Brian Ford-Lloyd PhD FLSW 🌿🌾🏴
@brian-f-l.bsky.social
Emeritus professor - Birmingham University: plants, biodiversity, genetics, crops, and conservation but not as you know it. Long time follower of Welsh rugby, but for how much longer? 🏴🌿🌾
www.welshcheesecompany.co.uk/our-producer... Bought the Red Leicester from our @bromsgrove.bsky.social butcher and it is excellent, tangy but quite soft and creamy. Hope the butcher has more!
The Snowdonia Cheese Company - The Welsh Cheese Company
The Snowdonia Cheese Company was established in 2001 with the aim of creating a luxury range of Welsh cheeses, and...
www.welshcheesecompany.co.uk
December 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
www.welshcheesecompany.co.uk/our-producer... Bought the Red Leicester from our @bromsgrove.bsky.social butcher and it is excellent, tangy but quite soft and creamy. Hope the butcher has more!
The Snowdonia Cheese Company - The Welsh Cheese Company
The Snowdonia Cheese Company was established in 2001 with the aim of creating a luxury range of Welsh cheeses, and...
www.welshcheesecompany.co.uk
December 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
www.welshcheesecompany.co.uk/our-producer... Bought the Red Leicester from our @bromsgrove.bsky.social butcher and it is excellent, tangy but quite soft and creamy. Hope the butcher has more!
Amazing set of boots found washed up on Ogmore beach! Could be from an Italian ship wreck but maybe shoes from buried village near Merthyr Mawr? Probably a load of cobblers?
December 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Amazing set of boots found washed up on Ogmore beach! Could be from an Italian ship wreck but maybe shoes from buried village near Merthyr Mawr? Probably a load of cobblers?
December 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Amazing set of boots found washed up on Ogmore beach! Could be from an Italian ship wreck but maybe shoes from buried village near Merthyr Mawr? Probably a load of cobblers?
Love early 20th century images of vegetables particularly beet, and the forerunner of sugar beet
Thanks for reposting Juliet
Thanks for reposting Juliet
December 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Love early 20th century images of vegetables particularly beet, and the forerunner of sugar beet
Thanks for reposting Juliet
Thanks for reposting Juliet
Excellent! Three wins for the regions. Shame about Scarlets?
YES DRAGONS
December 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Excellent! Three wins for the regions. Shame about Scarlets?
There have been years when Cardiff couldn’t score goals. Now they are making up for it - wow!
Cardiff boss Brian Barry-Murphy singled out Cian Ashford for special praise after his side beat Doncaster 4-3 thanks to a last-gasp goal at Cardiff City Stadium.
Brian Barry-Murphy singles out Cian Ashford for praise as Cardiff seal late win
Cardiff boss Brian Barry-Murphy singled out Cian Ashford for special praise after his side beat Doncaster 4-3 thanks to a last-gasp goal at Cardiff City Stadium. The Wales Under-21s winger scored a go...
nation.cymru
December 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
There have been years when Cardiff couldn’t score goals. Now they are making up for it - wow!
Good performance by Ospreys, not by ref really
Post match Press Con with Mark Jones 🗣️
"I'm delighted, so pleased for the group. The way the young fellas rose to the challenge, and the senior guys were real steel down the spine of the team.
We've got a very high quality team coming to our own back yard next week [Munster] and we're excited."
"I'm delighted, so pleased for the group. The way the young fellas rose to the challenge, and the senior guys were real steel down the spine of the team.
We've got a very high quality team coming to our own back yard next week [Munster] and we're excited."
December 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Good performance by Ospreys, not by ref really
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Last Saturday was @bsbibotany.bsky.social #BIBConf25 but in 1965 BSBI conference was in Birmingham. Found report in Amnesty bookshop! JL Fyfe of PBI Cambridge talked about Lucerne, Sickle Medick and hybrids 🤗 Alas no references ☹️
#Botany #Medicago
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#Botany #Medicago
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December 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Last Saturday was @bsbibotany.bsky.social #BIBConf25 but in 1965 BSBI conference was in Birmingham. Found report in Amnesty bookshop! JL Fyfe of PBI Cambridge talked about Lucerne, Sickle Medick and hybrids 🤗 Alas no references ☹️
#Botany #Medicago
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#Botany #Medicago
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Whatever! I saw Jarrod replaced in the World Cup warm up in Cardiff and put me right off him but tonight he’s brilliant chwarae teg
I don’t mind the players celbrating big in the moment, some of them will be absolutely scarred by their recent experiences in a Wales jersey and they’d have taken any sort of W
As a fan I can’t celebrate that. it was an awful performance that should have resulted in a loss. can’t pretend otherwise.
As a fan I can’t celebrate that. it was an awful performance that should have resulted in a loss. can’t pretend otherwise.
November 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Whatever! I saw Jarrod replaced in the World Cup warm up in Cardiff and put me right off him but tonight he’s brilliant chwarae teg
Sure she wasn’t called Lily?
November 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Sure she wasn’t called Lily?
By chance we had Uber Eats delivered food from Ascott’s - ok and the chips were good!
I’m not a regular restaurant goer so this space isn’t normally going to be doing reviews but having gone out last night for a family meal I can say what a fantastic meal we had at Casa Med on the High St in Bromsgrove. The staff were brilliant and the food was excellent.
