Tim Holt-Wilson

Unfortunately I think the moss pads concentrate water leading to freeze-thaw erosion of tiled substrate.

Last summer Dunwich Greyfriars Trust swiped its grassland down to degree zero, even right up to the walls. Goodbye flowers, butterflies, grasshoppers - hello stubble and a thatch of dead stalks. Have promised to do things differently this year. Great Green Grasshopper recorded at the site.

Mosses play a lively part on the ecosystem of my roofs.
On the south-facing surface, Sparkly Petting-moss.
On the north-facing surface, Manky Mush-moss.
Both have robust populations of mites and water-bears for endless microscopic fun.

Work to help my Flora Guardian plant Creeping Marshwort in Norfolk. Needs all the help it can get, Endangered status.

Contact David Pentin to check.

Iranians came together to bid a final farewell to 168 young girls, aged 7 to 12, who were killed in a U.S.-Israeli strike targeting their elementary school.

Who is asking for control of society to be ceded to AI?

It looks as though the structure was making use of a natural rock formation. The capstone was either at former ground level and the peat & soil have eroded away, or soil was artificially mounded up around it. Whichever, the grave is missing its surrounding womb of earth.

Creeping Marshwort conservation with Thetford Conservation Group. Meet 10.30 at Nun's Bridges Car Park, Thetford.
Work to support and protect Thetford's rarest plant, discovered here in 2020 (only found in two other places in the UK!). Contact David Pentin www.icanbea.org.uk/app/explore/...

The sooner our economies get off the oil & gas bandwagon the better. It would reconfigure Middle Eastern politics for a start...

Cambridgeshire MP to introduce bill to protect UK chalk streams The 10-minute bill is set to go before Parliament on 25 February.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... ⬇️

Gorton and Denton certainly didn't work for him.

Weir infrastructure in the River Waveney including showing a ramp (covered with stainless steel sheeting designed to assist the passage of eels and elvers up the weir. The bottom of the ramp is missing so the structure is suspended about 1 metre above the water surface on the downstream side of the weir.

Weir infrastructure in the River Waveney as it was in 2018 including showing a ramp (covered with stainless steel sheeting) designed to assist the passage of eels and elvers up the weir. The bottom of the ramp is reaching down to the water surface on the downstream side of the weir. An Environment Agency official is explaining its operation to some people.

The eel pass is out of action at Bungay Weir. It was brand new in 2018. I'm wondering what the story is now at the Environment Agency.
Aren't elvers migrating upstream now? #eels @carlsayer.bsky.social @freshwaterhabitats.bsky.social

It looks like a scientifically-valid experiment.

"We discuss how an excess profit tax could be used to both lower inequality and accelerate the energy transition...".

There is no need for the hunting of fledgling gannets.
It is not for subsistence but for the gratuitous reproduction of destructive, atavistic behaviour. It is time to stop the practice.

I was wrong: not Olland Street but Bridge St at strapping.reefs.sandwich, so in E.Suffolk. Map in Merryweather says absent in eastern Essex - I wonder why .

Rustyback Fern Asplenium ceterach on a 19th century brick wall. It has pinnately-divided, tongue-shaped leaves growing as a tuft.

Rustyback Fern growing next to Wall-rue Fern on a brick wall.

Out recording Spring flower activity today at Bungay (Suffolk) @wildflowersociety.bsky.social. Agreeable company with impressive skill-set. My top find was Rustyback Fern (Asplenium ceterach) - not much of a flower but a first for me.

Bot activity does not automatically translate into votes.

Interesting BBC headline. Actually, it is a blow to Farage too (in case it had not noticed).

Absolutely! My thought too.
The flaccid @bbc interviewer allowed him to set the agenda.
Who do we complain to?

Well said.
I hope he reads your words.

It is a matter of profound satisfaction to me to see the Tory party humiliated in this way, but the hydra still lives.
💚

Arf arf !

There is plenty still to be done, eg in prep for coastal realignment. But not so much work suitable for people with spades and wheelbarrows.

Well said.

Servi plumbum laboraverunt, ignoti, divis obliti, et crudelitas magistrorum eorum ad tempus nostrum donum dedit.

It's publication day!

... and far right politics is a hobby for the gruntled.