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Dotty and I want to thank everyone for their encouragement and Gifts in support of our journey. @manechance 's dedication to rescuing and caring for animals is truly inspiring. Animals need love and they provide it. Please keep them on your wish list and visit to see their amazing work 🐎

@springmeister Oh! for the sounds of England 🤗🤗

Sitting to the sound of skylarks #morningwalk

Happy Easter from us and the Half and half tree! #morningwalk

@springmeister What a star :))

Spontaneous stick wrangling for some reason! #morningwalk

@AveryDaye Well done for trying anyway - 👍

I put on a friend's military kit which confirmed what I already know: women should NOT be in combat roles in our military. The first thing I said was "omg my hips are killing me" and then learned that the number one most common injury women face in the military is lower extremity musculoskeletal overuse, AKA women break their hips!!! I'm a fit person, I workout every day, I was a national team level athlete, I'm 5'9", and I immediately recognized that women's bodies are not designed for this. It's not discrimination, it's simple fact. Women have less bone density and have narrower and thinner bones that aren't as strong and not designed to handle the weight of gear. We also have wider hips, and the shape of our pelvis changes how forces travel through the hips, knees, and legs, putting significantly more stress on those areas. During certain hormonal shifts, our bodies produce less estrogen, which makes women's bones weaker and slower to repair compared to men's. This doesn't even touch on the issues of morale/deployability/enemy treatment/lower standards and effectiveness/combat liability/ mental differences/cultural implications. Women are a liability on the frontlines. We're lying to ourselves as a country to say anything but. I was very happy to take this off and very grateful to the men who protect. Thank you to our troops. God bless America. 🇺🇸 🦅❤️ PS. Don’t call me a gun bunny. I’m not a fan of those. 😂

@chrismartenson What a special dog <3

The power of a dog's nose illustrated. Remarkable. But, sure, the bomb-sniffing dog teams walked all around the place where Tyler Robinson's gun was 'found' (placed?), just missed it that day. Even my post-Covid nose can smell a freshly fired rifle...

@dvorahfr Luna Tic?

Earth: Earthling Mars: Martian Moon: ? Grok Imagine 4.20🥰

@weeglesgapoet I admire the logic and journey. Really do hope others might catch this and find meaning.

Sober Supplement - Ep 5 #sober #recovery

@weeglesgapoet Poetry as currency. Rhyme and Punishment? in your hands is Rhyme and Restoration. Gifted

Rhyme and Punishment ✍️🔐 #poetry #prison #therapy

@JohnCleese One could ask was permission to talk given? - the beliefs of your religion are yours - and you might like to think they are worthy of acceptance by all - but sadly I for one couldn't dumb down to that level of stupidity. It's lazy and comes from a slave morality.

Do these virgins have any say in what happens to them ?

Wishing our Patron Sara Crowe the happiest of birthdays today! Sara has been with us since the beginning of the charity and always says yes when we ask her for help - she is amazing. Thank you Sara for all your support and for being such an important part of Mane Chance.

9 days to Via de la Plata. Preparations for my walk have entered the final stages, and who would have believed a short 4 mile early morning leg stretch would earn 2 blisters - I want to blame the shoes, but it's the socks. Should have binned them the first time.

@weeglesgapoet Roast fish - ( I love a bonfire - :))

Farewell Nicola 👋 #politics #snp #goodriddance

@springmeister The gossamer thread.... Parachutes to be caught on the breeze and taken to pastures new

Sat down to enjoy the peace and then noticed that there’s a whole world going on in the field. Catch it best towards the end. Thousands of shimmering spiders strands and you only see them when the wind catches them and the sun glints on them. Magic

@springmeister Can't help but smile 😛

To make you smile 😁

@washghost1 Orders for the Royal Navy have been submitted

Yes I’d like to place an order

@Noirchick1 How could one forget - Also, most of the lassies I grew up with bore the name ''Leslie'' probably in 'Homage'

A little morning flexercise with Miss Leslie Caron from "An American in Paris".........

@JohnNicholRAF Soon to be found on a film set or the vanguard fleet of an up and coming Dictator

Sad to hear military is retiring its fleet of Land Rovers. As a young airman on Tactical Communications Wing 82-6 I spent a huge portion of my life in them. 2 memories: 1. Working with the 47 Sqn Herc SF Flight post Falklands-war, practicing running off-loads & extractions of 'Airhead Party' during endless (and vomit-inducing) tac landings & take-offs 2. Demonstrating a 'hand-brake' turn at end of runway - not fully understanding the handbrake actually locked the transmission: managed to flip it over on side blocking RW for hours. Got charged & fined £60! Still got commissioned later: RAF not too picky in 80s!

@CliveWardauthor Haversack rations - I think it was where SodeXo aquired it's inspiration

HORROR BAG Packed lunch, The Haver bags. The horror, the horror!!! The ultimate gastronomic experience. Yes, I remember the odd compo ration ending up in the Horror bags or the white boxes of death in some shape or form, corn dog sandwiches and cheese possessed to name but a few. Probably leftovers from compo days and they were dumped in the guard boxes. No complaints from me though being a bean stealing pad. THE CONTENTS OF THE HORROR BAG 2x sweaty warm cheese and tomato sandwiches, sometimes mystery fish. 1x boiled egg (great for long coach journeys) Imagine it, the average coach has fifty-six seats, times that by the gases of fifty-six boiled eggs, three hours into the journey with added hurry up and wait time, GAS, GAS, GAS, respirators on! 1x Unbranded packet of salt and vinegar or ready salted crisps, famous for sucking all the moisture out of your body faster than the average Essex girl. 1x tasteless apple. 1x bottle of Panda pop or rola cola pish water that always exploded as soon as you opened it. Get rid of the stuff and the military dentists will be out of work! I’ve been told you get bubble gum flavour nowadays. 1x mystery item wrapped in Clingfilm…may be a grey last week’s leftover range stew pasty, or a sausage roll that contained that many E-numbers that eating one lowered your IQ by at least 40 points, or some unknown meat pasties 5% meat 95% flakes. Avoid! (Half frozen of course). COMPO FOOD OF THE GODS by Clive Ward www.clivewardauthor.comAvailable on Kindle and paperback amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BQGY54HH/…

@histories_arch Amazingly here in the UK we pay to remove waste, the Government profits from the process - and when we complain that it's being flushed through the rivers they just take the piss - Is that pithy enough?

The workers descended into the vats at dawn, their feet already knowing the rhythm.... In the heart of ancient Rome, beneath the marble temples and triumphal arches, an entire industry ran on what most people flushed away without a second thought. Urine. Human waste. The very substance that filled chamber pots each morning was being collected, traded, and taxed by the state itself. This wasn't desperation. It was chemistry before anyone called it that. The ammonia in urine broke down grease and whitened fabric better than almost anything else available. Roman laundries, the fullonicae, needed it constantly. Togas had to gleam. Tunics had to be presentable. And so workers stomped garments in vats of diluted urine, hour after hour, processing the clothing of senators and citizens. Then Emperor Vespasian saw opportunity. He installed public urinals across Rome and taxed the collectors who sold the contents to launderers. His critics were appalled. Taxing urine? Profiting from human waste? But Vespasian reportedly held up a gold coin, asked if it smelled, and shrugged. Money doesn't smell. Pecunia non olet. The phrase outlived the empire. What strikes me most isn't the strangeness of it all. It's how practical the Romans were about survival, profit, and resource management. Nothing was beneath consideration if it worked. No dignity was too precious to sacrifice for economic efficiency. They built an empire on pragmatism, even when it meant wading through waste. #archaeohistories