andy flint

Music loving dad of 2, Cherie’s other half. Dem Blades🔴⚪️⚔️

[RNLI @RNLI]

We're proud of the lifesaving work our volunteers do in the Channel – we make no apology for it. Those we rescue are vulnerable people in danger & distress. Each of them is someone’s father, mother, son or daughter - every life is precious. This is why we launch:

[andy flint @scoppydiddle]

@DorkSirjur What a night,, Ellis dee also excellent 🔥🔥

[RNLI @RNLI]

Our charity exists to save lives at sea. Our mission is to save every one. Our lifesavers are compelled to help those in need without judgement of how they came to be in the water. They have done so since the RNLI was founded in 1824 and this will always be our ethos.

[andy flint @scoppydiddle]

@godwintrem @stuzi_pants And a lack of parenting for some

[andy flint @scoppydiddle]

@SheffieldUnited @heb_group Why when going ahead, do we then play like we’ve gone down to 10 men?🤷

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

The brilliant Paul Whitehouse promoting the water referendum petition - this one - please sign and share https://t.co/p7dZoNJONr

[Abbey104 @Abbey_104]

Up next!

[Volodymyr Tretyak 🇺🇦 @VolodyaTretyak]

Sad

[The Oxford Comma @RealOxfordComma]

Oh my….

[Kapt.Kopter 💙 @DayTripper_RC]

You may be cool, but you're not Terry-Thomas single-handed water-skiing on one leg, smoking a cigarette in a cigarette-holder cool

[Covie @covie_93]

Having sailors trying to jump off ships during a war you won 37 times is not a good look.

[Chris Scullion @scully1888]

Despite all the advice, I looked directly at it for a few minutes and I think it’s done some permanent damage to me.

Anyway, that’s enough of Ricky Gervais’s Alley Cats, I’m off to see this eclipse

[TheMekon_Venus @TheMekon_Venus]

I love it when street artists do something truly creative.

And in my book this 100’% counts.

[Clive Wismayer 🇪🇺🥪 @CliveWismayer]

As the RNLI has cropped up again, here is Bill Bryson’s quote:

“I had never really stopped to consider what an extraordinary thing the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is. Think about it. A troubled ship calls for help, and eight people – teachers, plumbers, the guy who runs the pub – drop everything and put to sea, whatever the weather, asking no questions, imperilling their own lives, to try to help strangers. Is there anything more brave and noble than that?”

I very rarely cry, which is a pity. As an adult I can count on the fingers of one hand the no. of times. I was watching the Netflix documentary on the Costa Concordia. A middle aged member of the crew was walking along a corridor. As the ship was on its side he was walking on doors, one of which swung open. He fell a considerable distance, breaking his leg. He could do nothing but wait & hope.

Two days later rescue divers, still thinking the effort worthwhile, entered the ship at great peril to themselves. Surfacing, they found him.

‘What’s your name?’
‘Mario’
‘I’m Francesco. Don’t worry. You’re safe now’.

He cried telling this story years later. I cried too.

[Boo @333too3]

Where no mushroom has gone before.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Last Call at Cheers, 1993.

The coolest old school photos: https://t.co/Pgcn2bknZu

[Happy Captain @EODHappyCaptain]

There’s a scene at the end of The Return of the King where the hobbits are sitting at their local bar. Only they know what they accomplished.

They quietly sip their beers while the rest of the Shire goes about their business like nothing ever happened.

Because for them, nothing did happen.

That scene pretty much sums up coming home from deployment better than any war movie ever has.

[Brontë Country Landscapes @AFowlerPhoto]

30th July - Happy Wuthering Heights Day, the joint birthday of Emily Brontë and Kate Bush.
Top Withins, high on the moors above Haworth, is believed to have been Emily Brontë’s inspiration for the location of Wuthering Heights.