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Behold! The famous Orkney Library & Archive knitted #Christmas tree begins another season of festive cheer in the library! 🎄🧶❤️

In stock and a rare little delight. Brother of #KateBush, John Carder Bush - The Cellar Gang, limited to only 500 copies, published 2005. A great #Christmas gift. Available from us via #abebooks.com. For USA please ask for shipping quote...

Vintage Penguin Classics 2/6 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 tinyurl.com/4b2fddp4 Free UK shipping... #sirgawain #beowulf #greenknight

#Botany #Herbs Vintage colour prints in 2 x volumes... 👇 👇 👇 👇 tinyurl.com/3nfwaxen

Job lot of 35 volumes of Transactions of the Historic Society of #Lancashire and #Cheshire Auctioning now... ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ tinyurl.com/6vxtmj5n

Two lots of Lakeland delights auctioning now:- 👇 tinyurl.com/prnb5asb #wainwright #lakeDistrict

Auctioning now:- Canadian Pacific Cruises promo vintage map, (del) Edmund Dulac - 1927 👇 tinyurl.com/34fvw7pv

The Labour government has announced a review into the state pension age. So much for this spiteful and deceitful government claiming to be supportive of ‘working people’.

Water companies have ‘cheated us out of £84 billion’ – Feargal Sharkey channel4.com/news/water-com…

How little we understand about the #biodiversity that we are fast trashing phys.org/news/2025-07-f…

Somewhat strange to hear @bbcnickrobinson haranguing an NHS Consultant for being on “over £100,000” and claiming to channel the feelings of ordinary people. His salary in 2024 was between £345,000 - £349,000. For presenting radio programs. Which never saved anyone’s life?

For while there is a language of flowers, it is in the meadow that it becomes poetry. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #Flowers

Latest blog available about the perils of development next to an old unlined landfill site, it makes very interesting reading... savedanesmoss.com/toxic-town/

With it being one of the driest springs on record, read our latest blog... savedanesmoss.com/2025-wildfires/

I am incredibly heartened by how many of you have liked and shared Team Bat/Team Newt Thank goodness so many people care about nature. I've put an enquiry in about t-shirts, caps, badges etc. Please keep sharing - under every post by Reeves, Starmer et al. #TeamBat #TeamNewt

This week’s cover PERSON OF THE YEAR 2025 Gisèle Pelicot

"I'm looking for an copy of a book ..... How to Dig Your Own Grave' by Gregg Wallace. I'm thinking of giving it to a handful of women of a certain age ..."

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.