Liz Parry

How is this even a question?

In September, cancer experts will be coming to locations across Birmingham and Solihull on a bus dedicated to providing health checks and important screening information about cancer. Venues / dates below.

1/ 5 NHS league tables are set to be introduced shortly with quarterly rankings for acute, mental health, community and ambulance trusts.

We have teamed up with NHS Providers to highlight why careful design and implementation is needed in order to avoid the risk of unintended consequences.

My date with an octopus [FREE TO READ] Whatever the request, ChatGPT is happy to help, often with unfortunate results

"A funny thing happened to me this week. After trusting a dating app to arrange dinner with a suitably vivacious and intelligent lady, I arrived at the restaurant at the appointed time to find that in fact my date was with an octopus...."
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It’s unnecessary! There’s already a medicine that cures everything! It’s Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin. @amateuradam.bsky.social and @amateursuman.bsky.social told us about it years ago. Maybe RFK Jr doesn’t know about it. Could you pass on the message, please?

I can totally recommend 4, in relation to things you love (theatre, canals, and the NHS for me 😀)

We moored our narrow boat at the marina there for a couple of years until this spring 😀

6 of my photos designed using neuroscientific research to lift mood, of my tiny posies and botanical collections

My Etsy shop's now open for a v. limited print run of half calendars of my tiny posy & botanical photos.
I design my photos using recent neuroscientific research so that looking at them alleviates stress & lift mood.
Each calendar=6 very high quality frameable prints:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

We’d like photographic evidence, please 😀

Floral garden finds in May

An autumnal collection of seedheads, feathers, shells, pebbles & other nature finds-my best-selling image

Garden and common hedgerow finds in Norfolk in September

Floral garden finds from a very mild spell in February 2019

This evening at 8 UK time I'll be opening my Etsy shop for limited ed’n signed art prints of my botanical/nature collection photographs & frameable greetings cards.
I create my photos using recent research to dial down fight or flight & lift your mood a little when you look at them.

I find there is a difference in how I absorb info via eyes vs ears but not sure which is better. For training, listening to a trainer definitely better than reading a handout but for fiction? Maybe my internal film is better with audiobooks.

I learnt all my forensics from Patricia Cornwall 😀

Birmingham City Council House, with the floozy in the jacuzzi in the foreground. All looking lovely in the sun.

The @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social Council House looking lovely in the sun this morning. Here for the Neighbourhoods OSC meeting at which they’re considering the request for call-in of Cabinet decision on libraries 📚💻 #BrumLovesLibraries

Thanks to the recent #BBCr4Today article on @belgradetheatre.bsky.social‘s production of Romeo and Juliet, I went to see it last night. Verdict = an excellent evening 🎭😀🎭

Poster for the film The Princess Bride

Picture of Inigo Montoya saying “Hello. My name is Ingo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” Underneath it says “Remember Inigo Montoya. 1 polite greeting. 2 name. 3 relevant personal link. 4 manage expectations.”

#HighburyCinema is showing The Princess Bride at 7pm on Sunday evening. This is a great excuse to post one of my favourite memes 😀
Showing at Highbury Theatre, Sheffield Road, Sutton Coldfield B73 5HD

One side of a fused glass handkerchief bowl with a blue & purple grape hyacinth design. This is my favourite side.

One side of a fused glass handkerchief bowl with a red flower with green leaves design

One side of a fused glass handkerchief bowl with a yellow flower with green leaves design

One side of a fused glass handkerchief bowl with a purple and pink flower with green leaves design. I think this side was the least successful as there is too much difference in the colours of the petals.

I went to a fused glass workshop and my handkerchief vase designs were inspired by the work of @silverpebble2.bsky.social - thank you for your beautiful images 😀

This simple solution stops pollution going into the sea Amaya Edwards, 10, asks: If Australia can stop tonnes of plastic reaching the ocean, why isn’t the UK doing it?

A 10-year-old has a better plan for stopping plastic pollution than most politicians.

Amaya Edwards discovered an Australian scheme that’s keeping rivers and oceans clean. So why hasn’t the UK adopted it?

You’re going to need to post every time you leave the hob on to add that extra level of commitment 😀

Next time, do a post about the purchase and then set us all searching back through your timeline 😂

Two men in a small cell at Littlehey prison. Photo by Andy Aitchison.

Our prisons are bursting at the seams. Prison population could rise by 22% in four years.

In response to the many enquiries we have received, we have created a dedicated page to explain what the problems are, how they arose, and how they might be solved.
https://buff.ly/4hyBdON

David Oliver: Losing too many NHS hospital beds has been an act of avoidable self-sabotage with predictable consequences In recent decades we’ve surely lost too many general and acute hospital beds in the UK, without creating sufficient alternative capacity outside hospital. This has resulted in entirely predictable ris...

My latest @bmj.com piece . Having spent much of Tuesday in a severely overcrowded ED with corridor/waiting room care galore & much of Monday on a ward unable to discharge patients waiting for community services that they absolutely *do* need - policy meets real life.

www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Annual UK Archive Sector Survey - Archives sector This year we’re expanding our annual archive sector survey to the whole of the UK, in partnership with National Records Scotland, the Scottish Council on Archives, Welsh Government, Archives and Recor...

Link not working ☹️ Try this one
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...

Too difficult to wash?

@bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social

Overview & Scrutiny Briefing Briefing and slide deck for Neighbourhoods Overview and Scrutiny Committee.

#BrumLovesLibraries has provided a commentary on the current library proposals which has been sent to the members of the #BCC Neighbourhoods Overview & Scrutiny Committee to inform their consideration of the proposals. You can read them here: www.birminghamloveslibraries.org/post/overvie...

I’m sure someone once said they got bins text messages from their Welsh council, which I thought was ⭐️ stellar ⭐️ municipal achievement

As an habitual boater, I have been led to believe it can be quite difficult to prove ownership in the event of TWOC. Licence holder doesn’t necessarily equal owner. Any advice for the boat’s legitimate owners? 😂

We’re now waiting for your verdict…

Uncharted with Hannah Fry - 17. The Golden Spike - BBC Sounds With an angry outburst at a conference, one scientist ignites a multi-decade quest

Ooo, it’s like #CrawfordLake 😂
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Oh god. Assuming I have another 20 years, I really have to start now 🗑️