Haven Tenerife
@janetanscombe.bsky.social
Doctor of ancient history, retired university lecturer living in the foothills of Mount Teide among birds, trees, peace and books, esp neuropsychology & Agatha Christie. "Leftie elitist". 50% Welsh, 50% Irish, 100% European. MBE.
She supported the nomination for my own MBE so it was only appropriate I did the same for her BEM for exceptional services to British and others in Tenerife. I had the last honour from the old Queen in Tenerife and she has the first from the new King! Congratulations @clioflynn.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
She supported the nomination for my own MBE so it was only appropriate I did the same for her BEM for exceptional services to British and others in Tenerife. I had the last honour from the old Queen in Tenerife and she has the first from the new King! Congratulations @clioflynn.bsky.social
As the article ends, the "ignorance — often proud ignorance — of the far-right is not just funny, it is very, very dangerous."
And despite the UK's best efforts it does seem that the US leads the world in dangerous ignorance, indeed it's loud and proud.
And despite the UK's best efforts it does seem that the US leads the world in dangerous ignorance, indeed it's loud and proud.
November 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM
As the article ends, the "ignorance — often proud ignorance — of the far-right is not just funny, it is very, very dangerous."
And despite the UK's best efforts it does seem that the US leads the world in dangerous ignorance, indeed it's loud and proud.
And despite the UK's best efforts it does seem that the US leads the world in dangerous ignorance, indeed it's loud and proud.
I see gammon widely outraged at Tesco selling "non-Christian *evergreen* trees". It's all English apparently, the lot of it. Christ's birth, Yul, decorated Weinachtsbaúme, Lebkuchen ...
Born in a manger in a stable ... where? Portsmouth?
White English men of a certain disposition ... uff ...
Born in a manger in a stable ... where? Portsmouth?
White English men of a certain disposition ... uff ...
November 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I see gammon widely outraged at Tesco selling "non-Christian *evergreen* trees". It's all English apparently, the lot of it. Christ's birth, Yul, decorated Weinachtsbaúme, Lebkuchen ...
Born in a manger in a stable ... where? Portsmouth?
White English men of a certain disposition ... uff ...
Born in a manger in a stable ... where? Portsmouth?
White English men of a certain disposition ... uff ...
Seen it too many places to attribute now ...
and consider Truss, Johnson, the Mail, Farage, the Telegraph, Trump ... all proven brazen liars, all calling for truth, and so you know it's the last thing they really really want ...
and consider Truss, Johnson, the Mail, Farage, the Telegraph, Trump ... all proven brazen liars, all calling for truth, and so you know it's the last thing they really really want ...
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Seen it too many places to attribute now ...
and consider Truss, Johnson, the Mail, Farage, the Telegraph, Trump ... all proven brazen liars, all calling for truth, and so you know it's the last thing they really really want ...
and consider Truss, Johnson, the Mail, Farage, the Telegraph, Trump ... all proven brazen liars, all calling for truth, and so you know it's the last thing they really really want ...
As we've seen all too many times, they just want to please the face in front of them ...
November 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
As we've seen all too many times, they just want to please the face in front of them ...
Adding the note from met office Aemet:
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Adding the note from met office Aemet:
We have a costeros alert and today a man drowned after being swept into the sea from a rock pool in La Guancha, another is dead and nine others injured, three critically, after being swept into the sea at Puerto de La Cruz harbour, and someone was discovered floating in the sea off the ...
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
We have a costeros alert and today a man drowned after being swept into the sea from a rock pool in La Guancha, another is dead and nine others injured, three critically, after being swept into the sea at Puerto de La Cruz harbour, and someone was discovered floating in the sea off the ...
They call it the Rambo House because a scene of one of the films was filmed there, and apparently Pope Benedict 16 or whichever number stayed there once. It's on the market ... around €5,000,000. Not remotely my style but it's spectacular! ...
terraconcept.es/property/cel...
terraconcept.es/property/cel...
November 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
They call it the Rambo House because a scene of one of the films was filmed there, and apparently Pope Benedict 16 or whichever number stayed there once. It's on the market ... around €5,000,000. Not remotely my style but it's spectacular! ...
terraconcept.es/property/cel...
terraconcept.es/property/cel...
There's a transcript in the link below. What a fascinating read! Nice people don't go nazi. Those who do, it's not race, colour, religion, social condition. "It is something in them".
Something very unpleasant.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Something very unpleasant.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
There's a transcript in the link below. What a fascinating read! Nice people don't go nazi. Those who do, it's not race, colour, religion, social condition. "It is something in them".
Something very unpleasant.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Something very unpleasant.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
A new temperature record has been set in the Canaries for November. Tenerife North airport registered 33º yesterday, a full 2º above the previous 31º, a 1998 outlier. Once this starts going up, I read, it's going to go very quickly.
