There's a recording of her reading the whole poem on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LioR... Also available on Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/5cu9by...

St. Laurence's Church at the furthest east end of Wicken village, a view brightened on a dull afternoon by Snowdrops. #SteepleSaturday

Cat’s-ear, Hypochaeris radicata. Hairy basal rosette. Leaves 4-25cm long and narrowed to indistinct petiole. Leaves bristly hairy sometimes with brownish-based hairs on midrib (as shown here)

Obligator photo of the wind pump at NT Wicken Fen this afternoon. #Wickenfen #Cambs @nationaltrust.org.uk @midsandeastnt.bsky.social

In Wicken Cambridgeshire today. As sun went down visited the church yard. Pretty sure left photo is (7-spot?) Ladybird pupa but what's going on on the right? Resting snails? ~2mm long. I need advice please from regular tombstone watchers! 🤔 @vannabartlett.bsky.social @jeremybartlett.bsky.social

Here is a bit of a necro-botany (if there is such a thing) challenge…..anybody want to hazard a guess?

Purple Toadflax, Linaria purpurea. Erect, round stems, often purplish towards base. Leaves mostly in whorls of 5. Glaucous leaves 4-6mm wide and up to 4cm long. First recorded in the wild in 1834

Jelly Spot #fungus, Dacrymyces stillatus in @cambridgeppf.bsky.social Wandlebury Woods #FungiFriday

A fungus with a friend: What I think is Netted Crust, Byssomerulius corium, on a dead branch fallen on flowering Stinking Hellebore, Helleborus foetidus. At @cambridgeppf.bsky.social Wandlebury Woods near #Cambridge yesterday. #Fungi #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

The speaker for the next NNNS talk will be Dr Stuart Newson, who will be talking about how developments in sound recording and technology can contribute to monitoring and conservation. It's on Tue 10th Feb 2026 at 19:30, free to attend and all welcome. norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/events-pa...

Perfume vessel (balsamarium) Bronze (copper alloy) c. 300-200 BCE The vessel is in the form of a female head. Found at Vulci in Etruria, #Italy Now Fitzwilliam Museum, #Cambridge #MetalworkThursday #Etruscan / #Roman #FindsFriday

Around 99% of all species to have existed on Earth are now extinct, find out more as Dolly Jørgensen shares insights from her book 'Ghosts Behind Glass', exploring how museums display extinct species. 11 Feb 2026, 7pm Tickets FREE, please book https://ow.ly/5EsK50XWE6X

I think these are the remains of Felt Galls on leaves of a Holm Oak, Quercus ilex, made by #gall mite Aceria ilicis. Much easier to see on wet upper surface than beneath. In the rain at @cambridgeppf.bsky.social Wandlebury Woods near #Cambridge today.

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Inside Wandlebury’s clock tower are names carved over centuries — including marks from the eve of both World Wars. Our latest blog explores the cupola’s hidden history and why careful conservation matters. 📖 https://cambridgeppf.org/wandlebury-cupola-repairs/ #Wandlebury #Heritage #Conservation

Explore Wandlebury’s habitats & wildlife with a guided walk led by a Warden! 🌿 Sat 17 Jan, 10.30am–12.30pm. Free event, donations welcome. Meet at the large noticeboard near the car park. Book or just turn up: https://cambridgeppf.org/etn/woodlands-and-wildlife-2/ #WildlifeWalk #NatureLovers

Pineappleweed, Matricaria discoidea. Pineapple scented when crushed. Much-branched, up to 35cm. Bristle tipped, yellowish-green leaflet lobes.

Doorway of the church of St Mary the Virgin, Fen Ditton #Cambridge, with walls of 'Barnack stone and rubble with clunch and limestone dressings' making them look like biscuit. Note dog bowl and boot scraper with handle that makes it avoidable in the dark. #AdoorableThursday

Great advice here which I hope users will adopt. I verify records and often have to look at uncroped phone pics with a tiny dot in the centre that I'm supposed to identify. I've had to discard recs from my database as grid ref given as 2 letters with no numbers.

Hyoscyamus niger, the nonnative invasive Black Henbane, blooming at the location of the historic Webster townsite. Noxious Weed List B #FallBackFlowers #FallBack to July 14 🌿

Please read this important information if you are planning to visit Foxburrow Nature Reserve over the next few weeks, as road access from the A12 is not available🌿

Henry Ogg Forbes https://bionomia.net/Q1349901 collected the holotype PENTAPHYLACACEAE: Adinandra forbesii Baker f. in Papua New Guinea https://gbif.org/occurrence/1055986918 #TypeSpecimenToday

Stark contrast in styles. #WindowsOnWednesday #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk

A wall with questions. How did it start? Is there a foundation? Why in the battle amongst the flints, bricks and stones in the lower half did stones win at the top? And who was 'FRC 1866' on the inscribed block? 🤔 Perimeter wall Abbey Gardens #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk #WallsOnWednesday

Join Peter Grant FLS FRS & Rosemary Grant FRS on Wed 4 March as they discuss their landmark research on Darwin’s finches and how new species form. Peter and Rosemary are renowned evolutionary biologists, having studied these finches on the Galápagos islands since 1973. buff.ly/ZbYnmf2

