Stuart

There’s still time to have your say in @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social's Parks Survey - but be quick, the deadline is 10 Nov! It only takes a few mins to share how satisfied you are with your local parks.

Take part here: www.birminghambeheard.org.uk/bcc/parks-su...

Please share - every voice counts!

How the other half live.

Delia has walked an incredible 100 miles to help protect these beautiful birds — and you can still show your support! 🎉

👉 Donate £5 (or whatever you can) to celebrate Delia’s achievement and help us continue our vital conservation work:
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We still outnumber them.

Plus, we ought to be able to defeat them seeing as they're mostly daft.

Best get on it then?

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Get your votes in for our Annual General Meeting before it’s too late: buff.ly/reNDWPy

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A Pumpkin placed on a bucket out of reach of Hedgehogs

Seasonal reminder, Pumpkins make Hedgehogs sick, so don't leave any out where they can reach them.

Investigate those at the very top.

The one at the top left, bit out of focus - I swear that's our Malcolm.

They try every year, and only need win once and that's that.

Reminding National Trust members not to turn into a pumpkin - please *use your vote* before the end of the month to support genuine candidates and keep the disingenuous ‘Restore’ stooges away from the Trust’s assets. Easiest way is use ‘Quick Vote’ to endorse official NT AGM recommendations.

38% of respondents can't count?

It's hardly a case of "thinking" rather than knowing.

Farage has been spouting a lot of racist stuff over the last 30-odd years; the main thing is we all know racists that support his party.

There's always a new racist scandal with his lot.

Ever in doubt? Google it.

Bees tend not to stay still for long enough for me to ID whether they're buff or white tailed.

It's quite mithering.

I've a few more autumn-flowering plants here recently.

Planning and Infrastructure Bill: The Lords’ last chance for nature Philip Box, Senior Planning Policy Officer at Wildlife and Countryside Link, discusses the amendments we need to see in the final days of the Lords Report Stage of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill...

"The best time to protect wildlife was twenty years ago. The second-best time is this week, in the Lords Chamber."

Philip Box @wclnews.bsky.social

www.wcl.org.uk/planning-and...

We now have one, or two, community bonfires at our allotments and we always move the stuff when we make a bonfire so we can check for hogs. #responsibleallotments

Well done - throwing money away.

Money you could spend on your citizens instead, yet of course you won't want to do that.

I'm seeing a few large bumbles around at the moment - I'm assuming they're queens eating before hibernation.

Bought it, and an ID thing, thanks.

We have Tawny owls, and we've put up two boxes yet the squirrels took them over.

Good luck with all your efforts.

‘Jail is inevitable’ for former Reform politician awaitin... Two other MEPs joined Nathan Gill on a trip paid for by pro-Russian interests – and 6 weeks later repeated his talking points in Parliament

New info shows that Nathan Gill (the Reform Leader in Wales convicted of taking Russian bribes) was joined by 2 of his fellow UKIP MEP colleagues on a paid trip to Russia.
They then repeated his pro-Russia talking points in Parliament.
New prosecutions?
observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Farage: epic grifter

We ought to do something more constructive than liking and reposting people's decent takes on social media.

Maybe a petition? Or ought we hold a raffle to raise funds for the soon to be out of work Black and Asian actors?

Or contact our elected representatives.

I'd love to see one. It would be like meeting n architectural/historical celebrity.

Start a podcast of you learning the banjo to test your hypothesis.

Some bugger will listen to it! (not me though).

.. wait til he hits 40.

Maybe they're thinking of immigration is because the media are pursuing it non-stop. There's two stories on it on the BBC News site front page today.

Wish they'd cover, say, media bias as often.

That was about immigration too.

I recall when David Davies and Damian Green accepted stolen files from a civil servant and they were caught, they and their right wing media friends got very loud and the charges went away.

The civil servant lost his job.

We've even skipped past the part where the police talk about not bringing charges of inciting racial hatred as there's a low likelihood of conviction.

And everyone on the right gets very loud.

I've asked that chat gpt thing, it checked various places yet suggested there may be some places it couldn't check.

Black Shuck gets all the attention anyway.

I want to stay in bed.
I can't stay in bed.
Yet I want to stay in bed.