Dawn Preston

Last of the #bluebells and my first #swift of the year! #micheldeverwoods #hampshire

Really enjoying seeing all the #dandelions and #daisies blooming along the @FarehamBC roadside verges as I've been out and about this weekend. Food sources for all kinds of insects and cheery too! Let's hope the mowers don't cut them too soon...

A beautiful thing… 💚

Have your say! A proposed 140-home development at Snails Lane, adjacent to Blashford Lakes Nature Reserve, would pose a major threat to wildlife, fragile habitats and climate resilience. Make your comments by the 07/03 to speak up for nature. planning.newforest.gov.uk/online-applica…

It’s official, 2024 was the worst year for bumblebees since records began🚨 The latest findings from #BeeWalk, our national bumblebee monitoring scheme, have revealed bumblebee numbers declined by almost a quarter (22.5%) across Great Britain💔 Read on: bumblebeeconservation.org/british-bumble…

I heard someone talking on @r4Today about leaving dog hair out for birds to use in their nests *If pets have been treated with certain flea treatments, this could kill the chicks* Now seems a good time to repost this article 👇 Please repost #neonics theguardian.com/environment/20…

Thousands of children in Portsmouth and across Hampshire have experienced the magic of Stubbington Study Centre. Yet the future of this community asset is now in doubt due to a proposal before Hampshire County Council. I’ve written to the council to save the centre👇🏻

Are you looking for the best places to stargaze in the South Downs? Here are the 10 darkest spots in the South Downs to view star-studded skies 👉 buff.ly/2CTe4bU 📷 @brighton_photo

Please repeat after me: the flood-plain is not _beside_ the river. The flood plain is part of the river theguardian.com/environment/20…

❌ Food banks shouldn't need to exist. ✔️ We should all be able to afford the essentials we need to survive and live with dignity. Repost if you agree!

After living through the Nazi & atomic bomb eras, Finnish author/artist Tove Jansson's writings would often encompass fearful ideas about loss of a familiar world. However she would balance this with characters who encompassed kindness & community, even in the darkest times #WomensArt

Our new handbook for growing human-nature community relationships is launched today! findingnature.org.uk/2025/01/20/com…

10,000,000s of Brits are being ripped off by overpaying on energy, mobile, broadband, water bills and more. Tonight on 8pm ITV it's BillBuster time. I'll show you how to fight back by cutting costs and keeping more cash in your pockets not theirs. Please do share and pass word.

🗓️ New year, new you! ❄️ Have you thought about organising a fundraiser to help get rid of the winter blues? 🔗 Find out more here: hiwwt.org.uk/fundraise-wild…

🌡️ No words, no numbers—just a powerful visual capturing our planet’s warming. 🔴 The latest update adds a new dark red stripe for 2024—a color first introduced last year when 2023 shattered all previous records.

Hello - I wrote a new blog about the teaching of whole class reading, which I haven't in a while. It's over 9000 words so quite a read, but I hope the comprehensive nature of it comes across as helpful, rather than patronising. Anyway - hope it's useful! mrboothy6.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/who…

Hunger in the UK isn't a food problem. It's an income problem.

we need poetry because at a low point in my teens I came across the line “let the day be time enough to mourn / the shipwreck of my ill-adventur’d youth” in an old poem, and just the knowledge that someone else felt lost and adrift as a young person helped save me.

New year, same you. ✨