Brian Ford-Lloyd PhD FLSW 🌿🌾🏴
@brian-f-l.bsky.social
Emeritus professor - Birmingham University: plants, biodiversity, genetics, crops, and conservation but not as you know it. Long time follower of Welsh rugby, but for how much longer? 🏴🌿🌾
Whatever! I saw Jarrod replaced in the World Cup warm up in Cardiff and put me right off him but tonight he’s brilliant chwarae teg
I don’t mind the players celbrating big in the moment, some of them will be absolutely scarred by their recent experiences in a Wales jersey and they’d have taken any sort of W
As a fan I can’t celebrate that. it was an awful performance that should have resulted in a loss. can’t pretend otherwise.
As a fan I can’t celebrate that. it was an awful performance that should have resulted in a loss. can’t pretend otherwise.
November 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Whatever! I saw Jarrod replaced in the World Cup warm up in Cardiff and put me right off him but tonight he’s brilliant chwarae teg
Sure she wasn’t called Lily?
November 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Sure she wasn’t called Lily?
By chance we had Uber Eats delivered food from Ascott’s - ok and the chips were good!
I’m not a regular restaurant goer so this space isn’t normally going to be doing reviews but having gone out last night for a family meal I can say what a fantastic meal we had at Casa Med on the High St in Bromsgrove. The staff were brilliant and the food was excellent.
You have to try it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
You have to try it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
November 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
By chance we had Uber Eats delivered food from Ascott’s - ok and the chips were good!
Really well deserved win by Cardiff tonight- Lions were seriously hard. Pity there wasn’t a bigger crowd! Only region to win too 👏👏👏@cardiffrugby.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Really well deserved win by Cardiff tonight- Lions were seriously hard. Pity there wasn’t a bigger crowd! Only region to win too 👏👏👏@cardiffrugby.bsky.social
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Watched a few world women’s rugby games and have to say that USA and Italy were highly skilled and really unlucky to miss out and way beyond Wales ability
August 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Watched a few world women’s rugby games and have to say that USA and Italy were highly skilled and really unlucky to miss out and way beyond Wales ability
Watched a few world women’s rugby games and have to say that USA and Italy were highly skilled and really unlucky to miss out and way beyond Wales ability
August 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Watched a few world women’s rugby games and have to say that USA and Italy were highly skilled and really unlucky to miss out and way beyond Wales ability
Looks like these spout lies like Trump!
The Green Revolution saved 1-2 billion lives globally. Activists say it was a failure. They’re lying geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/08/25/v...
Viewpoint: The Green Revolution saved 1-2 billion lives globally. Activists say it was a failure. They’re lying
n the past few years, many environmental and academic activists have been undermining the work of Norman Borlaug and the successes of the Green Revolution
geneticliteracyproject.org
August 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Looks like these spout lies like Trump!
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A foreign coal firm is suing UK taxpayers in a secretive ‘corporate court’ – with a Tory MP as their lawyer. All to overturn a climate ruling that stopped a Cumbria coal mine. This is democracy & climate action held to ransom
Tommy Green writing for DeSmog
Read here ⤵️
@northwestbylines.co.uk
Tommy Green writing for DeSmog
Read here ⤵️
@northwestbylines.co.uk
UK Government to be sued in ‘secret corporate court’ by coal firm represented by Tory MP
Former attorney general Geoffrey Cox is leading the case brought by a coal firm that could cost the taxpayer billions
northwestbylines.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
A foreign coal firm is suing UK taxpayers in a secretive ‘corporate court’ – with a Tory MP as their lawyer. All to overturn a climate ruling that stopped a Cumbria coal mine. This is democracy & climate action held to ransom
Tommy Green writing for DeSmog
Read here ⤵️
@northwestbylines.co.uk
Tommy Green writing for DeSmog
Read here ⤵️
@northwestbylines.co.uk
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On the island of Sumatra, families keep wild spices growing in their back gardens. The wild relatives of their commercialised cousins, these plants offer flavours and uses that are undervalued. A new study of these gardens finds what we could be losing.
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#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
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#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
Indonesia's Secret Spice Collection
When scientists ventured into the backyards of Indonesian families, they discovered something remarkable hiding behind everyday cooking. Smallholders in...
botany.one
August 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
On the island of Sumatra, families keep wild spices growing in their back gardens. The wild relatives of their commercialised cousins, these plants offer flavours and uses that are undervalued. A new study of these gardens finds what we could be losing.
wp.me/pdRZhH-mm9
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
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#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
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I and many of my generation - and the one after it - owe Biddy a lot
Rest in Peace formidable Blue Peter producer Joan Maureen "Biddy" Baxter MBE who has sadly died age 92.
August 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I and many of my generation - and the one after it - owe Biddy a lot
Roll on for a Tory govt eh?
August 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Roll on for a Tory govt eh?
