PollGallagher ☘️

Music / Film / True Crime lover, School Business Manager and vintage loving bird!
Don't look back.... you're not going that way!!

[Stop School Cuts @SchoolCuts]

15 years of cuts.
When will the Government turn the page on school funding?
@RachelReevesMP
@wesstreeting
@bphillipsonMP
@Ed_Miliband

[PollGallagher ☘️ @PollGallagher]

@O2ApolloManc Pity you're leaving people outside waiting in the rain to get soaked before they come in.... no information about the show start time! Very very poor customer service!

[PollGallagher ☘️ @PollGallagher]

@SchoolCuts This is a country wise issue... no protection for school budgets in areas with inconsistent birth rate projections. How do we plan/afford staffing costs with massive in-year falling numbers and budget adjustments?!

[PollGallagher ☘️ @PollGallagher]

@Keir_Starmer Schools are part funding these FREE breakfast clubs, which they can not afford to do... as your insufficient funding doesn't cover costs. Education funding is in the worst state its ever been @Keir_Starmer ... school buildings are crumbling, and you post lies like this!!

[PollGallagher ☘️ @PollGallagher]

@Matt_Pinner 20 for me!

[PollGallagher ☘️ @PollGallagher]

@Mishi_2210 52

[Stop School Cuts @SchoolCuts]

The Chancellor says “this is a Government that is on the side of our kids.”

But children are learning in coats because heating is unaffordable.

Scared to use bathrooms because toilets are broken.

Missing school because needs aren’t being met.

Let's hold her to account.

[Stop School Cuts @SchoolCuts]

Education is running on empty.

Today's #AutumnBudget has done nothing to improve this.

With no plans to stop school cuts, roofs will continue to leak, teachers will keep paying for their own supplies, and heads will keep having to make impossible decisions in their budgets.

[PollGallagher ☘️ @PollGallagher]

@TUIUK almost an hour to check in... 10 TUI desks and 2 staff!! Shocking! @EMAirport must lose a fortune because of people waiting.... not even a accessable desk staff member so delayed even further because of that.

[PollGallagher ☘️ @PollGallagher]

@NorrisNozzer @thecure Me too!

[PollGallagher ☘️ @PollGallagher]

@TwistedNerve_1 @LiveNationUK @thecure me too!! gutted.

[Stop School Cuts @SchoolCuts]

☀️ Students aren’t the only ones ending their summer holidays tomorrow.

🧑⚖️ As parliament concludes its recess, reinstating school funding must be its top priority.

Let’s get our children the education they deserve.

Join now 👉 https://t.co/7wgF5IeVyG

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

*One month before her 95th birthday, Patricia Routledge wrote something that still gently echoes:*

**“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 watercolor 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

[Stop School Cuts @SchoolCuts]

📚 Families, educators and pupils across the country are worried about what the new term will bring: more cuts, fewer resources, and less support.

🗣 That’s why so many are signing up to take action and demand the reversal of school cuts.

Will you join them? https://t.co/nvTTDrjwyC

[Community Notes & Violations @CNviolations]

Devastating...

[Stop School Cuts @SchoolCuts]

“More children are entering our nursery settings and our reception classes with speech, language delays, difficulties in emotional regulation and emerging needs. Without swift action, we are baking lifelong disadvantage into the system."

⚠️ Children with additional needs require personalised and specialised attention.

But when needs grow but funding shrinks, our pupils are held back from fulfilling their potential.

https://t.co/rJ6kYR3dmz

[PollGallagher ☘️ @PollGallagher]

@Keir_Starmer That's a fair point... but Kier, what about schools whose cash flow is at crisis point and can only pay a handful of invoices per month because of the dire education budgets?

[🐢 @turtlebreezee]

Trauma changes you ..like it literally alters your DNA, damages your mental health and takes a toll on your quality of living ..THIS is why we heal ..THIS is why we detach and go into solitude.

[Libriscent @libriscent]

I’ll never understand how people are ok with themselves knowing they emotionally destroyed someone.