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My late neighbour told me that, as a child in the 1920s, pewits (as they are called round here) nested in the field where our house now is (and the field behind) and there were so many, they would also take eggs from the nests in the same way.

Amazing 🌱🌿

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Sunrise, sunset Sunrise, sunset Swiftly flow the days 📷 @morningoak.bsky.social

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Polls suggest that Reform support may have peaked, perhaps because it appeals only to a very distinctive, and noisy, minority | Stephen McNair

Aurora: red alert 😂

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Laozi says: ... rule a country through happiness and survive. Rule a country tyrannically and happiness will be gone. Just as water flows downward and covers vast areas, the ruler must flow downward to the officials and intelligent people. /1

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And in the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. The Prophet ~ Kahlil Gibran

Wood pigeon completely unfazed by the rain. Been sitting there for more than an hour…

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Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.” Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.”Say rather, “I have met the soul walking upon my path.” For the soul walks on all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, but neither does it grow like a reed. /1

A Scottish one as it's St Andrew's Day: Baliscate stone row above Tobermory on Mull. There's a path of oyster shells leading up to the field of the stones – very nice. #StandingStoneSunday

November, Hergé.

William Morris

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Here we go, hundreds from 100k… petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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This is an extremely interesting article about the collapse of early farming societies across Europe around ~5000 BC. We like to think of prehistoric times as being largely peaceful, but it seems early civilisations weren't immune to ritualistic violence & cultural collapse.

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Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and nights. But your ears thirst for sound of your heart’s knowledge. You would know in words what you have always known in thought. You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams. The Prophet ~ Kahlil Gibran

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Update on the micro stagshorn in the park. #FungiFriends

Reform UK’s ‘Cost Cutting’ Council Kent Prepares to Raise Taxes After Presiding Over £46 Million Overspend bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/r... #KemkaranMustGo

Sunshine came softly through my window today… #morningview

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

A bridge never crossed is a life never lived ~ Chinese proverb

THREAD. In her exclusive interview in today's Daily Telegraph Magazine, the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (pictured) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world...

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A short dose of mild-mannered sea.