Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺

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#fbpe. 30 years running a small UK biz. Escaped to Europe recently. Rejoin SM, CU and EU for a healthy future for our children and grandchildren. Truth matters. If you are unnecessarily rude about #FBPE I will just block.

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Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· 18d

Selfie of me wearing Panama hat and blue sunglasses with my grey/white hair in plaits, on a sunny day, blue sky behind me.

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Mar 8

Happy international Women’s Day Feliz Día de la Mujer.

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Feb 7

So many beautiful observations but these two sections are so apt to what we are going through.

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Jan 26

Been thinking about these dark winter days.

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Jan 18

Each country put on food for everyone to try and some groups put on a performance. A celebration of our community, our entire community.

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Jan 18

There was a flag procession. Each country paraded their flag. Ukraine was represented and got massive applause. It was a wonderful event.

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Jan 18

Our local town (in Spain) organised a festival of nations. Many countries whose citizens live here were represented and this year I helped get a local British group involved for the first time. It was a beautiful event celebrating all the immigrants that help make the area where we live flourish.

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Jan 16

The authoritarian net is being cast ever wider.

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Jan 8

Seeing newish dodgy accounts trolling good people on here. I have blocked this one. Keep an eye out for them trying to drown out what’s right. This is one of our few online spaces full of good people.

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Jan 1

Happy new year to all the lovely #Butterflies. I wish you all the best

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Dec 9

Happy heavenly birthday my dear friend.

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Dec 8

What are we all worth?

How much are you worth?
What is the value of the kind smile on an anxious face?
Lines of worry and fear have left their scars.
But still a beaming grin of gratitude and relief.
A saved soul passing beyond mere survival.
Escaping the drudgery and terror of a life less lived
Now a new chance at drawing a line.
Experiencing life again as a human,
a member of a community which does not devalue or maim.
Its not a difficult wish in life, really.
It's not too much to ask of us.
A bare minimum of decency and empathy and human duty.
It's a Good Samaritan task. We learned how to do that when we were kids.
Altruism encouraged. How much is that worth now? Why did we forget?
How much is she worth?
The girl with the smoky eyes and the mysterious accent.
Attending to your granny's health woes
Being kind to grandad who doesn't even know who you are when you walk in the room.
But he knows who she is.
She's there for him every day.
She doesn't have time for Saturday Park Runs and Bitchy School WhatsApp groups.
She doesn't have mortgages or pension plans or gold-plated taps in her tiny flat.
But she is still a part of our whole.
As she shops in the supermarket humming with a smile on her face
Or as she goes quietly to respect her own God.
Even if that's a different one to yours.
How much is he worth?
The young surgeon whose name you can't quite remember or pronounce.
His value is obvious to you.
He works to save lives.
He works to care for his patients.
You can count it.
1000 saved lives this year to date.
Tax into the coffers. A house bought on the hill, a car in the driveway.
One less NHS vacancy to fill?
What about his dad though?
His father, who travelled across many lands, suitcase in hand, fleeing from trouble.
Worked on the land
for a crabby old farmer who used the workers to bump up his pension plan.
He was never a huge success. Not a loud, self-made man.
Just quiet and modest, Unremarkable.
Few chances at hand.
He died poor, but free to be himself and happy, if somewhat unsat…

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Dec 1

Preparando para una clase encontré este cuento sabio!

Había una vez cuatro individuos llamados: "TODO EL MUNDO",
"ALGUIEN", "NADIE" y
"CUALQUIERA".
Había un trabajo importante para hacer, "TODO EL MUNDO", , tenía
que hacerlo, pero no se preocupaba porque estaba seguro de que
"ALGUIEN"
, lo haría.
En realidad "CUALQUIERA" podía haberlo hecho pero finalmente
"NADIE" lo hizo. Cuando "NADIE" lo hizo, "ALGUIEN", se puso nervioso porque "TODO EL MUNDO", tenía el deber de hacerlo.
Al final de cuentas, "TODO EL MUNDO", le echó la culpa a
"ALGUIEN", cuando "NADIE" hizo lo que "CUALQUIERA" podría haber hecho.

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Nov 24

Indeed it’s all for show

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Nov 24

share a tv series you’ve watched from beginning to end more than once

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Nov 20

They estimate 2 million Spaniards left Spain during and after the Spanish civil war. People fleeing danger, leaving the repression of a dictatorship, seeking liberty, looking for a means to make a living. Some went back, some moved on never heard of again!

The Dock
A crying father stands on the dock
A child is weeping by his feet
The crew preparing to leave this land
The priest murmuring quietly, blessing voyagers in the summer heat
An elderly lady in widows weeds
Supported by daughter in law, a mother and wife Who is fearing the change happening in her life Or maybe it's a change for her husband, not her She still has the children, the responsibility, the poverty.
Will they all see each other again
The ships hull casts a shadow on this sunny day
Their real fears are masked by their tears of separation
A family not daring to admit what they really want to say.
Papa torn in two, leaving his land, his family Seeking something new
Making promises he may not keep But excited at the voyage ahead too
Will he see his 'gente' again?
Will he reach safe ground?
What will he find on the other side?
Adventure
Danger
Excitement
Loneliness
Riches
Freedom
Or just more pain?
Some form of this scene repeated again and again
Over decades
Sometimes the voyager returns with success
Triumphant, self confident, in control of their destiny
Sometimes never to be heard of afresh
Lost, letters stopped
Resulting in the living widows
Their status frozen forever by the not knowing
Fatherless children
Motherless orphans brought up by abuelas.
A community of emigrants
Separated from the love they left behind on the dock

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Nov 20

I wrote this poem a while back. It’s about the feelings inside people forced by circumstance to seek a life away from their people and homelands. I get so tired of the constant dehumanisation of immigrants.

