A Brit in the semis of Wimbledon, England still in the World Cup and Nigel Farage spending the summer arguing with a bin. Oh this happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea

Well it’s all a bit Curley due to an early aphid attack but the lady birds finished them off and now the first flower is popping 😍 #Bloomscrolling #GardensHour #FlowersOnWednesday #flowers

The Roadmakers (1967) Building the M1 Motorway Artist: John Berry

Perfect. A joke candidate vs Count Binface. #BinFarage

Game on, Nige.

For the first time on record, the #ArcticCircle crossed a temperature that once felt almost impossible for such a frozen region: above 38°C. A place many imagine as endless ice, snow, and cold winds suddenly touched a number usually associated with scorching deserts #ClimateEmergency #oilandgas

Colombia v Switzerland being referred to as Charlie v The Chocolate Factory.

This is the moment for a unity anti-Farage candidate to come forward. And everyone else to step aside.

The irony of this man talking about his safety being under threat by investigative journalism when he actively stokes race riots.

This is so good. It's the norm for every other human-influenced catastrophe and should be the norm for climate! - Centres human choice to burn fossil fuels - Uses images that depict the reality of heat disasters rather than imagined fun - Doesn't bury either down in the 15th paragraph

Excellent ep! Very much enjoying seeing a garden being built from scratch. Those roses were stunning, too. Enjoy your gardening #gardenersworld peeps!

Don't think I've ever seen a Carol segment I didn't like - she just makes everything so accessible. Love that little plot! #Gardenersworld

Oooh, I scored a free delphinium today. It was on the tlc shelf at B&Q when I went for compost and they couldn't find the proper barcode, so just put it through for free. A good drink and it'll be fine. All these planting tips are very useful! #gardenersworld

If you enjoy a bit of bindweed clearing, pop round here, Adam. I've got plenty to entertain you! #GardenersWorld

🌱 BBC4 or iPlayer for #GardenersWorld tonight, folks. 9pm. Some football thing on, apparently.

I love summer but if I never smell another barbecue it will be too soon.

What a unit!

Labour Should ditch ‘net zero’. Not our legally binding targets or the goal of a low carbon economy. Just the phrase. Labour’s new leader has a unique opportunity to look again at everything. There’s no bigger issue or opportunity than net zero.

A wall in the hot, July sun. Artist: CF Tunnicliffe What to Look for in Summer, 1960

🌊Average global sea surface temperatures reached a new June record in 2026, surpassing the previous June records set in 2023 and 2024. This animation shows sea surface temperature anomalies across the world's oceans, with dark red indicating sea surface temperatures up to 6°C above average.

Just in from the garden 🌱 and the latest skirmish in the Battle of the Bindweed. (Winning, I think.🤞🏼)I'm guessing there was a football game on, judging by the roars and now drunken singing drifting over from the playing field clubhouse?

We need people to drop less rubbish.

I've fallen down a Good Life rabbit hole. Penelope Keith really was magnificent. Can't imagine anyone else as Margo or Audrey fforbes-Hamilton.

The Ladybird Look. The ubiquitous headscarf over freshly set hair (And in memory of the late, great Penelope Keith) Artist-: Kenneth Inns (1967)

An episode of The Good Life will be shown on BBC Two this evening in tribute to Dame Penelope Keith.

As further data from our observation network has been made available over the weekend, the provisional new UK highest June temperature on record is 37.7°C at Lingwood, Norfolk. 🌡️

WORLD RECORD BROKEN IN GERMANY ! The MINIMUM of 29.4C at Kubschütz IS HOTTEST NIGHT EVER RECORDED IN THE WORLD above 50 latitude ! This is getting ridiculous, we are breaking 2 world records a day ...

From Science Now magazine in 1982. We knew this was coming 45 years ago, that burning fossil fuels was a recipe for disaster both for the climate and world food security, and yet we've done so little to stop it. And now we're upping the ante, adding destructive data centres to the mix. Insanity.

Shouldn't we consider providing our ancient trees with the same level of protection as listed buildings? hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-0...

Excellent thread

We're on a peninsula in Gosport, surrounded on 3 sides by sea. You'd think that might help keep the temp down but no. I really, really hope that this might finally be the wake up call that makes people take climate change seriously.

From yoghurt to luxury sails: how to shade your home from supercharged UK heatwaves

We were sitting around playing drawing games last night and I saw some gigantic creature slowly plow through the moth sheet and I was like what the fuck was that?! Oh, just a beaver dragging a branch straight through the moth sheet. Sheets are of no importance to beaver.

Someone just called the reflecting pool the "strait of warm ooze" and now my friends, I am dead.

After 3 years of waiting, precise planning, and perfect timing, Leonardo Sens captured this once in a lifetime shot Original post

Temu OJ shit right here

This (tone deaf picture selection) has been going on for years (decades). A few years ago an academic tried to get a campaign going about it, urging picture editors to do better. Actually, it's not tone deaf, it's brain-dead. Sigh.

If rumours are to be believed I'll be living with a seventh different Prime Minister shortly. If it carries on like this I'm going to stop making the effort to learn their names.

I was a teenager when the June high temperature record was set back in the Summer of 1976. 50 years on and I'll see it smashed by as much as four degrees. This is not normal.

“When once the sun sinks in the west, And dew-drops pearl the evening's breast; Almost as pale as moonbeams are, Or its companionable star, The evening primrose opes anew Its delicate blossoms to the dew;” – from the poem ‘The Evening Primrose’ by Emily Brontë (1818-1848)

Hoping the heat doesn't get to the callicarpa blossom which is just coming out. It's absolutely loaded this year. Last winter a pair of blackcaps snaffled all the berries in about a week. There should be at least twice as many for them this year! 🤞🏼🌱

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT “NORMAL SUMMER WEATHER” FOR THE UK — ESPECIALLY IN JUNE! (Record is 35.6°C) We are seeing the effects of climate change due to human activity playing out. Image is the latest Met Office forecast for London

Ok, Met Office app now going for 39C in Berkshire. This is going to be historic. Again.

👇 Climate change heatwaves like the one last month and next week will make any kind of spring-summer fieldwork difficult, except in early mornings/evenings. Ok for bird surveys before 8 am, but butterfly/pollinator protocols specify hottest time of day (10am to 5pm). Next week that will be 35C.

Halnaker tree tunnel in Sussex is a hollow way, or just Holloway Created by 2,000 years of traffic on the original Roman Road from London to Chichester Stane Street is the modern name of the road from Londinium (London) to Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester)

I wanted a Spirograph sooo badly when I was a kid. I had the much less expensive Spirotot - an early version with just the 3 concentric rings. Loved it and played with it loads. Still have it, in fact.🌀🍥🎯But the Spirograph was the holy grail I never found.

Walking through London after a night out

What is overlooked in the BBC Radio 4 cuts is a simple fact: 94% of people use BBC content but only 80% of people are paying for it. Until that funding gap is closed through Government charter negotiation, cuts like these are inevitable.

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

They're moving the Friday edition of Newsnight to 7pm on BBC2. They had better not be interfering with #gardenersworld and Beechgrove Garden to do that. 🤨 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...