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Tim Holt-Wilson
@timholtwilson.bsky.social
The story of the Earth - geoconservation, museums, the poetry of things old & wild - based in East Anglia, UK.
https://futureheritage.wordpress.com/
A bit of a mouthful at midnight! Excuse my ignorance but do Smooth Newts have teeth to meet this kind of chewy challenge?
@arc-trust.bsky.social #newts #amphibians #Suffolk
February 11, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Found trudging around Dunwich Museum, a Cream-Spot Tiger moth (Arctia villica) caterpillar is filled with hairy, larval enthusiasm for the warm, damp weather and (one day) eating dead-nettles & dandelions.
@discoverdunwich.bsky.social @suffolkmoths.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Sheltered under a pink umbrella, the hearts proliferated.
February 10, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Solar blue is reflected in the placid water of a Bodham pond while @norfolkponds.bsky.social minions strip its brambley banks bare of scrub. Great pond restoration works are under way this weekend. Work will resume on an even more thorny pond today.
February 1, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Agile Frog - cautious 👍🏼
Moor Frog - cautious 👍🏼
Euro Tree Frog - sceptical 👎🏼

The renowned Sir Thos. Brown has things to say about Hyla arborea. Perhaps Sedimentary Ancient DNA techniques could investigate 'ghost pond' sediment profiles for any frog signatures @norfolkponds.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 1:11 PM
HM Government. 'Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security. A national security assessment'. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...
Some people claim this is scaremongering or (worse) pure misinformation - a special place in Tartarus is reserved for them. 🧵
January 26, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Served with little quails' eggs on a bed of puréed mushrooms - very subtle, very delicate.
January 26, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Who doesn't love the sea?
NB global sea levels have risen by c.10 cm (4“) since 1990, and the rate is now accelerating to >4 mm / year.
Watch out #NewYork #London #Bangkok #Tokyo #Shanghai...
What's our long-term strategy for coastal cities: protection, mitigation, denial of risk?
#climatechange
January 26, 2026 at 3:27 PM
What did rocks ever do for the Romans?
Lecture @romanroads.bsky.social tonight at 19:30.
Free entry.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-did-r...
@pavementgeology.bsky.social
January 22, 2026 at 10:52 AM
"Have you ever wondered why Germans didn’t do anything about Hitler? Well, the rest of the world is wondering exactly that about Americans and Trump."
- Thanks @Strandjunker
January 21, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Here it is reversed out. More intellible now. Presumably old church architectural elements recovered from the beach.
January 12, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Scanning the Docwra Collection of early C20th photos at Dunwich Museum, UK, is yielding fresh images of ship's ballast in the walls of now-vanished All Saints' Church; also geological specimens & palaeoliths now sadly missing from the collection - also a bizarre rubble pic which begs interpretation!
January 11, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Was the potential for Fascism always implicit in US democracy?

“The Fascist State expresses the will to exercise power and to command. Here the Roman tradition is embodied in a conception of strength. Imperial power, as understood by the Fascist doctrine, is not only territorial, or military, or...
January 11, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Part of Common is golf course (enough said). Acid heath has gorse, ant hills, sheep's sorrel, Picus viri. Rest has warblers, sparhawk, woodcock in winter, plenty of insect life in damp grassland. Usual crows, pigeons, pheasants but rabbits are getting rarer. Need to do bio survey to inform the PC.
January 11, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Here is the raw stuff in the landscape:
* Lowestoft Till in a road cutting,
* LT in a quarry,
* LT in the sides of a ditch,
* LT in ploughsoil.
#Pleistocene #glacial #geology #geodiversity 🌏
January 10, 2026 at 9:47 PM
"The grace of withered things" (Mallarmé). Aged Suffolk farm houses flake & crumble, revealing materials of their making: bricks fired from clay; oak timber from woods; lath from coppiced hazel; plaster from clay & lime & animal hair; colour-wash from lime & ox blood - all of local origin.
January 10, 2026 at 9:12 PM
* Clay lump in situ.
* A rammed clay wall.
* Clay lump interior walling.
* A clay-lump cottage built in the 1920s.
January 10, 2026 at 8:03 PM
The arithmetics of glacial till from the Suffolk plateau: Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay + Cretaceous Chalk + Pliocene Crag + Pleistocene erratics from W Midlands, E Midlands, Pennines, Northumbria, Scotland, N Sea, etc, mashed under a colossal ice sheet = the Lowestoft Till.
It's a beast of a deposit.
January 10, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Stuston Common today - part golf course, part scrubbed-up zone where sandy soil meet clayland and nobody manages the land: natural reversion after 1000+ years of commons management and subsistence care. The story of C20th forgetting: no grazing and not managed for #biodiversity. Manorial waste.
January 10, 2026 at 3:16 PM
A lovely mural at Stroud reminding us about the Eurasian Curlew - a most beautiful bird - and the life-giving subsoil it feeds on. Its taxon name Numenius arquata reminds me of some ancient Italic king. The mural lifts our spirits towards springtime. @curlewaction.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social
January 10, 2026 at 2:23 PM
The Harling Drove from East Harling to Hockwold is a historic droving road across the predominantly sandy, unpondy Breckland.
January 10, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Ivy, an unruly liana, scrambles through hedges and ramps up trees, attracting popular opprobrium. Its dark fruits tempt pigeons and thrushes to a hedgerow larder. First flecks of snow in 2026 float down. A hungry season settles on the Suffolk landscape. Flocks arrive.
January 3, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Yep.
January 2, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Earth heritage, like all phenomena, is experienced in a double-take which explores meanings both rational & imaginative, scientific & mythic. We ask both what it is in-itself and what is it for me. Can we language the world in a way equally valid for both? 🧵
December 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
... while ignoring the pestilent congregation of AI monsters ...
December 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM