Nathan Nelson

Please no more it's fine

Got soaked to the skin soil sampling at Salcombe. There's a lesson to be had about being better prepared for inclement conditions, and not going out tramping round fields when filthy weather is forecast. For now, sodden clothes have been shed and I'm warm again after the best bath in recent memory.

Got a lucky clear spell last night

The full Moon against a black sky, showing detailed craters, pale highlands and darker lunar seas across its surface.

Awooooo

a man in a suit and tie is dancing on a stage in front of a wwe logo Alt: a man in a suit and tie is dancing on a stage in front of a wwe logo

uBlock Origin baby

It still boils my piss when waiters greet the table with "Hi guys".

A mystery benefactor has sent our dog an advent calendar.

Funding for small-scale food and farming Funding and mentoring support for small-scale agroecological food and farming community enterprises and agroecology businesses

Real Farming Trust's Leap Funding for agroecological and community-based food and farming businesses is open for applications, offering funding and business mentoring. Closing date is 13th Jan realfarming.org/programmes/l... #Agroecology

This is a great opportunity to be supported with the cost of a Master's degree in Food Studies. Pass it along.

#FoodStudies #FoodSystems

Layered rolling Dartmoor hills recede into the distance beneath a pale sky and low, dark cloud, with silhouetted trees and hedgerows along the horizon in winter light.

Bare winter trees frame Dartmoor under heavy grey cloud, with soft golden light breaking through onto layered hills beyond a dark foreground field.

I'm such a sucker for a good landskein.

Famine possibly, as likely as anything that food supply disruptions and shocks are felt more easily. Give the Radical with Amol Rajan with James Rebanks a listen if you haven't already, Tim Lang estimates 5-6 days supply of food before we have serious problems. Factor in Russian disruption etc...

Related:

(archive.ph/Pxq9H for a non paywalled version)

Notable that at a nature finance conference I went to a couple of years ago big firms were looking at risk mitigation, but this is all happening way. Too. Slow.

UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded

Three of the five worst harvests on record have now occurred since 2020.

Now, I'm not completely sure, but I think this might be bad.

It's connected to my Google calendar which is connected to all my others, and email-wise it accepts emailed tasks from any account to a secret address (which can be reset). There isn't a per project email address but I can sort tasks in the inbox.

I use Notebooks and never finish them, I have so many notebooks

Moved my to-dos from Todoist to TickTick. Just seems to work better for me. I heavily rely on lists to get my act together. #productivity

I'm trying a new way to automate cross-posting new videos from the excellent BBC Archive. Give it a follow (and let me know if it goes wrong).

Rootstock - Rootstock

Minette Batters due to speak at rootstock.ag on 5 February 2026 on matters including the Farm Profitability Review. Be interesting to see if the government has still buried it at that point.

Webinar - Collaborative Practice on Common Land: Building Partnerships for Nature Recovery — Foundation for Common Land A free afternoon webinar for professionals working on common land and commoners involved in developing schemes and projects on common land. 1-2pm

Thursday 11 December 13:00 14:00 -
Collaborative Practice on Common Land: Building Partnerships for Nature Recovery foundationforcommonland.org.uk/events/webin... #commons #facilitation

Me in slim jeans

Shut up you're crying

Winter sunlight floods a wide rural scene, seen through the bare, arching branches of two foreground trees. Rolling hills, hedgerows, and reflective lowland fields glow in the distance under a hazy sky. A blackbird descends into a hedge in the middle of the frame.

Somehow managed to get a dive-bombing blackbird in the middle of this picture

Pink-footed geese overwintering on the North Norfolk coast in their thousands
Mayfly hatches
The Severn Bore

YouTube video by Tru Thoughts Records Quantic & Alice Russell - Look Around The Corner (With The Combo Bárbaro) [Full Album]

Apparently I've listened to this song most this year. I'm cool with that, it's bloody great. youtu.be/ibfMnM8BMo4

She wasn't being seen by carers three days a week and in regular communication by phone, as well as the alarm thing.

#FoodStudies

My phone added a new AI function that does the same job as something I used before but takes three times as long. Good job!

OK but behooved? I've recently used betwixt, in reference to the time between Christmas and New Year, Betwixtmas.

A much less common occurrence now, being be-anythinged. Beshrewed, beseemed, befallen or begat...