No crispy duck pancakes for this diligent SWR Help driver at #northsheen this morning! For those stuck at Manor Rd crossing it was for a good cause!

Very excited about our new paper! Lisbeth Hordley & I show that if you have long grass in your garden you’ll see more butterflies, that more long grass is better & that the effects are greater for gardens in more urban & arable landscapes. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 🧵

High drama in #Mortlake station today as a family of Egyptian Geese walked along the tracks. The station manager and the drivers of the trains were making every effort to help them, slowing right down. Hope they got off the tracks.

#thicktrunktuesday - the veteran oaks of #Richmond Park are in leaf, reminding me of Larkin’s lines “last year is dead, they seem to say,
begin afresh, afresh, afresh.”

Peekaboo….Male Muslin Moth being shy. #mothsmatter #mothmonday

The Hills of California at the Harold Pinter Theatre- astonishing.

O hail, thou….male Emperor moth, SW London today. They are here. #mothsmatter .

#ReadFiftyTwo this week I have mostly been reading Space Oddities by Harry Cliff. Accessibly lucid account of the frontiers of cosmology and high energy particle physics.

Brindled beauty or Small Brindled beauty- what do you think, O UK Moth Identification ? SW London, last night (Different pictures of same moth).
thank you.

A red mason bee being born into the warm sun of yesterday. Beautiful little ginger fuzzies, the males hang around waiting for the females to be born, and then get right down to it. #bees

On this cold, grey London night I will cast my mind back to the Bardini Gardens in #Florence just three days ago, when the Wisteria was just entering flower…

Pls read this thread-story about the planned, sustained, in-plain-sight destruction of a SSSI bluebell wood in Kent by illegal waste-disposers.
The inaction of multiple authorities, the broken system for nature protection; it’s all there.
Pls sign the petition, pls share the 🧵on

#ReadFiftyTwo this week I have mostly been reading The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici (by the end they were a pretty sorry bunch, syphilitic sots sitting on a pile of stuff in the supremely ugly Pitti Palace) and A brief history of Italy- a zoom from Rome to Renaissance.

From an allegory of air, painted by Giuseppe Zocchi in 1760- incredibly realistic #moths - Magpie, Forester, Garden Tiger, Emperor..

What’s the betting that this bridge’s repairs get finished before #Hammersmith Bridge’s are even started? (Extra ironic as I seem to remember a Newcastle politician complaining that delays to this bridge‘s repair would never happen if it were in London.)
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

#Nye at the #NationalTheatre …rather wonderful. Michael Sheen put his all into it. Have to say it was a sight more compelling on the NHS than Allelujah! not so many years ago…

#ReadFiftyTwo this week I have mostly been reading the Rise and Fall of the House of Medici.

A busy day at all British henge sites, as staff work to move the stones forward an hour. Twice a year the stones at Avebury are moved for Daylight Saving Time.

Photograph: National Trust
nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/news #archaeology

Someone has got into the spirit of the long weekend…

Seems to restrict replies to his tweet, so here goes: it is not just Mortlake Labour that opposed the scheme as currently proposed, neither is it NIMBYism to express concerns about the lack of planning to address an already appalling traffic situation in #Sheen and #Mortlake .