Hello Mike hopefully more local folk will be here now
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Hello Mike hopefully more local folk will be here now
Recommended for approval: Will Kingston abandon protection for Metropolitan Open Land at next weeks planning committee ? alisonfure.blogspot.com/2025/11/mots...
Are you watching Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
Far right protest today:
29 - police officers injured
9 - protestors arrested
Proscribed group protests:
0 - police officers injured
1,600 - protestors arrested
We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly
#Hadrianswall walk
Kingston’s heritage variety of apple, the #Mitchelsonsseedling
Will be huge this year
Marbled Whites #kingstoncemetery
Marbled Whites #kingstoncemetery
Ringlets are on the wing #kingstoncemetery
Some Cheshire Navelwort growing on sandstone #wildflowerhour
Lots of Celery - leaved Buttercup, a plant of pond margins but it this water lily filled bathtub, its rather aquatic
#wildflowerhour
After plenty of basking, the Comma looks to be egg laying. She has been dotting around the borders constantly and is using a Nettle bed here - blink and you'll miss it! @norfolkbutterflies.bsky.social
Mrs Loudon’s ‘Gardening for Ladies’ published 1840 part of the ‘Unearthed’ exhibition at the British Library
Charles Darwin’s vasculum seen at the British Library expo ‘unearthed’.
Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals
www.theguardian.com/environment/... This is what the Planning & Infrastructure will mean, if it becomes law. Every single SSSI in England will lose its protected status, as well as non-SSSI sites for protected species.
One up from No Mow May, ‘Fuck lawns’, by Sam Wallman at ‘Unearthed’, British Library
Bird’s foot trefoil
Lotus corniculatus
#Kingstoncemetery
#wildflowerhour
Pyramidal Orchid Anacamptis pyramidalis, hidden in a shady patch in #Kingstoncemetery
Found an #orchidchallenge for
#wildflowerhour
No indeed
Definitely not carrot and although it doesn’t show much of an the vegetative growth, the flower is very like H.W.D which is very common along the river especially the Richmond side
Hawthorn flowers.
“The hawthorn is a part of natural English life—country life…You cannot pick up an old play, or book of the time when old English life was in the prime, without finding some reference to the hawthorn.” Richard Jefferies.
Smell the freshness of this Chicken of the Woods on #HamLands
Masses of Elm samaras, like snow on the ground #wildflowerhour
#Hamlands
I have spoken to them. It doesn’t matter who cuts the grass, its symptomatic of false expectations as we are duped by greenwashing. Did anyone challenge the portfolio holder for the environment when he said 93% of trees planted by the council survive?
#KingstonCouncil contractors shoddy strimming and scalping of a community orchard in a drought during #nomowmay
Elm seeds or samaras completely cover the ground, on #Hamlands
