So I danced among the stars
And turned amid eternal realms
And there found silence
Still, sublime
And darkness til the end of time
And in the void, something stirred
A sound, a message, barely heard
Drowned out by time & distance vast
The first, the greatest & the last
The most beautiful rooms in all of London 😍❤️
Was in AWE the first time I saw the Cast Courts
Still am
They're also why I'm single (my ex walked straight through it nodding and out the other side. So that wasn't going to happen. Ever)
The place is GLORIOUS 😍
❤️❤️❤️❤️
@richardrcubitt
@SurlyJoy
@lizzzzzielogan
@tallntran
The whole family going for a stroll across the mountains at the end has been taken by some, only a few outliers, mind, as a metaphor for fleeing Nazi tyranny. This is hotly disputed, however, given Austrians often enjoy mountain walking with their family.
Once again the plucky little Britain in WW2 is doing the rounds on Twitter
People
Germany took on a global empire
Britain was a global imperial force of over 400 million people and a bucketload of allies. Not a cutesy little island that made jam
To the bloke at Lulworth Cove around here-ish at 3ish taking photos earlier, you were quite cute and we nodded awkwardly at each other. You seem possibly straight and if you weren't single you wouldn't have been out there on your own on a Saturday
You can have my phone number 🙂
@fasc1nate
Because it was the equivalent of painted portraiture
You looked serious and dignified
Many families couldn't afford many photos, so they have one or two taken in which they wanted to look thus - serious and dignified, as was the fashion
And much easier for long exposure times
What? Who (apart from everyone and anyone even in their first 6 months of an Economics 101 semester) could possibly have foreseen this coming! 😱
I am shocked, I tell you, shocked and surprised
Surprised face 👉🏼 😐
People stunned by concept of food manufacturing machinery and foretelling mankind's imminent demise
I often wonder what people think has been going on inside food factories for decades now. Elves? Lovingly and painstakingly handcrafting every single microwave curry?
@simonharris_mbd
@Nigel_Farage
They aren't Albanians, there are other bridges, Remembrance is on Whitehall, not Westminster Bridge, and Nigel is a disingenuous, bitter little man who is gaslighting you. So, can we step back, take a little breather, and maybe put down the flaming torches and outrage?
@galahadlake
You can catch them unawares tho. Smiling sweetly and giggling while they reel off their prices for the work on the vehicle
Before I rip a quarter of their asking price with a full onslaught of nationwide quotes and technical lingo they didn't know I knew
Kind of enjoy it 😎
Happy 4th of July to all my awesomeness US followers, you treasonous colonials you 🤗❤️
Also bear in mind if you'd stayed, look at Canada - sensible gun rules, affordable healthcare, maternity leave, just sayin'...😌
I want my country back
My 2012 Olympic country that welcomed the world, comfortable and with its identity and traditions, while simultaneously proud of, and celebrating:
Its multiculturalism, tolerance and internationalism
Successful, open, glorious and global
I want it back
The problem with the Napoleon movie will not be historical accuracy (you're charging infantry head on, Ridley? Bold)
As having to watch fucking Napoleon for 3hrs when I cannot stand the economically-inept little pillock
We couldn't have a Wellington film instead because why?
@3YearLetterman
Parental leave
Holiday leave
Healthcare
Policing
Food
Showjumping
Head of State
1812
Movie production
Hallmark Xmas shows
Actors
Starship captains
Phone security
Seriously, I could do this all day...
In which British tax laws and the East India Company were the good guys, and the plucky American Boston Tea Party rebels were the bad guy smugglers
Alternative history?
No, actual history. "Taxtopia" on tax laws
National Myths are a funny and fickle thing
The worst faux Pas you can commit in a room of WW2 obsessives is pointing out it's deeply unlikely Germany could ever have taken the UK mainland
It's refreshing to see it raised (very occasionally)
2 July 1940. Adolf Hitler ordered German military commanders to draw up plans for “Operation Sea Lion” (the invasion of Britain). Historians have questioned whether it was ever a serious or feasible plan given Britain’s overwhelming naval supremacy.
@castlefacts1
@EileenTurner8
Is this the bit where the whole herd barrel down the highway for 30 miles in the wrong direction, because the males lumbering ahead didn't want to stop and ask the driver for directions?
Yup
There's been a few good female leads beginning to emerge recently, but usually met by (male) screams of WOKE
It the was the norm when I was a teenager (Buffy, Janeway, Xena, etc). Now it's the exception. Society is regressing
On
#InternationalWomensDay
I am dropping a reminder that the greatest war artist of all time, and a trailblazer not just for women, but for the way war was depicted on the canvas, was the incredible Lady Elizabeth Butler. She and her husband were wild and wonderful.
