At Least Someone Can Get To Work!

Union baron Mick Lynch was today seen catching a cab after plunging Britain into disarray with the most major rail walkout in 30 years.

The RMT chief hopped into a taxi in central London, an indulgence not likely to be affordable to the swathes of Brits desperately attempting to get to work, after dominating the airwaves, in which he defended his union’s industrial action that has ground enormous places in the country to a standstill.

More than 50,000 members have walked out over demands for an 11 per cent pay rise as millions fought to get into work or were forced to work from home or unable to make money at all this week in the £100 million-plus hammer blow to the already creaking economy.

The UK has been forced into another de facto lockdown that could be the death knell for numerous small businesses who’ve already been struggling for the past two years due to the pandemic and were just getting back on their feet.

Andrew Haines, Chief Executive of Network Rail, said the walkouts were crushing for the country, declaring at an empty Waterloo that this was a wasteland and that it was the dimmest days of COVID, and he acknowledged it’s likely the rail strikes would go ahead on Thursday and Saturday but added he would do everything he could to try to turn that around.

And that the frustrations of million were reflected in an incident in east London when a commuter stood in front of a 123 bus between Ilford and Lordship Lane, Tottenham after it refused to stop for dozens waiting at a bus stop.

Witnesses said the angry man had been waiting for 30 minutes but bus after bus flew by. Commuters could be heard angrily chatting on their phones about the rail strikes with some of them swearing as the drama unfolded.

It was filmed by a bystander named David, believed to be an NHS worker, who said that since 6.30 am waiting for a bus, but the buses just passed by without stopping, and that his patients and co-workers were still waiting for him because of the rail strikes, yet they weren’t allowed to strike, and that his paycheck was worse than the ones that were striking.

Much of Britain has no passenger trains for the whole day, including most of Scotland and Wales, the whole of Cornwall and Dorset, and places such as Chester, Hull, Lincoln and Worcester cut off. If services are going ahead they will be restricted with no trains travelling after 6.30 pm this evening.

It seems as if the RMT couldn’t care less about the working classes of England, who need these vital services to get to work so that they can put food on the table in these unsettled times.

There’s a storm of mega proportions brewing in this country, and many people have just had enough, and soon the winter bills will arrive and I can see that in the coming months there will be some sort of civil unrest.

How’s Brexit working out for you?

And then you have this shameless man going to work by cab while denying thousands of their right to work.

We’ve had sluggish financial maturation over the last 12 years which has led to wage stagnation.

Wages are lower and as a result, all disposable income has dropped, and working people have had enough because they’ve been carrying the can for this government’s botched handling of the economy for far too long, through the austerity years and beyond, and now people are beginning to understand the reason and even worse.

At Some Councils, Nine Out Of Ten Staff Still Work From Home

It has emerged that more than 90 per cent of council staff are working from home in some places.

According to freedom of information requests, council buildings are between a quarter and a half as full as offices in the private sector, yet local authorities are still using taxpayers’ money to service empty office space.

Almost 3,000 desk spaces are supported by Conservative-run Buckingham County Council, but an average of only 340 of its 2,400 office-based staff come into work each week.

Each desk space can cost up to £13,000 a year to run, according to estimates produced by the trade magazine, Government Technology.

At the four councils which responded to the freedom of information requests, an average of 85 per cent of staff were still working from home.

The council with the most elevated proportion of workers in this category was Conservative-run Wiltshire County Council with 94 per cent. Labour-run Bradford at 93 per cent, followed in second.

Buckingham County Council was next with 86 per cent at home while Labour-run Westminster had 66 per cent.

One senior figure within a major county council said that civil servants in Whitehall were under more pressure to return to the office than town hall staff.

The source said nobody was applying any pressure over where people work and that less than 10 per cent of office workers were back at their desks.

John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, told The Times that residents fed up with colossal council tax bills and bumper pay rises for staff would no doubt be disappointed to find out they’re paying a small fortune to finance these empty buildings, and that if flexible working is to stay, council officials should be moved out and the savings passed on to hard-pressed residents.

But the local Government Association, which represents more than 350 councils in England and Wales, said in a statement that council staff work tirelessly for their communities, whether from home, in offices or out and about, and it seems now that nobody wants or needs to work in an office again.

