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Lucy Corrander

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Wild plants, gardening, allotment, photography. Arrived from the old Twitter. Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. https://looseandleafyinhalifax.blogspot.com/ https://messageinamilkbottle.blogspot.com/ On Twitter too. https://x.com/LucyCorrander

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Lucy Corrander @lucycorrander.bsky.social · Aug 31

Someone has sent me a 'chat' message. Sorry, I can't access it. It's not that I object to giving Bluesky my age - but without my age it will hopefully prevent me from inadvertently accessing things I would rather avoid.

Lucy Corrander @lucycorrander.bsky.social · 1d

Mine are tough now but eating the beans from inside the pods (or whatever you call the outer bit).

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 1d

#GoodNews for #biodiversity.

But we need a lot more like this - and #LandReform to make it easier

www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/environ...

'A huge milestone' - Community group takes ownership of Bridestones Moor

Bridestones Moor, the dramatic 114-acre expanse above Todmorden, has been officially brought under community ownership.

www.halifaxcourier.co.uk

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Bob White @rwdwhite.bsky.social · 11d

This is why Starmer said we wouldn’t be getting closer to the EU. It’s because we can’t, he’s signed contracts with big corporations who will then effectively govern Britain and these corporate zones aren’t allowed by the EU.

Confused as to why there’s not more publicity? Me too.

EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 11d

Keir Starmer's Defence Growth Zones: Militarising the Economy by Stealth
Massive proliferation of different types of free zones leads to 'zone-stacking'
open.substack.com/pub/european...

Keir Starmer's Defence Growth Zones: Militarising the Economy by Stealth

Massive proliferation of different types of free zones leads to 'zone-stacking'

open.substack.com

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Lucy Corrander @lucycorrander.bsky.social · 2d

Well yes. I think so. You are a lone voice in the wilderness, trying to draw attention to important and frightening things that a lot of us don't understand let alone know what to do about. Need simplifiers and slogans to popularise. But keep going. It IS important.

Lucy Corrander @lucycorrander.bsky.social · 8d

I bought toffees to give out at Halloween but . . . if I resolve to keep the lights off this evening and pretend to be out . . . I could eat them now.

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Lucy Corrander @lucycorrander.bsky.social · 8d

News flash. Fast growth in plants. Have been told by a load of four and five year olds that their daffodils are already as big as the lime trees beside their playground. We haven't planted them yet!

Lucy Corrander @lucycorrander.bsky.social · 8d

Wondering with these - if they are in a border, could they have been used at some time as ornamental edging?

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Lucy Corrander @lucycorrander.bsky.social · 8d

I've got bricks - and sometimes what seem like stone lintels from old doorways. (Along with plastic, glass and old carpets - still.)

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Lucy Corrander @lucycorrander.bsky.social · 11d

There used to be special pots for that purpose and would fill up (in a rather ugly way, to my mind) with roots. Couldn't see the point of them - but now I realise I should have paid more attention.

Lucy Corrander @lucycorrander.bsky.social · 11d

I know new roots come, I just wondered if the old dried up thingies sort of re-hydrated. Perhaps I'll have to experiment, as Tony suggest, to see for myself what happens.

Lucy Corrander @lucycorrander.bsky.social · 11d

Maybe I'll have to try that!

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Lucy Corrander @lucycorrander.bsky.social · 11d

Here's something I don't know about bulbs. Do the dried roots re-vivify once planted or does the plant rely solely on new roots emerging once in touch with damp soil?

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Lucy Corrander @lucycorrander.bsky.social · 12d

Ladybirds remind me of daleks. Impressive on the outside but pretty repulsive if you look under their wings.
This definitely shows their attractive angle. A lovely photo.

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Rod Jones @rodshelf.bsky.social · 12d

Seven-spot ladybird clambering off a snowy waxcap in the undergrowth on Rishworth Moor. #ThePhotoHour #wildlife #nature #photography #fungifriends @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social

Two white snowy waxcap fungi are growing side by side among long, brown grass. A red ladybird with black spots is climbing off them onto a grass stalk.

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Lucy Corrander @lucycorrander.bsky.social · 12d

I hadn't realised black plastic pots are more of a problem than the pretend terracotta ones. Do you have a link where there's info. about this? I'm responsible for having ordered rather a lot of them!

Lucy Corrander @lucycorrander.bsky.social · 13d

. . . a bit like the letter 'e' apparently.

Lucy Corrander @lucycorrander.bsky.social · 13d

Bother. I've lost two cabbage white caterpillars. When you don't want them, they eat your brassicas. When you do want them they move house and potter off elsewher.

Lucy Corrander @lucycorrander.bsky.social · 14d

In the mist and rain. Warley Moor and Reservoir. Calderdale, West Yorkshire. 19th October 2025

Brown moorland, criss-crossed by broken dry stone walls and a wire fence with wooden poles. two thirds of the way up the picture is one end of Warley Reservoir. Beyond that are further hills, just about visible through the mist. Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. 19th October 2025

Lucy Corrander @lucycorrander.bsky.social · 15d

I don't know anything about them either - and that is part of it. I don't understand them so I am in awe.
I don't see them as replacement flowers though. I enjoy them all the year round.
Fascinated to see different kinds now from those I used to observe in coastal Dorset.

Lucy Corrander @lucycorrander.bsky.social · 15d

Not sure how many people have a favourite wall but I even have a favourite group of lichens on my favourite wall. You're lucky it isn't near enough for me to post these same lichens every day or you might get bored. I've been worried for them this very dry summer Do many people worry about lichens?

Very grey lichens on top of a wall with grass behind. 18th October 2025. Near Wainstalls, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England.

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Lucy Corrander @lucycorrander.bsky.social · 15d

Saw a Goosander for the first time yesterday, sitting on the water, then diving, then flying. Female. (Brown head.)

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Lucy Corrander @lucycorrander.bsky.social · 15d

It's a time of re-wording. Football hooliganism re-branded as being 'less than well mannered' and violence as 'good-natured fun'.
In the '80s, National Front type people were active among football crowds and there were razor blades behind racist posters.
Mr Jenrick and I live in different worlds.

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Lucy Corrander @lucycorrander.bsky.social · 16d

I'm not watching and have no idea who you are talking about - but really enjoying this post and imagining what this someone looks like.

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Lucy Corrander @lucycorrander.bsky.social · 16d

Walking by reflections.
Canal near Hebden Bridge. 17th October 2025

Autumn trees reflected in the water of canal while walking on the tow path under a bridge. 17th October 2025

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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 16d

A mandatory swift brick for every new home won't be supported by Housing Secretary Steve Reed. That's quite a u-turn from the former Environment Secretary. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Government U-turns on support for bird-friendly swift bricks in new homes

Housing minister Steve Reed refuses to back mandating measure, despite giving support while in environment job

www.theguardian.com

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