Lisa Foskett

Me, wife, mum. Love my family, love taking photos - some good, some not so... but they’re all memories. Always dreaming!

[Lisa Foskett @lisafoskett20]

@the_christnats …and everyone stands there, filming!!!!

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@MattPinner_ Thank you and be grateful.

[Lisa Foskett @lisafoskett20]

Absolutely this!

[steven collis 📸 @tintininkent]

Think @Feargal_Sharkey will like him 👍🏼👍🏼

[Music over time🎻 @Peal8888]

Dutch Opera Singer Maria Fiselier covering Eminem's "Lose Yourself", in 2018. What an amazing rendition! 👏

[Lisa Foskett @lisafoskett20]

@TheLittleWaster Wow!! 😮

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@AlexaBliz_ 2!

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@TheDinosaurous @NormanBrennan With peer pressures as they can be, this isn’t always easy. We must drum it into our children! Am terrified as our kids are at the age where friends are starting to drive & they may face these decisions… just hoping we’ve done enough! This is so sad for all families involved.

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@KatieMagnet Congratulations to you and all! 👶💐🍾🥂

[Lisa Foskett @lisafoskett20]

New music!… please have a listen, download and share. Available on all streaming platforms.
https://t.co/5vQogRiswQ

[Lisa Foskett @lisafoskett20]

@CatHobbs @PamAyres @Feargal_Sharkey @DefraGovUK This man deserves a Knighthood!!

[BSAT Properties @BSAT_Properties]

I was on a train in Tokyo. We stopped between stations. Announcement in Japanese, then in English: "We apologize for the delay. We will resume shortly."

The delay was maybe 3 minutes. Not a big deal.

When the train started moving again, another announcement: "We sincerely apologize for the delay. We were stopped for 3 minutes and 20 seconds. This is unacceptable. Thank you for your patience."

Three minutes and twenty seconds. They measured it exactly. And called it unacceptable.

When I got off at my stop, there were station staff on the platform bowing and handing out delay certificates.

I took one out of curiosity. It was an official document stating that the train had been delayed by 3 minutes and 20 seconds, signed and stamped.

The staff member said in English "for your employer. So they know the delay was not your fault."

I said I'm a tourist, I don't need it. He looked confused. "But the delay affected you. You deserve an apology."

Three minutes. They were treating a three-minute delay like a major incident.

Later I mentioned this to a Japanese friend. They said "oh yes, delay certificates are normal. Trains are supposed to be exactly on time. If they are late, they must apologize."

I said three minutes isn't late, it's nothing. My friend said "in Japan, three minutes is late. On time means on time. Not approximately on time."

They said the train company probably investigated why there was a 3-minute delay. "They will find the cause and fix it so it doesn't happen again."

I kept the certificate. It's framed in my apartment now. A reminder that somewhere in the world, people care about three minutes.

© 6IX.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Myth: "I only wear vegan fabrics. Better for the animals, better for the planet."

Let's check in on Doris's annual contribution.

Once a year, in late spring, Doris is sheared. The procedure takes approximately three minutes. Doris does not enjoy it. Doris does not, by any visible measure, suffer from it. Doris is, immediately afterwards, a noticeably more comfortable animal in the British summer.

The fleece weighs approximately 3 kilograms. It is sold to the British Wool Marketing Board for, depending on the year, between £0.40 and £2.50 per kilogram. The shearing costs more than the wool fetches. Brian is shearing Doris at a loss.

The wool is then:
- Naturally flame-retardant
- Naturally antibacterial
- Moisture-wicking
- Biodegradable
- Renewable, annually
- Carbon-storing while in use

The replacement, in performance fabrics:
- Polyester
- Polyamide
- Acrylic
- Polypropylene
- All petroleum-derived
- All shedding microplastics on every wash
- All requiring fossil fuel inputs to produce
- All non-biodegradable, with a typical landfill lifespan of 200-500 years

A single wash of a polyester fleece can release up to 700,000 microplastic fibres into the water system. These fibres are now in: every tested water source on earth, every tested human placenta, every tested rainfall sample, the deep ocean, the Arctic ice, and the lungs of marine mammals.

A single wash of a wool jumper releases: nothing. The wool, when eventually disposed of, returns to soil within a few years.

The fabric being marketed as the "ethical" alternative to wool is plastic.

The plastic is "ethical" because nobody has been asked to slaughter the polymer.

The polymer also has not been asked.

Doris, by being a sheep on a fell, is producing the most thoroughly sustainable performance fabric humans have ever made.

Brian is selling it at a loss.

The fashion industry, meanwhile, is selling petroleum at a profit and calling it ethical.

Reject plastic. Wear wool.

Doris is, this morning, growing next year's batch.

[Lisa Foskett @lisafoskett20]

@TheEXECUTlONER_ What a voice!

[Lisa Foskett @lisafoskett20]

@KatieMagnet Well done - Hope you’re keeping well too.

[Lisa Foskett @lisafoskett20]

@JohnSimpsonNews Such an example and inspiration.

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@Darkdarling00 20! 😳🥴

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

Don’t know her, but she made me cry.

[Lisa Foskett @lisafoskett20]

Love this!…

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This!…

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What she said🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[Lisa Foskett @lisafoskett20]

@ick_real Iris, Hetty, Florence, Winifred (Winnie), Evelyn, Dorothy, Edith.