Now it appears that young staff are just digital natives who don’t want to sit next to someone physically and want to work in their pyjamas and get their food deliveries online, but then I guess it does save them excessive parking costs and they get to see their loved ones more frequently, but then not everything can be done online.

But what will happen with all that empty office space if people do continue to work from home. Well, I guess it will be used to house our new citizens who are washing up on our beaches from around the world.

Add doctors to the mix who appear to have hidden away for nearly three years and get paid handsomely I might add to do so.

Is it really working from home, or is it just people skiving at the taxpayers’ expense? People who are employed were once employed to work in an office, but now COVID keeps being used as an excuse, and if people don’t turn up for work they should now face fines or the sack but now it seems okay to have optional attendance and everyone’s fine with it.

And guess what? Boris Johnson told them to do it. He said that people must work from home and guess what? They did and still are!

Four Asian Women Were Pepper Sprayed By A Florida Woman, 47, in Manhattan

A woman who has been filmed pepper-spraying four Asian women in a racially motivated attack in Manhattan was arraigned and charged with a hate crime, after a video of the incident went viral.

The suspect, 47-year-old Madeline Barker, was caught on camera hurling racial slurs at the victims, such as ‘God back to where you came from’ and ‘You don’t belong here,’ during the June 10 altercation.

Madeline Barker, of Florida, was ruled a potential flight risk at her first court appearance in Manhattan and was held on bail set at $20,000.

According to the New York Post, prosecutors lobbied for the judge to declare Madeline Barker a flight risk because she’s from the Sunshine State, didn’t turn herself in and was only caught after an eyewitness identified her on the street.

Madeline Barker’s Legal Aid Counsel argued that the media coverage of the incident had intensified the matter.

She faces charges of assault as a hate crime, with Judge Eric Schumacher fixing bail at $20,000 cash, a $20,000 partial secure bond.

She appeared sporting a denim jacket and a white facemask.

The incident, which occurred in a public plaza in the Meatpacking District, subsequently sparked a search for the then-unknown woman, dubbed ‘Karen’ by internet users.

The incident, which left one victim unable to open her eyes, comes amid an inflammation of anti-Asian brutality in the City That Never Sleeps.

A shocking video recorded by the victims reveals the moment the woman dubbed ‘Karen’ by social media users, starts arguing with the four Queens women, all in their 20s, in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District on Saturday.

The victims, who asked to remain nameless, told ABC7 that they were checking out a flower installation when the woman unexpectedly picked a fight with them, after accusing them of harassing her, and then ‘Karen’ pepper-sprayed the four women.

One victim said that it was so painful and that she couldn’t open her eyes for about 30 minutes.

An eyewitness then filmed the victims stepping away from the argument, but ‘Karen’ continued to shout at them and walked up behind one of the women and blasted her straight in the eyes with pepper spray before leaving the location.

Police said the incident was now under investigation and was being treated as a hate crime.

According to the victims, Madeline Barker went on a racist tirade as she pulled out the pepper spray on the Asian women.

Madeline Barker isn’t from New York, so it makes no sense that she would go to the largest place in the United States that’s swarming with immigrants, especially if she despises them so much.

Madeline Barker is just an evil, wicked woman and she should just relax and mind her own beeswax. The judge should just give her a month in jail, she’ll soon change her opinion.

She’s certainly not the hero in this. Heros wouldn’t be spraying pepper spray on people, and why do people believe that they can do this sort of thing and get away with it. I hate to say this but her name, face and crime will be online forever, and there are numerous fruitcakes that live amongst us.

This is yet another miserable person who can’t accept that colour is only skin deep, it’s what’s on the inside that matters, and clearly, nothing good resides inside of this woman.

Madeline Barker’s Legal Counsel asserted that the media coverage of the incident had amplified the case, but the video of her speaks volumes and this is just an immoral racist who got caught on camera, you actually can’t spin that.

Millennials And Gen Z Workers Want To Ban Phone Calls Because They Consider Them Intrusive

According to a survey, office workers want to prohibit telephone calls in the workplace because they find them aggressive and confrontational.

Three-quarters of people would rather communicate by email or social media than speak on the phone, which they find stressful.

