Rob Carlyle
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Eco home self builder. Green and red. Nature obsessive. www.sustainablegarden.co.uk
You. Me? A beekeeper. Talk Asian hornets?
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podcast?
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Day 5
#30DaysWild
Surveying for hazel dormice with footprint tunnels. What fun!
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Surveying for hazel dormice — In a Sustainable Garden
Day #5 #30DaysWild What fun!!
https://www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/surveying-for-hazel-dormice
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Day 4
#30DaysWild
This is our secret…
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Hush. Keep it quiet. — In a Sustainable Garden
Day #4 #30DaysWild
https://www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/hush-keep-it-quiet
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Day 3
#30DaysWild
A fly-sized pocket lobster..?
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.. a fly-sized pocket lobster — In a Sustainable Garden
Currant clearwing moth
https://www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/-a-fly-sized-pocket-lobster
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Day 2
#30DaysWild
We planted a bird cherry in memory of my mum..
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Bird cherry — In a Sustainable Garden
Planting a bird cherry
https://www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/bird-cherry
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The butterfly benefit ..
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The butterfly benefit… — In a Sustainable Garden
Painted lady nectaring on sweet rocket.
https://www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/the-butterfly-benefit
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A big green hug ..
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Protect the Wild
17 days ago
Hate what you're seeing? Join our campaign to End Bird Shooting today:
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Join us and END BIRD SHOOTING - Protect the Wild
WE BELIEVE THAT BIRD SHOOTING HAS NO PLACE IN MODERN BRITAIN.Every year millions of pheasants and partridges are bred in factory farms - crammed into crowded, noisy, and dirty sheds and cages -…
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Dale Vince
17 days ago
Then he changed his mind, turned his back on Wales and took whatever 'INEOS stands for' abroad. Now he wants to sell our MOD his foreign made cars, while he sits in his tax haven to avoid a fair contribution to the economy he made his billions from - he’s a leech. Let’s have none of it.
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It’s bean time …
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Time for the bean business.. — In a Sustainable Garden
The bean business begins ..
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‘Pretend brown..?’
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‘Pretend brown..’ — In a Sustainable Garden
Mixed flour and seed loaf
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Reform Party UK Exposed
26 days ago
Farage trying to avoid scrutiny over £5m gift from crypto billionaire
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Farage trying to avoid scrutiny over £5m gift from crypto billionaire, Labour says
Reform’s deputy leader, Richard Tice, seeks to present issue as irrelevant in interview with Laura Kuenssberg
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/10/farage-trying-to-avoid-scrutiny-over-5m-gift-from-crypto-billionaire-labour-says
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Happy 100th to the great man. 40th anniversary of
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Here’s me and my boy. ‘Sir David - this is David’ 😜😂
29 days ago
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An unexpected swan! Day #2
#30DaysWild
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about 1 month ago
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Day #1 of
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demonstrating that it isn’t the quality of the photo but the experience. Today a top-speed bilberry bumblebee.
about 1 month ago
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Sign up!!
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about 1 month ago
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Getting ready for
#30DaysWild
- a washing-up bowl pond
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about 1 month ago
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Froglife
about 2 months ago
Amphibians are highly sensitive to pollution Flea treatments in ponds can affect survival & breeding Find more info on our annual #PawsAgainstPonds
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Seeding the meadow
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Seeding the meadow — In a Sustainable Garden
Cowslip
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about 2 months ago
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LaindonFeminist: Labour led by Keir for me
about 2 months ago
Ten announcements and achievements by our Labour Government pretty much ignored by UK media who find it impossible to tell us all the good news. Share far and wide.
#DoingTheMediasJob
#LaboursAvhievements
#FixingBritain
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Spring — In a Sustainable Garden
Native primrose
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about 2 months ago
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Moving forward with Europe ..
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Chris Packham
3 months ago
I'm backing
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's campaign for a peat free future . Last October the UK Govt committed to ending the sale of peat– but we need action . Sign the petition calling for legislation in 2026 to bring peat sales to an end at long last .
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Sign the petition to end peat sales!
