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Full-frame of green heart-shaped Sweet Violet foliage, dotted with about x 35 violet/indigo/purple flowers

A solitary Daisy flower, bravely opening in chilly drizzle

Gorse bush covered in golden yellow flowers. Rough grass beneath, and a clump of jolly yellow Daffodils

Old Ash tree stump in rough grass with three Primrose clumps and dark Ivy growing at its base

💚💜💛Hello #WildflowerHour
More grim weather, but the flowers don’t seem to mind? Sweet Violet, Daisy, Gorse & Primroses 🌼 Sunshine please 🙏🌞
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

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We read Cadborough Cliff track (Gibbet Marsh to Float Lane) will be discussed at Rother DC meeting Mon 23 Feb. The ask is for East Sussex CC to repair the track, for better accessibility.
A precious area for wildlife (incl Nightingale), we’re concerned for its conservation.
Who best to contact?

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre.

She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s.

Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

BBC reporting that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

There is no precedent for a senior member of the royal family being placed under arrest in modern British history. A seismic moment for the monarchy.

An engraving looking up at a song thrush in full voice as it perches on a twig against a white sky in early spring

Other work of the Ladybird artists.
‘Missel Thrush’, 1937
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon, dies aged 84 A fixture in Democratic politics who ran for 1988 presidential nomination, Jackson was once close to Martin Luther King Jr The Rev Jesse Jackson, the civil rights campaigner who was prominent for more than 50 years and who ran strongly for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988, has died. He was 84. “Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said in a statement. “We shared him with the world, and in return, the world became part of our extended family. His unwavering belief in justice, equality, and love uplifted millions, and we ask you to honor his memory by continuing the fight for the values he lived by.” Continue reading...

Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon, dies aged 84

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Wet & windswept distant Gorse bush, flowering bravely - dotted with golden yellow flowers. Took the pic from shelter of back door as rain poured down. Behind wire fence is a grey cloudy sky & misty hills. Foreground is rough grass and a rose shrub with a few leaves showing & hips still on.

Wet crimson foliage of (I think) Bloody Cranesbill? Quite starry in shape

Brrr! A soaking for #WildflowerHour
Gorse flowering in sodden gloom, Cranesbill foliage glowing 🔥
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Draped in burnt-orange robes, two dozen Buddhist monks set out on a 2,300-mile 'Walk for Peace' — a self-described spiritual journey across nine states in US to raise awareness of peace, kindness and compassion reut.rs/462H23M 📷 Evelyn Hockstein

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Caption: “From left to right: Nigel Farage, Steve Bannon, John Lawson Thornton, Raheem Kassam, Dan Jukes, Yasmine Dehaene-Modrikamen, Mischaël Modrikamen, and Laure Ferrari at a dinner to launch The Movement in 2017”

Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support

In his emails to Epstein in mid November 2018, Steve Bannon claims to have met up with Rees Mogg, Farage and Boris Johnson to keep Brexit on track and defeat Theresa May. Farage denies this…. But the facts are clear. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

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A posy of purple Sweet Violet flowers & dark green Ivy in a white eggcup. From my neighbour, when she visited for a cuppa on Friday

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Sweet Violet posy given by my neighbour on Friday, from her garden 🙏
Suffragette colours appreciated & noted #WildflowerHour 🌱

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In sunshine this week - mauve crocus flowers opened to reveal deep orange stamens. Growing through grass and dark green Ivy

A field fencepost with a snoozing ewe’s back against grey sky, on the brow of the hill. Corrugated roof of a nearby barn beyond. In foreground is a clump of Primrose, peeping from behind grasses & Ivy.

Red Deadnettle in grass. Its flowers are bright magenta pink

A clump of Primroses with a good few flowers open - maybe 22? Dark foliage of Ivy around

Happy #WildflowerHour to all 💜💚💛 Crocus in rare sunshine earlier this week. Primrose, Red Deadnettle & I spy a soggy ewe 🐻‍❄️👀
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❤️‍🔥 In the spirit of my favourite, Eyvind Earle 🎨

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Misogyny 101

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Hard to choose only one!
But Goldfinch 🌱

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Favourite mini-landscape on top of a (suburban) front garden gatepost. Admired on regular dog walks several years ago - may’ve been replaced by now? 🦠🌱