Sometimes, many years later, I am by the water and reminded of the first time I went to Greece, the sea governed by absolute blue, the sun gold leaf on the waves, a world away from the Atlantic, except for those exceptional days out west when Connemara wears the air of the Greek islands

Good morning from beside the Wensum

What do this ancient oak, this swallowtail, this natterjack have in common? 1) They live on Norfolk Wildlife Trust reserves. 2) They benefit from people buying This Wild Dream. ALL profits go to NWT (nothing to me). Help us celebrate NWT’s centenary TODAY www.thebookhive.co.uk/product/this...

We pray that day, comes soon and stays 🙏✨🙏

The feeding dilemma…

Morning view

End of the day in #Pompeii

Beauty

US Defence Secretary prayed for troops to inflict "overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy … We ask these things with bold confidence in the mighty and powerful name of Jesus Christ". It is back to medieval crusades. Trump taking the world to dark places archive.ph/AojmR

I didn’t want to linger and disturb them but you can hear the baby cardinals outside our back door in the nest

🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: This week alone, Russia used more than 3,000 strike drones against our cities and communities.

Cornelian cherry as our valley's bright sun at the moment!

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

this very act of treason places all of america, all us bases across the world, and all service members at risk. It removes any of our allies to want to come to our aid… the fact our congress is NOT moving to immediate impeachment of the entire administrator makes them co-conspirators

Guaranteed fact!

Why is this only happening now? It should have been done decades ago. They won't pass it, they'll never give up the money they make while in office.

Today, March 20th, is World Rewilding Day! The thing is with rewilding, it doesn't just have the power to reverse nature loss, but to bring immense meaning, wonder and joy to the lives of all those who engage. After nearly 17 years myself, I can tell you it just keeps on getting better and better.

It's hard to believe that just 15 years ago, this was virtually empty space, with none of the native trees, epiphytic mosses, yellow flag, reed buntings, bullfinches, or other life now present, and increasing in diversity year on year. Rewilding is how we reverse nature loss in Ireland.

Surprise! Kremlin backs covert campaign to keep Viktor Orbán in power

Marsh tit singing in a wood first mentioned in the Domesday Book, a wood which NWT is actively expanding, for the first time in those thousand years. I’m the first onto the rides this morning and there are hares everywhere.

In contrast to the coverup of the EPSTEIN crimes here in America, there are ongoing investigations in the UK, France, Turkey, Poland, Latvia & Lithuania that is sure to expose his central, filthy role in the largest crimes against humanity case in world history. #AccountabilityIsComing

Finished Late Heaney by @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social a careful and perceptive reading of post-Nobel Heaney. Even allowing for the bias of my pre-existing affection and respect for Nicholas, this was hugely impressive. This is not simply an analysis or a dissection ... (contd.)

I’m trying to share positive nature stuff but, well, in the enveloping global darkness, this from Simon Tisdall is spot on. We desperately need wisdom, empathy and restraint from our global leaders and, in Britain, courage to step away from Trump. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I've taken action for our wild places! The UK Government is proposing changes to the National Planning Policy Framework. Help it work for nature. action.rspb.org.uk/page/187254/...

Happy 100th Birthday Norfolk Wildlife Trust!!! On March 6th 1926, Norwich doctor Sydney Long saved Cley marshland "as a bird breeding sanctuary for all time". So began the county Wildlife Trusts: 2,600 reserves, 945k members; local nature & people together. www.norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk/Centenary

“..the heft of its head” mmm

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Fab

Kyiv. Late evening. Air defence is shooting down drones. I say it like, “The weather is fine outside, just cloudy.” That’s what four years have done to us. Protect peace. Don’t let war become normal.

Looking forward to speaking about Rights for Nature at this event in May with the British Ecological Society. Suspect tickets may sell out at the wonderful Burlington House. #NaturesRights www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/righ...

This is coming up on Saturday night, in the Heaney heartland of south Derry, with Nicholas @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social & Iarla: do join us if you're in the area. @shhomeplace.bsky.social

Skylarks!!! Above the bubbling songs of shore birds... SKYLARKS!!

Sunshine and the rain has gone..I can see no obstacles in my way..today

Difficult to distinguish as I drifted drowsily, but then, like Hannah, that beautiful sound of a blackbird singing. My day is made! #FirstBirdOfMyDay

In celebration of Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s centenary, our friends The Book Hive have curated 10 years of my Norfolk Magazine columns - & words from other Norfolk authors - into This Wild Dream. Details of the book and events at www.thebookhive.co.uk/product/this... ALL profits go to NWT & nature.

People ask me how I feel on the anniversary of the full-scale invasion, when bombs began to fall on peaceful cities and columns of RU tanks marched on Kyiv. To be honest, nothing special. Just another day of war, which has become part of our lives. And destroyed everything we call normal life.

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Political donations = corruption. Super-rich buy influence and power. Parties reward them - organize threatening issues off the agenda, provide tax perks to the rich, crony contracts, VIP lanes, honours. Can't have democracy without banning political donations.

As it’s the Day of the Cat in Poland today, 17 February (probably nowhere else, but Poles typically like to do their own thing, thanks! 😹) the #GinjaBoiz, Pumpkin and Big Ginge, send their warmest greetings to kitties all over the world today #DzieńKota

A life bravely and well lived. RIP Jesse Jackson www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

later, could be too late 🤔

Today, Hatem Rayyan, a Palestinian paramedic who was abducted from Kamal Odwan Hospital on December 27, 2024, died in an Israeli prison. Rayyan was abducted from the same hospital and on the same day as Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyya.

Very cool to hear that my public health book is being put as core reading on university reading lists like Imperial College, London- the paperback is out soon (April 2026) which will make it more accessible -

This is huge. The ban & proscription on Palestine Action was unlawful - though remains for now, pending appeal. It set a terrifying precedent. Because of course this isn’t terrorism. Nor are signs being held up peacefully to support them. Proud to know people there today, far braver than I am now.

Kyiv. I love this pulse of life, this scent of books. Yes, we’re living through a very hard winter, but we will get through it.