Nick

And local cinemas

Detectorists, Shoestring, Randall & Hopkirk (deceased)

The best way to clean up our politics, free it from actual and perceived influence by people with money - is to ban all donations. And fund our politics from public money.

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Three reforms to stop the criminal killing of birds of prey – new petition to UK Minister from Friends of the Dales A new petition has been launched calling on the UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Mary Creagh MP) to bring in legal reform to help stop the illegal persecution of birds of prey. The petiti…

Three legal reforms to stop the criminal killing of birds of prey - new petition to UK Minister from @friendsofthedales.bsky.social

Details & link to petition in blog 🔽

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime 🌍

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/02/19/t...

🌿 It’s publication day!

Where to Watch Wildlife in Britain is here – your low‑carbon guide to 100+ wildlife sites across the UK, all reachable by train, bus, bike or on foot.

@meganshersby.bsky.social @heatherdevey.bsky.social @rebeccaonthewing.bsky.social

Watched this on DVD with our kids sitting in the Ring of Brodgar on Orkney at night!

YouTube video by ronny spandau mina - se telefonando

Post a banger that isn't in English

YouTube video by Simon Love "But I'm Getting Used To It" - Simon Love

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNmY... made on the last sunny day of January in my parish featuring a recreation of a mad thought I had once when I saw a dog pissing in the street.

I would recommend the lovely box pews in Holy Trinity off Goodramgate in York. An amazing haven in the busiest part of the city

I'm a relatively late comer to her music but I think she's great

An Uncanny Hour Live with Robin Ince • Comedy • Kings Place An Uncanny Hour is the acclaimed podcast series from The Cosmic Shambles Network that celebrates the weird and uncanny corners of culture. Robin Ince is joined by special guests David McAlmont, Mark G...

A few tickets left for tonight’s HORROR SHOW with Mark Gatiss, Alice Lowe and David McAlmont

Kings Place, London

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And every Christmas I still mention Santa Claus being gored to death by his reindeer

🦅 Eyes on the Skies – Protecting Birds of Prey 🦅

Friends of the Dales, is shining a light on the issue of raptor persecution with a series of free online talks. Find out more and sign up for them here 👇

https://ow.ly/YPb450XZE3B

📸 Dennis Jacobsen

"Landscape of the Vernal Equinox (III)" by Paul Nash portrays a dreamlike scene with abstract natural forms and overlapping celestial elements in pastel tones, reflecting Nash's fascination with the mystical aspects of nature. The juxtaposition of surreal shapes and a poetic sky evoke a sense of transcendental harmony, characteristic of Nash's devotion to exploring the metaphysical qualities of landscapes.

Landscape of the Vernal Equinox (III) https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-nash/landscape-of-the-vernal-equinox-iii-1944

The discoverer of this behaviour wrote about it in ancient Greek as he thought it was too shocking for anyone not educated enough to know Greek

147 Hen Harriers confirmed ‘missing’ or illegally killed in UK since 2018, most of them on or close to grouse moors For anyone who still wants to pretend that the grouse shooting industry isn’t responsible for the systematic extermination of Hen Harriers on grouse moors across the UK, here’s the latest catalogue…

147 Hen Harriers confirmed 'missing' or illegally killed in UK since 2018 - most of them on or close to grouse moors.

Data extracted from reports by Natural England, RSPB, HSE, various Police forces, National Wildlife Crime Unit.

#RaptorResearch 🌍

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/21/1...

The Chelsea boots I am wearing at the moment were the ones Anton Lesser wore to play Brutus in Julius Caesar. How's that for a claim to fame! ( I didn't know that when I bought them off eBay)

Velvet Shank in North Yorkshire #fungi #fungifriends

I had six PB Beauties last night in VC65, three of them on the side of the house!

Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.

Special Report: Stripped Tees IT WAS to be the UK’s largest regeneration scheme in decades, a model for regional devolution and the flagship post-Brexit freeport. But the redevelopment of the former steelworks on the south bank of...

As Tees Valley mayor Lord Houchen's defence of his deal with local businessmen crumbles, here's the Eye's recent special report on how Britain's flagship regeneration scheme secretly turned into one of the biggest giveaways of public money on record.

➡️ www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...

Hi everyone, if you get a spare mo could you help my son out by answering his university dissertation survey on social media use.

Only takes a short time and any help would be appreciated.

Here's the link and QR code.
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/glos/surve...

Heading up north anytime Ian?

I once had a wee next to Keith Richards (in a toilet obviously, not on stage...)

Britons living in rural areas support banning trail hunting by 50% to 35%

Most rural Britons say hunting has little to no importance to rural communities socially (51%) or economically (58%)

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Please watch & share this footage of 2 lovely guys (faces clearly captured on CCTV) who just stole my bag from under my chair, bending it like Beckham in what is evidently their signature robbing move. Maybe it will be shared widely enough they don’t get to do it to anyone else. Stay safe out there.

It survived in a single ditch in our village in North Yorkshire but some horribly unsympathetic dredging has put paid to it I fear

I had never heard of this but stumbled across it a couple of weeks ago. Very good. Was it made for TV?

Problem is he can't leave anything to the imagination, if he had stopped when the nurse was turning or perhaps when she spoke with Joanne Lumley's voice that would have been enough.

Presented by the Art Fund 1942

Pillar and Moon http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/nash-pillar-and-moon-n05392