Got a report on my basic health assessment from GP. It focuses on such a narrow set of indicators & is the opposite of holistic. The advice is standard cut-and-paste stuff. They are wasting time & money doing these. My results say I'm in the overweight category of BMI and am at

Archaeologists are looking into it...

The blossom of the Prunus incisa 'Kojo-no-mai' is fleeting, but the few weeks it is in flower are rather splendid. The white flowers have now taken on a splash of pink #GardensHour 🌱

Myrtaceae leaves usually have pellucid dots, i.e., dots that are visible with transmitted light. These bodies form from several cells that coalesce & are filled with the essential oils that give the leaves their fragrance when crushed. Eucalyptus blaxlandii 📷: Sam CCBYNC4 #Myrtaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

#OtD 16 Mar 1972 four UK Black Power activists were assaulted by police in Oval tube station, falsely accused of stealing handbags and jailed. The officer responsible was later exposed for falsifying evidence frequently in order to frame Black men stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8811...

Viola odorata var. dumetorum at the woodland edges. Yesterday at the Wimpole Estate in Cambs. #WhiteFlowers #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Today's inspirational message:

Last few hours of my sale … This 12x16 print less than half price until midnight #Dartmoor #Devon #photography thegreenlanesshimmer.etsy.com/listing/4368...

Things have escalated. I am still not getting involved 🤐 but good grief this is not how you get people to change their behaviour.

The US is flying heavy bombing raids to Iran from UK RAF Fairford. Starmer is being economical with the truth, as ever. aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/b-52-bo...

"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less." -- Susan B. Anthony, who died #OTD 1906

the creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to stop doing culture wars about which one should go on the banknotes

Scottish banknotes can be adorned with capercaillies and wildcats. This is a great concept.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio: · United States: 347:1 · Switzerland: 120:1 · France: 130:1 · Sweden: 71.1:1 · Austria: 60:1 · Germany: 55:1 · UK: 52:1 (FTSE 350) 78:1 (FTSE 100) · Denmark: 50:1 · Italy: 20:1 · Japan: 11:1 Outliers: · Coca-Cola: 2160:1 · Starbucks: 1049:1 · Tesco: 431:1 via Deepseek

Call me old fashioned but I'm more concerned with the purchasing power of banknotes than their appearance.

Just tried an order with this voucher. It turns out Ocado think 25% of £78 is £6. Order cancelled. So many exceptions in the small print.

This is great.

A pair of young Crown of Thorns succulents. Don't let its appearance fool you. This plant has sharp thorns and a poisonous latex sap. Euphorbia milii. 🌱 #Euphorbia #succulents #flowers

Dining table? What dining table? 🌱

Some nice news for once.

Green Hellebore for @haggewoods.bsky.social #WildflowerHour

Happy International Women's Day.

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Before universities opened their doors to women, one woman spent 7 years making a quilt of the Solar System to teach other women astronomy: www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...

Women curators, designers, and collectors have played a huge part throughout our history at The Museum of English Rural Life. For #InternationalWomensDay 2026, read about the stories of three women from our earlier years in our new blogpost. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Hi all, the next Leicester Peregrines watch is on Tuesday 10th March. Come and say hello to the group at the Leicester Cathedral gardens between 9.30am and 12.30pm weather permitting #ukbirding #peregrines #leicester @lrosbirds.bsky.social @leicsperegrines.bsky.social

Morning. Might buy a lottery ticket. Wordle 1,722 2/6 ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Job posting for a Development Officer at @arquives.ca, one of the largest 2SLGBTQIA+ archives in the world. Hours: 37.5h/week Salary: $60 000/year + health benefits Deadline: 29 March Start date: 27 April More info: arquives.ca/job-posting-... 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌈🗃️ (please reshare!)

I'm a vicar in a small rural village. I could never say this to my flock because of the outcry, but Reform are blatantly opposed to genuine Christian values and it's clear that anyone considering voting for them has not been listening to a single word I say each week

I wrote a book called Nature’s Acre — an Irish garden memoir about wildlife, community, and making a place where life can grow. If that sounds like your kind of book, I’d love you to read it. And if you’d share this, I’d be very grateful. 🌱 #climateaction #spéirgorm gardeningwell.ie/natures-acre

It is difficult to understand why, two years into a Labour administration, there hasn't been a clear out of the BBC Board and Executive Committee. Lisa Nandy, what have you been doing for almost 2 years? open.substack.com/pub/owenjone...

In the second half of 2025, one man accounted for almost 40% of all money donated to political parties in the UK: a crypto-billionaire who lives in Thailand. Britain desperately needs to rewrite its party funding rules. observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...

#DirtyBusiness exposed the human cost of profit before public health. Our water system won’t be fixed with tinkering. It needs public ownership. I’ve asked my MP to attend the MP drop-in on 17th March & hear that message directly from sewage campaigners: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

How many are ready for Spring? I wrote this poem about the arrival of Spring. vocal.media/poets/spring... #poetry #poems #author #booksky #writer #poet #worldbookday

THREAD. Late last summer I moved my newsletter away from Substack. I was not comfortable with the site's political choices, did not want to give 10% of my income to venture capitalists & felt Substack had reneged on their commitment to long form writing. My newsletter is now here: www.tom-cox.com

I don't have kids so I dressed up my book as a child for world book day

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

😱🐝🕷️😉 @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social See ALT!

Stunning 🔭 🧪

All India Trinamool Congress politician Menaka Guruswamy looks likely to be the first openly-LGBTQ MP in India www.attitude.co.uk/news/menaka-...

Not allowed to share the photo but yesterday in the records office I was looking at a so-called 'Bastardy Order' 1/2

This week's new blogpost reviewed Ned Newitt's excellent history of social housing in Leicester: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/b...

Gardening indoors and outdoors today.

If I won a few million in the lottery I would buy a cottage in Kew and alternate my time between the gardens and the National Archives. Just dreaming.

Tony Benn was right then, and if he were alive today I'm sure he'd be right now.

Dustbin disguise working hard in side alley too!

My next online talk will be a look at The Folklore of Ancient Buildings. I'm especially interested in how archaeologists and folklorists have worked together to interpret the evidence for traditional beliefs in ancient buildings... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-folklo...

In my happy place since early doors ☺️ 🌱