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Stalking the Vegetannual - Orion Magazine A Roadmap to Eating with the Seasons

“Local food is a handshake deal in a community gathering place.”

Barbara Kingsolver’s words still ring true—to eat seasonally, buy locally, and remember your part in the food chain.

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Thank you.

A ringed plover and her chick to lift my mood and that of anyone else who’s feeling a little low this week.

"Life is mostly froth and bubble;
Two things stand like stone:
Kindness in another’s trouble,
Courage in our own."
~ Adam Lindsay Gordon

🎨 Carl Holsøe

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Night night sweet dreamies

When people admit that they made a mistake, don't punish them for it. Help them find a solution.

This works for yourself too

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~$4000 to go baby's surgery - fundraiser closes today.

Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2025

I didn't really interpret it as a complaint. But I cannot read a litany like that without feeling great sympathy for everyone who has to endure it, either themselves or in the life of a loved one. It must be so hard for young children to understand what's happening and why they are different. 😘

Immense effort. Thinking of you. ❤️‍🩹

Very interesting. I'm sorry it's been so very hard for you. ❤️‍🩹

Love it! I found all of Wartime Farm on Daily Motion, too.

5 Best US Parks To See Wild Wolves Roam (That Aren't Yellowstone) If you're hoping to spot a majestic wolf in the wild, head to these national parks in Montana, Minnesota, Wyoming, and Alaska for a chance encounter.

Wolves in the wild are a glimpse into a world few get to witness. Every sighting is a reminder of the importance of conserving wild spaces and the creatures that depend on them.

Discover where you can spot them: 🔗
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& the longroad open in exhale of water, SW clear & in want of stars - but NE & E a rug of cloud, fullmoon slight & partial (perhaps visible later & higher), you chase 2 grown lambs back through broken wire

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'A man smoking a pipe overlooking the Thames with the Monument and St. Magnus Martyr beyond' (1911) by Savage W Cooper

(Private collection)

A mannequin posing in a gold evening ensemble by Norman Norell. It consists of a gold blouse with billowing long sleeves and a giant pussy bow at the neck. The blouse is tucked into gold sequin trousers

Exaggerated proportions were never the preserve only of distant history. The big ole sleeve, super charged pussy bow and golden sparkle slacks are were designed by Norman Norell in the early #1970s. It just needs the Farrah Fawcett flick and some oversized shades @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Tonight, on either side of the #HarvestMoon (about an outstretched hand's length away, at 3 o'clock and 9, as it were) I can see short two ribbons of refracted light, like tiny pieces of rainbow, a spellbinding sight to make up for the thin cloud veiling the #SuperMoon itself.

'Thames Nocturne: Battersea Reach from Cheyne Walk' by Walter Greaves (1846-1930)

(Private collection)

Semi-regular update on how many jobs there actually are for disabled people in the UK, according to DWP Find a Job

All Jobs: 110,774
Fully Remote: 673
Of which are disability confident: 92
Of which are part-time: 5

BUT 3 of them are in care homes, so TWO WHOLE JOBS

Very excited to be showing work in this exhibition. Opening in Wells at Andelli Art on November 1st.

Next, it will be 'Brutish values'.

Oh, wait ...

#BookSky

We're all trapped in a box with "Convenience" & "Simplification" written on its doors, which open only one way, & in fact lead to the antithesis of both things. And the box is full of people who call you a luddite if you point out the glaring truth, which is that none of it is making people happier.

There are now just 7 of my 2026 calendars left.
I create my photos using recent neuroscientific research so that looking at them dials down stress & is likely to lift mood.
Each calendar=12 very high quality frameable 28cm square prints of my botanical & nature photos:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

Come fellow writers, come willing to write what you’d rather burn:

Tiny bags of seeds,
Summer collected for Spring,
Future seedlings sleep.

#dailyhaikuprompt seedlings

Summer has now left,
Her anecdotes remaining,
Flowers put to bed.

#haikuchallenge anecdote

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