ok yes that lrb piece is as good as everyone is saying
Happy birthday to Neneh Cherry. Here's Buffalo Stance filmed in Berlin for The Other Side of Midnight in 1988
youtu.be/XiwU9N9ST7E
Ahead of the band's spring tour and the launch of a new live album, I speak to Chris Leslie of Fairport Convention about his three-decade stint with the band and how he fell in love with their music as a teenager long before he joined.
darrensmusicblog.com/2026/03/04/i...
Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music
Several dozen folks did
Some even dubbed music over the original clip.
I haven't been able to get this out of my head.
So I give you
A Bluesky exclusive:
Reservoir Ducks
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Not raining here, sadly.
I think you need more accoutrements now.
Is that not a beetroot? 🧐
British Geological Survey map showing areas of UK suitable for fracking
And Reform have pledged to open the UK for fracking if elected.
Below is a British Geological Survey map of areas in the UK suitable for fracking exploration 👇🏾
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Campaigners who thought they'd won the battle to prevent fracking in Lincolnshire dismayed to learn mayor Andrea Jenkyns is courting fracking firm, Egdon -
- vow to keep fighting to protect their homes from pollution:
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WINDRUSH VICTIMS VOICE ANGER OVER GOVERNEMENT PROPOSALS TO PAY ASYLUM SEEKERS UPTO £40K TO LEAVE THE UK
"We have worked & paid taxes, yet we can't even get legal aid to challenege the Home Office, while 'failed asylum seekers' can access everything, including housing and money to leave the UK."
Water Security Atlas, adjusted to show parts of the world growing drier or wetter. Showing part of Greenland, the Arctic, Antarctic, Africa Europe, the Middle East, part of Asia.
Meanwhile, as climate change alters groundwater & rainfall, some parts of the world are growing drier, others wetter. You can explore changes in your part of the work, using our Water Security Atlas:
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You know how sometimes a memory arrives perfectly formed in your mind? Every few months I remember this photograph in almost exact detail, usually if my own children pull a similar expression. And I wonder if he is alive.
"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania."
-Dorothy Parker
I can sort of understand people treating climate breakdown as a distant, peripheral issue when they thought it was just a future threat to polar bears and Pacific Islands
But we're seeing these sorts of warnings all the time now, and little seems to have changed
At the same time water supplies are stretched in England, farmers are finding they need to use more water, agricultural use in England more than doubling in the past 5 years, as Watershed's Rachel Salvidge revealed last year:
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Strands #734
“Nice glasses!”
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there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
Interested in cohousing?
Here’s one coming soon!
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I came to opera later in life because of the attitude of people like Timothee. It’s exciting, very varied and I wish I’d realised, earlier.
A muddy berm being planted with a new hedge to hold it all together.
An old gappy hedgerow with large old hazel and lots of new saplings planted and guarded.
Despite 20+ people not bothering to show up or even cancel, we got a lot hedging planted today. One of them was a kid, who smashed it. A family of three rocked up at 3pm to pitch in after seeing our cries for help on local Facebook groups. 1,000 more to plant another time, now off to the next job.
Remembering Arthur Lee on the 81st anniversary of his birth. (He died in 2006). Here's Love performing (or lip-syncing) "My Little Red Book," originally recorded by Manfred Mann for the "What's New Pussycat" soundtrack.
#1001CoverSongs
Song # 222:
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Can you do me a quick favour today? ✍️
The government is finally asking if they should ban cages for hens in the UK. 🐔🐔 Lobbyists are trying to block it, so we need huge numbers to show them that the public wants this ban NOW: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
Arizona is building the first solar canal in the U.S. . Solar-covered canals will generate renewable energy and save water in this notoriously dry area: buff.ly/3wEcF5h
We have so many solutions to this crisis. Implement them. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #renewables
Connections
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"Release the wieners!"
Three of the actresses in the Hammer horror film “The Vampire Lovers"
Madeline Smith, Janet Key and Pippa Steel, Elstree Studios. 12th March 1970.
In The Guardian Saturday magazine, a feature from me to kickstart your spring with my 10 easiest crops for the highest yields. I can’t pretend the world is in a good place at the moment, but growing your own food is always worthwhile.
Happy birthday to Ernie Isley who wrote this evergreen gem
▶️ youtu.be/8QZvoOqUkqw
And when I rolled with the punches
I got knocked on the ground
By all this bullshit going down
#WeekendSingles
Cartoon with four images in black and white comparing a cat's and a dog's behaviour
Sarah C. Andersen (born June 15, 1992) US cartoonist and illustrator #Womensart