Cat Frampton

A oil painting sketch in a gold frame of the green sea and brown hills. There is a breaking wave and grey sky.

Went to Scotland
Played with some oils

Now need to spend some money on materials and learn the skill… because (unfortunately😑) it is a skill!!!

I’ve seen them enough times to have been braced for that and still…. It’s just wonderfully brutal!

Yesterday I was also blasted by sound and lights.

@mogwai.scot are Always worth it.

A list of groups funded by Ben goldsmiths Devon environmental foundation according to the charities accounts DEF TTTC - Till The Coast Is Clear Keep It Wild - Derek Gow Species Recovery Centre Kelp Conservation Initiative - Native Kelp Restoration Wid Planet Trust - Save our Seagrass Moor Meadows - Big Meadow Count TTTC - The Dolphin Friends of the Dart - River Dart Water Qualty Testing Devon Ospreys Partnership - Devon Ospreys Moor Trees - Increasing Local Provenance Trees Friends of the Dart - River Dart Water Quaity Testing (phase 2) Devon Wildlife Trust - Maximising Beaver Benefits on the Tamar Buglife The Invertebrate Conservation Trust - Life on the edge Others (each less than £10k)

You don’t have to be qualified to get your views heard if you are funding almost everyone in some way or another

Oh look, here comes the cash, let’s listen to what it has to say….

I don’t care if Ben goes full reform

I do care if his cash is used by charities and groups

- Devon list attached

How about instead of ‘watching with interest’ like this is a fascinating game that you have only passing interest in, you point out VOCALLY, PUBLICLY and OFTEN that you find his politics disgusting,

& distance yourself from any past affiliation if you had any.

You Have A Platform - use it!

A screenshot from the charities register of the accounts of Ben goldsmiths charity. Devon alone has 13 named charities that received funds plus an unknown number of smaller donations.

A screenshot from a tweet by Ben goldsmith Saying @BenGoldsmith X.com It is a tragedy the UK doesn't have a real Green party. The UK and most European 'Greens' are hard Leftists with no real interest in the natural environment. Just look at their posts and their deeds, it's all promotion of open borders, trans ideology, anti Israel fanaticism etc.

Oh, I do wonder how such a (very rich) man has managed to position himself as a king of conservation?

Ffs

Environmental charities have to clean up their act. Giving him any kind of voice or power at all is just disgusting.

It’s easy to be gushing about someone that rich…

It may well just be the way the world works but it disgusts me.

So many conservation and nature ‘voices’ are tied up with his cash. Some (like Dartmoor nature alliance here) actively sought it out while he tweeted that stuff.

A screenshot from June 25 of Ben goldsmiths tweets on x disgusting stuff @@BenGoldsmith-30/06/2025 Replying to@piersmorgan Without diminishing the horrors of this war, if Israel wanted to eradicate Palestinians from Gaza they could have done so in the first week. The reason for the IDF sending brave soldiers into one dangerous tunnel after the next (mostly built beneath schools and hospitals), and into booby-trapped buildings, as well as sending clear warnings before every strike, has been to "minimise" civilian casualties. Militaries the world over will study for a long time how the IDF managed to achieve such low civilian to combatant casualties in such circumstances, with the other side deliberately using a strategy of human sacrifice. US-led coalition forces killed tens of thousands of civilians rooting ISIS out of Raqqa and Mosul. Nobody accused them of genocide. The term has been debased utterly, and the Palestinian people have been done no favours by such absurd accusations relating to Gaza. @BenGoldsmith • 29/06/2025 Replying to@piersmorgan You think Israel is seeking the complete eradication of the people of Gaza? Seriously? @BenGoldsmith•14/06/2025 Replying to @zain8130 @RedFing75194897 and @CouncillorJamal/ If the place had been carpet bombed, hundreds of thousands of civilians would be dead. As it happens, and while every civilian death is a tragedy, the ratio of combatants to civilians killed in Gaza is the lowest ever recorded in urban warfare, miraculously low even, given Show more @BenGoldsmith • 13/06/2025 Replying to @CouncillorJamal No, Hamas placed Palestinian civilians in harm's way as a deliberate

A screenshot of a disgusting tweet by Ben from x in 2024 saying - It is a tragedy the UK doesn't have a real Green party. The UK and most European 'Greens' are hard Leftists with no real interest in the natural environment. Just look at their posts and their deeds, it's all promotion of open borders, trans ideology, anti Israel fanaticism etc.

A screenshot from the Devon environmental foundations website showing Ben goldsmith as founder.

A screenshot from wildcard rewild a website showing both their claim to be inclusive and having funds from Ben. WILD CARD CAMPAIGNS ~ ABOUT ~ NEWS ~ SUPPOR1 We don't accept tradition as an excuse. It is the duty of each generation to reforge traditions that are inhumane and unjust. We welcome everyone. We do not tolerate bigotry, and we stand in solidarity with all oppressed peoples. We recognise the complexity of the issue. We know that reaching a half-wilded country will take time, but believe it's essential to aim big and to start now. We want a just transition. Rewilding gives us the opportunity for people and nature to work together for mutual benefit to progress towards a more sustainable future. WHO FUNDS US? Initially we were completely run by volunteers and powered by our supporters' donations. In 2023 we received our first grant funding and are now proud to receive funding from Gower Street, The Frederick Mulder Foundation, The Climate Majority Project, The Network for Social Change, The Movements Trust, Ben Goldsmith, The Kreitman Foundation and the Lister Trust.

