The Green Shopper

Image with text that says "Royal Mail is failing in billionaire hands. Bring it into public ownership"

Bring Royal Mail into public ownership.

Pass it on.

Alas, not going to make it today but hope to visit another time soon 🌱

Just signed up to the mailing list! Are you there tomorrow too? Hoping to visit at some point soon...

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

Super exciting news!! I've got friends at Watership Farm just across the valley and they were happy to hear about this too 💚

Woweee! The Moulton factory is just down my street... there is a fan club called the Moultoneers and they meet up here once a year! 🚴🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️

A screenshot of Rachel Millward's byline times article on her experience meeting with Migrant Women in Calais

"These women in Calais are in crisis, but they are not a crisis. Each is a person. And how we treat them tells us everything about the kind of country we are choosing to be."

Read the rest here 👇

bylinetimes.com/2025/12/18/i...

@bylinetimes.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk @care4calais.org

Yay! I collected mine on my Tern this year, it was fun cycling home with it 💚🌲

Mask-type banner reading "Build communities, not cages"

Placard reading "Local people say no to Campsfield"

Although Campsfield detention centre had closed in 2018 after hunger strikes and suicides, the government is reopening it in the face of opposition from local councils. Keep Campsfield Closed is renaming itself the Coalition to Close Campsfield. keepcampsfieldclosed.uk

Protesters with "Coalition to Keep Campsfield Closed" banner

Campaigners against the immigration removal centre at Campsfield House, which reopened today, protested in Kidlington and Oxford. Fifty people gathered at Carfax in what organisers described as “a sombre event, a kind of vigil”.

Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.

3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇

1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK

2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves

3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...

The Sheer Scale of Conservative Mismanagement of the Asylum System Revealed Billions of pounds were wasted by successive Conservative Home Secretaries on a chaotic and costly system that left vulnerable people at risk, according to a new Parliamentary report

🔴The Sheer Scale of Conservative Mismanagement of the Asylum System Revealed

Billions of pounds were wasted by successive Conservative Home Secretaries on a chaotic and costly system that left vulnerable people at risk, according to a new Parliamentary report

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/27/t...

Log gnawed by beaver seen from above

Beaver bitten tree bark

Tree branch chewed through by beaver, fallen down

There's some new folk in town! 🪵🦫 #riveravon #rewilding #beavers #wiltshire #wildlife #avonvalley

Turquoise ceramic bowl filled with fresh almonds, still in their shells.

Large wooden bowl filled with freshly foraged sweet chestnuts.

#StormAmy blew down all the nuts. Happy squirrel times. 🌳🐿️

Bog Off BOGOF. Such a missed opportunity 😭

All eyes on the Gaza Aid Flotilla. Demand Safe Passage.

🚨 ALL EYES on the Sumud Flotilla 🚨⁣
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As the Sumud Flotilla nears Israel’s illegally designated and enforced yellow zone demarking a maritime siege of Gaza, we repeat our call upon the international community to ensure the safety and success of the peaceful people’s aid mission.⁣

There are lots near me this year - West Wiltshire/Somerset area

Incredible work! 🤩

💯

One of my favourite places 💚

I’ll sponsor one tree planted in the Lake District for the next 15 followers to get me to 4,000.

I’ll send you a link to your certificate with your bluesky name/handle so you can see where it is.

Please boost for reach. 🫡

Collection of small spring nature finds

Collection of spring nature finds in antique typesetter's tray

Collection of finds from Old Hunstanton beach made in 2019

Collection of small autumnal finds

My new workshop:small museums for mental health, is now live.
I'll teach you how creating small museums alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health & we'll make small museums together
24 May,zoom, recording available afterwards
Open to anyone,anywhere
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

I’m sure this must mean something to someone somewhere… but I’m just here for the trees 🌲🌳💚😅

The things we find.
#beachcombing

UPDATE on the Forest Garden! Hopeful, but keep signing that petition! UPDATE: I am so glad to be able to report more encouraging news regarding the fate of this important project. I went to chat to Martin on Friday 14 March, and felt outraged on his behalf at the Trust’...

UPDATE: future of the Forest Garden looking more hopeful! @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @carolinevoadenmp.bsky.social
westcountryvoices.co.uk/reject-corpo...

HOW TO HELP BUMBLEBEES

💛 Queens are waking up from their long winter sleep about now.

Once she emerges from her hibernation burrow she spends a lot of time resting, allowing her metabolism & temperature to rise.

Here see she is warming up her body ready for flight.

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Oh no, how annoying! Get a padlock with a code next time instead?! 😊

Save The Old Golf Course Seeking to protect and re-wild Bradford-on-Avon's old golf course for the community

keepitgreenboa.com

There’s an abandoned one in Bradford on Avon that’s rewilding itself quite nicely, but the owner is trying to sell it off to developers 😟