Anne Robbins

Red clover, Herb Robert,Red campion & Ragged Robin. #wildflowerhour

How do we engineer the situation where Noah Smith has to change lines at Bank? Imagine the fun we could have

The lines from two different corduroy garments.

Double corduroy. Don’t @ me, fashion police.

I recommend boxes from your local bicycle shop. Cut off and throw out the stapled sections. Heavier duty and nice big pieces with no packing tape.

YouTube video by Oli Frost Private jets don't pay fuel tax. Now I don't either.

Today’s fun tax tip…

(It’s a similarly daft situation that railways pay tax on fuel/energy but airlines don’t pay any tax on their aviation fuel, a huge hidden subsidy)

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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫

Nick Hayes 'Book of Trespass' Fox Mug In case you’re not aware of the wonderful Nick Hayes, he’s a writer, illustrator and campaigner for land access and land justice. His recent resurrection of the Right to Roam campaign highlighted the ...

They are getting Stokes Croft China mugs for Christmas.

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My individually handmade recycled silver jewellery including intricate casts of real flowers (snowdrop, bluebell etc), casts of dragonfly Wongs & jay feathers & my tiny wearable sculptures of much-loved British bird species

One of my best-selling mounted art prints of flowers I grew & bought from an honesty florist

Victorian ink bottles that form part of my tiny posy-making mental health kits-they make great gifts

The 12 photos that make up my 2026 botanical calendar-each image is designed to improve mental health

Just added to my Etsy shop:
🌿final small print run of my '26 calendars
🪶my handmade recycled silver jewellery designs (incl intricate casts of real flowers)
🌸limited ed'n mounted art prints of my photos
💐tiny posy mental health kits
Last orders for📮 in time for🌲: 19 Nov
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Imagine the smell of fresh bread drifting through the garden while your hands are in the soil 🍞🌿

In Gawilan camp, our Hêvî community gardeners bake bread in traditional tannour ovens, sometimes topped with red pepper, zaatar, olive oil or sesame & nigella seeds 😋

Thanks for making this possible 🫶

But with delays after cutbacks for flight spaces due to the Republicans’ government shutdown.

A bottle of white wine, the label showing a photo of a hatchet-faced Victorian woman and called 19 Crimes * something something * Chard.

Wine marketing gone crazy: at my allotment, chard is a good thing & not a crime.

Feeling seen, here…

Small translucent amber figurine carved in the shape of a squatting monkey. The figure has a detailed face with expressive eyes and rests its chin on its hands, appearing thoughtful. It sits atop a rectangular platform supported by four rounded, balloon-like legs.

A tiny but very charming #Etruscan amber pendant in the shape of a squatting #monkey, height 4.7 cm.
Found in Vetulonia, #Italy, dating late 8th/early 7th century BC.

Photo: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana

🏺 #archaeology

And this is why everyone needs to stop trusting Grok.

And leave X.

#NotPlaying

Here to terrify on #Halloween 🦇😱

BL Add MS 18852; the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile' or the 'Hours of Joanna the Mad'; 1486 CE-1506 CE; f.150r

A collection of 23 Victorian ink bottles arranged to create a colour gradation on a cream linen background

👆This collection of Victorian ink bottle kits in my Etsy shop includes some beautiful cobalt blues,a little embossed Windsor & Newton ink bottle & very collectible 'jelly' ink bottles.
It would be *so* great if you could RT my post above about my mental health kits.-they make really great gifts for🌲

White cosmos flowers

The last of this year’s allotment cosmos, I suspect, but there will be seed to collect. It might not grow true white next year, there was pink cosmos nearby, but it’s something to look forward to.

We saw you from across the allotment and we liked your vibe

Have you ever seen a wren have a bath? No? Nor had I till just now. Filmed through a rain-spotted window & on my phone, so not perfect, but hope it brings you a spot of delight nonetheless 🪶

So this little post is my own reminder to myself: the essence of complex adaptive systems is that they ACT under uncertainty.

🟣 “We have such a big, lovely knitting community in Portland, that’s how a lot of my friends know each other, and we thought you need to have fun protesting, and that’s how we have fun,” [one knitter] said. “Also, I think it makes fascists look stupid.”

!!! 🧶

My cousin bought three second-hand clamshell phones to replace one that died, so he could have a stock-pile taking him into the future.

Of course she’s a mean-spirited shit stirrer, but derogatory remarks about her appearance detract from the power to criticise her moral/ethical/political stance. Please let’s reserve our wits for a better use.

lolol

Antrum people wearing inflate frog costumes and carrying signs.

London, No Tyrants
#indivisible

A collection of seedheads, acorns, sycamore keys, dried flowers, lichen, a little owl feather & a piece of Baltic amber on a white watercolour paper background

Autumnal collection, including little owl feather, seedheads & various lovely things that fell off trees.
Zoom in to the details if you’re feeling stressed-the patterns in nature have been shown to help our brains relax🪶:

Staghorn sumac, Rhus typhina is its Latin name. Glorious colours, the fruits are edible and the plant can be used for dye.

Chapter 42: The Whiteness of the Whale - Read by Will Self - http://mobydickbigread.com Podcast Episode · The Moby-Dick Big Read · 27/10/2012 · 26m

In audio versions, too: this is an amazingly effective chapter, read by Will Self.

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A group of yellows-green grasses planted in a border of darker green plants, against a brick wall.

Yesterday I planted Milium effusum Aureum (Bowles’ Golden Grass) to brighten a dark space in my garden. Seems to be working.