Maureen StewartJones

Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave....is a quotation from a poem by Sir Walter Scott. It is often attributed wrongly to Shakespeare.

I never knew this !!! Everyday is a school day

Doris is suffering. Doris does not know she is suffering. The suffering has been inferred from a photograph posted on social media by someone who visited the fell in August, stood at the gate for four minutes, and looked at Doris looking back at them. "She looked so sad," the caption read. "Standing there alone in the rain. No shelter. Just staring." Let's assess the evidence. The rain: Doris has grazed through eleven consecutive days of horizontal Lake District rain without reducing her hours. The rain does not constitute suffering for an animal wrapped in eight centimetres of lanolin-coated fleece that actively repels moisture. The fleece is not a fashion choice. The fleece is a biological weather system. The aloneness: Doris is in a fell with other sheep. She grazes at distance from them because fell sheep are not herding animals in the lowland sense. They distribute across the landscape. Doris is not isolated. Doris is optimally positioned. The stare: Doris can recognise up to fifty individual sheep faces and ten human faces and remembers them for two years. She was not staring sadly. She was filing you. The shelter: the spot behind the east wall where Doris sleeps on cold nights is four degrees warmer than the exposed fell and has been her chosen location on every comparable night since her first winter. She did not look sad in August. She looked at the gate visitor in the specific way a prey animal looks at an unknown presence: assessing, not emoting. This is the anthropomorphism problem. We look at an animal experiencing its natural environment in the way it evolved to experience it, doing the things it is built to do, in conditions it is designed for, and we project onto it the emotional state we would have if we were standing in that field in those conditions. We would be cold. We would be lonely. We would look sad. Doris is not us. Doris is a fell sheep on a fell. The fell is what she is. The rain is her element. The aloneness is her preference. The stare is cognition, not grief. Doris's cortisol: normal, per the vet's annual check. Doris's welfare domains: no concerns across all five, per the farmer's records. Doris's opinion of the caption: she has filed the photographer's face. Doris will remember that face for two years. Doris is grazing. Doris has always been fine. We are the ones who needed the shelter.

@SamaHoole Love your posts and love Doris. ❤️

@MbarkCherguia 2

This is supposed to be one of the hardest problems ever to solve. Is it? Or isn’t it?

@NAIRA680411 23

How many dots do you see.? 99.99% people get this wrong..

@JohnNicholRAF Wow! Sounds exciting and dangerous. Did you have much left after £60 fine? So many memories. XX

Sad to hear military is retiring its fleet of Land Rovers. As a young airman on Tactical Communications Wing 82-6 I spent a huge portion of my life in them. 2 memories: 1. Working with the 47 Sqn Herc SF Flight post Falklands-war, practicing running off-loads & extractions of 'Airhead Party' during endless (and vomit-inducing) tac landings & take-offs 2. Demonstrating a 'hand-brake' turn at end of runway - not fully understanding the handbrake actually locked the transmission: managed to flip it over on side blocking RW for hours. Got charged & fined £60! Still got commissioned later: RAF not too picky in 80s!

@funkytownlondon @JohnNicholRAF Wow! Sounds exciting and dangerous. Did you have much left after your £60 fine? What memories. Does life seem tame now? 😁

@JohnNicholRAF I have great memories of these being used as ‘Rover 1’ etc for ATC. If we were lucky we’d have a long wheelbase newer 110 but the real fun was the short wheelbase Mk 1’s that you literally had to physically kick to get into gear 🤣 happy days…

@Mishi_2210 21. Obviously.

Everyone says 20 ,but that’s not the real answer If you solve this, you’re in the top 1%

@NiallHarbison Sending you a virtual warm hug and lots of love. The darkness will lift. You are amazing. ❤️⭐️🌞🌈⚘️🥰

My confidence and self worth haven’t been great lately and I just wanted to say thats ok so other people who suffer with depression or anxiety know that it’s ok to feel like that. I’m CEO of Happy Doggo and most people in positions like mine have to hide stuff like this. Most people in all positions In life do actually. It’s really hard to admit you don’t feel the best about yourself. That’s why I just write it down as I feel because maybe it’ll help someone. Between our team, partners and everything wrapped up in what I do there are probably 100+ people who rely on me. Add in social media, donors and everything else and that’s a massive happy facade to keep up. I’ve learnt though that it’s ok to say you are not ok. At the moment I’m going through the motions. Still working hard and trying my best but I feel a bit worthless. No self worth at all. I also have imposter syndrome. I know I can jus read the comments here or look at the dogs saved and I should be happy but it doesn’t bring me anything. I look in the mirror at the moment and can’t even really look at myself. No particular reason or spark for this. As people who suffer know it just comes in a dark wave like a fog. I could easily share some happy dog photos and smile and pretend I felt amazing. But I’d rather be honest and try to help others. I have untold amounts of support and good luck that many of you dont. So if you're feeling down or a little rough right now, that's okay because so am I, and it's absolutely fine to say that. Have a lovely weekend and be kind to each other ❤️