33º in November. A leap to a full 2º above the previous record. 🌡️
33º in November. A leap to a full 2º above the previous record. 🌡️
November 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
A new temperature record has been set in the Canaries for November. Tenerife North airport registered 33º yesterday, a full 2º above the previous 31º, a 1998 outlier. Once this starts going up, I read, it's going to go very quickly.
33º in November. A leap to a full 2º above the previous record. 🌡️
33º in November. A leap to a full 2º above the previous record. 🌡️
Can someone introduce Mr Brain to the concept of certain pyschological basics needing to be in place before people can start aspiring to irrelevancies like safety, love, belonging ... let alone aspirational dreams of enough wages to buy a loaf of bread ...
November 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Can someone introduce Mr Brain to the concept of certain pyschological basics needing to be in place before people can start aspiring to irrelevancies like safety, love, belonging ... let alone aspirational dreams of enough wages to buy a loaf of bread ...
This was from Grok ... every word false. The EU must ban this shite surely.
November 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This was from Grok ... every word false. The EU must ban this shite surely.
Are you meant to be intimidated when you're followed by the Department of Homeland Security, Kristy Noem personally no less, seconds after posting a comment on US food stamp card locking compared with Trump's new marble Lincolm bathroom? Just wondering, not intimidated ... 🤷♀️
November 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Are you meant to be intimidated when you're followed by the Department of Homeland Security, Kristy Noem personally no less, seconds after posting a comment on US food stamp card locking compared with Trump's new marble Lincolm bathroom? Just wondering, not intimidated ... 🤷♀️
SNAP cards, as I understand it, are for the very poorest. Those who can't even use foodbanks and so have government food stamps credited to a card. A card that's now locked.
But look! new marble Lincolm bathroom.
It's all going to blow at some point. Surely. But by then it will be far too late.
But look! new marble Lincolm bathroom.
It's all going to blow at some point. Surely. But by then it will be far too late.
November 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
SNAP cards, as I understand it, are for the very poorest. Those who can't even use foodbanks and so have government food stamps credited to a card. A card that's now locked.
But look! new marble Lincolm bathroom.
It's all going to blow at some point. Surely. But by then it will be far too late.
But look! new marble Lincolm bathroom.
It's all going to blow at some point. Surely. But by then it will be far too late.
In the Canaries we are bulging at the seams ... and it just keeps growing. We are agog for the collapse ... 😅
turistas-canarias.com/evolucion-tu...
turistas-canarias.com/evolucion-tu...
October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
In the Canaries we are bulging at the seams ... and it just keeps growing. We are agog for the collapse ... 😅
turistas-canarias.com/evolucion-tu...
turistas-canarias.com/evolucion-tu...
Andrew meets bus ...
October 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Andrew meets bus ...
We have a blood donation crisis in the Canaries. Today, they're begging for O+ donations.
A month or so ago I emailed them asking to donate. I'm O-neg, a universal donor. The BSC ban is now lifted but I'm a year too old! Will you let me donate?
No reply. What's the bloody point?
Today's appeal:
A month or so ago I emailed them asking to donate. I'm O-neg, a universal donor. The BSC ban is now lifted but I'm a year too old! Will you let me donate?
No reply. What's the bloody point?
Today's appeal:
October 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
We have a blood donation crisis in the Canaries. Today, they're begging for O+ donations.
A month or so ago I emailed them asking to donate. I'm O-neg, a universal donor. The BSC ban is now lifted but I'm a year too old! Will you let me donate?
No reply. What's the bloody point?
Today's appeal:
A month or so ago I emailed them asking to donate. I'm O-neg, a universal donor. The BSC ban is now lifted but I'm a year too old! Will you let me donate?
No reply. What's the bloody point?
Today's appeal:
Clocks back tonight.
Psychologists recognize these clock changes cause problems, even just an hour difference. I've always found it takes at least a week to adjust, often more. If only they could leave well alone. Despite the arguments it affects our very minds.
www.europapress.es/islas-canari...
Psychologists recognize these clock changes cause problems, even just an hour difference. I've always found it takes at least a week to adjust, often more. If only they could leave well alone. Despite the arguments it affects our very minds.
www.europapress.es/islas-canari...
October 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Clocks back tonight.
Psychologists recognize these clock changes cause problems, even just an hour difference. I've always found it takes at least a week to adjust, often more. If only they could leave well alone. Despite the arguments it affects our very minds.
www.europapress.es/islas-canari...
Psychologists recognize these clock changes cause problems, even just an hour difference. I've always found it takes at least a week to adjust, often more. If only they could leave well alone. Despite the arguments it affects our very minds.
www.europapress.es/islas-canari...
If only!
One thing JK Rowling got absolutely right was the Welsh dragon ... it's green 😉
I've got one on my headboard shelf. Only ceramic, thankfully ...
