I'm off work for a couple of months and looking for an in-person volunteering post for about half a day a week starting now to give a bit of shape to my week.

First of the precious autumn treasure here in Turin.

Trump is slashing billions from cancer research, putting life-saving work at risk. We can step in: bring the fired US cancer scientists to the UK to continue their vital work. I’ve signed a petition asking Keir Starmer to act - will you? 38d.gs/nfah

#ForSale These posters are increasingly rare and in demand, and can you wonder at it? #ShellNatureStudies #SeptemberFlyway #September #MauriceWilson #RowlandHilder #MigrantBirds #CommercialArt #Heritage #NatureWriting #ArtSky

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Have I mentioned here on 🦋 how much I adore these Shell Nature Studies? The concept of an oil company using nature to promote itself may be troublesome today, but it speaks of a period when art and commercialism (c.f. the lithographs in Lyons' Corner Houses) co-existed harmoniously in Britain.

Reposting for #NationalFoxDay🦊

Anne Louise Avery's followers will know that her beloved mother, who was also a clever and talented writer, is still very much-missed. 🕊 I'm sure that @annelouiseavery.bsky.social has a copy of it already, but I wanted to share this gem that I came across in a local newspaper.

For sale! The Shell Guide to Somerset, illustrated by David Gentleman. A wonderful miscellany of the county – old gods of Bath & ghostly battles of Sedgemoor, the golden tower of Huish Episcopi & red cider apples on withy mats. Dm to buy or purchase from my Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

Late afternoon & Wolf was showing a tired Pine Marten the shells he had collected on the beach that morning. Spindle shells & sting winkles, netted dog whelks & Baltic tellins & wentletraps like strange spiral staircases made of sea bone. You can have 'em all, said Wolf, gruffly.

@annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon - "Shells" #OldFoxCommunity (Old Fox, Wolf, Pine Marten) Today is a good day to subscribe. www.patreon.com/posts/shells...

🍁🦊Competition time! To celebrate the coming of autumn, win a cornucopia of delights! A signed copy of my book, Reynard the Fox & accompanying journal, A Fox for All Seasons, Apple & Blackberry chocolate, cinnamon knots, Caramelised biscuit tea & a fine fox companion. Follow, like & repost to win! 🦊🍂

🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.

So much goodness & strength has been poured into this story by @annelouiseavery.bsky.social and her recipe for elderberry syrup that accompanies it. Do please consider giving both your heart and your health a little pick-me-up by subscribing today. #OldFox'sCottage www.patreon.com/posts/old-fo...

🦊🍂 As summer turns to autumn, why not join my Patreon for seasonal stories and old country recipes, such as Old Fox's Superb Cure-all Elderberry Syrup, which will keep the colds and the influenzas at bay throughout the colder months. patreon.com/posts/old-fo... 🍂🦊

Are you looking forward to autumn? All seasons are splendid in #OldFox'sCottage, but autumn is perhaps the best of all. Do please consider supporting @annelouiseavery.bsky.social's writing by joining her Patreon, if you can. 🦊

If UK–US deal is pushed through without a vote, it’s a constitutional coup. ⚠️ Ministers rewrite laws by decree. ⚠️ Washington sets our standards. ⚠️ No scrutiny. No consent. This isn’t just allowing in hormone fed beef, it’s ending democracy. ✍️ sign the petition and write to your MP now.

This week's column. The details will make you gasp and rage. This massive desecration of nature is almost unbelievable, but it is happening in the UK right now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Please sign. The USA is wiping out wild horses and burros in the cruellest of ways www.thepetitionsite.com/237/911/278/...

🚨NOW 401 DAYS since our nuclear test veterans - national heroes in their eighties - requested a meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer to discuss how he will honour the commitment Labour made to their campaign for justice and compensation in opposition youtu.be/hSQNLn2Ocr8?...

Email Ofgem. Space Karen has applied for a licence to sell energy to the UK. He's unscrupulous, corrupt and volatile; he's proved his unsuitability to supply something essential like energy, as it's quite likely he'll decide to withdraw on a whim. actionbutton.nationbuilder.com/share/SPK-QE...

