Wondering how HALO got started?
Historian Angus Mitchell, son of our founder Colin Mitchell, has researched in detail the early days of HALO in Afghanistan in the late 1980s for @EdinburghUP
Read more here ⤵️
https://t.co/MDBUxRb81o
Deeply frustrated at @British_Airways online booking. Can't even call them up as their lines are too busy AND they took 41,000 Avios off me for no good reason last year. I don't care how well they fly - their pre-flight admin and Avios rules leave a lot to be desired.
Deeply frustrated at @britishairways online booking. Can't even call them up as their lines are too busy. AND they took 41,000 Avios off me for no good reason last year. I don't care how well they fly - their pre-flight admin and Avios rules leave a lot to be desired.
This recent video from Kent shows the continued importance of monitoring for Asian yellow-legged hornets across the country.
A NBU statement brought good and bad news. The good that sightings are decreasing. The bad that fertile queens have been found.
Please stay vigilant.
Tried to sign-up to @southeasternwater online. They are advertising https://t.co/AYUVxvHN00 - but that doesn't work - it should be https://t.co/kSNB1wZBzZ - The contact centre number doesn't work either - they must be under a lot of pressure!
Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”