Lucy Corrander
@lucycorrander.bsky.social
Wild plants, gardening, allotment, photography. Arrived from the old Twitter. Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.
https://looseandleafyinhalifax.blogspot.com/
https://messageinamilkbottle.blogspot.com/
On Twitter too. https://x.com/LucyCorrander
https://looseandleafyinhalifax.blogspot.com/
https://messageinamilkbottle.blogspot.com/
On Twitter too. https://x.com/LucyCorrander
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Lucy Corrander
@lucycorrander.bsky.social
· Aug 31
Someone has sent me a 'chat' message. Sorry, I can't access it. It's not that I object to giving Bluesky my age - but without my age it will hopefully prevent me from inadvertently accessing things I would rather avoid.
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Good morning!
Yesterday was an opportunity for some really beautiful frosty photos with a start of -4.5
It was really lovely!
A much warmer cloudier day ahead as we cut down and weed the herbacous borders
Hopefully staying dry
Have a wonderful day 🌱
Yesterday was an opportunity for some really beautiful frosty photos with a start of -4.5
It was really lovely!
A much warmer cloudier day ahead as we cut down and weed the herbacous borders
Hopefully staying dry
Have a wonderful day 🌱
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Good morning!
Yesterday was an opportunity for some really beautiful frosty photos with a start of -4.5
It was really lovely!
A much warmer cloudier day ahead as we cut down and weed the herbacous borders
Hopefully staying dry
Have a wonderful day 🌱
Yesterday was an opportunity for some really beautiful frosty photos with a start of -4.5
It was really lovely!
A much warmer cloudier day ahead as we cut down and weed the herbacous borders
Hopefully staying dry
Have a wonderful day 🌱
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Amazing sky over Lytchett Bay this morning , 2 Marsh Harrier ,Kingfisher and some Wigeon on a high tide ! @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Amazing sky over Lytchett Bay this morning , 2 Marsh Harrier ,Kingfisher and some Wigeon on a high tide ! @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
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Robin in Shelf Woods, Halifax. #ThePhotoHour #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #photography @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Robin in Shelf Woods, Halifax. #ThePhotoHour #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #photography @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
I'm having to give up part of my allotment - the part where a toad lives. Worried the take-over tenant will be a fan of 'weed'-suppressant fabrics, 'weed'-killers and slug pellets. Worried for the toad, the blackbird and the robin.
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I'm having to give up part of my allotment - the part where a toad lives. Worried the take-over tenant will be a fan of 'weed'-suppressant fabrics, 'weed'-killers and slug pellets. Worried for the toad, the blackbird and the robin.
Today, the Allotment Robin noticed I was splitting rhubarb and digging a new patch for part of it. To add to the joy, it was joined by a blackbird pottering among the fallen apples. Such ordinary birds but new to my plot.
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Today, the Allotment Robin noticed I was splitting rhubarb and digging a new patch for part of it. To add to the joy, it was joined by a blackbird pottering among the fallen apples. Such ordinary birds but new to my plot.
Spring bulbs didn't do well last year in exceptionally large containers. Can't replace that amount of soil. Advice please about how to re-store the soil to productivity so the flowers bloom again.
November 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Spring bulbs didn't do well last year in exceptionally large containers. Can't replace that amount of soil. Advice please about how to re-store the soil to productivity so the flowers bloom again.
Advice please. I don't drink alcohol. Spending Christmas with friends who do. Would like to take them a bottle of wine. Maybe two. I don't have much money. They have more. So I want to find something I can afford but which they will enjoy. Anyone got suggestions?
November 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Advice please. I don't drink alcohol. Spending Christmas with friends who do. Would like to take them a bottle of wine. Maybe two. I don't have much money. They have more. So I want to find something I can afford but which they will enjoy. Anyone got suggestions?
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And now, following Mahmood, we have Chris Philp for the Tories. Immediately he’s ramping things up. The Tories would be even harsher, he says. That’s what this Labour‘s policy does. Fighting cruelty with cruelty, unsurprisingly results in more cruelty.
