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Wandering Egyptologist behind a moustachioed pen-name. Likes: conservation, history, gardens, art, good food, cooking, and writing quirky fantasy.
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Got a bit suspicious about one of the hostas which had fewer noses than expected and loose soil. Was astonished to see vine weevil grubs, in huge numbers! Never had them attack a hosta before - but fished out the lot, and made a grubby Smörgåsbord for the garden birds. And it prompted me to 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Powerful stories here of people across the continents taking on monumental challenges in environmental protection. Rivers liberated, a whale-threatening port cancelled, precious desert ecosystems closed to mining, forever-polluters and waste traffickers forced to clean up... they fought, and won.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

SO excited to have an Honorary Mention for 'Transformations', and for the chance to come to read at the Fish Anthology Launch @wcorklitfest.bsky.social. I am, in a few words, flabbergasted, and so grateful. 😊 Huge congrats to all who took up the challenge of flash, and the winners and listees. 1/

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Might've videoed the two bumble nests I've found so far and then gone through the footage to log all the arrivals and exits. And made a little montage to see who was coming and going. Maybe. #beeliever #inverts 🐙 🐝

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Much as I love the Spring flowers, I'm also thinking ahead to late-Summer dining for our insect friends, and unearthing great bundles of Dahlia tubers after growing them from tiny slips of papery seeds last Summer seems pretty miraculous. Here I am, scarcely containing my excitement. 😊

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

The garden is breathing a petrichor sigh of relief. Greens greener for the clouds, grey as collared doves behind them, flowers, bark, new-bursting buds, rinsed clean of six weeks' gasping dust. Everything brightens, stretches, extends, each leaflet reaching for useful rain.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Right, well I know where I'd like to move to... Pettorano sul Gizio becomes a bear-safe town, and begins to reverse its own population decline. Also - looks like paradise. 😍💚🐻#GoodGreenNews

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment