Clare Moriarty
@claremoriarty.bsky.social
CEO of Citizens Advice
We started this glorious #SummerSolstice day with a sunrise swim at the ever-lovely Petersfield Open Air Pool and ended it watching the sunset from Butser Hill, the highest point of the South Downs
June 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
We started this glorious #SummerSolstice day with a sunrise swim at the ever-lovely Petersfield Open Air Pool and ended it watching the sunset from Butser Hill, the highest point of the South Downs
Carnivorous plants were much in evidence in Connemara last week. So for this week’s #WildflowerHour, here is round-leaved and oblong-leaved sundew, and delicate flowers of butterwort
May 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Carnivorous plants were much in evidence in Connemara last week. So for this week’s #WildflowerHour, here is round-leaved and oblong-leaved sundew, and delicate flowers of butterwort
Late entry for last Sunday’s #WildflowerHour #HighUpPlants challenge. St Patrick’s Cabbage just coming into flower close to the summit of Binn Idir an Dá Log, at 702m the highest of Connemara’s Maum Turk mountains
May 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Late entry for last Sunday’s #WildflowerHour #HighUpPlants challenge. St Patrick’s Cabbage just coming into flower close to the summit of Binn Idir an Dá Log, at 702m the highest of Connemara’s Maum Turk mountains
Closest I can offer to a #HighUpPlant foot #WildflowerHour are these from a Connemara hillside: milkwort & tormentil
May 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Closest I can offer to a #HighUpPlant foot #WildflowerHour are these from a Connemara hillside: milkwort & tormentil
Plus some other beauties in shades of white, pink & purple: lousewort, sea campion, marsh orchid, green-veined orchid #WildflowerHour #Connemara
May 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Plus some other beauties in shades of white, pink & purple: lousewort, sea campion, marsh orchid, green-veined orchid #WildflowerHour #Connemara
It’s all about the sea pinks on the Connemara shoreline this week - masses of clumps in varying colours #WildflowerHour
May 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
It’s all about the sea pinks on the Connemara shoreline this week - masses of clumps in varying colours #WildflowerHour
Missed #WildflowerHour but these beauties were crying out to be shared. Green-winged orchids locally abundant on an outcrop at Trá An Dóilín (Coral Beach) in Connemara
April 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Missed #WildflowerHour but these beauties were crying out to be shared. Green-winged orchids locally abundant on an outcrop at Trá An Dóilín (Coral Beach) in Connemara
Meanwhile in the Dublin mountains, which got more of the week’s sunshine, gorgeous gorse & coltsfoot brightening forest tracks verges #YellowFlowers #WildflowerHour
March 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Meanwhile in the Dublin mountains, which got more of the week’s sunshine, gorgeous gorse & coltsfoot brightening forest tracks verges #YellowFlowers #WildflowerHour
Spring is still barely arriving in Connemara, and flowers few and far between. But the rare ones I found last week did have the good grace to be #YellowFlowers - almost-out celandine, catkins & some slightly bedraggled primroses #WildflowerHour
March 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Spring is still barely arriving in Connemara, and flowers few and far between. But the rare ones I found last week did have the good grace to be #YellowFlowers - almost-out celandine, catkins & some slightly bedraggled primroses #WildflowerHour
At first glance, this is a pile of shells in a rockpool. Keep watching and you’ll see it’s a hermit crab colony. Look out for the one that falls on its shell and flips back over, and the one that triumphantly pulls out a shell from underneath it.
#Connemara #AnDóilín
#Connemara #AnDóilín
March 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
At first glance, this is a pile of shells in a rockpool. Keep watching and you’ll see it’s a hermit crab colony. Look out for the one that falls on its shell and flips back over, and the one that triumphantly pulls out a shell from underneath it.
