I'm worried that the Government is cutting the Winter Fuel Payment. @ageuk estimates around 2.5 million pensioners who really need the money will now lose it. I've signed their petition. https://t.co/sgE23YbqQu
@PotteryThrow@siobhni@richmillerpots @KBJWhitstable Donna and the Domino's who fell one by one yet she stayed standing. Wonderful final and best wishes to ร ll three finalists and presenters.
An Irishman had the last laugh at his funeral with a gag from beyond the grave that had mourners in tears of laughter. Shay Bradley organized the recording that was done in one take, over a year before the funeral to be played after his coffin was lowered to the ground
@theAliceRoberts@mancunianmedic We need more of these posts instead of all the hate filled rubbish. A sensible debate on Angel Delight, Glace cherries techniques to enjoy or avoid. Love it.๐๐
Teaching a blind teenage lad about 15 years ago to be independent, he wanted to achieve something special using his long cane (white stick) skills. We walked up and along Steel Crag to 'that tree' in #Sycamore Gap. He achieved his dream and touched the tree. #NationalTrust
This tree was so special to a whole range of people even this young man who never had sight of it! Later I painted a wood cutting in black ink to mark how special it was with a few words on the back. It may be gone but will live on in many memories.#Sycamore Gap # National Trust
So very true
Have you ever thought about this?
In 100 years like in 2123 we will all be buried with our relatives and friends.
Strangers will live in our homes we fought so hard to build, and they will own everything we have today. All our possessions will be unknown and unborn, including the car we spent a fortune on, and will probably be scrap, preferably in the hands of an unknown collector.
Our descendants will hardly or hardly know who we were, nor will they remember us. How many of us know our grandfather's father?
After we die, we will be remembered for a few more years, then we are just a portrait on someone's bookshelf, and a few years later our history, photos and deeds disappear in history's oblivion. We won't even be memories.
If we paused one day to analyse these questions, perhaps we would understand how ignorant and weak the dream to achieve it all was.
If we could only think about this, surely our approaches, our thoughts would change, we would be different people.
Always having more, no time for what's really valuable in this life. I'd change all this to live and enjoy the walks I've never taken, these hugs I didn't give, these kisses for our children and our loved ones, these jokes we didn't have time for. Those would certainly be the most beautiful moments to remember, after all they would fill our lives with joy.
And some of us waste it day after day with greed, selfishness and intolerance.
Every minute of life is priceless and will never be repeated, so take time to enjoy, be grateful for, and celebrate your existence.
@toniwriter Definitely a bit of both at various stages of my life. I remember saying to myself 'here we go again' or 'what now' without asking for advice. I was convinced that as I had been at rock bottom before I had the ability to rebuild my life again without help - and I did!
Gorilla babies curiously check a wildlife photographer bowing his head to avoid intimidation.
Parent Gorilla uses body language to tell them to be gentle against him.