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Anna Shergold
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Retired IT professional, living in Hampshire. Trying out where the skies are blue, and the sun always shines. Any photos, unless reposts are my own. Interests: crafts, wild flowers, orchids, nature, the environment, #Wilder, Bentley the Berner 🐶💐📚🐝
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The last 4 pics of Bentley Berner bear, we went to Scotland & he never made it home. He was a good boy (well bonkers until the last year, then good, he’d just turned 5). Earlier that day we stopped at Gretna, he made loads of new friends, & went down hill very fast 💔🐾🌈 #BMD #bernesemountaindog
#fungi Helvella crispa, Elfen or white saddle, such a funky shaped fungi, it was late afternoon seen on a footpath (so not the best photos)
Helvella crispa (so hard to type some names on a phone!)
For #wildflowerhour a #winterTen (or was it #theWinterTen) - well nine and a helva crispa, the nine are yarrow, daisy, green Alkanet, periwinkle, red & white dead nettles, devils bit scabious, shepherds purse & buttercup - the fungi had to be included, it’s so cute!
The view from mum’s gate is ever changing. The daily question is whether you can see the Ochills!
For #wildflowerhour #wildfungihour a birch bolete found under the birch trees in my mum’s garden in Scotland. We’ve just got back after almost 2 weeks, with a variety of weather, the day I took this it was sunny, Scotland at its best!
For #wildflowerhour - chicory, ox eye daisy & red campion all along the field margins in Perthshire (should they even be flowering at the end of Oct) - but a welcome splash of colour
No easy answers, not convinced by all the offsets tho’ - we should make it much harder for greenfield builds than for brownfield. Redo the rundown & empty buildings, the boarded up offices etc - not rely on greenfield because builders will pay for schools argument (& don’t on builds) logic
Fungi #fungifriday #fungifriends a selection seem down the woods, I need more practice to identify, but just admiring the variety of shapes
The ivy flowers are positively buzzing at the moment in the autumn sunshine - butterflies, hoverflies, wasps and various assorted insects #buzzing
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As renewables overtake coal as the world's largest source of electricity, what did we get from the Tory conference?

- repeal the Climate Change Act
- scrap 2050 net-zero target
- remove renewable energy subsidies
- maximise oil and gas extraction from the North Sea

They are so out of touch!
Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.
www.bbc.co.uk
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While saying they want to "preserve nature" the Conservative Party have just pledged to scrap the Climate Change Act.

This makes no sense.

How do more floods, more droughts, and rising temperatures "preserve" nature?

That's what scrapping the Act will lead to.
For #wildflowerhour, common kapweed & greater celandine - still lots of flowers, but starting to look autumnal
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Fabulous colours, stay safe the weather your way sounds nasty this evening
so disappointed with this printer - got one about a week ago, we can't configure it from a Mac, can't print PDFs generated from photoshop from my Mac as it gets an error (can from my phone though)!
For #wildflowerhour Devil's-bit scabious -
Succisa pratensis appearing in copious amounts on the local heath
We had soo much coverage of the Reform conference - hours/days, and yet of the LD barely a mention on the news, despite more MPs. MSM should give better cover for LD & Greens, proportional to MPs and less to promote (or is it just click bait & provoke discussion) Reform.
I’ve 2 sets of measuring cups & one is slightly larger (possibly US & European differences - i only notice in the full cup, smaller measures are close enough). Although I use cups & proportions should be consistent, if I bake with one set & measure liquids I need to under fill. PS pints differ too
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'My Garden...' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary artist and printmaker #WomensArt
For #wildflowerhour, 4 from Down Grange Meadow in Basingstoke from yesterday - toadflax, oregano/wild marjoram, small scabious, common centaury. Lovely to still have some colour in the meadows.
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Yesterday, the UK’s leading insect conservation charities launched the Declaration on the UK Insect Declines Crisis at the @WildSummitUK🚨

This united front calls for change across governments, land managers, businesses, and the public. @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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And that’s why I don’t read the daily fail
Surely homes in ordinary places, would help people to integrate and become members of society, a mix of people is good & we learn from each other, those towns are doing the right thing!
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"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress
We switched, but pros & cons, the bit that can get you are pre-existing conditions eg if you’d ever had an ear infection, nothing ear related would be covered. We had a fight to get a lump removed, because several years earlier dog had a spot/bite which had since disappeared. They did pay.