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Nov 3

We need a concerted campaign to persuade the young to get out and vote in large numbers. We will never see significant change if they do not play their part in democracy. Politicians treat them like dirt because they don’t believe they will turn up to vote.

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Oct 23

Walking on Eggshells

And whilst we are at it, using religion to hide
the ugliness of souls convinced they alone represent the best side, Pretending they are superior beings, that's just deeply dark.
Wearing a nice suit doesn't make the words of the dangerous any less stark.
No need for jackboots to preach hate.
Not even any need to wrap up in flags to spread the vilest of ideologies, that's not debate.
Don't be fooled.
See it.
Recognise it.
Smell it.
Walk away from it.

Don't walk on eggshells.
The eggs are already broken.
All we can do
is stick to principles and state truth for our sanity and our children too.
These power hungry narcissists may take
the opportunity to create themselves a martyr.
We must stick to truth and facts without wavering and without barter
Stop letting them hog the jukebox
Before it's too late.
We need to find our courage fast!
Stop giving in to destiny or fate.
@redalphababe

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Oct 23

It’s complicated, a poem about a relationship with home

Mi Tierra
¿Cuál es mi tierra, mi propia tierra?
¿La tierra del alma que vive en mi corazón?
¿O la que vive en la memoria?
No sé cuál es.
¿Es la que vive en la sangre circulando por el cuerpo?
¿La que se encuentra en la ADN a nivel celular?
¿La de familia, de mis antepasados, padres, tios, abuelos?
¿ está donde vive la familia elegida, adoptiva, en el camino que sigo, durante cada nuevo capitulo de la vida?
¿Se encuentra mi tierra donde la vida es tranquila?
¿Dónde los paisajes hermosos levantan el corazón?
¿Qué evocan lágrimas en los ojos brillando con la emoción?
¿Mas bien está donde vive el amor, mi amor, el gran querido de mi vida?
¿Es la tierra de los seres queridos de mi sangre o la de familia que he creado yo misma?
¿Cuál es mi tierra, mi propia tierra?
mi única tierra?
¡Pues no lo sé!
•Pero sé que hay unos pocos lugares en el mundo que, para mí, aproximan!
Tal vez tenemos más que solo una tierra dentro de nosotros.

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Oct 5

Clutching at straws to hang on to their front page hatred for Angela Rayner. They think her family should take the bus perhaps …

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Oct 5

Tories approved by British newspapers see ICE in USA zip tying children and raiding apartments with a military helicopter and think “Yes, let’s have some of that”🤷🏼‍♀️

Sunday Express Newspaper front page saying ‘Tory ICE’ Force would deport 150,000 a year. Bold plan to tackle migrant crisis based on US agency” story is about Robert Jenrick announcing his ice style plan of deportation.

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Sep 30

The vileness of people! Over 1300 people selected the laughing emoji on a post about a child drowning. That’s over 15% of total reactions to the post. If these are your fellow travellers in Reform party supporters you maybe need to have a rethink about who exactly you want to be associated with!

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Sep 12

I would say I find this vile headline shocking but actually I don’t. Farage will jump on any old bandwagon, twist anything and everything to make stuff about him, about his own victimhood if possible, will use any opportunity to target another group and point to them and say ‘it’s their fault’!!!

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Sep 11

This vile quote tells you who Charlie Kirk was. However his murder is useful only to Trump and his far right sycophants who are absolutely indulging in making the man a martyr. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Sep 10

It’s the first time in ages I have seen any media site do some responsible management of the comments under an article on SM. People have literally been writing whatever racist crap they like believing it to be consequence free for ages now on all media accounts. Well done @liverpoolecho.co.uk

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Sep 4

Un pasatiempos mío es escribir poesía pero normalmente en inglés. Este verano he decidido intentarlo en español.

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Sep 1

So it seems that not many people have been fooled by the ‘windmills’ after all though you would think judging by UK media hyperbole in recent weeks that civil war was raging.

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Sep 1

Tilting at windmills . That’s what the far right idiots get their minions to do, tilt at windmills. Extract below from Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes.

“Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise from that plain. And no sooner did Don Quixote see them that he said to his squire, ‘Fortune is guiding our affairs better than we ourselves could have wished. Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them. With their spoils we shall begin to be rich for this is a righteous war and the removal of so foul a brood from off the face of the earth is a service God will bless.’

‘What giants?’ asked Sancho Panza.

‘Those you see over there,’ replied his master, ‘with their long arms. Some of them have arms well nigh two leagues in length.’

‘Take care, sir,’ cried Sancho. ‘Those over there are not giants but windmills. Those things that seem to be their arms are sails which, when they are whirled around by the wind, turn the millstone.’”

Extract from Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes

Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺@pilargomez· Aug 17

It’s Hitler youth! What a pathetic and ignorant man.