tredders 👨‍🚀 #TeamSpaceMan

👨‍🚀 #TeamSpaceMan 🚀 41. Lover of Eurovision. LGBTQ+ activist wannabe. All loved up 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏻 #Equality #HumanRights #TeamGay (he/him)

[tredders 👨‍🚀 #TeamSpaceMan @tredders1983]

@Beno10_MFC D. The bottom of the bowl lies below the mixer stand.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Rest in peace, Patricia Routledge 🙏🏻

In memory of her, I encourage everyone to read these words of hers from February last year.

Whether young or old, you're bound to get something out of it.

*****

"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 watercolour 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

*****

Once more, rest in peace. 🤍

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

I just thought I had a sip of tea left but I didn’t, I’d drank it all without realising. I could just make another one, but I don’t want another one… I want that last sip that I thought I had 😔

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Trump’s dirty election night trick doesn’t work if you know it’s coming. Let me explain.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Our Presidents used to speak like adults. Don't let a man who whines like a child ever hold that office again.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

If you wouldn’t want your kids to say it, your President shouldn’t either.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

He (Trump) is exactly that, a vindictive person.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Because it is abundantly clear that there is no separating MAGA from Nazis and the KKK, I offer this powerful reminder from Edie Falco.

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

True

[龙金属头 🇨🇳🐉🤘🏾 @realXanderXjork]

Elon Musk doesn’t want this video shared because he’s trying to help Trump win in November. It would be a damn shame if everyone shares it. https://t.co/e226PPDz3B

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Pretty much sums it up.

[tredders 👨‍🚀 #TeamSpaceMan @tredders1983]

@mrjoemcfadden Huge congrats! Amazing news!

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Why hasn't Kamala Harris already done as VP what she's promising to do as president? Here's your answer motherfuckers. 🙌🙏👏👊🌊🇺🇸

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Project 2025 is the blueprint for Trump to make himself the most powerful president ever.

We can’t let him win.

Watch our new ad:

[tredders 👨‍🚀 #TeamSpaceMan @tredders1983]

@AndrewNotDrew7 I love chatting to new people... 🫣😜

[Jacob 🏳️‍🌈 @OhHeyJacob]

A reminder, woke is not a bad thing-

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

How some politicians deceive the public! 🤣🤣

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

#RIPCartoonNetwork this era was generational

[tredders 👨‍🚀 #TeamSpaceMan @tredders1983]

@RadioTimes It has to be Jack & Vera ❤️

[Gary or Gaz or Gazzy @Gary_Gaz_Gazzy]

Me liking every anti Tory tweet today 😃 #ToriesOut #GeneralElection2024