Same bridge, six months apart. The winterbourne River Kennet, dry during the Dog Days of summer but in winter, the chalk aquifer releases a steady flow of icy chalk-clean water. #Avebury #Wiltshire #Winterbourne

Explored the Overton Hill Barrow Cemetery in the dying light of icily cold Saturday. The complex of a dozen Bowl, Bell, Roman, Bronze Age & Saxon inhumation Barrows overlook The Sanctuary & Avebury. The Roman road to Aquae Sulis crosses this most ancient yard of graves. Many Hawthorn berry baubles 2

I doubt there is a better photograph than this one that demonstrates how massive (36 ft ditch, 30 ft bank) and steep the original earthwork at #Avebury was. The water table being much higher in Neolithic times, there could have been standing water in the chalk moat. #Neolithic #Wiltshire

Merry Yuletide from Wiltshire Words at Avebury #Solstice #Yule #Wiltshire

I think The Express needs to find their Xmas spirit. We're paying £476m for a regime that tear gasses babies & destroys shelters in freezing conditions. We should divert that money to a functioning and fair migration system. Tune in to @boldpolitics.bsky.social at 3pm tomorrow.

As a special treat for #HillfortsWednesday landing on Christmas Eve, we’re sharing some wintery images of hillforts in the care of the National Trust! The photos are of Figsbury Ring (Wiltshire), Hod Hill (Dorset), Mam Tor (Derbyshire) and Cissbury Ring (West Sussex).

The Westbury White Horse, concreted over in 1950 but was cut into the chalk around 1600 to commemorate the Battle of Ethandun in AD878 #Wiltshire #Hillfort

Bratton Camp above Warminster looking at the steel statue artwork commissioned for the MoD's 'Respect the Range' campaign to make people aware of the dangers on military land #Wiltshire #WhiteHorse #SalisburyPlain

"Christmas" (1929) Robin Tanner (1904–1988) British Etcher, draughtsman, painter in watercolour, teacher and writer, born in Bristol, but spent most of his life in northwest Wiltshire, which was the main subject of his work. Chippenham Museum #Art

Matthew Bowles works for the IEA. Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco. Times up. Merry Christmas! Join.greenparty.org.uk

Happy Winter Solstice, where we celebrate the returning of the light, on the shortest day and longest night. On the solstice, when the land feels closest to its oldest stories, we’re reminded how much of England’s past remains out of reach.

❄️ Happy Midwinter Solstice - The Nollaig na mBan (Women’s Christmas Cake) is now in the mixing stage - celebrating 'Little Christmas' on 6th January, a day when Irish men took on all the household duties & cake baking, giving the women a chance to put their feet up. #solstice

Closing the year with one of our highest ever polls. Thank you everyone so much for your support and determination this year. We're all just getting started. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Happy Winter Solstice everyone. One of my first oil paintings from 1996 of Avebury where I went to primary school. Being there had a profound influence on my work. Lighter days ahead.

Shooting hares will finally be banned for most of the year, and a ban on trail hunting will be announced Monday as part of a package of animal welfare measures Will the govt also move to ban or license grouse & pheasant shooting…? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

So good to be back at Avebury Manor, reopened on 29 November, nearly two years after being badly damaged by significant flooding @nationaltrust.org.uk #Wiltshire #Christmas 🎄

The Springline Project. Myself and Rebecca Carrozza (the two artists) explore the 4 mile Springline Route in this lovely film by Hedley - who very kindly gave up his time to do this for us. Connecting communities, nature and creativity. cholseyparishcouncil.gov.uk/the-springli...

As Israel have been allowed to compete in Eurovision 2026, the UK must follow in the footsteps of Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands and boycott the competition. The world's largest live music event cannot be used to whitewash Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Illuminating night at Stourhead Country Park Christmas Illuminations last night under a crystalline Cold Moon, the last full moon of the year. #ColdMoon #FullMoon #Wiltshire

Always astounding & often perplexing, the @thequietus.com Albums of the Year 2025 intro: 'One of the scant benefits bestowed by editing a countercultural magazine born in a time of great financial turmoil is that you eventually develop a state of permanent readiness for the next disaster.' 🥳 #music

They're all kicking off. The last gaps of the old broken system that protected their power & wealth. Change is coming. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Darren knows that come the next election, Bristol is turning even more Green. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Astonishing video, worth watching in full.

🚨BREAKING : The Green Party has passed 150,000 members 🥳 Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform. Are you in? Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️

Hi! Mendip Hills Green Party from Somerset are now on Bluesky! We would greatly appreciate any reposts/follows! Let's try hope over pain. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Our next Nature Classic: The Icknield Way by Edward Thomas. For a long time we've wanted to add to our library of Thomas' prose, and here it is, complete with a new introduction by Jack Cornish! Cover by Spencer Gore. Out in the spring. Preorder www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

Highest. Ever. (Yet.) 🚀 Let's go! 🙌🏼 Source: YouGov Join.greenparty.org.uk @leftiestats.bsky.social

Glad to hear Keir Starmer is finally making the right decision to attend climate talks. Now let's talk about taxing wealth.

