Pioneer Minister in the Heart of Wales. Farms & serves as a rural chaplain online&on the ground. FREC-4. All views his own etc https://xitter.cf/t.co/LUchas9ewe
Llandeilo, GB
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Rev Simon Bowkett ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
โGive thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His love endures forever.โ 1 Chronicles 16:34
Have a blessed Sunday evening folks!
Rev Simon Bowkett ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
โSeek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.โ Isaiah 55:6
Have a blessed week everybody!
Rev Simon Bowkett ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Hereโs a thought which would put British farmers on a more level playing field with the competition from rest of the world. The government needs to urgently introduce interest free loans to enable farmers to plant next year's crops, and provide feed and bedding for livestock for everyone facing a shortfall. So @NFUtweets are going to lobby for just that.
Click the link and add your support. #BackBritishFarming
campaigns.nfuonline.com/pageโฆ
Rev Simon Bowkett ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
A message from the family of Dolly Parton.
Rev Simon Bowkett ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
๐จ THIS IS NOW A NATIONAL FOOD SAFETY WARNING we warned was inevitable if we left the EU!!!
The FSA is telling pregnant women, children under five, over-65s and vulnerable people not to eat runny eggs when eating out.
Why?
Bcunusually large and rapidly increasing Salmonella outbreak which investigators say may be linked to imported eggs used in restaurants and catering.
One person dead.
207 confirmed cases.
38% hospitalised.
Meanwhile the FSA says there is no evidence UK-produced eggs are affected.
Britain spent decades building one of the safest egg systems in the world.
Now thanks to Brexit freedoms vulnerable people are effectively being told: British Lion eggs at home are safe but be careful ordering a runny egg in a British restaurant because you may not know where that egg came from.
How on earth is that progress?
Food standards are not red tape.
Border controls are not bureaucracy.
Food security includes food safety.
Rev Simon Bowkett ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
That despite it being patiently explained by vets for years, people still think cows that test positive for TB donโt have the disease.
Rev Simon Bowkett ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Digital inclusion, employability support, information and advocacy for Carers in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot
If you provide support to somebody, @SwanseaMAD can support you ๐
[email protected]
07961499012
Swansea MAD, 216 High Street, Swansea, SA1 1PE
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ALT Poster for the โConnecting Carersโ project by Swansea MAD offering digital inclusion, employability support, information, and advocacy for carers in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot. Contact: [email protected] or 07961499012. Location: 216 High Street, Swansea, SA1 1PE (next to Well Pharmacy). Supported by the West Glamorgan Regional Partnership.
Rev Simon Bowkett ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Iโm standing in a downpour in the middle of a golden wheat field in Ukraine.
Right now, Ukrainian farmers are gathering the 2026 harvest: 80 million tons of grain and oilseeds.
Thatโs roughly 10 kilograms of food for every single person on Earth.
But that food might never reach the world's table.
Russia is systematically bombing Odesaโs ports and civilian cargo shipsโdeliberately targeting international vessels and American commercial interests.
This is a direct attack on global food security. It fuels inflation in every grocery store worldwide.
Protecting Ukraineโs port infrastructure isnโt charity.
It is defending global economic stabilityโand keeping the world fed.
Rev Simon Bowkett ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesnโt accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
Rev Simon Bowkett ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
โHe who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.โ Proverbs 10:5
Have a blessed Thursday folks!
Rev Simon Bowkett ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
โTherefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.โ Ephesians 6:13
Good morning and may you all have a blessed Thursday and let's not lose courage!
Rev Simon Bowkett ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
โSo then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in Him,โ Colossians 2:6
Good morning and have a blessed Wednesday everybody!
Rev Simon Bowkett ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
โThe Lord is good to all; He has compassion on all He has made.โ Psalms 145:9
Have a blessed week folks!
Rev Simon Bowkett ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
๐จEven a full year after infection, COVID-19 is still driving dramatically higher healthcare costs, 27% more for adults and a shocking 42% more for children, according to a large new U.S. study of nearly 2 million people.
โก๏ธโThese findings underscore the substantial long-term healthcare burden that follows a COVID-19 diagnosis and the importance of preventive public health measuresโ
#AvoidSars2 #AvoidReinfections #Mitigation
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.โฆ
Rev Simon Bowkett ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Even when it's very difficult and this world is unfair... there is always something to thank God for...
โGive thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever.โ 1 Chronicles 16:34
Have a blessed Saturday folks!
Rev Simon Bowkett ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Britain imports around 40% of its food, and the figure keeps climbing.
It closes its own small abattoirs, then ships the meat further to be processed elsewhere.
It tells its farmers to rewild and plant trees, then buys beef from countries still clearing forest to raise it.
It signs trade deals letting in meat produced to welfare and chemical standards its own farmers are banned from using.
It blames the British cow for the climate while the imported one, shipped half the world, somehow counts for less on the ledger.
(The emissions did not vanish. They were exported, along with the responsibility.)
A nation congratulating itself for eating less British beef, while quietly eating more of everyone else's.
They didn't cut the harm. They moved it offshore and looked pleased with themselves.
Rev Simon Bowkett ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
A quarter of Britain's largest reed bed burned in a single day. The ground had been waterlogged for most of the year.
April 2020, the Inner Tay Estuary in Perthshire. Fire took 125 hectares of reed bed and needed nine fire appliances and a helicopter to stop.
The water beneath the reeds saved nothing. A wetland or moorland fire runs on the dead, dry vegetation standing on the surface. How soaked the peat below is barely comes into it.
Two things had loaded the gun:
- Winter cutting for thatch stopped 15 years earlier, leaving deep beds of standing dead reed
- The old patchwork of cut and uncut ground, which used to break a fire's run, had gone
As a result, Britain's largest bearded tit population was hit. Two marsh harrier nests were lost. Around 30 nests were burnt out, their broken shells found in the ash.
Rewetting manages the water. It does nothing about the fuel.
Rev Simon Bowkett ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Activist: "Farmers are millionaires sitting on land worth a fortune. They can afford the inheritance tax."
Farmer: "How much did I earn last year?"
Activist: "I don't know. A lot, surely."
Farmer: "Twenty-two thousand. Before the tractor broke."
Activist: "But the land's worth millions."
Farmer: "On paper. I can't eat the field or spend it. The only way to turn it into money is to sell it, and then I'm not a farmer, I'm a bloke who used to have a farm."
Activist: "So sell a corner of it."
Farmer: "A corner doesn't work as a farm. You can't run a suckler herd on the bit that's left after the taxman's had his slice. You sell one field, then the next bill comes, then another field. It ends one way."
Activist: "The land only costs that much because you won't sell it."
Farmer: "It costs that much because a hedge fund three counties over wants it for carbon credits and a footballer wants it for the view. Neither of them has ever calved a cow at three in the morning. They set the price. I get the bill."
Activist: "It's still an asset."
Farmer: "It's a workplace that happens to be expensive. You've decided the value of the shop is the same as the wage of the shopkeeper. Come back in February and watch me not be a millionaire in the rain."
