The natural world, climate crisis, sustainability, growing things, fungi, local history. West Wales.
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I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.
December 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.
I have been delving into the life of this extraordinary woman who, I suspect, would not give modern foragers the time of day. She shot rabbits and ate them for breakfast. givehttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/26/life-of-exmoor-nature-writer-hope-bourne-recognised-with-exhibition
Life of Exmoor nature writer Hope Bourne recognised with exhibition
Views of forward-thinking artist and writer who lived off land in national park celebrated at museum in Glastonbury
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December 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I have been delving into the life of this extraordinary woman who, I suspect, would not give modern foragers the time of day. She shot rabbits and ate them for breakfast. givehttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/26/life-of-exmoor-nature-writer-hope-bourne-recognised-with-exhibition
A short film about the death of a glacier. An instructive and moving foretaste of the future.
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Not Ok (a little movie about a small glacier at the end of the world) - full film
YouTube video by Glaciers are Life
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December 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
A short film about the death of a glacier. An instructive and moving foretaste of the future.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVvY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVvY...
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Spotlight on: Bog Asphodel, Narthecium ossifragum. The latin ‘ossifragum’ means bone-breaker. This is because the species grows on soils poor in calcium that historically caused bone health issues in grazing livestock.
December 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Spotlight on: Bog Asphodel, Narthecium ossifragum. The latin ‘ossifragum’ means bone-breaker. This is because the species grows on soils poor in calcium that historically caused bone health issues in grazing livestock.
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Edward Gorey
'In the middle of his kitchen he had a big marble ball fountain. Much of the art in the house consisted of found objects. He had an entire wall of antique cheese graters, which was very impressive, and an enormous ball of rope in the fireplace'
Johnny Ryan
'In the middle of his kitchen he had a big marble ball fountain. Much of the art in the house consisted of found objects. He had an entire wall of antique cheese graters, which was very impressive, and an enormous ball of rope in the fireplace'
Johnny Ryan
December 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Edward Gorey
'In the middle of his kitchen he had a big marble ball fountain. Much of the art in the house consisted of found objects. He had an entire wall of antique cheese graters, which was very impressive, and an enormous ball of rope in the fireplace'
Johnny Ryan
'In the middle of his kitchen he had a big marble ball fountain. Much of the art in the house consisted of found objects. He had an entire wall of antique cheese graters, which was very impressive, and an enormous ball of rope in the fireplace'
Johnny Ryan
Happy to say that the only glacier I have ever visited (Drangajokull in NW Iceland) has not retreated - yet.
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‘Even the animals seem confused’: a retreating Kashmir glacier is creating an entire new world in its wake
Kolahoi is one of many glaciers whose decline is disrupting whole ecosystems – water, wildlife and human life that it has supported for centuries
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December 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Happy to say that the only glacier I have ever visited (Drangajokull in NW Iceland) has not retreated - yet.
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Playing Monopoly with green spaces www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day
Investigation shows extent of green land lost across UK and mainland Europe to development from 2018 to 2023
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October 1, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Playing Monopoly with green spaces www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Or you could try my alternatives
September 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Or you could try my alternatives
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"Burying the truth of the Confederacy, rewriting its aims and ideas, and ignoring its animating words allowed for the terrorization of the Black population, the imposition of apartheid, and the destruction of democracy." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
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September 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"Burying the truth of the Confederacy, rewriting its aims and ideas, and ignoring its animating words allowed for the terrorization of the Black population, the imposition of apartheid, and the destruction of democracy." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
Early potatoes
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Letter from the Four Corners - In Search of Prehistoric Potatoes - Archaeology Magazine - March/April 2020
Native peoples of the American Southwest dined on a little-known spud at least 10,000 years ago
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September 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Early potatoes
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There's a terrific poem about eels in the form of a slim volume - by Steve Ely.
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Activists blend science and folklore as they try to revive Somerset’s eel population
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Feargal Sharkey back campaign to save the animal, which once inspired placenames, songs and stories
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August 30, 2025 at 6:52 AM
There's a terrific poem about eels in the form of a slim volume - by Steve Ely.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Opening next month at Somerset Rural Life Museum, 'A Life Outside' offers a new appraisal of the work & life of the writer and artist Hope Bourne, who recorded the landscape, wildlife, history & changing rural traditions of Exmoor www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/a-li...
Image © The Exmoor Society
Image © The Exmoor Society
August 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Opening next month at Somerset Rural Life Museum, 'A Life Outside' offers a new appraisal of the work & life of the writer and artist Hope Bourne, who recorded the landscape, wildlife, history & changing rural traditions of Exmoor www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/a-li...
