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A lovely video from @SoSSwifts showing the beauty of these beautiful and remarkable swiftlets reared, rescued & cared for in E Suffolk. This crew are up in the skies now & will travel to the Congo & far beyond, not landing again until breeding in say 3 years.

Tonight Saturday 21st of March Ely Cathedral has illuminated the Octagon in light blue. I did capture this photo from Cherry Hill Park. Ely Cathedral shared the following message: 🩵 Tonight, we are lighting the Octagon Tower blue for World Down Syndrome Day. This year’s theme is ‘Together Against Loneliness’ and organisers are calling on politicians, employers and the public to act so that people who have Down’s syndrome are genuinely welcomed, valued and included in their schools, community spaces and leisure activities, workspaces or places of worship. #TogetherAgainstLoneliness #WorldDownSyndromeDay — at Ely Cathedral.

Bach in the rain. For anyone who needs something beautiful right now.

The last train of the day going over Porthmadog Cob. Goodnight all

Perfect weather for the spring Equinox today, a critical trigger for bird breeding, as increasing daylight boosts hormones, initiating migration, territorial singing & nest building. But some started early & today the first cute mallard ducklings were spotted, a huge brood of 18

One of the most spectacular events in Sicily during Easter It takes place in San Biagio Platani, in the province of Agrigento, Italy 🇮🇹 These arches are built using natural and edible materials, mainly bread! An absolute and sweet masterpiece

#ThoughtForTheDay Pigeons get called sky rats. But birds like these once carried messages through gunfire when every radio failed. And the part most people miss is this. For thousands of years humans relied on pigeons to move information faster than any technology available at the time. Their homing instinct is so precise that a trained bird released hundreds of miles away can still navigate straight back to its loft. That simple biological skill made them invaluable in war. During World War I and World War II, armies deployed hundreds of thousands of pigeons. When telephone wires were cut and radio signals failed, commanders often had only one reliable way to send a message through chaos. In 1918 a Pigeon named Cher Ami carried a desperate note from trapped American troops in the Argonne Forest. The bird was shot through the chest and lost part of a leg during the flight but still delivered the message, helping stop friendly artillery fire and saving nearly two hundred soldiers. Today their descendants wander city sidewalks, pecking quietly for crumbs. Most people see a nuisance. History once saw a lifeline with wings.

In 1300, England's primary export was wool. Not wheat. Not timber. Not fish. Wool. The Cotswolds, the Yorkshire Dales, the Welsh uplands: these were not scenic backdrops. They were the engine. The sheep were the industry. The fleece funded the cathedrals. Literally: the wool merchants of the Cotswolds paid for most of them. The wool trade funded the Hundred Years War. The Lord Chancellor of England sat on a woolsack in the House of Lords from the fourteenth century. The woolsack is still there. The Hanseatic League built their northern European trade networks largely around English wool. Flemish weavers built the city of Bruges on it. The Italian banking system, the Medici included, was capitalised in part on wool trade credit. This was Doris. Not exactly Doris. Doris's ancestors, the medieval fell sheep that grazed the same uplands Doris grazes now, producing the same wool from the same grass in the same rain. The wool that built the economy that built the architecture that people now drive three hours from Manchester to look at. The sheep built it. We have made the wool economically worthless. It now costs more to shear Doris than the wool is worth at market. The farmer shears her anyway because not shearing a sheep in summer is a welfare issue. The Yorkshire mill that has been processing British wool since 1887 is not running at capacity. The outdoor clothing industry is 70% polyester. The polyester sheds microplastics every wash. The microplastics are in the Irish Sea. The Irish Sea is not the woolsack. The woolsack is still in the House of Lords. Doris is on the fell. Doris has more where that came from.

Two new Bluetit freehand Wire Sculptures finished today. Such small Birds that take so long to create 🥵 #freehandartist #birdartist #wiresculpture

We need your help to #SaveDenby! We are sad to share that we may be forced to close and a British institution could be lost. We need your help: 1. Share this post 2. Sign the government petition 3. Buy Denby 4. Visit us at the Pottery Village Read more: denbypottery.com/pages/save-den…

“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.” ~Camille Pissarro

“If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders.” Walt Whitman

“May your troubles be less, and your blessings be more, and nothing but happiness come through your door.” — Traditional Irish blessing Green flowers, symbolising good health and good fortune, to wish the Emerald Isle a happy St. Patrick’s Day. #StPatricksDay #LaFeilePadraig

"If you believe you are going to be lucky, you go about your business with a smile, take disaster with a smile, start afresh with a smile. To do that is to be in the way of happiness." ~A.A.Milne #StPatricksDay

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations. —Henry David Thoreau

🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡 Thankyou Donna Ashworth I often feel overwhelmed with the myriad things I want to say on Mother’s Day. But I think this is the most important place to begin. #mothersday

Looking towards Ullswater this morning ⛰️

This man literally tells Neuroscience trick to stop negative thought loops.

When lost, let the sun guide you.

Post a picture YOU took. Just a pic. No description.