Erstwhile geologist and fount of geographical facts. Married to @melharbour with 1 boat, 6 bikes & 2 Thule Chariots. Novice domestic goddess.
Cambridge, UK
Joined June 2011
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Struggling a bit with question 5 here... What do they want, a proof? 🤯 W/ @melharbour
Sarah Harbour retweeted
John Lewis Christmas advert sends a dangerous message to women 🚨🎄
What a brilliant piece from the Daily Express, and they're absolutely spot on! 👏
In this year's advert, Gloria and Pickles, Dame Kristin Scott Thomas plays a grandmother who jumps in a London rickshaw (a tuk-tuk) to go Christmas shopping at John Lewis for disco balls and fairy lights to build a "gran cave" for her grandchildren.
The Express writer watched it "in horror". She points out that these rickshaw cabs "plague central London" and are an extremely dangerous way to travel, especially for a woman on her own. She says she would never dream of setting foot in one, and that there are horror stories almost every day of women, often tourists, being targeted by unscrupulous drivers. 😡
So why on earth is John Lewis glamorising them in its flagship Christmas advert?
It's not just the Express. Piers Morgan called it "possibly the worst advert I've ever seen for anything", and said it "would actively dissuade me from going to John Lewis". Sharron Davies, Dan Walker and Kirstie Allsopp have all slammed it too.
I couldn't agree with the Express more. Do you? 👇
Sarah Harbour retweeted
Budget trivia:
The small increase in child benefit in the Budget means that parents claiming child benefit who earn between £60-80k see an *increase* in their marginal tax rate.
e.g. with 3 kids, goes from 58.3% to 58.9%
You're welcome.
Was going to take the bus into the city to go to a craft event with the smalls. Checked timetable over breakfast, and there was one at 10:06. Checked where the bus was just before 10, and it's not coming. Now in car being dropped off so we don't miss the event. Useless.
Sarah Harbour retweeted
To clarify. It’s actually even worse.
The horror of what our families face is this: my son’s killer, Valdo Calocane, was given a Section 37/41 hospital order. This is medical care, not a penal sentence.
By January 2027—the 3-year mark—he can legally apply to a tribunal to come out if deemed well enough. Worse, until our recent fight to close the loophole, these criminal patients actively pocketed up to £800/month in state benefits from their hospital beds.
A hospital order is not prison. We face a life sentence ensuring this monster is never released. #JusticeForBarnaby #NottinghamAttacks 💚💛
Nottingham attacker Valdo Calocane ‘eligible for release in 2027’, mother of victim Barnaby Webber tells LBC lbc.co.uk/article/nottingham…
Sarah Harbour retweeted
Thank you to the two @Cambridge_Uni medical students who saved my step-brother's life. He was running with girlfriend on Midsummer Common and his heart stopped for 14 minutes. They didn't give up on him, kept him alive til paramedics arrived. He is on the mend and should make a full recovery
Sarah Harbour retweeted
Emma Webber, whose son Nottingham University son Barnaby was one of three people killed by a mentally ill man in June 2023 is fascinating on this panel about institutional cover ups which also takes in the grooming gangs:
‘We’ve got a really serious, pernicious problem with accountability in this country. We're very good at discussing and investigating and being outraged when these tragedies happen, but what we're really bad at doing is anything meaningful or lasting about it, because it's decades and decades of of this, and I think that it's driven by fear. It's driven by institutional behaviour, toxicity, evasion, reputation over reality, and closing of ranks, and general inability to do the right thing morally and legally.’
@MaggieOliverUK adds:
‘It shouldn't have fallen to me to have those conversations. Chief constables, Home Secretaries should not have turned away. It wasn't that they didn't know. They made a very conscious decision that we are going to do nothing. Well, that's not right, and it's not good enough, and it has to be addressed.’
Chaired by @Fox_Claire
#BattleFest
Sarah Harbour retweeted
Please don't forget that Norwich Head in February is also tidal - for whole of 5km course 16km in total
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📢A reminder to beginner crews who are thinking about racing wehorr2027 in March, that they should be aiming for racing experience in advance 👇
Just ordered some Globemaster alliums because they were on offer... Now beginning to panic about where to put them and how deep I'm going to have to dig 🫣
Sarah Harbour retweeted
A long shot...Last Wednesday, I left a small grey hardshell suitcase on a train from London St Pancras to Cambridge between 5-6pm
The thing in it I'm most upset about losing is a five-year journal in which I've recorded moments with my daughter (now 7) that have made me laugh or smile, and how she's changed. I like to read them back to her so she knows how precious she is.
Nothing has turned up through the train companies' lost property systems yet, and I know that may take a while, but I don't want to leave a stone unturned. Any bright ideas? Know this is a long shot. @TLRailUK @GNRailUK
Sarah Harbour retweeted
I thought I'd seen it all, but...
There's a rather impressive poo coming through the #ThamesBarrier this morning.