The trend is driven by Generation Z and millennial workers under 40 who prefer text messages and WhatsApp.

More than three in four respondents (78 per cent) confessed to frequently ignoring calls when they didn’t recognise the caller’s number for fear it could lead to a hostile dialogue, and one in ten admitted to going out of their way to sidestep face-to-face conversations because they left them feeling on edge.

Tim Agnew, from freebets.com, which commissioned the survey, said that while younger office workers undoubtedly prefer messaging to talking, they also discovered that across age groups there was a feeling that phone calls had the potential to quickly become confrontational.

He added that numerous people prefered to ignore calls but at the same time they were prepared to respond to email and social media messages.

According to the communications regulator Ofcom, the total time spent on landline calls in 2018 was 44 billion minutes, down from more than 100 billion minutes six years before, but mobile calls increased over that time but fell for the first time in 2017 by 1.7 per cent because people had diverted to other forms of online messaging.

In a report that year, Ofcom said falling call volumes were symptomatic of a fundamental shift in behaviour as people turned to messaging.

However, the pandemic led to a peak in calls made from landlines, up 15 per cent in 2020 compared to the previous year, as friends and families unable to meet in person kept in contact by phone.

The survey also uncovered that nine in ten workers want the working week to be lowered to four days.

All too often people will just sidestep uncomfortable conversations, and emails and letters are amazing, but then you have those people who have fallen behind on their payments that will ignore emails and letters, and sometimes the best way to deal with things like this is to just pick up the phone with a cordial voice that deals with the problem with empathy, which usually gets the most promising outcome.

Sometimes the perceived uncomfortable conversation that people believe it will be isn’t as menacing as they make it, and being nice over the phone can get you more cordiality than an email where it’s difficult to read a person’s tone, but then I guess it depends on who you’re talking to on the other end of the phone.

People used to spend a good chunk of their lives dealing with people in positions of authority where they’ve been assured of something via the phone and then later on flatly denied, but things that are written with transparency can’t be denied later on because it’s in black and white, so now, people are using email and texting instead of having an adult discussion with someone else – I actually do feel sorry for the next generation.

The younger generation is now heading for some extremely serious mental health problems, along with working from home which will stunt their social development, and who will have scarcely had any experience of interaction in the workplace, and if people believe that a phone conversation is confrontational then that’s an extremely worrying sign of things to come.

When It Comes To Sexual Violence, The Scariest And Most Intimidating Thing Is Not Being Believed

Amber Heard has described testifying against Johnny Depp and describing her apparent sexual assault as the scariest, most intimidating thing, in her first interview since losing her defamation case on June 1.

Amber Heard, 36, spoke to NBC’s Dateline in a talk screened in its entirety for the first time and told Savannah Guthrie that she was terrified of telling her side of the story.

She said she’d been wounded by the hatred and vitriol directed at her, but didn’t regret bringing the case.

She said that she knew that the scariest, most daunting thing for anyone talking about sexual violence was not being believed, being called a liar, or being humiliated.

Amber Heard said she wasn’t speaking out because she was vindictive and said that would be a lousy way of getting revenge.

She said as ridiculous as it was to say out loud, her goal was to just let people see her as a human being.

Amber Heard’s interview raised eyebrows, with her repeating her defamatory allegations that Johnny Depp hit her.

Yet, shortly before the interview aired, Amber Heard’s team insisted they were unrepentant, and that if Johnny Depp or his team had a problem with this, they suggested that Johnny himself sit down with Savannah Guthrie for an hour and respond to all her questions.

Amber Heard also released a binder full of notes from her therapist, which she claims is new evidence proving her allegations of physical and sexual abuse against Johnny Depp, despite the notes that had already been dismissed by the judge.

Amber Heard turned over years’ worth of notes taken by her therapist describing instances when she says the actor hit her, threw her against a wall, and threatened to kill her.

The actress has now gone public with the binder, which dates back to 2011 from the very start of her relationship with Johnny Depp.

The notes include reports of violence dating back to January 2012, when Amber Heard told her therapist that Johnny Depp hit her and threw her on the floor.

