A stunning #dragonfly in a wildflower meadow in the #Quantocks

Otherwise known as the entire annual salary of nearly 50,000 NHS nurses - just up in scandalous smoke.

Oystercatcher chick in the Sea Campion on the Isle of May; tonight's blog update has a nice story about these birds: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com

Are you enjoying the heatwave?

A woman has emailed Times Radio to say she is planning to *knit* the election result - row by row, colour by colour, for every seat declared - and I honestly cannot think of anything more wonderfully British and fitting for this election. Truly, an inspiration to all

If you bought a loaf of bread today there's a good chance it will outlast the Tory government,

I need somone in the north east with time on theur hands who can use an iphone camera to record some training sessions etc with my new dog, I want to documant the whole process and share it with our followers as I already know this will be. deeply sporotual journey.

Want to hear what Puffins sound like? Volume up on this shirt video taken on the Isle of May…

Rishi Sunak has offered his resignation to The King but Keir Starmer has yet to be appointed as Prime Minister, so who's in charge? Me.

I love the gentle way British people completely change the country: 1. Have a cup of tea 2. Put on raincoat 3. Walk to a ramshackle area in a local hall and quietly pencil a cross into a box on a scrap of paper 4. Go back home and take off raincoat 5. Have another cup of tea

Absolute political legend that is Larry the Cat forcing the Number 10 door to open and then showing absolutely no interest in entering 😻 #LarryTheCat #Elections2024 (Source: Sky News)

Well done, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

As Starmer announces his first cabinet, confirmation of the one individual staying put:

An apple with no DNA match when tested , I found this apple in an abandoned orchard and took dome scions , the original tree has since died , it was sent for testing as expected it to be something common but was quite the opposite

This is what we want.

A hundred years of Oxfordshire elections. (Watch to the end).

I can't get over the fact that my mother kept this in her house for 27 years. I wrote it when I was 15 & our horse Cinnamon died.

Our belief in harsh and punitive justice has left our prisons full, our reoffending rates sky high & our streets unsafe. But until we tackle the drivers of crime - poverty, trauma, lack of care, inclusion & inclusive education - and so turn the tap off, nothing will ever change!

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