One thing JK Rowling got absolutely right was the Welsh dragon ... it's green 😉
I've got one on my headboard shelf. Only ceramic, thankfully ...
October 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
If only!
One thing JK Rowling got absolutely right was the Welsh dragon ... it's green 😉
I've got one on my headboard shelf. Only ceramic, thankfully ...
One thing JK Rowling got absolutely right was the Welsh dragon ... it's green 😉
I've got one on my headboard shelf. Only ceramic, thankfully ...
speculation that the Louvre thieves have pulled off an even more spectacular heist ...
Others say it just fell off, some that it "melted off" 😆, which means someone's got a very famous carrot sculptural relic on their mantelpiece! 😅
Others say it just fell off, some that it "melted off" 😆, which means someone's got a very famous carrot sculptural relic on their mantelpiece! 😅
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
speculation that the Louvre thieves have pulled off an even more spectacular heist ...
Others say it just fell off, some that it "melted off" 😆, which means someone's got a very famous carrot sculptural relic on their mantelpiece! 😅
Others say it just fell off, some that it "melted off" 😆, which means someone's got a very famous carrot sculptural relic on their mantelpiece! 😅
Leslie Caron, wonderful French dancer, apparently a drunk depressive who committed suicide. Except she's still alive, 94, in Paris.
AI is nothing of the sort. It's stupidity, not intelligence. Its overview has just scraped wiki, without any discernment that the info relates to her mother ...
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AI is nothing of the sort. It's stupidity, not intelligence. Its overview has just scraped wiki, without any discernment that the info relates to her mother ...
👇
October 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Leslie Caron, wonderful French dancer, apparently a drunk depressive who committed suicide. Except she's still alive, 94, in Paris.
AI is nothing of the sort. It's stupidity, not intelligence. Its overview has just scraped wiki, without any discernment that the info relates to her mother ...
👇
AI is nothing of the sort. It's stupidity, not intelligence. Its overview has just scraped wiki, without any discernment that the info relates to her mother ...
👇
Malaga is renowned for horse-drawn tourist carriages, with tours through the centre of the city itself, stops for tourist activities ...
But not any more. The Ayuntamiento of Malaga municipio has banned the rides to save the horses from the searing and worsening heat.
elpais.com/espana/andal...
But not any more. The Ayuntamiento of Malaga municipio has banned the rides to save the horses from the searing and worsening heat.
elpais.com/espana/andal...
October 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Malaga is renowned for horse-drawn tourist carriages, with tours through the centre of the city itself, stops for tourist activities ...
But not any more. The Ayuntamiento of Malaga municipio has banned the rides to save the horses from the searing and worsening heat.
elpais.com/espana/andal...
But not any more. The Ayuntamiento of Malaga municipio has banned the rides to save the horses from the searing and worsening heat.
elpais.com/espana/andal...
Completely wrong take since the ban is for public safety from Israeli hooligans who've traumatized European cities many times, not antisemitism! But when a local mosque calls for Muslims to "show no mercy" to genocidal visitors ...
A plague on both houses. Play in a closed stadium with no public.
A plague on both houses. Play in a closed stadium with no public.
October 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Completely wrong take since the ban is for public safety from Israeli hooligans who've traumatized European cities many times, not antisemitism! But when a local mosque calls for Muslims to "show no mercy" to genocidal visitors ...
A plague on both houses. Play in a closed stadium with no public.
A plague on both houses. Play in a closed stadium with no public.
I only posted the following 11 hours ago ... and now this ...
US so-called Christianity is a perversion of religion based on cruelty, suspicion, fantasy, witch-hunts of all sorts, and frankly, mental health issues that, to quote a guest of Basil Fawilty, would fill an entire conference ...
US so-called Christianity is a perversion of religion based on cruelty, suspicion, fantasy, witch-hunts of all sorts, and frankly, mental health issues that, to quote a guest of Basil Fawilty, would fill an entire conference ...
September 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I only posted the following 11 hours ago ... and now this ...
US so-called Christianity is a perversion of religion based on cruelty, suspicion, fantasy, witch-hunts of all sorts, and frankly, mental health issues that, to quote a guest of Basil Fawilty, would fill an entire conference ...
US so-called Christianity is a perversion of religion based on cruelty, suspicion, fantasy, witch-hunts of all sorts, and frankly, mental health issues that, to quote a guest of Basil Fawilty, would fill an entire conference ...
Intelligentsia, lecturers, "liberal elite" ... they would come after us, no doubt at all.
These are not nice people. Thankfully they are also not ... ... ... serious people ...
These are not nice people. Thankfully they are also not ... ... ... serious people ...
September 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Intelligentsia, lecturers, "liberal elite" ... they would come after us, no doubt at all.
These are not nice people. Thankfully they are also not ... ... ... serious people ...
These are not nice people. Thankfully they are also not ... ... ... serious people ...