The notes alleged that eight months after that he ripped her nightgown, chucked her on the bed and then in 2013 he threw her against a wall and threatened to kill her, but earlier this month, a jury ruled that Amber Heard defamed her ex-husband by publicising a piece about being a sexual assault survivor in the Washington Post.

Why didn’t she just walk out and leave Johnny if she was that unhappy, it would have certainly been cheaper.

Of course, Johnny Depp is no angel in all of this, and he did or still does have an addiction to alcohol and drugs, and we all know what happens when you put that in the mix, and if he can’t contain his anger, especially towards women, then he shouldn’t be near them at all until he sorts himself out, but of course, therapist notes don’t prove that you were abused, it just proves that you told your therapist that you were.

As I said I don’t believe that Johnny Depp is an angel, far from it, but why didn’t Amber go to the police if she thought she was in that much danger?

One of the questions that are often asked in relation to a woman experiencing domestic violence is why didn’t they contact the police when they were experiencing the abuse? And that because they didn’t it couldn’t have been as bad if they didn’t contact the police, but the truth is that there are numerous reasons why people who are experiencing abuse might not contact the police.

One of the primary reasons women don’t contact the police is because they fear that contacting them that it may actually make their situation more dangerous, and for many who know what it’s like to see their abusive partner escalating, survival mode kicks in and de-escalating because of their primary instinct.

Rather than call the police for help, the woman experiencing the abuse may try to calm the abusive partner or calm the abusive partner by whatever means necessary.

Also, generally, if the police are contacted and an arrest is made, it’s likely that the abusive partner would just get a slap on the wrist and when released, may become more escalated, potentially putting the woman in more danger.

There may be many valid reasons as to why a woman who’s experiencing abuse may not want to or is unable to contact the police for assistance, so the most important thing that we can initially do is believe them, and we need to be understanding because not everything is black and white, and there are grey areas where a woman experiencing domestic violence may have a criminal record and that she may have put her hands on the abusive partner to defend herself, or she might not be showing any physical injuries, but that doesn’t mean the abuse didn’t happen.

You Can Make Your Children Violent Towards Their Partners If You Spank Them

A new study claims that children who are disciplined by spanking are more likely to be abusive towards their partners in later life.

Almost 800 young adults were involved in a study which looked at whether being hit as a child resulted in more aggressive tendencies as a grown-up.

It found that hurting a child led to more aggressive behaviour and that most adults who were violent in their relationships were smacked as a child.

The study, from the University of Texas Medical Branch, asked 19 and 20-year-olds how frequently they’d been spanked, hit or slapped.

Researchers found that the 758 children who’d been disciplined with physical violence were much more likely to become aggressive with a future romantic partner.

Data from the study discovered that almost one in five (19 per cent) admitted to violence towards their lovers.

Sixty-eight per cent claimed to have encountered corporal discipline as a child.

The study’s lead author, Jeff Temple, a psychiatry professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch, said that they had to decide what they considered punishment and what they considered abuse.

Speaking to CNN, he said that they define child abuse as being hit with a strap or board, left with bruises that are apparent or going to the doctor or hospital, and that children who said they’d encountered corporal discipline were more likely to have recently engaged in dating violence.

The study discovered it wasn’t just children who’d been abused with physical violence who turned out to be nasty in later life.

Spanking as a form of discipline was enough to increase violent behaviour in adults.

The participants had been part of an ongoing scientific trial in Texas since they were mid-teens.

The tendency to become violent in adulthood was true regardless of sex, age, parental education, ethnicity or childhood abuse.

Researchers controlled these factors in their research and found that they made no difference.

Smacking a child as a form of chastisement has been banned in several nations across the globe such as France, Scotland and Sweden.

Just a couple of months ago, a man was jailed in Somerset after smacking his son’s backside which resulted in bruising.

There are strict guidelines in numerous nations relating to the use of smacking, and in the United Kingdom, it’s unlawful for a parent or carer to hit their child, except where this amounts to reasonable punishment.

But there have been loads of children that have been smacked in the past and have said that they understood the boundaries set and that they had respect for their parents and appreciated the lessons that their parents taught them in life, and haven’t gone on to beat their wives or husbands, nor suffered violent outbursts towards anyone. Snowflakes are for Christmas, not a way of life.