Sean bean and Basil Rathbone (first class swordsman) used to patiently explain fencing to directors, while Christopher Lee would explain to Jackson people don't go "aaarrgh" when they're stabbed
Movies couldn't cope without Brits with... concerningly... murderous skillsets
Looks at Waterloo
Looks at WW1
Looks at WW2
Looks at Cold War
Looks at Empire and in-country force alliances
Looks at the entire span of British international warfare conducted almost ENTIRELY through alliances
Coughs loudly
UK 'increasingly reliant on allies' to protect British interests - "the MoD is becoming increasingly reliant on the UK’s allies to protect the UK’s national interests, which carries the risk that such support might not always be available".
Basically this
Surrounded by a whole postwar gen in absolute denial
Because the postwar gen needs to believe their wealth and success was down to their own hard work and sheer talent
Not just the sheer dumb economic luck of being born at the right time. Which it basically was
Men like to think they'd stand fast
Horsey be like "Man goes splat."
Even a shetland'd knock a full grown man over. Now put armour on them and a long lance as well. Early modern tank
Also good footage for anyone saying "but wouldn't the horse stop"
No
Espesh ones like Hollie
To the idiots among you
Dressage is a martial art
Developed to train war horses, for control on the battlefield
Developed over the centuries to the highest form of both military training & equestrian art
On 3/4 tonne, up to 2m high, precision weapons of war
Deal with it 😎
(update, it's almost safely home 🤗)
Hoping the pilot's chosen belief system allows them to have a good stiff drink when they land, they're going to need it (and deserve one!)
Lost 15 followers over the course of the past few days because I've been ever so slightly disparaging about all those morons rioting like the primitive little apes they are, and nice about refugees
So long my cuddly little pillocks, you will not be missed 🙂
@AndyBxxx
@JohnSimpsonNews
Andy, let me stop you right there. Simply replying to people with complete nonsense is neither clever, not convincing. If you want to signal to the CCP you are an awfully keen supporter, retweet videos of the arts or their next propaganda movie, don't waste time gaslighting.
Lost my little b&w cat Meg a few weeks ago
Now losing her panther sister, Mog, as well 🥺💔
Knew it was coming, but I just want my little kittens back 😥💔💔 She was my little black pompom ❤️
Now without either of my beautiful little kitties 💔 20yrs was too short 🥺😥
Brunel is also credited with inventing the engineer's stance rule, whereby any two or more men involved in any form of engineering are legally obliged to gather in a group and take a casual stance while looking curiously at the object thus being engineered.
A photograph of John Scott Russell (builder), Henry Wakefield (Russell's assistant), Isambard Kingdom Brunel (designer) and Lord Derby during the launch of SS Great Eastern at Millwall in 1858.
Ready to hit the tiles!
Now all I need to do is party (or as much as one can on the zero per cent gin and tonic all night), get back, pack, get 100 miles away, and be up by 6.30am. And I've got 12hrs to do it in.
Girl on a mission! Let's do this! 😎👊
@NicholasTyrone
Bank Station
Be fair, every Londoner avoids it
It's one thing taking on the streets, but no one wants to spend half the day wandering round that labyrinth despairing of ever finding their exit. Ever.
Meghan (Meg) Robson, callsign My Smooshy Little Gremlin 💔
2004-2024
Know we'll meet again, my lovely little one, so bright, gentle and beautiful little soul, no darkness can extinguish 🕯️🐱🖤🩶
Time for this again:
They will die for you
Brave wind & storm & the fury of the world's oceans
Even if they do not know you
They will not judge if your life is worth it
They will lay down their lives
So you can see the lights of shore again
@RNLI
💙
Always
And forever
This is service to a country. She did not have to sit alone as her heart broke, they would've given her an exception - but she chose to go through what her people had to, out of a sense of duty
And out of genuine love and respect, for us all
THIS is leadership
❤️❤️❤️
@SadiqKhan
It was superb!!!! Loved the drone display and using landmarks a stroke of genius! Was so proud of my brilliant, beautiful and creative city last night!!! ❤️
So... I have a date 👀
I must be mad, he's over a decade younger, but that I can pull a pretty and a younger dude at my age is reassuring
But we Shall See
In all honesty I think I do want a more mature Man, but he asked, he's pretty, and I was free that day
@GrayConnolly
If it hadn't been that, it would've been something else. Russia has nothing to fear from NATO but the symbolism of Russia's own declining strength and relevance. It was a bete noire of their own dwindling reflection. And that mirror was always going to crack eventually
The lessons from Ukraine in terms of the nature of massed land warfare and NATO defence are...
