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Edge of fens, forest and brecks.Three greyhounds, three rescue cockerels, six hens. Slowly restoring a garden.
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Weekend reading, how to feed and encourage birds by growing food and nesting plants for them www.wildway.info/p/how-to-fee... only on the WildWay.info

Gail is brilliant. Buy her stuff (please).

To write this @newstatesman.com column, I asked colleagues about their enduring memories of working on Covid wards. Their messages, sent as voicenotes, had one thing in common: each respondent broke down in tears. What does that rawness mean for today's NHS? 🧵 www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...

"Carlin, Palm, Paste Egg Day". It's a northern thing...what my Nana did.

“England’s non-woodland trees have been mapped for the first time, using cutting-edge methods of laser detection and satellite imagery” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As a black man with a father who had died of prostate cancer, Steve McQueen had a greater than one in two chance of getting it. And sure enough he did. The great film director/artist talks to me (with his specialist and surgeon) about his mission to save lives. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Thinking of all those mothers in Ukraine, Gaza & everywhere else whose sons & daughters have been lost to the savagery of war 😔

Thankful for food, warmth, light and greyhound cuddles.

We need facts as never before. 3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline. Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding. Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Salutary words from the wise Andrew Rawnsley: In this dangerous age, Britain needs to exert soft power as well as the hard stuff | Andrew Rawnsley www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Keir Starmer embraces President Zelensky as he arrives at Downing St.

If you do not understand whats happening between russia And Ukraine then please pre-order my book, bcs obviously nothing comes out of thin air www.waterstones.com/book/strong-...

If you are reeling from Trump & Vance's disgusting performance towards Zelensky last night, might you consider donating to www.hospiceukraine.com, the tiny charity I set up with Henry Marsh to support local Ukrainian palliative care teams? We delivered this Land Rover to a rural hospice in Dec...

Three Graces, by #Ukrainian artist, Katerina Omelchuk #art #UkrainianArt

Friends coming for supper. A bit of spring in the vase.

Shameful and murderous www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. I'm trying to save them. You can find the deleted docs at CDCGuidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.

Well, ordered more trees for the fledgling arboretum today. There'll be lots of spade work later in the week 😏. Will be dedicating trees to loved ones - gone and also still here.

Hawthorne; growing south-westerly; steady. #trees #photography #nature

Have you read The Diary of Anne Frank? If you haven’t, please do so shortly. Nazi Germany’s history is repeating itself. Right here. In America.

Keir Starmer's spokesman says he will not launch any new investigation into criminality in the press, despite Labour's past pledges to complete the Leveson inquiry and despite huge new admissions of wrongdoing by The Sun in Prince Harry case bylinetimes.com/2025/01/22/g...

Marina, thank you. So this is Trump’s ‘golden age’ – chaos, dysfunction and a coalition of creeps | Marina Hyde www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...