Image © The Exmoor Society
Image © The Exmoor Society
Should Paviland’s Red Lady “Come Home”?
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Should Paviland’s Red Lady “Come Home”?
Two archaeologists explore the complicated story of 33,000-year-old human remains—and calls for their repatriation to Wales.
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August 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Should Paviland’s Red Lady “Come Home”?
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Microbes meet across a crowded room...
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Does Your Microbiome Shape Your Friendships?
Who you spend time with is a powerful predictor of the microbes you carry—but the tiny organisms may also influence your social life.
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August 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Microbes meet across a crowded room...
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Wish I could stay alive long enough to see how this plays out - innoculating new woodland with mycorrhizal spores www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Magic mushrooms: how scientists discovered fungi are the secret ingredient for restoring the world’s forests
Healthy fungal networks help trees and plants grow, making them key to successful reforestation. The only problem? Almost nothing is known about this subterranean ecology
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August 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Wish I could stay alive long enough to see how this plays out - innoculating new woodland with mycorrhizal spores www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘There are so many words for cutting benefit payments to the needy and vulnerable, as once there were so many for words for the cutting of a field.'
Restricted access to the benefit system is a re-enactment of the Acts of Enclosure, writes Sean Prentice www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/tres...
Restricted access to the benefit system is a re-enactment of the Acts of Enclosure, writes Sean Prentice www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/tres...
August 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
‘There are so many words for cutting benefit payments to the needy and vulnerable, as once there were so many for words for the cutting of a field.'
Restricted access to the benefit system is a re-enactment of the Acts of Enclosure, writes Sean Prentice www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/tres...
Restricted access to the benefit system is a re-enactment of the Acts of Enclosure, writes Sean Prentice www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/tres...
(More) toxic colonial history www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities
Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...
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August 4, 2025 at 7:50 AM
(More) toxic colonial history www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Natural rewilding of clearfelled forest www.scotlandbigpicture.com/rewilding-st...
Less is Moormore
<p>Letting nature lead can be difficult. In our nature-depleted landscapes, it is often hard for conservationists to relinquish control, to allow wild nature to develop in whichever way it chooses. Bu...
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July 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Natural rewilding of clearfelled forest www.scotlandbigpicture.com/rewilding-st...
Plus ca change... (apart from the means)
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Missionaries using secret audio devices to evangelise Brazil’s isolated peoples
Solar-powered units reciting biblical passages have appeared in the Javari valley, despite strict laws protecting Indigenous groups
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July 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Plus ca change... (apart from the means)
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Hunter/gatherer lifestyles : the gathering aspect is arguably the more creative and more crucial to human evolution
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How Women Shaped Human Evolution Through Food Processing
An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of food processing—a practice often led by women—that was crucial to human survival.
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July 27, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Hunter/gatherer lifestyles : the gathering aspect is arguably the more creative and more crucial to human evolution
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This article…
… is, by a long way, the clearest account of the UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza that I have ever read.
Please read and share.
… is, by a long way, the clearest account of the UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza that I have ever read.
Please read and share.
In all but name: is Gaza Britain’s undeclared war?
Britain isn’t just watching Gaza burn – it’s helping fuel the fire, with weapons, intelligence, and silence
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July 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This article…
… is, by a long way, the clearest account of the UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza that I have ever read.
Please read and share.
… is, by a long way, the clearest account of the UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza that I have ever read.
Please read and share.
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'Starving children to death won’t win Binyamin Netanyahu the war on Gaza. It will ensure it lasts for decades.'
Read the latest from Paul Rogers here ⤵️
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/israel-gaza-starving-children-to-death-destroy-reputation-security-hamas-us/
Read the latest from Paul Rogers here ⤵️
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/israel-gaza-starving-children-to-death-destroy-reputation-security-hamas-us/
July 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
'Starving children to death won’t win Binyamin Netanyahu the war on Gaza. It will ensure it lasts for decades.'
Read the latest from Paul Rogers here ⤵️
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/israel-gaza-starving-children-to-death-destroy-reputation-security-hamas-us/
Read the latest from Paul Rogers here ⤵️
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/israel-gaza-starving-children-to-death-destroy-reputation-security-hamas-us/
The force that through the green fuse drives...
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In Ukraine’s bombed out reservoir a huge forest has grown – is it a return to life or a toxic timebomb?
Two years after the Nova Kakhovka dam was destroyed in Ukraine, nature has returned in abundance to the drained land in a ‘big natural experiment’ – but it could be lost as quickly as it appeared
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July 22, 2025 at 7:40 AM
The force that through the green fuse drives...
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