Lucy 💚

My daughter bought my book! And she’s proud of me! I’d have given her one so this kind of support is invaluable to any author💚 Even if The Power of Plants isn’t your jam, I’d appreciate it if you could repost to anyone who might enjoy it- thank you

Bus Stop of The Day: Isle of Skye

Happy Birthday Dad. 108 today if you had made it this far. Glad you are resting in a more peaceful spot. We are opening up the archive today and eating your favourite cake to celebrate you. 🍰@stephenshouse 🌷

All hail Matt Cartoons everyone, all hail Matt. 👏👏👏

Towards the Cullins, Sligachan, painting by Judith Bridgland, Scottish artist.

There is a town Wales that has 26 bookshops and only 2000 residents. Hay-on-Wye.

Just when I thought anglerfish couldn’t be any more bizarre😱

This is Trevor Fisher, an inpatient in @ArthurRankHouse in Cambridgeshire, speaking to @Channel4News this week. I am a palliative care specialist and Trevor’s interview has devastated me. His hospice has just found out that in 6 months, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust will withdraw its £800k funding. This means that 9 of the hospice’s 16 beds will close, denying patients like Trevor the precious end-of-life care they need. In total, 200 people a year in Cambridgeshire will now be forced to die in an overcrowded hospital instead of the hospice environment they so longed for. Some will doubtless end up dying on trolleys in corridors - we witness this far too often, these days & I can tell you, it is barbaric. @CUH_NHS says it has made this “very difficult decision” following a “value for money assessment” - confirming what I have long known as a doctor, that too often, patients with terminal illnesses are treated as second class citizens whose lives simply don’t matter as much as other people's. Yet the real responsibility here lies not with the NHS trust but with the current government, who is forcing the NHS nationwide to cut clinical services in order to meet impossible “efficiency savings” (what weasel words those are). These cuts were necessary, say @CUH_NHS, “in order to maintain core services within a reduced budget” - that is to say, the reduced budget they are now receiving from this government. So this is on you, @wesstreeting, and on you @UKLabour. You've chosen to do this & now patients like Trevor must live - and die - with your choices. I believe that the measure of a civilised country is how well it cares for its most vulnerable members. The difference between politicians and me is that I look the palliative care patients they are failing in the eye. So I will put it to you directly, Mr Streeting. We are still a rich country capable of affording decent, humane palliative care for all. Do you really care so little for dying people that you are happy to fail them on your watch? Thank you @channel4news for covering this story. #palliativecare #hospicecare #NHS

After he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, Albert Camus wrote a letter of thanks to his favorite childhood teacher, whom he'd never forgotten. It's beautiful.

Tomato time! 🍅🍅🍅

“Britain's Ofwat board split over approval for Thames Water rescue deal, Bloomberg News reports.” Turns out there might be some good news today. Is Ofwat’s board tipping towards rejecting the latest shabby Thames Water takeover, I do hope so. reuters.com/sustainability…

Step inside history. Plan your visit to Dr Johnson’s House and discover a hidden gem in the City of London. We are open Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm Sunday 12pm - 4pm drjohnsonshouse.org

I’ve just spent an enjoyable hour blocking people who can’t be polite when they disagree with me. If you’re rude, threatening, ageist or abusive, straight down the toilet you go. Simple pleasures... Why not just disagree without being offensive? That way I’ll listen to you.

@suey307 Happy colours!

@LSummersauthor What a thoughtful gift, I love them 😍

Gift from my daughter- lucky me- she knows I loved a pair of pistachio green trainers that fell apart. So thoughtful Thankyou daughter🥰

A picture paints a 1000 words…

@JohnSimpsonNews It amazes me that the great American nation produced such a mediocre, unstable, and erratic leader. What happened to you, America?

Jane Fisher

Wept with laughter🤣

"It took me 15 years to discover I had no talent for #writing. But I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous." Robert Benchley