All children are different. Some are compliant, unassuming and mild and some are determined and self-driven. What suits one child does not fit all and some children need a firmer hand, whilst others can be reasoned with.

This isn’t about smacking for discipline, it’s about serious abuse.

I was a mother of four boys and they were extremely strong-willed children. I would smack them when they crossed the line because children need discipline, boundaries and consistency, but I also used to show my love for them by sitting them down afterwards and explaining what they’d done wrong and that I still loved them very much, and that it was my job as a mother to teach them right from wrong, otherwise if I let them get away with what they wanted to do I wouldn’t be doing my job very well as their mother.

There were many children that got smacked but didn’t raise their hands to their women, but if people believe that smacking children is bad and insights bad behaviour towards their partners, then what about television?

Our televisions show all kinds of brutality which children watch and then go on to believe that it’s okay to do because the television said so, and then, of course, there are computer games, the internet and the playground.

Children’s Immune Systems Have Been Worn Down By COVID Measures, Which Have Led To The Spread Of Up To Three Viruses At A Time

Children are turning up in doctors’ clinics infected with as many as three different kinds of viruses, in what experts believe is the result of their immune systems being weakened from two years of COVID lockdowns and mask-wearing.

Medical staff have come to expect a swell in cases of flu and harsh colds during the winter, but they’re reporting that there isn’t the typical downturn as the summer approaches, and they suspect it could be due to the strict pandemic practices.

Also, some of the familiar strains of the flu seem to have vanished, puzzling scientists.

Thomas Murray, an infection control expert and associate professor of paediatrics at Yale, told a newspaper outlet that his team was seeing children with a combination of seven common viruses, adenovirus, rhinovirus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), human metapneumovirus, influenza and parainfluenza, as well as the coronavirus.

He said some children were admitted with two viruses and a few with three, and that it wasn’t characteristic for any time of the year and definitely not typical in May and June.

CDC data acquired by a newspaper outlet revealed lower overall levels of influenza infections among young children, but an abnormal surge starting several weeks ago during the start of the summer months, typically a dead period for respiratory infections – other irregular patterns have appeared.

The rhinovirus, known as the common cold, is generally not severe enough to send people to the hospital, but now it is.

RSV usually tapers off in the more hospitable weather, as does influenza, but they’ve not, and the Yamagata strain of flu hasn’t been seen since early 2020, which researchers say could be because it’s extinct, or maybe just dormant and waiting for the right moment to return.

Michael Mina, who’s an epidemiologist and chief science officer at the digital health platform eMed said it’s a massive natural experiment.

Michael Mina added that the change in what time of year Americans are seeing infections is probably due to the population’s lack of exposure to once common viruses, making us vulnerable when they return.

He said when you have a ton of people who don’t have immunity, the impact of the season is less. It’s like a free rein.

The virus can thus overcome seasonal barriers.

But some people are saying that they think that it’s the vaccine that’s destroyed children’s and adults’ immune systems and that a lot of people are having health issues that were once fit and healthy, but it’s not just the vaccines that have weakened our immune system but the fact that children need to be outside with other children for the body to learn how to fight off infections by getting infections – the saying goes, ‘You have to eat a peck of dirt before you die.’

But then you can’t blame this all on COVID. Children should be children and play outside and not hide indoors playing video games all day because we all need to build our immune systems through the benefits of mother nature.

Then there is the fact that we are constantly using chemicals to clean every surface and isolate our children from the world, which suggests they will have weak immune systems.

There are countless parents, mainly mothers who are scared of a little dirt on their children, or more worried about a little speck of dust or mud particle on their floor.

We need to let our children play outside and get muddy so that it helps their immune system.

When my children were younger I would go to friends and their children would be ill with something like mumps or measles and I would still go in with my children because it’s better that they catch these ailments when they’re young, rather than when they’re older, and it helped to build their immune systems, but it seems that in this day and age we’re all afraid of our own shadows.

Despite The Partygate Scandal, Boris Johnson Is Still Preferred To Keir Starmer As Prime Minister

A poll has revealed that Boris Johnson is still a preferable Prime Minister to Sir Keir Starmer.

