If ever I take a break from writing to look at the news, I read the headlines and scurry back to my novel - (set in a future in which we are ending war, capitalism, racism, the climate emergency, the war on nature). 🌳🦅🦋🐳🐝 #solarpunk #fiction #booksky

Beautiful morning walk on the beach, lots of spider crabs and seaweed, including kelp, washed up. Also sadly plastic lids (picked up) and onions (!) from a container spill further east. #beachfinds @sussexwildlife.bsky.social @sussexkelp.bsky.social

I was a teenager when I saw David Bowie at Aylesbury on the Ziggy Stardust tour. I went with my friend Steve who had bright green hair and platform boots. I next saw him at Earls Court in 1978. He was an inspiration, a courageous and vibrant artist who made it ok to be different. #bowieforever ⭐️

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Horrific. 😢 I’d like to live in a world where we don’t torture our fellow wild creatures for ‘sport’. #raptors www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Cold but beautiful walk along a still river Arun, low golden light. Red kites, lapwings and a great egret flying overhead. #westsussex @sussexwildlife.bsky.social #winterwalks

A project to protect river animals by eradicating mink has seen the East of England become the only place in Britain where water vole populations are increasing... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Looking forward to this! #Bowie www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

“Housing developers in this country have a track record of pushing back against requirements that enhance energy performance of homes. We have seen this with insulation, heat pumps and other technologies. Ultimately, it will be to the detriment of the homebuyer.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Lovely to see a little flock of turnstones on Goring beach as the tide was going out. #shorebirds @sussexornitholo.bsky.social @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Love this beautiful healthy Ash tree at Bignor Hill. Happy New Year! 💚 #lovetrees #wintertrees #westsussex

A gloriously frosty #CissburyRing Blue sky, warm sun and thick white mist over the river Adur. My favourite oak tree on the summit. Happy New Year’s Eve! #wintertrees @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Please donate to this important project by Northumberland Wildlife Trust if you can. @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social #rewilding #restorenature #curlews #rothburyestate www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...

Currently reading this - part of research for a novel I’m writing. It’s long, well written and so far completely fascinating. #goliathscurse #booksky #research

For several years squirrels have eaten around a third of the camellia buds but for some reason they’ve stopped and now it’s covered in flowers and buds. #gardening

Something lovely for the weekend! Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age 💙 Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago. 📷 National Museum of Denmark #Archaeology

'It was Christmas Eve, babe In the drunk tank An old man said to me "Won't see another one"' www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jb...

The glorious #HighdownGardens today. Sky is a beautiful blue - snowdrops and hellebores coming out. We’re lucky that this chalk pit garden is free to enter and open every day of the year. #Worthing #gardens

For anyone else in need of some beauty, light, colour and wonder - here are stained glass windows by the artist #MarcChagall at Tudeley church in Kent. #stainedglass

Looks like fun! #coldwaterswimming #Worthing

Happy #WinterSolstice everyone! (and especially to those who are fighting for a better world.) #abetterworldispossible #peace #climatejustice

I’ve been trying to recover from a nasty virus for a while but today I remembered to listen to Cherry Coloured Funk by the #CocteauTwins (from Heaven Las Vegas) and it completely lifted my mood. Elizabeth Fraser is a beautiful magician with words. youtu.be/566w9f5wrWs?...

Return of the Soul..., 2008, installation by Jane Frere, inspired by the plight of Palestinian refugees #womensart

The sun going down on the shortest day. Happy #wintersolstice ! #thelightreturns

On the subject of #hares - I’m currently reading this beautiful memoir by Chloe Dalton. It’s as good as everyone says, magical, moving and uplifting but also describes the many dangers they face, including from shooting and farm machinery, as well as their natural predators. #raisinghare #booksky

Progress. Shooting hares in England will be banned for most of the year. Hares are shot for meat, for fun, and because some landowners in the countryside believe it’s overpopulated with them. #Hares in England & Wales have declined by 80% over the past century. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

FOURTH White-tailed Eagle disappears - RSPB offers reward for information leading to a conviction for this one or any of the other three. New blog ⬇️⬇️ #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/f...

