Karen Harrowing

Karen Harrowing

@klh2.bsky.social

Eclectic mix 🦋 🧠 🦋 45 years healthcare / pharmacy 📸 ❤️ blue skies, sunrises, sunsets & reflections

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APTUK
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📢 Tomorrow, 1–2pm! Join APTUK, GPhC's Damian Day and APTUK's Dr Gail Hall to explore new education standards and the proposed UK-wide pharmacy technician career pathway. Log to find out more: https://aptuk.org/events

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The Aural Apothecary
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Did you know that every drug-related death in the UK is carefully investigated? Dr. Caroline Copeland reveals how mortality data helps improve medicine safety and informs policy. It's eye-opening stuff! #medicinesafety #drugpolicy #publichealth #drugdeaths #pharmacology #healthstats #UKhealth

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Henry Mance
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... Recent studies say it's not true! See this from Xand Van Tulleken's Make Me Well:

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bathnewseum.bsky.social
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Pic of the day. Tuesday, September 29th I keep coming back to this character pub as being amongst the best florally decorated businesses in Bath. You'll find the Coeur de Lion - reckoned to be Bath's smallest alehouse - in Northumberland Place, just off the High Street.

bathnewseum.comPic of the day. Tuesday, September 29thI keep coming back to this character pub as being amongst the best florally decorated businesses in Bath. You'll find the Coeur de Lion - reckoned to be Bath's smallest alehouse - in Northumberland Place, just off the High Street.

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PrescQIPP CIC
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🌍💊 Happy World Pharmacist Day! 🎉 Today, we celebrate all the fabulous pharmacists out there supporting healthcare💚 Let's honor their hard work, compassion, and expertise! #WPD2026 #WorldPharmacistDay #PharmacyHeroes 💙✨

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Royal College of Pharmacy
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A message from Claire Anderson thanking all pharmacists and pharmacy teams across every care setting, who make a critical difference to patients' lives every day. Today, on World Pharmacists Day we celebrate the profession’s contributions to better health outcomes. #WPD2026

Karen Harrowing
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Interesting 🧐 … sad that this closure meant move of fashion museum & its new home also awaited … the Mineral Water Hospital also under redevelopment & famous Jolly’s shop still under wraps …. So many projects & so much scaffolding 🥴🫣 🤞it will all start to come together soon & city can shine

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Glimpses into lives of Roman surburbanites in Bath revealed in rare finds

theguardian.comGlimpses into lives of Roman surburbanites in Bath revealed in rare findsExclusive: Restoration work at Bath Assembly Rooms unearths Roman ditches containing pottery, coins and fragments of a military helmet The restoration of a Georgian building in Bath once frequented by Jane Austen has unexpectedly provided a tantalising glimpse into the life of the city’s Roman suburbanites. A network of Roman ditches containing pottery, coins, glassware and a fragment of a military helmet has been found beneath Bath Assembly Rooms in the north of the city. Continue reading...
Karen Harrowing
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Interestingly with all the news of a tapestry (embroidery) going from France to 🇬🇧… I was taken by this in Paris 🇫🇷 as depicted a woman demonstrating maths to a group of men

Karen Harrowing
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Good excuse to post this piece that represents William & Catherine Herschel’s work as a equal partnership … side by side comet sweepers

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When three stars align Bath's blessed with nearly as many museums as coffee shops, but l spent time yesterday visiting one which is a little out of the way....

bathnewseum.comWhen three stars alignBath's blessed with nearly as many museums as coffee shops, but l spent time yesterday visiting one which is a little out of the way. A modest little terraced Georgian townhouse from which astronomer William Herschel just happened to spot a new planet while out in the garden and surveying the heavens through his homemade telescope! Owned by Bath Preservation Trust and run as the Herschel Museum of Astronomy, it would seem the Trust has big plans for number 19 New King Street. More about that coming up.

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When three stars align Bath's blessed with nearly as many museums as coffee shops, but l spent time yesterday visiting one which is a little out of the way....

bathnewseum.comWhen three stars alignBath's blessed with nearly as many museums as coffee shops, but l spent time yesterday visiting one which is a little out of the way. A modest little terraced Georgian townhouse from which astronomer William Herschel just happened to spot a new planet while out in the garden and surveying the heavens through his homemade telescope! Owned by Bath Preservation Trust and run as the Herschel Museum of Astronomy, it would seem the Trust has big plans for number 19 New King Street. More about that coming up.

