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Spring timeline cleanse

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Boring but essential jobs in the garden today - assembling the plastic greenhouse ready for seed sowing! Oh and assembling the shiny new wheelbarrow ready for moving a ton of top soil tomorrow!

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I got away from the doom scrolling today, out on my first proper bike ride of the year, 6 miles (yay me!). Getting outside really is the best tonic, try to do it if you can, even if the temperature is only 8 degrees C…!

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Important to take the week as a whole. Statement from Dominic Grieve:

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I watched the White House bullying of Zelensky open mouthed with astonishment. Trump and Vance are an absolute disgrace. Lots of talk about it being pre-meditated to ambush Zelensky. History will judge them.

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Brexit: “that great victory for the sovereign right to cock things up”… give ourselves food poisoning, lose control, swamp ourselves in red tape, pay more for stuff and stubbornly isolate ourselves from our own continent… A relentless, ruinous stupidity. (Private Eye)

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Forgot to say, in my excitement about the single sunny day we’ve had today, I cut back my monster hydrangea. Now the blackbirds will be happy rootling around in the soil.

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'The puddle bathers' by contemporary Glasgow artist and printmaker Fiona Watson #womensart

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This black swan is becoming famous in our coastal town.

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"It is well-known that most of the mainstream media do not approach a Labour Government in a neutral way. Some blatantly misrepresent what is happening, but more often they simply do not report activity, leaving people with a sense that the government is doing nothing."

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Just a break from the doom scrolling. We try to walk around our village every day. Signs of Spring everywhere. And the bubbling of the river never fails to cheer us up. Hope you like it!

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These crocuses are a healthy reminder that Spring is around the corner.

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From the 'Shared Sky' exhibition, 'Jupiter and Ten Moons' by Indigenous Australian artist Barbara Merritt #WomensArt

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Watching Monty Don’s British Gardens and it’s giving me so many ideas! Do watch it if you can.

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Weird but lovely to be able to sit out in the garden in February! #Spring

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Clearing up from recent patio work, I found the crocuses had decided to bloom so they’re back in their rightful place now! #Springishere

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The tufted ducks swam away, then came back again! I wonder what a group of them is called? #tuftedduck

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Sarah Ross Thompson, contemporary fine art printmaker #WomensArt #Snowdrops #February

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nice poll the Express has got here... xd.wayin.com/display/cont...

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Happy Imbolc! This old Celtic festival marks the start of spring, the beginning of the lambing season, and may have been dedicated to a goddess called Brigit, later St Brigid - the first female saint in Irish literature.

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#Imbolc is a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of spring, held on 1 February. A time of celebration and ritual, often honouring Brighid, the goddess of the hearth Mary Delany, Galanthus Nivalis, Snowdrop, 1777 #WomensArt

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Today is 5 years since we officially left the EU. The movement to ditch Brexit and get back in the EU is growing at pace. Want to help it grow on Bluesky? 🦋 Then follow European Movement UK and the 40+ local pro-EU groups in this starter pack (and find you own nearest group to say "hi"!)

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🔥 FINALLY! The BBC are finally doing the public education service on Brexit that they always should have. Have a read. 👇👇

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Chilly walk today but good to smell and hear the sea

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Indigenous Australian artist Alma Nungurrayi Granites paints the great Warlpiri story of 7 Sisters Dreaming, about the ancestral Napaljarri sisters who are found in the night sky in the star cluster Pleiades #womensart

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Love this

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Green woodpecker is a regular visitor to our garden.

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🐝🐝🐝 Good news! The government has refused emergency authorisation for a bee-killing pesticide, recognising there is “clear and abundant evidence” it is toxic to bees. Well done Defra and Minister @emmahardymp.bsky.social www.gov.uk/government/n...

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#Orwell’s 1940 review of Mein Kampf is an astounding read. It is very educational to read literature from just before historical events. In here we find that up to 1939 Hitler was regarded rather favorably by many, for reasons we might recognize today. Frightening: bookmarks.reviews/george-orwel...

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It’s a good day today without X on my phone.I already feel better mentally. Next on my list is Threads. Been on FB since 2008 and use it to chat with my relatives spread across the world.I wonder if there’s any other way (apart from WhatsApp!) that I can communicate with them. Anybody got any ideas?

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🎶 when you go, will you send back a lettuce from America? 🎶

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Read this and remember It is the greatest of all mistakes, to do nothing because you can only do little

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Just 1 teaspoon of neonicotinoids can kill 1.25 BILLION bees. Yesterday, over 1 million voices told the UK Government: stop allowing banned pesticides in our countryside. DEFRA, it’s time to end ‘emergency’ use. Protect pollinators vital to nature's recovery & our food security.

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Erm…I’m probably posting into the ether here, but - has anyone else noticed an explosion in followers in the last 24 hrs? Specifically men ‘of a certain age’ wearing stetsons and USA flags in their bio? Having to go through and block LOADS

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x X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.

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I’ve had a fab day in the winter sun by the beach. Popped onto the ‘other’ media site - my goodness it’s frothy over there 😬. Let’s stay here.

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Late post. Terrific walk in #sunshine today, what a treat 🤗.

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My last post for 2024, our daily walk around the village included some frisky mallards #Springisintheair Happy 2025 everyone!

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