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I was born in Swansea and was taken to St Helens in my pram. It would be great to have a new rugby ground in the second city. BUT 8000 capacity versus 14500 at Parc y Scarlets seems important to me! @huwgriffinrugby.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I was born in Swansea and was taken to St Helens in my pram. It would be great to have a new rugby ground in the second city. BUT 8000 capacity versus 14500 at Parc y Scarlets seems important to me! @huwgriffinrugby.bsky.social
I was born in Swansea and was taken to St Helens in my pram. It would be great to have a new rugby ground in the second city. BUT 8000 capacity versus 14500 at Parc y Scarlets seems important to me! @huwgriffinrugby.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I was born in Swansea and was taken to St Helens in my pram. It would be great to have a new rugby ground in the second city. BUT 8000 capacity versus 14500 at Parc y Scarlets seems important to me! @huwgriffinrugby.bsky.social
Is an 8000 capacity stadium really enough? Not enough for the Premiership!
This is good news for those of us who think Wales' second city should be home to a top flight professional rugby team (yes I know "top flight" is doing a lot of work in that sentence, but hey, I'm an optimist. Honestly).
HOWEVER....
HOWEVER....
Ospreys' St Helen's stadium plans approved by Swansea council
The Ospreys will relocate to the historic St Helen's ground for the 2025–26 season.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Is an 8000 capacity stadium really enough? Not enough for the Premiership!
Its a pity she couldn’t put more effort into the plants! Some might be wild beet and other crop wild relatives
July 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Its a pity she couldn’t put more effort into the plants! Some might be wild beet and other crop wild relatives
You mean showing absolute rubbish rugby namely Italy v Wales?
RugbyPassTV remains abjectly not good enough. There’s only so much goodwill you get for showing obscure game if the app doesnt actually function
July 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
You mean showing absolute rubbish rugby namely Italy v Wales?
Hope they take on board the Gower hotspot for crop wild relative diversity and help develop it
A long-term management plan to further improve an already stunning stretch of Welsh coast is to be developed with millions of pounds potentially up for grabs
Groups in Gower to draw up a plan and apply for National Lottery cash
Richard Youle – Local democracy reporter A long-term management plan to further improve an already stunning stretch of Welsh coast is to be developed with millions of pounds potentially up for grabs. ...
nation.cymru
July 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Hope they take on board the Gower hotspot for crop wild relative diversity and help develop it
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#wildflowerhour
Following my confusion re id of Moon Carrot (NOT) but actually D. carota ssp gumifer at Dungeness, I found this Sea Carrot at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve this week, with a rather lovely (unusual) plumb pink coloured not quite central umbel and admiring bugs!
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
Following my confusion re id of Moon Carrot (NOT) but actually D. carota ssp gumifer at Dungeness, I found this Sea Carrot at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve this week, with a rather lovely (unusual) plumb pink coloured not quite central umbel and admiring bugs!
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
#wildflowerhour
Following my confusion re id of Moon Carrot (NOT) but actually D. carota ssp gumifer at Dungeness, I found this Sea Carrot at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve this week, with a rather lovely (unusual) plumb pink coloured not quite central umbel and admiring bugs!
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
Following my confusion re id of Moon Carrot (NOT) but actually D. carota ssp gumifer at Dungeness, I found this Sea Carrot at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve this week, with a rather lovely (unusual) plumb pink coloured not quite central umbel and admiring bugs!
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
Forgive me if I’ve missed a contribution but no crop wild relatives like Beta or Brassica again. Ah well!
July 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Forgive me if I’ve missed a contribution but no crop wild relatives like Beta or Brassica again. Ah well!
July 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Forgive me if I’ve missed a contribution but no crop wild relatives like Beta or Brassica again. Ah well!
Who’s the wide boy then?
Best attack from either wide this game and its a poor finish from Gesi, ball in wrong hand
July 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Who’s the wide boy then?
Flying ants arrived in a big way this afternoon
June 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Flying ants arrived in a big way this afternoon
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During a recent vacation in the USA, I had chance to visit the Birthplace and Boyhood Farms of agricultural scientist and 1970 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
@agbioworld.bsky.social @brian-f-l.bsky.social
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One man saved more lives than anyone else in history . . .
A billion lives, it is said. And that man was Dr Norman Ernest Borlaug (1914-2009), an agricultural scientist from northeast Iowa, whose research to develop short-strawed and high-yielding varietie…
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June 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
During a recent vacation in the USA, I had chance to visit the Birthplace and Boyhood Farms of agricultural scientist and 1970 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
@agbioworld.bsky.social @brian-f-l.bsky.social
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@agbioworld.bsky.social @brian-f-l.bsky.social
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Fantastic famous Fairfield forest?
We can now share with you that the Pepper Wood Extension will be named the FAIRFIELD FOREST. The naming decision followed an extensive public consultation that too place 18 months ago.
Signs are currently being erected at each of the entrance points.
Signs are currently being erected at each of the entrance points.
June 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Fantastic famous Fairfield forest?