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Neil Forbes retweeted
18 Jun 2025
With warmer temperatures forecast for the end of the week hopefully you’ll appreciate a watery theme for this week’s challenge! Find wild or naturalised aquatic plants in bloom and share for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #AquaticPlants 💦🌱
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19 Jan 2025
Very little to report for #wildflowerhour this week but Hazel #catkins are opening now. I haven't found any of the beautiful female flowers yet though. 📷 14 Jan 2024 which is the earliest that I have recorded them.
Gait Barrows National Nature Reserve (#NNR), #Cumbria
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Neil Forbes retweeted
18 Jan 2025
The factory farming of pigs and other sentient creatures is an abomination and a dark stain on all of humanity. These buildings are hell on Earth. Never, ever buy meat from an animal which was reared indoors. Alternative proteins cannot come fast enough.
16 Jan 2025
The world's biggest single-building pig farm and slaughter house in Ezhou... about 80km from Wuhan.
It's just asking for trouble isn't it.
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12 Jan 2025
The frosts seem to have finished off the last of the flowering Sea Mayweed at Arnside but it has left some nice patterns on the leaves.
#WildflowerHour
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12 Jan 2025
Wilt-of-Melon fungus, Gibberella gordonii (orange bits), parasitic on Ergot, Claviceps spartinae (black bits) which is parasitic on Common Cord-grass, Spartina anglica. G. girdonii is much the scarcer, although both are under-recorded.
Something different for #WildflowerHour
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Neil Forbes retweeted
A fab #WildFlowerHour, just what we all needed on such a chilly evening!
Reminder that if you recorded wild & naturalised plants in bloom across Britain & Ireland 29 Dec-1 Jan for #NewYearPlantHunt, you need to get those records to us before the deadline please: midnight tonight.
5 Jan 2025
A classic and, nowadays, none too common #winter scene with flowering Gorse, Ulex europaeus in the #snow.
#wildflowerhour on Redhills Pasture, #Arnside
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5 Jan 2025
A classic and, nowadays, none too common #winter scene with flowering Gorse, Ulex europaeus in the #snow.
#wildflowerhour on Redhills Pasture, #Arnside
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5 Jan 2025
Another lesser spotted species for the #NewYearPlantHunt - Procumbent Pearlwort, Sagina procumbens. Just a single open flower. Humphrey Head, #Cumbria
#Wildflowerhour
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Spartina anglica, Common Cord-grass is another relatively rare find for the #NewYearPlantHunt. People have mixed feelings about this plant, to say the least, but you have to be impressed by it's tenacity.
#Wildflowerhour on Humphrey Head #saltmarsh
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5 Jan 2025
The highlight of our #NewYearPlantHunt this year was this rather stunning Small Scabious, Scabiosa columbaria at Humphrey Head, #Çumbria. We managed 8 species in total here.
#Wildflowerhour with @MaskellLindsay
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Neil Forbes retweeted
6 Dec 2024
Fail, fail and fail... the '"idyllic" River Cam in Cambridge.
Nitrates - fail
Phosphate - fail
Ammonia - fail
Next up on @Feargal_Sharkey's river investigation tour - the Cam.
Spoiler alert, this one is 'toxic' as well.
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Neil Forbes retweeted
6 Dec 2024
Of all the concepts that humankind needs to absorb act on with extreme urgency, this tops the list.
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Neil Forbes retweeted
2 Dec 2024
REVEALED: Just 2,500 farms own a QUARTER of the farmland in England
Startling new stats I obtained from @DefraGovUK & shared with @DailyMirror show how unequal land ownership is in this country
Large landowners must pay their fair share of tax
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1 Dec 2024
I may still tweet (never post) on here, Twitter (never X) a bit. But I will probably mostly move over to where the skies are blue from now on, including for #wildflowerhour
Almost the same handle on there for anyone else who's headed that way - Treebeard793
1 Dec 2024
#TheWinter10 (11)from #Arnside Village for #wildflowerhour
Sea Mayweed, Dandelion, Trailing Bellflower, Water Bent, Creeping Buttercup, Daisy, Smooth Sow-thistle, Red Valerian, Groundsel, Ivy-leaved Toadflax & Annual Meadow-grass.
7-4 to the native species this week.
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Neil Forbes retweeted
30 Nov 2024
Protest in Hereford - “Nando’s chicken is killing our rivers” – young campaigners demand Nando’s must take responsibility by demanding cleaner, sustainable practices from its suppliers or ending contracts with those who fail to protect river health.
herefordtimes.com/news/24762…
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1 Dec 2024
Tiny, unobtrusive but ubiquitous and still flowering.
Procurement Pearlwort, Sagina procumbens for #wildflowerhour
#Arnside #Cumbria
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1 Dec 2024
#TheWinter10 (11)from #Arnside Village for #wildflowerhour
Sea Mayweed, Dandelion, Trailing Bellflower, Water Bent, Creeping Buttercup, Daisy, Smooth Sow-thistle, Red Valerian, Groundsel, Ivy-leaved Toadflax & Annual Meadow-grass.
7-4 to the native species this week.
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Neil Forbes retweeted
24 Nov 2024
“I have never understood why, when everyone on the planet is one accident or medical condition away from disability, many people seem to lack any empathy and do not attempt to understand how it must feel to be refused service because of a disability.”
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Neil Forbes retweeted
25 Nov 2024
Oh no, we never meant it to impact on ordinary hard working castle owners.
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Neil Forbes retweeted
24 Nov 2024
Wales this weekend – climate collapse happening before our very eyes .
We need to get serious . It’s why I’m petitioning for a ban on fossil fuel ads 🧵
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