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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 10h

I don't see how it can, really. It's cheap because much is old and poorly constructed in the rush of the holiday island boom that started in the '60s. We might now have luxury developments which bring their own problems but still have the original tasteless constructions which are now crumbling ...

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 1d

It's obvious bollocks, nothing to do with not wanting competition, but rather not to have to deal with trolls for whom a gotcha is a winning policy. They lack any perspective of community, mutuality, shared beneficiality, and go on instead about winners and losers. They are not serious people.

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 1d

They know, they just don't care.

Brits hear the protests but won’t be stopped from coming to "favourite destinations". But it's wrong to think they come because the Canaries give them the "value for money" they demand. They come because it's too damn cheap.

canarianweekly.com/posts/New-re...

New report shows why British tourists keep flocking to the Canary Islands despite protests

UK holidaymakers show no sign of changing their holiday habits, according to ABTA, the UK’s leading travel association…

canarianweekly.com

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 2d

replicant sock puppets ...

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 2d

Can't see it, really can't.

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 2d

Given the Kushners' involvement, I would assume it was actually the plan. "Noble Prize" and the Gazan Riviera, two birds with one stone. We are after all, headed back to the stone age ...

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 2d

Seems inevitable. I agree.

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 3d

Jilly Cooper, Patricia Routledge, now Diane Keaton. She had an clownish ephemeral quality that just shone. She was luminous.

Women are moving on, it seems. Wow, feels like a generational shift in a way ...

🖤

BNO News @bnonews.com · 3d

Diane Keaton, who starred in Annie Hall, The Godfather, and many other movies, has died at 79

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 3d

Seems to me Trump wanted phase 1 done for momentum for the Peace Prize, always knowing that phase 2 (Hamas' disarmament) was a non-starter because Hamas has always maintained the position that it will never disarm. Hamas is delusional, but they're not the only ones who are. Ditto evil bastards.

Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 3d

Absolute gift to Netanyahu and his right wing zealots. Hamas are delusional.

Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 3d

Hamas never losing an opportunity to screw things up and risk making life even more miserable for Palestinians.

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 3d

Seems to me some people just can't pass anything by, even when if it has no effect on them. A father alone with a daughter whose period's just started: would people prefer he went in the Ladies? And a trans man required to use the Men's could need them. Why do bigots' cultural icks get priority?

The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 3d

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 4d

Will Joanna Lumley now join Lily Allen and Charlotte Church in being roundly abused as a halfwitted fecking idiot for linking the (supposedly non-existent) climate crisis with the massive movement of peoples it is (supposedly not) causing?

Just asking because Lily Allen and Charlotte Church were.

Alice 🎃Anne Boleyn’s Restless Ghost 👻 Fayth @aliceannefayth.bsky.social · 4d

It’s always funny to me that someone who played such a fun and iconic but ultimately vile character as Patsy Stone, is so considerate and gentle as a person.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 5d

After pointing out that she's an immigrant Joanna Lumley asks why we don't fix the problems that create asylum seekers and address climate change

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 4d

Someone once rather sneeringly told me they could have had a PhD too but they "didn't want one". As if they were there just for the asking. They were American too!

Something in the water, perhaps, or the education system ...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 4d

only thing is that we have another year now of this bollocks, because the Middle East "Peace" was too recent to count in the voting, or somesuch rubbish. By next year, of course, we'll see the results of this "peace", and he might be getting quite a different verdict by then anyway, nearer home ...

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 5d

Astonished by the UK's 60% in 1993. Around then a colleague introduced me to his partner, a Durham miner's son who was traumatized by being gay and assumed no-one would accept him but my colleague said academic environments were far more welcoming. As they were, but 60% of general public? Amazing!

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 5d

It cannot be justified. It is bare-faced theft and political cowardice.

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 6d

At which point wouldn't one reasonably wonder "superinjunction?" ...

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 6d

There's a chain of Tenerife restaurants aimed at an English market that Robert Hardy's Siegfried Farnon would have described as the heavy wallet brigade. It's a superb chain but no gammon in the most English!

OH is salivating for gammon, but do try the Venture lot.

venturegrouptenerife.com

Explore the Best Restaurants in Tenerife - Venture Group

Discover Tenerife’s best restaurants with Venture Group. Explore fine dining, local cuisine, and top culinary experiences across the island.

venturegrouptenerife.com

Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 6d

you know that the original A uses umpteen sock accounts ...

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 6d

I doubt it will happen but I would be very happy indeed if tomorrow's Nobel Prize for Literature went to Margaret Atwood, and if Friday's Peace Prize went to Francesca Albanese. Both possible nominees, I understand.

We'll probably hear the tantrum from one particular failed nominee from here ...

a gold coin with a man on it that says nobel on it

ALT: a gold coin with a man on it that says nobel on it

media.tenor.com

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 6d

It's called a "Conference", subtype Conservative ...

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 6d

Seeing complaints about areas where you don't see a native face, and all one particular kind too, the type that doesn't integrate, demands rights and special treatment, and then complains they're discriminated against. Enough.

No, not Brits about Muslims. Spanish about Brits in parts of Tenerife.

Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · 6d

"Integrate you fuck, or I'll beat the crap out of you!"

Aggressive integration policies

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 6d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 6d

😅

a woman is sitting at a table with a glass of orange juice and a caracol television logo in the background

Alt: a woman sitting at a table tapping her temple saying I hope God hears you.

media.tenor.com

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 6d

Both TF airports are ready for Sunday. As CW says, "British tourists, the largest group of non-EU visitors to the Canaries, are expected to be the most affected." Unlike all other non-EU visitors, though, Brits are the only group affected by its own choice ...

canarianweekly.com/posts/306-ne...

306 new EU Border Control Systems installed across Canary Islands airports

The tourism sector fears there will be major delays for British tourists until the system is fully functional…

canarianweekly.com

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 8d

Nice courtroom you got there, your honour, shame if anything happened to it ...

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Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 8d

When you see it like this, and compare with European civilization reaching back to the Minoans around 5,000 years ago, and ANE civilizations even further back, perhaps 6,500 years ... that's 5 or 6.5 millennia as opposed to not even a quarter of one ...

like kids with a gun. And literally ...

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