I've written to Sec of State, Steve Reed MP calling for a statutory duty for councils to provide public toilets and for govt to commit ring fenced funding. Access to public toilets is a public health issue as the @londonlooalliance.bsky.social will attest. www.london.gov.uk/caroline-rus...

5 years ago, on Friday 26 Mar 2021 as part of a series to mark 12 months from the 1st Covid lockdown, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a fantastic piece by Michael Malay on the crickets of Troopers Hill, still available to listen to here www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

80% of Bristol Walk Fest walks are free this year - we're so proud to have hit that target. Because walking really is for everyone. bristolwalkfest.com #bristolwalkfest #inclusivewalking #LoveBristol

Sheila Hannon of Show of Strength is up for VisitEngland's Tourism Superstar — voting closes 22 March! Read our Q&A and vote: www.bristolwalkfest.com/qa-sheila-ha... @showofstrength.org.uk #BristolWalkFest #LocalLegend #LoveBristol

The sun will rise in #Bristol #England tomorrow at 6:18, 137 seconds earlier than the day before. It will set at 18:18, 100 seconds later than the day before.

A perfect day for tree planting! The Manor Woods Valley group and Goodgym planted around 180 oaks, crabapples and hornbeams today. We are so lucky to have this amazing woodland on our doorstep.

Fury as Bristol council destroys thousands of flowers it helped volunteers plant just days earlier Bristol City Council has agreed to compensate the volunteers after a 'communication error'

Great to speak to @bristol247.bsky.social about women’s safety in parks and green spaces for this article. www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

Vital story by my colleague Helena Horton – about the number of people who don't live within a 15-min walk of green space. Freely accessible, wildlife-rich green space should be a modern-day human right! And good govts should see it as a public health essential. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Interesting DEFRA report on access to green & blue space in #England here www.gov.uk/government/s...

Well done RHS, lets save moths www.theguardian.com/environment/...

👋 Hello Bluesky Bristol Naturalists’ Society has stopped using our “X” account. This decision was made by our council members because of safeguarding concerns. From now on you can find us here on this new Bluesky account, and on Facebook or Instagram, or via our website: bristolnats.org.uk

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.

‼️ BREAKING: Greens WIN Gorton and Denton by-election in a landslide victory 🟢 Grn: 41% (+27) ➡️ Ref: 29% (+15) 🔴 Lab: 25% (-25) 🔵 Con: 2% (-6) 🟠 Lib: 2% (-2) Green GAIN from Labour (+/- vs GE2024) ‼️First-ever Green win in an MP by-election

Hi folks. I am going freelance again. I don’t share my work on here, apart from books (which are not my proper job) so here’s more info about what I do: www.alexmorss.co.uk/about.html

Low traffic neighbourhoods: They make roads safer, they cut pollution, but those pencil-necked desk jockeys at the council didn’t think about nuns getting their chippy tea.

This stone on the boundary between the estates of Blaise Castle and Kings Weston dates back to the 1830s. It is engraved with “JSH” on the Blaise Castle side - the estate of John Scandrett Harford. The Kings Weston side reads “PJM” for the estate’s owner Philip John Miles. 1/2

Hello everyone. A reminder, I will be for hire from March.

Vote for Sheila! visitenglandawards.secure-platform.com/tourismsuper...

Did a tsunami hit the Bristol Channel four centuries ago? Revisiting the great flood of 1607 theconversation.com/did-a-tsunam...

You complete my life-cycle 💕 One of the best ways to help moths thrive is by growing their favourite food plants. Here are some of our top matches. Scarlet Tiger and Common Comfrey have liked each other! #MoonMeadows #MothsMatter

Some changes to busses this weekend due to the planned road closure at Lawrence Hill. Busses to & from Hanham & Kingswood diverted through Barton Hill. www.firstbus.co.uk/bristol-bath...

Providers – got questions? Everything you need to know about registering a walk is here → www.bristolwalkfest.com/providers-2/ Don’t miss the 27 Feb deadline to get your walk in the printed programme! 🚶‍♀️ #BristolWalkFest #MagicOfWalking #NationalWalkingMonth #BristolEvents #LoveBristol

For #NationalSnowdropDay "The Snowdrop's Call" by Elizabeth Emra, published in 1830. www.troopers-hill.org.uk/emra/#snowdr...

This is the report I spoke of on #bbcaq just now - ministers tried to suppress it, were finally forced to release it after an FoI, but shamefully only published a redacted version. The first duty of Govt is to protect its citizens - that starts with being honest with us about scale of threat we face

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

The Canal and River Trust is entrusted to look after our precious waterways . The restoration of our canal network has been a real success story creating new habitats for wildlife, access to nature to millions of people and building new communities on and around our waterways.

