The #wildflower meadow is pumping now. Stuffed with pollinators large and small. The fifth year of this SevernTrentLife funded biodiversity habitat creation. Money well spent I’d say (and not much cost either really, small change!)

Should be Severn Trent 👍👍

Friendly reminder to Rachel Reeves (and colleagues) that if income tax, national insurance, value added tax, fuel duties, alcohol duties, tobacco duties, vehicle excise duties, environmental levies, insurance premium tax, ETS auction receipts, customs duties, air passenger

Might not be the best crop of hay ever but within minutes we had four Red Kites, 3 buzzards and 3 seagulls. So someone likes it!! In fact a Kite was so surprised to see me that it dropped its catch…. An unlucky toad!

So true. So true.

The 4th heatwave of the summer. Didn’t think I’d get such a good window again for my final batch of hay. This time the wildflower meadow. Didn’t take long for the kites to arrive. Luckily we left lots of corners, central safe zone and margins for everything to hide in.

Boom. Round three done. Wildflower meadow hay baled and safe from the weather.

What a year for hedgerow berries. Four year old hedge proving it’s worth for nature this year. Absolutely laden with haws and sloes. A real highlight of our time here. Planting hedges and watching them explode with life. Funded by you. Thank you. (Through CS Mid Tier)

For every retweet of this post, I will donate £1 to the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association up to £50,000. Time is running out following Imperial War Museums’s decision to close the Lord Ashcroft Gallery. Visit while you still can, to honour the bravery of those who risked so much to protect our great nation.

Warbling on about this hedge again!!! Just look at that fruit. Juicy!! Look at that habitat. Cosy!!

Anyone know what these are on this oak leaf?? The Wildlife Trusts

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The cold air this morning certainly focussed my attention on filling the shed with firewood. On the scavenge for ash amongst this fallen oak.

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Fiona Lali Fiona Lali The Russian Revolution didn't change the world for the better. It drowned it in blood. What Lenin achieved wasn't liberation but the first great rehearsal of totalitarianism – a system that murdered its way to power, crushed freedom, and called the ruins "progress."

There's a line in a democracy that, once crossed, changes everything: when elections cease to be an obligation and become a variable. That line has now been crossed in Britain, and it's the state's own elections watchdog saying so. The Electoral Commission has been explicit:

Activist: "Going vegan will save the planet." Farmer: "Going vegan means importing more food from industrial monocultures." Activist: "But local beef uses too much land." Farmer: "That land won't grow anything else." Activist: "Then leave it wild." Farmer: "It was grazed by wild

A group of left wing basement dwellers tried to ruin our Restore Britain launch event last night by block-booking tickets with no intention of showing up. We found their Facebook group organising it all, and matched all the names on that to their tickets. Quite simple at that

🔥 BREAKING: The White House just said Marco Rubio's blockbuster speech in Munich is getting MASSIVE PRAISE worldwide, posting all 22 minutes of it Rubio dropped some absolutely incredible quotes in front of Europe. KEEP DEFENDING THE WEST, MARCO! 🇺🇸

I've signed this Gov-e-petition. Please do the same: "Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office." Total Common sense to sign this one, but it's still happening in Birmingham Basil the Great June Slater Danielle Tousi Dan Wootton