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Badger Mash

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Made of the land I lived on. Plants, Wildlife, BBC Radio 4, Tolkien, Tea, TaiChi, Policy rather than Politics, #Population #SaveOurBBC Worcestershire

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · Sep 6

Imagining the consequnces if all the, currrently hyperactive, vexillophiles became guerilla gardeners.
Government, whether Lab, Con, Ref or Lib, would clamp down hard. Possession of a trowel would get you 10 years inside. The RHS would become a proscribed terrorist organisation.

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 2h

All we have to do is wait.
"Always, after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again." JRR Tolkien

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Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · Dec 13

the UK needs more cryptids

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 2h

Unless it was over Dover....

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Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · Feb 14

Mr Blobby kept us on our toes, ready to spot the pink-and-yellow polka dots of the lurking monster predator. Mr Blobby taught us survival skills

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 2h

A long ago ex-boss had once had ultimate control, with the job title "Typhoon Controller".

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 3h

We have a long family tradition of being very bad at cat names. My grandfather had many cats: Ginger, Grey Cat, Baby Kitten, Kitten, and in the distant past there had even been Cat. The apple did not fall far from the tree: our last was Pussycat.

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 3h

Only just...
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FoxiMax - A Word Puzzle

Multiple word guessing puzzle game

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 3h

🌱 Plant #754 🌲
I figured it out in 11 guesses!
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🔥 115 | Avg. Guesses: 10.2

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Metaflora

Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Plant!

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 3h

"There Is No Time." Lou Reed

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 13h

The Buddha says it best.

Time...

That’s it.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 5h

1776: Deep fog, dark & still, spitting fog.

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 3h

Will we never learn? #NuclearPower #Sizewell #HinkleyPoint #SmallModularReactors ☢️💀

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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 4h

Dounreay waste particle 'most radioactive' find for three years

The fragment has been categorised as "significant" and was found during monitoring work around the nuclear power plant, near Thurso.

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 3h

In these days of huge heating bills, cut price suncream could serve as an alternative to the goose grease that used to be liberally applied to children before they were sewn into vests not to be removed until Easter.

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 3h

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 16h

Bioabundance: A Tudor account of insects washed downstream by a winter flood on the River Severn, in such vast quantities that they jammed up water mills for four days and had to be dug out by the shovel load.
Source: Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, vol 1, 1812.

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 4h

I can almost hear John Peel saying this as a band name.
🪲 Animal #815 🐏
I figured it out in 8 guesses!
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🔥 19 | Avg. Guesses: 7.2

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Metazooa

Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 5h

Have your say on #Worcestershire County Council's budget:
www.worcestershire.gov.uk/council-serv...

Budget consultation 2026/27 | Worcestershire County Council

We want to hear your views on the Council budget.

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 6h

Their Commander in Chief has told them to keep a close eye on VT, in case it tries to creep across the Canadian border.

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 14h

"My Cheque Book" is a dangerously volatile issue for folk of a certain age, as I have found more than once, to my cost. Last time, once the local branch of the bank had closed, so they couldn't go and hold the place up, I said that, after a particular date, cheques would no longer be in use.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 2d

The lake of Llyn Cerrig Bach, Anglesey-one of those rare places where the veil between then & now can feel like mist, & never more so than, having spent the weekend hunting for its lost Iron Age artefacts, & with its ancient peat ingrained beneath fingernails, someone lifts a carnyx to their lips
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Paul Hemingway of Operation Nightingale, splendidly attired in ancient garb, playing an Iron Age carnyx in front of a lake.

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 14h

Biggins.

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 15h

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I've just found, inside a Snickers bar, a Marathon bar of exactly the same size.

Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 15h

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

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Vanessa 🍁 @nesfarm.bsky.social · 17h

Canadian nICE Agents

#FundTheCBC

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When the ICE agent is Canadian… | This Hour Has 22 Minutes

YouTube video by 22 Minutes

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 15h

They seem to have run out of ammo here.

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 15h

This makes perfect sense, given that the infernal ITV soap "Crossroads" had a regular character called Amy Turtle.