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I’m glad you’re getting a break, it sounds much needed ❤️

I LOVE Juniper! It has had a dramatic decline on the South Downs; in just one place in Sussex is it abundant - @sussexwildlife.bsky.social NR Levin Down. It is sculpted by the wind here into giant bonsai shapes. The UK gin industry now imports European juniper berries; its more abundant in Europe

The front cover of the 1970s version of the book ‘smoke and fluff’. The first edition had a dark purple dust wrapper over boards.

Ladybird book in the Spotlight

‘Smoke and Fluff’ (1941)
Artist: Angusine Macgregor

Ngl I initially had the red background but that was too similar even for me to differentiate us so I changed it lol

Anthony Delaney isn't on here, so here's a shout-out for his new book, Queer Georgians - published today! It looks fabulous . . . 🌈📚🗃️

www.penguin.co.uk/books/460692... @doubledaybooks.bsky.social

There's an online event with AD and @thegozfather.bsky.social (The National Archives) on 17 Sept . . .

The quiet power of relational disobedience Resist without hate: from relational disobedience to creative protest, quiet courage can dis-rupt domination without mirroring its violence

✍️ The quiet power of relational disobedience

Resist without hate: from relational disobedience to creative protest, quiet courage can disrupt domination without mirroring its violence

By Mike Chitty

@mikechitty.bsky.social

damn that’s a cast and a half

WHAT

Right? I see a dozen women who look exactly like this every time I go to Co-op

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️

"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

A hare raises its ears, alert as if it has just heard the sound of possible danger. Around it, five leverets are grazing

‘Hare’
Artist: Septimus Scott
(In Green Pastures, 1945)

Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.

Sea Level

xkcd.com/3135/

there was! And roasted green beans!

Crumble season is definitely here

I had sausage and mash on Friday night, which feels sort of roast adjacent

Currently debating when it’ll be Sunday roast season again. Is next Sunday too early?

dormouse on blackberries

The Blackberry or Bramble is a member of the rose family & makes a great habitat for many birds, insects & spiders - and it produces delicious, juicy, black berries in August & September. Hence CRUMBLE
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📷 Hugh Clark FRPS

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Three colourful Sika deer showing their white rumps and grey, brown coats set against a fir tree backdrop.

We love a parkland walk.

In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen

a gold and white borzoi standing upright with his front paws on the deck railing, looking down with the sun on his face af chest

WHAT NEWS, BOY? WHAT DAY IS THIS?

Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny

Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny
Happy Weekend Everyone!

they are! They have way fewer seeds and more tomato… flesh, so it’s a more tomato-y tomato!

A light beige, vertically oriented cover with a light blue vertical bar along the left hand side with reversed-out illustration of three flowers, stems and leaves What looks like hand-lettered text, in maroon: BULBS AND PLANTS For Fall Planting 1939 HOLM & OLSON Saint Paul, Minnesota

Cover, catalog for fall planting
Holm & Olson, Inc.
St. Paul, Minn.
1939

Source: Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection of the National Agricultural Library via @archive.org; archive.org/details/CAT3...

Happy Caturday 🐈‍⬛🤍

they’re so pretty!!!

Ooh that’s cute! It also looks like maybe you have space for a couple more plants…

A method to identify positive tipping points to accelerate low-carbon transitions and actions to trigger them - Sustainability Science Meeting the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to “well below 2 °C” requires a radical acceleration of action, as the global economy is decarbonising at least five times too slowly. Tipping point...

Positive tipping points for climate, like the UK phasing out coal, show how big steps toward a low-carbon future can suddenly become unstoppable.

Can we identify where the next tipping points could happen, and figure out how to help trigger them?

These researchers say YES.

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