Try to muddle my way through the thrills and spills of fatherhood and my middle aged spread!
Joined May 2020
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29 May 2023
A rare picture of us getting two minutes to ourselves ☺️
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The40somethingdad retweeted
31 Jan 2021
Trees are being felled at Euston Square Gardens, despite the unsafe conditions in the nearby tunnel. And the eviction attempts by @HS2ltd - which tunnel experts say should be halted - are making tunnel conditions far more dangerous. @H_S_E #StopTheEviction #StopHS2 @Hs2Rebellion
ALT Trees cut down in Euston Square Gardens
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The40somethingdad retweeted
9 Jan 2021
Government to let farmers use bee-killing pesticide banned in EU independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
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8 Jan 2021
Hey @mayorofhackney and @BerkeleyGroupUK. Looks like it's been pretty quiet so I just wanted to remind you this is where the @happymantree used to stand. Remember it? You felled it in an act of ecocide along with other healthy mature trees so you can build flats which are mainly
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8 Jan 2021
for private sale. Will these private sales be to Chinese investors who leave the flats empty like the majority of flats that have been built? This isn't regeneration this is gentrification. The veil has slipped. True colours shining through.
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The40somethingdad retweeted
7 Jan 2021
Hackney Society comment on the planning application sums it up
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I've heard @BerkeleyGroupUK are a developer who don't care about the environment, pass it on.
6 Jan 2021
2 magnificent trees, 2 different approaches. In Central London, the new building on the street is curved to accommodate the stunning historical London plane tree that brings greenery and beauty. In Hackney, the Happy Man Tree was simply destroyed by a lazy unimaginative developer
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The40somethingdad retweeted
7 Jan 2021
HS2 plants tiny saplings to replace trees decades and centuries old. The saplings are placed too close together so none will thrive. And HS2 does not even water them.
Today we confirmed over 300,000 #trees will be planted this winter, bringing the total between London and the West Midlands to over 730,000 ahead of our 7 million target. Find out what else we are doing in this thread…
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ALT A forestry worker plants tree saplings in biodegradable protective tubes.
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The40somethingdad retweeted
For all of its 150 years, #HappyMan performed ecosystem services for free. @BerkeleyGroupUK destroyed it for profit. (aided by @hackneycouncil).
5 Jan 2021
The needless destruction of the Happy Man Tree today is heartbreaking. @BerkeleyGroupUK and @hackneycouncil are directly responsible for the felling, but the legal system also had a big role to play in the events that led to the felling of the Tree of the Year 2020. Thread:
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The40somethingdad retweeted
7 Jan 2021
Last tributes to the #HappyManTree before what is left is hidden behind hoardings. #RememberThisTree
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The40somethingdad retweeted
If we watched trees grow older like we do our own children, maybe we would care for them, protect them, like they were our own children. And the world would then be a healthier, happier place today—and for tomorrow’s children.
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The40somethingdad retweeted
6 Jan 2021
.@PhilipGlanville says that 584 homes are “much-needed” including “117 genuinely affordable homes for social rent”
What he didn’t mention was the ≈120 council homes are being knocked down.
We don’t need 467 genuinely unaffordable homes in Hackney.
hackneycitizen.co.uk/2021/01…
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The40somethingdad retweeted
7 Jan 2021
This sums it up perfectly! #RememberThisTree #HappyManTree
6 Jan 2021
@BerkeleyGroupUK my now 4-year-old cried at the news that you cut down the beautiful 150-year-old @happymantree today. He’s got something to say to you. #HappyManTree
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7 Jan 2021
@happymantree @mayorofhackney @BerkeleyGroupUK
The latest piece of propaganda from the ecocidal @mayorofhackney and @BerkeleyGroupUK. They know that mitigation planting will take hundreds of years to sequest the same amount of carbon as the mature trees in Woodberry Down......
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7 Jan 2021
You are partners in eco-crime and will no doubt continue to spout misinformation and propaganda throughout the future phases so you can justify the killing of mature healthy trees, whilst claiming to be eco-heros.
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7 Jan 2021
The veil is starting to slip and people will see you both for what you actually are.
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