Dr Trish Nicholson

#TheFiveAcreForest. A personal tale of tree planting that tells the deep-time story of a sand country landscape. "I now feel the oneness with our planet like never before." (Reader) Details: trishnicholsonswordsinthetreehouse.com/service/the-fi… eBook sold everywhere for all devices for the cost of a latte 🙃

@CardioKiwi Oh dear, in two sections by the look of it....

Good news and, well, bad news. How the hell am I going to retrieve it????

"Maybe the issue was never aging itself. Maybe it was the distance we created between generations."

President Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine were officially nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize today. We all know that the cats deserve it too. @ZelenskyyUa 💙🐱💙

@AnnaOdesitka I agree with you too 💙💛

Discussion with my father. We agree. Collapsing russia is one attack on Kyiv away from total defeat. We’re at end of war. If russians go through with this, war ends with their collapse. They really don’t understand do they? It’s not like me writing this will make them see. They are beyond sight. As my father say, Ukraine is for Putin fictional Moby Dick. Putin will happily destroy russia and everything if he has to for his obsession. Russians have to decide if they want russia or war and no russia. West don’t understand either. More importantly West is afraid. They are afraid of russia winning but they are even more afraid of Russian collapse. It’s no other options. Russia can’t simply lose. It can only win or collapse. And it can’t win. Trump made it impossible for West to have any say now. Ukraine, unlike russia exists in reality. Russia exists only as myth fed to its prison citizens. Thats all russia is and offers its people, myth of identity, myth of divine right as empire and promise of victory of this myth. They get nothing else. As long as Moscow and Leningrad are happy, the Hunger Games will continue. If they had won, they would love this genocide. But losing means collapse. Thats why Putin has not mobilized Moscow or Leningrad, and only uses ethnic forces to attack. Because Moscow must be worshipped and seen as all powerful. Attack on Kyiv won’t destroy our reality as Ukraine. Ukraine will exist. Our identity won’t disappear. But this level of planned destruction on Kyiv will absolutely be planned for in answer by my leaders. If you imagine my government won’t retaliate because Trump will demand it, you are mistaken. Trump has made America irrelevant and corrupt vassal of Russia. My government will answer. That answer will almost certainly focus on Moscow. And if only thing you have is myth, then when answer comes, myth is turned into reality. Glue that binds this landmass of stolen people and lands is myth. And if myth is gone, they collapse. It’s not simply they get escalation. It’s much more simple. There is myth or collapse. If Putin gives this order and russia follows through, it’s checkmate when Ukraine answers. And of course Putin will give this order and his horde will follow it. Remember what my father said. As we get closer to Russian collapse, they will murder more of us. But Ukraine will survive and have victory and our children and their offspring will have peaceful future even if we don’t get to see it. And I made peace with this in 2022. From point of no return in December 2025 to visible and undeniable russian collapse in March 2026, my father has predicted this with accuracy. If russia attempts to destroy Kyiv, it ends with russian collapse. If they are bluffing, it won’t change collapse. It will simply move slower. But they can’t escape collapse. Now or later, it’s certainty. They only get to decide when. And this attempt on Kyiv will hasten it. We are unafraid. What about you russians? 🤔

@nzskylovingdiva Gorgeous!

Moorena...three pictures taken over just five minutes of the dawn over Taamaki Makaurau today...❤️ Ranginui, the sky father, and his cloudy cloak of many colours...❤️

@Gerashchenko_en Spite in desperation because they are losing.

Russians struck a cemetery in Snovsk, Chernihiv region, with a Gerbera drone. The strike damaged graves, including burial sites of fallen Ukrainian Defenders. Days earlier, Russians attacked a funeral procession on the outskirts of Sumy. One person later died in hospital from injuries sustained. 14 others were injured.

For years this meadow was cut back every fortnight until there was nothing but green silence 🌱 Now, after just two years without the constant mowing, it has become a living sea of Buttercups, Dandelions, Cuckoo Flowers, Thistles and Dock 🌼✨ The difference is astonishing....bees drift between flowers, butterflies rise from the grasses and every inch is filled with life that simply was not there before 🐝🦋 “Untidy” land is not neglect at all...it is recovery 💛

@CardioKiwi Would have better to have lit the woodstove 😂

That thing when you hear noises, you look up at where the woodburner flu goes through the ceiling and.... Tail! Feets!! Teefs!!! I ended up fleeing to the downstairs bedroom to escape rattus rattus.

@JudeStevens 🙏

@TrishaNicholson 🙌🌿

Newly planted titoki seedling (Alectryon exelsus), and 5 metres away his role model, not yet reached his 10m. maturity. Crushed leaves are traditional treatment for insect bites. 🙃 Still planting trees in #TheFiveAcreForest > trishnicholsonswordsinthetreehouse.com/service/the-fi…

@SilkAvril Oh, what a beauty! The tree is pretty impressive too 😁

@TrishaNicholson Time to bring on the 3,800 year old Ashbrittle yew! #thicktrunkTuesday

Almost as much root as trunk but certainly thick 🙃Greetings to all the lovely Treepeople on #thicktrunktuesday

#DailyPictureTheme - 'abandoned'

"As of this May, 20,570 cases of the deportation and forced transfer of Ukrainian children have been officially confirmed." And there are likely many more as yet undocumented.

Not sure if this qualifies as 'pano'? - Osmond Valley Gorge in Australia is more depth than width 😁 #DaiyPictureTheme - 'pano'

@nzskylovingdiva Ah, bless you for your kind words, thank you. I'm promoting the book a bit more now because, after all these years of gentle,occasional publicity, I find even long-time followers have not noticed it 😔

@TrishaNicholson You're a miracle, Trish. Truly. Thank you for creating such an amazing sanctuary of green with your incredibly hard work...💚

@graysing Me too, I turn them over to see every time I pass them 😁

@TrishaNicholson Love the pink veins…😊

Today's green is our native makamaka (Ackama rosifolia), 'rosi' because the underside of leaves are pink veined. Small 6m forest margin tree. Not to be confused with 'makomako' (Aristotelia serrata) or wineberry at 10m.🙃 #trees in #TheFiveAcreForest

Because everyone, including Europe, wants cheap fossil fuels regardless of the cost in human lives ... because it is not their lives ..... yet.

It appears that Russia's "Oreshnik" missile attack from yesterday was even more humiliating than anyone initially thought. Not only did they manage to only damage some unused storage garages in a Kyiv suburb, but there were TWO(!!) missiles. The first of the two $40 million missiles failed over Russian occupied Donetsk, pouring warheads onto the areas near Avdiivka and Bakhmut, wherein lay high concentrations of Russian troops. An $80M clusterfuck, as is everything Russia.