Utterly ridiculous. What’s he doing? Moving house? Well either way, he can f right off.

What strange times, when the commander of RAF Greenham Common is coming out as a liberal supporter of the right to protest

I am horrified. If you use US material, download all old reports you use. The record will be erased. Even that might not save you: every report sourced from the US will now have to be suspected of politicised manipulation and will in the future the same credibility as Iran’s human rights reports

Having a bad day? In need of some schadenfreude? Millionaire trophy hunter Asher Watkins gets gored to death by the bull he was trying to kill. metro.co.uk/2025/08/06/m...

Please do buy tickets or share if you can! Starts at €5 and I'm covering shipping, worldwide. It's such an important cause.

🍒On my patreon today, the Little Girl's Aunt's Stratigraphic Summer Trifle – created in the stormy summer of 1930. A delicious chaos of cream & raspberries & jelly & custard & Crème de Framboise & Madeira Cake! Suitable for village fêtes & garden parties & birthday teas! patreon.com/posts/134607...

On my patreon today, The Little Girl's Aunt's Stratigraphic Summer Trifle – created in the stormy summer of 1930. A delicious chaos of cream & raspberries & jelly & custard & Crème de Framboise & Madeira Cake! Suitable for village fêtes & garden parties & birthday teas! patreon.com/posts/134607...

“the grand jury heard testimony that Epstein, who was then in his 40s, had raped teenage girls as young as 14 at his Palm Beach mansion. The teenagers testified and told detectives they were also paid to find him more girls.”

11-year-old wildlife campaigner Amaya Edwards saw a seal that had been killed by a flying ring. Now she’s leading a campaign to ban them from beaches and she won’t stop until real change happens. Read her short article ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Donald Trump is a complete fraud. Always has been.

Tour of Temporary Corrals: A Hard Look and a Shocking Statement wildhorseeducation.org/2025/07/25/t... Adibe Town Roundup update. #wildhorses #wildhorseeducation

A very important, detailed, and 💔💔 read. There's a quick click action item at the end if you're more inclined to jump to that. Please take a moment for this. What the Bureau of Land Management is subjecting the horses to is abject cruelty.

If you haven’t read this yet - DO!! Fundamental reading for anyone who cares about nature, climate, access to the countryside, food, fairness, environmental justice, future generations. The truth will shock you.

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Video of F. Caraceni. Unfortunately, Bluesky only allows me to upload 3 mins. You can view the entire video at Hogtown Rake. thehogtownrake.com/2018/03/30/j...

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

I post lots of stuff for free, for your and my entertainment, and that's the way I've always liked it. I do earn my living from selling my work, so if you feel like supporting my cartoons are popular and I draw each one individually - they're not prints. www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

Overheard: I'm surprised the nickname “Pedofuhrer" hasn't caught on yet.

the room next door - When Donald Trump was Called Out

They were haymaking in the fields around the Bears' hamlet & the air was heavy with the sweet scent of the whirled bales & the honeysuckle in the hedgerows. High above, the kites were wheeling & the summer felt as though it would never end, that those days would simply never end.

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Today on my patreon, Bear's Sisters' Lammas Seed Cake – perfect for harvesting in the fields! Subscribe for this & hundreds of other stories & recipes! And help me immeasurably with my writing and all things! JOIN TODAY for a little respite from the stormy old world! www.patreon.com/posts/bears-...

Old Fox had been up since before dawn. He'd gone to the fields around the cottage, the wheat golden & heavy and dry, ready for harvest. He called to the land. He cut the first sheaf. Later he'd make his Lammas bread & take it to St Thomas's church, to the Lady Chapel, as all had done before him.

Isn't it a little dark in here, said Old Fox, won't you come & join us in the meadow? I've had enough of summer, said Wolf, I want the North wind & syrup cake & bonfires in the orchard & blackberry jam & Michaelmas daisies & the geese all a-skeining in the mist.

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