Dorothy F 🎶 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇫🇷🇫🇮

Piano, books, flower fan.Hope is the on the way in the short term to protect & enhance our essential green surroundings. Longer term there’s lots to do!

[Dorothy F 🎶 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇫🇷🇫🇮 @DforFacts]

#OdeToJoy Praises to all those risking their lives to provide essential services

[Martin Suckling @mcs42]

M’daughter joining in the ⁦@NYO_GB⁩ #NYOdetoJoy down the road from ⁦@HuntSchoolMusic⁩’s ⁦@willclarkviolin⁩, missing her cousins who are in the orchestra: for everyone who just wants to play together again, & with thanks to all those keeping us safe until we can!

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

13 years ago, Rotherham, England turned 8 miles of mowed roadside grass into a "river of flowers." In 2021, they added even more miles.

The original scheme was commissioned by Rotherham Council in 2013, designed by Professor Nigel Dunnett at the University of Sheffield, and seeded with a 180-species wildflower mix along the central reservations of the town's main ring road. It replaced mowing that had been costing the council around £80,000 a year.

Since then: the wildflower verges have saved roughly £23,000 to £25,000 per two-year mowing cycle, increased pollinator abundance, and inspired similar programs in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Birmingham, Newcastle, and Sheffield.

In 2021, Rotherham added 3.5 more miles across 12 new sites including Herringthorpe, Swinton, Harthill, and Maltby. They just keep expanding it.

The UK has lost 97% of its wildflower meadows in the last 100 years. Most of what was lost was paved, plowed, or mowed. The verges nobody was using anyway turned out to be one of the largest untapped habitats in the country.

[Dorothy F 🎶 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇫🇷🇫🇮 @DforFacts]

@JamesMelville Born in Glasgow, Martin Suckling has been heralded as 'the most important figure in Scotland's music since James MacMillan' (The Herald) & championed by many leading orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra. His great album is “This Departing Landscape” NMC recordings

[Dorothy F 🎶 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇫🇷🇫🇮 @DforFacts]

Bad News - imports provided nearly 1/4 of British electricity yesterday🥸gas provided 1/5 of electricity yesterday

[National Energy System Operator @neso_energy]

Yesterday #imports generated 23.3% of British electricity followed by wind 21.9%, gas 20.7%, nuclear 12.2%, solar 11.5%, biomass 6.8%, other 2.0%, hydro 1.5%, *excl. non-renewable distributed generation

[Julian Jessop @julianHjessop]

⚠️ There are lots of misleading posts on here about the "National Equivalent Vote" based on preliminary / out of date numbers, or just made up!

These are the final / definitive figures (via @EdConwaySky) 👇

Reform 27%
Conservatives 20%
Labour 15%
Greens 14%
LibDem 14%
Other 10%

[BluWav @BluWavOxshott]

Today’s Good News! CPRE research reveals that 48 of England’s 50 parliamentary constituencies w/the highest domestic (rooftop) solar generation are in rural areas. Long live the Green Belt - as solar panels on roofs are popular for homes on Green Belt boundaries🍀

[BluWav @BluWavOxshott]

Great News🍀Conservatives will protect our Green Belt & Bluebell Belt

[BluWav @BluWavOxshott]

“Wherever we live, we rely on the countryside for clean air, home grown food, thriving wildlife and resilience in the face of climate change” 🌿
“Too often decisions are shaped by profit, not what’s needed most – and the countryside pays the price”

[BluWav @BluWavOxshott]

Gentle Streaks of Colour Today ⛅️ Happy Thursday

[Dave @DaveKent101]

This is hilarious - Keir Starmer sings the Barry Manilow classic “Oh Mandy”…🤣🤣🤣

[Frédéric Manfrin @fred_manfrin]

Un des symboles de la Renaissance de la Nature pour moi. Sur ces branches mal fagotées, grises et mornes, de fraîches corolles de rose vibrant, au cœur d’or éclatant. Dès les premiers redoux de février. Comme après un rêve (Fauré)

[Dorothy F 🎶 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇫🇷🇫🇮 @DforFacts]

I’ve signed CPRE's Letter to England, because together, we can help create a beautiful, resilient countryside — add your name today. https://t.co/k1H7svBCEg

[BluWav @BluWavOxshott]

Magical Morning Dawn Today🌤️Wishes to All for a Wonderful Week

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Shchedryk (Carol of the Bells) by our Defenders at Kyiv railway station.

Beautiful!

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

NEW:

🇷🇺🇪🇺🇺🇸 Putin claims that European countries and Russia will have massive GDP if they join efforts:

"If we were to join our efforts, Russia and European countries, our joint GDP would be higher than the US."

[BluWav @BluWavOxshott]

Inspiring, cheerful sunrise today🌤️Wishing All a Wonderful Day

[Dorothy F 🎶 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇫🇷🇫🇮 @DforFacts]

@fred_manfrin @ROVERduMOULIN Mais oui! Jouant Schubert sur mon piano aujourdui est une joie…Parfait pour le temps.

[Frédéric Manfrin @fred_manfrin]

Un dimanche bien gris, doux, feutré et humide. Un temps moisi en fait.
Mais cela ne retient pas les promenades de la meute du moulin.
Tsarine et @ROVERduMOULIN ont besoin de se dégourdir les pattes.
Et il faut surveiller la rivière.
Sur une des Klavierstücke de Schubert.

[BluWav @BluWavOxshott]

Golden Glows This Morning 🌅Sunrise over stunning views of Surrey Hills National Landscape/AONB, due to expand 30%

[BluWav @BluWavOxshott]

Calm, Colourful Start to the Day🍁Good Morning

[BluWav @BluWavOxshott]

Good Morning🌤️Nature is Nourishing Us, in a way Most Needed