The point about private healthcare is that it is often a benefit of employment. Who will disagree with their boss or call a strike if it means losing healthcare for one’s family?

Memories of school PE lessons put a third of mid-lifers off doing exercise- results of a poll.

Article in iPaper. It certainly put me off for decades and team games for life.

This lamb has not yet learned to tidy her bedroom!

At the weekend, Toots had a bonce and butt trim… might have been overzealous with the bonce trim… turned her into an Ewok 😂

That mineral lick has a lot to answer for 🙄

#arnbegfarmstayscotland #toots #petsheep

Found on #hillfortsWednesday all time favourite Hambledon Hill, and cockpit of north Dorset history, a very hard and heavy ball. Sling shot? But whose? And when from? Or is it just a v heavy round stone? Any help much appreciated for #FindsFriday

Ten bits of good news/announcements from our Labour Gov. I’ve included economic info from Chancellor’s Statement to Parliament. Whilst the press focus on a man sacked 7 months ago our Government continue to rebuild Britain. #DoingTheMediasJob
#LaboursAchievements
#FixingBritain

Joe Bonamassa reporting the sudden passing of Dave Mason.

Good morning lovely people! Happy #EarthDay, the perfect opportunity for us to show love, compassion and kindness to all living things on this gorgeous planet…yes, exactly like yesterday, tomorrow and every other day!

Europe is ceding sovereignty to SpaceX The continent’s alternative is a jobs programme cosplaying as a space strategy

Europe is ceding sovereignty to SpaceX ft.trib.al/ALo5nSD | opinion

I went to a discussion yesterday about the translation of my book Ethics and Public Policy into Armenian. So interesting. There were several examples of terms that are difficult to translate, but I could very easily have written the sentence in plainer English with no loss of meaning. A lesson.

"A thousand dead humanitarians in three years - when did that become normal?"

United Nations Under-Secretary-General Tom Fletcher on the violence facing humanitarian workers in conflict zones.

Watch the event➡️ bit.ly/4cDWXbb

An air photograph looking down on green grass covered fields with patches of trees, one group, in the middle of the photo, clustering along the line of an oval shaped Iron Age hillfort

The tree-lined circuit of Dungeon Hill from the air, looking south west

Lying 6km north of Dorchester, it is one of Dorset’s less well known Iron Age hillforts

© Jo and Sue Crane 2015

Happy #HillfortsWednesday

Pledges of a deregulation race to the bottom and fire sale of our public assets… like the NHS.
Those crypto billionaires donating to Reform ain’t doing that to eradicate food banks…

And what are these foreign sources getting from him?

Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accepted more than half a million pounds from foreign companies, governments, and donors while serving as an MP, DeSmog can reveal. Since July 2024, when he was elect...

“Farage rarely turns up to do his actual job. Yet he finds time to jet off around the world on his donor’s private plane and trouser half a million quid while families struggle. Reform are not on your side. They’re just in it for themselves”

It’s so obvious, it hurts.
www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...

Morning Ben & ORCs. Contemplating a trip to Dorchester this am while OH is in daycare. Dorch is always tinged with sadness as friend I used to meet there regularly died a couple of years ago... Still, choir tonight and we're beginning to sound good ahead of our concert next month.

It’s unseasonably warm for April in Madrid. Nice for while we’re here but probably not a good sign.

Petrol stations could stop this by making all pay at pump but they won’t as the want is to go in to pay as we buy more crap whilst we are in there!

Spike in petrol thefts after Iran war pushed up fuel prices One petrol retailer says he is experiencing about five drive-offs a week at each forecourt, costing him thousands.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An AI-free OS for an AI-free product line with a written guarantee from Apple not to insert AI into users’ devices at a later date.

Because they are high in the polls.

Big Wet Wipe knows how to make wet wipes that can be removed one at a time but refuses to do so because they make so much money when you pull them out in clumps

It just goes to show that being able to spell, and remember obscure (!) words, does nothing but wake one up in the middle of the bloody night with words rattling round in the brain.

The Fitzwilliam Museum shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2026 The news comes as the Fitzwilliam celebrates record-breaking visitor numbers with 2025 becoming the second-highest attendance on record (493,612), following a

The Fitzwilliam Museum has today been announced as one of five finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2026, the world’s largest museum prize! 🎨 🖼️ 🏛️

Explore what the nomination means:
www.cam.ac.uk/news/the-fit...

Two sheep stand in a field facing the camera, with more sheep scattered across rolling green countryside in the background. Long grass fills the foreground, framed by a nearby tree, and the sky glows with soft pink‑orange light.

The South Downs showing off again.

📸: Thomas Carpenter

Someone do *something* about the political reporting on the BBC! I feel a year out I can say that. Report it, but for God's sake don't milk it... although the expulsion of Sultana and Andersen was *quite* amusing.

A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Sorry about this but the MSM seem to be having a collective meltdown and can’t bring you any news so I’m going to have to bring you this little nugget because they’re incapable.

Mason visibly salivating over the idea of Starmer being toppled.
No mention of Tice’s tax avoidance and money laundering through Reform Ltd