Earthman

Such unnecessary ignorance

"Southern Water admits sewage pollution which occurred weeks after record fine." In 2021 Southern Water was fined £90,000,000 for illegally dumping sewage into the environment on almost 7,000 separate occasions. They have now also admitted that for the following 2 years they kept on illegally dumping sewage into Swalecliffe Brook in Whitstable and Faversham Creek causing fish kills and widespread devastation. Can someone explain to me why the CEO and directors aren't going to jail for this? itv.com/news/meridian/…

Today Left - £21.00kg Co-op asparagus picked by a Peruvian hand and flown in from the Southern Hemisphere. I left it in there. Right - £9.20kg Hildred’s pick your own down the road, picked using my own hands, fresh and eaten in under an hour from the field @coopuk

@FlowerdewBob Hmmm accidentally left a globe artichoke in the tunnel last year now flowering in April. Unplanned must be more careful next time

despite holes in cover and dimmed plastic the tunnel has started giving me new potatoes, mixture of saved seed, removing some plants to put tomatoes in

@FlowerdewBob Good you’re back on the room we all need our regular doses of Bob Need to get you more coverage up here as you are still an unknown for many but your knowledge would be valuable

@Snohrap was okay except I could not get in, \refresh

help, been cut off, x kept saying refresh but did nought

Mr Singh walks into a bank in London and asks to see the bank manager. He explains he's going to Europe on business for two weeks and needs to borrow £5000. The Manager says the bank will need some kind of security for the loan, so Mr Singh hands over the keys to a new Rolls Royce, which costs quarter of a million pounds. “The car is parked on the street in front of the bank,” says Mr Singh, “and I have all the necessary papers.” The bank manager agrees to accept the car as collateral for the loan. After Mr Singh leaves, the manager, the bank's area manager and all their colleagues enjoy a good laugh at the man for using a £250,000 Rolls Royce as collateral against a £5,000 loan. One of the employees drives the Rolls into the bank's underground carpark and parks it there. Two weeks later, Mr Singh returns, repays the £5000 and the interest, which comes to £15.41. The manager says, "Sir, I must tell you, we’re all a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out and discovered that you’re a multimillionaire. Why would you bother to borrow £5,000?" The man replies, "Where else in London can I park my car for two weeks for only £15.41?"

@MbarkCherguia That’s not how oil is produced ever head of pore pressure

You're digging in your backyard and this happens. What do you do?

@SamaHoole And they worry about putting sunscreen on the children and cream makes you fat

The British Vitamin D problem is not new. Britain sits between 50 and 58 degrees north. London is on the same latitude as Calgary. Edinburgh is level with Moscow. From October to March, the sun does not rise high enough above the horizon for the UVB wavelength your skin needs to actually reach the ground. You can stand naked in February noon sunlight on the south coast and produce essentially zero vitamin D. This is six months of the year, every year, for the entire history of human habitation on these islands. The British have known this, in their bones, for ten thousand years. Look at what was eaten in winter, before anyone had ever heard the term cholecalciferol: Oily fish. Herring, mackerel, sprats, kippers. Three or four times a week from October to March. A single kipper carries roughly 250 IU of D3. Cod liver oil. Spooned into every British child between 1850 and 1980, a teaspoon at a time. Distributed free by the Ministry of Food in the war on the explicit understanding that British children needed it through the dark months. Rickets fell by 90 per cent between 1940 and 1960. Cod liver oil was the reason. Liver. Eaten weekly in working households until 1985. Egg yolks from hens that had been outside in the summer. Grass-fed butter, made from cream from cows on summer pasture, the fat-soluble vitamins banked into the cream and eaten through the winter. The British solution to the British problem, evolved over centuries by people who could not articulate the biochemistry but knew, with absolute certainty, what kept the children growing through the dark months. Then between 1955 and 2010, the British removed almost all of them. Cod liver oil reduced to a niche supplement. Liver dropped from weekly to never. Oily fish consumption halved. Eggs rationed by the Department of Health on cholesterol grounds since retracted. Butter replaced with margarine carrying no fat-soluble vitamins at all. Result, by 2020: roughly half of all British adults are vitamin D deficient by the end of winter. A third of children. Rickets has reappeared in British paediatric wards. The NHS now recommends every adult take a supplement from October to March. This is the NHS recommending in 2026 what the British diet was doing automatically in 1926. The geography has not changed. The latitude is the same. The sun is still inadequate from October. The food used to handle it. The kippers are still being smoked at Craster. The cod liver oil is on the chemist's shelf. The liver is at the butcher. The butter is in the dairy aisle, behind the spreads. The sun was always seasonal. The food was the backup. The backup got thrown out. Get it back.

@Wishfullthinki9 @TheGriftReport Coz they’re cheap

@TheGriftReport Why why why do you have people awnsering phones and dealing with enquiries who cant/don't speak or understand English.

Councillor apologises after asking council call handler to speak English as critics agree with her Eastbourne Borough Councillor Elaine Hamilton, in her 60s, called the council helpdesk and struggled to understand the operator. She politely said “I’m sorry but I can’t understand you, can I speak to someone who can speak English please?” The comment triggered a backlash with some social media users branding her racist. Hamilton has now issued a statement apologising and saying she regretted any offence caused. Critics including local residents and fellow councillors have agreed with her, arguing English should be the language used for all council services so ratepayers can be properly understood.

Bloody jokers

@nkh12349 X

You want a love that sets your mind, heart and body on fire 😏🔥

@nkh12349 C

I photographed the 1st pic yesterday whilst out cycling because it was such a beautiful sight & obviously brilliant for pollinators. Today, it's been sprayed with herbicide & the Dandelions are all wilting! What a shocking waste & another unnecessary bit of land doused in poison.

@donnarainey4 @pambizbuster When are people going to wake up !!!!

Current life in the UK 5 am. de-ice the car .. 12pm - sunbathe & reapply SPF 8pm - put the heating on .. 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭

The moment of this snow leopard's return to freedom leaves you speechless.

@KeruboSk @rospay15 Don’t think your relationship is a very understanding one. Understanding is a vital ingredient in the romance cocktail

My boyfriend and I are planning to buy a house together after dating for 3 years. He earns significantly more than I do, so he’d be contributing about 70% of the down payment. Because of that, he wants the house to be only in his name. He says it’s just “fair” based on the numbers, but we’d both be living there, splitting bills, and building a life together. I’ve been watching a lot of relationship content about equity vs equality, and it made me realize things don’t always have to be 50/50 but this feels like I’d have no security at all. He said if we ever broke up, he’d “do the right thing,” but that doesn’t really reassure me. My friends say don’t move in unless my name is on it. His friends apparently think I’m being entitled. Now I feel stuck between trusting him and protecting myself. Is this a red flag I’m trying too hard to rationalize?

Right in the middle of a rainy moment, a tiny bird becomes the star of something truly magical—a perfect water droplet lands on its head, forming a crown-like splash that feels almost unreal. The timing is flawless, capturing a split second where nature turns playful.

Something very relaxing after a long week sitting in the sun in my boat eating cod and chips