Katy Jennison
@woodavens.bsky.social
Part-time intellectual scavenger, amateur wordsmith and seeker after truth.
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Also reposting this one final time as it is #Caturday, just in case anyone hasn't seen it yet..
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Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
College cats of Oxford
Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics.
The grey ball ...
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November 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Also reposting this one final time as it is #Caturday, just in case anyone hasn't seen it yet..
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Hiroshima Day.
We have more nukes than ever.
Will we never learn?
We have more nukes than ever.
Will we never learn?
August 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Hiroshima Day.
We have more nukes than ever.
Will we never learn?
We have more nukes than ever.
Will we never learn?
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A real pleasure to join Martin Simpson on the 'Folk on Foot' podcast , walking through the woods near my home in the New Forest . Goshawks , poodles and my favourite tree . . . listen now at chrispackh.am/folkonfoot
July 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A real pleasure to join Martin Simpson on the 'Folk on Foot' podcast , walking through the woods near my home in the New Forest . Goshawks , poodles and my favourite tree . . . listen now at chrispackh.am/folkonfoot
Walking, talking, singing. This ia a delight.
Folk on Foot: Chris Packham & Martin Simpson in the New Forest
Where does Chris Packham want his ashes scattered after he dies? Find out as he takes Martin Simpson and host Matthew Bannister for an enlightening walk in sun-dappled woodland near his home in the...
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July 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Walking, talking, singing. This ia a delight.
You know you're a paid-up left-wing geek when you're reading a Grauniad article on Wokeness and you find yourself wondering what the gender-neutral singular of 'wokerati' is ...
June 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
You know you're a paid-up left-wing geek when you're reading a Grauniad article on Wokeness and you find yourself wondering what the gender-neutral singular of 'wokerati' is ...
We are all born strange
in an island of strangers,
till we learn to love.
in an island of strangers,
till we learn to love.
May 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
We are all born strange
in an island of strangers,
till we learn to love.
in an island of strangers,
till we learn to love.
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Keir Starmer is demanding that migrants to the UK be fluent in English, but there is no evidence that he is. Shouldn't he, too, have to pass a test in English competence?
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UK politicians are only fluent in gibberish, word salad, clichés, and political nonsense
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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May 14, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Keir Starmer is demanding that migrants to the UK be fluent in English, but there is no evidence that he is. Shouldn't he, too, have to pass a test in English competence?
youtu.be/D422oRoP3HI?...
youtu.be/D422oRoP3HI?...
Listen! The chestnut,
Aesculus x carnea,
loud with honey-bees!
Aesculus x carnea,
loud with honey-bees!
May 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Listen! The chestnut,
Aesculus x carnea,
loud with honey-bees!
Aesculus x carnea,
loud with honey-bees!
I write a haiku-
style thing each day; I might post
one or ... ooh, bluebells!
style thing each day; I might post
one or ... ooh, bluebells!
April 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I write a haiku-
style thing each day; I might post
one or ... ooh, bluebells!
style thing each day; I might post
one or ... ooh, bluebells!
The only thing I'd want to correct here: these incidents aren't 'spills', which sound so innocent and accidental: they're deliberate discharges and dumps.
New boss - worse performance - big bonus.
The sewage dumping numbers are out and it's worse than ever.Four years after WASP's Prof Peter Hammond ripped the lid off the sewage scandal and showed an epidemic of illegal pollution, Thames Water shows how ineffective the hot air from government and regulators has been, by increasing its sewage dumping hours by 50%. Lots of talk, lots of monitoring, threats and promises but one key feature remains:Illegal pollution is still profitable and with perfectly adequate legislation in place, it is ou
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March 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The only thing I'd want to correct here: these incidents aren't 'spills', which sound so innocent and accidental: they're deliberate discharges and dumps.
Why do we not consider it unthinkably shameful, as well as criminal, for anyone to accumulate multiple millions while countless others are on the breadline? Why are we not calling out and utterly demonising the perpetual valorisation of inequality?
February 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Why do we not consider it unthinkably shameful, as well as criminal, for anyone to accumulate multiple millions while countless others are on the breadline? Why are we not calling out and utterly demonising the perpetual valorisation of inequality?
New Year's resolution to save my sanity: instead of screaming "TAX THE RICH!", "JAIL THE CEOs!" or whatever, I shall find cheering or delightful things to balance the worst evil, criminal, or simply exasperating news items. Worth a try.
December 30, 2024 at 12:12 PM
New Year's resolution to save my sanity: instead of screaming "TAX THE RICH!", "JAIL THE CEOs!" or whatever, I shall find cheering or delightful things to balance the worst evil, criminal, or simply exasperating news items. Worth a try.
This from Ash Smith, of Windrush Against Sewagw Pollution. How did we let it?? www.windrushwasp.org/single-post/...
The Stealth bailout.
As big bill hikes loom to fix the problems caused by water companies whose failures are now being used to blackmail even more money out of billpayers, we take a look at what is going on behind the scenes. Shockingly, our new government appears to be fearful of upsetting the big financial interests at the heart of the water industry scandal. Let's hope that the fact that on the run-up to the election, the Labour Party took a £4 MILLION donation from a hedge fund similar to those now being allow
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December 9, 2024 at 10:07 AM
This from Ash Smith, of Windrush Against Sewagw Pollution. How did we let it?? www.windrushwasp.org/single-post/...