@anjibennett
Mum, GP&medical educator, cellist/singer (classical, early music, folk), gardener. Loves nature and humans. Cat and chicken carer. Learning Irish, Welsh, and B/C accordion. Runs slowly, wild swims, cycles. Politics - look after the vulnerable.
I didn't get out to the flowers in the daylight thanks to a meeting so today's #floweroftheday is on my overwintering chilli plant in the kitchen. So pretty and only 7mm across!
Should it be doing this yet? Should I get out a paintbrush and fertilise it?
#spreadflowersnotwar #bloomscrolling
Managed a short lunchtime walk and saw these #cherryblossom so here's a #floweroftheday
#spreadflowersnotwar #bloomscrolling
Ha I just realised the photo didn't post!
Thankyou! X
Yes, I did kind of know but I'd let it get really unruly and it was cutting the light from my peony and where some spring bulbs would come! So I chopped it right back and hopefully it will be good next year.
Well I managed to finish the #cambridgehalfmarathon , with a "Personal Worst" time of 2h58. Some runners were twice as fast!
If you want to help my embarrassment and aching legs, you can still donate for hospice care @arthurrankhospice.bsky.social in Cambridgeshire:
arhc.enthuse.com/pf/angela-be...
#floweroftheday - next door's forsythia hedge has got going and looks great! I pruned mine back too much at the wrong time so it hasn't done so well...hopefully next year.
#spreadflowersnotwar #bloomscrolling
Yellow frilly centered daffodil with cream coloured outer petals.
Hello to another daffodil for #floweroftheday.
They keep coming and there is one type not out yet!
#spreadflowersnotwar #bloomscrolling
ps. can all the insecure men please stop bombing each other's innocent civilians? Have eg. an arm wrestling match if you need to prove your fragile masculinity.
UK flag merging into EU stars
“It felt like a bereavement.” The UK rushed out of the EU in January 2020. Ten years on, sluggish growth and shrinking trade have kept the question alive – was Brexit a mistake?
The rejoin movement is stirring again.
Sarah Patey reports
eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
Brilliant we were both standing on the same spot a week apart!
Today's #floweroftheday is a thankyou to the care of the gardeners at Madingley Hall where I am at a #medicaleducation conference. We are nurturing our love of educating the next generation of clinicians; someone nurtured these pots of irises to make us smile.
#spreadflowersnotwar #bloomscrolling
Looks like there is some evidence of harm (I haven't read the original study).
www.backstage.com/magazine/art...
Same here. I used to try and sit near the front but increasingly the smoke means I go further back.
I agree John. As a person with asthma I dislike breathing in the theatrical smoke, it's much worse than even breathing in a puff of incense smoke if singing in Church (at least that smells nice). I'd rather have performers who are healthy and don't get ill from their work environment.
I think the answer here is honour your father and mother, and don't buy capitalist crap.
Simnel cake is nice. Especially if you make your own marzipan.
I came here to say what you have about the Mother Church.
All the artificial Hallmark stuff is naff. We just have a big party and let ourselves off the things we gave up for Lent.
(And we don't forget Father's Day, although we don't buy capitalist crap for either of them).
I promised some flowery weeds on #floweroftheday , so here are some lovely violets which volunteer all over my garden.
Let's #spreadflowersnotwar . #bloomscrolling FTW
ps. First #worldbookday for me without a primary school child wanting to dress up, since 2003! 😭🥹 Best wishes to those celebrating.
Our home solar panels have already produced more electricity than we used, on two days so far this month.
In case you were deciding to get some.
Thankyou! X
#floweroftheday today is this lovely pure white hyacinth popping up for its third year running and smelling gorgeous!
There are a lot of lovely things still, let's persevere to keep them.
Look after yourselves, and each other.
#spreadflowersnotwar #bloomscrolling
Did I mention I'm doing the Cambridge Half Marathon to support hospice care in Cambs...? @arthurrankhospice.bsky.social are amazing and have looked after many of my patients, and a couple of friends.
It shouldn't need to rely on charitable funding, but here we are.
arhc.enthuse.com/pf/angela-be...
Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"
GPs get paid a fixed amount for an ‘all you can use buffett’ £123 per patient per year
@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social would rather spend Tax payers money on more expensive options
Pharmacies have had serious underfunding but these fees show how poorly GP practices are funded
Fund both
Tomorrow will be hosting a free webinar for international medical graduates new to the UK (5th March at 6.30pm).
Our expert team will guide participants through working in the NHS, with practical advice, handy tips and guidance as well as a look at contractual protections and terms and conditions.
Today is #WorldObesityDay. We recently published a report which shows ultra processed foods are making the UK sick.
Not enough is being done to halt rising obesity levels and preventable disease, particularly among children, placing enormous pressure on the NHS.
The new war machine. Machine learning and large language models. Palantir, OpenAI etc are really the Krupps and IGFarben of the 21st Century
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I need you to know that we're going to all be poorer because the US bombed Iran because Israel was about to, because of a Bible promise, and I think that is utterly insane and we need to vote the people who enable this out of office for all eternity
www.thetimes.com/business/com...
Now's a great time: join.greenparty.org.uk
I nearly missed the crocuses so here's the end of them for #floweroftheday .
I need to put more in my lawn for next year I think, they are so cheerful.
#spreadflowersnotwar #bloomscrolling
A small clump of cream-yellow 5 leaved primroses with darker orange-yellow centres, surrounded by dark green leaves, on a background of mossy bricks and brown beech leaves.
Today's #floweroftheday - loads of these primroses are popping up everywhere now, all I needed to do was let things be.
#spreadflowersnotwar #bloomscrolling