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Toilet seats would be apt.
Spectacular
Ooh you tease! Looks like it could be amaing.
I got my copy last week and can confirm that this is a brilliant book and a true bargain, for an incredibly detailed and informative work on an internationally important yet remarkably under appreciated local nature and birding site. Buy your copy now!
Well worth a read.
The Sheringham mermaid. A late 15th Century carved bench end. "She holds a comb in her left hand, and I think a mirror in her right, but this is hard to see because a table has been wedged up against it. This is a fairly common image in late medieval church art, but she is a particularly striking example and she has become the stuff of popular legend as you would expect, generating a story that she sought refuge in the church from a storm at sea, although she'd have done mightily well to climb that hill from the beach. Unfortunately her damaged face has been casually recut to make her appear ugly." - http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/uppersheringham/uppersheringham.htm
A cat holding a rat in its mouth. A late 15th Century carved bench end.
Carved face on a late 15th Century carved bench end.
A late 15th Century carved bench end. "Other bench ends include a chrysom child wrapped in swaddling overlooked by its poor cowled mother, and I wondered if this might have marked a churching pew, in which mothers sat on their return after giving birth." - http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/uppersheringham/uppersheringham.htm
All Saints, Upper Sheringham
Visited on yesterday's walk with @vannabartlett.bsky.social.
Late 15th Century carved bench ends, including the famous Sheringham mermaid.
www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/uppershering...
#Norfolk #Churches
South East Water says it can't provide water to all new homes
Water companies haven't built new reservoirs for decades, paid dividends, govts did nothing
Govt wants to build new homes but no infrastructure planning. That's what happens when you privatize essentials infrastructure.
The need to rapidly transition to a green economy has never been clearer.
The most expensive thing we can do is double down on fossil fuels.
Scottish Forestry given well deserved caning in Court of Session.
butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blo...
UK govt "will not tolerate" energy firms profiteering from Iran war.
It will do what?
Ofgem allows profiteering: electricity pricing formula is based on price of gas, renewables are the cheapest. Profiteering is built in.
Change the formula, levy windfall tax, prosecute profiteering execs.
Hurrah!
a power pole sign reads please like and share this post
After a widespread public consultation, 60% of people voted to see nature on our bank notes. But why let that stop me stirring up my moron base by pretending it's the Bank of England being woke.
Thankfully, Palantir does not have a contract with NHS Scotland. Thank you Scottish Government!
English people should be up in arms about the disgraceful contract Westminster has signed with Palantir. Streeting is a bought man.
Hello, rest of world. Today in Britain the leaders of mainstream political parties have been debating whether putting native woodland creatures on our banknotes is emblematic of our tragic decline as a patriotic nation, and we hope things are equally weird with you.
Up in Scotland we are wondering what all the fuss is about.
These would look quite cool on bank notes!
Anyone still think Starmer and co are worth voting for or haven't cottoned on to how rightwing they are?
Bravo!
Royal Bank of Scotland banknotes £5/£10/£20 showing animals mackerel, otters and squirrels respectively.
We've had beautiful wildlife banknotes in Scotland for a while. Little works of art
‘Sickening’ videos of damaged salmon at highland farm www.theferret.scot/videos-damag...
Imagine if large numbers of farm animals were lying dead in fields. Only because the dead salmon are under water and out of sight that fish farms think they can get away with it.
www.thenational.scot/news/2592898...
My photo shows a small clay aryballos (oil flask) in the form of a hedgehog. It has a rounded, squat body with a long pointed snout. At the top of the body is a small spout for filling with oil. Sculpted details include eyes and ears ears. The light tan surface is painted with dark spots representing the hedgehog’s spines. It measures 4.8 cm in length and 3 cm in height. Dated circa 550 BC. From Naucratis, Egypt.
Tiny terracotta aryballos (oil flask) in the form of a hedgehog.
East Greek from Naucratis, Egypt, 550 BC.
British Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
UK's Climate Change Committee has some of the smartest minds working on modeling the costs of how to get to net zero. And this assessment is likley to be applicable to any fossil-fuel import dependent country.
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Is this how we want our national parks to be treated? Used for killing wildlife which, having served their blood letting purpose, are then dumped. @cairngormsnews.bsky.social @raptorpersuk.bsky.social
The National. SNP ministers 'dragging feet' amid six-month silence on Coul Links. Billionaire developers plan to build a golf course on the protected Highland beach.
Coul Links is one of Scotland’s most valuable, fragile and species-rich coastal dune systems.
Allowing billionaire developers to destroy it for a golf course would be an act of gross environmental vandalism.
www.thenational.scot/news/2592425...
Phylodesma - that's a bonkers moth!
