Jenny Edwards CBE

I'm so sorry Daisy. How awful for you all.

I'm so sorry. What a terrible blow.

You and the Roman centurions- well at least 1 in 10 of them

I'm on tenter hooks, not tender hooks, for the next post

I never think ducks looks if they like rain.

Google maps has been so useful for years. Now, whenever you search for directions to a place it decides to send you to visit one of its sponsors instead. Absolutely infuriating. If you don't check carefully you could waste a lot of travel time. They've made the app unusable.

BBC Four - Jane Goodall: Beauty and the Beasts Film about Jane Goodall, whose work with chimps transformed our understanding of them.

7:15pm TODAY on @BBCFOUR

Jane Goodall: Beauty and the Beasts

Documentary about primatologist Jane Goodall, who became accepted by a group of wild African chimpanzees and whose work transformed our understanding of man's closest relatives.

Every charity trustee in England being told to verify their identity using the gov.uk.one website is pulling their hair out. Make sure it works first before you waste our time!

Thank you so much. I am sorry for the loss of your father. It's a horrendous and shocking disease

The way to impress the people of the world with the USA's great leadership? How sad. What on earth is going on in the head of one of the most powerful people on earth?

Walk 31 Miles in October for Pancreatic Cancer UK Help Jenny Edwards raise money to support Pancreatic Cancer UK

I don't normally do fundraising on here but this charity is working on a particularly aggressive form of cancer, very often diagnosed late. Here is a link to my Gofundme page for walking for Pancreatic Cancer UK during October.

www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

Deep in the reeds: Australian scientists put dollar figure on floating wetlands’ global water quality savings ‘We’ve worked out that no matter how hard you engineer something, nature filters everything much better than anything else’, says academic

"No matter how hard you engineer something, nature filters everything much better than anything else."

Nature-based solutions - a lot more #biodiversity - are vital on this #PoisonedPlanet

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Please view our ‘What’s On’ page on our website to register for more community volunteering events here: thames21.org.uk/events/

#volunteeringinlondon #london #lostriver #goresbrook #dagenham #eastlondon #greenspace #riverrestoration #communityevent

Today we celebrate #WorldMentalHealthDay🌎🎗️
📘Studies consistently show that exposure and proximity to blue and green spaces is linked to positive mental health and well-being.
👢We 💙 to connect communities to their local rivers and green spaces to improve them. Join us! #WMHD

Thank you CURB for a great presentation on how you developed your #CitizenScience programme of monitoring & campaigning. One of many valuable presentations & discussions at the Annual River Action Groups Forum today

🧽💧🍃 🌳🐸 Have you heard of a ‘sponge city’?🧽💧🍃 🌳🐸

🧼A sponge city is one better designed to absorb and hold rainwater, managing flood risks, sewage and road run-off pollution with green solutions instead of relying solely on drains. 🧼⬇️

When conscientiousness peaks at around age 65 & emotional stability peaks at around age 75 it's no wonder older people are the core of so much volunteering #AgePositive

Indigenous and environmental leaders in Ecuador say they are facing state intimidation Critics say referendum on rewriting country’s eco-friendly constitution is president’s latest pro-extractivist move

International eyes needed on Ecuador rn, where an organised assault on constitutional integrity, land- & water-defenders, the rights of nature & Indigenous rights is currently in full swing, as directed by the newly elected president Noboa.
Excellent piece here:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Smart scales. Are they smart?

At least the tulips looked good as they bankrupted you.

Black health in Scotland: time to close the gap Black health in Scotland: time to close the gap

📣New blog! Mohasin Ahmed's second blog in our #BHM25 series explores public health issues and inequalities faced by Black communities in Scotland today, and what can be done to close the gap.

Read more: www.gcph.co.uk/latest/news-...

Did you know that in Scotland in 2023, 861,000 households (34% of all households) were estimated to be in fuel poverty of which 491,000 (19.4% of all households) were in extreme fuel poverty. Source: Scottish House Conditions Survey 2023

Warm homes are a basic necessity, and yet over a third of households in Scotland are in fuel poverty. #ChallengePoverty #CPW25

We need another TV drama tracing all of this in UK and US like The Hack. Nominations for a star actor to play Carole please.

And you should be it.

Why All Animals Are Sentient, and Machines Will Never Be Even the smallest sea slug feels pain. That means we have a responsibility not to inflict it.

An interesting piece on sentience. "Our society is so generous in considering the sentience of machines, yet so skeptical of other creatures. We sympathize with software that prints “I don’t want to die,” without bothering to learn the languages others use to make the same plea." #NatureConnection

Pleased to meet the Great Crested Grebe today #birds #grebe

Brilliant and demanding series. It needs to he shared and promoted. If we don't support free media all our freedoms are undermined

Just a few months before the release of the results of 9 years of research into the Open Dialogue method of supporting mental health. There will be headlines & global impact #ODDESSI #MentalHealth

Sick who go back to work end up in low-paid, physically tough jobs Only a tiny fraction of economically inactive find a job each year, and it is often an unsuitable role where they can only last a few months, research shows

"Pushing people into insecure, physical, inflexible work when they are already challenged by disability or mental health problems is futile. These jobs don’t work and they don’t last"

Spot on from @claremcneil.bsky.social - important work by @timewise.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

Wars & outbreaks end eventually.
Wounds heal.
Homes are rebuilt.

But the #Mentalhealth impact often goes unnoticed.

On #WorldMentalHealthDay, @who.int is drawing attention to mental health in emergencies.

Beyond food, water & medicine, people need mental health support to cope, recover & rebuild.