Almost any building, school, or parking lot could be turned into a #solarpower plant and provide #cleanenergy for our cities and homes. RT if think more buildings should get a #solar upgrade. #ActOnClimate #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #GreenNewDeal #renewable #energy

These seasonal books are beautiful, lovely to read with small children, and make lovely gifts:

Been looking forward to this one.

What’s the tiresome task in your workplace, that they give you when you’ve come in late again or they’re fed up with your awful jokes? On a plant nursery it’s “go and untangle the Clematis tunnel”

I quite like how weird and stupid my brain is, but I do consider repeatedly waking up at 4.45am with an ear worm of Onward Christian Soldiers a drawback

“English apple blossoms always lift my spirit. My grandfather dreamed of having an orchard when he was a prisoner during WW II; it helped him to have hope and survive. Apple trees & orchards are not just for fruit, they are for our mental health and our joy all year long,”-our Patron, Mark Rylance

Diagonal daffodils in the shops again:

Love this stuff: a book review providing tantalising glimpses of everyday socioeconomic history:

Some great examples of community food projects here: an uplifting read – justfact.co.uk/projects/

🥁UK folk. The peoples’ film screening of the Nov 2025 Westminster Climate Emergency Briefing is coming to a venue near you soon. We need to listen, learn, feel, think, & act together to stop the worst of climate & nature harm & build a safer, fairer, happier world for all. @nebriefing.bsky.social

Many people are still lovely and good.

Diagonal daffodils in the shops again:

🚨New speaker announced! 💥Only 10 places left - register now to avoid disappointment: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Seven Days Left on the iPlayer for anyone wanting to argue and fall in love with Roger Livesey in a rainstorm

#BookSky Currently Reading: The Children's Book by A S Byatt. Love a novel where the characters think about politics and the arts – this one is stuffed full of Fabians and creative people in the late 1800s/early 1900s. It's long, populous, detailed, occasionally unwieldy, and I'm loving it

The first bluebell in flower, in local woods, spotted this morning for #WildflowerHour

#storyplants A sad story - no flowers this year on this dwindling fragment population of wild daffodils; likely too shaded by the tall woodland which has grown up around them. A little clearing, to let some sunshine in, may be in order! #WildflowerHour

Choosing some Anne Cotterill cards to send as Easter cards or with Springtime greetings, from Mill House www.millhousefineart.com/special-offers I love her beautiful paintings of bunches of wild flowers in old jugs and jars:

She was called a late bloomer-but what if Helen Bradley had been an artist all along? I came across her work by chance and found something much more interesting. A new piece on her life and paintings. open.substack.com/pub/stillske...

Don't listen if you want to avoid the earworm, but this is marvellous thank you @notrock.bsky.social

My vote for Worst Hold Music goes to HMRC

The UKBMS Spring Newsltter is out now! Bringing you seasonal updates about the UKBMS. In this edition we have reminders to get you ready for the start of the season, a dayflying moth ID resource and opportunities to help monitor priority species. ukbms.org/sites/defaul...

Hurrah it is Wednesday and the sun is shining and the weasels are dancing. Today to Paul Simon and Me and Julio. Dance like a weasel you know you want to. #weaselwednesday

Illustrations from the poem. Written by William Roscoe for his ten children as a celebration of the birth of his youngest son Robert.

Also, a good time to repost Sharon's explanation on why using the term "leaks" is misleading. Most of the methane released in the oilfields is intentional.

Breaking Bread | connect, share food, and build lasting friendships Breaking Bread is an initiative from Ambios to bring people together from diverse backgrounds to shares meals, company and friendship

This will be super interesting, if you've never been to Wytham woods, these talks at Oxford's Natural History Museum @morethanadodo.bsky.social on Saturday will certainly inspire you to go! @ox.ac.uk @ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk

The #WildflowerHour theme this week is #WhiteFlowers. Just in time, single Wood Anemones are beginning to appear here and there on the woodland floor.

Siskin, redpoll, goldfinch and greenfinch all gather at the #Feeders for today’s. Apparently a gathering like this when feeding is termed a mixed flock aggregation. #BirdOfTheDay #nature #photography #birds

My letter in the Guardian countering an article by a pro-growth lobbyist from Britain Remade attacking environmental legislation “Ecologists & conservationists would be surprised by his claim that the UK doesn’t & never will build enough to drive nature loss” 1/2 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What You Can Do About UK Enterprise Zones Labour’s Industrial Strategy Zones are accelerating the transformation of British democracy into corporate fiefdoms. Here’s what you need to know and what you can do about it. open.substack.com/pub/european...

Seeing where the BTO tagged cuckoos are, and how they're getting on, is one of the more wholesome ways to spend time noodling about on the Internet:

#WildflowerHour #SignsofSpring Sun shining through the first leaves of the bluebell plants coming up in the woods; Also Lords and Ladies with their distinctive arrowhead-shaped leaves

Spring has sprung & buds are beginning to burst into #blossom. At least they are here in Cornwall A good time to remind myself of the differences between Blackthorn & Cherry Plum...explained beautifully in this great blog post by @badbotanist.bsky.social 🌿 badbotanist.wordpress.com/2019/03/08/b...

I have some free AI training for you. Ready? AI is not only absolutely shit, but it is also killing the planet. Stop using it! Thank you for attending my free AI training.

Important terms for World Book Day Abibliophobia: fear of running out of reading matter Tsundoku 🇯🇵: letting books pile up without reading them Librocubicularist: a person who reads in bed Déjá-lu: you’re reading something you have already read Bibliobibuli: someone who reads alot/drunk on books

This lovely review by @radzpandit.bsky.social reminded me how much I want to read Joanna Pocock’s Greyhound:

"The prison is too well-organized. Have you considered a warehouse surrounded by alligators?"

Celendine finally in flower in the woods #wilflowerhour

Cherry Plum (with reflexed sapals!) #wildflowerhour

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

Goodnight from Ashcourt Borough Council, where tonight’s meeting has been disrupted by angry calls to tackle the worsening phantom tram problem. Goodnight from the River Stannis, swollen with rain and a desire to break its banks in revenge for pesticide pollution. Goodnight from Hookland.

There is a need for an immediate market garden support scheme, in time to stop hundreds of small farms and decades of horticultural knowledge disappearing just when it’s most needed. communitysupportedagriculture.org.uk/small-farms-...

Charles Keeping’s distinctive children’s book illustrations - here, in Rosemary Sutcliff’s Knight’s Fee, Randal leaves Arundel with his new master. Keeping’s artwork is instantly recognisable; Sutcliff’s landscape writing is deceptively simple and evocative:

Next bit of madness The removal of the species rich grassland offer Oh dear lord where do I start? Firstly species rich grasslands are rare And that means there aren’t very many of them… (Dear god, this is stupid) Hence the ‘moderate uptake’ Because ‘RARE’!!! Ffs

This is a super resource for anyone trying to build their understanding of plant assemblages - particularly for ecologists carrying out habitat surveys. Heartily recommended!

Community ownership of community assets | Exeter Greens put people centre Secure and lasting outcomes with community control, that's what the Exeter Greens are proposing for the city through their budget amendments.

@valarie.bsky.social you might like to read @lyzzybee.bsky.social on Murdoch, her enthusiasm is infectious!

Reminded of this today…

Also, we solved Wuthering Heights back in October so all this chat is completely unnecessary. @backlisted.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/251...