Comrade Sock XX 🍒

A quine on Skye. Me/Myself/I
#WomenWontWheesht
#AlbaRising

[Traffic Scotland @trafficscotland]

@NWTrunkRoads CLEAR✅❗️⌚️22:00
🗺️ #A87 Bun Loyne

☑️The #A87 has re-opened in both directions between Bun Loyne and Auchtertyre

🛣️All lanes are now running clear

#PlanAhead for future travel using the Traffic Scotland website 👉🏼 https://t.co/z7J1IPO1IK

@NWTrunkRoads

[Comrade Sock XX 🍒 @missbgrant]

@StagecoachHLand What about Skye services? Your app is useless

[Woodmoose 💜🤍💚 @Woodmoose]

My statement

[Comrade Sock XX 🍒 @missbgrant]

@MeghanEMurphy They have figured it out. The check out and check in times are a logical solution. Who wants to spend all their time in the hotel!
In my 50+ years, I've only used the early/late option a handful of times, and I'm happy to pay for it because I understand how their business works.

[Comrade Sock XX 🍒 @missbgrant]

@heyshipz

[Comrade Sock XX 🍒 @missbgrant]

@WingsScotland Thank you for your sacrifice of an evening.

[Comrade Sock XX 🍒 @missbgrant]

@buitengebieden

[Traffic Scotland @trafficscotland]

🌉Bridges Update 🌉
⌚ 13:00⌚

[Comrade Sock XX 🍒 @missbgrant]

@StagecoachBBird Any updates?

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Rest in peace, Patricia Routledge 🙏🏻

In memory of her, I encourage everyone to read these words of hers from February last year.

Whether young or old, you're bound to get something out of it.

*****

"I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn’t live up to my mother’s hopes. But these days begin in peace, and end in gratitude.

My life didn’t quite take shape until my forties. I had worked steadily — on provincial stages, in radio plays, in West End productions — but I often felt adrift, as though I was searching for a home within myself that I hadn’t quite found.

At 50, I accepted a television role that many would later associate me with — Hyacinth Bucket, of Keeping Up Appearances. I thought it would be a small part in a little series. I never imagined that it would take me into people’s living rooms and hearts around the world. And truthfully, that role taught me to accept my own quirks. It healed something in me.

At 60, I began learning Italian — not for work, but so I could sing opera in its native language. I also learned how to live alone without feeling lonely. I read poetry aloud each evening, not to perfect my diction, but to quiet my soul.

At 70, I returned to the Shakespearean stage — something I once believed I had aged out of. But this time, I had nothing to prove. I stood on those boards with stillness, and audiences felt that. I was no longer performing. I was simply being.

At 80, I took up watercolour painting. I painted flowers from my garden, old hats from my youth, and faces I remembered from the London Underground. Each painting was a quiet memory made visible.

Now, at 95, I write letters by hand. I’m learning to bake rye bread. I still breathe deeply every morning. I still adore laughter — though I no longer try to make anyone laugh. I love the quiet more than ever.

I’m writing this to tell you something simple:

Growing older is not the closing act. It can be the most exquisite chapter — if you let yourself bloom again.

Let these years ahead be your TREASURE YEARS.

You don’t need to be famous. You don’t need to be flawless.

You only need to show up — fully — for the life that is still yours.

With love and gentleness,

Patricia Routledge

*****

Once more, rest in peace. 🤍

[Comrade Sock XX 🍒 @missbgrant]

Shared with you by a Times subscriber.

Enjoy this article for free.

https://t.co/NBETuYWtg8

[Comrade Sock XX 🍒 @missbgrant]

😆 😆

[Sebastian 💚🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇭 @LordOfBrum]

Please oh lord prevent the trans exclusionary radical fascists from finding this tweet

[Mark Quinn Bratton @berkswell]

@Olive_the_ab0ve No! I have spoken to very many trans people. And I think the gender identity ideology that animates so much transactivism is not only untruthful but deeply damaging to many mainly young people. Indeed it is driving the worst medical ethical crisis of the 21 st century.

[Comrade Sock XX 🍒 @missbgrant]

https://t.co/RP3dpBzEA1

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

My petition to the UK Government for full transparency on the impacts of 86 deregulated free zones across England, Scotland, and Wales has finally been approved.
I urge people across the UK to sign and share this petition as widely as possible.
This is hugely important for the future of your communities, your property rights, your land, your towns, your cities, your councils, your citizenship rights, your collective sovereignty, for rejoining the EU, and the use of your taxes to fund corporations like US Blackrock, who pay zero taxes in free zones for 10 years.
The UK's 86 deregulated free zones are licensed for a quarter of a century, and are embedded with secondary legislation, meaning zero Parliamentary and public scrutiny.
This is in your hands now.
Petition: Transparency and Review of the free zones and ports impacts https://t.co/aH1mgtUni6

[Comrade Sock XX 🍒 @missbgrant]

https://t.co/nrjN36Hsr8

[Comrade Sock XX 🍒 @missbgrant]

The Narrative Around Affirming Parents Doesn’t Tell the Full Story https://t.co/uSbeD0yqGd

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

This thread will make your day

1. Taking a break

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

7. A 5-year-old boy invited his entire kindergarten class to witness his adoption. They all showed up.

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

This is the most horrific story you’ll read in a while. Karen was to have an urgent hysterectomy, and on requesting that Rose not be on the team, was asked: ‘How would Rose feel if she was asked not to come to theatre?’

Lack of paywall deserves credit.

https://t.co/Z0vVDBi2RR