@valbee.bsky.social
Gardening for wildlife, rewilding, the environment.
West Sussex
West Sussex
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This August is definitely #SmallCopper time in the #chalkgrasslands!
Adore this gem, all 36-40mm of its loveliness. It's normally speedy but today they were either keeping out of wind down on the chalky paths, looking like orange bows among grass ribbons. or feeding in swaying favourite flowers.
Adore this gem, all 36-40mm of its loveliness. It's normally speedy but today they were either keeping out of wind down on the chalky paths, looking like orange bows among grass ribbons. or feeding in swaying favourite flowers.
August 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This August is definitely #SmallCopper time in the #chalkgrasslands!
Adore this gem, all 36-40mm of its loveliness. It's normally speedy but today they were either keeping out of wind down on the chalky paths, looking like orange bows among grass ribbons. or feeding in swaying favourite flowers.
Adore this gem, all 36-40mm of its loveliness. It's normally speedy but today they were either keeping out of wind down on the chalky paths, looking like orange bows among grass ribbons. or feeding in swaying favourite flowers.
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#ŚląskaSwifts update: sitting on my balcony after work when who should drop in but one of the parents still feeding young? Am not convinced both are here any more so will have to check the chicks out quickly as one of them might be missing out. Box 3 still has a parent coming to feed its 1 chick.
August 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
#ŚląskaSwifts update: sitting on my balcony after work when who should drop in but one of the parents still feeding young? Am not convinced both are here any more so will have to check the chicks out quickly as one of them might be missing out. Box 3 still has a parent coming to feed its 1 chick.
Brighton bans Boxpark founder for wearing Palestine shirt insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/b...
Brighton bans Boxpark founder for wearing Palestine shirt
Roger Wade, the founder of Boxpark, has been banned from Brighton and Hove Albion’s football ground just for wearing a shirt with the word “Palestine” emblazoned across the chest.…
insidecroydon.com
August 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Brighton bans Boxpark founder for wearing Palestine shirt insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/b...
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Only 20% 'affordable' in 676 flats proposed for College Green insidecroydon.com/2025/07/24/o... #Croydon #Tapestry #FairfieldHalls #EastCroydon @kwajo.bsky.social @london.gov.uk
Only 20% ‘affordable’ in 676 flats proposed for College Green
Housing correspondent BARRATT HOLMES on the latest proposals for huge towers providing expensive flats and situated close to East Croydon Station The site next to the Fairfield Halls and Croydon Co…
insidecroydon.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Only 20% 'affordable' in 676 flats proposed for College Green insidecroydon.com/2025/07/24/o... #Croydon #Tapestry #FairfieldHalls #EastCroydon @kwajo.bsky.social @london.gov.uk
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Labour HQ can mock “Your Party” but it is objectively an enormous failure that the Left has felt it necessary to set up an alternative. Even Tony Blair managed to keep Labour a broad church. “Your Party” isn’t just a new party - it’s an indictment of Starmer’s immoral policies and dire leadership.
July 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Labour HQ can mock “Your Party” but it is objectively an enormous failure that the Left has felt it necessary to set up an alternative. Even Tony Blair managed to keep Labour a broad church. “Your Party” isn’t just a new party - it’s an indictment of Starmer’s immoral policies and dire leadership.
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shame on Defra.
There are at least 14 other cases that I know of, still to be publicised.
The wilful blindness of Defra Ministers allows this criminality to continue. They're not even embarrassed.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/07/24/1...
The wilful blindness of Defra Ministers allows this criminality to continue. They're not even embarrassed.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/07/24/1...
143 Hen Harriers confirmed ‘missing’ or illegally killed in UK since 2018, most of them on or close to grouse moors
For anyone who still wants to pretend that the grouse shooting industry isn’t responsible for the systematic extermination of Hen Harriers on grouse moors across the UK, here’s the latest catalogue…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
July 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
shame on Defra.
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So much suffering, so much pain
Once you look into his eyes
You can never unsee it
Boycott Faroe Islands now
Once you look into his eyes
You can never unsee it
Boycott Faroe Islands now
July 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
So much suffering, so much pain
Once you look into his eyes
You can never unsee it
Boycott Faroe Islands now
Once you look into his eyes
You can never unsee it
Boycott Faroe Islands now
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Inspiring encounter with Otter 🦦
July 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Inspiring encounter with Otter 🦦
You can take Steve Reed to water, but you can’t make him think insidecroydon.com/2025/07/24/y...
