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@ThinkNGuess Sewing machine bobbins!

Nobody I’ve asked has been able to identify this yet. Can you?

@noravibes_ 0

What’s the next number

@LilyGrace_09 Eve

What's the name if girl! Only sharp mind people can get this

@sweet_nector1 Mincing machine

I'm sure you can't guess exactly what this metal object is for 😏

@ThinkNGuess Dentist patient chair

Do you have any idea what it could be?

@Matt_Pinner Turnip

I’m currently having a blazing argument, please help me settle this once and for all. What is this???

@CarlBovisNature @DeborahMeaden Yes! They Live in local spiny and feed on the bird feeders!

Who has ever seen a Woodpecker? This is one of the 'Great Spotted' variety in my Somerset garden. 😍🐦😀

@DocEmUK Sad to read this! My father a GP 1940s pre NHS, mixed practice. Our house his surgery, and dispensary! He worked 24/7 except Wednesday afternoon! He joined Royal Army Corps WW2 Award Military Cross for ‘extreme acts of bravery!’ Do we expect too much from our GPs??

I’ve been doing this GP malarkey for nearly 20y now. It struck me today that the only way I can carry on practising the way I used to is if I do it at my own personal expense. It never used to be like this - there was enough time in the day for bereavement visits, wellbeing checks, proactive care, time with colleagues to discuss patients & build relationships. General practice today is decision making at the same speed as a shoot-em-up game. Today was just me for 55 same day requests for appointments, clinical supervision of three members of staff, medical student education, paramedic education and all routine needs for a population of 1250 patients. We’re fortunate to have personal lists - though the new contract doesn’t value the continuity at all - and that matters to me deeply. Leaving work at 7, I decided to pop in to a patient of mine that I’ve known for 14y. In their 80s, they’ve just had joint replacement surgery and are having a bit of a wobble. We had a chat, they felt better, we have a plan & I’ll check in next week. This is the kind of GP I want to be. My day would have been less frantic, I’d have eaten/urinated at a sensible time, and I’d would have been less snappy with the children whom I saw briefly before bed if there hadn’t been so much nonsense crowding my day: 25 mins on hold trying to get through to a specialist (and failing), an insurance company slyly demanding a conversation with me about a non-urgent issue because it saves them money, dealing with consequences of private tests not requested by me but with the inevitable ‘see your GP’ as disposition, missing discharge medication, delayed follow-up, inappropriate ‘GP to’ as the heart failure team have a waiting list - and much more. Commissioning gaps, poor clinical pathway planning, govt targets on access over quality, media perpetuation of entitlement over responsibility and disproportionate investment & expansion of specialists over general practice have caused this. This is not ‘part time’ GP working - as a partner that’s never a thing. This is expectations from everywhere without resourcing to match. We want to deliver the things we did 20y ago - that’s why we went into this. If you want your family doctor back then you need to support us - because we want to be that too. I’m a GP, but also a Mum, wife and daughter of aged parents. I can’t do this at my own expense any more, and nor should I have to. Arguments of laziness and greed always abound, but really what we need is a properly resourced service. Please stand with us - a fight is coming.

@ProudofusUK We need more George Cadburys! !

A chocolate maker bought 120 acres of Birmingham slums. 🍫 His name was George Cadbury. He didn’t build a factory. He built a world. Every house had a garden. By law. Every single one. 🌿 Schools. Parks. Swimming pools. Cricket pitches. Pensions. Education during working hours. Workers’ committees that ran the factory floor. Then in 1900 he put the entire estate into a trust. 🏛️ It could never be sold for profit. Never broken up. Never privatised. Protected forever. It still exists today. Still run by the trust. One man proved that if you treat people well, they don’t just survive. They flourish. 🙏 Be part of us: proudofus.co.uk Be proud of us. 🇬🇧

@janeholland1 I too have an adult son with special needs, and it is impossible for him to make his own Doctor’s appointment.

My autistic son has needed a doctor's apptment for some weeks but couldn't work the app, so he walked to the surgery to make an apptment IN PERSON. They turned him away, saying it has to be done on the app. So we're back to square one. Modern life has become anti-human. 🙄

@SoniaKumarMP @RobYeldham Sonia, so true! I am a retired NHS physiotherapist, wish I was a lot younger, and could go out to help!

2/4 As an NHS physiotherapist, I know how vital rehabilitation is in helping people regain movement, independence and confidence after trauma.

🇬🇧🤝🇺🇦 This week I travelled to Kyiv with a team of British physiotherapists to deliver hands-on rehabilitation training to Ukrainian clinicians treating patients injured in the war. 🧵1/4

@BuildsWeAre @BirminghamWeAre This was the outpatients for Royal Orthopaedic Hospital ! TB HIPS AND SPINES, POLIO, congenital deformities and other pathologies!!pre WW2 and NHS my mother and her friends ran The Cripples Car service to get children to out patients; who could not travel by public transport!

What does the future hold for this prime plot on Broad Street? Who's got the imagination & creativity? Coming soon - #LookUpBirmingham - a digital insight & business partner as Birmingham maximises its true potential for growth & success. Email jonathan.bostock@allsee-tech.com

@HumanityChad Happy birthday Daniel! Lyn, Matt and Cassie- Matt’s assistant Labrador!

Everybody Say Happy Birthday Daniel.

@ClaireCarmalt Claire, wishing you and Mike Happy Anniversary! A day of happy memories! x

Wedding Anniversary today ❤️!! A wonderful day 5 years ago with such happy memories. Life has changed unimaginably with the loss of darling Tory but my one steady is having Mike by my side. He’s my rock, my beloved & can still bring a big smile to my face 💕

@Art0fThinking 79

@MelroseStewart1 @ZephaniahFamily @ColmoreBID Mel, I had the privilege of meeting Benjamin!

The voice of the marginalised, Benjamin Zephaniah. I couldn't let this exhibition, 'The Brighter Flame', pass without paying tribute to this inspirational figure. @ZephaniahFamily @ColmoreBID #brum #Birmingham

@ClaireCarmalt Claire, well done! You must have all the families brains! 🙌🙌

I’m in the UCL News this week, it’s such a fab place to work 😊 Spotlight on... Claire Carmalt | UCL News - UCL – University College London ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/jul/…

@ClaireCarmalt Well done Claire! Very impressive! xx

Commuting home after an enjoyable dinner as an invited guest at the Royal Society Club Dinner. Wonderful food, so many different wines I lost count & stimulating company. Had to give a short talk after dinner on my research….well there’s no such thing as a free dinner is there!!

@MelroseStewart1 @AgeUKBirmingham @AgeUKSandwell @ageuk Mel! Inspirational! 👏👏

When you pass a road sign and you know you are part of the reason it's there! 🤭 Raising funds for @AgeUKBirmingham & @AgeUKSandwell. Please visit and support …ellgreatbirminghamrun2024.enthuse.com/pf/melrose-ste… #greatbirminghamrun @ageuk #charity #halfmarathon

@MelroseStewart1 @AgeUKBirmingham @AgeUKSandwell @age_uk Mel! Sending you very best wishes for a good half Marathon! You are running for a very good cause, you always do your best! I’ve sponsored you little something as ‘Carolyn! ‘ my daughter in law Caroline A is also running!

Please look out for this on Sunday 5 May 2024! I'll be running for @AgeUKBirmingham & @AgeUKSandwell. Please wave and give shout. 👋 All donations welcome at …ellgreatbirminghamrun2024.enthuse.com/pf/melrose-ste… @age_uk #Melrose #greatbirminghamrun #ajbell #halfmarathon #brumhour #brum #charity