Meet Marco, who tells us how, one public toilet at a time he and the Edinburgh Thriving Green Spaces team are breaking down barriers to spending time outdoors. His story shows how small changes can make green spaces welcoming for all. naturetownsandcities.org.uk/meet-the-nat...

We're investing almost half a million pounds to improve Bristol and Bath Railway Path! With improved lighting, safety and accessibility, it's on its way to becoming one of the best traffic-free routes in the whole country 🚲

I submitted a walk for this on behalf of Friends of Troopers Hill earlier today. Looking forward to seeing the full programme when it is published.

Expressing probabilities could be the key for improved weather-based decision-making, according to new Met Office research. Read more in our news release ⬇️ bit.ly/4qfyZYv

@oneplacestudies.bsky.social does this qualify as a #OnePlaceStudy of #TroopersHill #Bristol ? Lots of info on the Emra, Sommers and Butler families. www.troopers-hill.org.uk/history.htm

Happy February! Welcome to most underrated and fastest improving month. You start in the depths of winter and end waking up in the light to the sound of birds singing, to the sight of snowdrops, daffodils and early blossom in the trees #BigFebruary

Good to see mainstream coverage of “deplaytion” - the loss and decline of neighbourhood playgrounds, and of a tolerance of children’s neighbourhood play. It’s critical that this issue is taken as seriously - in terms of children’s mental health - as social media. Thanks @anooshc.bsky.social.

Excellent thread on a complex issue, well worth a read. Reform of the law is certainly needed.

My friend Dee is a parent at this Bristol school and wrote an open letter to Keir Starmer (in comments). www.theguardian.com/education/20...

🎉 Bristol Walk Fest 2026 is coming! Our small but mighty team is busy planning a month of walks across the city. Providers: register by 27 Feb → www.bristolwalkfest.com/providers-2/ Walkers: sign up for updates → www.bristolwalkfest.com/participant-... Get ready to celebrate the #MagicOfWalking! 🌿

We keep banging on about council funding because the end result is this very real, very depressing fraying of the social fabric. Newcastle needs to save £200k so the park cafes close, the staff is let go, and another community anchor goes. To save pennies. www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

It has been a long wait but the sale of the land near Bath, UK has finally gone through. We now own 81 acres of land on the banks of the River Avon which we are calling Warleigh Nature Reserve. New website on the way, but for now you can sign up here for email updates! warleighnaturereserve.org

Civic Society blue plaques have been unveiled for two rather different Bristolians: youth worker and councillor Bert Abrams in Knowle and vicar's daughter and author, Elizabeth Emra in St George. Details on our website: www.bristolcivicsociety.org.uk/what-we-do/b...

WHO statement on notification of withdrawal of the United States WHO regrets the United States’ notification of withdrawal from WHO – a decision that makes both the United States and the world less safe. Full statement: bit.ly/46dT0HF

Love having this in my timeline. Whatever is happening in the world the sun will rise tomorrow; and at this time of year it will hang around just that bit longer than the day before, actually 178 seconds longer tomorrow.

Honestly, it’s difficult for many Ukrainians, yet people choose craziness, no one is ready to give up

Horseshoe Bend - the sharp crook in the Avon near Shirehampton is a notoriously tricky stretch of water to navigate and has been the cause of many boats running aground. It is also why ships built in Bristol have been limited to around 98m (320ft) in length - about as long as the SS Great Britain.

This is a great report, but I think misses one important factor, which is the lack of informal outdoor facilities for girls in parks and recreation grounds. They don't use most current provision - MUGAs, skate parks etc, because these spaces are dominated by boys, feel unsafe... 1/n

👏👏👏👏 to everyone involved here. All politicians do walking at/with a camera films, but *sprinting* directly at a camera that keeps up is a whole new genre (!) If there isn’t a ‘making of’ to go with this later, I will eat my Green trainers.

Nowhere in Bristol has the 'Raise the Flags' campaign been more contentious than in Bedminster. Local councillor @ellief.bsky.social says she came to her view over this after speaking at length to both sides. Have a read of her opinion piece here: www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

I want the world to listen. What russia is doing now by attacking Ukraine’s energy and heating infrastructure in the middle of winter is an attempt to break us, to make us give up and to erase us as a nation. But no. We stand. It’s cold. It’s dark. We are not heroes. We stand.

Only 14% of blue plaques celebrate women so huge thanks to @robcrewshole.bsky.social and Susan Acton-Campbell for working to install one to commemorate the life and work of writer Elizabeth Emra in my ward of St George Central.