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@SamaHoole In 1978 both of my parents worked full time. Mum hated cooking. Dad used to buy Vesta curries as a treat, just for himself. The fish was fish fingers. Occasional liver. Roast on a Sunday, unless we went out for lunch.

The British high street in 1978 had a butcher, a fishmonger, and a queue of women buying ingredients for meals that delivered more usable nutrition in a single plate than most British adults now manage in a week. Liver and onions. The highest concentration of bioavailable vitamin A on earth, more B12 than any supplement, haem iron a plant cannot match. Tuesday tea, eight pence a serving in 1962. Devilled kidneys on toast. The Victorian breakfast classic, sizzling on a silver chafing dish in every country house in the land. CoQ10, selenium, B12, iron. Now eaten by approximately nobody under fifty. Brawn. A whole pig's head simmered for six hours and set into a collagen-rich terrine, sliced cold for sandwiches all week. The entire connective-tissue nutrient profile the supplement industry now sells back at £25 a tub. Bone marrow on toast. Sixpence at the butcher, twenty-five minutes in the oven. Alkylglycerols, the entire fat-soluble vitamin suite, conjugated linoleic acid. St John's now charges £16 for the same plate. Kippers. Split smoked herring with a knob of butter. Roughly 150 IU of vitamin D per fish, complete omega-3, B12 in concentrations no supplement matches. Three a week kept the British vertical through six months of inadequate sun. Kedgeree. Smoked haddock, rice, eggs, butter, a hint of cayenne. The Edwardian breakfast that opens the first episode of Downton Abbey. Complete protein, omega-3, choline, iodine, in a single plate. Sheep's heart, roasted with sage and onion stuffing. The most exercised muscle on the animal, dense with CoQ10 and taurine, fed a family of four for under a pound in 1978. Tripe and onions. Boiled honeycomb stomach with white sauce. Wigan was once full of tripe shops; George Orwell lodged above one on Darlington Street in 1936. There is now one stall left in the whole town. Jellied eels. East End working-class protein for a century. Heme iron, vitamin D, omega-3. London's pie-and-mash shops have gone from a hundred to thirty in living memory. Mutton broth with barley. A three-hour simmer of cull-ewe bones and root vegetables. Collagen, bone minerals, the slow-cooked foundation that fed Northumbrian shepherds for six hundred years. Suet pudding. Beef suet, flour, water, three hours of steam. Vitamin K2, CLA, the stable saturated fat that kept a bricklayer working through the afternoon. Bread and dripping with salt. Sunday's leftover beef fat on a slice of bread on a Thursday. Free, complete, and built the British skeleton for three hundred years. Your grandmother ate eight of these in a normal week without thinking about it. A modern nutritionist would call the same week "nutrient-dense" and charge £180 a session to help you replicate it. The butcher will still sell you every ingredient, often for less than the supermarket charges for a vacuum-packed chicken breast. The grandmother is the part that has gone missing. The rest is still on the high street.

@KieranT1000 @Jenny_1884 not a new virus

@Jenny_1884 After Covid everyone should be ignoring this new virus

Is everyone else ignoring this Hantavirus nonsense?

@LBFlyawayhome Charles Darwin

Time for a round of ‘you can only pick one’. Which will it be?

@MelJStride @Conservatives Up to £300,000: 0% for first time buyers.

Far too many young people cannot get on the housing ladder because of stamp duty. A future @Conservatives government will ABOLISH Stamp Duty on primary residences. Free up the housing market, increase supply and boost the economy.

Big shout out to all the teens participating in the Ten Tors challenge. Last push to the finish. #TenTors #Dartmoor tentors.org.uk/page/about

@SamaHoole Maybe spread your wings and find places that do sell fresh fish facebook.com/p/Devon-and-Co… sandpfish.co.uk/what-we-sell

1958: a British fishmonger had cod, haddock, plaice, sole, herring, mackerel, sprats, kippers, smoked haddock, eels, oysters, mussels, cockles, whelks, brown shrimp, and crab on his slab. All landed within the week. All from British waters. 2026: a British supermarket has tilapia from Vietnam, salmon from a Norwegian feedlot, and a tray of "white fish bites" of unspecified species. The North Sea is still there. The boats are still in the harbour. Somewhere between 1958 and now, the fish stopped reaching the customer.

