Leo Tolstoy once said...
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness."
🎨 Isaac Levitan (1885)
"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day."
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Great Meadow in Pobojka
🎨 Stanislav Zhukovsky
This is a disgrace, a total waste of your council tax income @SheffCouncil, spraying poison in residential streets on weeds that are causing no major issue at all, apart from providing food and shelter for small creatures... disgusting! 😡
“The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.” Rumi
A painting that went viral back in the day.
And changed things for me so much.
I wish I knew the recipe as I'd do it all the time!
#womensart
Good Morning ☀️
~
Maybe the desire to make
something beautiful is the
piece of God that is inside
each of us. - Mary Oliver
~
Blackbird Pair
Lucy Grossmith.
Good Afternoon ☀️
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It doesn't matter where
you go in life ,
it's who you have beside you
that makes it worthwhile.
~
Artist : Hope Gangloff. #Caturday
Ah the old lie "nationalisation will cost billions".
James Murry @jamesmurray_ldn you just told Justin Web @JustinOnWeb on the Today programme @BBCr4today that nationalising the water industry "costs huge amounts of money".
I challenge you sir, prove it, prove a single word of it and if you can't or won't then stop repeating the lie for that's what it is, a lie.
"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Morning (1916) 🎨 Elioth Gruner
Forget not that the earth
delights to feel your
bare feet
and the winds long to
play with your hair. - (Kahlil Gibran)
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Margaret W Tarrant (1888-1959)
If only Ed Miliband and Rachael Reeves had actually ‘broken the link’ - our energy bills would be lower now - I’ve shown them both how ’the link’ added £43 billion to our energy bills in 2023. We allow the price of gas to set the price of all other electricity in Britain, even made from the wind and sun - and when global gas prices go crazy, so does the price of our own green energy.
Two weeks ago Ed and Rachael announced they were breaking the link, days later when the detail came out we could see they had done no such thing. Offering voluntary contracts to legacy green generation is a joke. Their own forecasts are for a 10% take up by 2030 - a pointless gesture - other than the great headlines they got. But a betrayal of the country and arguably the government, many of whom believed the rhetoric. Not breaking the link allows right wing types to continue to blame green levies for what is a fossil fuel crisis, made worse by a defective market mechanism.
Keir Starmer should take control of this - and actually break the link.