Lynne Slatter

I am all about family. An early retired “Jackie of all Trades” who enjoys all things arty, gardening and travel

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

That is hilarious

[Crewkerne Gazette @CrewkerneGaz]

He’s not the Messiah, he’s just a bloke in mascara.

Behold the glorious Son of Manchester, Andy Burnham, as he waves his hand and the afflicted are miraculously healed. Dr No-Mandate himself returns in Life of Burnham.

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[sᥕᥱᥱ𝗍 𝗍һіᥒg❤️‍🔥(𝙰𝚜𝚒𝚊) @55SweetThing]

This lady could’ve given Karen Carpenter a run for her money!☺️🔥🥁

[bluemontauk @bluemontauk]

Okay, if you don't LOL, you aren't human 🤣🤣🤣

[Francisco Fonseca @_Francis_co_Art]

Wait for it …

[Medya Muhtarı 🇹🇷 @medyamuhtari]

Bu kusursuz bir sanat değilse nedir?

Detaylar inanılmaz..

[Skye @skye0xz]

Dad said “problem solved” and built a whole invention 😭😂

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Whoever made this is a genius.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Insanely amazing

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

🚨The BBC have been caught RED-HANDED

[Crazy Moments @Crazymoments01]

He didn’t want to share mom… until one tiny moment changed everything ❤️

[Joel Lopez | Save Your Marriage @TheeJoelLopez]

If people don’t want kids I’m okay with it.

People who don’t want them shouldn’t have them.

I’ll just keep enjoying one of the greatest experiences a man can ever have.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

If you don't know about magic, don't comment.

[Lynne Slatter @SlatterLynne]

@christiancalgie 😂

[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

According to this Labour Government 16 and 17 year olds are mature enough to vote, but not to serve on a jury. That is an "adult duty" apparently.

They are old enough to vote, but are now subject to a government-mandated social media curfew at 8.30pm.

The only consistent thing about Labour's votes at 16 policy is the blatant party political self interest.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

November 1971. Chiswick, West London.
Erin Pizzey is 32 years old. She is not a lawyer. Not a politician. Not a doctor.
She is a woman who talked Hounslow Council into lending her a cold, rundown building on Belmont Road — a former community hall — for almost nothing. Her original plan was modest. A warm room. A cup of tea. Somewhere for mothers with young children to simply get out of the house.
Then the door opened.
A woman stood in the entrance. She was covered, head to foot, in bruises. She was holding two small children. She was shaking.
She didn't want tea.
She needed somewhere to hide.
Erin let her in. She didn't turn her away. She didn't tell her to call the police.
Because Erin had already called the police. They told her the same thing they told every woman in Britain at the time: they could not enter a private home over a "domestic dispute." That was the law. The home was private. What happened inside it was a family matter.
When Erin contacted a female civil servant to report what she was seeing, the response was astonishing. The woman told her flatly: "There wasn't a problem of battered wives until you made one."
Erin put down the phone. Then she went back to her residents and made sure they were fed.
Within weeks, 40 mothers and children were sleeping in four tiny rooms. No funding. No staff. No legal authority.
She didn't stop.
By 1973, word had spread through quiet whisper networks — one woman telling another, "There is a place. Go to Chiswick. She won't turn you away." That same year, Erin hosted the first National Women's Aid Conference in the UK. Women from across Britain arrived, and they all recognized the same thing at once: what she had built needed to exist everywhere.
In 1974, the council set a maximum of 36 residents. At peak times, 150 women and children were living inside those walls — sleeping on floors, on chairs, in hallways. The building smelled of cooking, fear, and something else entirely: relief.
Erin was taken to court for overcrowding. She appealed all the way to the House of Lords.
She kept the doors open the entire time.
That same year, she wrote a book. Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear. It was the first published account of domestic violence in British history. It used real stories from real women inside the shelter. Overnight, a problem that had no official name was on front pages from London to New York.
The movement spread. Refuges opened across the UK. Then Australia. Then Canada. Then the United States. The pattern she created in four small rooms in West London — no blueprint, no permission, no funding — had been replicated in hundreds of shelters across the Western world.
MP Jack Ashley stood up in Parliament and said: "It was she who first identified the problem, who first recognised the seriousness of the situation and who first did something practical."
She was ranked 14th in a poll of the 100 women who shook the world. She was awarded the Italian Peace Prize. She received a CBE. The charity she founded — Chiswick Women's Aid, which became Refuge — grew into the largest domestic violence charity in the United Kingdom, with over 460 employees and an annual income of more than £33 million.
Erin Pizzey passed away on October 4, 2025, aged 86.
She never stopped.
It all began with one woman, one borrowed building, and an absolute refusal to say no.
Forty women and children showed up with nowhere to go.
She made room.

Share this if you believe one ordinary person, refusing to look away, can build a shelter that holds the whole world.

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