@Malcolm_theCat A perfect picture of peace and contentment and knowing alls right with the world, a cats world anyway 🐈⬛I did spy BD in the background having a sniff and a nibble , we love you dear Malcy xxxxx🐈⬛🐶
Chums! Baby Dog here. It’s suddenly hot again! I just wanted to tell you that our Blue Delphiniums and Red Geraniums are blooming beautifully. Mum always plants them together in tribute to A.A.Milne’s lovely poem ‘The Dormouse and the Doctor’:
There once was a Dormouse who lived in a bed
Of delphiniums (blue) and geraniums (red)
And all the day long he'd a wonderful view
Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue)
It’s a beautiful poem - do look it up if you’d like to read it all! ❤️💙
I’m used to the deer coming in and having a buffet of the flowers,they especially enjoy the roses and geraniums 🙄But this morning I spied another visitor…a little rabbit, haven’t seen one in years, it’s going to be an eventful Summer methinks 😬😂
He died at 30 because he gave his only chance at life to a child he didn’t even know.
His name was Giuseppe Girolamo — a young drummer from southern Italy who had been living his dream, performing aboard the Costa Concordia.
On the night of January 13, 2012, the cruise ship moved through the calm Tyrrhenian Sea like a glowing city on water. Music played, glasses clinked, passengers laughed, unaware of what was coming.
Some were heading to dinner. Others were dancing on deck, unaware the ship’s path had already turned fatal beneath the surface.
Then a violent grinding sound tore through the hull as the ship struck rocks near Isola del Giglio.
In an instant, everything changed. Power failed. Lights went dark. The vessel began to tilt at a horrifying angle as panic erupted and the order to abandon ship was shouted.
Passengers rushed in every direction, desperate to reach lifeboats.
Giuseppe, as part of the crew, had an assigned place in an evacuation boat. His survival spot was already secured.
But as he reached the evacuation point, he saw a frightened mother, Antonella, holding her small daughter. The lifeboat was full. There was no space left for them.
Without a moment’s pause, Giuseppe stepped aside.
He looked at them and simply said, “Please, take my place.”
He gave up his seat — the only guaranteed chance he had to survive — so the mother and child could escape instead.
Giuseppe could not swim.
As the lifeboat drifted away from the leaning ship, he remained on the deck, watching it fade into the dark sea.
Later, while attention turned to the captain’s failure and the unfolding disaster, Giuseppe’s act stood out as something pure inside the chaos. His decision was briefly mentioned in reports, but remembered deeply by survivors.
Months later, divers recovered his body from the wreck of the Costa Concordia.
But by then, his story had already been written in the lives of those he saved — the mother and daughter who returned home because of him.
In a night defined by panic and survival instinct, one young man chose someone else’s life over his own.
Giuseppe Girolamo didn’t just play music on that ship.
He became the rhythm of courage itself.
But his story lives on whenever the sea is crossed at night, and whenever a stranger chooses compassion over fear and survival. still today always forever.
“Rescuing Buttons has been the best decision we’ve ever made. She brings so much happiness to our lives and everyone she meets.
We’re so lucky to have her. We’re obsessed. I thoroughly recommend adopting a homeless dog” ~ @LiamGallagher.
Thanks to @NiallHarbison and his team at @wearehappydoggo for rescuing Buttons 🙏 ❤️🩹.
#AdoptDontShop ❤️.
Really saddened that only 334 people in the entire world have donated to save the rescued Boars. Their home in Wales is up for sale and we must buy it. (DEFRA has restrictions on their location) they suffered appalling cruelty and their fate is in jeopardy.. please donate ‼️👇🐷