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Flowers, dogs and textiles to soften the environmental doom. We wunt be druv!
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#SixOnSaturday 🌱in celebration of this year’s tulips poking their noses above ground.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHForHero Monument at Verdun for the last carrier pigeon sent asking for reinforcements, who was gassed but still made it

#SixOnSaturday 🌱Winter feels so mean, looking forward to the abundance and profusion of summer

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGForGold

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGForGold

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGForGold

#SixOnSaturday 🌱 It was so cold and wet that the tops of the trees were icy, creating a shimmering silver dust in the distance and close up in the sun a prismatic effect filling the air with tiny rainbows

Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.

Cal Lane, Canadian trained welder and artist, transforms common and industrial steel products into intricate sculptures #womensart

Wanted to reread my childhood copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and was met with this on the inside cover. Thank GOD I’m Lucie Ebrey 😮‍💨

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFForFilm The Ice Storm

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFForFilm Iris

🌱 proof of life for Imbolc

#SixOnSaturday 🌱A little heat for another frosty morning

England Sri Lanka test match in Galle #AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEvents

#SixOnSaturday 🌱Getting to the point where I can’t remember the last blue sky, so a reminder of summer is necessary

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekDForDanger

#SixOnSaturday 🌱another cold and frosty morning

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekCForCostumes Wedding guests in Kathmandu serving themselves from a buffet table

👇👇 "A third of global GHG production to date can be attributed to animal agriculture. To solve the climate change crisis, we propose transitioning to a predominantly plant-based diet. Our current trajectory is untenable, & we must begin to turn the ship now towards sustainable food systems & diets."

Wild #chimpanzees adapt genetically to their habitats! 🐒 A study by University College London shows forest-dwelling chimps have malaria resistance, highlighting the need to preserve their genetic diversity. 🌍🧪 #Conservation #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Genetics #EvolutionaryBiology bit.ly/4fXBI3A

🌱 A paler shade of white. This week it has snowed and been wet enough for the river to take over the neighbouring fields and close roads. There are small signs of spring (I am itching to sow seeds) but it is knitting weather

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBForB Blooming beans

Finally finished, a mixture of a Drops pattern for the cables and a Rowan pattern for the shape, knitted in merino on 3mm needles

🌱 In yesterday’s frosty blasted wasteland the tips of the bulbs shyly emerged. A reminder of what was and what will be.

🌱 the light at the end of the tunnel #FlowersOnFriday

How many different types of creature shelter, nest, hide, or feed in this gloriously wild tangle of old ivy-covered hawthorns. Forget all your 'bug hotels', feeding stations, and tack-on nesting boxes: what wildlife desperately needs more than anything else is *natural habitat*. #Rewilding 🌍

Artworks by artists featured/interviewed in the womensart book UNLOCKING WOMEN'S ART available at yr Amazon e.g. www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Wo... Or better still, via any decent indi bookstore- get cosy with a good book! 🧡

Happy new year!

Purple artichoke flower #Alphabetchallenge #WeekZforZoom #photography 📷