I know who I was this morning but I've changed a few times since then
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This building is nearly 2,000 years old. How can something so ancient, of such scale, still be standing?
The answer might surprise you... (thread) 🧵
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Here's a selection of some of the greatest Cathedral/Minster naves (with the odd cheeky choir) in the UK all 📸 by my own fair hand - a joy to share them and #happyfriday #thread
1. Salisbury Cathedral
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But there’s one illustrator whose work has a powerful rush of nostalgia for me and that’s Edward Ardizzone. I don’t even particularly remember reading the books, but this cover of Stig of the Dump immediately transports me back. – at Exeter, England
ALT Cover of the Puffin Original publication of Clive King’s Stig Of The Dump
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The beginnings of a stained glass window featuring birds and insects from my client's garden
#stainedglass
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So very true
Have you ever thought about this?
In 100 years like in 2123 we will all be buried with our relatives and friends.
Strangers will live in our homes we fought so hard to build, and they will own everything we have today. All our possessions will be unknown and unborn, including the car we spent a fortune on, and will probably be scrap, preferably in the hands of an unknown collector.
Our descendants will hardly or hardly know who we were, nor will they remember us. How many of us know our grandfather's father?
After we die, we will be remembered for a few more years, then we are just a portrait on someone's bookshelf, and a few years later our history, photos and deeds disappear in history's oblivion. We won't even be memories.
If we paused one day to analyse these questions, perhaps we would understand how ignorant and weak the dream to achieve it all was.
If we could only think about this, surely our approaches, our thoughts would change, we would be different people.
Always having more, no time for what's really valuable in this life. I'd change all this to live and enjoy the walks I've never taken, these hugs I didn't give, these kisses for our children and our loved ones, these jokes we didn't have time for. Those would certainly be the most beautiful moments to remember, after all they would fill our lives with joy.
And some of us waste it day after day with greed, selfishness and intolerance.
Every minute of life is priceless and will never be repeated, so take time to enjoy, be grateful for, and celebrate your existence.
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Our society downplays the importance of parenting and obsesses over career.
It's no surprise we have so many issues.
Why Society Is Backwards (this is controversial):
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It doesn’t get any better than this. So what is it that lies beyond this door…? A clue: it’s the last of its kind in all England.
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I did a google image search for men next to potholes and put them all in a montage.
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Please take the time to read...❤️💔
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It’s just been pointed out to me that Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman. Brilliant. This is what Twitter is for.
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I’ve learned that there’s a Baby Viking Summer Camp, and I have questions and also may become obsessed.
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”The famous Italian diver Enzo Maiorca dove into the sea of Syracuse and was talking to his daughter Rossana who was aboard the boat. Ready to go in, he felt something slightly hit his back.
He turned and saw a dolphin. Then he realized that the dolphin did not want to play but to express something. The animal dove and Enzo followed.
At a depth of about 12 meters, trapped in an abandoned net, there was another dolphin. Enzo quickly asked his daughter to grab the diving knives.
Soon, the two of them managed to free the dolphin, which, at the end of the ordeal, emerged, issued an "almost human cry" (describes Enzo). (A dolphin can stay under water for up to 10 minutes, then it drowns.)
The released dolphin was helped to the surface by Enzo, Rosana and the other dolphin. That’s when the surprise came: she was pregnant!
The male circled them, and then stopped in front of Enzo, touched his cheek (like a kiss), in a gesture of gratitude and then they both swam off.
Enzo Maiorca ended his speech by saying: “Until man learns to respect and speak to the animal world, he can never know his true role on Earth.”
