What is your favourite animal?
My favourite animal is one that can thrive
One given permission to stay alive
That lives it’s time the way it wants
Without the threat of human taunts
That breathes fresh air and snuffles through bushes
Slides through water and lurks in rushes
Runs overland at great speed
Is opportunistic in order to feed
My favourite animals are all alive
They are so much more than the Big Game Five
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Thank You to Maria Martinez of Reuters for this Headline
A very altruistic statement from the German Finance Minister, the future of Greenland is up to Denmark and Greenland.
I’ve never really thought any different.
I thought America was part of N.A.T.O , so what makes them think that they can have Greenland as a prize.
If it’s all about minerals, then I think if you are willing to invade one of your own to gain commercial advantage then you are capable of doing much worse things. I think the whole World knows that .
Greenland is not for mining
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Thanks to Joseph Blakely a reporter with the Argus for this Headline
This time it’s cans of milk that have ended up on the beach. Seawater and cans of milk do not go well together and to be honest the amount of work that has to go into tidying up this mess is very bad and relies on a lot of volunteer help.
With this stuff entering the environment who knows what damage it does to wildlife. For example Dogs are not suppose to drink milk and I doubt very much it does a seals constitution much good either.
I don’t know if this has always happened or just that we report it now.
Perhaps it’s time to understand the pressures people are under to load their tankers to the brim and also to look at the Supply Chain as to why canned milk has to be transported half way around the World anyway and ends up in the English Channel, what exactly is the cost benefit argument?
The local MP is aware of the amount of work that will have to go into cleaning the beaches as they are aware that more “lost ” containers are heading to shore. Surely this is a National disaster and the local authority should be given special money to fund the clean up , while at the same time the Government needs to hold to account those that are responsible.
Not quite how it looks….thanks AI
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Thanks to Joe Locker of Nottinghamshire Live for the Headline
“Robin Hood , Robin Hood Riding through the glen” . Oh my I was taken aback when I heard that the Sheriff of Nottingham was repeating history and had to be investigated over questions raised over his conduct.
This time it’s a Labour Councillor who has taken on the title of Sheriff of Nottingham but is really there to promote Tourism to Nottingham.
Has he been demanding corn tithes from everyone and taking unfair advantage of their daughters if they failed to pay up .Or chopping peoples heads off for poaching or stealing deer.
No , there’s a possibility that he had his private car serviced at Land Rover Jaguar at the expense of the Council. The investigation is waiting on the paperwork to assess if this is true.
My how days have changed.
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Thanks to Harry Cockburn of the Independent Online for the Headline.
So apparently in order to boost her entitlement to Royal lineage , Elizabeth the First, had a portrait of Anne Boleyn( her mother who was executed by her father King Henry V111) painted with a strong resemblance or indeed based on her own appearance.
At the time of her reign, there were many threats to her right to the Monarchy, so it was natural to use any method to publicise that she was indeed the rightful heir to the English Throne.
It seems odd to me that she would want to be associated with a woman who Henry V111, said was such a wicked and wanton woman. In fact it’s amazing that Elizabeth 1 turned out to be such an effective Queen who ruled for 45 years despite being made illegitimate when her parents marriage was annulled. Henry having a change of mind when Elizabeth was ten years old and restored her to the line of succession.
A lot of water was still to pass under the bridge, but I’d like to think that the portrait was also produced as a way for Elizabeth to honour her mother, who having died when she was barely two , she would hardly have known what she looked like.
Let’s face it Elizabeth never married or had children of her own, perhaps her mother’s story made her fiercely independent and skeptical about the fate of Tudor women and maybe the one thing she could cling onto was the love of her mother.
It was probably a man’s world.
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In what ways do you Communicate Online?
Online Communication
Is important for the Nation
We order food and many things
On subscription and helplessly click as the cash till rings
The Bank says we’re overdrawn
We stare at the screen and begin to yawn
No problem, our parents account is just a cash cow
We’ll transfer the funds in real-time now
We want to tell our friends we are somewhere
Lost or found , travelling or not at all there
Our friends dont’ really want to know
But if they don’t look they might just miss the show
A video of you falling on ice,
They laugh and don’t think about it twice,
They scroll and move on to the next event
Was that what that Celebrity really meant?
You wait online to book a show
You’re patient because you really want to go
The Satellite is overloaded , you lose your slot
Then get sold some tickets by a pop-up bot,
Their fake but you don’t find out until it’s too late
When you are refused entry at the gate.
So I love my WordPress it seems so clean
And everyone is nice and no one is mean
There is a lesson for us all on here
That information is never free and truth is very, very dear.
Namaste and Thank You for Reading. π
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Thanks to Charles Pring from The Argus for the above Headline
I can’t imagine how frightened the little puffin ( the clown of the sea) must have been being washed up in the wrath of Storm Goretti.
It’s fantastic that we have people who volunteer to do wildlife rescues and that the little bird was rescued and rehabilitated and sent on it’s way back to wherever it was going.
They live at sea for most of their lives and only return for nesting, so poor little mite obviously got waylaid.
Glad it was rescued and well done to everyone involved.
Namaste and Thank You for Reading.π
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I’m not in the mood to think back
I want to have a change of tack
To live in the moment is what I do
I thoroughly recommend it now to you
There’ll come a time to consider the past
Tomorrow when having your normal repast
You’ll see an article about a town
You remember a long time ago, there you were bound
The road was long , the trip was sad
Though you don’t remember anything particularly bad
It wasn’t a holiday , or even for work
Luckily the vehicle never lost it’s torque
You travelled along at an even pace
Happy to be out of the rattus race
Arrived, the Town itself seemed half asleep
And the local pond seemed very deep
You stopped to feed the birds and couldn’t help but smile
Their excited flutters made it all worthwhile.
Namaste and Thank You for Reading.π
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Thanks to Charles Pring ,reporter The Argus Online for the Headline
Boy and Girl Racers beware , you are not allowed to gather and cause a nuisance to other road users.
This incident that required police intervention happened in Sussex but in truth it could have happened anywhere. Apparently they initially gathered in Worthing (obviously a den of iniquity) and drove out to “sleepy retirement by the sea” Hove, presumably to find an open fish and chip shop and do some storm watching if the see was rough.
Apparently however, the Police were asked by locals to issue a dispersal order and not allow more than 35 cars to gather at one time ( about car park size) and to have the dispersal order over the whole of the weekend.
It’s Monday now , excitement over.
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Thanks to Zak Doffman a contributor about security, surveillance and privacy at Forbes for the Headline
I think this headline is very effective not in just telling the story of the shutting down of Communications in Iran , but also in portraying the danger that the protesters are in by actually just saying that they are unhappy with the situation in Iran. “Kill Switch” meant to me not just blocking the satellite communications with Starlink, but also taking revenge on those that are using it.
Will the authorities manage to block the people with the illegal devices that can track the satellites and transmit communications with them? So far they have managed to block about 80% of the traffic, however at a cost to themselves in Iran’s Economic Performance. It seems that the Economy needs a decent Internet Communication to function. So the Iranian Authorities are indeed not just repressing their people , they are also shooting themselves in the foot at the same time.
Namaste and Thank You for Reading.π
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