July 1921, Dr. Frederick Banting makes a breakthrough discovery on treating diabetes by injecting insulin. This paved the way for the production of synthetic insulin. Without that breakthrough, Diabetics would not be where they are today.
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#worlddiabetesday #typeonediabetic
💥BRAND NEW STORY this #WorldDiabetesDay - Jerry's Story💥
We are excited to share Jerry's story. Hear her journey with her #type1diabetes diagnosis, the challenges she’s faced and the support that has helped her along the way.
Take a look 👇
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#T1D #Diabetes
A four-panel illustration showing that diabetes can affect people at any stage of life. Top left: A child stands with one foot on a football while checking their blood glucose with a small device. Top right: A pregnant woman sits comfortably on a sofa and checks her blood sugar while another woman looks on supportively. Bottom left: A middle-aged construction worker wearing a hard hat and safety vest checks his glucose monitor while speaking with a colleague. Bottom right: An older woman in a wheelchair reads a book with a smiling young girl beside her, who is holding a cat. The panels are labelled: “Diabetes can… affect people… at any stage… of life.”
Today is #WorldDiabetesDay.
#Diabetes can affect anyone, at any stage of life.
Support at home, school, work and during pregnancy makes a real difference.
Listen, learn and show up for those living with diabetes. More info 🔗 bit.ly/4hUOjY0
Encountering traffic at the crossroads #Norfolk #cycling #rebellionway
West Bay Cafe Kent in the autumn sun
Tides in at Riverside Country Park Gillingham #reflection
Sonny's traditional family smokehouse at Hastings 2025
Hastings in the autumn sun between showers
Waiting for the cows to come home. Litton #peakdistrict
A big group of about 150 people, all dressed in bright outdoorwear, crowded together and smiling up at the camera.
Back to school? At BAS, that's Back to Pre-Deployment Training 💪
Here's the lovely crowd who'll be working at our Antarctic and sub-Antarctic Research Stations over the next summer and winter seasons.
They're all at BAS HQ learning about everything from biosecurity to first aid. Say hello! 👋
Buzzard over Bolsover #Derbyshire #birds
The Red Arrows aerial display team - seven jets fly straight on showing white smoke with two more flying in a circle around them leaving red and blue smoke
The #ReDArrows at Eastbourne airshow - on all weekend, View free from the beach
The Postal Paths
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Wet Sunday in Folkestone
Lonesome pine at Whitstable Harbour car park #thicktrunktuesday
This image has a bright blue background and features 18 cartoon-style penguins, each representing a different species. The penguins are arranged in three rows, with their names written underneath in black text. The species shown are Adelie, African, Chinstrap, Emperor, Erect-Crested, Fiordland, Galapagos, Gentoo, Humboldt, King, Little Blue, Macaroni, Magellanic, Rockhopper, Royal, Snares, and Yellow-Eyed. Each penguin has distinct features such as different colors, patterns, and head crests. The Emperor penguin is the tallest, while the Little Blue penguin is the smallest. The text at the bottom in bold black letters reads “KNOW YOUR PENGUINS,” followed by “Happy Penguin Awareness Day - January 20th” in a smaller font. There is also a small pink narwhal illustration in the bottom right corner.
Don't forget: today is Penguin Awareness Day. Make sure you know your penguins!
#PenguinAwarenessDay #20January
It’s the ciiircle of life 🎶🐧
This #PenguinAwarenessDay say hello to these fresh new gentoo penguin chicks.
Hatched in the Square Pond Colony near Bird Island Research Station, these penguins live on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. What a loud start to life!
🎥 Jess Callaghan
St James Church Louth with an impressive medieval steeple thought to be the 3rd highest on a parish church in the UK #steeplesaturday
A yellow sandy beach with walkers dressed for the cold on a sunny winter day with harbour buildings in the background and a blue and red fishing boat
Broadstairs beach in winter sun #Kent
Spot on! and here's the view looking the other way of the Arch #tidesouttuesday
Kingsgate "Castle" at Kingsgate Bay Kent #tidesouttuesday
Weeping beech near South Elkington Lincolnshire #thicktrunktuesday
Grey seal in the winter sunshine at Donna Nook Lincolnshire #wildlife
Some curious #cows
An extraordinary 700-year old bleeding yew tree at St Brynach's Church, Nevern, Pembrokeshire. If you look closely, you'll see that it's bleeding with a blood-red sap.
The extraordinary 700-year old #bleedingyew at the 14th century St Brynach's Church in #Nevern, Pembrokeshire. It has been “bleeding” for as long as anyone can remember with a blood-red sap. www.nevern-church.org.uk/the-bleeding...
#thicktrunktuesday #yewtree #yew #stbrynachschurch #pembrokeshire
Garden of the Priory Hotel Louth #thicktrunktuesday
Stodmarsh National Nature Reserve #thicktrunktuesday
For the final #tidesouttuesday of 2024 - casting back to a great day in the summer walking from Herne Bay to Reculver #Kent
Next, in a feat of perspective (and probably Photoshop), here is the appropriately bird-centric greetings card from the team at Bird Island Research Station 🪶
Bird Island is one of the smaller islands just off South Georgia, a sub-Antarctic Island which is a haven for birds and seals 🦭