No more delays: Let's get peat out of gardens once and for all. The time for uncertainty has ended.
https://actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sales/?utm_medium=share&utm_source=link_share
3 months ago
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Nature heals
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Nature heals … — In a Sustainable Garden
Mistletoe seedling on an apple branch
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3 months ago
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James O’Brien
3 months ago
Can’t wait to find out the next winner of the FIFA Peace Prize.
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Inching forwards — In a Sustainable Garden
Mum passed away on Thursday. She had suffered from dementia for a number of years and was approaching her 97th birthday. Although mum had been poorly for a while, witnessing her departure was as tough...
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3 months ago
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Dale Vince
3 months ago
Frankenstein chicken, that’s what these people serve - genetically bred, prone to disease - finger licking good? And these Frankenchicks have far more fat in them than chicken used to have.
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Natalie Bennett
4 months ago
New figures in The Lancet Global Health journal point to 75,000 deaths in Gaza, with the majority reported to be women, children and older people. Focus now must be on ending the humanitarian crisis and providing a stable way forward.
#Gaza
#HumanRights
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Toads crossing signs now up on Lamin’s Lane, Nottingham. Great to see hi-viz, torched and bucketed volunteer on the lane last night.
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Still it rains… — In a Sustainable Garden
Snowdrops
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… mysterious jiggerypokery … — In a Sustainable Garden
Coal tit
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4 months ago
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Protect the Wild
4 months ago
This is Charles. He says young people should care more about nature. He’s spent his whole life killing animals for fun. Don’t be like Charles.
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Gosh
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& Mark Carney (!) sending blinding shafts of common sense down to us mortals today! I thank you!!
5 months ago
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Reform Party UK Exposed
6 months ago
Here we go, hundreds from 100k…
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/744215
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Cramp balls..
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Cramp balls.. — In a Sustainable Garden
The complexity and diversity of fungi, mushrooms, toadstools and all their ephemeral kingdom is on display here in the garden. It is always a treat to welcome our friends Andy and Ann to join us, but...
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7 months ago
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George Monbiot
7 months ago
Let's stop pretending that the billionaire media, endlessly attacking the BBC, has the slightest interest in balance, impartiality and accuracy. They won't be happy until the BBC is more rightwing than Vlad the Impaler. And then it still won't be enough.
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Getting antsy..
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Anting …. — In a Sustainable Garden
Red ants
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10 months ago
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A visit from the leading vegetable grower and a Turks Turban appears ..
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Pomp.. — In a Sustainable Garden
Turks Turban
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘
11 months ago
Dana Goldberg
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Conservation triage
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11 months ago
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The (diminishing) soundtrack of Sherwood ..
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the soundtrack of Sherwood.. — In a Sustainable Garden
Those Victorians knew how to name a moth ..
https://www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/the-soundtrack-of-sherwood
12 months ago
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In the dark a glimmer of hope..
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Dusk in June — In a Sustainable Garden
Burnished Brass moth..
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12 months ago
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Andrew Prosser
12 months ago
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Guess what? Sewage spread on land for fertiliser is not being tested properly for contaminants, including forever chemicals and plastics. Previous ministers failed to tackle this. Light or no touch approach to regulation has put health and environment at serious risk.
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Warning over 'dirty secret' of toxic chemicals on farmers fields
Campaigners say that farmers' fields are being contaminated by chemicals and microplastics in sewage sludge.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3e5y85p488o
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Box no more. The end of our beautiful box bushes…
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Box Tree moth — In a Sustainable Garden
Box bush after box tree moth caterpillar damage..
https://www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/box-tree-moth
12 months ago
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Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithPalestine🍉🍉
about 1 year ago
I have no words.
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Utterly dismayed by this govts ripping up of protections for nature. My letter to Michael Payne MP and EM mayor Claire Ward.
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about 1 year ago
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It’s national solitary bee week!!
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Red mason bees — In a Sustainable Garden
Bee hotel
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about 1 year ago
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Magic beans …
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Magic beans.. — In a Sustainable Garden
But first, some revision for you... Over on the excellent Zoe Nutrition and Health channel they set out the considerable rewards of eating a wide range of beans: https://zoe.com/learn/beans-how-to-e...
https://www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/beanz-meanz-health
about 1 year ago
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Reasons to be cheerful ….
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about 1 year ago
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