Woody

Work in comms. Occasional tweets about comms, health, international things. Opinions all me. Esp when wrong

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@BBCSport Where can we watch the surfing? Can’t find it anywhere

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@cher’s Christmas album is glorious.

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@RachelWardbooks we got 8kgs of potatoes instead of 8. 8kgs is a lot!

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Kenyans get tree-planting holiday to plant 100 million seedlings. What a brilliant idea. https://t.co/LJkl8Nz2PI

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

[Dr Sharon Redrobe OBE 🏳️‍🌈 @SharonRedrobe]

This is sadly very true of many debates or merely opinions. Let’s try and be okay about liking mangoes people (thanks to @language_nerds_)

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When a picture tells a hundred stories. One for the creative writing fans to get into.

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Yet another fascinating session with a range of experts passionate about better health and better outcomes in emergencies.

[WHO/Europe @WHO_Europe]

WHO/Europe is working on a new regional strategy & action plan to strengthen health #emergency #preparedness, #response and #resilience.

The 🆕 Preparedness 2.0 Technical Advisory Group is convening this week to provide critical insights and advice 👇
https://t.co/sm0f7gryx8

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@HolstaT Freak javelin accidents

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@lindSAYhanNAH3 @LondonMarathon You look like an awesome ass-kicker about to finish a marathon in a really good time judging by the clock behind you!

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@HotelChocolat Ginger - unsung hero of spices in sweet food. Not tried this one yet, but partial to a ginger biscuit in chocolate so I have high hopes.

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@PALidstone @mgmorton @SGNgas @KentHighways I saw a car come down upper grosvenor and around the roundabout on the wrong side, effectively taking it as a blind corner and then screeched up sandhurst with loads of children and pedestrians around. It’s dangerous.

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@EllieSimmonds1 @clarebalding @MarkFosterSwim @BeckAdlington @BBCSport You've been brilliant. So knowledgeable and relaxed.

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@PALidstone Up around the top paths near the edges of the cricket ground - and out of season around the cricket ground itself

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@PALidstone Every time I’ve been to TW common in recent years there’s been a lot of dog poo so I stopped taking my children there. We go places I can trust they can run around without stepping or falling in it. Or picking it up 🤢

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For the first time in my entire working life I’m actually starting to make headway on the mysteriously huge biro collection #wfh

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@kallmemeg Stronger than me sometimes! 18 months

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@PrimeVideo Can you sort out the inappropriate ghostbusters ad at the start of preschool programming?! Unnecessarily scary for a 3yo watching cartoons to get skeletal ghosts vomiting at the screen

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@bellamackie Upstairs downstairs