You have to try it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
You have to try it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
November 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
By chance we had Uber Eats delivered food from Ascott’s - ok and the chips were good!
Really well deserved win by Cardiff tonight- Lions were seriously hard. Pity there wasn’t a bigger crowd! Only region to win too 👏👏👏@cardiffrugby.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Really well deserved win by Cardiff tonight- Lions were seriously hard. Pity there wasn’t a bigger crowd! Only region to win too 👏👏👏@cardiffrugby.bsky.social
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Watched a few world women’s rugby games and have to say that USA and Italy were highly skilled and really unlucky to miss out and way beyond Wales ability
August 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Watched a few world women’s rugby games and have to say that USA and Italy were highly skilled and really unlucky to miss out and way beyond Wales ability
Watched a few world women’s rugby games and have to say that USA and Italy were highly skilled and really unlucky to miss out and way beyond Wales ability
August 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Watched a few world women’s rugby games and have to say that USA and Italy were highly skilled and really unlucky to miss out and way beyond Wales ability
Looks like these spout lies like Trump!
The Green Revolution saved 1-2 billion lives globally. Activists say it was a failure. They’re lying geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/08/25/v...
Viewpoint: The Green Revolution saved 1-2 billion lives globally. Activists say it was a failure. They’re lying
n the past few years, many environmental and academic activists have been undermining the work of Norman Borlaug and the successes of the Green Revolution
geneticliteracyproject.org
August 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Looks like these spout lies like Trump!
Reposted by Brian Ford-Lloyd PhD FLSW 🌿🌾🏴
A foreign coal firm is suing UK taxpayers in a secretive ‘corporate court’ – with a Tory MP as their lawyer. All to overturn a climate ruling that stopped a Cumbria coal mine. This is democracy & climate action held to ransom
Tommy Green writing for DeSmog
Read here ⤵️
@northwestbylines.co.uk
Tommy Green writing for DeSmog
Read here ⤵️
@northwestbylines.co.uk
UK Government to be sued in ‘secret corporate court’ by coal firm represented by Tory MP
Former attorney general Geoffrey Cox is leading the case brought by a coal firm that could cost the taxpayer billions
northwestbylines.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
A foreign coal firm is suing UK taxpayers in a secretive ‘corporate court’ – with a Tory MP as their lawyer. All to overturn a climate ruling that stopped a Cumbria coal mine. This is democracy & climate action held to ransom
Tommy Green writing for DeSmog
Read here ⤵️
@northwestbylines.co.uk
Tommy Green writing for DeSmog
Read here ⤵️
@northwestbylines.co.uk
Reposted by Brian Ford-Lloyd PhD FLSW 🌿🌾🏴
On the island of Sumatra, families keep wild spices growing in their back gardens. The wild relatives of their commercialised cousins, these plants offer flavours and uses that are undervalued. A new study of these gardens finds what we could be losing.
wp.me/pdRZhH-mm9
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
wp.me/pdRZhH-mm9
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
Indonesia's Secret Spice Collection
When scientists ventured into the backyards of Indonesian families, they discovered something remarkable hiding behind everyday cooking. Smallholders in...
botany.one
August 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
On the island of Sumatra, families keep wild spices growing in their back gardens. The wild relatives of their commercialised cousins, these plants offer flavours and uses that are undervalued. A new study of these gardens finds what we could be losing.
wp.me/pdRZhH-mm9
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
wp.me/pdRZhH-mm9
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
Reposted by Brian Ford-Lloyd PhD FLSW 🌿🌾🏴
I and many of my generation - and the one after it - owe Biddy a lot
Rest in Peace formidable Blue Peter producer Joan Maureen "Biddy" Baxter MBE who has sadly died age 92.
August 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I and many of my generation - and the one after it - owe Biddy a lot
Roll on for a Tory govt eh?
August 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Roll on for a Tory govt eh?
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I was born in Swansea and was taken to St Helens in my pram. It would be great to have a new rugby ground in the second city. BUT 8000 capacity versus 14500 at Parc y Scarlets seems important to me! @huwgriffinrugby.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I was born in Swansea and was taken to St Helens in my pram. It would be great to have a new rugby ground in the second city. BUT 8000 capacity versus 14500 at Parc y Scarlets seems important to me! @huwgriffinrugby.bsky.social
I was born in Swansea and was taken to St Helens in my pram. It would be great to have a new rugby ground in the second city. BUT 8000 capacity versus 14500 at Parc y Scarlets seems important to me! @huwgriffinrugby.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I was born in Swansea and was taken to St Helens in my pram. It would be great to have a new rugby ground in the second city. BUT 8000 capacity versus 14500 at Parc y Scarlets seems important to me! @huwgriffinrugby.bsky.social
Is an 8000 capacity stadium really enough? Not enough for the Premiership!
This is good news for those of us who think Wales' second city should be home to a top flight professional rugby team (yes I know "top flight" is doing a lot of work in that sentence, but hey, I'm an optimist. Honestly).
HOWEVER....
HOWEVER....
Ospreys' St Helen's stadium plans approved by Swansea council
The Ospreys will relocate to the historic St Helen's ground for the 2025–26 season.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Is an 8000 capacity stadium really enough? Not enough for the Premiership!
Its a pity she couldn’t put more effort into the plants! Some might be wild beet and other crop wild relatives
July 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Its a pity she couldn’t put more effort into the plants! Some might be wild beet and other crop wild relatives