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Here for the stress-free things, humour, the arts and nature. Avoiding hard news, doom and gloom.
01.11.2025 09:06 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
With #BonfireNight around the corner, it's important to remember that pre-prepared stacks of wood can look like cosy hibernation spots for wildlife 🦔😴
Here are our three tips to help you make your bonfires more wildlife friendly. Please save & share! 😄
Check your bonfires before you light them. 🔥
From 1973, Ed Emberley’s Little Drawing Book of Weirdos. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/e...
31.10.2025 15:27 — 👍 540 🔁 183 💬 9 📌 21I’ll be spending Halloween night sitting in the dark and ignoring the doorbell, hoping whoever is outside just goes away and leaves me alone. Just as I do every other night of the year.
31.10.2025 16:37 — 👍 76 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0Around 2,200 jobs were lost thanks to this pit closig alongside Westoe, Vane Tempest and Easington. It was also predicted £43 million was sucked straight out of the local economy, though we can probably guess even more in retrospect.
31.10.2025 17:21 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Evening. We're at the Stadium of Light now, but rather than focusing on the ground, we're focusing on what's under it!
This was the site of one the largest, modern and the deepest coal mine in the world when it opened in 1835. It also had one of the longest lifespans, closing within living memory.
Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight is the ghostly Great Grey Shrike! 👻
A scarce winter visitor, it haunts open landscapes, scanning for prey from high perches.
Known as the 'butcher bird', it impales its catch on thorns...a spooky spotlight for Halloween! 🩸
📌This restoration work helps to rewet the peatlands and limit their erosion, bringing many benefits to society such as a reduced risk of flooding, improvements to water quality and a reduction in carbon emissions.
31.10.2025 13:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Words for Hallowe'en 🎃
#Halloween2025
Pick your winner 👻
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(Bonus words and spooky treats
unlocked after every 666 likes 😱)
It’s not early if Christmas is an important selling time for you because people are already buying. You have to get on it! Please support independent makers and artists on social media. Don’t just like, repost! We appreciate it x
26.10.2025 09:41 — 👍 70 🔁 53 💬 3 📌 1
How to Hibernate.
Scanned by us from the 1952 book Animal Fair, by the Provensens.
It’s time.
Cartoon of a man saying "Go on then" and opening a door so an owl can walk out. The owl is saying "What's the point?" Caption: I let out an owl of despair
If you feel you must put this owl on the wall of your toilet, despair not, for I can draw one for you! www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
23.10.2025 10:02 — 👍 362 🔁 89 💬 6 📌 5
Since opening in 2005, Seven Stories has become a cornerstone of the region’s cultural landscape | Nick Kemp
21.10.2025 07:13 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
For anyone thinking of buying a Kelly Kettle to boil water outside. I just re-discovered this video of me using mine for the very first time, 15 yrs ago. I haven't used it for a while, but dug it out yesterday to show someone, and can't wait to get using it again!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWIA...
The title reads 'Pumpkin Dos & Don’ts'. A light-hearted illustrated poster split into two columns with a "Do" section on the left and a "Don't" section on the right. In the "Do" section: three green checkmarks highlight turning pumpkins into bird feeders, keeping them high to avoid foraging Hedgehogs, and composting leftovers to avoid harming wildlife. The "Don't" section features three red crosses, advising against leaving pumpkins on the ground (Hedgehogs might eat them), letting pumpkins rot (it harms wildlife), and wasting pumpkins …encouraging instead to make tasty recipes or bird treats. A cartoon Hedgehog and pumpkin smile from the bottom of the poster, adding a fun and informative feel.
Psst! Pumpkins are a treat for birds but can be harmful to hedgehogs. 🦔❌
Keep them high up out of reach and compost any leftovers to protect our garden wildlife.
An orange poster with the warning “Beware! Fake Webs = Real Risks for Wildlife” written at the top in bold, accompanied by a small, friendly-looking spider hanging from a web. The text explains that fake web decorations can trap and harm birds, small mammals, and even toads. A cartoon owl and spider deliver the message, with the spider humorously saying, “This is all natural!” in front of its web, and the owl encouraging people to avoid fake webbing for a spooky yet wildlife-friendly Halloween. The overall tone is playful but highlights an important caution for Halloween decorating.
It’s spooky season, but let’s not make it scary for wildlife! 🎃👻
Fake web decorations can trap and injure our garden wildlife. Stick to sustainable, indoor decorations and let real spiders do the work outdoors!
Share these tips & help spread awareness 👇
Cartoon: Two men sitting next to each other with an ‘Aladdin’s Lamp” in front of them. One says “ I've inherited a condition whereby when I rub a lamp I break out in a rash”. The other replies “It's your genie allergy”.
This isn’t available on our website yet, but you can request one via the email on our site.
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
This was such a cynical attempt by Natural England and could have had far reaching implications for many NGOs - thank goodness they have lost. Kudos to Wild Justice, the Badger Trust and their legal teams. Important win for wildlife and conservationists and groups everywhere.
20.10.2025 09:29 — 👍 28 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1
A photograph of a homemaker plate with its mono chrome design showing a random assortment of everyday objects in distinctly 1950s style
A gift to myself.
If Ladybird had designed tableware, they’d have made the Homemaker range. I love it.
(Designed by Enid Seeney and, like Ladybird, sold in Woolworths)
Just popping out to LIDL, or 50-1-500-50 as the Romans called it.
16.10.2025 13:15 — 👍 570 🔁 66 💬 35 📌 4AI NEWS
16.10.2025 13:51 — 👍 229 🔁 78 💬 8 📌 4
With help from Nextdoor Nature and funding from Northumbrian Water’s Bluespaces programme, the Washington Wildlife Group has recently installed a new nature trail at James Steel Park.
Read more 👉 www.durhamwt.com/blog/sian-whitehead/signs-success-james-steel-park
A plump Blue Tit perched on a rough tree trunk, its feathers puffed up against the cold. The bird’s yellow chest looks bright and round, with a deep blue cap and white face framed by a bold black eye stripe. Its small, serious expression gives it the air of a tiny guardian of the woods. It looks as though it’s just confidently appeared in your feed.
This Blue Tit would like your attention, briefly.
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Even if I managed to identify them from a book or internet, I’d still not have confidence to risk eating them. I’d want to see someone else eating them first, and then I’d wait 24 hours 😄
15.10.2025 13:26 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0When I posted this thread a couple of days ago I mentioned the moment we realised how bad our dog's eyesight had got. Here's that story, which I originally posted on Twitter…
13.10.2025 14:03 — 👍 55 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones
I ❤️ Viz
12.10.2025 17:50 — 👍 1761 🔁 519 💬 15 📌 11
Cartoon of a man looking at a sausage (which has a face, arms and legs, and a duck, the sausage says "Have you ever eaten a sausage or a duck? the duck says " 'cos if you have we're gonna fuck you up"
I hate when this happens
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Pebble dogs, a pigeon or two and a lady.
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Black-and-white picture of two children playing in woodland. Also in the picture, there are 12 hidden animals including an owl, a bat and a squirrel.
An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old
“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”
Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)
