Ed Douglas

Quite funny that Hannah Spencer was chilling as a plumbing influencer about a month ago.

Now it seems she's already better at politics, speech writing, and public speaking than the Prime Minister and most of his team.

And she could sort your pipes and walls out. Impressive.

Peter Hansen is always worth hearing on the subject of Everest and imperialism.

New podcast! We talk to historian of science
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Country diary: Ding ding! Round 2 for the brawling badgers | Ed Douglas Abbeydale, Sheffield: I’m genuinely scared when I wake at 2am to the sound of screaming. Then I see two male badgers in an almighty scrap

Tension builds at 2am outside @calmandfearless.bsky.social's bedroom window in today's @theguardian.com country diary.

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बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head”

An #OtherEverests #ConfluenceCollective exhibition in Kalimpong 21-27 February 2026 shorturl.at/YrbVv

Lost archives & hidden histories of Indigenous high-altitude workers from the 1920s & 1930s.

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Very rich people knew they'd not be affected by Brexit or MAGA. They have mobility and money. Just a game and a gamble.

It's amazing to see so many new responses to and interpretations of Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain. Wish she could have known the legs that book had.

The Fram Museum (if you're ever in Oslo, then go) is reporting that Roland Huntford has died, deep into his 90s. It took someone born in South Africa to offer a more realistic picture of Scott, but his intention, he said, to was to do justice to Amundsen. Can't argue with that.

Seven years on, fake rescue racket still flies in Nepal’s Himalayas Police reopened old case files and arrested six top executives of helicopter rescue and trekking companies this week.

Far from being stopped, fake rescues are continuing in Nepal. Police say in a 30-month period insurance companies were defrauded of $20 million dollars. kathmandupost.com/money/2026/0...

Last Week, a Guide Died on Makalu. Then His Client Vanished, Too. How a split-second decision to try to save one climber may have cost the life of another

A sobering account of the recent accident on Makalu when a client was left to descend alone following the death of one of his guides and subsequently disappeared himself. Tragic, but begs a lot of questions. www.climbing.com/news/how-gui...

As Nic says, so moving. Robin song is soul food even without grief.

They’re certainly floaters.

Really handy how all the crap Tories are congealing in the same u-bend.

Sir Mark Tully, the BBC's 'voice of India', dies aged 90 Sir Mark covered some of the defining moments in India's history in a career that spanned decades.

Sorry to hear that Mark Tully has died. Another world now, and a more tolerant one. Sir Mark Tully, the BBC's 'voice of India', dies aged 90 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It would be great to get through just one day without being forced to think about him.

RSPB reports six of its satellite-tagged Hen Harriers ‘disappeared’ on or close to grouse moors in England in 2025 & another was illegally poisoned The RSPB has today issued a press release documenting the suspicious disappearance of six of its satellite-tagged Hen Harriers in 2025, as well as one that had been illegally poisoned. All seven in…

The RSPB reports six of its satellite-tagged Hen Harriers 'disappeared' on or close to grouse moors in England in 2025, and another one was illegally poisoned.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime 🌍

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Liz Truss: 'I crashed an entire country in 49 days.' Donald Trump: 'Hold my diet coke!'

Morning all...

Sue me, but I thought Adolescence over-hyped. Prison drama Waiting for the Out, on the other hand, hasn't been getting the attention it deserves. (Go BBC!) Josh Finan was inspired casting. Can switch in an instant from being a frightened boy to a tough-minded intellectual.

So anti-elitist.

Join us for our first podcast! We talk with the amazing Alexandra Cotofana about landscape sentience in the Romanian Carpathians and the concept of xenophobic mountains.
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Muntjac are about an inch long? Roe twice that. Both in Greno Woods, I believe.

Looks like squirrel to me and possibly muntjac? Or roe? How big are your feet?!

Superb and absolutely damning long read on HS2.

www.ft.com/content/3f73... How the UK ended up building the world’s most expensive railway

You did see it in Cardiff! It's transferred up here. Abi Palmer show. And yes, the disco made it. Weirdly relaxing.

William Kentridge: The Pull of Gravity | Yorkshire Sculpture Park This summer we are thrilled to be presenting a major exhibition by South African artist William Kentridge. It marks the first museum presentation outside S

The other art show I saw recently (and for the third time) is the William Kentridge exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. That's on until April and is just outstanding. Very much on the nose for the times we live in. ysp.org.uk/whats-on/exh...

I guess this tracks with the idea that here is vaguely normal whereas X is where Musk gets to call the British govt fascists.

Country diary: Hooray for the hard, frozen ground – life on Earth depends on it | Ed Douglas Blacka Moor, South Yorkshire: The very cold daytime temperatures should be welcomed, and the reason is right beneath our feet

Today's @theguardian.com country diary by @calmandfearless.bsky.social focuses on the frozen ground beneath our feet.

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Charming (and fun) art exhibition featuring slugs comes to an end at Sheffield’s Site Gallery on 1 Feb. They still can’t stay in my kitchen though.

Google the video & see for yourself.

This is not law enforcement. This is murder.

Sickening.