November 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
And now, following Mahmood, we have Chris Philp for the Tories. Immediately he’s ramping things up. The Tories would be even harsher, he says. That’s what this Labour‘s policy does. Fighting cruelty with cruelty, unsurprisingly results in more cruelty.
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They make no case at all that there are too many refugees given sanctuary. Their justifications are all about other kinds of migrants. They are deliberately sacrificing refugees for instrumental ends. I barely know where to start with how wrong that is. It’s also a stupid on its own terms.
November 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
They make no case at all that there are too many refugees given sanctuary. Their justifications are all about other kinds of migrants. They are deliberately sacrificing refugees for instrumental ends. I barely know where to start with how wrong that is. It’s also a stupid on its own terms.
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If you listen to Labour, their reasons for being cruel to refugees is twofold: a) to win the votes of bigots, b) to deter economic migrants. They think harming the most vulnerable is an acceptable price to pay to benefit themselves & deter the needy.
November 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
If you listen to Labour, their reasons for being cruel to refugees is twofold: a) to win the votes of bigots, b) to deter economic migrants. They think harming the most vulnerable is an acceptable price to pay to benefit themselves & deter the needy.
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Yesterday, I posted that Labour haven’t given me reasons to vote for them. The truth is that they’re giving me very strong reasons to vote and campaign *against* them. Stop being horrible!
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Yesterday, I posted that Labour haven’t given me reasons to vote for them. The truth is that they’re giving me very strong reasons to vote and campaign *against* them. Stop being horrible!
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Labour’s new refugee policy one of the most shameful things I’ve heard from a British politician, and that’s in an environment where Nigel Farage & Robert Jenrick exist. Truly repugnant - if this is enacted it will be a lasting stain.
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Labour’s new refugee policy one of the most shameful things I’ve heard from a British politician, and that’s in an environment where Nigel Farage & Robert Jenrick exist. Truly repugnant - if this is enacted it will be a lasting stain.
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You come to Britain as a refugee, fleeing persecution & death, you fall in love, get married, have children, or start a business, buy a house, etc. 19 years later, the Home Office tells you the conflict in your country is over, go home, we’re deporting you. That’s the reality of Labour’s policy.
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
You come to Britain as a refugee, fleeing persecution & death, you fall in love, get married, have children, or start a business, buy a house, etc. 19 years later, the Home Office tells you the conflict in your country is over, go home, we’re deporting you. That’s the reality of Labour’s policy.
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Contemptible. That's the word for it.
Asked a question by Kuenssberg about whether her proposals on refugees would mean refugee families being broken up, Shabana Mahmood immediately started talking about illegal migration. Eventually, she’s admitted that yes, Labour’s policy will break up settled families. Vile.
November 16, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Contemptible. That's the word for it.
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Asked a question by Kuenssberg about whether her proposals on refugees would mean refugee families being broken up, Shabana Mahmood immediately started talking about illegal migration. Eventually, she’s admitted that yes, Labour’s policy will break up settled families. Vile.
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Asked a question by Kuenssberg about whether her proposals on refugees would mean refugee families being broken up, Shabana Mahmood immediately started talking about illegal migration. Eventually, she’s admitted that yes, Labour’s policy will break up settled families. Vile.
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The view across the water meadows to Salisbury cathedral today.
Just a phonecam shot in the rain.
I imagined Swallows leaving South Africa in the spring, on their long migration journey saying, 'if we get split-up on the way, I'll see you at the meadow - you know - the Spire & Pollard'.
#landscape 🦉
Just a phonecam shot in the rain.
I imagined Swallows leaving South Africa in the spring, on their long migration journey saying, 'if we get split-up on the way, I'll see you at the meadow - you know - the Spire & Pollard'.
#landscape 🦉
November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The view across the water meadows to Salisbury cathedral today.
Just a phonecam shot in the rain.
I imagined Swallows leaving South Africa in the spring, on their long migration journey saying, 'if we get split-up on the way, I'll see you at the meadow - you know - the Spire & Pollard'.
