Doing my first act of kindness this month by sharing this calendar 💜

‘Nature’s original engineers’: scientists explore the amazing potential of fungi

Whenever I pass a dog on a walk, I let it sniff my hand and say hello. Though I like dogs, I'm also doing a check-in like the original Terminator film to prove I'm a human, not a flesh covered robot. If you're with me and don't let the dog sniff you, I'll be judging/suspicious.

On budget day, here's a timely reminder of the vital public services we've lost over the past 15 years through government cuts.

Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered artworks #WomensArt

They treat nature like it has no voice. But it does. Yours, ours, and millions more. If you believe nature deserves better than this, make sure your MP hears it loud and clear: action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 👈

This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 26,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week. Please sign and share 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Two Step Peace Plan: Step one: leave. Step two: leave faster.

With all the fighting in the world over religion it is about time atheists become less apathetic and start knocking on doors spreading the word that sky fairies do not exist

Its been a weird few days, and hearing Def Leppard has really brought a massive shot of joy to my day. Thanks #BBC6Music! 🧡😂

This current UK weather seems to be really great for the funky woodland mushrooms. I love the mushrooms that look like they're just enormous mouths shouting as they pop out of the tree trunk 😂 🍄 #mushrooms

Got nice and close so I could really see how they got their name. #splitgill #fungifriends

I feel like today is the sort of day where teeny weenie cutie pie little mushrooms sprouting on a cool fallen log will bring me a sprinkle of joy, so I am sharing them with you too. 🍄🧡 #mushrooms #joyinnature

Nature is not a blocker to housing growth, MPs find www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Should you trust that doctor? (maybe more relevant today than ever) (by instagram user @sheadoodles)

Ladies & Gentlemen, without further ado, let us present to you the 550 year old Arbour Oak in Wollaton Park, Nottingham

Urgent health warning before Keir Starmer does his sums for the autumn budget Wealth hoarding is a pandemic. Can someone please stop the parasites sucking us dry? 💋 📍 Brixton

'Dr Michelle Taylor, a University of Essex scientist who led the voyage, said: "If anything brushes up against them, they're doomed, unfortunately. Then to be absorbed slowly over time is a grim way of going." Carnivorous 'death-ball' sponge share.google/pcKssFW9bX1E...

North Wales has emerged as a hotspot for some of the UK’s rarest and most striking grassland fungi, thanks to data from a citizen science fungi survey

Some bees don’t just buzz—they bite the flower too! 🐝 By gripping the anthers, their buzz sends stronger vibrations that release more pollen. Join @charliezoology.bsky.social on 13 Jan 2026 for a FREE entoLIVE talk on the biomechanics of bee buzzing. Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1850820516...

Myrtle Pizzey, a contemporary artist and printmaker from Somerset, UK #WomensArt

I am just so in love with how amazing nature is when it just does its thing and we let it. To get to see nature quietly being, can really soothe my soul. #mushrooms #trees #nature

I love it when I'm exploring in a forest & nature surprises me. How cool are these little guys? 😍 #mushrooms

I think anyone interviewing Farage should just ask him general knowledge questions about Clacton. Better to show viewers how he doesn't give a fuck about the people who voted for him than give him airtime to spout his nonsense.

'The lines are busy' by contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Morgan #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

The Planning Bill is back in Parliament today.‼️ From the start, it’s been controversial: risking damage to precious wildlife and habitats. Peers reduced some of those risks. Now MPs get to vote: keep those protections, or strip them out.

Like a stubborn bloom Living in cracks of concrete You cannot kill hope. #poetry #Haiku Photo by Stockcake

Grapefruit 😇 #art #oilpainting

Happy birthday to Kathleen Hanna 🎂

This will impact EVERYONE. Combined with other anti-protest measures proposed like bans on face coverings, the Crime & Policing Bill will see the right to protest in the UK stripped to the bone. Protest is fundamental to democracy. We must protect it. www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/govern...

Stoneware with sgraffito by Indigenous Australian artist Alison Milyika Carroll who is also a community leader on the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia #womensart

Goldeneyes make a splash in today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight. 🎩 As they arrive from Scandinavia and Russia, look for their striking golden eyes and crisp black-and-white plumage on winter lakes.

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) English Restoration era playwright & poet who was the first Englishwoman known to earn her living by writing. A feminist forerunner, she was involed in Libertine circles, those who rejected traditional social constraints #WomensArt

First leaves, officially an oak seedling ☺️🌳

You gotta BE the happy little tree/cloud/bush you'd like to see in this world 🌳☁️🌲 💜

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

Julia Lucey, contemporary US printmaker who uses traditional etching and aquatint techniques to explore nature, wildness, wilderness #womensart

Tree feets.

A very rare photo of Hypholoma fasciculare, the clustered woodlover, moving en masse to the sunny side of the oak deadwood

The Government has tabled 67 last-minute amendments to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill.‼️ Rushed through with little scrutiny, it’s a shambolic way to reform the planning system. It creates confusion, sidelines science and leaves nature dangerously exposed. (1/3)

Ancient Woodland doesn’t mean the trees are ancient It means trees have been there undisturbed for thousands of years, & at least since consistent national records started in the 17th Century It’s the soil that is ancient The ghosts of the dying & the dead feeding the living

Show this to a flagshagger. They’ll hate it. Reform isn’t a party. It’s a pyramid scheme. Farage and his billionaire donors aren’t patriots. They’re con men up to their BALLS in foreign money. This explains how they do it. Stop believing the bullshit. youtu.be/e4CrfRpjvCY?...

Mesmerizing counter-rotating vortices produced by a burning incense stick. Credit: ALoBoi_Music/reddit

Artemesia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1620 #womensart