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@IanDenton12 @FloraConsUK Dear Ian, Goodness, that's quite a pair of photos. What a sky. The unusual thing is that the Little Owl should be right at the top of the tree? Chris

@jalangdon @londonbookarts Hi James. I'm probably too late, but I would love to buy one of these books if there are any still available. Just two evenings ago I was giving a talk on swifts in a Wiltshire churchyard, and discussion turned to needletails...

To all the people who asked about getting one of these, I am sending a box from Berlin to @londonbookarts and will coordinate with them to post them out to you for a small fee. Will contact you again when the books reach London. Thanks for the interest and thanks LCBA 🙏

Curious what you see at the supermarket. On display today at the Customer Service desk in my local Waitrose (Gillingham, Dorset), a magnificent questionnaire for bombers.

Member of the National Trust? Tell them not to support this devastating scheme. The @NationalTrust is PIVOTAL to this road scheme. Shocking.

Wow, what a surprise. Hardy was 16 when he drew and painted this kingfisher. Has anyone identified the location? @SturminsterF @hardysociety @virginiaastley

The wrong narrative. Keeping honey bees doesn't help pollinators in the same way as releasing millions of chickens won't help conserve wild birds. More competition for flowers is likely to harm wild bees in areas with lots of hives @Bournemouthecho @AndrewDailyEcho

Just 5 sleeps to go now till @ShaftesBookFest begins! Tickets going fast (@DaveGoulson already sold out) but still time to book for 12th & 13th @KeggieC @StephenMoss_TV @Robin_Trees @yuvalzommer @benhoarewild @philip1marsden @cgnicholson1 @curlewcalls shaftesburybookfestival.com

One armchair, sold today for £80 at auction in Bridport, Dorset. According to the auctioneers, it is 'said to be the chair that Samuel Beckett burned a hole in...' What next? Joyce's toothbrush? @samuelbbeckett @BeckettSociety

The U.K.'s most durable patch of snow, Braeriach's 'The Sphinx', is now critically small. At just 4 metres long, it will melt completely unless heavy snow arrives within the next week & buries it. Since the 1700s it has melted 6 times (1933, 1959, 1996, 2003, 2006, 2017 & 2018).

@janepottie In late summer 2007 and my son went for a walk with John up Aonach Mor to look at a snow-patch, and I wrote a little about him in my book 'Among the summer snows.' I'm so sorry to hear about your loss. He was a lovely, warm, sensitive man, a great pleasure to meet.

The amazing, lovely and inspirational John Pottie - Dad - died on Thursday. I am so proud of all the adventures he had and so lucky to have him as my role model…

This is urgent! The Government wants to impose a catastrophic 50% funding cut to arts subjects at higher education (HE) level in England. I've joined the @Public_Campaign for the Arts to tell @GavinWilliamson: arts education matters. Will you join too? campaignforthearts.org/petitions/stop…

@TimDee4 @KathleenJamie @MarkCocker2 ...the second @bbcworldservice programme was a celebration of nightingales...Richard & I met on a summer's evening in Suffolk...he spoke so eloquently & with such sensitivity & gentleness & passion... #MabeyMonth

Richard Mabey turns 80 in February. I propose #MabeyMonth here where we share favoured passages, recall encounters with his work or him & celebrate a life in writing that has been a source for so much of so called nature writing. Endorsed by @KathleenJamie & @MarkCocker2 Do join.

@TimDee4 @KathleenJamie @MarkCocker2 I made 2 radio programmes with Richard Mabey for @bbcworldservice in the early mid 1990s. The first was a book programme - he chose Richard Jefferies' astonishing post-apocalyptic novel 'After London'.....

@KeggieC @Underhillwood Congratulations. Jonathan and Keggie. You've barely aged. Have a lovely day....

We got married 3 weeks after we met. Our 34th Wedding Anniversary today. @Underhillwood xx

These are quite wonderful aren't they?

@PaulBlezard My mother is 100 and has heard nothing yet. But then, she lives in her own house; as a result, she's in Category 2. If she were in a care home (Category 1), she might have been vaccinated by now.

A quick and unscientific info request: Has anyone else an 80+ y.o. parent who has not yet been contacted about - let alone received - a C19 vaccine of any make?