Ruth Anders

@HSBC_UK please contact me re : poor customer service. Advisors having to " follow the script ", unable to speak on behalf of my 91 year old parent, no knowledge about how the only remaining local branch operates. A frustrating 40 minute call.

@HSBC please contact me re: customer service. Impossible to speak on my mother's behalf, in response to a letter you sent. Unhelpful procedures.

#ArtemisII I was 8 in 1969 and allowed to see first man on the moon on TV. Amazing to watch Artemis this evening.

I started at Manchester Uni in 1979 studying Theology. My dad ( quite traditional vicar at the time ) paid for my membership of Movement to Ordain Women, at the time, that was a thought for me. How great to see a female Archbishop of Canterbury today.

@BekoUK can you tell me why I'm waiting 10 days to repair my fridge freezer?

@CurrysServices phoned yesterday as my Fridge Freezer not working. Told to expect a call today. Didn't happen. Phoned again, told to expect a call on 9th January. Food thrown out, and now 10 days to wait ??

St Ann's Church, Aigburth Road, 1925 and 2025 Showing the wedding of Dr James Chadwick and Miss Aileen Maud Stuart-Brown Professor Sir James Chadwick was a British physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932.

" What is this confederation"...Lady Crawley said.#WorldCup2026

I need to watch this when I can't sleep #WorldCup2026

Absolutely disgraceful from the South Yorkshire Police Federation & keeping with tradition sadly & shamefully. They dare to whine about “trial by media” when it was their own secretary in 1989 who spread the lies that weaponised the media against Liverpool fans and was fundamental to the cover up. And now they have the nerve to demand fairness and balance? Whoever signed this off should consider their position.

So glad I don't have to do this with my tree lights ...@LivCathedral but love watching them go on.

@P_G_Anderson @LivCathedral Local Hero Philip ?

Giles Gilbert Scott's glorious K6 telephone box, this one still in use, in Scotland, speaks of the nobility of all our conversations. For me, of course, it evokes his great house of prayer, both modern and traditional, @LivCathedral, a beacon of humanity touched with divine fire.

@JohnNicholRAF I've just finished this, a really informative book. Had to put it down more than once to take a deep breath and not cry. Had the honour of reading the Commendation at the Menin Gate, all those names.

THE UNKNOWN WARRIOR - Armistice Day 105 years ago "The man in that coffin, might be my daddy” As dawn broke over London on the 11th of November 1920, the pale glow creeping through the vast canopy above platform eight at Victoria station offered the first inkling that the Unknown Warrior’s journey home was in its final stages. The coffin was gently loaded onto a gleaming gun carriage, drawn by six gloss-black warhorses. The newspapers reported that tears flowed freely from the crowds. One correspondent writing: “Who is it who lies there under the flag, with Field Marshals and Admirals for his pallbearers? Each member of this huge, quiet crowd gives him a name, each a different face. He is husband, lover, brother, son to each, and many a woman here would give all her income from dreamland for a touch of his hand on her cheek.” The procession headed up Grosvenor Place to Hyde Park Corner. Along Constitution Hill and up The Mall. Finally, it turned into Whitehall towards the newly constructed Cenotaph, shrouded in two giant Union Jacks ready to be unveiled. As the carriage arrived at the Cenotaph, King George V stepped forward, and placed a beautiful wreath of bay leaves and blood-red roses on to the coffin. On his handwritten note tucked into the deep-green foliage he had written: "In proud memory of those who died unknown in the Great War. As unknown and yet well-known; as dying, and behold they live." There was another barked order. Hooves scraped and the drums began to beat again. With a creak of leather, the gun carriage eased away from the Cenotaph and began to rumble towards Westminster Abbey. Much of the crowd was now weeping quite openly and a lady standing nearby was heard to cry softly: “Goodbye, goodbye!” After a very brief service in the abbey, the Guardsmen held the coffin steady on ropes as the transverse timbers were pulled away, and the Unknown warrior in his heavy medieval casket was lowered gently into his final resting place. The service had been a fitting conclusion to the hundreds of thousands of stories which had lain unfinished since the end of the Great War. It had been a day of healing, a day of hurt, a day of forlorn memories and of flowers wet with untold tears. A day that marked, at last, the end of an exceptional journey for an unknown man... a WARRIOR nobody would now EVER forget….. As one young boy had written in a letter in 1920 after the war: “The man in that coffin, might be my daddy” "THE UNKNOWN WARRIOR: The Extraordinary Story of the Nation's Hero Buried in Westminster Abbey"

Went to a local garden centre today with grandchildren, paid £1.55 for one packet of crisps ( usually take my own snack in for them but forgot today). Really though...£1.55 ??

In the Book of Remembrance for WW1 at @LiverpoolCathedral. Earl Kitchener included as Honorary Freeman of Liverpool ( from 1902 ).

And looking through an old box, found this. School exchange to Amsterdam in 1976, visited Anne Frank's House.

Found this in my box of treasures .83 pages of a BBC booklet for 30p. What a gem #bbc

For every retweet of this post, I will donate £1 to the @VC_and_GC_Assoc up to £50,000. Time is running out following @I_W_M’s decision to close the Lord Ashcroft Gallery. Visit while you still can, to honour the bravery of those who risked so much to protect our great nation.

@RetirementTales A Minister for Education who knows about education? We can't have that, surely ?

In the event of a Cabinet reshuffle, Margaret is, as ever, ready to step into the post of Secretary of State for Education. She hasn't fully developed her ideas but she'll be bringing back joy and trust and school nurses and El Nombre. Margaret is all about well-being.

@P_G_Anderson Happy Birthday Philip x

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