13th March, 1996 Remembering all the victims and those injured in the horrific Dunblane Primary School Massacre Please never ever forget these innocent wee bairns and their teacher 😢 ❤ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🙏

@jackdraper0 Well done Jack. You deserved that win. X

Bloody Djokovic doing his best to distract Draper in 3rd set.

@MikeBales My Polymyalgia means pain everywhere and I mean everywhere. Just lifted washing out of machine and now having to sit until pain goes. I'm applying for membership. 😂

I’m going to create a website called “Older Fans” where I just tell you which part of my body hurts today and what tiny task caused it!

Donald Trump says the bombing campaign in Iran has led to "people walking around with no legs". That's yet to be proven, although Trump has shown evidence that people can walk around with no brain

@SamaHoole This is beautiful. Gerald has the secret to a happy life. ❤️

Farmed cattle are kept in conditions that cause chronic stress, learned helplessness, and psychological suffering. Let's check in on Gerald. 6:03am - Gerald is in the south corner. Gerald is always in the south corner at 6:03am. This is not a symptom of confinement or restricted movement. This is Gerald's preference. The south corner receives the first light of the morning, is sheltered from the prevailing westerly by the hedgerow, and has, over four years of Gerald's stewardship, developed a herb-rich base that Gerald finds particularly interesting. Gerald identified this before anyone else did. Gerald has never explained his reasoning. 6:45am - Gerald walked to the water trough. He did not hurry. He has never hurried. He walked with the unhurried purpose of an animal that knows where the water trough is, has always known where the water trough is, and finds the walk from the south corner to the water trough neither threatening nor urgent. He drank 30 litres. He walked back. 7:15am - The man who walks past every morning walked past. Gerald looked at him. Gerald looks at him every morning. The man has, over four years, begun waving. Gerald does not wave back. Gerald finds this relationship adequately balanced. 8:00am - The vet came for the annual check. Gerald stood completely still while the vet conducted the examination. The vet's notes read: "Cortisol within normal range. No avoidance behaviour. Condition excellent. He looked at the field the entire time." The farmer asked afterward if this was normal. The vet said she had examined a lot of cattle in thirty years and Gerald was either the most contented animal she'd ever seen or had transcended the concept of caring either way. The farmer nodded. The farmer: "He's always been like that." 9:30am - Gerald found a new section of hedgerow he hadn't browsed in several weeks. Gerald browsed it with the forward ears and relaxed tail of an animal experiencing, in behavioural science terms, positive engagement. He spent forty minutes on it. Forty minutes on a hedgerow section is not an animal with nothing to live for. That is an animal with a hedgerow. Gerald has a hedgerow. Gerald has forty acres. Gerald has the south corner. Gerald has wildflowers he didn't plant and doesn't know about and is inadvertently responsible for. Gerald is having, by every available measure, a very good time. Gerald's chronic suffering, at time of writing: not located. The south corner is fine. Gerald is fine. The vet drove four miles to confirm this and it was worth the drive.

Special relationship. 🤔☹️ facebook.com/share/v/1WsWdf…

@JamesTate121 Excellent expose of the asshole…. another just as befitting:

"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina. "These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless. "And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House. "The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt. "Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too. Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now." - Charles Pierce

@dave43law @GBNEWS Dave, did you actually post this? Puzzled seeing the errors.

@GBNEWS No one cares whatg the poisonous little Heritage Fiybdation Trump puppet thinks We know their world view os for a fantasy Farage regime as part of their European Project. Trump shows how inept and ludicrous they actually are, The cult station could be in it's final year

‘I do anticipate that Keir Starmer will be out of office within a few weeks.’ Former advisor to Margaret Thatcher Nile Gardiner analyses the impact of President Trump publicly slamming Keir Starmer on the Prime Minister’s premiership.