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[FeelGoodThoughts @feelgoodtale]

George Harrison stands at the gates of Friar Park,staring at what most people would call a disaster.

The Victorian mansion is decaying. Grass grows through the floors. The once-famous gardens are wild and overrun. Greenhouses have collapsed. Grottoes are buried. Paths have vanished under decades of neglect.

He’s 27. The Beatles have just broken up. He could go anywhere. Do anything. The world is waiting for his next move.

Instead, he buys the ruin and starts digging.

Not as a hobby. As a way of life.
He hires ten gardeners and works beside them from dawn until midnight, hands in the soil. His sister-in-law sees the place and asks what he’s thinking. George doesn’t explain. He just keeps working.

His son Dhani grows up watching his father gardening by moonlight, squinting in the dark because the shadows hide the imperfections that bothered him during the day. The music industry keeps calling — albums, tours, interviews. More George Harrison, the Beatle.
George wants to plant trees.
Friar Park isn’t just a garden. It’s a strange Victorian dream: caves, tunnels, a four-acre Alpine rock garden topped with a miniature Matterhorn, and gnomes everywhere. He even photographs himself among them for All Things Must Pass — then goes back to pruning.

When a nursery owner mentions slow sales, George buys one of everything. When someone offers 800 types of maple trees, he takes them all. His wife Olivia remembers him saying, “It’s not my garden, Liv.” He saw himself as a caretaker. The garden didn’t belong to him — he belonged to it.

By 1980, he publishes his autobiography and dedicates it “to gardeners everywhere.” He writes that he’s simple. He doesn’t want the business full-time. He’s a gardener. He plants flowers and watches them grow.

Journalists visit and call it un-rock-star-like. George doesn’t mind. He’s lived Beatlemania, stadium screams, cultural revolutions. Compared to restoring hedges, it felt empty.
After John Lennon’s murder, the gates close for good. George and Olivia keep working — not for visitors, but for the work itself.

He dies in 2001. Today, the gardens are considered masterpieces of Victorian landscaping. Olivia still tends them. The estate remains private.

George Harrison chose dirt under his fingernails over applause.

And in that choice, he found something stadiums never gave him.

Freedom.

[norma curtis @normskimum]

@nypost Who is it?

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@ArundelXVI @unreMARKLEble The blazer. Is more evening wear.

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@unreMARKLEble She never gets the dress sense right . But her hair dresses is top of the class for a clown outfit

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@Emmaiid11 Never underestimate people when threatened , they get the strength .

[Emma 🇺🇸 @Emmaiid11]

🚨FAFO: They saw a 77-year-old woman alone at an ATM in Bromborough, England and thought she was an easy target.

Winifred Peel was withdrawing her money when three teenagers closed in.

One shoved her out of the way. Another lunged for the cash. They were expecting a helpless victim.

They picked the wrong woman.

Winifred grabbed 19-year-old Felix Stoica by the collar and smashed his head into the ATM not once, but THREE times. He was left bloodied, and that blood plus the CCTV sealed the fate of the whole gang.

Within days, all three were in handcuffs. Felix Stoica, Florin Geblescu and Piper Dumitru admitted to the robbery and were sent to prison.

Later, Winifred said her time in the gym is what gave her the strength to fight back. She admitted the attack rattled her, but she was never going to let them walk away with her money.

They thought her age made her weak.

They learned the hard way that courage doesn't fade with age and you should never underestimate a 77-year-old woman.

[Huriye @Huriye]

I agree. Infact what has Malala given back to Britain after rescuing her from being shot by the Taliban for going to school? She received Asylum for the entire family, free medical care, housing, University education. Yet she publicly cavorts with a woman who attacked Britain. 🤔

[WW2 The Eastern Front @ShoahUkraine]

Willi Graf, a devout Catholic who refused to join the Hitler Youth and a member of the White Rose, a German pacifist anti-Nazi resistance movement, was beheaded by at Stadelheim Prison in Munich, Germany, on October 12, 1943, exactly 83 years ago today. He was 25 years old.

[Liverpool Echo @LivEchonews]

Merseybeat legend dies aged 85 as tributes paid
https://t.co/7QWc6YwLre

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@seanonolennon @JulianLennon How’s the new baby?

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

BBC football pundit Shay Given marries his fiancée after 12-year engagement in stunning ceremony at Westminster Abbey - with special 'blue blood' permission to use the royal church https://t.co/sjrXyEP0o7

[norma curtis @normskimum]

@fasc1nate Strange tale

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@vanK1747947 @paulamatanovich No she’s 52

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@paulamatanovich We want privacy!

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@nancytsidley @monica531 Never trusted her , when she ws talking about the advantages she got by injury she got : All her family came here never went back to help the other girls . Her father was smug about the position they have though her fame & charity.
Yeah . Funny that ,isnit

[liverpoolyesterday2yesteryear @scousegary1]

an alley off scotland road in the 1940s

[norma curtis @normskimum]

@onorma_ Spot on !

[Speedomick B.E.M BCAv @speedomick]

#worldmentalgealthday

World Mental Health Day ❤️
Sometimes the hardest thing in the world is admitting you're struggling and asking for help. I've been in some very dark places myself, and I know how difficult it can be to reach out when you feel lost and alone. But please remember, asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's an act of courage. You don't have to face everything life throws at you on your own. Reach out, talk to someone, and never forget that even in your darkest moments, there is hope. ❤️

Hope Lives in the Darkest Places. ✨️🫶
Keep the faith, lift others 🫶

[According2Taz @according2_taz]

Look what just arrived! Now have to hide it from my husband until December. He can sniff out chocolate like an ant eater does ants 🐜 🍫

Thank you to The Leprosy Mission ❤️

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

Margaret Hamilton, who led the team that wrote the code that put humans on the moon, has died at 90 🕊️