Very excited to share that I'm writing a new book, THE GHOSTS OF CHALK COUNTRY - about the loss of England's chalk downland: a tale of flowers, fascism & freedom. To be published by @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social in April 2027: www.thebookseller.com/rights/willi... Website: ghostsofchalkcountry.org

125,000 MEMBERS! For once, a vertical line on a graph giving us a glimmer of hope for our kids’ futures. 👏👏👏 @greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social

ICYMI Green Party membership numbers have now overtaken the Conservative Party's! 🎉 📈 125,000 members and counting.

💚 I joined the @greenparty.org.uk this morning after ending lifelong support and membership of @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

I've got lots of things to say about Jeremy Clarkson. Really not worth it. He knows his game is over and so is resorting to personal attacks. Piss him off instead and Join.greenparty.org.uk

Another fine exhibition from the Wiltshire Museum in Devizes: 'Downland: art and the archaeological imagination in Wiltshire' - well worth a 2nd or 3rd visit - loved the work of John Piper, Henry Moore, Norman Ackroyd & Paul Nash #Wiltshire #Devizes #Wessex #Downland #Art #Archaeology

So she’s finally unveiled! A statue of the author Jane Austen now resides in the cathedral close at Winchester with her hand resting on a book on top of her 8-sided writing desk at Chawton in Hampshire. It’s is the 250th anniversary of her birth. She is buried in the cathedral. #janeausten

If you're affected by the Supreme Court's decision this week, you're not alone and we stand with you 💜 Here are some resources for our trans friends and allies 👇

“If I die, I want a loud death. I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear.” She was about to get married; a film about her life in Gaza had just been finished. 10 of her family were killed with her. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Following the MP's drop-in session at Portcullis House this month, the new All-Party Parliamentary Group for Outdoor Learning will be launched at 1 pm on 6th May at Portcullis House. Please contact your constituency MP today and ask them to attend the launch. outdoor-learning.org/voice/govern...

🔴Matt Hancock Used His Personal Email Account to Help ‘VIP’ Supplier Win £25 Million COVID PPE Contract Excalibur Healthcare, which supplied the NHS with tens of millions of pounds worth of unusable PPE, ultimately folded owing taxpayers £22 million bylinetimes.com/2025/04/03/m...

“How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political power to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.” Aneurin Bevan

Brilliant news! At last, confirmation that the Govt *will* go ahead with the #NaturalHistoryGCSE 🎉 We have to get to know our fellow travellers on this planet again. Young people who know & love nature are far more likely to protect & restore it - as well as enjoying better physical & mental health

Please share widely with your contacts and visit our Government Engagement pages for details, downloads and resources #outdoorlearning #parliament #earlydaymotion 🔗 www.outdoor-learning.org/voice/govern...

Delighted to reveal the hard-hitting paperback cover for my book, THE LIE OF THE LAND - an exposé of what the 'custodians of the countryside' have done to nature in Britain. The paperback's out 8th May - order yours here: lnkfi.re/JhxHno More upcoming talks here & details below: lnkfi.re/PkfOhd 🧵

Hard to take a photo of something 1.7 miles long and a couple of feet high in places: The Great Cursus of Stonehenge. Had a good explore of this yesterday - refreshingly devoid of any understanding as to why it was built. #archaeology #wiltshire @megalithic.bsky.social @visitstonehenge.bsky.social

🌳 Discovering Wiltshire's Beech Clumps. The weft and weave of the chalk downs of the South Country are often broken by the lumps and bumps of the beech copses that saddle these high places. It was time to investigate these iconic clumps ... wiltshirewords.substack.com/p/discoverin...

this is how it feels to reach 30 MILLION users!!!

28% of England’s ancient monuments have no legal public right of access Over 5,500 sites recorded by Historic England are beyond reach of the public, according to new analysis undertaken by the campaign group Right to Roam. stoneclub.rocks/right-to-roam

🎧 Wonderful, moving album of superbly and subtly performed and recorded British folk songs on the theme of winter and Christmastide from NE Folksters Janice Burns & Jon Doran janandjon.bandcamp.com/album/great-... #Listeningto #music #folk #christmas 🎄💚

Advance warning! Two op nightingale digs in this series - Rat Island and RAF Valley. More when i know! This always brightens winter months and don’t forget #drawingdiggingforbritain #archaeology @profaliceroberts.bsky.social