Another circle of Autumn leaves, this time all gathered on my woodland walk, where I found 18 different species. Wanted to show off the amazing variety of shape, size and colours, from the huge Northern Red Oak leaves to the tiny Sloe!🍂🍁🍂

NEW: a column in the Times argues that the only way to tackle obesity is through fat shaming (yes, you read that right). It’s an astonishing argument to make, and unsurprisingly it falls to pieces under scrutiny. Let’s take a look, and see if we can do better:

Just finished this Red Fox. Made entirely from fallen leaves, seedheads, Cosmos petals and a pebble! 🦊🍂🍂#CompostableAutumnArt #foxoftheday Chris Packham #Fox

There was a roaring in the sky; The sea-gulls cried as they blew by, We tried to talk, but had to shout - Nobody else was out. When we got home, we had sand in the hair, In the eyes and the ears and everywhere. ~A.A.Milne #wind

'Be More Resilient'. As a psychologist, it was a surprise to me when parents started telling me how much they hated the word 'resilience'. To me it sounded like a good word, an empowering one. Not to them. Here's what they tell me. (with Missing The Mark) 1/

We will wish we had acted faster and sooner. Future generations will not understand why we didn't. #COP27

6 great questions to ask team members to help build a great working relationship. #Psyhologicalsafety #HappierNHS

Health = wealth. A healthy workforce underpins all economic activity; healthy children are our future workforce & all are dependent on effective public health services like health visitors, school nurses, addiction & rehabilitation clinics and sexual health clinics

Why is it so difficult to keep the weight off after you've lost it? Amy Ahern (MRC Epidemiology Unit) and I (Inst Metabolic Science-Metabolic Research Labs) have written a piece for The Conversation theconversation.com/weight-loss-tr…

Instinct prevents the mother from closing her jaws as she carries her young from the riverside nest into the water.

As part of our #DPH175 🎂celebrations, we have created a timeline of all things #PublicHealth See when & how MOsH/DsPH have adapted & responded to global & domestic events to continually strive and advocate for improvements - & equity - in the health of our local communities.

Absolutely spot on from greg fell FFPH …beware thinking there is a “one size fits all” approach to obesity … it’s a multi-factoral issue which needs a coordinated whole society, whole system response which addresses cultural, societal, economic & environmental determinants 👇

To further clean up politics, we need to: ◾️End all foreign funding of it ◾️Ban MPs’ second jobs ◾️Stop the PM being judge and jury of their own behaviour ◾️Set up an ethics commission, an anti-corruption agency and citizen juries able to scrutinise standards in public life.

The more it SNOWS-tiddely-pom The more it GOES-tiddely-pom The more it GOES-tiddely-pom On Snowing. And nobody KNOWS-tiddely-pom, How cold my TOES-tiddely-pom How cold my TOES-tiddely-pom Are Growing. ~A.A.Milne #snow #snowfall

If you think the government should be treating the situation in the NHS as a national crisis, please retweet this. Let’s send ministers a message 💙

You have certain mugs that ‘feel right’ for coffee and other mugs that ‘feel right’ for tea, right? Right?

Ok, I’m applying for a 16-25 railcard for my son. It requires a photo. It requires PROOF OF ID to get one. Tell me again why a 16-25 railcard isn’t valid ID to vote but all of these are?? #voterID #VoterSuppression #ToriesUnfitToGovern