SaffronKim

Loves London & the strangeness of life. SocFem. Lesbian. Can’t bear snobs or racists. Lost the love of my life, my partner of 26 yrs to lung cancer in 2021.

[SaffronKim @SaffronKim]

If one more person says to me ‘She’s in a better place” I swear I won’t be responsible for my rudeness. #grief

[Green Planet @Elizabeth_Ruler]

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen.

[Langtang Man @Dyedo60]

@NiohBerg It appears to be Burnsall in the Yorkshire Dales and the property is actually an hotel, not a home. At this time of year most, not all, visitors are fairly local and in good weather this is a common site at that location, all perfectly normal!

[Critical Eye @CriticalEyeGB]

It's Burnsall Park, near Skipton. BBQ allowed, Driving on allowed below 10mph. Families of all cultures there, The 'mansion' is The Dell Hotel. Music added after to seal the rage bait 😂 I'm for Restore but come on, there's more than enough ACTUAL stuff to complain about without making up engagement bait 🤦‍♂️

[SaffronKim @SaffronKim]

Genius! 😂

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Celebrating the 100th Birthday of the iconic and brilliant Mel Brooks with one of the best videos you will ever see.

The time he and Anne Bancroft performed Sweet Georgia Brown on British TV.

In Polish. 😂

[SaffronKim @SaffronKim]

😂

[aquila @ 🟦☁️ @belllmonts]

i love jane austen adaptations but every time i watch one i remember this review and it's all i can think about

[SaffronKim @SaffronKim]

@frankie2001mia I have Italian women friends. They’d go MAD!

[SaffronKim @SaffronKim]

@frankie2001mia Were they Italian boys? If so, I’m amazed their mothers didn’t do anything.

[SaffronKim @SaffronKim]

@frankie2001mia Not that you need my advice, but if it was me I’d avoid going on social media while I’m there and save the administrative wrangling with Tui until I got home.
Anyway, wishing you a ‘good’ holiday. x

[SaffronKim @SaffronKim]

@AmandaB55744931 Who on earth told you that? I’m guessing a dodgy plumber.

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

Researchers sequenced the oldest human genome ever recovered from Ireland and what they found upended everything we thought we knew about who the Irish actually are.

Her name isn't known. Researchers call her the Ballynahatty woman. She was found in 1855 inside a megalithic passage tomb in County Down, near Belfast, and in 2015 Trinity College Dublin sequenced her entire genome, the first high-coverage ancient DNA sequence ever recovered from prehistoric Ireland. What her DNA showed was not what anyone expected.

She had black hair and brown eyes. Her ancestry traced predominantly to Near Eastern farmers who had originally migrated out of what is now Turkey, Lebanon, and Syria, moving slowly northwest across Europe over thousands of years until they reached Ireland around 3,800 BC. She looked, researchers noted, most like a southern European or someone from the modern Middle East. Not like what most people picture when they imagine the ancient Irish.

It was her people who built Newgrange. It was her people who constructed the great passage tombs and stone circles that still stand across Ireland today. The pale skin, the blue eyes, the red hair that define the Irish in the popular imagination came later, carried by the Bronze Age steppe herders who arrived around 2,500 BC and genetically transformed the population. The woman who helped build the most sophisticated astronomical monument in prehistoric Europe looked nothing like the Irish stereotype. She was darker, older, and she got here first.

Her DNA is still partly in you if you have Irish ancestry. Diluted by two thousand years of migration that came after her, but present. The oldest layer of the Irish genome, the one that watched the solstice sun enter Newgrange on the morning it was built, came from a dark-haired woman from County Down whose ancestors walked to Ireland from Turkey.

© The Irish Remembered

#archaeohistories

[SaffronKim @SaffronKim]

@frankie2001mia Is it volcanic ‘sand’?

[SaffronKim @SaffronKim]

@LBFlyawayhome That is absolutely beautiful.

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

I recently purchased at auction one of SR Badmin’s sketchbooks.
I had to have it because I’d spotted that one of the pages contained a study for an illustration in the Ladybird book ‘Trees’.
As close as I’ll probably ever come to owning original Nature series artwork 😊

[SaffronKim @SaffronKim]

@moleatthedoor @salltweets

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Then Jesus said unto the sick, “you better have insurance.”

Then Jesus said unto the stranger, “are you here legally?”

Then Jesus said unto the hungry, “my taxes better not be paying for these loaves and fishes.”

Then Jesus said unto the poor, “this is your own fault.”

[SaffronKim @SaffronKim]

“Accosts”?! Grow up.

[Let Women Speak Official @StandingforXX]

Angry father accosts @ThePosieParker at LWS Women Assemble at Victoria Park today

[SaffronKim @SaffronKim]

@moleatthedoor @salltweets Only the ‘elite’ get the invite. We’re sadly not included in those circles. 😘

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

@DreyfusJames @XXtheSpot @salltweets Here it is, fresh off the press:)
@bindelj

[SaffronKim @SaffronKim]

Three amazing women. I applaud you! 💕

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

@DreyfusJames @XXtheSpot @salltweets Here it is, fresh off the press:)
@bindelj