Matt Stribley

Zack on Bold Politics podium

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

🍃NEW EPISODE: "We are a society of altruists governed by psychopaths."

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social shatters an entrenched myth around human nature in less than 90 seconds.

Listen to the full episode of It’s Bloody Complicated, out now, wherever you get your podcasts.

Image of a big with water and red moss in the foreground and conifer trees in the background.

Photo of sundews on moss.

Happy #BogDay. The most misunderstood ecosystems on our planet have been ridiculed, drained, burned, and destroyed throughout modern history. These water purifiers, carbon keepers, storytellers, and beautiful places deserve our respect, today and every day.

Intersting, I've been seeing Riccia crystallina in pavement cracks in Cornwall in recent years. Perhaps I better have a closer look and check that some populations are not R. cavernisa

Ravens having a little chat on Truro Cathedral.

View of plants in short turf on coastal slope. And close up showing the blue flower.

Spring Squill, Scilla verna on sea cliff in Cornwall. #Wildflowerhour

Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...

Just 850 more signatures will bring us to 100,000 and trigger a debate in parliament. Plz share widely - I’m holding my breath! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Cake on wooden board, decorated with flowers.

It's delicious, have just cut it and shared with friends. Flowers from the garden make it colourful.

A decorated round cake on a wooden board.

I decided to decorate my simnel cake in a cheery, colourful way this year. A few flowers from the garden make all the difference.

Showing the plant growing in block paving joints and at the base of a block work wall.

Here is a young plant of Wild Celery
(Apium graveolens) growing on the path edge, River side walk, #Truro. A reventment with more plants is on the opposite side of the footpath. Tidal Truro River beside Tesco carpark.

Showing the moss forming a patch on smooth grey surface, spreading in a semi-circular pattern, which is mirrored. Will the plant above and it's rounded leaves are almost mirrored, giving a symmetrical appearance.

A symmetrical pattern, well almost; with Clustered feather-moss (Rhynchostegium confertum) and Winter heliotrope (Petasites fragrant). Wall top, Truro.

Country diary: They look like tiny green toenails. So why the name ‘maidenhair’ spleenwort? Sara Hudston Bridport, Dorset: The common fern’s name was inspired by another phase of its life cycle, when fronds die off and spindly threads of stem remain in luxuriant, wiry tufts

Bawdy Greek jokes and Edwardian treats in today's pteridomanic @theguardian.com country diary by Sara Hudston. (Think I just made up a word...)

#countrydiary #naturewriting

I'm thrilled to share news of my new book - Mosses, Liverworts and Hornworts of the World - which is now available for pre-order at some book shops and will hit the streets in August.

Published by Princeton University Press:
tinyurl.com/Mosses-of-th...

Lovely, made me smile.

Close up photo of a coiled fern crosier.

Mexican Tree Fern, Cibotium schiederei in #Cambridge #BotanicGarden for #FernFriday, worthy of a Celtic craftsman.

Wild daffodils in a cornish hedge.

Barren Strawberry with pink petals in woodland

Wild daffodils in a Cornish hedge and an unusal pinkish coloured Barren Strawberry in woodland, Liskeard, from yesterday's roam. #wildflowerhour

Photograph of the moss Schistostega pennata Goblin gold

Illuminous moss, Schistostega pennata Goblin gold in the Cornish hedges near Liskeard today. Always nice to find. Difficult to photograph as tucked back in earth hollows. #bryophyte #moss

Photo of a landscape at dawn or dusk wuth hills a small building and a chimney in silhouette against a golden sky, above the chimney are a mass of birds flying in a large group resembling the shape of a tall whisp of smoke

A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt

"Let us not look for you only in memory,
Where we would grow lonely without you.
You would want us to find you in presence,
Beside us when beauty brightens."
~ John O'Donohue

The Gathering of Daffodils
🎨 Harold Harvey

Is it possibly Sea Aster?

Second day of BBS Spring Field Meeting. Spring Wood, Kettlewell, was a rich site with some lovely plants including the limestone crevice specialists Pedinophyllum interruptum, Orthothecium intricatum, and Mnium marginatum.

"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen."
~ Blaise Pascal

Flowers in a Vase (1873)
🎨 Paul Cezanne

close up photograph of Lophocolea bispinosa (Great Crestwort)

view showing a tarmac path and low bank with a patch of Lophocolea bispinosa (Great Crestwort)

showing a patch of Lophocolea bispinosa (Great Crestwort)

Light green patch of the liverwort Lophocolea bispinosa (Great Crestwort) on lawn/path edge in municipal gardens. The area is regularly sprayed with Roundup. Accompanied by Phaeoceros laevis (Smooth Hornwort) and Crescent-cup Liverwort. #bryophyte #liverwort

Love the sheep work. Wonderful. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks everyone. Back
Later. Here is a wonderful collection of apple names and varieties. Helen🌷🐝📚

‘Alex’ by Vicky Sawyer. She was the first artist to adorn animals etc with headdresses

French President Emmanuel Macron says US and Ukraine should be compensated by Russia, not by Ukraine. Russia started the war 👏

John Bratby R.A.(1928-1992
Amaryllis. Lino cut artist

Sphagnum tenellum can get quite large and quite orange when growing in richer and wetter habitats #moss #bryophyte

Geraldine Girvan
Oil
On Linen. Fabulous colour palette.