Plans to build the UK’s largest solar farm (2,400-acres of land) in Oxfordshire have been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate Mass-scale solar panels shouldn’t be plastered on prime farmland. Put them on brownfields, car parks and roofs instead. farminguk.com/news/plans-to-…

Could anyone identify this building, please? (Methinks it may be French ... )

The 1 radical thing we should be doing is building the country’s health, based on food produced by us. If you want to drive NHS waiting times down, put better food, produced by UK farmers, in hospitals. Schools, food education, respect for the land! Let’s get society healthy 1st!

Another kid left the school today. Can't afford the vat. Her best friend cried. Those that remain worry about dropout rate and whether school will survive. No margins. Children of hairdressers, nurses, charity workers. How do you sleep at night Bridget Phillipson? We don't

Star of Beauty!

Just washed my peg-bag. I love it. Bought in Germany in the 70s or 80s. Rather thin now. Thought I'd better take a photo before it fades away.

Listen to the soul-stirring Miserere Mei Deus on Ash Wednesday as we begin Lent. Wait for the top C, one of the most perfect moments in music ever 🖤 🎶

How do we know that this approach will not further decimate species which are already on their knees in our nature depleted country? What about species surveys? How does BNG fit in? 5/

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing:—“Oh, how beautiful!” and sitting in the shade… Rudyard Kipling Kipling by John Collier

Today we remember the Picture Gallery heist five years ago. In the night of 14 March 2020 – amidst the anxieties and worries of the Covid pandemic – three masterpieces were brutally stolen from Christ Church Picture Gallery. (1/3)

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My council tax bill arrived today. It's £120 more this year. Listen to Liar Keir and his bare faced lies

The humble and unassuming lungwort, so pretty in its diversity.

It’s absolutely mind blowing that some people consider plastering fields with metal and glass machines (which destroy countryside, farmland and wildlife) a form of environmentalism.

Hostage Central. No unauthorised access for slugs.⛔️

Come friendly rain - and fall on my garden!

"The high culture of our civilization was a vivid reminder that youth is not enough, that we become fully human only in time and only through learning new things and renouncing old things. Our high culture aimed to capture the attention of its adepts: it addressed the most

"Recent art cultivates a posture of transgression, matching the ugliness of the things it portrays with an ugliness of its own. Beauty is downgraded as something too sweet, too escapist, and too far from realities to deserve our undeceived attention. Qualities that previously

Plant lots of trees in our towns & cities. Trees produce oxygen, capture carbon, reduce pollution, reduce flooding, reduce temperatures, provide habitats for urban wildlife and are beautiful. This is the type of environmentalism that governments should be investing in. 🌳🌳🌳🌳

Scene from a Cotswold garden.