You can take Steve Reed to water, but you can’t make him think
ANDREW FISHER, pictured right, in his latest column for Inside Croydon, looks at the case for ending the ‘legalised larceny’ that is water privatisation, as the environment secretary si…
insidecroydon.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
You can take Steve Reed to water, but you can’t make him think insidecroydon.com/2025/07/24/y...
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Burning wood for heat emits more CO₂ than coal the dirtiest form of fossil fuels
Also destroy vast areas forest and wildlife
Yet its classified as green and gets billions in subsidies
Between 2011 and 2023, use of biomass for heating increased by 16%.
www.birdlife.org/news/2025/07...
Also destroy vast areas forest and wildlife
Yet its classified as green and gets billions in subsidies
Between 2011 and 2023, use of biomass for heating increased by 16%.
www.birdlife.org/news/2025/07...
Burning wood for heat emits more CO₂ than coal
New BirdLife report reveals how bioenergy is accelerating the climate crisis.
www.birdlife.org
July 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Burning wood for heat emits more CO₂ than coal the dirtiest form of fossil fuels
Also destroy vast areas forest and wildlife
Yet its classified as green and gets billions in subsidies
Between 2011 and 2023, use of biomass for heating increased by 16%.
www.birdlife.org/news/2025/07...
Also destroy vast areas forest and wildlife
Yet its classified as green and gets billions in subsidies
Between 2011 and 2023, use of biomass for heating increased by 16%.
www.birdlife.org/news/2025/07...
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Stop the cull!! A so-called "scientific" policy based on cherry-picked data and mass slaughter. Badgers are dying for nothing. 😡
July 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Stop the cull!! A so-called "scientific" policy based on cherry-picked data and mass slaughter. Badgers are dying for nothing. 😡
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“We’re encouraging the [UK] government to protect existing access & extend access to the countryside, particularly in places like Dorset where there’s a real lack of meaningful access to nearby countryside. This isn’t about a mass trespass; it is about sort of asserting a historic customary right.”
July 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“We’re encouraging the [UK] government to protect existing access & extend access to the countryside, particularly in places like Dorset where there’s a real lack of meaningful access to nearby countryside. This isn’t about a mass trespass; it is about sort of asserting a historic customary right.”
Student nurses left 'abandoned' and 'neglected' by NHS Trust insidecroydon.com/2025/07/04/s...
Student nurses left ‘abandoned’ and ‘neglected’ by NHS Trust
As government launches its 10-year plan for the NHS, newly qualified nurses are being ‘abandoned’ and ‘neglected’ and turned down for jobs at the hospital where they have sp…
insidecroydon.com
July 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Student nurses left 'abandoned' and 'neglected' by NHS Trust insidecroydon.com/2025/07/04/s...
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The government's planned changes to PIP eligibility will now NOT come in to effect next autumn.
Instead the PIP assessment review (which will include consulting disabled people about) will first be conducted.
Changes to eligibility will only be considered after that has concluded.
Instead the PIP assessment review (which will include consulting disabled people about) will first be conducted.
Changes to eligibility will only be considered after that has concluded.
July 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The government's planned changes to PIP eligibility will now NOT come in to effect next autumn.
Instead the PIP assessment review (which will include consulting disabled people about) will first be conducted.
Changes to eligibility will only be considered after that has concluded.
Instead the PIP assessment review (which will include consulting disabled people about) will first be conducted.
Changes to eligibility will only be considered after that has concluded.
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Well, the #pitcherplants season is just about over for the year. I made two trips to the bogs this year. Both of them were on foggy days. I'll be back out there next year. #photography #landscapephotography #EastCoastKin #bogplants #bogs #sarracenia
July 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Well, the #pitcherplants season is just about over for the year. I made two trips to the bogs this year. Both of them were on foggy days. I'll be back out there next year. #photography #landscapephotography #EastCoastKin #bogplants #bogs #sarracenia
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More bird ringing. Highlight - little jewel🪶
July 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
More bird ringing. Highlight - little jewel🪶
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Green-veined White, Pieris napi. In flight, April to October. Adults feed on a wide range of plants including Betony, Bugle, Common Fleabane and Hemp-agrimony.
