Lucy Corrander

Screenshot of a Guardian news article with the headline: “Wildlife charities urge Labour to scrap ‘licence to kill nature’ in planning bill.” The subheading reads: “Conservationists say part of bill allowing developers to avoid environmental laws by paying into nature fund should be ditched.” Below, a protest photo shows handmade signs in woodland. One reads “BAT FACTS – 14 species of bat in Buckinghamshire. Bats are the only mammals that can fly.” Another says “FAT CATS KILL BATS” in bold letters. The image underscores public anger and the scale of opposition to the proposed Planning Bill.

Labour promised to restore nature. ❌

Instead, their Planning Bill contains a licence to destroy it.

We offered solutions. We’re done waiting.

Part 3 of the Bill would gut the laws protecting our most precious habitats & species.

Without significant change, it must be scrapped.

Also hoping the people who put them up are tiring of being angry all the time.

One hopes so.

The union flags and flags of St George are falling into tatters and blowing away.

Thanks for your advice. Having to move my strawberries and thinking of shifting them into guttering on a trial basis so I'll lay a piece along the ground at the foot of a fence at present. Find them difficult to weed (mares tail!) and am thinking it will be easier like this than in open ground.

Thanks. That's interesting. I was wondering about depth. Do you make your own grow-bags to fit the structure? And did you build the frame yourself?

Strawberries folks, strawberries. Would I be able to grow them in a length of guttering? #allotments #gardening

A Gannet with a beak full of Nettles for nesting material.

A Gannet with a beak full of Nettles #BirdOfTheDay

Large Wainscot NFG to light in the North Hampshire garden last night. #TeamMoth

Violet webcap (Cortinarius violaceus) growing under gorse today near the Devil’s Punchbowl in Surrey. An absolute stunner of a mushroom and nationally rare - it’s always good to see these beauties.
#ukfungi

Took chips to the beach once as an evening family treat. Had to give up and go home because a young fox was so intent on sharing / taking them.

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

"Rachel Reeves unblocked a development of 20,000 homes that were being held up by a rare snail, after being approached by a developer with whom she said, 'we have a good relationship'

Not only stupid and ignorant, but crooked with it

Indefensible

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Travelling around in the Forest of Bowland last week - incredible number of hawthorn bushes and all of them stiff with masses of dark haws.

@robertjenrickmp.bsky.social Mr Jenrick. I'm sure other people are making the same point but, given that most areas in this country used to be populated largely by people with white skin and they aren't there any more - where have they gone? Who is doing the 'not-integrating'?

Yup. Keep your socks dry - the horizon will look after itself!

A photograph of Acer leaves, backlit against a blue sky

I have a lot of pictures of leaves, I picked this one because it's a bit unusual #SundayPixLeaves

In the middle of #StormAmy there was a break in the clouds around 2am long enough for me to capture this moon beam beaming someone up from the valley below while they sleep.

#Todmorden

#UFO enthusiasts -- you're welcome!

**This post is just for fun.

Or even envied!

Not a job to be enveyed!

I can't get used to people dying. My brain refuses to believe people die despite knowing they do.

Outside my immediate area yesterday, lots of jolly union jacks and England flags on lamp-posts. Would have been nice for something cheerful, maybe a festival, a sign of how proud we are of the good things in our country. But they aren't. They are signs of un-welcome. Not to be proud of. Distressing.

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Blue Tit perched on a bunch of blackberries

Blue Tit on blackberries! 😍
Taken this weekend at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊🐦
#birds 🪶

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Young but definitely old enough to be able to distinguish between meat and plants.

Hello, feathered thorn.

Had a long conversation with someone the other day who was convinced he never eats plants. We began with baked beans and chips and worked through to mangos and plums. He got the 'idea' with the word 'seeds'. He was quite astonished by everything.

the whole story

Used to be wooden caravan on Hampstead Heath - may still be there. Parents slept in what I'll now call a box bed and the children in a cupboard underneath it. Very small spaces. Drawer would be horrid.
Modern free standing bed with wood walls could be large but the 'roof' would keep occupants warm.

Not large but very practical. I can easily feel claustrophobic so wouldn't want to sleep in any ole one but they could save loads on heating costs - and wouldn't need to be tiny in a modern home.
Interesting that Mr Lockwood himself didn't immediately recognise what it was.

That's interesting and helpful. I tried Google but AI intervened, said Mr Lockwood didn't sleep in a wooden structure but rented a room at Wuthering Heights - and gave me a link to 'oak closets' as sold by companies like Dunelm (ie wardrobes). I get so cross with this AI stuff. Thanks for your help.