#Connemara #AnDóilín
#Connemara #AnDóilín
Durford Wood and Rogate Common in Hampshire were notably short of flower today. Just some European gorse bravely bringing colour to the scene #WildflowerHour
February 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Durford Wood and Rogate Common in Hampshire were notably short of flower today. Just some European gorse bravely bringing colour to the scene #WildflowerHour
I’m intrigued by the variation in hazel behaviour. Some trees have catkins and virtually no sign of female flowers yet; others have a good sprinkling of female flowers while the catkins are still forming #WildflowerHour
February 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I’m intrigued by the variation in hazel behaviour. Some trees have catkins and virtually no sign of female flowers yet; others have a good sprinkling of female flowers while the catkins are still forming #WildflowerHour
Spring is creeping into the Ashford Hangers. Dog’s mercury unfurling and, on a sheltered path, stinking hellebore and the first primroses #WildflowerHour
February 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Spring is creeping into the Ashford Hangers. Dog’s mercury unfurling and, on a sheltered path, stinking hellebore and the first primroses #WildflowerHour
First flower photos of the year and I missed #WildflowerHour 🤦
So, better late than never, here are snowdrop from last week, and celandine & winter heliotrope from a lovely walk this morning
So, better late than never, here are snowdrop from last week, and celandine & winter heliotrope from a lovely walk this morning
February 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
First flower photos of the year and I missed #WildflowerHour 🤦
So, better late than never, here are snowdrop from last week, and celandine & winter heliotrope from a lovely walk this morning
So, better late than never, here are snowdrop from last week, and celandine & winter heliotrope from a lovely walk this morning
Very little in flower in Connemara last week, but this sea pink was somehow hanging on by the Atlantic coast at Baile na hAbhainn. A late entry for #NewYearPlantHunt as well as this week’s #WildflowerHour
January 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Very little in flower in Connemara last week, but this sea pink was somehow hanging on by the Atlantic coast at Baile na hAbhainn. A late entry for #NewYearPlantHunt as well as this week’s #WildflowerHour
Everybody needs a fabulous Christmas concert! And our @elysiansingers.bsky.social concert will be fabulous indeed. Come along, and I guarantee you’ll leave smiling and with a bunch of festive earworms
Thurs 19 Dec, 7.30pm, details and tickets here:
tickettailor.com/events/theelys…
Thurs 19 Dec, 7.30pm, details and tickets here:
tickettailor.com/events/theelys…
December 11, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Everybody needs a fabulous Christmas concert! And our @elysiansingers.bsky.social concert will be fabulous indeed. Come along, and I guarantee you’ll leave smiling and with a bunch of festive earworms
Thurs 19 Dec, 7.30pm, details and tickets here:
tickettailor.com/events/theelys…
Thurs 19 Dec, 7.30pm, details and tickets here:
tickettailor.com/events/theelys…
Looking forward to talking with @jessphillips at our next Citizens Advice Data Insights briefing about improving protections for women and girls.
Join us on Friday to discuss actionable strategies for a safer, more equitable future for everyone ⤵️
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Join us on Friday to discuss actionable strategies for a safer, more equitable future for everyone ⤵️
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December 2, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Looking forward to talking with @jessphillips at our next Citizens Advice Data Insights briefing about improving protections for women and girls.
Join us on Friday to discuss actionable strategies for a safer, more equitable future for everyone ⤵️
eventbrite.co.uk/e/citizens-adv…#DataInsightsts
Join us on Friday to discuss actionable strategies for a safer, more equitable future for everyone ⤵️
eventbrite.co.uk/e/citizens-adv…#DataInsightsts
A cornucopia of loveliness from Connemara and the Burren for #WildflowerHour
June 30, 2024 at 7:39 PM
A cornucopia of loveliness from Connemara and the Burren for #WildflowerHour
Not exactly midsummer weather, but still plenty of light in the Connemara sky at 10.45pm at the summer solstice
June 21, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Not exactly midsummer weather, but still plenty of light in the Connemara sky at 10.45pm at the summer solstice
Splashes of colour meanwhile from lots of scarlet fungus (which I know is not a flower) growing by the stream. My phone tells me this is Sarcoscypha coccinea #WildflowerHour
February 25, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Splashes of colour meanwhile from lots of scarlet fungus (which I know is not a flower) growing by the stream. My phone tells me this is Sarcoscypha coccinea #WildflowerHour
So, all the flowers currently out in the Ashford Hangers seem to be in shades of green. Is that a time of year thing? On a very wet walk I found stinking hellebore, golden saxifrage, dog’s mercury (male) and spurge laurel #WildflowerHour
February 25, 2024 at 8:46 PM
So, all the flowers currently out in the Ashford Hangers seem to be in shades of green. Is that a time of year thing? On a very wet walk I found stinking hellebore, golden saxifrage, dog’s mercury (male) and spurge laurel #WildflowerHour
Haven’t found much in flower in Connemara yet, but the gorse is making a great showing, along with the ever-reliable dandelion #WildflowerHour
February 11, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Haven’t found much in flower in Connemara yet, but the gorse is making a great showing, along with the ever-reliable dandelion #WildflowerHour
Late for #WildflowerHour but can’t resist - finally some of the new season’s flowers appearing. Snowdrops, late and not abundant but elegant as ever; and celandine, which always feels like the real beginning of spring
January 28, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Late for #WildflowerHour but can’t resist - finally some of the new season’s flowers appearing. Snowdrops, late and not abundant but elegant as ever; and celandine, which always feels like the real beginning of spring
I’m looking forward to meeting today’s train, predicted by the SWR app to to be 22 carriages long
December 20, 2023 at 6:57 AM
I’m looking forward to meeting today’s train, predicted by the SWR app to to be 22 carriages long
Late! And not quite #TheWinter10 - remaining flowers in the Ashford Hangers are sparse as well as somewhat spindly. But we did find a few this morning for #WildflowerHour, including a very late rockrose, with a little fungus and seed head activity for balance
November 19, 2023 at 11:20 PM
Late! And not quite #TheWinter10 - remaining flowers in the Ashford Hangers are sparse as well as somewhat spindly. But we did find a few this morning for #WildflowerHour, including a very late rockrose, with a little fungus and seed head activity for balance