Bruce Murphy

@anna_c_cronin @LinzBl @timspector It's fine if you wear a tin foil hat while you cook.

@LinzBl @timspector Nothing will persuade me to use a microwave oven. Food quality is destroyed, judging by what research has been done, and we still don’t know enough about other negative impacts because not enough quality research exists. Better safe than injured!

Read my piece in the Guardian- focusing on food and the planet theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

@SteB777 @joshual951 @LushLtd Paul Leach, in charge of the national Nepenthes collection at Chester Zoo, has been using peat-free for years. chesterzoo.org/our-zoo/plants…

@joshual951 @LushLtd When I was on the Fenns and Whixall Moss NNR stand at Shrewsbury Flower show some years back (we were pushing peat free compost). Mike King of Shropshire Sarracenias came over, and explained how he now used peat free compost for all his plants. carnivorousplants.co.uk/blog/mike-king…

Hi @LushLtd, why on Earth are you growing and selling carnivorous plants in peat, and claiming it’s peat-free cork waste and recycled glass? Disappointed to say the least…

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Arrests starting at Kingsbury Oil Terminal. The Just Stop Oil supporters, many of whom have already taken action this year, are likely to face a charge of contempt of court. If found guilty, they could be imprisoned for up to two years. #CivilResistance

@MatthewStadlen @cathandfearne @paulpowlesland @metpoliceuk @SuellaBraverman I am old enough to remember us all being shocked by Putin's police arresting protestors with blank signs.

@DrSimEvans @davidMbrooke @NigelBanks_ilke @DiddlySquat51 Why do you need to run the MVHR in the summer?

@davidMbrooke @NigelBanks_ilke @DiddlySquat51 very helpful I think all in all it's likely mainly the MVHR using that 2nd kWh per day baseline, plus router etc

Random energy Twitter question… We've been away so I can see our baseline electricity usage is 2kWh/day I reckon the fridge + freezer combined ought to be only about half that Router shouldn't be much… Only other thing I can think of is MVHR – could that be 1kWh/day?

@MarkyP1970 Rminds me of: poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/th…

Darkness falls across the land, the midnight hour is close at hand, creatures crawl in search of blood, to terrorise y'alls neighbourhood... #Thriller

@crawley_mick That Amaranthus caudatus looks an awful lot like Acalypha hispida!

There are 3 garden Amaranthus species that you might find as outcasts on waste ground. The really easy one is Love-lies-bleeding (A. caudatus) with its long, colourful tassels (left). A. hypochondriacus has stiff upright tassels (right)

The genus with the most fearsome reputation as being hard to identify is Amaranthus. In former centuries, there were dozens of similar-looking species imported with contaminated seed crops and as hitch-hikers on packing materials. They were sub-tropical weeds of waste ground.

@lifewithsommer So how many people do you think the earth can carry? At what point would it be overpopulated, regardless of race?

@GrayPayne @pellynut @TheMontyDon Why are your "Pellies" so important that they justify such environmental destruction?

@pellynut @TheMontyDon Couple of years is really good, carry on stocking up👍

I am delighted at the news that the government - at long last - is to impose a ban on peat-based composts from 2024. I also applaud its proposals to assist reclamation and recover of peatlands. /1

@PickardJE Back-water Blues by Bessie Smith

what’s the best song about rain, I’m taking Stormy Weather by Etta James

@PFriedling @ThierryAaron @GeorgeMonbiot 😮 The image is from the National Food Strategy report (part 2) which doesn't show numbers. Where did @guardianeco get such wildly different numbers?

@ThierryAaron @GeorgeMonbiot Although the ratio of livestock to wild animals is about right, all these numbers are wrong by several orders of magnitude ! See the original paper from Bar-On et al. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

This stat is just mind-blowing 🤯 The impact of industrial agriculture on the planet is staggering and completely unsustainable. (H/T @GeorgeMonbiot) Source:theguardian.com/environment/20…

@brianmoore666 @SunApology The "ultimate price"? Um... Really?

Client politicians and client journalists. Almost as if this was bring coordinated.

Saw that Farage was at RAF Tangmere yesterday but weirdly ... didn't mention Douglas Bader perhaps the most famous pilot to fly out of there. Then I came across this from 2 years ago - which might explain why.

@CrowMonthly @JustPlaneNews @haringeycouncil @mikehakata @perayahmet @McDonaldsUKNews @XRebellionUK @DavidLammy @ChrisGPackham Ditto. Well done for publicising this.

@JustPlaneNews @haringeycouncil @mikehakata @perayahmet @McDonaldsUKNews @XRebellionUK @DavidLammy @ChrisGPackham Thank you for organising this, I couldn’t come, so I’m grateful to those who were there 🖤🖤

Great turn out for the McDonalds action against the felling of 11 trees and laying of plastic grass today at Haringey Green Lanes, N4. Even a strange man called Donald joined us! @haringeycouncil @mikehakata @perayahmet @McDonaldsUKNews @XRebellionUK @DavidLammy @ChrisGPackham

@BotanyEm @kewgardens Can Kew abstract from the Thames?

So dry @kewgardens at the moment - we need rain in the south east!

@GeorgeMWME One of Darwin's major research interests: darwinproject.ac.uk/letters/darwin…

Found this on my walk this morning... Any plant people out there know what it is?

@regularuk @ecology_digest Or maybe just related to Pines.

That final sentence after all that’s gone before. Perfect, no notes

@thenewgalaxy @iancbeavis @JLowenWildlife @Andy_R_Scobie @Apithanny @martinfowlie @Buzz_dont_tweet Has Trichius gallicus made it to Scotland yet?

27/6/22 Highland - I saw some fantastic plants in Scotland but the fauna delighted in equal measure. I'd never come across a Bee Beetle (Trichius) but I was pretty pleased to recognise it. I think this magnificent creature is T. fasciatus, but I'll leave that to the experts...

@RichmondTransit @TfL @AlexanderEhmann @Gareth_Roberts_ @RichmondPkCycle @willnorman @RichmondCycling @ChiswickCycling @HounslowCycling @andree_frieze @theJeremyVine @London_Cycling Also, why no cycle contraflow around Kew green? The road is plenty wide enough.

Shame on @TfL for forcing cyclists onto a busy pavement after adding a 4th car lane on #kewbridge. What are @AlexanderEhmann @Gareth_Roberts_ doing about it?