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Margaret FH56

@margaretfh56.bsky.social

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Retired librarian. Live in Croydon,UK. Books, art, plants, astrology, folklore, mythology, cats. Photo is Molly, one of our rescue cats.

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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 7h

Beep beep!

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Chris @oakymoron.bsky.social · 3d

Very sad news

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fawlty Towers actress Prunella Scales dies aged 93

Scales played hotel manager Sybil Fawlty, the bossy wife of Basil, in the classic British sitcom.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 3d

Trump and co take the phrase ‘suffer the little children’ literally.

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Donna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 4d

Common knapweed in white. #wildflowerhour

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Henk-Jan van der Veen @henk-janvdveen.bsky.social · 4d

Autumn sunshine, Great Mullein, and a Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) - a little #WildflowerHour golden moment this week.

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Ann Roberts @annroberts.bsky.social · 4d

Common Toadflax still flowering in #Devon hedgerow.
#WildFlowerHour

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Moira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social · 4d

The cutest wee Great Mullein I ever did see. 💛 At Essex Wildlife Trust Abberton Reservoir. #WildflowerHour

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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 4d

#wildflowerhour not much on offer this week, bittersweet berries, flowering stinging nettle and ragwort.

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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 5d

The reform party nativity scene.

No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.

And not a wise fvcking man in sight…

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 5d

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A hi tech laboratory. Technicians work at computer work stations. A glass cylinder contains an unhappy bespectacled figure in a striped top and hat. A scientist explains to two colleagues:
"The subject will be returned to his natural habitat. But now, thanks to our implanted tracking device, we can answer the question 'Where's Wally?' in microseconds rather than hours. "

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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 5d

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 7d

What's Caerphilly and Clacton got in common?

Neither's likely to see Nigel Farage today.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 7d

Fractal patterns occur in many places in nature:plants & tree branches,shells,feathers,river deltas...
Looking at fractals puts our brains into a relaxed state-we recover from stress 60% more quickly (I teach about this in my classes)
Pause to take in the details of my photo-it'll help your brain
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$A collection of fractal patterns in nature - seedheads, succulents, a fern, sea urchin tests, shells, feathers and ammonites, lichen, all on a dark blue linen background with a hand written label$

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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 9d

To Epstein Avenue?

Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 9d

Nope, I was one of the organisers.

Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 9d

I have personally participated in two mock elections in secondary schools.

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🎬 ScreenMedia 🎞 @screenmedia.bsky.social · 9d

“REBECCA” (1940) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson, George Sanders, Reginald Denny, Gladys Cooper, C. Aubrey Smith, Nigel Bruce

🎬 United Artists

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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 9d

Imo, what should change is the lack of political education. Many people don't really understand what the different parties stand for. How many actually read party manifestos?
Will fptp really change anything, or will it lead to populists like Farage soaking up even more votes?

Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 9d

Its too simplistic to imply that this is something which has only emerged recently. In fact, its only become a noticeable problem because we no longer have a two-horse race between Labour and Tories.

Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 9d

But this has always been the case, Ive lived in areas in the 70s/80s which were staunchly Labour or Tory and voting anything else was a waste of time. Its not a modern phenomenon.

Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 10d

I was 10 when it happened. First time I‘d ever seen adults cry. We had slag heaps in my town too so it was all very scary.

Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 10d

That‘s what I would expect. It’s not just a historic building, it’s one of the most recognised symbols of your country.
It’s going to take decades to repair the damage he has done, and continues to do.

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Paul @paulpics.bsky.social · 10d

Feels like the appropriate time to repost this nugget. #Ghosts

Paul @paulpics.bsky.social · Feb 1

#Ghosts

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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 10d

So, yet another thing that he‘s just ignoring🙄😳
No doubt he thinks he knows more about buildings than anyone else…men with tears in their eyes have said so…

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Margaret FH56 @margaretfh56.bsky.social · 10d

Don't you have listed building status in the US, where historic and architecturally important buildings cannot be demolished or even renovated/extended without permission?
Or is Donny just riding roughshod as per usual?

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