Jimsonweed, Datura stramonium #flower #nightshade

I've registered for this webinar "Taxonomy: What is it good for?" by @sandyknapp.bsky.social, the story of the mega-genus #Solanum. (Note that 12pm ET = 5pm (17:00h) GMT) Here's a rather mini member of that mega-genus. 😉

Join @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social for the first webinar in our 2026 series: "Taxonomy: What is it good for?" Free to all! Join us to hear @sandyknapp.bsky.social's "Of course taxonomy matters! The story of the mega-genus Solanum (Solanaceae)" Pls register & share: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Sycamore in the snow (remember that?!) in Abbey Gardens with ruins in the background #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk. #ThickTrunkTuesday

Today is #PloughMonday and here are Molly Dancers outside Holy Trinity Church in #Cambridge.

Plough Monday, and the fields are waiting for us. Whatever tasks call you today, may you have the energy, focus, and resources to tackle them and prevail.

Lesser Celandine, Ficaria verna. Rosettes of long-stalked leaves, glossy and heart-shaped. Leaves up to 4cm often with darker or lighter markings above, paler below. Petiole has 2 channels.

The Main Reading Room at the University Library is closed today (Monday, January 12th) due to a heating issue. Contractors are on-site to resolve the problem, and we are working to minimise the disruption.

Memorial stone in the cathedral cloisters #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk. I crept through the Latin & internet to get: Michael Thomas Becher 26/6/1762 - 3/1/1809, Eton & King's College, Cambridge. BA 1786, MA 1789. Headmaster Bury St Edmunds Grammar School 1787-1809. But what is 'C.L.A.M.' ? 🤔

Scanning the Docwra Collection of early C20th photos at Dunwich Museum, UK, is yielding fresh images of ship's ballast in the walls of now-vanished All Saints' Church; also geological specimens & palaeoliths now sadly missing from the collection - also a bizarre rubble pic which begs interpretation!

"For decades now, officers have been trained that they can avoid being run over if they just don’t position themselves in a vehicle’s path of travel." I fear some people with guns will always make their own rules. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Memorial stone in the cathedral cloisters #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk. I crept through the Latin & internet to get: Michael Thomas Becher 26/6/1762 - 3/1/1809, Eton & King's College, Cambridge. BA 1786, MA 1789. Headmaster Bury St Edmunds Grammar School 1787-1809. But what is 'C.L.A.M.' ? 🤔

Cleo has just been on Antiques Roadshow. Hands up who remembers this! ✋ youtu.be/0haSd0ZCMxM

Surviving the snow, freeze and thaw on walls in Abbey Gardens #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk Red Dead-nettle and Aubretia. The latter long naturalised but only just coming into flower. #WildflowerHour

In hedging at #Cambridge North station Hazel male catkins and white female flowers! 🤍 #WildflowerHour

Amongst planted Cotoneasters in the car park at #Cambridge North station some Narrow-leaved Ragwort, Senecio inaequidens, sill in flower. #WildflowerHour

We went to Hunstanton today, so I thought I'd make a representative art installation for you all. From the bottom up: carstone, red chalk, white chalk. You're welcome. #Norfolk

Interessante trend tijdens Floron Eindejaars #plantenjacht: voor het eerst staat Hoge fijnstraal (Erigeron sumatrensis) hoger in lijst dan Canadese fijnstraal (Erigereon canadensis), vooral door opmars Hoge fijnstraal, die stond nog niet eerder hoger dan deze editie (positie 12).

Common Stork’s-bill, Erodium cicutarium. Basal rosette of finely cut leaves. Leaves up to 18cm with 4-7 pairs of leaflets that are in turn deeply cut. Leaflets and petiole hairy.

The leaves of Yellow Flame Flower, Tropaeolum ciliatum, at Fen Ditton #Cambridge looking well this afternoon despite the recent cold weather. Clambering through a hedge in a sheltered corner where the plant has survived for several years. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Botany.

As the church of St Mary the Virgin at Fen Ditton is close to the River Cam perhaps it's no surprise that the weathervane depicts a coxed eight. #SteepleSaturday

The arithmetics of glacial till from the Suffolk plateau: Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay + Cretaceous Chalk + Pliocene Crag + Pleistocene erratics from W Midlands, E Midlands, Pennines, Northumbria, Scotland, N Sea, etc, mashed under a colossal ice sheet = the Lowestoft Till. It's a beast of a deposit.

"Consideration had been given as to whether his wife and children’s circumstances outweigh the interests of national and border security”. An absolute joke. What interests of national and border security will there be served in preventing this family reunion?

Framed by two Native Black Poplars the church of St Mary the Virgin at Fen Ditton seen across the River Cam. #SteepleSaturday

Stuston Common today - part golf course, part scrubbed-up zone where sandy soil meet clayland and nobody manages the land: natural reversion after 1000+ years of commons management and subsistence care. The story of C20th forgetting: no grazing and not managed for #biodiversity. Manorial waste.