After two years of putting nightly food and water out for #hedgehogs and the odd quill being left to prove they were using the feeding station, I went outside at 10.10pm and to my surprise I saw my garden visitor 🦔. Quite a large hedgehog and hopefully healthy 🤞

Important story tomorrow BBC Breakfast Concerns that compensation offers to sub postmasters caught up in Horizon IT scandal are "grossly undervalued" With legal advice 81 year old Bob rejected an offer that would have left him with £22,000 He's now been offered half a million

The problem with the ending of the care worker visas is that there are not enough domestic recruits available to do that job. It is much more demanding then the pay would suggest. Secondly, owners of private care homes are not going to want to...1

1 in 5 of the UK’s care workforce have a non-British passport. Starmer would have us believe these carers are the “squalid” result of a “failed experiment”. I say they do vital, necessary, humane, skilled work and they are worth their weight in gold.

A brick. That’s it. One hollow brick to help save a species... and apparently that’s just too woke for Westminster. With 1.5m new homes planned by 2030 there’s a massive opportunity to also create new homes for wildlife. If Labour caves on this, they’ll have abandoned common

Breaking news!The government has just voted against the same swift brick amendment they voted for 2 years ago. We can only save our swifts if we all act. Email your MP. Ask them to sign edm.parliament.uk/early-day-moti… MEET your MP. Tell them how much this matters or we’ll lose them

While we dream of being Lizzy, in reality most of us are more like Mary... Introducing #EllaBruccoleri as Mary Bennet. #TheOtherBennetSister. Coming to @bbciplayer in the UK and BritBox US in North America.

Introducing #EllaBruccoleri as Mary Bennet. #TheOtherBennetSister. Coming to @bbciplayer in the UK & BritBox US in North America. Bad Wolf is supported by the Welsh Government via Cymru Greadigol #TheOtherBennetSister

We have our Mary Bennet 🙌. I cannot wait for this adaptation of #TheOtherBennetSister by Janice Hadlow.

So delighted that we have our Mary Bennet! #TheOtherBennetSister radiotimes.com/tv/drama/call-…

How can Pulp's Common People be 30 years old 🤯bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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JANE AUSTEN: RISE OF A GENIUS, a three-parter from 72 Films, starts this Monday on BBC Two. Contributors include Helen Fielding, Colm Tóibín, Charity Wakefield 🕷, Greta Scacchi, Tamsin Greig, Greg Wise, Dr @PriyaAtwal, Dr Louise Curran, Ken Loach and me bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

I'm holding a botanical feathery flash sale this w/e - you can bagsy 15% off my June botanical or bird illustration & mental health w'shops w. the code LEAFYFLASH15. I teach you how both creative activity & contact with nature can literally rewire our brains to increase

Whatever moral ascendancy Netanyahu’s Govt had in the aftermath of the Hamas terror attack on October 7 has been well and truly lost in a bloodbath of genocidal proportions in Gaza The good people of Israel & beyond can see that even if they won’t say it trib.al/nwI9ki0

Balloons. Several of them, snagged on thorny scrub and deflated. A danger of entanglement and ingestion #balloonsblow #balloonskill #heliumballoons

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Great review! Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius review – even the author herself would be a fan of this spot-on tribute | Television | The Guardian theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

Email [email protected] simply saying MANDATE SWIFT BRICKS PLEASE - say that in the subject line of the email too. Please share widely. This article sums up why well. Labour should make a swift U-turn on bricks that provide nesting places theguardian.com/environment/20…

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