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🇮🇪 📚 Old: tries to be green🍀 and woke but tends to fall asleep; any further education via WEA & Radio 4
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17th July 2024 07.02 Craster
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“Scrapping the two-child benefit cap would lift 300,000 children out of poverty. No other single measure the government could take would be as cost-effective in reducing the number of children living below the breadline” www.theguardian.com/business/art...
Labour should scrap two-child benefit cap sooner rather than later | Larry Elliottwww.theguardian.com Families cannot afford to wait until UK government says there is money to spare to make such a decision
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What better reminder of the fleeting nature of life than a wild Irish yew, a species that can live for 1,500 to 3,000 years? Even she/he is just passing through. 🌍
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Rogart. 9.45pm. At the bottom of the croft. Wild angelica & meadowsweet. Goodnight...
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16th July 2024 06.55 Craster
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"‘Goldmine’ collection of wheat from 100 years ago may help feed the world, scientists say. A British geneticist scoured the globe for diverse grains in the 1920s. His research could be vital as the climate changes." www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
‘Goldmine’ collection of wheat from 100 years ago may help feed the world, scientists saywww.theguardian.com A British geneticist scoured the globe for diverse grains in the 1920s. His research could be vital as the climate changes
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@neverfadingwood.bsky.social Also this gem
Oh An Post will know. Here’s a letter to a cat which found its way to the intended recipient, via asking at the local primary school.
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@neverfadingwood.bsky.social Thought you’d like this - I approve of this attitude to running a café!
The Irish have a fairly flexible relationship with the concept of time #speirGorm
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Lost in the ongoing Trumpapalooza is the excellent news that a malaria vaccination developed at Oxford Univ. over the last 30 years and costing only £3 per shot is being unrolled in malaria-prone countries. If it fulfills its promise, this will make an enormous difference to so many lives.
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14th July 2024 07.38 Craster
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Today I stand in the presence of immortality #ea-nasir
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@neverfadingwood.bsky.social The Twitter friends send their very best. Much love from Chic, Ann, Lutra and Stephen they’ll be thinking about you
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Important 🧵 about the undermining of US safety laws
I’ve been actively avoiding the news for my own mental health, but I spent last summer studying the Chevron defense and I cannot even begin to tell you how damaging it is to lose it. My environmental law prof is probably flipping her shit right now 😬
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13th July 2024 06.38 Craster
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Yorkshire Almanac: 13 July 2024: Then: 1503: On her way to marry James IV of Scotland, Margaret Tudor (13) is met between Sirowsby and Doncaster by a euphonious sheriff 1626: Charles I gives the borough of Leeds its first municipal charter, reflecting York's loss of industry,… http://dlvr.it/T9WwH4
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A good year for the roses
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“Labour has appointed one of the country’s foremost climate experts to lead on clean energy. Stark said: “Tackling the climate crisis and accelerating the transition to clean power is the country’s biggest challenge, and its greatest opportunity” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate expert Chris Stark appointed to lead UK clean energy taskforcewww.theguardian.com ‘Mission control centre’ to work with energy companies and regulators towards goal of clean and cheaper power by 2030
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OH was complaining about his glasses, which are uncomfortable but have been regularly complimented by other people. Should he have chosen different ones? I told him this was the Lady Ragnell dilemma... 🧵