The UK just committed £22bn to carbon capture and storage – a tech with an 80% failure rate that lets oil & gas greenwash their emissions. At this CCS conference, most speakers repped fossil fuel companies. Share if you think it's absurd we're funding tech that protects fossil fuel profits 🙃

Absolutely shocking. We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases. We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.

REMINDER - there is a fully funded bursary place available for my Six Month Writing Course in association with @gladlib.bsky.social The Deadline is 7th January. www.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/the-si...

😢 So tired of hearing these stories of #raptorpersecution. I’ve seen these eagles flying over the river Arun it’s such an amazing sight. 🦅 One of the missing is a chick born in West Sussex. In September its tag was found in the River Rother, it had been cut off. The chick has not been found.

I came here to post this as I can't believe it doesn't already have 10,000 signatures - please sign and share! So vital and so utterly crazy that this has to be petitioned for. #climatesky

The Hazel tree I planted three years ago is still hanging on to its beautiful autumn colours. The Camellia is flowering a month earlier than usual. Autumn merging into Spring. #strangewinter #climatechange #gardening #lovetrees

Really enjoyed #DownCemeteryRoad - great to have #EmmaThompson and #RuthWilson as the two powerful women leads and loved #FehintiBalogun (who is also a climate activist) #NathanStewartJarrett and #AdeelAkhtar in it too. tv.apple.com/gb/show/down...

Love this 💚🌳

"This record is not just for me--it is for our trees, our climate, and our future.” – Truphena Muthoni

Brand new on the blog today - please read and share and see how you might be able to support: "Poets for the Planet are currently setting up an event to raise not just awareness of the underreported ecocide in Gaza, but to raise funds for PENGON" #poetrysky poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/if-there-are...

The sky this evening. A week until the solstice - then the light starts to return #sky #wintersolstice

From the 'Shared Sky' exhibition by Indigenous #Australian painter Barbara Merritt #WomensArt #December14th #Peace🕯

If we are to survive what is coming, let alone to flourish, then we desperately need the kind of strategic adaptation that false optimism leaves unfunded or even sneered at. As a small gesture towards such adaptation, please sign and share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... Thank You…

Bootsy says Happy #Caturday! #catsky #writerscats

Hi ☺️ it’s Benji here 👋 I hope people will see my artwork and remember to care for nature 💚 I’m trying to raise money for charity by selling cards and prints of my artwork. Every single card really makes a difference 🥰 Please share 🙏thanks so much ❤️ benjaminfallow.etsy.com

Great to find my a copy of my novel in the lovely independent Arundel bookshop, Crow Road Books. If you’re buying books for presents please choose independent bookshops whenever you can. #independentbookshops #ourpreciousearth #booksky

Good morning, please can you share this petition by @peatfree.bsky.social to end peat sales - all previous petitions were for the Conservative Government, and we're now close to making this law with Labour so peat habitat can never be used again actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...

Turning point was the discovery of two fragments of iron pyrite, a naturally occurring mineral that creates sparks when struck against flint. Fire becomes a hub for social interactions, for food sharing, for the development of language, for early storytelling. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Beautiful day on the beach #beachwalks #sandpatterns #worthing

There have NEVER been ‘unrestricted’ taxis for asylum seekers. Travel to medical appointments has ALWAYS required Home Office approval. Many of the people we support miss urgent care because they can't get there. UK Gov must stop scapegoating people for its poor management ➡️ tinyurl.com/fzsk3aen

Great news! Following the successful reintroduction of the birds to the Knepp estate in Sussex, the species will be helped back to the city in a project that will also return beavers to flooded former gravel pits in Eastbrookend Country Park, Dagenham. #rewilding www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Check it out!! Hodder & Stoughton have an open submission window for all fiction genres. Get in quick. Details in link. Please share :)