Seen on a local hedgerow. Lichen are neither plant or animal, but a symbiotic partnership. Because lichens thrive on bare rock and in extreme conditions, they are symbols of resilience and adaptability. Apparently, they are some of the earth’s oldest life-forms, and can live for over 4000 years!

Close-up of lichen growing on a small oak tree in a hedgerow.

Close-up of lichen growing in a local hedgerow. They remind me a bit of coral reefs.

This close-up of a lichen makes them look a bit otherworldly. The circular structures on lichen are called 'apothecia', the sexual reproductive structures of the fungal partner in the lichen symbiosis.

#Lichen #scape for some uplifting colours!

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They are a symbiotic association between a fungus & a photosynthetic partner - an algae or cyanobacteria, representing collaboration, interdependence & interconnectedness of all living beings.

#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
#EastCoastKin #Photography

Milk feeds every three hours. Keepers sleeping beside them. First mud baths. Years of patient, round-the-clock care — until the day they're ready to take their first steps back toward the wild.

None of it happens without donors like you.

Adopt: www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.o...

Sign saying ‘our bartenders are so light fingered they could be concert pianists’ Why, are they going to rob me?

I feel they have misunderstood this expression:

A luminous full moon rises in the sky, prominently featured against the dusky blue of early night. In the foreground, a line of Eurasian cranes is silhouetted in mid-flight, their long legs and necks stretched out as they navigate by the moonlight.

Look to the sky tonight for March's full moon 🌕🍃

Also known as the Worm Moon, it marks the shift in seasons as the soil warms, earthworms re-emerge, and nature awakens.

It has many other names including: Lenten, Plough, Crow, & Sap Moon.

🕖 Moonrise: 18:09*

A headline from GB News stating: Motorists switch to using public transport to avoid paying £5 daily congestion charge

In shock news, motorists have switched to public transport to avoid paying the Oxford Congestion Charge.
A spokesperson* said: "This is exactly what was meant to happen, and it did."

Experts fear a #palmoil #biofuel boom may drive massive #deforestation in #Indonesia, threaten the world’s 3rd largest #rainforest and send irreplaceable #animals and plants to extinction #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife palmoildetectives.com/2024/09/22/h...

📣 International Women’s Day is next Sunday, so we’re highlighting the link between #HarmfulChemicals, such as PFAS, and women’s health.

Women around the world are disproportionately impacted by #HarmfulChemicals, due to biological, social and occupational factors.

I’M SORRY!?! DID YOU MISS A FUCKING ZERO OR TWO OFF THE END OF THAT FIGURE?? @ukparliament.parliament.uk

Patrick Troughton, John Kane and Maureen Morris in Z Cars - Eviction (3rd March 1975) written by Bill Lyons, directed by Paddy Russell.

And yet, as the EU considers a ban on non-essential uses of PFAS, the industry falls into hysterical predictions this will lead directly to the total collapse of medical systems. For the record, the ban would apply to non-essential uses only & firms have long transition times to find alternatives.

How do you get 4 elephants in a mini?
2 in the front and 2 in the back.

Or listen to your boomer parents. #ColdWar

Screenshot of a RSPB article. Solar farms managed for nature can boost bird numbers and biodiversity Research by the RSPB and Cambridge University shows how management can benefit wildlife. Photo caption- Solar farms can deliver on clean energy for nature

☀️ 'Solar farms managed with nature in mind and in areas with a greater mix of habitats proved the best performers, having the greatest variety of species and nearly three times as many birds compared to nearby arable farmland.'
www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

Submerged trees during late afternoon at Nottinghamshire's Attenborough Nature Reserve, a wetland next to the river Trent. It is a riparian wetland, an important ecosystem connecting river and land.

Submerged tree at a connecting point between the river Trent and one of the lakes of Nottinghamshire's Attenborough Nature Reserve. I love the natural, almost symmetrical reflection!

#Tree reflections of woodlands at Attenborough Nature Reserve.
A #flood #scape after relentless rain & an ecologically important 'riparian' wetland habitat, supporting biodiversity. 💙💚🩵🌳🌧️

#EastCoastKin #photography
#ForestFriday #Trees
#PhotographersofBluesky #naturephotography #BlueskyPhotography

Yorkshire to decide fracking proposal and not the Government Secretary of State declines to call in Burniston fracking proposal River Ure in Yorkshire Proposals for fracking near Scarborough will now not be ‘called in’ by the Government and instead the decis…

"People will not stop fighting until it’s dead and buried."

Radioactive waste, water contamination & seismic activity - why people in Burniston, North Yorkshire, say they will keep up the fight until their homes are safe from the threat of fracking:

climatewithbrian.com/2026/03/02/y...

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Sounds like a plan. They are adults, after all.
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Interesting. And complicated. 😁
You Mum has to conspire with the insightful one to get it dealt with, I guess. Not much you can do yourself except encourage her, or, with permission get in touch with local Adult Social Care team or ask a voluntary organisation to offer friendly advice.
Families eh?

Well yes, but.
I have 2 questions.
1. Do they recognise their hoarding problem or are they in denial?
2. Have they got enough money they would be prepared to use to deal with it?

Our cat Roscoe emerging from some colourful bedcovers, looking seriously fucked off.

"How dare you have the audacity to wake me from my psychedelic sleep?"

www.tom-cox.com/at-home-with...

Battle of Britain Memorial Flight marks 50 years in Lincolnshire The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight is celebrating 50 years at its RAF Coningsby base.

BBMF celebrates 50 years at Lincolnshire base

#Lincolnshire #BBCNews

🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...

This - after a public consultation that came down c95% against corporate copyright theft - is a hearty move towards this government’s spineless purchased representatives needing to be hoofed in the crotch by us all, in a big queue until they get the message.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled doomscrolling for this bestest doggos evah timeline cleanse.

#DoomscrollingBreak

There really was nothing I could do about it's fowl language 😢

Project Nettie: Scientists and academics supporting the biological reality of sex The Project Nettie statement

This is excellent, and long overdue.
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Wild about Weeds: Garden Design with Rebel Plants (signed copy) | Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens Gardening Book of the Year 2019 - The Times 10 Best Gardening Books of Spring 2020 - The IndependentBest Gardening Books of the Year - Gardens IllustratedBest Gardening Reads of 2019 - Daily MailTop G...

Just a reminder this spring, if you’d like to grow wildflowers or work out what some are in your garden, my book Wild about Weeds is a good intro to some of my faves. How to sow and grow them, how to control their spread and use in design. www.jackwallington.com/product/wild...

Vintage engraving of the attempted assassination of Queen Victoria by Roderick Maclean, London Illustrated News, 1882. Image shows a hue and cry at a railway station as a diminutive woman in a carriage is driven away, a man shoots at her, and another man rushes towards him. A dramatic puff of smoke rises from the gun

It’s 2 March, which can only mean one thing. YES, THAT'S RIGHT! It’s the 144th anniversary of the day Queen Victoria survived the last of eight attempts to assassinate her, prompting William McGonagall to write another of his spectacularly terrible poems 🧵