Gill

Professional gardener. Wildlife watcher & photographer. Ex NHS nurse defeated by the system. Still aiming to laugh at least once a day.

[Jason | 🇬🇧 🇿🇦 🇮🇱🇺🇲 @Ajaon_of_All]

Let me categorically Debunk this utter rot. @sainsburys.

I am a poultry Breeder. The hens that lay white eggs (Amberline/White Star) DO NOT have a lower carbon footprint.

Yes they eat a bit less and produce roughly the same amount of eggs as the Brown egg layers (Bovan/Lowman/ISA Brown) but they live shorter lives, are prone to dying suddenly when startled, a flighty and nervous and because they live shorter productive lives (12 -18mnths) vs brown 18/24mnths (both commercial farmed), you have to incubate more which is increased (Electricity/gas costs) and their eggs are not the same quality.

I breed and keep 20+ different breeds, including: ISA Brown hens and White Stars. All my hens are 100% free range, Not a single barn kept bird, I have ISA browns that are 5yrs old and still laying beautiful Brown eggs, I have not seen a White star live beyond 3yrs and certainly none have laid eggs past 18-24mnths.
White stars Lay themselves to death. They are slender birds and because they dont eat a lot, it drains their personal vitality to keep up laying the eggs you want to sell because of the nonsensical lie that they are "More Carbon Neutral"

You want to know about eggs, come talk to someone like me, Don't rely on some hairbrained imagination of a buyer who's trying to squeeze the profit margin for a few extra pennies at our expense and to the poor hens detriment.

[k2 @KrisAnnapurna]

‼️Milagro en el Everest: Dawa Sherpa vive‼️

Se ha arrastrado al Campo Base del Everest sin comida, sin oxígeno, y sin ayuda.

Dawa Sherpa, guía sherpa de 52 años, fue abandonado por su expedición cerca de la Zona de la Muerte tras bajar con un cliente polaco con congelación.
Desaparecido desde el 29 de mayo! Sin comida, sin oxígeno y solo, sobrevivió 7 días a más de 7.000m. Cruzó el peligroso Khumbu Icefall sin escaleras y lo han encontrado hoy, el 4 de junio, arrastrándose hacia el Campo Base. (Lo han encontrado los de la limpieza.)

Rescatado con congelaciones graves y ya en hospital en Kathmandu.
📷Everest Today

[John Tippetts 🇺🇦🇬🇱 | johnmtippetts.bsky.social @JohnMTippetts]

The Icknield Way passes through the village of Linton in Cambridgeshire. I missed its most wonderful piece of engineering when I walked the trail last year, so I had to return. I give you the Linton Clapper Stile! A Grade II Listed Monument & 1 of just a few remaining in the UK!

[WeeMan @AntrimLens]

Lough Neagh midge forming mating smoke stacks this evening

[Alan @Alan_C_1]

Spotted by BILLY SHIELS BOAT TRIPS a couple of hours ago
#Seahouses
@NorthEastTweets
@thefarneislands

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

The first photo below is, believe it or not, of the aircraft-carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, taken off the north Cornish coast. It has been completely distorted and inverted by a process called Fata Morgana (after Morgana la Fay of Arthurian legend).

The second photo is what the HMS Queen Elizabeth normally looks like at sea.

Photo by Mike Hancock/St Ives Boats

@grok - Explain what a Fata Morgana is for those interested.

[Danny Spring @strangequark77]

One of the most photogenic thunderstorms I've seen in a long time. Biggleswade in Bedfordshire.
@liamdutton @ChrisPage90

[Liam Dutton @liamdutton]

There’s an isolated thunderstorm that’s formed north of Milton Keynes.

As there’s clear blue sky around it in all directions, it should be visible from 50-100 miles away.

Share a pic if you can see it!

Image: @Windycom

[Gill @Fleurfox]

@liamdutton @Windycom Kew Gardens 11:23hrs Looking North beyond Kew Palace. (Only just seen your post 🤪)

[The potting shed @GardenerFliss]

British pollinators. What a workforce ! Without this amazing team there would be no gardens or food for that matter. We must do our best to look after them, teach our kids they are friends and build habitats to show them how loved they really are.

[Met Office @metoffice]

We have provisionally broken the UK record for highest daily minimum temperature in May... again 😮

Temperatures didn't fall below 21.3°C overnight at Kenley Airfield, making it a 'tropical night' (no lower than 20°C).

Remarkably, the record was also broken yesterday.

[Met Office @metoffice]

Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️

This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈

[Kyiv. The City of Courage @Kyiv]

This may be the most infernal night in Kyiv since the start of the full-scale war. Dozens of ballistic missiles, crusie missiles, hypersonic missiles and drones attacking the capital non-stop. Explosions are so loud, that the ground is shaking. Just praying that everyone sees the sunrise alive and safe.

[Frank Gardner @FrankRGardner]

Common Spotted Orchid, growing wild in London today

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

You have to laugh, or you’d cry. Thanks to Citizen Khan for making me smile when all to often, I want to cry.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/BjjPF945T1

[Brian Ruadh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @BrianTheGael]

Eas Fors waterfall on the Isle of Mull. Its name is a fascinating linguistic repeat: "Eas" is the Scottish Gaelic word for waterfall, and "Fors" (derived from Old Norse) also means waterfall. Added to the English word, its literal meaning is "waterfall waterfall waterfall".
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙

[Gill @Fleurfox]

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[Gill @Fleurfox]

Hello #Hawaii Everyone ok?

[F.IKGM🌏イケガミ・ジオリサーチ @geoign]

トラブって時間がかかったのですが、漂流軽石のやばすぎる超高解像度写真が撮れました。いずれ論文にしますが、防災情報としての側面もあるので当座のご報告まで。
Submarine eruption at Bismarck Sea. An imagery tasked by Fumihiko Ikegami. Captured by Gokturk-1. Delivered by @SkyfiApp .

[ALEXIS ™I ❤️🇷🇼• @dufitalexis1]

The white garden concept has deep roots in British horticulture — Vita Sackville-West's White Garden at Sissinghurst is perhaps the most famous example of what becomes possible when you design for the evening rather than the midday. 🌙
A garden built around white flowers and silver foliage keeps working long after a coloured border has faded into shadow. These six plants are all well-suited to British gardens and conditions:
Lamb's ear (Stachys byzantina): soft, densely silver-felted leaves that catch and reflect any available light. Hardy perennial, happy in a sunny or lightly shaded border.
Dusty Miller (Jacobaea maritima): finely cut silver-white foliage with a frosted quality. Note that in most of Britain it is grown as a half-hardy annual and needs replacing each year.
Artemisia Silver Mound (Artemisia schmidtiana): a compact, cushion-forming silver mound that holds its shape well. Perennial, thrives in free-draining soil.
White echinacea: the pale ray petals remain visible at dusk and attract moths, which are significant pollinators in British gardens after dark.
Shasta daisy (Leucanthemum × superbum): classic, reliable, and one of the most luminous white flowers in any border.
Iceberg rose: probably the most widely grown white rose in Britain — hardy, long-flowering, and lightly fragrant. 🌿
A garden planned for evenings earns its space twice over.
#MoonlightGarden #WhiteGarden #GardenDesign #BritishGarden