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SWIFTS NEED US! Join swift campaigner Hannah Bourne-Taylor in Bridport on the 9th May. Free and open to all. Scan the QR code for more info. @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social #BookSky

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🌍 Writing for Earth Day - what if keeping it all together isn’t the point? What if the point is delighting in discovery, in all life’s small moments, about living in noticing and with uncertainty? 📖 Read: open.substack.com/pub/ysella/p... #naturewriting #earthday #creativeessay #slowwriting

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🧵 1./ I've started exploring my Indian heritage and was excited but nervous to share what I've begun to discover at a live performance event, KARST x SOAK, featuring Bharatanatyam dance, historic sound archives, spoken word and music at KARST gallery in Plymouth.

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It’s cold here this morning in mid Devon - yesterday there was ice on the hen’s water - but these forget me nots are bringing spring to the fringes of my veg plot. They’ve nested amongst velvety stachys, aquilegia, muscari and foxgloves. Sound up for the birdsong - such clarity. #gardening #nature

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Magnolias looking resplendent in the spring light at our little local arboretum yesterday. #nature #gardening

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In case you missed it! #nature

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This is the most beautiful way to spend 59 minutes. Irish Ornithologist Sean Ronyane is on a mission to record the birdsong of all Ireland’s bird species. The production, pacing and storytelling are spot on. Plus Sean is a bloody hero. #birdsong #nature #Ireland

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The government’s Land Use consultation is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to intervene in this critical issue. Here’s my response to it. Please feel free to borrow / copy & paste as much as you want. It’s crucial that we engage. www.monbiot.com/2025/03/23/f... 1/3 🧵

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We’ve made it! I’m celebrating the #springequinox by putting my hands in the dirt and planting some seeds - cosmos and beans - and thinking of the days to come, moments of watching, growing and delighting 🌱 #gardening

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🇮🇳🪷 These images are of my relatives from Tamilnadu in the early 1900s & I’d like to understand what the way they are dressed can tell me about them and their lives. Can anybody help or point me towards a resource that might be able to? Thanks! #India #tamilnadu #ancestry #HeritageAndProgress

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Greta keeps track of the earth’s hearbeat the same way that some people track weather patterns. But is the year the swallows won’t return? Is there time to bring nature back from the brink? 📻 An audio short story set in rural Devon from @exetercityoflit.bsky.social #fiction #nature #climate

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Loved Astronomer Royal for Scotland Prof Catherine Heymans’ poetic explanation of this morning’s blood moon as a ‘reflection of light from all the sunrises and sunsets around the entire globe.’ How beautiful is that? 🌏 #weareallconnected #lunareclipse #bloodmoon Photo credit Luke Pinker

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1./ Late Light, a short 🧵 I recently heard Michael Malay talk about Late Light, his 2024 @wainwrightprize.bsky.social winning book at @thebookery.bsky.social - a memoir laced with natural history, a rich exploration of belonging, migration + extinction. #naturewriting #booksky

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And now, following in the snowdrops’ wake come the wild daffodils. These are daintier and paler than the garden varieties and are very happy in this scrap of woodland carpeted with periwinkle next to the river Creedy in Devon. #nature #naturewriting #gardening

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Huge win! Government announces plans to open up the Land Registry. If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales. Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens: whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h... 🧵1/

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What’s helping to keep you on track while the world feels like a bin fire? I’ve written about the simple things (planet-spotting, sun-worshipping, mowing) that are helping me at: ysella.substack.com/p/reasons-to... Tell me what's helping you? #naturewriting #gardening #reasonstobecheerful

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These are the little moments. The sun has come out, bringing the speedwell singing, along with the wren and the chaffinch, into the light. Coming from over the road, where men have been working in the sullen grey on a building site all winter, this morning, laughter. #naturewriting #spring

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In light of the sad news from @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social today, I have removed the paywall from the Substack I wrote in autumn about extra things we can do to help bumblebees. One of them is growing crocuses undercover, which is working really well! open.substack.com/pub/katebrad...

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"Daylighting" is the practice in urban design of restoring buried rivers to the surface. The River Sheaf been unburied in Sheffield city centre, after 100 yrs in the dark. Fabulous. A small light in the great gloom. “It is starting to make its own meandering path…” www.bbc.com/news/article...

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1/2 Wren Nest-Building It takes a while to get the camera set-up correctly - with an add-on lens the distance has to be millimetre perfect. The male has several entry points to the log shed - this is the one he's mainly using currently. He always pauses for a fraction of a sec to check for danger.

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The sun is shining and so is our chinese witch hazel. There’s a buzz of insects around it, as relieved for the blue skies and scent as we are 🐝🌱 #gardening

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I was looking for reasons for hope in this grim February and Bernie Sanders provides one with a practical plan for change at grassroots level. Good to hear a positive, rational voice in the chaos of misinformation and disinformation Trump’s administration is pumping out.

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A Romany name for February is ‘bita kaulo munthos’ - little black month & in ‘February’ Margaret Atwood calls it, ‘month of despair, with a skewered heart in the centre’. This year, for all the obvious reasons, it’s feeling a bit darker, so I’ve written about it - tell me your reasons for hope? 🧡

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I’m having a jangly, grief-filled day, but here amongst the peace of the snowdrops and the softly churning river it’s all starting to feel a bit better. #gardening #naturewriting

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Want to have your say? Tomorrow afternoon, we’re sending out our supporter survey to our mailing list. Sign up now using the link below to be able to share your thoughts and help shape the future of the campaign. www.righttoroam.org.uk

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REVEALED: over 1/4 of England's ancient landmarks have no right of public access. Analysis from Right to Roam indicates over 5,500 scheduled monuments were off-limits, with trespass the only way to fully experience our heritage. Read more here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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