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Lydia Macpherson
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Poet ‘Love Me Do’ @saltpublishing.com Pamphlet under construction. Live on a wily windy moor. Gardening at 1300’ up. Remainer. Hate injustice. Girly swot. Never a Tory. I am LUCKY. Wind farms shouldn’t be built on protected peat.
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🔥 @ninajankowicz.com to the European Parliament: "Before I describe the details of Russia's recent online influence campaigns, I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy: The United States of America."
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unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
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On #Walshaw Moor, #curlews are curleeing, #lapwings are peewitting,meadow #pipits are piping. It's all full of fresh life under a high blue sky. Please help us save this highly protected #SAC #SPA #peatland Donate: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/protect-ou... Sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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@yorkshirepeat.bsky.social get an admiring write up in Nick MacKinnon's latest blog
Nick MacKinnon's latest blog is out now. Nick and friends have now walked to 32 of the 65 proposed turbine sites. It's an important analysis of the question we all want an answer to: access to the wind farm site... or not. Thanks to our friend @markavery.bsky.social
markavery.info/2025/03/27/g...
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Nick MacKinnon's latest blog is out now. Nick and friends have now walked to 32 of the 65 proposed turbine sites. It's an important analysis of the question we all want an answer to: access to the wind farm site... or not. Thanks to our friend @markavery.bsky.social
markavery.info/2025/03/27/g...
If you are able to support this national campaign to ban wind farms on protected peat, please donate: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/protect-ou...
Let @lucympowell.bsky.social know how WRONG she got it yesterday in HoC - please share and quote and stand up for #TeamPeat #TeamBat #TeamNewt #TeamNature
Thks #RobbieMooreMP for speaking for #TeamPeat in HoC yesterday and highlighting the threat to #Walshaw moor of a #windfarm on highly protected #SAC #SPA #peatland. @lucympowell.bsky.social you IGNORED that important point. Planning to break environmental law to get it built? fb.watch/yjS0gxSltN/
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@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social we’d be grateful if you could give this petition some love - old stomping ground?
Walshaw Moor stretches from Top Withens aka Wuthering Heights to Hardcastle Crags. It’s highly protected carbon-storing blanket bog. Curlews (on the edge of extinction) breed there. Please sign this petition to ban wind farms on protected peatland in England petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Ban wind farms on protected peat land in England
In its recent consultation on new onshore wind planning regulations, the government asked if some habitats, such as those containing peat soils, need extra protection from renewable energy development...
petition.parliament.uk
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News Klaxon! John Glenday will be joining our Galloway House Estate 9-15th June 2025 Writing Retreat as our first guest tutor! John most recently judged the Saltire Prize’s First Book Award (Poetry, Fiction and Non Fiction). More details about the retreat on my website link above or DM for more info
Last house before Top Withens feat. Airedale Terror
Best cakes for miles around.
My wife has a bakery in West Yorkshire - you may remember it from 'cakegate'.

Anyway, the Christmas range is available to order and there is even a postal option if you're not local: www.threelittlebirdsbakery.com/christmas

This year, more than ever, supporting small businesses is a must.
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My wife has a bakery in West Yorkshire - you may remember it from 'cakegate'.

Anyway, the Christmas range is available to order and there is even a postal option if you're not local: www.threelittlebirdsbakery.com/christmas

This year, more than ever, supporting small businesses is a must.
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Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her.

RP if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.
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King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £125m a year tax free from the tax payer and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed.

But he still needed a 45% pay rise.

Like if he needs a pay cut.
RP if you want the Monarchy gone.

#AbolishTheMonarchy
Peat grows a millimetre per year. Some peat on Walshaw moor has been growing since the Bronze Age, absorbing rainwater (thus mitigating flooding in the Calder Valley) and storing carbon. Wind farms don’t need to be built on protected peatland.
The latest in the series of Walshaw Moor guest blogs - here John Page finds that the peat depth in the middle of a proposed windfarm is 240cm. If that isn't deep peat - what is?

And if that isn't a daft place to put a windfarm then what is
Ed Miliband?

Full blog: markavery.info/2024/11/22/g...
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Loads of brilliant writing courses on offer at Arvon with grants available for low income writers. I used to be a Trustee and can vouch for their dedication to being as inclusive and accessible as possible.
Choosing a Course - Course Types & Levels - Arvon
We have a range of creative writing courses for writers of all levels of experience. Some are more suitable for beginners or more experienced writers.
www.arvon.org