Russia will be in no state to launch a sustained land battle on a European continent against NATO anytime soon, and China can't even get troops to Europe (especially via Red Sea)
1/n
@Rod__Mason
Rod
Answer me one question
And don't ignore the question
All that military equipment we developed and stored and created just in case of a conflict in Europe with Russia
Who are Ukraine using it against?
Think about it
Think about it again
Are you there yet, hon?
War paint and armour on. Off to human in networking telly world and terrified. Also travelled 250 miles in 36 hrs and absolutely knackered so not in the Zone 😶
But ONWARD!
Can we also have a high five for aged parents with gold wallpaper
Warpaint on. Tuxedo dress on. Hair up.
Off to a Leicester Square premier. Seriously.
Again, would rather be home reading a book rather than peopling. But scripts do not sell themselves.
Networking! Yay... 😒
When he gets up to get a beer this is going to turn into one of those Sideshow Bob scenes with all the rakes, isn't it. Just slightly more... melodramatic... 💥
@STWuk
Oh cut it out. People joining together to cooperate on economy, security and everything is a good thing THAT PREVENTS THEM GOING TO WAR WITH EACH OTHER
Get. Your. Heads. Round. This. People.
Still targeting the supply chains. This is beautiful tactics. Win or lose, Ukraine, respect. This is gorgeous tactics at its finest.
Targeting the enemy's weak point. Targeting critical supply chains. Targeting fuel, the lifeblood of war.
This is how you fight❤️
@ProudSocialist
Oh! You mean like the agreement Putin made that if Ukraine got rid of its nukes, Russia wouldn't invade, and then invaded? Or the one about not firing on exports of Ukrainian grain. And then he did. The one who faked referendum results?
Sure, cupcake. That'll work.
Looking at "modern" siege warfare", first time I realise Greater London never-ending sprawl was actually a cunning defensive strategy
"Lay siege to London!"
"Do we start at Reading, or wait til Slough?"
"I thought Ealing?"
"Borehamwood?
"Half of them live in Brighton"
British problems
Made An Effort to learn two or three words in Norwegian before I left
Ordered at the bar: bartender said English was easier, he was Polish
DJ said English was easier, he was Bulgarian
Guy at cafe was British
Used my "Norwegian" once - to order coffee (Kaffe)
People saying humanities like history are Mickey Mouse degrees when Putin is mucking about in Ukraine, Israel and Palestine are at it (again) and China is posturing in the South China Sea is an interesting take on "history isn't really relevant"
International diplomacy in action in the shadow of Windsor Castle
Yup, we're all hangin' out with our bud, HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, as you do of a weekend
RAF not doing too shoddily in the Forces Jumping cup 🥰❤️❤️❤️ Lovely clear round from one of their team to finish
Per war ardua as astra ✨
Well played 🥰
@RoyalAirForce
It's difficult to explain to people overseas, and even to republicans, why monarchy matters here despite the apparent elitism or irrationality of it.
It's complicated and yet simple
1/
"This weekend we recall a leader who vastly underestimated his enemy, had no clear strategy, screwed up his logistics, had forces all over the shop beyond lines of comms, and had half his army destroyed in a humiliating defeat"
"Putin?"
"Well, Chelmsford, but yeah, same diff"
I'm not gonna get to my parents place in time to see my little cat before she goes over the Rainbow Bridge tomorrow 🥺
In her twenties, and she wasn't well, so knew it was inevitable, but I won't get to see her one last time 🥺🥺💔
Script getting nowhere, relative has had two small strokes, parents rang to say my elderly cat hasn't long left, I have shingles, wrist is sprained, and Norway was great, but I was slowest and worst skier, my job is getting me nowhere, and always single 🥺
Otherwise loving 2024
At Hammersmith Riverside Studios with my mum for Whovian shenanigans, and just had lunch sitting next to Louise Jamieson, and I think that just made my freakin' century 🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️❤️
Hoping my outfit didn't let my mum's side down
@elonmusk
Get over it and grow up. Twitter, social media, the world, the universe, is not about You
Buying a business is a responsibility to its customers and staff, not an overpriced hobby because you got bored and wanted to play politics
Pull yourself together
I like monarchy. Yes it's silly and pointless and sparkly and stuff, but it's us, all of us, local and migrant alike, and it IS sparkly and it is silly and I want that - far more than the gut hollowing empty banality of politics
I'm keeping it. Bite me.