Robin Baker

Found this big thistle. Can anyone tell me what sort? #wildflowerhour

@benonwine Who?

What’s the first word that comes to mind when you see these two patriots?

@HoratioClare Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Böll.

Brilliant friends. I'm looking for books set in immediate post-war, post / occupation worlds. So we have Naples 44, and Primo Levi's The Truce (one of my favourites ever), and Rory Stewart's Occupational Hazards...any thoughts? I'd be so grateful. Any place, any time. Thank you!

@MichelleWerrett @BookDevon theguardian.com/books/2023/nov…

@BookDevon Hello #devonbookhour. I haven't read this yet. Interested to know what it's about, what makes it special.

Anyone read this? Wondering what your thoughts are. One of the things to talk about during tonight's #devonbookhour from 8PM That and more of your favourite books of the year so far. Also, I'd like ideas for a themed evening or two for 2024.

@ianmiles How is that passive? Looks pretty active (if not effective) to me.

This is incredibly passive aggressive.

@MichelleWerrett One of the Chrysopidae ( Green lacewings ) larva, Chrysoperla / Chrysopa etc.

Does anyone know what this strange, colourful creature might be, please? #insect #wildlife #nature 🪳

@MichelleWerrett It’s a lacewing larva

@ChrisGPackham What is BTW

Here you go . . . barren , burned , persecuted and the preserve of a few , our uplands , right royally fucked up so people can kill wildlife for fun . . . Madness . Let’s end it . (BTW The Angus Glens have one of the worse reputations for illegal raptor persecution) . Yeah . @WildJustice_org @RaptorPersUK @ReviveCoalition

@IsabelCurdes Awareness

@GrammarUpdates grammar-monster.com/easily_confuse…

Did you know? Grammar Checker: grammarcheck.net/editor/

@RJefferiesSoc @MichelleWerrett Yes

@MichelleWerrett Richard Jefferies essay 'Wild Flowers' published in 1885 and collected in THE OPEN AIR. Here's an extract:

Dear Tweeps, your advice, please: I need to find good examples of writing about wildflower meadows for a writing workshop. What would you recommend? ✍ 🌸🍀🌺🌾⚘

@RJefferiesSoc @MichelleWerrett Yes, of course.

Harvesters’ tea break, Spittle, Chulmleigh, August 1988.Photograph by my Dad, digitally scanned from a Beaford Archive negative. ©Beaford Arts @beaford #Devon #photography #tea beafordarchive.org/archive-image/…

Good Thinking welcomes new Standards from the Professional Standards Authority, and the withdrawal of the Society of Homeopaths goodthinkingsociety.org/good-thinking-…

@matthewalbanus Kodak Vest Pocket Model B, 1925-34. Takes a 127 film which is the same as my first camera, a Brownie 127, took. The film is obsolete, and so difficult to find and expensive. I'm hoping to cut down a 120 film to fit.

It's World Photography Day! Reply with a photo of your oldest camera!😉

Are there any good theories out there on why this govt is actively encouraging a second wave?

@chapelhillchild As one Tory MP is said to have put it, Boris couldn't make up his mind whether to sacrifice health or the economy, so he sacrificed both.

We can all think of plenty of ways. Stop Brexit, Johnson resigns, electoral reform, get grown up truthful government, address social injustice, stop non-dom media ownership, block tax havens .... & welcome the immigrants who contribute so much.

You can have the NHS or Brexit. You can have decent public services or Brexit. You can have good schools & well-paid teachers or Brexit. Why the 'or'? Because Brexit appeases 2 constituencies: those who want low taxes & those hostile to immigrants. Satisfy them, & the NHS etc go.

It’s simple. If an MP uses violent or threatening language about an opponent, they should be removed from their party. @BorisJohnson @jeremycorbyn @joswinson @NicolaSturgeon @adamprice @TiceRichard do our political leaders agree? 38d.gs/endviolentlang… #GE2019