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Full Fact
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A long-running hoax claiming people are going door-to-door posing as “Home Affairs Officers” in order to rob houses is circulating again on social media. There’s no evidence this is actually happening.

fullfact.orgClaims people are posing as ‘Home Affairs Officers’ to rob houses are a hoax – Full FactPosts warning about people going door-to-door posing as “Home Affairs Officers” have been circulating in countries all over the world for years. There’s no evidence it’s actually happening in the UK.
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Here here 👏

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Pic of the day. Friday, August 21st Jacky Wilkinson writes: 'I took this shot in a small town in the southwest of France. This is a simple structure over a small supermarket forecourt....

bathnewseum.comPic of the day. Friday, August 21stJacky Wilkinson writes: 'I took this shot in a small town in the southwest of France. This is a simple structure over a small supermarket forecourt. It serves to generate electricity, collect rainwater and shelter shoppers. Structures like these are to be found in lots of places in France. No loss of top-grade farmland and everything to like. The UK has proportionally a lot less land to provide food and biodiversity, so why isn't the government encouraging this kind of initiative here?'

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Pix of the day. Friday, August 7th. Helena Hodges writes: "Good afternoon, Richard I was uncertain who to tell this to, until my friend mentioned you!...

bathnewseum.comPix of the day. Friday, August 7th.Helena Hodges writes: "Good afternoon, Richard I was uncertain who to tell this to, until my friend mentioned you! On my walk today up from Woolley to Charlcombe Farm, I was saddened to see that the old well has been buried in detritus  I attach pictures, one from Andrew Swift's book showing the well before the permitted road and mine from today. Hope you can highlight this and maybe it might be resurrected? Thank you." Thank you, Helena. Was this a health and safety issue? Does anyone know?
Karen Harrowing
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A little self indulgent post …. saddened to see this weathering of the fountain @bathprestrust.bsky.social

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Pix of the day. Thursday, August 6th Karen Harrowing has been in Bath and passed the Pieroni Fountain on Terrace Walk. She writes: "It was lovely to see the fountain working when we were out in Bath on Saturday. ...

bathnewseum.comPix of the day. Thursday, August 6thKaren Harrowing has been in Bath and passed the Pieroni Fountain on Terrace Walk. She writes: "It was lovely to see the fountain working when we were out in Bath on Saturday.  However, the state of the stonework was quite concerning, and I have attached some images to this email.  I am grateful for a Bath Newseum article from 2015* (Richard Wyatt cc) regarding the name of the fountain since it was hard to read the inscription. I wasn’t sure if this was a project BPT would support." It's true to say we don't exactly overdo a celebration of our waters - hot and cold.
Karen Harrowing
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Hard to believe that Bath, with all it’s history & buildings / roads named after Ralph Allen that we have lost our post office, postal museum & now it’s not even hosted in the centre 🤦‍♀️ www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryofth...

bbc.co.ukBBC - A History of the World - Object : Ralph Allen's Postal ContractA History of the World is a partnership between the BBC and the British Museum that focuses on world history, involving collaborations between teams across the BBC, and schools, museums and audiences ...
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What about our post office? bathnewseum.com/2026/07/24/w...

bathnewseum.comWhat about our post office?I am currently in London but was saddened to receive the following email from Dr Michael Pritchard. ”TG Jones, which was previously WH Smith, in Union Street, has signage up today announcing its cl…

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bathnewseum.bsky.social
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What about our post office? I am currently in London but was saddened to receive the following email from Dr Michael Pritchard....

bathnewseum.comWhat about our post office?I am currently in London but was saddened to receive the following email from Dr Michael Pritchard. ”TG Jones, which was previously WH Smith, in Union Street, has signage up today announcing its closure. A shame but not unexpected. The concern though is what happens to the only post office in Bath city centre when TG Jones does close. It’s always busy. Located on the upper floor, it was part of WH Smith, when it took over a lot of post offices, and before that in Northgate Street.” Will another retail outlet offer post offices space?n