A Good Afternoon Everyone. I have just had a phone call from Social Care at @SouthAyrshire Council saying that as Mum is now being hoisted into bed by nurses, they think Mum now needs carers 4 times a day. 1/7

I responded that I'm absolutely furious because the hospital has... ... made Mum more disabled because of their working practices. Before admission, Mum was able to get to the car and go out as well as walk around the house downstairs.

Since admission she has spent weeks in bed. They won't let her mobilise without 2 members of staff due... 2/7

Back during 1995 I started having difficulties that I could not understand. I started having problems working with a particular colleague in my x-ray department. I actually went for counselling but that didn't help. Over subsequent years I had to retire. 1/12
@TheHuwEdwards I suffered a flair up of an unknown type of arthritis that was eventually diagnosed as Behçets disease but I was perpetually short tempered and eventually lost most of the friends I had made over the course of my career and student days. 2/12

I the space of 25 years we've gone from 'Cool Britannia' to 'Stool Britannia' thanks to the @Conservatives. #StoolBritannia

https://twitter.com/GrahamWarwick9/status/1628395472967565313

#StoolBritannia

.@BBCNews at Six tonight covered UK food shortages and rationing and mislead viewers in the process. Not one single mention of Brexit. Instead, bad weather in Morocco. 🙄 #FoodShortages #FoodRationing #Brexit

https://twitter.com/Tonkertim/status/1627972864732274690

https://twitter.com/tudorinjordan/status/1628024503547621380?t=e9cBjiJmU4G8OkE8XlZZkA&s=19

Some 25 years ago, I caught a virus because I'd been sitting next to a man who, the previous day, had stepped off an aircraft from Tunisia. In French, he told his girlfriend that he'd been feeling mildly unwell during the journey. That virus ended my career as a radiographer. 😔

https://twitter.com/AngelaRayner/status/1465985657130659847

It wasn't the virus itself that ended my career. My body had an adverse reaction to me having that virus just as people are having adverse reactions to #COVID19. My immune system went wrong and never put itself right again.

Same can be said for some of those with #LongCOVID.

This year has been totally different for our Great Spotted Woodpeckers. Last year they had 4 young who were all eating off the ground. This year they've had 2 young who have grown up fast. These clips are from yesterday when one young Woodpecker did eat off the ground. 1/n This thread is really about how this baby Woodpecker interacts with other birds and especially a pigeon. It sees off other birds to claim the food for itself and it sees off the pigeon. But, in clip 5, the pigeon stands ground and shocks the Woodpecker. 2/n

Just want to say that @BorisJohnson & @SajidJavid are playing a very dangerous game. By allowing case numbers to grow, the UK has more cases than the entire #EU27 combined. We are a petri dish for a new mutation that could out smart present vaccines & could endanger the world. 😖 And, this government is also condemning young people to catching #COVID19 and the risk of suffering #LongCOVID. People over in the US are horrified that school age children are not wearing masks and are not yet being vaccinate. Our schools are presently super-spreader sites.

https://twitter.com/DMinghella/status/1411259218741628929

An emergency Otter timeline cleansing thread... 😊 #LoveOtters #LoveWildlife
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Had a phone call from my friend in Belgium who watches French news channels. One channel has a daily debate & today they discussed #Brexit with two UK journalists amongst the panel.

One thing was certain. If Johnson doesn't pay the £39 Billion there won't be any trade deal. 1/4 Also, they had a really good interview with Steve Bray @snb19692 & other #Remain campaigners. Overall that part of the programme was very optimistic.

One other thing was very clear. The brinkmanship strategy that Johnson is using will fail. The #EU27 are united. 2/4