I have lost my flute, either on a Dublin Bus or on an Irish Rail / Enterprise service from Belfast to Dublin earlier today. I attach some images similar to my flute case. My flute case has a gold Meitheal Irish Trad Music Summer School sticker on one side

Short Films are required to be under 20 minutes or in some cases under 15 minutes This film is 3 minutes 53 seconds & still won the Oscar If you don’t watch this film you’re doing yourself an injustice If you don’t spread this film you’re doing everyone else an injustice

Do you know what these pictures are of? These are pictures of you walking past litter in the street and tutting, then going home to sweep up and burn all the leaves so your lawn looks tidy. These are pictures of you complaining to the council that they haven't cut the stinging nettles growing alongside the path you use to walk your children to school. These pictures are the results of our casual disregard for all lives except our own. The first picture actually shows a poo from a hedgehog dying of starvation. Yes, it's a poo. It's made up of just grass and plastic - neither of which she can digest, but they filled her stomach for a while and stopped the pain. The caterpillars that she should be eating didn't survive, because the stinging nettles they were living on were cut down, destroyed, just in case someone got stung. The second picture is a bird's eye view of the starving hedgehog's nest. It's squashed in between the wall and the aircon unit at the back of a pub. It's made of plastic bags and food wrappers. The long grasses and spent foliage it should have been made of were cut down and thrown away, because they looked messy. With no uncut verges, no hedges, no welcoming wild corner of a garden, no where left natural, everything cut, strimmed, tidied, controlled, this was the only place Holly could find. This was where she had her babies. And this was where they would have all died of starvation if not for Chris, the lovely publican who phoned me, voicing his concerns. This little family, all severely malnourished and underweight, are now safe and sound in rescue, thanks to the lovely @pricklelodge . But there are lots of Hollys out there, who don't get noticed. Please, I beg you, leave some of your garden natural. ➡️If cutting the lawn, leave the edges for wildlife. ➡️Pick up litter when you see it. ➡️Write to your council and ask them to stop mowing and strimming and poisoning. ➡️Go into the kitchen now, sort through your cupboards and find a shallow wide dish, like the pyrex lid of a casserole pot, fill it with water and put it out by your front door, and refresh it every evening. ➡️Add kitten biscuits to your weekly shop and put out a dish full each night (see hedgehogcabin.info/feeding and hedgehogcabin.info/making-a-…). This tragic tale can have a happy ending, for all the Hollies out there, if we all do our bit to help.

The @bridgesingers are sounding absolutely beautiful @seapieparcel at #Feltonbury. What an amazing celebration of music this wonderful village festival is!

Attention all @iaptglobal members!!! 🍃🍄‍🟫🪸 the deadline for submitting your preliminary votes for proposals to change the Code is fast approaching 😬 so get those pencils out and vote! Your voice matters … onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Bought myself a beautiful book by @EyebrightChris. @BSBIbotany this is beautiful and factual, perfect for us plant nerds! I’ll just need to go back to #Lindisfarne for longer. #books #botany

So wonderful to hear so much interest and enthusiasm from early career naturalists! Thanks to NHSN members, volunteer field trip leaders and John Spedan Lewis for all their help and support 😊 #NHSNFieldSkills

This book has just dropped through my letterbox. A quick glance tells me this is a fantastic insight into the incredible botany of the wonderful Holy Island on the Northumberland coast. Well done to all involved. ⁦@NENature_⁩ ⁦⁦@Nature_Guides⁩ ⁦@BirdGuides⁩

A nice new book for my library published by my friends at @Nature_Guides. Both a guide to the plants with lots of lovely photos and descriptions of walks to help you find them.

Absolutely. One of the most enjoyable, educational and fascinating talks - as many NHSN talks are. And the plant that could swallow an animal at the speed of a camera shutter! Wow! Can't wait each week for Monday at the Curtis Auditorium to come round @NENature_

Are you a Home Educator & wanting to work on your Arts Award but just don’t know where to start? We're running a series of virtual & in person sessions to talk you through the requirements so your children can work towards a qualification at home. Info: bit.ly/3RbjTW4

With the recent dry weather the NNR and the adjacent coastal strip has been classified as a high fire risk area. Please be vigilant and continue not to have any open fires or discard cigarettes.

Join us for a Wildflower Walk on Monday 31st July with expert botanist Chris Metherell from @NENature_ . Everyone is welcome ! @northcoastaonb @coast_care @ERICNorthEast

Shocked to see how Alchemilla mollis has 'invaded' this stream at Langdon Beck, Teesdale today whilst leading an Alchemilla training day. A. mollis is increasingly becoming a real problem

I'm advertising a @darwintreelife postdoc to work at @EdinburghUni @SBSatEd on comparative #plant genomics! 16 months to use chromosomal level genome assemblies to investigate genomic diversity in British native flowering plants. Collab with @RBGE_Science. 🌲☘️🌼 Please RT.

‘Plants of Holy Island’ This soon to be published plant book has just caught my attention. Published by natureguides. @nee_naturalist ⁦@NaturalEngland⁩ ⁦@CommonByNature⁩

Lovely to see one of our most eminent #BSBImembers, Dr Margaret Bradshaw OBE (who joined the Society in 1951), on @BBCCountryfile, talking about the famous Teesdale Assemblage. More about the Assemblage here: aem.bsbi.org/exhibits/dr-mar… Here's Margaret 👇 on Queenie, her Dales pony.

New online short course in sedge identification for beginners starts 10th March: napier.ac.uk/study-with-us/s… 🌱 😍 @Love_plants @BSBIbotany @BSBIScotland @BSBI_Ireland @theNPMS @BotSocScot @WildFlowerSoc @wildflower_hour @LeifBersweden @CIEEMnet @EdNapLifeSci please retweet, thanks!

Twitter: can you help me find my small, grey Eastpak 'man-bag' containing my wallet, keys, life, lost in Oxford. If anyone finds it I'll offer writerly rewards - a set of my books, and I'll name a character after you/put you in the acknowledgements. Please retweet!