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July 27, 2016

My sunflowers mean summer is really here

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The supermoon is rising: look out for the wolf moon/blood moon eclipse in the early hours of tomorrow morning...

Frosted thistle fractals. It's cold and beautiful out there...

Early morning walk down Gypsy Lane - female reed bunting in the grasses and little egret in the reeds. The egret settled in this blasted tree, but the pigeons spooked it before I could get a photo. Then it flew to the stream for some morning fishing.

The kitchen scraps garden is going wild...

'Rewilding in the context of climate breakdown is a moral imperative' - George Monbiot argues that #rewilding has the potential to provide over a third of the reductions in carbon emissions needed to stay under a 2C temperature rise if implemented on a wide scale on land and in marine and vegetated coastal ecosystems. #rewilding2019

Found this exquisite lithograph 'Sinking Sun' by @carryakroyd in the Attenborough Building in the Cambridge Museum of Zoology. A moment of serendipity at #rewilding2019

Spectacular sunrise over Cambridge this morning. Up early and eager to learn more about #rewilding2019 today...

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Shall we be honest? I mean really honest? The kind of honest that makes you cringe a bit at the reality of your answer. The kind of honest that makes you want to not quite tell the truth? Uncomfortable honesty? Shall we?Well I think we have to be because if you walk into any garden centre, the amount of plastic there is to buy, with gardening things within i […]
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Regular Followers will know that for the past 14 months or so I have been looking after another veg-plot in a nearby road called Courtmoor Avenue (hence my many references to "the Courtmoor plot"). November 2017Well, after a lot of agonising, I have finally decided to cease the use of that plot. I know that 2018 was probably not a typical year, wit […]
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