Dame Mrs B 🇬🇧👑💙

This is me! 😜 Was me... Is me🤔 #SayItAsItIs #IfYouDontLikeItGetOut 😆

true that!

@InspGadgetBlogs @jeanniejuno We must hope that tonight Kate Evans and her colleagues are raising a well-deserved glass or two To celebrate a jury that still has some vague sense that doing series harm to police officers is vile

@DollyDrops347 @StephenMulhern 😂😂😂 I wonder if he’s even been to Bridgwater? Or even heard of it?! 🤷‍♀️

@janebennett16 @StephenMulhern Now that's a really good suggestion! 👍

If I could host ANY show in the world… what should it be? Curious to see what you come up with!

@Gracie_Blue89 Oh deary dear…. 🤦‍♀️ He looks like #Malificent Wear what you want but you do look a silly billy… 🤪

Sam Smith is so pathetic What a ridiculousness #MetGala

If you can carry it on to the beach you can carry it off

@AHMEDBANBH29356 There are many many more… 🤷‍♀️

No English words have double 00 part from and door Prove me wrong

@Matt_Pinner No, because I’ve known many who haven’t reached a good age. 🤷‍♀️

When people get in their 60s and 70s and up, do you start thinking about how many years you have left? I’m really curious ?

My goodness now you tell us that: "Re-cycling was unheard of 50 years ago" *!*?!***!!!! 70+ years ago when I was boy growing up in the 1940s and 50s we were brought up: (a) not to waste things; (b) if things broke down we repaired them instead of throwing them away. (c) if clothes wore we repaired them, leather patches on the elbows of jackets, jumpers were patched, and socks were darned. I still have my 'House Hold badge' from the Cubs for which, aged 9 or 10, and among other tasks, we had to darn holes in socks using a toadstool (but you will have no idea what that is because you throw your socks away when they have a hole!) (d) when my mother bought a few pounds of King Edward potatoes from the greengrocer (no supermarkets in those days) they were weighed on scales at 3d or 4d a lb, then tipped straight into mum's shopping bag. No plastic bag, not even a paper one. Oh yes and we walked to the shops and we brought home what we could carry - no massive 4 wheel drive cars built around huge heavy batteries imported from China using cobalt from the Congo churning up the roads. (e) When we bought fizzy drinks from the Corona Van there was a deposit on the bottles which we dutifully returned the next time the van called. The bottles were washed and used again and again (not crushed to cullet and melted at enormous energy cost to make new bottles) (f) If my parents bought beer from the 'Off-Licence' attached to the local pub they paid a deposit of 1 or 2d depending on the size of the bottles (pint or Quart) which we as kids would take back for them to be returned to the brewery, washed and reused. (g) During Bob-A-Job week in the Cubs we would go round the Bellingham Council Estate (South London) with a wheel-barrow (made from old pram wheels and odd bits of scrap wood - often from orange boxes - Recycling you see!) and collect old newspapers and jam jars because Robertsons' Jam factory was just on the edge of the estate and they would give us 1d for every jam jar (which was then washed and reused). Oh yes: the Newspapers were bundled-up weighed and returned to Bowaters Paper Mill where they were pulped and turned back into paper for the next batch of Newspapers to be produced in Fleet Street - sound like recycling to me! (h) If something was spilt in the kitchen a dishcloth would be used to mop it up and rinsed out and reused again and again: There were no rolls and rolls of paper towels in those days! I could go on .... One consequence of all this was that we had just one small metal dustbin which was emptied each week, not the array of 5 or more colour coded Plastic wheelie bins cluttering up and despoiling the streets of our once pleasant towns and villages. Apologies for the lengthy post .... but here endeth the lesson from somebody who was a War Baby! Oh yes just to finish - I still find it difficult to throw anything away "any little widget, or washer, or off-cut of wood ..... that might come in useful". I have a shed full of such! and sometimes they do "come in useful" ....... if only I can remember where I squirrelled them away! Old age you see! With kind regards Tony

@benonwine The #Tropicana in Weston Super Mare and #Bridgwater #Lido. 😍

Right… I’m heading back to 1983. What’s everyone having brought back?

@JeremyVineOn5 I thought benefits were in place initially to help those who had fallen on hard times, like losing a job. No help for us after husband made redundant because of prior earnings. Even with insurance they won’t pay out for 3 months, by which time he had another job. #WasteOfTime 😡

Is it fair to say that being on benefits is a 'lifestyle choice'? That's what Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has suggested. She said people need to be reminded that welfare is a safety net, not a lifestyle. Do you agree with her?

Might give it a go… 😂😂😂😂😂

How Jafar Jackson, the nephew of Michael Jackson and son of Jermaine Jackson played MJ.

A pathologist was so struck by her peaceful expression that he made a death mask of her face. Decades later, that mask became the face of Resusci Anne. So, every time you sing along to MJ, you’re technically singing to a 19th-century mystery. 🕵️‍♂️✨

But who was the real Annie? The face of the mannequin is based on the "L’Inconnue de la Seine" (The Unknown Woman of the Seine), an unidentified young woman found in the Seine River in Paris in the late 1880s.

@benmcbean Whaaaaaaaaaat????????

Saw a couple staring at something so me being nosey walked over. 😳

@HalilMrT4Real @SamBaileyREAL Sam is so talented! #WhatAVoice And so down to earth & humble too! 😍

All I did was go to the cinema....... next thing you know.... I'm sitting next to none other than @SamBaileyREAL..... so much 🫶

@HalilMrT4Real You’ve really worked your way up! Not easy- well done! 👏👏 (Best on your CV is obviously #BGT #SemiFinalist though!) 🤪👍

My journey has taken me through being: A Teaching assistant ✔️ A Teacher ✔️ An Assistant Headteacher ✔️ A Headteacher ✔️ A School Improvement Advisor ✔️ An Ofsted Inspector ✔️ …to BGT 2026 Semi-Finalist ✔️ I'm getting ready to share my story! "If we get belonging right.... everything else becomes possible" (Mr T - me 😉👊) #Education #SchoolLeadership #Belonging #Culture #Ofsted #Leadership

Do these people have no shame?? 😳 What the hell is wrong with everyone?! How is it not obvious that these children are WAY too young for these conversations!! We have totally lost our minds in the West. We need to find our way back to sanity. 🙏