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UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer

🌲 Plant #729 🍀 I figured it out in 13 guesses! 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩 🔥 90 | Avg. Guesses: 10.3 flora.metazooa.com #metaflora

🦂 Animal #790 🕷️ I figured it out in 4 guesses! 🟨🟨🟩🟩 🔥 90 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1 metazooa.com #metazooa

Holiday plans sorted:

There are certain garden tasks to which my response is "No."

Metchley Fort was a #Roman fort in what is now #Birmingham. It lies on the course of a Roman road, Icknield Street, and the University Birmingham in Edgbaston. The fort was constructed soon after the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43. #RomanBritain #History

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🌱 Plant #728 🌲 I figured it out in 11 guesses! 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩 🔥 89 | Avg. Guesses: 10.3 flora.metazooa.com #metaflora

🕷️ Animal #789 🦥 I figured it out in 4 guesses! 🟨🟩🟩🟩 🔥 89 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1 metazooa.com #metazooa

Coming soon: 'Wild Roses of Great Britain and Ireland'. This latest title, no.26 in the series of #BSBIHandbooks for tricky plant groups, has just gone to the printers! Available for #BSBImembers to pre-order now at the discount price of £16 (vs RRP £25). Sample pages here: bsbi.org/bsbi-handboo...

We will hear about little else soon. Let's make sure we always talk about how the Trumpists are aggressively sabotaging the cheapest, easiest, and fastest-to-build sources of electricity today: wind & solar

We must be mad. #Population www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Haven't they suffered enough?

🌲 Plant #727 🍃 I figured it out in 13 guesses! 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 88 | Avg. Guesses: 10.3 flora.metazooa.com #metaflora

Looks like a remake of The Krays.

I finally cleaned up my messy cablework

Today was a #platypus day. 🤩 It was snowing, but #platypuses have incredibly dense fur. It's so thick that they can spend 30 hours non-stop foraging in the extremely chilly Tasmanian water without their skin actually getting wet. #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz

#LoonyConf www.ledburyreporter.co.uk/news/2547849...

🦏 Animal #788 🦓 I figured it out in 4 guesses! 🟥🟧🟧🟩 🔥 88 | Avg. Guesses: 7.2 metazooa.com #metazooa

A massive dereliction of leadership and duty, if true. A few years ago, Starmer branded Rishi Sunak’s absence from the world’s top #climate conference as a “failure of leadership”. He was right then - he must do the right thing himself now #COP30

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🪴 Plant #726 🌳 I figured it out in 3 guesses! 🟧🟧🟩 🔥 87 | Avg. Guesses: 10.2 flora.metazooa.com #metaflora

🦈 Animal #787 🪽 I figured it out in 11 guesses! 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 87 | Avg. Guesses: 7.2 metazooa.com #metazooa

Me, sighing, picking up more salt, sage, silver-tipped stakes & heavy cloths to cover all the crook'd mirrors he uses to get in to the mortal realm: Blair's back

A goosestep too far

IVY ROCKS! John Taw allowed Ivy to take over a less productive apple tree, now home for Ivy Bees & other pollinating insects. 'By late Nov Wood Pigeons will be constant browsers & Dec-Mar Redwings, Fieldfares & Blackbirds finish the harvest. Months of fascination as opposed to sour apples'

Look what we have here then.

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

You just don’t expect random philosophical questions at the supermarket.

The schooling system is failing our young people – yet instead of looking at itself, it tries to blame parents. Sir John Townsley’s comments: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09... #Education #Schools

Dr Watson at the Reichenbach Falls.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Part Three (24th September 1979). "Poor loves. Trained to Empire. Trained to rule the waves. Englishmen could be proud then."

Last year we had a total of two small quinces. I still need to pick the second tree. (var. Aromatnaya)

@silversprite.bsky.social Eagerly anticipating your review...

still my absolute fave is this in a bird hide in Cumbria

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

"FFS mate you'll have someone's eye out if you're not careful."

🍂 Plant #725 🌾 I figured it out in 3 guesses! 🟫🟫🟩 🔥 86 | Avg. Guesses: 10.3 flora.metazooa.com #metaflora

Apparently the "rapture" was supposed to have happened yesterday but I missed it. Does that mean that its just us sinful, godless heathens left here, so we can get on with having a good time now without the pious tutting?

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘September’ Shell Nature Studies, 1956 Artist: Rowland Hilder and Maurice Wilson

🐈 Animal #786 🐶 I figured it out in 6 guesses! 🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 86 | Avg. Guesses: 7.2 metazooa.com #metazooa

This is a compelling case for Housing First - the solution is cheaper than the problem!

Let's take a moment to marvel at all the trains being currently on time.

So AI could also be used to automatically pay benefits to all those entitled to benefits who don't claim?

Was so exciting to be in Birmingham today for the inauguration of my Queensway mural (both sides of this subway), a project in which every tile is unique...

Public spirited, patriotic folk, particularly those who put up the flags and painted the roundabouts, will surely be eager to volunteer for the clean-up? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some years ago passengers on a train on this line were told that it would not continue and they would have to wait for a replacement bus. The passengers disagreed, all remained in the carriages, and the train had to continue to its original destination. #PassengerPower www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...