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Who knew #embroideryart was so intense? One of my two #cartoons in the previous @privateeyenews.bsky.social Happy to say I've a couple in the new issue too - on sale now! #artandcrafts #hobbies

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Autumn 2025 Riverfly Training Day Learn how to identify and record abundances of freshwater invertebrates as a Riverfly monitor.

Riverfly training.

If you are interested riverfly monitoring, we organize two events per year. The next one will be in autumn.
This event usually sells out quite quickly, book now if you want to get a place.

11 October 9:00-17:00

Celebrating International Cat Day today.
With two spritely black medieval moggies.

The origin of the expression "put a sock in it"

Did u know? Nature isn't flat. It's all dips/lumps & bumps - each area creating its own microclimate of sun/shade,with different light & humidity. We've tried to create this in our wildlife garden by making a"beetle bank" from pond soil spoil & also from piles of stones & mulch. 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐜 #rewilding

A silver metal ojime of a cat sat upright with a paw raised

An engraving of a tabby cat curled up asleep

Today is International Cat Day so we thought it would be the purr-fect opportunity to share some of the cats from the Ashmolean’s collection.

🐈 Ojime in the form of a cat, c.1890. EAX.11470

🐈 The Large Cat, c.1647, Cornelis II Visscher (1628–1658). WA1925.345.143

US to rewrite its past national climate reports US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.

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Minimus and Silvius, the Latin mice, are helping to feed a family of Polish chickens. The hen has a fine crest, and her three inquisitive chicks have little puffs of feathers on their heads. Silvius was a bit nervous of the chickens, because they sometimes eat mice, but these ones were friendly.

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 454
Silvius et Minimus frumentum gallinis dant (Silvius and Minimus give grain to the chickens). pullus flavus putat caudam Minimi vermiculum esse (The blond chick thinks Minimus' tail is a worm)! gallina glocit et pulli pipiunt (The hen clucks and the chicks cheep).

A true friend will never express concern over your book-buying habit.

On the contrary, they will enable it.

Me reemerging into society after the hideous first trimester of pregnancy, having totally forgotten how to dress like a normal human

Smart Turnstones - just back from the Arctic - look at those red legs - another part of the summer uniform.
Safe roosts are important.
Busier beaches in Northumberland have lost their Turnstones. IMPORTANT RESEARCH.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/02/03/d...
#ornithology

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Chilterns Chalk Streams Project set to 'Mend the Misbourne' The Chilterns Chalk Streams Project, which is hosted by the Chilterns National Landscape, has secured £1 million of investment from the HS2 Additional Projects Fund towards the ‘Mending the Misbourne’ programme. 

The Chilterns Chalk Streams Project has secured £1 million towards the ‘Mending the Misbourne’ programme. Thank you to the many partners who worked with us to develop the R. Misbourne catchment plan. Funding means we can start to put plans into action! @chilternsnl.bsky.social

I'm sad to say that since leaving Twitter/X my sales for live shows have dropped quite a lot - it turns out that even though it's a dreadful place it was still useful for getting the word out about events. So any shares / RTs of my posts about live shows are hugely appreciated!

Ididn't know that the raceway had closed. Just shows how long ago my last trip to Lakeside was.

Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!   Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where oncestock car and speedway bikes lined up to cross the finish...

Tell Google to search elsewhere. Another unique and precious brownfield haven in the Thames Estuary is under threat from Big Data. Petition here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

A photo of the front cover of issue 1655 of Private Eye magazine. The main headline reads "STARMER: UK WILL RECOGNISE PALESTINE." Below this is a photo showing a devastated urban landscape of destroyed buildings, over which a speech bubble from Benjamin Netanyahu in the foreground says, "No one will recognise Palestine after I've finished with it."

Starmer: UK will recognise Palestine

The new Private Eye is out now.

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The corner of the bath, with three ‘deco’ type rolls

A close-up of the water spout in the bathtub

A photo of the sink in green

A view of the bathroom sink and bathtub which are both green and possibly 1920s or 1930s in appearance

Some retro bath action going on here.

Credit to the hotel for not replacing this stuff.

AI will never locate a new archive. It will never uncover a new source. It will never find a small, privately held collection of papers that can upend what we think we know about the past. It can never work with undigitized sources. It can never do real oral history or ethnography.

Light illuminating three plane tree seed balls hanging among green leaves.

London plane tree seed balls catching sunlight.

Promotional poster for Bodleian Book Hospital at Blackwell Hall in The Weston Library, featuring a Richard Scarry pop-up book and a repair checklist on a 'operating table'. In the top right a logo that reads 'BBH' in the style of the NHS logo and on the left a round sticker that says 'Repaired at the Book Hospital'.

Collage of images from our last Book Hospital event showing Bodleian staff, children and parents engaging in reading and crafting activities. Includes one of our talented conservators reading to a group, another pretending to repair a book with medical gauze, and a young child attending a craft session making colourful paper projects. A round sticker overlaying the images reads 'Book Doctor In Training'.

A document titled "Book Hospital Check Up Sheet" including fields for 'Trainee Book Doctor's Age', today's date, and questions about the condition of a book, with checkboxes for types of damage and a space for drawing the book's damage.

Bodleian Book Hospital. 22 August, 11.00–15.00.

Bring flapless lift-the-flaps & scribbled on bedtime stories to the Bodleian Book Hospital where our Conservation Team will fix 'well-loved' favourites and show little ones how to care for treasured tomes.

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/summer...

‘The forest had gone’: the storm that moved a mountain The long read: On a small ledge in the Swiss mountains, 200 people were enjoying a summer football tournament. As night fell, they had no idea what was coming

"By Campo Draione, a mudslide emerged from the forest where there was no natural drainage channel. At its origin stood a cluster of dead trees, killed by a parasitic bark beetle that has thrived in the hotter, drier summers of recent years. Their roots could not hold the ground."

NOAA-15, 1837 UTC Overpass: THE finest view of Storm FLORIS today by any satellite, period. @simonleewx.com

Dry Misbourne downstream of Warren Water, Great Missenden

Shrinking waters of Warren Water , Great Missenden

As we move into late summer the effects of the dry year are beginning to show in the headwaters of chalk streams like the Misbourne here at Missenden Abbey Park.

Excellent thread debunking the Motability myths

Squashed hedgehog pooh.

Just look at all those beetle parts! Looks like there's an abundance of one of their favourite foods around at the moment. No wonder the hedgehogs aren’t eating the food we leave out for them...

#hedgehogs #beetles #wildlife #nature