Jasper Sharp

Another slug repost…

Will the constituents of Clacton or Skegness vote again for MPs who reliably fail to represent them? Will the MPs who are currently in Reform defect to Restore, or will there be another party to add to the list of UKIP/VERITAS/BREXIT PARTY/REFORM failed endeavours….

Boiling frogs and all that…

Reform renters rights opposition shows they're 'in pocket of rogue landlords' Last week multi-millionaire Deputy Reform leader Richard Tice, announced that a Reform government would tear up Labour legislation to tackle abuse of tenants and employees

Reform’s vow to scrap the Renters Rights Act shows they’re “in the pocket of rogue landlords”, the Housing Secretary has claimed

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

I would be really surprised if Reform go into the next election with even the eight MPs they have now.

Tokyo's Burning (1995) - ABC listen Tokyo's Burning was made to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the mass firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945 in which 100000 people died and several million were 'de-housed'.The feature includes ey...

Tokyo's Burning was made to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the mass firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945 in which 100000 people died and several million were 'de-housed'.

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Great news to wake up to. Here’s hoping it signals a shift back to decency in British politics. One thing it proves is the Reform don’t have a hope in hells chance at the next election. Green actually have more MPs who stood for election for the party they were voted in as than Farage’s losers.

Not all slugs are bad for the garden. Most “may attack some vegetables or flowers but far prefer decaying organic matter.”

A primer on jidai-geki I wrote for Japan House's upcoming 'Samurai on screen: honour, swordplay and film legends' film season in London, running 15 February – 24 June 2026. www.japanhouselondon.uk/read-and-wat...

That’s what I thought - Rickenella fibula.

My camera macro lens changed my life!

Yes, I guess the rain certainly helps!

It's the small things in life... Alder Goblets (Ciboria caucus), a tiny cup fungus that appears this time of year on very wet fallen alder catkins. #fungifriends #mycology #naturephotography #fungiphotography

Stewart Lee. I linked to his column in my post

Maybe he’ll just leave in a huff and join Restore?

“Newly-released messages between the far-right former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, reveal how Bannon worked with Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage to “overthrow” Theresa May at the height of the 2018 Brexit crisis in the UK.”

“In 2023, the OBE-nominated businessman sent out a tweet saying “someone should kill Sadiq Khan”, and announced plans to move to Spain or Dubai to avoid tax, but now is considering returning to the UK to stand as a Reform councillor because he fears Labour’s tax plans. “

The British press

Steccherinum robustius

#Steccherinumrobustius #Steccherinum #RotorangerResupinatstacheling #LangzähnigerResupinatstacheling #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends

Thank you! My bad.

These aren’t puff balls, they are less than a millimetre tall. They are slime moults, not fungi.

April’s Fungi Focus: Anatomy of a Slime Mould – Trichia decipiens Woodland for sale throughout the UK, including woods for sale in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Advice on buying a wood, as well woodland activities, flora and fauna, conserv...

Something I wrote about a few years back - www.woodlands.co.uk/blog/flora-a...

Rust fungi are pretty fascinating and pretty much overlooked too.

Today's slime mould,Trichia crateriformis, which has opened up its top to release its spores (by a process known as circumsessile dehiscence!)

My fundamental issue with AI is it doesn’t do most things better than people do. And never will.

I think we all get that feeling

This is someone I clearly must follow!

Aha, someone else had been rummaging around in moss with a microscope! (Although a slap on the wrist for the picture editor for using the word “toadstool”!)

“It can be argued that the success of the cocoa industry in Ghana was precisely due the farmers’ resistance to the style of monocultural farming advocated by the government. Farmers had integrated the cash crop within a complex network of other plants that were essential to life…”

Thank you!