, malaga, muscatel, rhine and burgundy, among others.

There were some reports that the grape brick didn’t make very good wine. But for the desperate, it was any port (or maybe zinfandel) in a storm. Despite the seemingly sincere warnings on the box, it didn’t take long for the feds to figure out that the grape bricks were just a thinly veiled way to dance around the Volstead Act, whose rules regulated Prohibition.

As the sales of bricks gained popularity throughout the United States, local and federal officials continued to feel they ought to do something about them. Three Vine Sano salesmen were arrested in New York City in August 1931, while more than a hundred people were arrested in Los Angeles about the same time. But as the end to Prohibition loomed, the desire to prosecute waned, as did the need for grape bricks.

📷 : One of the few remaining grape bricks dating from 1930s, in their original box, displayed at the Ontario Museum of History & Art.

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[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

“We are a reasonable country, but…”
this is so sinister and dangerous

We live in a democracy not a dictatorship & have courts so that everyone *including the Government* has to keep to the laws passed by Parliament
https://t.co/dGTsp8y8Tq

[Larry & Paul @larryandpaul]

👇🏻 #FridayFeeling: A message to the @Conservatives on behalf of the British people.

#ThankYouTories 🙏🏻

[Charlotte Lillington @lills1981]

I just signed @RiverActionUK's petition calling on political leaders to rescue our rivers and freshwaters to health for nature and people by 2030. Will you join me and add your name? #RescueBritainsRivers https://t.co/iv1KAr5De2 via @38degrees

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

I say Nadine Dorries must immediately pay back her MP salary since she ‘resigned’, back-dated to the last time she spoke in Parliament or last held a constituency surgery, whichever is the earlier. Retweet* if you agree.
#voteBinface

*Yes, tweet. Sorry Elon. This is Twitter.

[Greg James @gregjames]

This is the best FUCK OFFFFFFF ever recorded

[Charlotte Lillington @lills1981]

@BiggieDachshund Awww poor wee man! Big love from Brian and me 🥰

[Sausage Dog Hotel @SausageDogHotel]

This is so horrifying - please share especially if in the immediate area - They are looking for as much CCTV/Ringo footage as possible to help find this monster.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

Fully support the #TakeItDown campaign for businesses to remove netting that causes horrific suffering to birds. Wildlife must be protected. Fuck Asda and B&Q - boycott any business that uses netting until they take it down and stop killing birds in a such a cruel, agonising way

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Teachers in England are leaving 'in droves' according to the National Education Union.

Our Data Correspondent @C4Ciaran looks at the numbers behind the headline.