Happy Great Torrington May Fair. Always the first Thursday in May come rain or shine. Us be plaised to zee 'ee.

@sophielouisecc So perhaps the GCSE issue needs to be looked at first, possibly.

White working-class pupils have been the lowest attaining major ethnic group at GCSE level for more than a decade. Yet there are internships schemes that specifically exclude white people because apparently they are ‘privileged’ This is wrong and I’m doing everything in my power to stand up to them

@Ozymandiasdust Blackbird at 5am.

Woken the rhythmic sound of a wood pigeon cooing... 😴

@SandyofSuffolk 8 months to finally move. Buyer 1 dropped out the week before exchange. Buyer 2 came along quickly. Unregistered land linked to my property (apparently)-never been picked up before. Eventually sorted. Divorce was less stressful!

More tales from trying to sell our house. As you might know, our buyer pulled out the day before we were due to exchange, as it was 'all too much for her'. We had another viewing on Friday. The chap was a first time buyer who works locally. He'd viewed another couple of houses in this village and said ours was by far the biggest and best. And it is. It's in move in condition, neutrally decorated, modern kitchen and bathroom but with character features retained. He asked how quickly we could move because he had to be out of his rental. We said quickly as we'd already found somewhere where the conveyancing had started. He asked if we would accept an offer. Yes, we would. He said he wouldn't keep us waiting and would be in touch with the agents by close of business that day. Despite numerous calls by our estate agent and emails to him, he hasn't had the good grace to take their calls or reply to their emails. This isn't the first time something like this happened. We had an offer from another first time buyer in early February via the agent, which we accepted. When the agent tried to ring him back to say we'd accepted his offer, he never picked up the calls or replied to texts or emails. Just bloody rude these people. And time wasters. 😠

@ssearle63 @paullewismoney 2019 ish I think

@DodoHeather @paullewismoney Oh that’s interesting. I have missed it becoming equally available.

Couples living in unmarried bliss want the same tax rights as married and civil partnered pairs bit.ly/4ucWB2g at the moment they have no rights - none. So the best tax advice is marry the one you love. Or civil partner them if you hate all the marriage baggage. But…

@ssearle63 @paullewismoney I am a Devon registrar and CPs are for same sex and opposite sex couples.

@DodoHeather @paullewismoney I think it is only available to same sex couples

@donmcgowan Honest Bob!

I guess if he gets nicked by the police, he might lose the Robert Generic nickname. Bobby Jailbird has a nice ring about it.

@ssearle63 @paullewismoney What do you mean by 'extend the scope of Civil Partneships'?

@paullewismoney Marriage is good for a society. It says I am committed to you through thick and thin. I think marriage should be encouraged. But for those who hate the idea perhaps extend the scope of civil partnerships.

@PutUKFirst1 @Jenny_1884 The myelin sheath, which insulates brain circuits, is composed of roughly 70–80% of the brain's total cholesterol, not 70% of the whole brain

@PutUKFirst1 @Jenny_1884 Cholesterol makes up roughly 2% of the total brain mass. The brain creates its own cholesterol via astrocytes and oligodendrocytes, as it is protected by the blood-brain barrier.

I’ve come to the conclusion that if we are told something is good for you then it isn’t, that’s why after researching I will not take Statins. If GPs are paid to prescribe certain products then I steer well & truly clear. I question everything now. Has anybody else refused them?

@PutUKFirst1 @Jenny_1884 Your brain is not made up of approx 70% cholesterol

@Jenny_1884 It's hard to believe, but they had me on 23 tablets a day at one stage, including statins. I've done a lot of research on each of the pills, and I am now on zero. Statins destroy your cholesterol, and your brain is made up of approximately 70% of it.

Have a wonderful day out there... 🌳#thicktrunktuesday

@Jenny_1884 My secondary school was 8 miles away, so no. The college I went to was even further, so no.

Who else back in the day used to walk back & forth to school everyday rain or shine?

@DanWalesReform Curriculum materials are available to parents and when teaching I hardly had time to go to the toilet or eat lunch let alone think about including political bias in my science lessons.

Reform will remove ideological and political bias from classrooms. Curriculum materials will always be accessible to parents. Vote Reform on May 7 to restore trust between schools and families.