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Alison Fure

@benton2.bsky.social

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Naturalist and blogger, monitoring the environment has become a way of life http://alisonfure.blogspot.com/?m=1

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Alison Fure @benton2.bsky.social · Dec 20

Richard Jefferies in Surbiton & other Surbiton highlights www.mixcloud.com/swindon1055/...

Birds and Bees

Glynis Hales

www.mixcloud.com

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 27d

Far right protest today:
29 - police officers injured
9 - protestors arrested

Proscribed group protests:
0 - police officers injured
1,600 - protestors arrested

We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly

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Alison Fure @benton2.bsky.social · Aug 24

#Hadrianswall walk

Alison Fure @benton2.bsky.social · Aug 1

Kingston’s heritage variety of apple, the #Mitchelsonsseedling
Will be huge this year

Alison Fure @benton2.bsky.social · Jun 23

Marbled Whites #kingstoncemetery

Alison Fure @benton2.bsky.social · Jun 23

Marbled Whites #kingstoncemetery

Alison Fure @benton2.bsky.social · Jun 23

Ringlets are on the wing #kingstoncemetery

Alison Fure @benton2.bsky.social · Jun 22

Some Cheshire Navelwort growing on sandstone #wildflowerhour

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Alison Fure @benton2.bsky.social · Jun 22

Lots of Celery - leaved Buttercup, a plant of pond margins but it this water lily filled bathtub, its rather aquatic
#wildflowerhour

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · Jun 16

After plenty of basking, the Comma looks to be egg laying. She has been dotting around the borders constantly and is using a Nettle bed here - blink and you'll miss it! @norfolkbutterflies.bsky.social

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Alison Fure @benton2.bsky.social · Jun 4

Mrs Loudon’s ‘Gardening for Ladies’ published 1840 part of the ‘Unearthed’ exhibition at the British Library

Alison Fure @benton2.bsky.social · Jun 4

Charles Darwin’s vasculum seen at the British Library expo ‘unearthed’.

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · Jun 3

Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals
www.theguardian.com/environment/... This is what the Planning & Infrastructure will mean, if it becomes law. Every single SSSI in England will lose its protected status, as well as non-SSSI sites for protected species.

Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals

Exclusive: Planning bill includes mechanism for developers to ‘pay to pollute’ valuable ecosystems, experts warn

www.theguardian.com

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Alison Fure @benton2.bsky.social · Jun 3

One up from No Mow May, ‘Fuck lawns’, by Sam Wallman at ‘Unearthed’, British Library

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Alison Fure @benton2.bsky.social · Jun 1

Bird’s foot trefoil
Lotus corniculatus
#Kingstoncemetery
#wildflowerhour

Alison Fure @benton2.bsky.social · Jun 1

Pyramidal Orchid Anacamptis pyramidalis, hidden in a shady patch in #Kingstoncemetery
Found an #orchidchallenge for
#wildflowerhour

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Alison Fure @benton2.bsky.social · May 30

No indeed

Alison Fure @benton2.bsky.social · May 29

Definitely not carrot and although it doesn’t show much of an the vegetative growth, the flower is very like H.W.D which is very common along the river especially the Richmond side

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Alison Fure @benton2.bsky.social · May 28

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty

Thames Water must pay a £104.5m penalty for sewage breaches and £18.2m relating to shareholder dividends.

www.bbc.co.uk

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · May 14

“The hawthorn is a part of natural English life—country life…You cannot pick up an old play, or book of the time when old English life was in the prime, without finding some reference to the hawthorn.” Richard Jefferies.

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Alison Fure @benton2.bsky.social · May 12

wildjustice.org.uk/general/wild...

Wild Justice starts legal proceedings against Government’s controversial Planning and Infrastructure Bill - Wild Justice

Conservation campaign group Wild Justice has written to the government calling on it to correct a statement made in Parliament […]

wildjustice.org.uk

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Alison Fure @benton2.bsky.social · May 11

Smell the freshness of this Chicken of the Woods on #HamLands

Alison Fure @benton2.bsky.social · May 11

Masses of Elm samaras, like snow on the ground #wildflowerhour
#Hamlands

Alison Fure @benton2.bsky.social · May 9

I have spoken to them. It doesn’t matter who cuts the grass, its symptomatic of false expectations as we are duped by greenwashing. Did anyone challenge the portfolio holder for the environment when he said 93% of trees planted by the council survive?

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Alison Fure @benton2.bsky.social · May 9

#KingstonCouncil contractors shoddy strimming and scalping of a community orchard in a drought during #nomowmay

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