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the creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to stop doing culture wars about which one should go on the banknotes

Scottish banknotes can be adorned with capercaillies and wildcats.

This is a great concept.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio:

· United States: 347:1
· Switzerland: 120:1
· France: 130:1
· Sweden: 71.1:1
· Austria: 60:1
· Germany: 55:1
· UK: 52:1 (FTSE 350) 78:1 (FTSE 100)
· Denmark: 50:1
· Italy: 20:1
· Japan: 11:1

Outliers:
· Coca-Cola: 2160:1
· Starbucks: 1049:1
· Tesco: 431:1

via Deepseek

Call me old fashioned but I'm more concerned with the purchasing power of banknotes than their appearance.

Yes. They’ve put their delivery charges up too which penalise those of us who don’t spend a fortune!

Yes. Sticking with my tribe at Aldi! 😂

Just tried an order with this voucher. It turns out Ocado think 25% of £78 is £6. Order cancelled. So many exceptions in the small print.

This is great.

Two Euphorbia milii (Crown of thorns) in a white pot with two narrow planters. Both have a stem with large thorns. One has small round red flowers and the other has yellow and pink flowers.

A pair of young Crown of Thorns succulents. Don't let its appearance fool you. This plant has sharp thorns and a poisonous latex sap. Euphorbia milii. 🌱

#Euphorbia #succulents #flowers

So true! 😂

A large table completely covered in propagators, seed trays, boxes of seed and compost

Dining table? What dining table? 🌱

Large tortoiseshell butterfly confirmed no longer extinct in UK Early spring sightings show colourful insect is a resident species for first time in decades, says conservation charity

Some nice news for once.

The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall As the Iran disaster escalates, the US president should be seen as an enemy whose actions threaten the lawful, democratic way of life everywhere, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdal...

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Green Hellebore for @haggewoods.bsky.social

#WildflowerHour

Happy International Women's Day.

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Cosmic Threads: A Solar System Quilt from 1876 A serenade to the universe in wool and silk.

Before universities opened their doors to women, one woman spent 7 years making a quilt of the Solar System to teach other women astronomy: www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...

International Women's Day 2026: Hidden histories Discover the stories of three women curators, collectors, and designers at The Museum of English Rural Life in the 20th century.

Women curators, designers, and collectors have played a huge part throughout our history at The Museum of English Rural Life.

For #InternationalWomensDay 2026, read about the stories of three women from our earlier years in our new blogpost.

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Happy birthday lovely Reuben!

Hi all, the next Leicester Peregrines watch is on Tuesday 10th March. Come and say hello to the group at the Leicester Cathedral gardens between 9.30am and 12.30pm weather permitting #ukbirding #peregrines #leicester @lrosbirds.bsky.social @leicsperegrines.bsky.social

Morning. Might buy a lottery ticket. Wordle 1,722 2/6

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I'm a vicar in a small rural village. I could never say this to my flock because of the outcry, but Reform are blatantly opposed to genuine Christian values and it's clear that anyone considering voting for them has not been listening to a single word I say each week

The cover of my book : nature’s acre: an Irish garden memoir of making a place where life grows.

I wrote a book called Nature’s Acre — an Irish garden memoir about wildlife, community, and making a place where life can grow.

If that sounds like your kind of book, I’d love you to read it. And if you’d share this, I’d be very grateful.
🌱 #climateaction #spéirgorm

gardeningwell.ie/natures-acre

BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR A devastating letter signed by over 100 BBC journalists underlines one of the great scandals of our age

It is difficult to understand why, two years into a Labour administration, there hasn't been a clear out of the BBC Board and Executive Committee. Lisa Nandy, what have you been doing for almost 2 years?
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Christopher Harborne has cemented Reform’s status as a mo... New political donation rules won’t stop him giving as much as he likes

In the second half of 2025, one man accounted for almost 40% of all money donated to political parties in the UK: a crypto-billionaire who lives in Thailand.

Britain desperately needs to rewrite its party funding rules.
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Ask your MP to meet with ‘Dirty Business’ activists! #DirtyBusiness exposed the human cost of profit before public health. Our water system won’t be fixed with tinkering. It needs public ownership. I’ve asked my MP to attend the MP drop-in on 17th March...

#DirtyBusiness exposed the human cost of profit before public health.

Our water system won’t be fixed with tinkering. It needs public ownership.

I’ve asked my MP to attend the MP drop-in on 17th March & hear that message directly from sewage campaigners: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

Spring's Faithful Return A Poem of Waking

How many are ready for Spring? I wrote this poem about the arrival of Spring.
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#poetry #poems #author #booksky #writer #poet #worldbookday

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