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@WriterHannahBT Yes! My first yesterday 🥰

THE CHIFFCHAFFS HAVE ARRIVED!!!! Have you heard any yet?

Watch the full video if you can bear to, in fact you must, we need to stare the truth in the face. And then sign Paul’s petition and do whatever else you can to help bring this despicable and illegal practice to an end.

@paulpowlesland Oh Paul, this is appalling. Signing the petition now.

The scourge of illegal waste crime sweeping the country has now made its way to my river, with one of the largest illegal waste dumps in the country being discovered next to the River Roding at Stapleford Tawney, near Epping. Nobody knows what exactly is dumped on this 20,000 square metre site, or how much waste it contains, but it is certainly tens of thousands of tonnes. Shockingly, rubbish has been dumped on this site since 2024 and the Environment Agency (EA) has known about it for *at least* a year. Even now, however, the EA has not shut down the site by obtaining a legal closure order, physically blocking off the site and putting in CCTV monitoring. This means the site is wide open so anyone can continue to dump there. There is also zero monitoring of the environmental impact on the river, despite visible toxic leachate pooling on the surface of the dump & draining off it. The EA has apparently no plans to remove the waste from this site either & intends to let it pollute the environment indefinitely.

Such a joyful ramble (slower than I’d have managed before) with Clare Balding & the spirit of the marvelous Julia White, who farmed Manor Farm 1941-1955, & the incredible women she apprenticed herself to. Listen here! #BBCR4 #Ramblings #GhostsoftheFarm bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

A must-read. Accessible language. The message is clear. Share it widely.

@paulpowlesland Happy birthday Paul! 🍃

I had to spend my 35th birthday at home, isolating with Covid, so I decided to spend the day planting 35 black poplar trees. Five’s years later & a dozen of these trees survived & they’re starting to get massive: outgrowing the local lampposts & almost ready to climb! As I turn 40 tomorrow, I decided to repeat the exercise, planting 40 trees (18 blank poplar & 22 willow). Digging into the wet, silty mud beside the river, it was hard work, but immensely satisfying to mark the passage of time & a big life transition by giving a gift to the river, and not just receiving.

@LBFlyawayhome Thank you thank you thank you!

Now this takes me back

We are devastated to share the news that three white-tailed eagles have disappeared in suspicious circumstances. We are asking anyone who may have information to help the police investigation to please come forward. forestryengland.uk/news/three-whi… @RoyDennisWF @ForestryEngland

This is Boudica. I raised her this summer. In 3 years she’ll return needing a home. Swift bricks will help her & the Scots vote on them tomorrow. This is personal - it’s the future of swifts. Please send this greens.scot/saveourswifts & share as though you’d raised this bird

@TheBookshopMan @vintagebooks Brilliantly described Colin. I’m so pleased this is the winner.

The WINNER of the 2025 Booker Prize. #Flesh by David Szalay A propulsive, hypnotic novel, about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp Fifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour – a married woman close to his mother’s age – as his only companion. These encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that István himself can barely understand, and his life soon spirals out of control. As the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on the currents of the twenty-first century’s tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of London’s super-rich, with his own competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely. Spare and penetrating, Flesh is the finest novel yet by a master of realism, asking profound questions about what drives a life: what makes it worth living, and what breaks it.

@WriterHannahBT What! What is WRONG with them 🤬

These 2 women have broken my💔One is a role model in my 📕 about this campaign, her speech FOR swift bricks 2 years ago, extremely powerful. The other has supported from the start (she used to be the CEO of the RSPB!) It’s gutting they voted AGAINST swift bricks. I believed them

@nicolawriting 💔

Can you believe this? #SwiftBricksNow!

@WriterHannahBT 💔

BAD NEWS💔if the vote had taken place earlier we would have won-Tories (majority) whipped YES but by the time of the vote, support had gone home just like 2 years ago. It is an AGONISING reality. Tell steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk what you think. GUTTED. Labour: what a betrayal 😡

@RoostersWorldja Have you seen this @WriterHannahBT ?

We rescued several Palm Swifts trapped after Hurricane Melissa. 🌪️ Here’s Iyana, a Life Sciences student, drying off some of the birds. 💚 Share your wildlife updates with @RoostersWorldja 🇯🇲🕊️ #HurricaneMelissa #RoostersWorldja #WildlifeRescue #Jamaica

@monstroso Hip hip hooray!

The old team. Back for one last mission.

Can’t wait to chatter #GhostsoftheFarm at Romsey Waterstones 6th Nov, then @FoldeDorset 13th Nov. Rural women, farmgatekeeping, WWII Homefront, horses, cowgirls, farm wildlife, barn owls, the SOUND & sight of the northern lights, climate & land justice… & ghosts! @chelseagreen

@Ofmooseandmen It looks great!

Good morning and doesn't this look grand. We have a new website. Many thanks to designer Graham Shackleton. Marvelous. bluemoosebooks.com

@WriterHannahBT You’re brilliant Hannah 💗

Zac Goldsmith’s swift brick amendment 2.0 will be voted on next week. Can’t sleep. Please join the campaign to save our swifts.

Ghosts of the Farm is a wonderful book, and Nicola Chester will be talking about it at Waterstones in Romsey on 6th November! waterstones.com/events/an-even…