Autumn has been a veritable foraging fest. All those hours spent making crab apple jelly, foraging with friends for mushrooms, sorrel & berries to cook up lakeside with freshly caught trout. To think we could have spent that time perusing the bog-off baskets in Aldi & being happy by eating a happy meal on plastic seats with all the other happy meal noshing happy people instead. Our kids will never get those lost indoor childhood moments to the sound track of muzak & kerching on loop - back 🙃
Getting ready for bonfire/firepit evening in Sussex🔥
Starry night around the campfire with lovely humans. Rock star👇😎💓
What's the matter with these kids? Out & about in all weather & never sick. Getting on for 4 years & no colds, flu, RSV, Strep A, diabetes, hepatitis...& funnily enough - no SARS-Cov-2. Constant sickness is yet another pandemic childhood experience our kids are missing out on Robbed trolley days in A&E. With more than 70% of household SARS2 transmission reportedly starting with children, sending them unmasked into overcrowded, unventilated schools with unfiltered, level 3 biohazard laden air is the best way to keep that sickness/new onset chronic illness level up. Recent study shows that SARS2 infection increases risk of RSV in kids by 32-47%. Not "immunity debt"🙈🙉🙊
Making a bow & arrow in forest school
Teen Park art😎
Homemade rhubarb & black current crumble made from home grown produce from a lovely friend💖
Fishing, foraging & forest bathing in splendorous Wales with fabulous folk (agony obvs)🌳🎣🍄
Mother nature's sculpture just sitting on the forest floor ready to delight
SARS-CoV-2 is airborne. It hangs in the air like smoke, except it's invisible. Don't breathe in contaminated air exhaled by others. Mask up. Crack open windows & clean indoor air with HEPA filters, in the same way we filter dirty water.
on October 30th 2023:
"Anti-Semitism is a very ugly thing and can never be justified. Most of the anti-Zionist statements that I've come across are reasonable, evidence-based and legitimate. The problem is, Israel and it's friends conflate the two, so to claim that any criticism of Israel and it's policies are ant-Semitic."
"The Secretary General of the UN made a very humane statement about the need for ceasefire and to protect civilians. And the Israeli representative immediately accusing him of anti-Semitic"
Please click on the link & watch/listen to his powerful speech - then make a stand against genocide👇🙏
“We have no food,.. I am
traumatised and trapped. I need your help”. The words of a 13 year old Palestinian
girl begging the international community for help. “I am a child like any
other…I am not trash, I am human”.
This week, a hospital in Gaza was bombed, killing hundreds of people, including children. Perhaps it's a coincidence that, four days ago, Israel openly admitted intent to bomb hospitals in Gaza The
WHO condemned that as “a death sentence for the sick and injured” Channel 4 correspondent Alex
Thomson’s analysis of the evidence so far shows the Israeli account to be
contradictory, producing an alleged Hamas recording that experts say is fake. He reminds viewers of the Israeli government’s history of
denying culpability only to be found culpable. He invoked the killing of
Palestinian journalist, Shireen
Abu Akleh as an example, which I wrote about at the time.
Israel has also said it is planning a “ground
invasion". Yet yesterday,
the United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution
that would have condemned Hamas' attack on Israel while calling for a pause in
the fighting to allow humanitarian assistance into Gaza. The UK abstained. Decades of exceptionalism and impunity has emboldened Israel’s
rogue despotic acts.
Livestream footage from Gaza shows children's bodies
laid out - mangled - on white sheets, stored in
ice cream vans because the morgues are full. Israeli forces have reportedly killed 1,030 children in Gaza in recent days and images of mass graves are emerging.
President Michael D
Higgins criticised Von der Leyen’s intervention as “thoughtless and
reckless”, stating that she did not speak for Ireland. On Israel, he said: “It’s one thing, when we look at historic breaches of
international law, that is incredibly bad, but to actually announce in advance
that you’re going to break international law…It reduces it to tatters”.
Violence and murder of any civilians anywhere is abhorrent. My heart goes out to the traumatised and grieving families in Palestine and Israel. To break the cycle of violence, we must
acknowledge the root cause.
For the past 75 years, Israel has forced thousands of Palestinians off their land, occupying
and illegally creating settlements for Israeli settlers. Entire Palestinian communities have
been displaced, their homes and livelihoods destroyed, their movements
restricted, as is access to water and natural resources. They are relentlessly
persecuted, oppressed and attacked by occupying Israeli forces.
In 2021, Human Rights Watch described
Israel’s policies against Palestinians as crimes against humanity, persecution
and apartheid. Israeli human rights group B’Tselem and Amnesty International
also describe Israel as an apartheid state perpetrating human rights abuses
against Palestinians.
UN
human rights expert, Francesca Albanese warns, “Israel has
already carried out mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians under the fog of war...Again,
in the name of self-defence, Israel is seeking to justify what would amount to
ethnic cleansing”.
Inciting racial hatred fuels atrocities in Gaza and
beyond. On Monday, a 6 year old Palestinian-American
boy was fatally stabbed, and his mother seriously injured by a man, in what
has been reported as an anti-Muslim hate crime, prompted by Gaza coverage.
Four days after Hamas brutally attacked Kibbutz
Be’eri, a 19 year old Israeli survivor, made a video plea to the world. She did not want revenge. She showed empathy with civilians in Gaza saying: “ For people to go through what I went through and not have anyone
to extract them. It cannot be. It cannot be”. Adding, “I blame Bibi [Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu] 100% for
this”, by failing to find a political solution. She asked the world to reflect
on our values and to demand a just peace.
The World Health Organisation warns there’s less than 24 hours’ worth of supplies left in Gaza, hospitals have
only hours of fuel and a UN agency says people are forced to drink sea water. We
need to demand an immediate ceasefire, humanitarian aid access and a just peace
respecting international law.
If a traumatised Israeli teenager is capable of recognising
that a 13 year Palestinian girl begging for her life is human and deserves
protection, why can’t Western leaders? We must never accept that some human
lives are deemed more worthy of saving than others. Under the Geneva
Convention, silence is complicity. The children of Gaza are relying on us to be
their voice. Speak up. Time is running out.
People Before Profit TD, Paul Murphy, expressing the views of Irish citizens👇
“Sick of your kids being sick? Clean air in schools may be the answer” Outstanding article from two brilliant science experts, advocates & communicators 💪💥
These women (authors Julia Corey & Orla Hegarty) know what's going on. Top tips for parents & teachers: Covid is airborne. No infection is benign. Solution: Clean the air & mask up (ffp2/3) or keep playing Russian roulette with your own & your children's health👇
Me: I know it's a bit mangy but my great great great granny knitted this hat 2,453 years ago out of twigs fashioned from a Rowanberry tree, steam dried over a skillet of boiled coddle, so out it comes every autumn!
Notably less agitated Octogenarian: Ha ha... no the mask. Looks like you're geared up for a bioweapon apocalypse
Me: -
The lovely man went on to tell me how terrified he used to be about catching covid. Masked everywhere until he got infected by a healthcare professional. Told me it was mild. Six months later he had a heart attack: "Much worse than covid" says he. Doesn't bother masking anymore.
Just dropping this heartbreaking thread here that marked world heart day. Huge thanks to VicMidnightSun for this incredibly useful resource💪😇
Spoiler: "Compared to uninfected people, this group was around 40% more likely to develop cardiovascular disease and five times more likely to die during the 18 months afterwards."👇💔