Boris Johnson, who was dealt a political blow last week when 148 of his MPs voted for a no-confidence motion in him, has seen his popularity eroded since the 2019 election by the Partygate disclosures and the cost of living situation.

Nevertheless, 28 per cent of voters still believe he would make the best Prime Minister, compared with just 26 per cent for Sir Keir Starmer, according to a poll for The Observer.

Boris Johnson also improved his approval rating by three points to minus 27, although he’s still trailing the Labour leader, who remains on minus 6.

In the poll, conducted by Opinium, 35 per cent of respondents also said neither of the party leaders would make the best prime minister.

Half said they couldn’t envision Sir Keir Starmer in the position, compared with just 37 per cent who can, while 47 per cent felt Labour wasn’t ready to form the next government.

Sir Keir Starmer has failed to put any daylight between Labour and the Conservatives ahead of two crucial by-elections, with the governing party closing the gap by just two points in the most recent survey.

Labour are now on 36 per cent of the vote, with the Tories up one point on 34 per cent. The Liberal Democrats and Greens remain at 13 and 6 per cent respectively.

Boris Johnson’s approval ratings remain low after he was fined for a lockdown violation in 2020 and the release of the Sue Gray report which criticised the leadership in No 10, but once again he leads his opponent in the poll of who would make the best Prime Minister, climbing two points while Sir Keir Starmer dropped two since the last survey.

The polling comes just days after the Labour leader failed to make an impact at the despatch box during Prime Minister’s Questions following Boris Johnson’s vote of no confidence.

Deputy leader Angela Rayner later said that Sir Keir Starmer needed to put some more welly into his speeches.

But who out there really believes these polls, or even believes that newspapers are a trustworthy source of information, and let’s face it, when talking about who would be the best prime minister, really, none of them are actually that good and probably not fit for purpose, and why do people keep voting for this worthless man, it’s almost like Stockholm Syndrome.

Some people might think that Sir Keir Starmer is a fool, but what about Boris ‘wallpaper’ Johnson? But then most British people would rather choose a charismatic charlatan over a slightly boring technocrat, which is why we’re where we are now.

And who precisely believes that Boris Johnson is doing a wonderful job?

His term has been a mess from start to finish. One chaotic moment to the next.

If our Government can’t do what it pledged to do then it must either reform the courts with its massive majority or it must quit and let someone else do it.

And this vote is a pile of fertiliser because Boris Johnson is a lame-duck ready for the chop, it’s just a matter of when it will happen, and people need to wake up and smell the coffee. However, the public isn’t getting much of a choice on who they want voted in – Boris Johnson or Sir Keir Starmer, no choice at all!

To be honest a brick would be a more suitable choice than Boris Johnson or Sir Keir Starmer, at least a brick wouldn’t sink us into an ocean of oblivion on a weekly basis.

A Pair Of Baby Girl Twins Born Black And White Defy The Odds

Like many twins, they are dressed alike, right down to their pink and white booties, but Kendall and Baylee are no ordinary twins, they’re one in a million.

An unusual peculiarity of genetics means that one sister has black skin and the other is white.

The effect is so amazing that even their own father has said it’s difficult to believe that they’re related, and their mother, Rebecca Horton, said that when they were born, they kept staring at both of them because they just couldn’t believe it.

She said it was a lovely feeling and a big shock, but one thing was for sure, family and friends wouldn’t ever struggle to tell them apart.

The little girls’ contrasting looks can be traced back to their parents. Their father, Curtis Martin, is half Jamaican, while their mother is white.

As non-identical twins, they were created when two eggs were fertilised by two sperm. This means they inherited different genes from their parents, but normally, you would have expected both to have inherited a mixture of black and white genes and be born with a similar skin tone.

Every child is special and beautifully made, no matter what form they come in, whether black or white, no matter the parents they’re born to, they will always be special and amazing.

Some children stand out from others who are born with unique characteristics that we just can’t ignore, and this was the same with the twins of Nigerian Canadian photographer Judith Nwokocha.

Judith’s daughter, Kachi was albino while her son Kamis, had her dark skin, hair, and eye colour.

She said that she remembers going for her first scan when they told her that she was having a baby and she said that she was having two.

The second scan revealed that she was having twins, but she was told the twins might have Down Syndrome.