#landscape 🦉
Just a phonecam shot in the rain.
I imagined Swallows leaving South Africa in the spring, on their long migration journey saying, 'if we get split-up on the way, I'll see you at the meadow - you know - the Spire & Pollard'.
#landscape 🦉
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They didn't want my blood, but they probably want yours! I went to give blood today, but due to a v minor medical issue they couldn't take it. Yet they told me they do need donors. As I couldn't help by giving, instead, I thought i'd publicise this... www.blood.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
They didn't want my blood, but they probably want yours! I went to give blood today, but due to a v minor medical issue they couldn't take it. Yet they told me they do need donors. As I couldn't help by giving, instead, I thought i'd publicise this... www.blood.co.uk
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
It was summer when I woke this morning. By lunchtime autumn had returned.
November 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It was summer when I woke this morning. By lunchtime autumn had returned.
Of the things I've wished for . . . a robin on my allotment. And at last I seem to have one. This one spends a lot of time singing in my apple tree - by which I hope he means he is claiming it as his. Here, he has flown down for a moment to sit on the earth of the empty next door plot. 7th Nov 2025
November 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Of the things I've wished for . . . a robin on my allotment. And at last I seem to have one. This one spends a lot of time singing in my apple tree - by which I hope he means he is claiming it as his. Here, he has flown down for a moment to sit on the earth of the empty next door plot. 7th Nov 2025
Rather fun to have tomatoes still in November. And, not only that, to have tomato flowers too!
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Rather fun to have tomatoes still in November. And, not only that, to have tomato flowers too!
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Good day all.
📷 taken in November 2024.
📷 taken in November 2024.
November 5, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Good day all.
📷 taken in November 2024.
📷 taken in November 2024.
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Last night, Peers voted against Swift bricks: rejecting a simple, proven way to help one of our fastest declining birds recover. ❌
We share @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's disappointment & frustration.
The vote came late, but with government refusing to back it, its fate was already sealed.
We share @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's disappointment & frustration.
The vote came late, but with government refusing to back it, its fate was already sealed.
November 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Last night, Peers voted against Swift bricks: rejecting a simple, proven way to help one of our fastest declining birds recover. ❌
We share @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's disappointment & frustration.
The vote came late, but with government refusing to back it, its fate was already sealed.
We share @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's disappointment & frustration.
The vote came late, but with government refusing to back it, its fate was already sealed.
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#GoodNews for #biodiversity.
But we need a lot more like this - and #LandReform to make it easier
www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/environ...
But we need a lot more like this - and #LandReform to make it easier
www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/environ...
'A huge milestone' - Community group takes ownership of Bridestones Moor
Bridestones Moor, the dramatic 114-acre expanse above Todmorden, has been officially brought under community ownership.
www.halifaxcourier.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
#GoodNews for #biodiversity.
But we need a lot more like this - and #LandReform to make it easier
www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/environ...
But we need a lot more like this - and #LandReform to make it easier
www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/environ...
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This is why Starmer said we wouldn’t be getting closer to the EU. It’s because we can’t, he’s signed contracts with big corporations who will then effectively govern Britain and these corporate zones aren’t allowed by the EU.
Confused as to why there’s not more publicity? Me too.
Confused as to why there’s not more publicity? Me too.
Keir Starmer's Defence Growth Zones: Militarising the Economy by Stealth
Massive proliferation of different types of free zones leads to 'zone-stacking'
open.substack.com/pub/european...
Massive proliferation of different types of free zones leads to 'zone-stacking'
open.substack.com/pub/european...
Keir Starmer's Defence Growth Zones: Militarising the Economy by Stealth
Massive proliferation of different types of free zones leads to 'zone-stacking'
open.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This is why Starmer said we wouldn’t be getting closer to the EU. It’s because we can’t, he’s signed contracts with big corporations who will then effectively govern Britain and these corporate zones aren’t allowed by the EU.
Confused as to why there’s not more publicity? Me too.
Confused as to why there’s not more publicity? Me too.