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Badger Mash

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Made of the land I lived on. Plants, Wildlife, BBC Radio 4, Tolkien, Tea, TaiChi, Policy rather than Politics, #Population #SaveOurBBC Worcestershire

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · Sep 6

Imagining the consequnces if all the, currrently hyperactive, vexillophiles became guerilla gardeners.
Government, whether Lab, Con, Ref or Lib, would clamp down hard. Possession of a trowel would get you 10 years inside. The RHS would become a proscribed terrorist organisation.

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 18h

It’s tradition that when you see the frogs, you show them respect 🫡

(Someone should do the Creed cut with the footage)

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 2h

See also the Western outskirts of Cheltenham. 😉

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Vincent Wildlife Trust @vincentwt.bsky.social · 20h

Huge thank you to @iolowilliams.bsky.social for taking time to support with our 50 Years video in collaboration with Singularity Films — thank you for helping us to make a difference for threatened mammals in Britian and Ireland.

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 3h

Thought we might still have some at the back of a cupboard, but no. Ajax was the other one. We occasionally did some ancient history at school and there used to be tittering when Ajax was mentioned. One of them used to turn blue when wetted.

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 4h

🦊#FoxiMax #1141 6/8
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FoxiMax - A Word Puzzle

Multiple word guessing puzzle game

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 4h

I've occasionally seen this used inaccurately on old OS maps, for clay pits and vice versa.

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 4h

Argh! I'm planting some of these later.
🍃 Plant #742 🌿
I figured it out in 10 guesses!
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🔥 103 | Avg. Guesses: 10.2

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#metaflora

Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Plant!

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 4h

Folb-ob. 🙂‍↕️

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 4h

🐕 Animal #803 🦫
I figured it out in 6 guesses!
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🔥 7 | Avg. Guesses: 7.2

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#metazooa

Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 4h

Fobop dewop?

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 6h

Imagining the orange mushroom cloud if Melania wins the next Nobel Peace Prize.

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 7h

I've had hundreds of thousands of plant pots through my hands, but never met a lazy one.
Or could this be an online dating profile for Bill & Ben?

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 16h

#ThesePeople! 🤢

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 16h

Disgustingly fake. Some violet creams used to be real, but I doubt any are now.

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 17h

There was also a marinaded version in Sainsbury's recently.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 1d

A conversation about hedge-laying led me to the 'A Load of Old Billhooks' website: www.billhooks.co.uk If you're interested in traditional rural crafts, it's an impressive resource, covering Europe as well as Britain. This is what the internet was made for.

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 17h

I was rather on the fence about it - the "real" stuff, not Fry's. I do like the taste of rose (and violet) in things, but it has to be the genuine article, and, usually, it wasn't.

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 19h

Not going for the Turkish Delight with the veils and "Eastern Promise"?

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 19h

Any of those old enough to remember Blair or Brown must be getting the hang of it by now...

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 23h

"Well it was nice while it lasted. We had an unprecedented 10 months of low and stable Covid levels in England - but this is now over. We are seeing a definite, significant wave of Covid infections across England."

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 21h

Some years ago I ordered some small electrical components from a hardwear supplier. They sent me 47 pairs of door handles. When I rang customer service, and said what had arrived, the cheerful Geordie on the other end of the call paused for a second and then asked "D'ya live in a big hoose?"

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 21h

Ordered new curtains for the guest bedroom for my uncle and aunt’s stay, as I noticed I’d somehow got paint on the old ones.

The new ones arrived the morning of their arrival. Except Amazon had sent me three bras.

Ordered NEW new ones. That the USPS did a number on. They arrive today. A day late.

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Jon Knight @greenjimll.bsky.social · 1d

The @warwickshirecc.bsky.social or their contractors have made a right flipping mess by cutting down all the #biodiversity supporting plants and leaving a rubbish strewn embankment as the "Welcome to Stratford-upon-Avon" outside the railway station. #FFS

View towards town from the top of the railway station steps down from Alcester Road showing a devastated embankment.

Looking back up at the embankment towards the college, with litter all over it.

The awful result of a decimated embankment facing towards the town.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 1d

Landlords exposed flouting London's Airbnb rules

Landlords exposed flouting London's Airbnb rules

Duplicate short-term rental listings "pile pressure" on London's housing market, it is claimed.