She said that at 7 weeks Kachi was always behind, was extremely small, she stopped growing, and she remembers the doctors telling her that she might not make it, but she’s so thankful that she did.

She said that she didn’t cry initially, so she was thinking about what was going to happen and how she was going to be, and that she was stunned and thought that they’d handed her somebody else’s baby and she couldn’t believe that she was her baby.

She was short of words and didn’t know what to say while staring at the magnificence she was carrying. But she was just happy that she was perfect, and both were healthy and they’d made her stressed out for nothing.

She said that other than the fact that she’s a different colour, she looks exactly like her.

Kachi is a perfect baby apart from her sensitive skin and eyes and that she’s doing absolutely fine, and that she always turns eyes on the street each time she goes out with her mother, but Judith actually doesn’t care what people have to say about her daughter.

She continued that it took her a while to realise that she was going to be raising an albino and that she was concerned about what people were going to say because it’s not a very usual thing to have an albino and a black baby.

She said that she was also sad because she was worried about how her daughter was going to go through society and how people were going to treat her.

She said that the twins didn’t act differently towards each other and that they have a good sister-brother relationship. That the twins were in the best state, and that every child is beautiful and unique, and we should always remember that.

These are gorgeous babies and their parents are extremely lucky to have such unique children, and this is the sort of thing that people want to read about instead of all the brutality that’s going on in the world, and this just demonstrates that we’re all one ethnicity and no different from each other.

It’s Dangerous To Walk By Granny’s Bush Because It’s So Large

A grandmother is defying an order to trim back the bushes in her front garden after her local council ruled that they were a health and safety hazard. Nevertheless, Becky Curtis regularly gets admiring comments from neighbours and passers-by who are impressed by the shrubs outside her grade two listed home in Dedham, Essex.

There’s been plenty of rainfall in recent weeks that has seen the greenery grow and as a result, the plants have spilt over the 84-year-old’s 30-inch high wall and onto the pavement.

Becky Curtis, who was born in her 18th-century home, insists there’s still a three-foot gap which allows people to use the path without a problem, but Dedham parish council disagrees and has ruled that Becky’s balotta, acanthus and choisya are a possible danger and need to be trimmed back.

In a letter, the parish council clerk said various complaints had been received about foliage creeping onto the pavement.

It read: ‘Please can you cut back the overhanging vegetation so as not to obstruct the pavement for pedestrians. Thank you for your co-operation with this.’

But Becky, who’s a long-standing member of the Dedham Horticultural Society, is resisting the demand with the support of numerous villagers.

She worries that any large-scale pruning will rob bumble bees of her two oversized balotta flowers when they flower later this summer.

Becky said she always cuts the balotta back as hard as she can every Autumn and doesn’t see why she should act any differently this year.

She said that we must do what we can to help the bees.

She said that she was completely taken aback when she received the letter saying the council had received complaints, although they didn’t say how many complaints there were and that she guessed it might only have been one person.

She said that she spoke to a lady from the council, and she told her that she had to comply as it was a health and safety issue.

Saying that they don’t say that when someone stumbles up on one of their paving slabs and breaks their neck because it wasn’t fixed when it should have been.

Becky said she’d been told someone with two children, a pushchair and a dog might find it difficult to pass the bushes but said the more she thought about trimming them back, the less she wanted to do it.

Bees will adjust and find alternative sources, although there is a lack of vegetation now and if we’re not careful bees will become extinct because now more than ever bees are endangered, and because bees are endangered, nature, ecosystems, and our food supply are also at risk.

But bees are not endangered because of pruning back bushes, they’re endangered because bushes and tree life are taken away altogether, which in this case it’s not, and the bees wouldn’t be affected by a little pruning.

What about those people that are disabled and use mobility scooters and wheelchairs? If bushes and plants are overgrowing and in the way they get hit in the face by hedges, and then sometimes they have to go in the road because they can’t get past, but I’m sure if someone on a scooter was hit by a car, she might think differently about the consequences.

I personally wouldn’t have all that greenery in front of my home, but each to their own. I just think that when it’s all pruned back it looks nice, but when it starts to overgrow it begins looking a mess, but I must admit, it looked like there was plenty of room for people, prams and wheelchairs to get past.

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