Happy St George’s Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. It’s time to tell more positive stories of England. If progressives don’t try to define an inclusive sense of English identity, then we leave it to the far right to determine who does and doesn’t belong - and that could hardly be more dangerous #AnotherEngland

This is not wrong.

The stark contrast between plastic grass and real grass. One is devoid of life and shedding microplastics. The other is colourfully boosting biodiversity. More: www.littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/gra...

World food systems ‘pushed to the brink’ by extreme heat, UN warns

Must be fonet in the rich man's world

Any wonder popularity of English lit courses is collapsing? "In 2024 only 5% of students across England and Wales studied a whole text by a female author at GCSE, while even fewer studied one by an author of colour" www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Last day to register to vote in the upcoming elections! www.gov.uk/register-to-...

I saw a nice Great Blue Heron yesterday. I kept clicking as he departed and got a shot where the wings are perfectly concave. Fun, fun click to get! #birds #GreatBlueHeron

Three years ago today I got lucky with the weather at Achmelvich 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿☀️⛵️

The unfurling. And the glory of borrowed landscape! Neither of these beauties is mine - in fact they're in two different neighbours' gardens - but they're a perfect foil for each other & the glimpse of them over the fence adds another layer of depth to mine. Also - the light! What a joy! 🌱

Queen of the Night has joined the chat.🌱#bloomscrolling

Truth. 🌱

So many Roseate Spoonbill photos! This goofy one might be my favorite. :) #birds

A lot of today's social media is about as accurate as the bird was in the 60s. Although, given the current global bin fire, she might have a point.

Today’s poem is called ‘On Tender Hooks’.

This is amazing news for young people.

What I like best about the Artemis II photos is that it was taken by actual humans. An actual person had to frame it and manually adjust settings. It's their own artistic rendition of what they thought looked best at the time, something no probe, rover or unmanned spacecraft can take. it's art

This makes me mad. I bought my Kindle at the beginning of 2012. It's basic & it still works perfectly. I don't want to throw away something just to add to a mountain of electronic waste! And I won't be forking out for a new one that runs ads unless you pay even more. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍 A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon.

Anybody else watching 'The Other Bennett Sister' and shouted 'DON'T WIND!' at the fishing scene?

I have to admit, this made me tear up a bit. I'm a sentimental old fool.

Lovely #gardenersworld episode. Excellent to have normal service resumed on a Friday evening! Enjoy your gardening 🌱weekend - once #StormDave has blown through.

🌱My potato growing experiment this year is growing spuds in old compost bags. Bought a bag of potatoes at the supermarket and they were delicious so saved 4, currently chitting on the windowsill & will plant them up on Monday. Nothing ventured nothing gained! #gardenersworld

"It escalated fairly quickly!" Show me a gardener who can't say that! 😆 #gardenersworld

It's honestly kind of mind-blowing that this is the first time in over fifty years that anybody has been able to take a picture like this. Images of the earth are completely familiar to us, but a human hasn't pointed a camera at the whole planet for half a century.

Incredible. 'S upside down, btw - that's North Africa/Sahara on the left with Spain/Portugal below, so aurora borealis bottom right. What a photo - can't imagine how mind-blowing it must be to be in the capsule looking at it for real.

A medieval moated enclosure which is at least 500 years old has recently been identified by geophysical survey in the Scottish Borders and experts need your help to excavate the interior 🔍 Register for the free dig starting on 11 May—no experience required: www.digitscotland.com/events/excav...

This is so, so well-articulated.

Ahhh, not quite 9am on Good Friday and the rumble of power tools in the neighbourhood is already filling the air.

This is very, very cool.

The daisy, April’s birth flower, takes its name from the Old English “dæges ēage”, meaning “day’s eye”, for it opens with the light and closes again at dusk. Its Latin name, Bellis perennis, means “everlasting beauty”. #FolkloreThursday

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April’s full moon rises on 1st April 2026. It is known as the “Pink Moon”, not for its colour, but for the flowering of bright pink Phlox subulata, the creeping phlox that blooms across North America at this time of year. It is also called the Budding Moon, as spring now unfolds.

The world is about to witness the biggest tantrum in history

***LOOK WHO IS BACK*** several thousand Puffins have landed back on the Isle of May this morning! It’s good to have them back

🪶This just makes me chuckle. This crow found the alpaca wool feeder the other day & couldn't quite reach it. Sure enough, yesterday she'd unhooked it & dropped it on the ground to get to the fluff. I hung it up again & here she is this morning. Clever bird! Her babies will be toasty warm & comfy! 🦉

Important reporting from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social if you care about who is funding UK media: open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Running all my errands today & got petrol while I was at Sainsbury's. Diesel there was £1.61/ltr. Passed an Esso and a Shell on the way home, Esso: £1.85, Shell: £1.81 Tell me again how oil companies aren't profiteering from this war.

This is brilliant. ⬇️

Why should any political donations other than a standard annual party membership fee (say £25) be permitted? All other options allow wealthy people disproportionate political influence.

Hard to know which is more shocking - the dire warnings of the potential collapse of our food system in the UK or the fact that governments have tried to cover it up. Their complacency is off the scale. We urgently need to switch to growing more food domestically & to restore nature now

BREAKING: Political funding from British citizens living abroad should be capped at about £300,000 a year and donations in cryptocurrency temporarily banned, a government review has recommended.

25 March is Hilaria, the Roman festival of joy, honouring Cybele, Mother of the Gods, and celebrating the triumph of light after the spring equinox. As sap rose and buds unfurled, Romans rejoiced in spring’s return—winter’s death giving way to new life. A sacred day of renewal.

You can never have too much blue eyeshadow.

They should run stock market tickers below his speeches.

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘March’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt

One of the criteria for removal from the library was 'books that were not written for children'. The school goes up to year 11. So that's 16-year-olds told they can't read books for adults. That's the entire Eng Lit GCSE syllabus banned then