Paul Leyland
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Paul Leyland
@paul51.bsky.social
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Insect photographer & bibliophile
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Out today: BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2025, edited by... me! So so many great stories in here. I can't wait for you to discover them and their talented writers.
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Finished Sally Carson's CROOKED CROSS. A wonderful, sad novel that will definitely find a place on my Best of the Year list. Another winner from Persephone.
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So pleased to see that Daniel Day Lewis has been singing the praises of Kent Haruf, and especially Plainsong and Eventide – two of the greatest novels ever written.

Seriously, if you have yet to read them, I think they are essential.
Daniel Day-Lewis Talks Method Acting, Takes Surprise Question From Paul Thomas Anderson & Says He Wouldn’t Be Able To Make ‘My Left Foot’ In 2025 During LFF Q&A
LFF runs until Oct 19.
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Let's hear it for ivy! The last flower of the year is one of the best for pollinators, vital for a last feed for butterflies such as the red admiral. Learn a little more...
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Best Plants for Bees: Ivy!
YouTube video by Dave Goulson
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Damn right! This is the TRUTH nobody wants to admit!
The music was very similar
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Fake cobwebs like these may look spooky – but what's really scary about them is that they can trap & injure wildlife, including birds, insects & small mammals. And fake webs aren't recyclable – so will end up in landfill for many years.
More: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/5-i...
#Halloween
Maybe Dustin Hoffman he's getting on a bit
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For years, this was part of a path through the land, but it's now an impenetrable tangle of gorse and young trees.

As the trees grow, the gorse and other vegetation will be shaded out, and I'll be able to pass again, but through *rainforest*.

Scrub is how natural forest ecosystems form.
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A Golden-bloomed, Grey Longhorn beetle (I think) #InsectThursday #nature #wildlife
One of the best names
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Good to see Neil Duncan-Jordan MP calling on the Govt to ban hunting asap!
Happy birthday. I hope to be out birdwatching on Flamborough Head, East Yorkshire on Sunday. With luck we will see a few migrants.
I sometimes miss it when reminiscing about pub culture but then think in horror about smoking in the office or in non-smoking people's homes & cars. I still fear that it will get me in the end but so far so good.
Who can remember when cigarettes were really glamorous? What could beat a night in the pub with a few fags and pints of beer?
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