July 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Green-veined White, Pieris napi. In flight, April to October. Adults feed on a wide range of plants including Betony, Bugle, Common Fleabane and Hemp-agrimony.
Cut the Chase coalition exposes increase in racing dog deaths insidecroydon.com/2025/07/01/c...
Cut the Chase coalition exposes increase in racing dog deaths
There were more greyhound fatalities at licensed dog tracks in 2024 than in any year since 2020, despite the number of approved race tracks having fallen to just 19. It is the second successive yea…
insidecroydon.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Cut the Chase coalition exposes increase in racing dog deaths insidecroydon.com/2025/07/01/c...
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They're incompetent.
All talk and no capability.
All of them, absolute twats.
All talk and no capability.
All of them, absolute twats.
Now that’s just careless of Farage… keep losing Reform Councillors like that 🙄
“Have you looked down the side of the sofa Nigel❓ Are they in your pocket❓Think… where did you have them last❓”
I hear Reform plan to make Councillors where AirTags in an effort to stop losing them
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“Have you looked down the side of the sofa Nigel❓ Are they in your pocket❓Think… where did you have them last❓”
I hear Reform plan to make Councillors where AirTags in an effort to stop losing them
😂🤣
Resigned, suspended, expelled: Reform lose NINE councillors in just six weeks
There's chaos at both the higher and lower ends of the Reform leadership pyramid, following their gains in the Local Elections.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
They're incompetent.
All talk and no capability.
All of them, absolute twats.
All talk and no capability.
All of them, absolute twats.
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June 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Vote for these benefit cuts and you deserve to lose your seat insidecroydon.com/2025/06/26/v...
Vote for these benefit cuts and you deserve to lose your seat
More than 22,000 people in Croydon claim PIP or the health element of Universal Credit. So why aren’t Croydon’s MPs opposing the government cuts? ANDREW FISHER, right, looks at the stor…
insidecroydon.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Vote for these benefit cuts and you deserve to lose your seat insidecroydon.com/2025/06/26/v...
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Little bee looking for a home… ‘Lilac Bumble’ 20x20cm oil on canvas, £210
www.charlottestrawbridge.co.uk/art
www.charlottestrawbridge.co.uk/art
June 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Little bee looking for a home… ‘Lilac Bumble’ 20x20cm oil on canvas, £210
www.charlottestrawbridge.co.uk/art
www.charlottestrawbridge.co.uk/art
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Commuters protest at plan to remove East Croydon cycle racks insidecroydon.com/2025/06/20/c... #Croydon #Cycling #SouthernFail @londoncycling.bsky.social @christianwolmar.bsky.social @willnorman.co.uk
Commuters protest at plan to remove East Croydon cycle racks
Croydon’s cyclists are protesting over a late-notice and unconsulted decision by Southern Rail to remove their secure bike storage at East Croydon Station, leaving them without a safe place t…
insidecroydon.com
June 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Commuters protest at plan to remove East Croydon cycle racks insidecroydon.com/2025/06/20/c... #Croydon #Cycling #SouthernFail @londoncycling.bsky.social @christianwolmar.bsky.social @willnorman.co.uk
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“Rachel Reeves told a fossil fuel giant that the industry would receive a ‘quid pro quo’ in return for higher taxes on its windfall profits”
Is carbon capture a bung for the fossil fuel industry? The Chancellor seems to think of it that way (via @desmog.com):
www.desmog.com/2025/06/19/r...
Is carbon capture a bung for the fossil fuel industry? The Chancellor seems to think of it that way (via @desmog.com):
www.desmog.com/2025/06/19/r...
Rachel Reeves Promised Oil Industry ‘Quid Pro Quo’ Over Windfall Tax in Private Meeting
Chancellor Rachel Reeves told a fossil fuel giant that the industry would receive a “quid pro quo” in return for higher taxes on its windfall profits, DeSmog can reveal. In a meeting with the Norwegia...
www.desmog.com
June 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
“Rachel Reeves told a fossil fuel giant that the industry would receive a ‘quid pro quo’ in return for higher taxes on its windfall profits”
Is carbon capture a bung for the fossil fuel industry? The Chancellor seems to think of it that way (via @desmog.com):
www.desmog.com/2025/06/19/r...
Is carbon capture a bung for the fossil fuel industry? The Chancellor seems to think of it that way (via @desmog.com):
www.desmog.com/2025/06/19/r...