andrew john lamb

But what about all the waste they told us about? What about all the savings DOGE was going to find? What about the promises to cut council tax?
It's almost as if they were just making shit up to fool people, like they did with Brexit.

This Is Fascism

Aha, ok. Thanks.

Thanks. That’s been suggested on the local FB moth group too. Need to look into this as my guide indicates absent from the north, replaced by Northern DBD.

Rhyzobius litura, a small orange ladybird with dark markings and paler hairs/scales

An unexpected addition to the #LadybirdYearList today and a new species for me:

20. Rhyzobius litura

in the garden waste bin (finally!).

Also my 15th species for the #NEladybirdspot 😀 #Northumberland

Two moths on a white background. A pale Lunar Underwing and an unknown, slightly larger dark Noctuid.

Thanks. Hadn’t considered that. I’d wondered about a dark Lunar Underwing, but was appreciably bigger than the pale one I got.

Small, dark brown Noctuid moth, almost black wings, faintly marked, and dark grey thorax

Dark Sword Grass moth, a long-winged moth with a wide darker bar and darker, sword-shaped streak

The Chestnut, a rich rufous orange-brown moth with reddish markings and dark spot

Angle Shades moth, a beautifully marked fawn, khaki and pale pink moth.

Another late decision to put the trap out - at midnight. But glad I did. 2 more new species for me, Dark Sword Grass & Chestnut, and one of my favourites - Angle Shades (see lots of 🐛 in the garden but seem to rarely record adults). Also a confusing dark Noctuid; any ideas?
#TeamMoth #Northumberland

Farage's top aide in furious BBC Question Time clash over Russian bribe MEP Reform UK's Zia Yusuf clashed with Green Party leader Zack Polanski on BBC Question Time over the conviction of ex-Reform Welsh leader Nathan Gill, who took Russian bribes

Patriots don't peddle for Putin.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

A Peacock butterfly, perched on my finger, wings closed, showing dark, mottled underwings

A fresh-looking Large White butterfly on a dandelion, wings slightly open, showing a creamy white upper side with black dots and wingtip.

A Small Copper butterfly on ragwort, wings slightly open showing the orange upper side with dark spots

Despite very windy conditions, I spotted 7 species of #butterfly out on my bike in #Northumberland yesterday: Small & Large White, Red Admiral, Peacock, Speckled Wood, Comma and Small Copper. The Peacock was very obliging, posing for a photo on my finger!

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Britain isn't in a debt doom loop, whatever some people say.

The Economist has claimed Britain is trapped in a “debt doom loop.” But they’re wrong. The UK does not face a government debt crisis. What we really face is chronic underinvestment, inequality, and an elite media pushing austerity to protect the wealthy.
youtu.be/myNUVF_Kl7o?...

No # Covid vaccination unless 75+ years.
And don’t think your loved ones will be safe in hospital this year.
No covid vaccinations for health care staff either.
Our most vulnerable people go to hospital.
What were JCVI thinking?
Oh yes, it was a cost based decision…
#3rdWorldBritain

Three dishes of freshly picked tomatoes on my windowsill. A small bowl of ripe red and yellow tomatoes with a couple of green chillies, a large bowl of large green tomatoes turning slightly yellow, and a small tub of unripe cherry tomatoes.

Yay! My flimsy poly-greenhouse somehow survived more-or-less intact through #StormAmy but the outdoor tomatoes and beans have been flattened. A lot of windowsill space needed to ripen this lot!
#Allotment #HomeGrown #Northumberland

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

Zack Polanski saying what every politician should be saying,

"It's problematic to weaponise the synagogue attack to silence protest in this country against the genocide in Gaza"

"These are separate things and we should condemn them both"

Kind of loved the razzmatazz of American Football when it was first shown in the UK in the ‘80s. For this teenage Brit it was a window into a different world. But I never ever understood the Super Bowl “half time show”. To this day, I’ve hardly ever seen the 2nd half as it’s my cue to go to bed! 🥱

Krishnan Guru Murthy, "Isn't it a bit insulting to say to an Indian doctor who is working 60-70 hours a week that in order to get settled status he's got to volunteer?"

Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country"

Labour have gone utterly bonkers

Under the proposals, legal migrants will have to learn English to a high standard, have a clean criminal record and volunteer in their community to be granted permanent settlement status.

Labour looking at Reform's racist policies and saying "we"ll have some of that". These aren't just discriminatory, by making migrants meet higher standards than the average person, they automatically treat migrants as if they are criminals on community service.
#r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Q2: if Jesus returned would you

(a) lock him in a detention centre
(b) send him back to “where he came from”
(c) snitch on your new non-English speaking Arab neighbour to ICE
(d) lump him in with the “wokerati”

Yes. Have a look on YouTube at Moth Trap, you’ll see how it works. You basically set up a bright light (or in my case UV light) over a container of some sort. The moths are attracted to the light and settle in the container overnight. Then you open the container, count the moths and let them go.

I don’t believe so. It’s a standard moth-trap bulb option

A day in the life of Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor

And then there was this

Spruce Carpet, a dark, mottled moth with intricate pale and dark cross-lines

Pale Mottled Willow, a fairly plain pale grey moth with some small darker markings

Lunar Underwing moth, dark form. A dark brown moth marked with thin pale lateral lines and a dark blotch

Lunar Underwing moth, pale form. A creamy-brown moth marked with thin pale lateral lines, several darker blotches, and a row of dark spots.

Late decision, around 10:30pm, to put the UV trap out and glad I did! Only 8 moths of 6 species overall, but a nice mix with surprisingly, two more new moth species for me (Spruce Carpet & Pale Mottled Willow) plus two remarkably different Lunar Underwing. #TeamMoth #Northumberland

🎶 🫖 So Charlie and me had another cup of tea, and then we went home! 🫖 🎶

Golf courses take up more land than solar farms.

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

Haha! (Sneer)

It’s so bizarre. Not only ridiculously ignorant, but so lacking in self-awareness and almost completely incoherent.

What the………….? Ehhh???? It’s… I mean… WHAT??

Anyone else reminded of the boardroom scene in Robocop??