Xander's Skyscape

You're very welcome! It's lovely to see it all coming together! 💚🥰

Thank you! 😊 What would you have, James? A swift would make a very fine note!

The fact that 60% of respondents value wildlife enough to want to see it in our hands every day classes as #GoodGreenNews if you ask me. Countries like Canada, Australia and many others have long since had wildlife on adorable coins etc.

Thanks for the cool post @ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social !

#conservation #wildlife #history #art

'Cultural perceptions of wildlife and its importance to national identity' is more of a PhD title than a hashtag, but you get the picture! 😀

Thread of cool suggestions for new wildlife notes - I'd go for a Large Tortoiseshell Tenner (the orange! the orange! and recently reestablished 🤞) bluebell £20 (we have 70% of the global pop) Red Kite £50 (brilliant UK conservation success) and yes, beaver Fivers (watery nature-based solutions).

Lovely suggestions! 😀

Red Kite is a great idea - a resounding UK reintroduction/conservation success story and a brilliant bird.

YES!!! 😍💚

Hehe - might have known you'd say that! And they're amazing, so yes.😀

Oh, these are lovely Charlotte! The exhib's going to be beautiful. 😍

Apparently 60% of respondents chose wildlife. Sorry, Kemi, it's the will of the people... 😂🦔💪

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Just tagging in the folks over at #inverts 🐙in case they need some purple on a Wednesday. 💜

Oh, but see, now I want to know if there's an endemic one to go with the endemic Sark Sea Lavender. 💜

I could try and say something relevant, topical, profound even on the general state of everything. However what I feel I need is a small, purple, Sea Lavender Weevil. So here it is. #Nature

You're very welcome. One to think about, and come back to - it's haunting, things being upended, and physical damage to something even so far away. The power of words, distilled - you're a bloomin' master at this. 👏👏👏

That's a good point! Wish I'd noted when I saw a Common Carder last year, as I vaguely remember it being rather early - but then, it just stopped raining altogether here in early Feb last year. Saw a Red Tailed queen out today, on the same tree-trunk the Large Tort used in 2024! V sunny spot.

I have, on occasion, been known to chuck them across the room. And I've recycled two. The sort of angry that shit books make me comes from deep and entrenched bitterness which is probably a creative force of some kind. At least, I bloody hope so.

This, Martin - learning is a physical process. In exactly the same way that if you don't practice a musical instrument you'll never have the mental pathways and muscle memory to play, if you don't actually learn and process material in whichever discipline, you won't store or connect knowledge.

Another lovely and very moving one, Farah.

Oh, crumbs, that sounds pretty familiar, though replace the watching TV with being on a train with all hell going on around me. I can't do any form of brain function, except needlework, weirdly, with any TV on within quite some distance.

Did u know? The small souls in our outside spaces are easy to ignore or dismiss,but they literally underpin our world.Woodlice are amongst the group of animals we call detritivores. They eat spent organic matter, thereby recycling it & minimising the occurrence of disease.Celebrate the small 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐙

Hurray! 🥳🍻

Hehehe - I like your style! 😀

Aaaand I forgot to link to the feed. Obviously. 😀🦋

Daft, isn't it - especially as someone a person goes to for tuition is always going to be someone to look up to, eh? The thing I find annoying about my own stuff is that I just don't practice. It's such a joy to improve, but I don't manage to scrape time and volition together. Must try harder!

Crumbs. That looks delish!

Absobloomin'lutely. 🤗💚

My friend @angelawooi.bsky.social pickles them, Susan! Apparently they're wonderful, and knowing how fab she is at cooking, I bet they are! 🩷Incidentally, there's a dark pink cultivar called Susan which has a lovely scent, and is less huge than the pale variety - there's one up the garden here. 😊

Super stuff, Allan! I have this silver pencil - it's my favourite. 😊