His tweets were a thing to behold…

But he funds a huge amount of charities and they actively enable him to be more prominent than he should be.
Look for Conservation collective or Devon environmental foundation in almost any ‘nature’ charity funding and you’ll see them.

He’s also a vocal Israeli supporting Zionist and anti trans, anti immigration.

This isn’t a ‘talk to the enemy for the greater good’ move. This is straight up business as usual for him.

It’s time the organisations that chase after his cash stop.

So, about @naturalengland.bsky.social’s peat map and its hallucinatory peat inventions… and about our government’s push to get ai into our official maps…

(Side note: I’d definitely go see ‘hallucinatory peat inventions’ if they were a band, probably folk, probably playing a rural pub…)

Coral fungi in grass

Red coloured fungi in grass

I can’t sign up for the event, as I am busy,
- but waxcaps and other grassland fungi don’t just magically appear due to fairy dust*.
They indicate that the soil is doing its thing.
They are tricky though, because they don’t always show up every year.

*unless fungal spores ARE fairy dust?

A red fungi in grass

Some orange fungi in grass

A brown and white fungi in grass

A pink fungi in grassland

Waxcaps…

The fact that that gate is so close to That bench is pleasing proof that Manaton is a strange place

Sparx is part of oxygen house who are massively into becoming ‘green lairds’ and are buying huge estates to offset carbon and make money. (50,000 acres and counting)

Wouldn’t need to offset so much if they just let kids read fun books for pleasure in school.

Can I place a bet here and now that healthy pasture / soil / dung ecosystems also have methane eating microbes?

Ones that use the herbivores excess as it’s expelled? Straight from the horses (cows) mouth… Nothing in nature is wasted and all that.

A sketch looking up into a tree with four long tailed tits in it. It’s not detailed, more solid firm lines.

Long tailed tits in the branches.

Tiny drawing of tiny birds

For sale if anyone wants a small drawing done by a human who stood under a tree and watched how the birds live.

Cool.
I was just wondering having had issues with two ‘full boy’ strays here in the last couple of years.

And people say they want stuff but in reality they hardly ever do the things necessary for that stuff… in fact many are very resistant to personal change especially when it comes to pets.

How is the interbreeding issue going to work?

I’m sure loads of people want to see them return, but very few cat owners will want to keep there small ‘innocent’ un neutered boy kitten in, and it only takes one…

And who will pay to neuter strays?

Or are we accepting the cross breeding as worth it?

Three sketchbooks lying open One showing light snow on the hills One showing a damp grey day And one showing floods

3/1/2026
3/1/2020
3/1/2016

There sketchbooks lying open One showing both cloud and sunshine One showing a cold landscape and one showing a blowsy kind of cloud.

2/1/2026
2/1/2020
2/1/2016

Three sketchbooks lying open All showing a sketch of the weather One is broken sun over green fields and a wood One is a sunrise and a cold looking hill And one is a black piece of paper with a sketch of the moon and moonlit hill in white.

1/1/2026
1/1/2021
1/1/2016

*Cough*

Ten years?

*Cough*

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FAQs:
I say Daily… I have missed a few and did them later. Not that bothered tbh it’s only a few

V fast sketches sometimes!

Sketchbooks by Nant Design and are handmade beauties. See below! ⬇️

I sketch what I’ve seen that day, so taken on holiday etc. not all of Dartmoor!

www.nantdesigns.co.uk

Three open sketchbooks showing weather sketches in roughly done pencil and watercolour 2025 shows a cold sun rise 2020 shoes damp cold hill and branches 2015 shows showers

31/12/2025
31/12/2020
31/12/2015

Three sketchbooks lying open showing sketches 2025 broken clouds 2020 heavy dark swooshy clouds 2015 heavy rain

30/12/2015
30/12/2020
30/12/2025

Three sketchbooks lying open showing winter sketches One of sunny tree tops (2015) one of broken clouds (2020) and another of darker clouds (2025)

29/12/2015
29/12/2020
29/12/2025

Yes the 29th was an odd day to start, but it was a case of deliberately avoiding New Year’s resolutions which I always fail at fast and hard!!

So, having managed 10 years of daily* weather journal drawings I thought I’d start the new year showing some

This is not a resolution,and it won’t be a daily update, but here have a few days…

(The point of the sketching is not perfection, it’s just doing it/ trying to get the feel if the day down)

For this I use handmade sketchbooks from Nant Design.

I was given one ten years ago and decided to do something with it, (rather than just admire its beauty and freak out about using it - My usual response to beautiful sketchbooks!)

So I drew the weather… a lot!

www.nantdesigns.co.uk/index.html

It’s simple enough….
You just have to do today’s! (Again and again and again!)

And remember to take the sketchbook with you if your away for the night.

And forgive yourself if you miss a day. It’s not a job after all!

Heaps of sketchbooks on my floor.

Sketchbooks all Lined up with two open.

For ten years, everyday, I’ve sketched the weather.

Daily quick drawings, as a way of making me observe, think and pick up a pencil, a pen, a brush.

I’m not stopping, but it’s worth celebrating the achievement.

46 sketchbooks, 3,558(?) sketches.