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West Country lawyer, registered nurse, veteran and nanny to the best boy, a bit of a secret gardener and a creative when I am not nose deep in the law. Love being near the moors and sea.
Brexit forced my political hand, am deeply sad at the mess and division it created, but am determined nonetheless, to remain a #European and hopeful we can still change things for the better. 
#Peace #love #happiness
#COVID Poll - Have you had COVID?
Please boost to get a bigger response.
Not had it (as far as I know)
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Had it twice
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Many of the journalists Elon suspended today on Twitter are here on #Mastodon. Please follow and boost:

Drew Harwell, Washington Post
@drewharwell

Donie O’Sullivan, CNN
@donieosullivan

Steve Herman, VOA
@w7voa

Micah Lee, Intercept
@micahflee

Tony Webster
@tony

Matt Binder, Mashable
@MattBinder

#freepress #journalism #journalists #news

@Lomelindi12 🙏🏻🤞🏻that does the trick.
@Lomelindi12 I am not surprised, have just been out and everywhere is iced up again.

Morning from the bottom of my street

Beautiful. Lots of black ice around.

@Lomelindi12 I hear lots of roads are lethal due to lack of fritters out. Certainly the Rame Peninsula is not good, some roads impassable.
@TrishCal linen mix - and thank you!

Marie Curie's notebooks, which are radioactive and must be stored in a lead-lined box in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Curie’s corpse is also radioactive. Her coffin is lined in an inch of lead. Both will remain radioactive for 1,500+ years.

More info: https://www.sciencealert.com/these-personal-effects-of-marie-curie-will-be-radioactive-for-another-1-500-years

#HistSci #ScienceMastodon #MedMastodon #science #scientist #HistoryOfScience #HistMed #WomenInStem #TIL #TheMoreYouKnow #WeirdHistory

Marie Curie's Belongings Will Be Radioactive For Another 1,500 Years

Marie Curie, known as the 'mother of modern physics', died from aplastic anaemia, a rare condition linked to high levels of exposure to her famed discoveries, the radioactive elements polonium and radium.

ScienceAlert
To be honest, this seems worse than having the road blocked by #climate #activists for a few minutes.