twinmum22 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

Mum of twins (no-really?!); Olympic medals in worrying, intentional and non intentional comedy and curry eating. Northern lass who cherishes friends and family.

[twinmum22 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @twinmum22]

@bt_uk all sorts of promises made by retentions when ending my contract haven't been kept. Have now been on the phone to customer care for nearly an hour and cut off twice. On my way to cancel and go with @skytv

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump: I don't care about you. I just want your vote

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

A few years ago our children could work, travel and live all over Europe. Now they're being told they are 'snowflakes' and should 'do National Service' by a generation that has failed them, failed the planet, failed us all.

[twinmum22 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @twinmum22]

@The_JamesJordan He looked so much like his mum with his hair straighter.

[twinmum22 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @twinmum22]

Do not use @NatWest_Help via the contact centre if you need support. Patronising, bullish and unhelpful.

[Fake Showbiz News @FakeShowbizNews]

Adrian Chiles admits he doesn’t enjoy being the only person using a pedestrian crossing.

“I feel like all the drivers are watching me, judging my walk,” he fretted

[Geoff and Margaret @RetirementTales]

The Thermos Roughneck Lunchkit -
Ubiquitous in primary schools in the 1980s!

Did you or your children have one?

[twinmum22 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @twinmum22]

@lost_art_grad He really is the Richard Madeley of tennis commentary.

[twinmum22 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @twinmum22]

@PopGazMusic He's the Richard Madeley of tennis commentary.

[James Carter @jamescarterpoet]

GIVEAWAY thingy - to celebrate the paperback of this zingy sciencey book by moi and #WillianSantiago. Fancy a signed one, Primary teacher bods? Pls like and retweet. Ends Tuesday. @LittleTigerUK PS Taking Zoom bookings for next term as from now btw..

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Private schools receive £7,000 per pupil from the Government, and the money parents pay in fees.

State schools receive £5,500 per pupil, that is it.

Private schools should receive NOTHING from the state, RT if you agree.

[twinmum22 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @twinmum22]

@SoVeryBritish Up the dancers!

[Viewsfromtheomnibus @MrsLScotland]

From FB 😢

Post from a Beekeeper 🐝
“Its late, and maybe in the morning I'll delete this post, but I've just got home and for now I need to write this down.
Earlier this evening I received a message from a home owner to say they had a swarm of bees in their hedge, but they were worried about them because children had been throwing water at them.
By the time my fellow beekeeper and I arrived, what had been a beautiful prime swarm was reduced to a few hundred drenched bees, huddling limply around their queen.
I've already deleted the photos of the puddles of water, the dripping wet hedge, and the many, many dead and dying bees that hadn't been able to escape the attack; sharing those pictures serves no purpose.
We gently placed the bees that had survived into a collection box, and hopefully tomorrow, when they've had chance to dry out and settle, we'll check on them and if necessary feed them; they'll be exhausted and possibly (understandably) defensive. They've been through a lot.
Please, please, help me to educate your children, your grandchildren, your neices and nephews, your neighbours, your colleagues and your friends that a swarm of bees isn't dangerous - they're amazing creatures that are just looking for a new home.
Please don't let anyone harm them.
Just call a beekeeper who will gladly rehome them.
Please help me to spread this message and hopefully save any more bees from being unnecessarily harmed” 😢
Sad and unhappy Beekeeper

[twinmum22 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @twinmum22]

@Lloydthegraff Funny as!

[Kit Andrew @kitandrew1]

Children have been through such a tough time, we couldn't pick a worse time to underfund education. Oh wait...nah its the teachers' fault. https://t.co/Fs7Ww7LeSy

[Sally Lindsay @sally_lindsay]

I just signed the petition calling on Boris Johnson's resignation honours to be blocked. Will you sign too? https://t.co/bMZZXg52wO via @38degrees

[twinmum22 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @twinmum22]

@ScottPughsley Twice! It's happened twice to me now! Both abroad.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Stanislav Petrov, the man who saved the world from nuclear disaster, on this day in 1983, 39 years ago today, saw the word "LAUNCH" flash across the Soviet Union's attack early warning system. His screen stated with high reliability that a total of five American intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) had been launched and were headed toward the Soviet Union. Petrov had to make a decision: should he report an incoming American strike, or should he hold off, confident that what they were seeing was a false alarm?

If he reported it, Soviet nuclear doctrine called for a full nuclear retaliation. There would be no time to double-check the warning system or seek negotiations with the U.S. This occurred during the Reagan administration, which had taken a firmer stance against the Soviets compared to previous administrations. The Reagan administration was deploying Pershing I nuclear-armed missiles to West Germany and Great Britain, capable of striking the Soviet Union. Given these circumstances, Petrov had reasons to believe that Reagan's brinkmanship had escalated to an actual nuclear exchange.

However, Petrov chose not to report the incoming strike. In the end, his decision proved to be correct. The system had mistaken the sun's reflection off of clouds for a missile. A 1979 report by Congress had estimated that a full-scale Soviet assault on the U.S., and an eventual counter-strike, would have resulted in over 100 million deaths. Petrov, almost single-handedly, prevented those deaths.

Despite being right, Petrov was relentlessly interrogated afterward and never rewarded for his decision, according to David Hoffman of The Washington Post.

[twinmum22 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @twinmum22]

@ScottPughsley Liquid talc - game changer

[Tom Freeman @SnoozeInBrief]

"Firstly, are you OK? It feels very strange indeed sitting here without Boris."