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Now enjoying Malta sun & sea. A life behind me of curious change and interesting people. From Mancunia and yet travelling in both time & space here. Join me for the craic & childlike adulting.

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The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older.
Well, following it brought me here & here I plan to stay.

08.10.2025 18:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Pilot: (on intercom) There are no air traffic controllers today so everybody look out the window and holler if you see another plane

08.10.2025 15:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 274    ๐Ÿ” 48    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
Xlendi sunset, sea sky and cliffs with the red ball of the sun sizzling as it drops onto the horizon into the sea.

Xlendi sunset, sea sky and cliffs with the red ball of the sun sizzling as it drops onto the horizon into the sea.

Tables and chairs at dusk looking over a sea at dusk to dark brooding cliffs and pink sky.

Tables and chairs at dusk looking over a sea at dusk to dark brooding cliffs and pink sky.

Sunset.
Xlendi.
Easing onto another Mediterranean night from a hot sunny day.
A promise from nature that this sunset has been here for centuries & will still be happening for centuries more.
No matter what.
No matter if you or I are here to see it.
The same view for richer or poorer.
Natures vow

08.10.2025 18:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

These are the core political decisions that save lives or cost lives, they don't get headlines, but they do matter far more!

08.10.2025 15:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Abolishing Healthwatch threatens accountability and patient representation โ€” both of which are essential for patient safety and the effective functioning of the NHS.

That's why Iโ€™ve signed Tom Gordonโ€™s letter calling on the government to urgently rethink their decision.

07.10.2025 14:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Painting each other with virtue paint that's in only one shade is deeply offensive.
Not only a failure to spell Britian, but a failure to apply emotional intelligence to what it means.
The small power hungry group he is loyal to has taken us on a fairground ride for 14 years.
Change the ringmaster

08.10.2025 13:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Someone please explain how a person leaves their homeland, walks miles through rough terrain, comes here with $15, doesnโ€™t speak the language, and still builds an empire. Yet some born here, with access to education, healthcare, & every opportunity, canโ€™t get past complaining about how hard life is.

08.10.2025 09:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 79    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. Itโ€™s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers canโ€™t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

08.10.2025 12:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1899    ๐Ÿ” 577    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 59    ๐Ÿ“Œ 23

Sleep is when we cup a hand into the waters on the other side. Refreshed to have tasted some of the clear crystal healing liquids we can only glimpse normally.
Our bones & muscles stretched & moulded into lines & curves that better fit into the boxes we inhabit here.
We are energised.
We are more

08.10.2025 13:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I hope this does not kill your business my friend.

08.10.2025 12:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Mark it mate
He's just in the next room, his shadow lingers here.
Remembering gives that shadow colour.

08.10.2025 10:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's on Americas tortured brow, that Micky mouse has grown up a cow.๐ŸŽน๐ŸŽธ

08.10.2025 10:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

08.10.2025 08:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1810    ๐Ÿ” 468    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 79    ๐Ÿ“Œ 97

Serfs don't need educating on things that could make them see the riches they shall never have.
Born, work, die.
The master holds the whip.
The blindfold too.

08.10.2025 10:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

WAR smiled.
"Hey death, they are banning the arts again in education"
DEATH sighed.
"Stupidity runs deep in wannabee dictators, that's the only human trait worth preserving!"
WAR rattled a sabre.
"Education, the enemy of peace, so I am fine with that"
DEATH lifted the scythe.
"Rest in Peace!?"

08.10.2025 09:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Light bulbs, history & faith.
Even if you don't believe you can enjoy the trappings of faith.
The fools who try to convince you that Christmas is cancelled, Easter is banned, Eid is dangerous don't see reality.
We all enjoy a good celebration, ours & everyone else's.
We are more human than haters.

08.10.2025 09:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Breeding the next generation of serfs to serve the masters.
The conservatives still imagine themselves as the political arm of the masters.
But 14 years of incompetence has shifted that view.
Labour are unfortunately filling that void.
But they are struggling to serve master & serf.
Greens next?

08.10.2025 09:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Tomorrow we will learn who has been awarded the #NobelPeacePrize for this year. Whoever wins will receive worldwide attention to what they have done to merit the award. In my view it should go to the healthcare workers working in Gaza so many of whom, with their families, have been injured or killed

08.10.2025 09:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

DEATH gave a dry chuckle.
"Memory, something I cannot escape, I have to remember each one I collect".
The pale horse farted again.
"Anthropomorphic entity & I have to spend eternity remembering every one of you, no matter how boring"
WAR stood up.
"Drones are no fun, I just want to stab something"

08.10.2025 02:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Teenage life, above Shaw, Lancashire, 1957, photo by Bert Hardy.

07.10.2025 07:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 205    ๐Ÿ” 35    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Dark satanic thrills, simpler times wonderfully framed, when Skiffle was king & rebellion was in the smog heavy air.

08.10.2025 01:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Once you have seen it, you cannot unsee it.
Unlike the actual memory wipe device.

08.10.2025 01:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Class war
No class
Lots of war

07.10.2025 23:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's all built on sand
The Donald trump way
Does not own the land
All you can do is pray
Towers of gold
Our future sold
Children the victims
So are the Dems
Can't speak of the devil
Or your soul they will level
Disease is his gift
No healing the rift
Between city's he hates
With speeches he bates

07.10.2025 23:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just had a Men in Black moment....

07.10.2025 23:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

To rapturous applause!

07.10.2025 23:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Old frail immune compromised guy here who will be chasing down needles next week.
They are on offer here .
Avoided COVID completely.
I suspect moving to a tiny island away from people may ultimately be the reason.
Flying to the UK in November so I intend to limit the damage of anything I catch.

07.10.2025 23:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I object to the way 'pure' was tainted in this.
Biggley Evil?

07.10.2025 23:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And wear a nice suit...

07.10.2025 22:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Weighty words, measured responses, interesting content.
It adds to life's sparkle here.

07.10.2025 22:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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