When you have a balcony and a curious cat.

There's only a single alder in our whole rainforest, which is odd since parts of the land seem ideal, and there are plenty nearby. Another of nature's many mysteries. It's a beautiful species: here's one by a river in the 6 acres where we have turbury (turf-cutting) rights.

On the beach

According to the BBC's own projected national share, the Greens are in second place nationally after the local elections, behind Reform UK.

Witness the mesmerizing sea angel (*Clione* sp.), a real-life creature gliding beneath the ice of the White Sea. Captured by Alexander Semenov, this beauty is no illusion.

Beware the Judder Man and protect your runner beans this week...

Of course it's common knowledge that Andy Burnham is a Zionist Friend of Israel, for a detailed accounts of Burnhams activities, inde Journalist @jodymcintyre_ is worth a follow.

🖼️ Dick Twinney

Fairywren of the Day: Emperor Fairywren 📷 Dubi Shapiro

‘Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.’ ~ Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine. 🐝 #BookWormSat 🖼️ The Canvas Menagerie

We have bunnies! Two juniors (not babies, but still littles) have been hanging around in the backyard, eating everything that tastes good. Could never get them both in the same photo. 😆 #SmallBeautiesHour

Evening Bluesky peeps. Some Spring things for #SmallBeautiesHour #BecauseofClem #ThreadofGold

#SmallBeautiesHour #FlowersOnFriday This crab apple, planted in 1989, last year was so wizened & unblooming we almost cut it down. Just like #poetry - resonant once again this spring #gardening #FlowerReport #Flowers🌱

Evening Bluesky peeps. Teeny tiny Narcissus from the garden for #SmallBeautiesHour 🌱🌼 💚 #BecauseofClem #ThreadofGold

Our super cute friend #Smallbeautieshour

Your 'doom quote' for today: "It is hard at times to think beyond scorched forests and submerged farmlands...the predicted mass die-off of at least a million species, disintegrating factories and mines leeching poison into soil, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch."

Please enjoy my latest essay over on Substack: "Saving Everything Else" (2026 update). climatecasino.substack.com/p/saving-eve...

You can predict any Trump/GOP policy or action by asking “What would most benefit the polluters, petrostates and plutocrats who rule the party?” #ScienceUnderSiege

Political donations make a mockery of democracy, and the government's solutions are hopeless. Here's a really simple means of fixing it. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Keir Starmer's intention to restrict peaceful protest even further is punishment for crimes the great majority of protestors hate and reject. By suggesting that support for Palestinians is an attack on British Jews, he conflates British Jews with the state of Israel, which is wrong and dangerous.

2) "Israeli strikes have killed more than 2,600 people in Lebanon, including journalists and medical workers, and destroyed infrastructure such as bridges and gas stations. More than a million people have been displaced. "

And I BELIEVE this is very, very different from what most people of faith, & those of no religious beliefs, want & hope for in their lives. Most of us want safety for our families, a reasonable standard of living, a place to call home. We do not want war. 5/5

I just signed Dame Judi Dench's petition, calling on the urgent restoration of our ancient woodlands. Please sign this important cause and share it: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

A lifetime of misery and suffering for a meal you won't even remember. Is this really what you stand for?

I'm *wildly* excited to announce that my new book, 'Setting the Land Free – Visions of a Rewilded Ireland', will be published by Hachette on 27 August. We have a stark choice re our collapsing nature: the usual timid, token gestures, or real, gutsy ambition. This book makes the case for the latter.

For you

Special forces dog

Listen. Can you hear it? That's the sound of masses of insect pollinators, feasting on the blossoms of a wild apple tree in the sunshine, amid naturally regenerating native rainforest. Rewilding's soundtrack.

Star Trek: The Original Series 🙃

Google 'Ireland's nature restoration plan', and this is what comes up: a sheep-wrecked ecological wasteland. *NOT* a good sign as to the level of state ambition towards restoring Irish nature.

Human-wildlife conflict is one of the biggest threats to African nature, but people like Moreangels Mbizah are finding solutions. Staggering that they manage (sometimes with great difficulty) to live with lions, buffalo and elephant, while we struggle with pine martens. share.google/D6tys14Lul1Z...

Bee covered in pollen: how pollinators support 75 percent of the worlds food crops

Meow'd until everyone was awake. Then went back to sleep after eating. **Stay toxic 🐈

Cecropia Moth the largest moth in North America, with a 7 inch wing span!

A rescuer visits the home of a dog whose life he saved many years ago and their bond couldn't be more pure . I remember you . 😍👍💙

Vibrant red immature spruce cones. Specifically, they are female cones that have just emerged. The tree needs several years to accumulate enough resources to support another heavy reproductive cycle.❤️💚 #ColorADay #RedWed #WoodlandWednesday #photography #EastCoastKin

Not now Shiela 🥰 I’m on Duty

A woman in Harlem, New York to King Charles: "Thank you for your speech to Congress. We needed that."

Crater Lake, Oregon, July 2022 Crater Lake is within the caldera of Mt Mazama, which was originally about 12k', but lost nearly a mile of altitude when it erupted about 7,700 years ago.

Good Tuesday. #TuesdayVibes

Food security depends, above all, on a healthy biosphere, which is the sum of the Earth's natural ecosystems. No nature, no food.

Captured an incredible meteor with my SiOnyx Aurora! Night vision tech is changing amateur astronomy forever. Witness the magic of the night sky.

Here is a bit from The Fraud (Paul Holden) explaining how Euan Phillips (not Jewish), a spokesperson for Labour Against Antisemitism created a fake Jewish sounding, persona, called David Gordstein, to accuse Miriam Margolyes (Jewish) of being antisemitic. This is what Labour & Labour Together do

Ed Davey canoeing through the Strait of Hormuz to draw attention to the Lib Dems '10p off a litre' fuel policy h/t @worgztheowl.bsky.social