Nice to have some good news!
12.03.2026 08:33
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Nice to have some good news!
White magnolia flowers against a blue sky and a fluffy cloud.
White magnolia flowers against a blue sky, with a fluffy white cloud behind. Beautiful!
#Spring
"After building a 3D model of a hedgehog's ear, the scientists found it has a stiff chain of bones that allows high-pitched sounds to pass through efficiently, in a similar way to echolocating bats." 😮https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8d52n0dnzro
Great to see this article about my friend #JoweHead who I first met at art school. We both lived in Hackney and I sometimes hung out with the band (and had a brief relationship with their brilliant drummer, Epic)
Hope the new album does really well!
#swellmaps
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
Bumblebee on the open flowers of a goat willow tree
Bumblebee on the pussy willow.
This goat willow seeded itself in the garden and it’s great to see the benefit to wildlife.
#rewilding
#wildflowers
#bumblebees
@savebutterflies.bsky.social
War makes us sick
Thousands of authors including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman have published an “empty” book to protest against AI firms using their work without permission.
#Don’tStealThisBook - the only content is a list of their names.
#AI
#booksky
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
This is one of four videos of poems for Gaza that I've written. All four are on this site. Free to watch anytime.,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFYM...
Good news!
The large tortoiseshell butterfly that became extinct in Britain in the last century, is a UK resident species once again, with a flurry of early spring sightings in woodlands in Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Dorset, Cornwall and Isle of Wight.
#butterflies
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#booksky
Book Cover: The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change Rebecca Solnit
The Beginning Comes After The End
Don’t miss @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in conversation with
@billmckibben.bsky.social, hosted by @thirdactorg.bsky.social
Tuesday, March 10 at 7:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: actionnetwork.org/events/topic...
Vital story by my colleague Helena Horton – about the number of people who don't live within a 15-min walk of green space. Freely accessible, wildlife-rich green space should be a modern-day human right! And good govts should see it as a public health essential. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Open pussy willow flowers on a foggy day
Pussy willow in the fog
#wildflowers
#goatwillow
Sweet violets on Cissbury Ring, a few very early bluebells, primroses and dog violets in Nore Wood, Slindon.
#wildflowerhour
#westsussex
Great choices!
Book cover in blue and cream by Elif Shafak
Book cover with orange text on cream -Station Eleven
Book cover with a rag doll with blue eyes The Bluest Eye
Book cover in white with gold lettering - the Living Mountain
Happy #InternationalWomensDay !
Here are a few of my favourite books by women writers, many others have thrilled and inspired me to write.
There Are Rivers In The Sky #ElifShafak Station Eleven @emilymandel.bsky.social The Bluest Eye #ToniMorrison The Living Mountain #NanShepherd
#booksky
Women on a march against Trump in London holding banners and placards
Happy #InternationalWomensDay !
To all the brilliant women around the world fighting for equality, justice and a better world for all.
💜🤍💚
Bluebell flowers in a wood
Fields and misty hills
Dog violets
Primroses among leaves
Misty walk around Slindon and Nore Wood.
Amazed to find some very early bluebells, along with dog violets and primroses.
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
#Spring
#wildflowers
#bluebells
Three crows in a tree with a nest
The crow family have started to rebuild the nest in the birch tree that they used last year, successfully raising two chicks.
There aren’t many large trees round here, so they like this one and the proximity to water where they can dunk the bread they often feed to the young ones!
#corvids
Think this is a buff-tailed bumblebee, feeding on a dandelion on Worthing beach
I read lots of non-fiction, your book sounds fascinating!
Good news.
Replacing sheep with cattle at a nature reserve in the Yorkshire Dales has led to a boost in biodiversity.
A third of the UK's plant species can be found, including rare flowers like Teesdale violet, early purple orchid & Yorkshire sandwort.
#biodiversity
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Definitely, glyphosate and other chemicals are a big problem here
Moth populations are plummeting & many of the 2,500 species in the UK are at risk, numbers having fallen by 33% since the 1960s, due to habitat loss & climate breakdown
The RHS has asked gardeners to “allow for nibbling on ornamentals and vegetable crops”
#moths
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Maybe we can start a thread of what we love about books…
As a writer I love making up characters and as a reader I love exploring other people’s lives and worlds.
Book cover with image of white bird against a Scottish landscape
Book cover in blue gold and green with images of fox and bird
Happy #WorldBookDay!
To all writers and readers who love books, whether fiction, memoir, nature writing, speculative fiction, romance, history, graphic novels or books for young people.
I’m happy to have written and published two novels and to be working on a third.
#booksky
"Straight from the playbook of tobacco".
The Stove Industry Association has been pressuring councils to tone down their public health campaigns, telling them they were exploring options for potential legal action.
This stinks even more than the burning they promote. #WoodBurning #AirPollution
Goldfinches eating seeds on Cissbury Ring.
(Another reminder not to cut everything back until later)
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
#gardeningforwildlife
#rewilding
Birch tree with white breasted bird with black cap
In more garden #birding news, pretty sure this is a male blackcap in our birch tree.
Last year they weren’t around so great to see it back.
Maybe one day!
