YouTube video by gabrosz The Mamas & The Papas: California Dreamin'

Skyline cleanse

Still one of the best Halloween costumes I've ever seen.
I kind of want one.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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Hello BlueSkiers! I’ve made a starter back of people working on rewilding and similar things in UK and Ireland. Many more to add but it’s a start.

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Our new term of Home Educated Forest School starts NEXT WEEK!

For young adventurers aged 11+, Forest School is all about hands-on learning, outdoor skills, and reconnecting with nature.

Book now 👉kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/education/forest-school/home-education

A dugout boat which was found during excavations on the banks of the River Witham, near Fiskerton in Lincolnshire. Dating to the Iron Age, the boat was worked from a single oak tree trunk. Now part of the collections at Lincoln Museum. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #LincolnMuseum

Hurricanes feed off of warm water. Watch how quickly the eye of #Melissa collapsed as it moved onto land and over the mountainous terrain of Jamaica, and how quickly it is reforming now that it has moved back over water! I will be adding this radar loop to my earth science lectures.

28.10.2025

'This is in Mandeville, Manchester in Jamaica at the moment. The flooding looks catastrophic and it's just the beginning!'

via Volcaholic [X] #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Melissa

Fast solar winds bring the potential for aurora sightings tonight ✨

Parts of Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland may get a glimpse where skies are clear enough

Look to the northern skyline in areas away from urban lights 🔭

“Very hard IQ test”

A greenish brown rock surface with stylised carvings of eyes and eyebrows

#TombTuesday These carvings on the wall of a tomb are thought to be eyes and eyebrows 👀👀

They were carved 6000 years ago by Neolithic farmers on the tiny Holm of Papay in the Orkney islands

Why would people carve eyes in the wall of a tomb?? 😬

#archaeology #scotland #halloween #photooftheday 🏺

Hurricane Melissa - latest pressure 892Mb, making it the joint 3rd strongest Hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic. So far.

The huge Eye is now crossing the Jamaican coast.

Sunrise and sunset times across the UK on Monday 27 October 2025. Lerwick: Sunrise = 07:15, Sunset = 16:20 Edinburgh: Sunrise = 07:09, Sunset = 16:42 Belfast: Sunrise = 16:57, Sunset = 07:16 Newcastle: Sunrise = 07:00, Sunset = 16:39 Wrexham: Sunrise = 07:00, Sunset = 16:50 Cardiff: Sunrise = 06:57, Sunset = 16:54 Peterborough: Sunrise = 06:48, Sunset = 16:40 London: Sunrise = 06:45, Sunset = 16:42 Penzance: Sunrise = 07:04, Sunset = 17:07

With daylight savings over for another year, the nights are well and truly drawing in

Here are the updated sunrise and sunset times now we're back to GMT 🌅🌇

Finding moments of calm in nature can have a positive impact on our mental health.

In Morecambe Bay, Hamza Yassin, wildlife cameraman and TV presenter, meets up with a group of people from The Bay project to find out how being in nature has impacted their wellbeing: bit.ly/4o9y5fQ

Freddie Mercury came to the UK as a kid because people that looked like him were being killed back home in Zanzibar.

In the UK, he formed Queen.

In the UK, he became a global icon.

📍 Liverpool, where Freddie Mercury met Brian May

Farage: epic grifter

The annual FluSurvey is now open! 📝
Dr Matthew Quinn shares how you can help our scientists track seasonal viruses & strengthen national surveillance. Find more info in our blog post. 🤧💬
🔗 https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/22/join-the-fight-against-flu-by-taking-part-in-our-citizen-science-project/

White-winged Black Tern, about to dive after the fish it has just dropped

The juvenile White-winged Black Tern at East Chevington today. After catching a tiny fish (at the bottom of the photo), it dropped and caught it at least 20 times… maybe trying to position it to eat, or knocking spines off, but just looked like it was playing! #NEbirding

I HATE IT

A pointless but utterly destructive decoration. Why do our human festivities have to result in fatalities in other biota?

#hallowean

Kent Field Club's members and fellow mycologists (plus dog) in autumn woodland on the field meeting.

Cortinarius terpsichores. Expanded purple cap seen from above on the right. A less mature specimen seen from the side on the left of the image.

Red caps of Russula rubra, seen from above. To the left, a detached cap is seen from beneath.

Some photos, courtesy of Alfie Gay, from a recent Kent Field Club meeting. 109 species of fungi recorded, including Cortinarius terpsichores, which has just 7 records on the NBN atlas. We are very lucky to have Cortinarius expert Mario Tortelli as a Field Club member! #KentNature #Fungi

Prince Andrew has not paid rent on Royal Lodge for two decades King’s brother charged ‘one peppercorn’ per year for the grace-and-favour mansion on Windsor Estate since 2003 after £8.5 million upfront costs

Man with no job lives rent free in mansion at taxpayers’ expense bit.ly/3WOOgDf lease reveals there is no bedroom tax on Windsor house despite two separated people living with 30 bedrooms

🖐️ Here's Honor with 5 things you should know about the weather this week.

The character Feathers McGraw from the film "The Wrong Trousers".

Louvre robbery. French police release image of suspect.

A white ceramic mug with a series of statements addressing popular conspiracy theories, such as "Vaccines work", "The Earth isn't flat", and "Climate Change is real"

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The wolves of Europe (2017-22). This map shows where the European wolf populations live. Source: buff.ly/71zWHjJ

A request for weather interested volunteers!

Met Eireann would like to rescue millions of weather observations taken in Ireland over many decades that are still stuck on paper. #WeatherRescue

Anyone can help: www.zooniverse.org/projects/met...

Britons opening their curtains for the next 4 months.

A cut out wooden bird is fixed on the top of a pole.

1/ New research! 📢 We’ve been counting wooden seabirds (yes really!) during aerial surveys to determine the accuracy of data measuring how high seabirds fly. This info is vital in reducing the risk of birds colliding with offshore wind turbines. #Ornithology

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