@bobgriffiths20
Aquarius type, goes well with a paintbrush, goes well with a plectrum. Ingredients: โจ๐ฆ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ฌ๐ฌ. Best before: 23.06.2016, or ask wife/children/grandchildren. #FBPE, #FBPA, #FBPPR
What is happening in Ukraine is a textbook genocide.
Russia is attempting to systematically erase an entire nation.
Meanwhile, Europe chooses the path of comfortable ignorance by looking away.
We cannot claim to stand for human rights while ignoring this reality
Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Billionaire brothers who backed Tories give Reform ยฃ100k Oliver Wright Extracts Britain's second-richest family have begun giving money to Reform UK after years of supporting the Conservatives. A company linked to the property tycoons David and Simon Reuben donated ยฃ100,000 to Nigel Farage's party the first time the brothers have given to any party other than the Tories. Reform has also received ยฃ3 million from Christopher Harborne, 63, an entrepreneur who now lives in Thai-land, adding to the ty million he gave in August. At the time, that was the biggest single donation to a UK political party by a living donor. In the last quarter of last year, Reform received more than ยฃ5.4 million in do-nations, the Conservatives were given ยฃ2.4 million and Labour received ยฃ1.9 million. The Reuben brothers - David, 87, and Simon, 84, who own property including Millbank Tower and Admiralty Arch in London โ have donated almost El million to the Conservative Party since 2008. They also supported Boris Johnson after he left No 10, giving him office space worth ยฃ85,000. Their family wealth was put at ยฃ26.87 billion in The Sunday Times Rich List last year. Reform UK has its headquarters in Millbank Tower, but it is not known whether the brothers donation linked to reduced rent payments. Other Reform donors include David John Grainger, the co-founder of a biotech firm, and Gary Dutton, a double glazing entrepreneur, who both gave the party ยฃ250,000. Reform also received ยฃ100,000 from Isabel Goldsmith, sister of the former Tory minister Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park. Her father, Sir James Gold-smith, was seen as the godfather of British Euroscepticism. For the second quarter in a row Lord Bamford, the chairman of JCB, gave ยฃ200,000 each to the Conservatives and Reform. At the time of his first do-nation, the company said he was "sup-portive of pro-business political parties that create the conditions for these businesses to grow and prosper".
More billionaire cash bankrolling Reform.
JCBโs chairman, Bamford, said he was โsupportive of pro-business political parties that create conditions for these businesses to grow and prosper."
Reform wants to repeal the Equality Act.
Prosperity for them means loss of rights and pay for us.
(Times)
CategoryAnnual Amount๐ฅ Preventive Healthcare & Mental Health$200B๐ซ K-12 Education Equalization$60B๐ Infrastructure Repair$40B๐๏ธ Affordable Housing$25Bโก Clean Energy Grid$20B๐ Free Community College$15B๐ฝ๏ธ Child Nutrition & Food Security$10B๐งช Medical Research (NIH)$10B๐ฎ First Responders$8B๐ Disaster Resilience$7B๐ด Senior Home Care$5B๐ Drug Treatment & Recovery$5B
This illegal, unratified, Trump - Epstein War is currently costing taxpayers over >>>$1 Billion<<< dollars a day !!!
What could we be spending our money on over the next, perish the thought, year to benefit our country overall instead ?!
I made a chart:
Superb views of the Forster's Tern in Poole Park this morning roosting amongst the Black-headed Gulls
Hey that Mario brother needs released on bail he has some work to finish.
A bleak, stark oil painting in shades of brown and cream of waterlogged fields under a flat white sky dotted with bare elm trees
Other work of the Ladybird artists.
โFebruary Fill Dykeโ
Artist: Rowland Hilder
Bright and breezy illustration of three daffodils painted on a simple, grey background
St David's Day
Dydd Gลตyl Dewi
Artist: H Woolley (1954)
โIn the first week of March the wind blows hard, swaying the reeds and bushes and bending the big trees beyond the lake to its cold breath.โ
The first page of โWhat to Look for in Springโ
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Four activities from the โwhat to makeโ books including a cotton reel snake, puppet, tractor and tank
Wooden cotton reels and what to do with them. Some Ladybird suggestions.
Artists: G Robinson, Robert Ayton
Image of two people in seal skin clothes building the sort of igloo you thought it would be possible to build when you were seven years old and it was snowing in the School playground
Ladybird things I really, really wanted.
To make my own igloo
Artist: BH Robinson
(Homes, 1975)
A bird is perched on a rock on heathland, looking from right to left. Another bird slightly lower, looking the same way, peers through the grass.
Ladybird Nature Corner.
Wheatear
Artist:Roland Green
(Third book of British Birds, 1956)
Two children, a girl and a boy are playing by a stream. The boy holds a jam jar and is looking for tiddlers, the girl holds a small fishing rod
By the river
โIn the Countryโ, 1954
Artist: Septimus Scott
A photo realistic close-up of a mixed selection of biscuits, including chocolate fingers, chocolate digestives, and a lemon puff
The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield.
โBiscuits โ
(Yes, it is a painting - from First Picture Book, 1970)
A wholesome picture showing four young children with a map spread out of them, viewing the idyllic countryside ahead of them and a mysterious looking church
Childhood reading leaves scars.
When I was lounging on the sofa, watching Scooby-Doo, I always had the uneasy feeling that my school holidays should look like this instead
#WorldBookDay
Artist: AN Buchanan
On a breezy day in early spring, the wind tugs at a row of white sheets and bedding on a washing line set in a garden in front of a large white house
Breezy Day (1975)
Artist: Gerald Witcomb
A girl and a boy rush excitedly towards the river. It is a cloudy day, but the sun is shining.
That Friday feeling
Artist: Martin Aitchison (1964)
A lane rolls gently down a hill towards a small farmstead in early spring. The first trees are in blossom.
Other work by the Ladybird artists
โSpring Landscapeโ
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
Like clockwork.
Beaver swimming in a stream with text on the image that reads "Rewilding Wins of the Month. February 2026". Image credit: Rocco Umbescheidt/Getty images/Canva
Itโs the best time of the monthโฆ February's #RewildingWins are here ๐
The past month has delivered another lot of inspiring rewilding wins. From a boom in beaver reintroductions in England to a major new rewilding site in Wales, the movement is growing.ย
Scroll down to read all about them๐
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Turns out there are good reasons to leave some places to be wild.
(do not ask what happened to the defense budget after a decade of Tory mismanagement)
Since naval warfare after 1945, with a few notable exceptions, have been a rarity, I think many are unaware of the brutality and lethality involved.
A tranquil moment can at the blink of an eye turn into carnage, destruction, suffering and death, the latter in large numbers.
1/3 I'm writing a book about Nigel Farage for Headline.
Some of his pals are blanking me.
Is it because after I reported on the killing of a Polish man in Essex in 2016, he said that I had caused him "more misery than any other in 25 years in politics"?
Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk
2/3 So I'm asking the Great British public to help because NF is seeking to be our master.
Were you at school with NF? Worked with him in the City when he was a tin trader? Met him through politics?
Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk
3/3 Did you drive the pink Cadillac hired by Nathan Gill who last year got ten years for taking bribes from a Russian spy?
Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk
Privatization picking our pockets.
Another Royal Mail price hike: Form 7 April 2026 1st class postage price ยฃ1.80, 2nd class 91p.
When privatized in 2013 by Tory/LibDem Govt: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets. Fines passed to customers. Execs get bonuses.