Fiona Teague 🇺🇦🌎🌿🌊⚓️🎭

Morning ⁦@LBRUT⁩. Sorry to say foxes have been at household waste at St Mark’s bus stop Teddington. It’s all around the bus stop and up Bushy Park Road. Pls can it be cleared asap? 🙏

@Hantsprints Batch 3s especially 👌

lets just all agree that 22s were the best looking ships and be done with it 😅⚓️

885 days have passed since Taliban banned teenage girls from going to school in Afghanistan - the ONLY country in the world. How many more meet & greets will the @UN hold, until they actually transfer into policy? How much longer do the girls of Afghanistan have to wait?

Wot, no women?#UniversityChallenge

I was just asked if I was “ready for Christmas”. It is the 23rd of November. I’m not even ready for this afternoon.

This is absolutely staggering: wages are now set to remain below their 2008 level until 2028. That's a totally unprecedented TWO lost decades of pay growth

@ric_cole @ScotTories @Chaz01BR @NatashaMDay What an utter throbber. Let me at him.. (ex-RN officer whose ‘Ma’am’ days are far behind her)

@bbcarts @AdrianEdmondson @anniemacmanus @chrismccausland @AngelaBarnes @sarajcox @anniemacmanus PLEASE tell me where you got your shirt from?! I ♥️♥️♥️ it!

Have you met your literary hero? 🦸 Imagine stumbling on Malcolm Bradbury in a lift like @AdrianEdmondson or seeing Roddy Doyle at a football match like @anniemacmanus. They join @chrismccausland, @AngelaBarnes and @sarajcox on Between the Covers today 7pm, BBC Two and iPlayer.

Large set of keys with a distinctive black lanyard dropped yesterday morning in Copthall Gardens. Please contact St Richard Reynolds if they’re yours. @twickerati pls RT

This photo is an example of how confusing perspective messes with your mind. First you see a little girl with extremely skinny legs and then...

@benmcbean Great sentiment but chefs rarely work 9-5 😣

Shout out to all 9-5 workers! I salute you. Don’t be fooled into social media rubbish, a years wages made in a day from a laptop in Dubai! Whatever. It’s you guys who keep this country running. NHS Bus drivers Police Builders Chefs Teachers Social care workers To name a few. Hats off to everyone and thank you! Now let’s keep it moving! 🫡

Beautiful, talented, complicated & misunderstood. The best ones always are. RIP Sinéad O'Connor. I hope you found the peace you couldn’t here. I hope your son met you and carried you home🪽

She was brilliant. youtube.com/watch?v=n2Ym54…

One of the earliest photos of a surfer at Waikiki Beach, carrying an alaia board in 1898. While reading about the history of surfing, I came across this passage in a travelogue called "Roughing It" by Mark Twain, which was published in 1872. Apparently, Twain was one of the earliest writers to have witnessed surfing in the Hawaiian Kingdom. He writes: "In one place, we came upon a large company of naked natives, of both sexes and all ages, amusing themselves with the national pastime of surf-bathing. Each heathen would paddle three or four hundred yards out to sea (taking a short board with him), then face the shore and wait for a particularly prodigious billow to come along; at the right moment, he would fling his board upon its foamy crest and himself upon the board, and here he would come whizzing by like a bombshell! It did not seem that a lightning express-train could shoot along at a more hair-lifting speed. I tried surf-bathing once, subsequently, but made a failure of it. I got the board placed right, and at the right moment, too, but missed the connection myself. The board struck the shore in three-quarters of a second, without any cargo, and I struck the bottom about the same time, with a couple of barrels of water in me. None but natives ever master the art of surf-bathing thoroughly."

In Rhodes & Corfu right now, British holidaymakers are being rescued by locals. They are, quite literally, relying on the kindness of strangers. The same kindness WE absolutely refuse to give to strangers because it might encourage them. We are a sick, hypocritical nation.

Have you ever wondered why some cities are just so much nicer than others? Well, it's probably because they have good "Third Places." What is a Third Place? It's wherever you go when you're not at home or at work...

@darrenlakin2 What an absolute bargain! I dread to think how much they’d charge for those in SW London…

Been to collect my latest finds this morning. 80 old terracotta pots for just £20 ! I'm going to use them for seedlings in the greenhouse, auriculas & some garden & greenhouse styling.

@liz_lizanderson What a glorious place! Have a wonderful weekend, full of pride and love ❤️

@drcorabeth Oh my days, that is the library of my dreams! 😍😍

New (well, old - but new to me!) sofa for my library! 🎉