Barbara Townley

Zig Zag the Stripy Spotosaurus books available to order online through my local bookshop @BurwayBooks Zig Zag and the Giant Adventure burwaybooks.co.uk/product/zig-za… Zig Zag and the Magic Wood burwaybooks.co.uk/product/zig-za…

"We’ve got two-year-olds coming in and trying to eat sand because they’re hungry. ” theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/d…

"The best way to travel is by book, you can go anywhere you like" - Benjamin Zephaniah We've lost one of poetry's greats today. Zephaniah's writing helped many make sense of themselves and the world around them. Here's a video from our #MyBirminghamStory project back in 2021 ⬇️.

Can @ShropCouncil explain why this ancient Oak tree now has a death sentence??! 😡👇 You’re telling me, in this day and age, you can’t mitigate around this & several other landmark trees? Please explain your decision. You are failing your local people and the natural world!

Why the proposed Shrewsbury NW Road is bad for Shropshire youtu.be/waHN5GqompQ?si… via @YouTube

On World Teachers' Day 2023, Margaret and I would like to say a great big "THANK YOU!" to teachers everywhere, past and present. What a difference you make!

It will be the most important 3 minutes and 20 seconds you spend today. 👇

Marquees and tipis are going up in preparation for Shrewsbury Food Festival this weekend. shropshirelive.com/taste/2023/06/…

Before we ever put a pencil in a child’s hands, those hands should dig, climb, press, pull, squish, twist, and pinch in a wide array of environments and with a variety of materials. ~ Amanda Morgan

#Shrewsbury The BBC helpfully allowed us to zoom in on a bright red spot on the U.K. map showing where a disproportionately huge amount of sewage was being dumped. Here it is.

A request! We can't grow this account fast enough. So please follow us if you aren't already, and please RT to spread the word. Help us do our bit to share positive solutions to the nature & climate emergencies, and bring more nature into people's lives 🐝

Please retweet this many, many, many times. It's horrific. @MarinaHyde is so right. Why isn't this is a huge scandal? Hundreds of lives ruined. Not a single person held to account. And still: silence on the Post Office scandal | Marina Hyde theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Today is #InternationalDayoftheDandelion!💛 Celebrate with us by locking your mower away and letting the dandelions (and other wildflowers!) bloom for all of #NoMowMay and beyond🌾🌱🌻 Join the movement here 👉 bit.ly/40HaUx4.

Love this #churchstretton #Coronation2023 #shropshire

DRAWN Again! Our Marvellous Bank Holiday Art Fair Returns - myshrewsbury.co.uk/blog/drawn-aga…✏️

How many people out there are giving wildflowers a chance by leaving areas of their gardens uncut this year? Please RT if you are offering a lifeline to pollinators like bees, butterflies, moths, hoverflies and bats by mowing less 🐝

A request! We can't grow this account fast enough. So please follow us if you aren't already, and please RT to spread the word. Help us do our bit to share positive solutions to the nature & climate emergencies, and bring more nature into people's lives 🐝

Of course she's brilliant and working with her is the greatest blessing a scruffy music teacher like me could dream of. But Lucy is what happens when you make instrumental tuition available to disadvantaged children. Help us to get this message across to those who decide.

Petition: Overturn the UK government’s decision to allow the use of neonicotinoid pesticides on sugar crops - a pesticide that is almost entirely banned in the EU! 👉petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6319… @DaveGoulson @LGSpace @Team4Nature @IoloWilliams2 @ECOWARRIORSS

Finland: Child starts school at 7 Has Free/subsidised nursery places Every child gets free school meals to 16 Teaching is a valued profession & paid as such University is free No tax breaks for private schools The best education in Europe Learn from Them