There was a time when the English didn't give a damn what the president of America had said. I like jammy dodgers and Yorkshire tea. I hope the UK Government drives growth in our regions.

This cat better be named Alice! Nothing else would be acceptable. 😀

It's inescapable, isn't it? Regardless of efforts to mark all US political stories as not relevant, virtually every post in my feed features Trump, or that couple from Minnesota. I'm not entirely saying I'm not interested, but I'm not American and I'd like to see some posts about tea, weather etc

Okay. Concerted effort now to make my feed on this platform look less like a moaning session from a foreign country on the other side of the Atlantic. I'm going to be selecting "less of this" and posting things about bog snorkelling and rolling cheese down a hill.

There are days, aren't there. I had a ticket tonight to see one of my favourite bands, The Pixies. I find I just can't be bothered. My work shirts, meanwhile, are beautifully ironed for the rest of the week. So that's something.

Hello. I signed up for this worldwide social media platform, but my feed is full of stories about an oompah lumpah in another continent. Could I draw attention to the fact that people in our country have several different names for a bread roll, and internal conflict on the matter is inevitable.

This will NEVER get old‼️🤣🤣🤣

"UKHSA has confirmed a case of influenza A(H5N1) in a person in the West Midlands region. Bird-to-human transmission of avian influenza is rare and has previously occurred a small number of times in the UK."

"The birds were infected with the DI.2 genotype"

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