Dr Gale Pettifer🌳

Writes and talks about environmental history. Does other stuff. Per avem et librum. #PhD #CiLCA #MCIM #NewForestCommoner - Patron: @CHALKFESTIVAL

[Dr Gale Pettifer🌳 @HistoryofNature]

Initiatives like this would certainly take the pressure off some of our most precious rural landscapes. The retail model of big corporates in the High Street is over....time to re-invent and make our towns and cities havens for wildlife and people.🌳

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Just in case you needed a reminder of all the LIFE you can fit into cities when you rethink streets for cars. Space for green & nature that supports great urbanism, and space for PEOPLE!
Via @watgdesigns @LondonNPC, #NationalParkCity Fleet Street vision.

[Dr Gale Pettifer🌳 @HistoryofNature]

My date for the evening. Suave, sophisticated, handsome, foreign. His attention is devoted and his demands restricted to cuddles and kisses. What’s not to like.💕

[Dr Gale Pettifer🌳 @HistoryofNature]

Two of my favourite things…. #gin and #ponies.

[New Forest Commoner🌳 @Forest_Commoner]

Injured livestock or animal accident on the #NewForest? Know who to call:

[Dr Gale Pettifer🌳 @HistoryofNature]

I’ve done lots of successful adulting this week, so I’m going out to buy myself an ice cream.

[Celia Richardson @CeliaRichards0n]

“One teaspoon of the chemical is enough to kill 1.25bn honeybees. It can stay in the soil for years, and taint any flowering plant which grows, meaning that bees foraging for nectar from a flower can be poisoned years after treated seeds were planted” 😩 https://t.co/5HdLJsH6NW

[Dr Gale Pettifer🌳 @HistoryofNature]

@Allie1Spencer Saw this. Though it might amuse you.🩷

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

This sketch is, of course, quite simply, priceless.

Good afternoon.

[Dr Gale Pettifer🌳 @HistoryofNature]

Vive la France. #ViveLaFrance

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Vive la France

[Dr Gale Pettifer🌳 @HistoryofNature]

My Friday night date. Handsome. Attentive. Loves cuddles. A good listener. Excellent pedigree. 🩷

[Dr Gale Pettifer🌳 @HistoryofNature]

It’s nearly 11.30pm on a Saturday night. My neighbours are having a mahoosive party in their field….big marquee, live band, free bar and everything. Surely everyone is pissed by now?? QUESTION: should I gatecrash????

[Dr Gale Pettifer🌳 @HistoryofNature]

@TwrchIwrch Saw this. Thought of you!…..👇

[cat frampton @cat_frampton]

Decisions decisions, this #naturefriendlyfarming lark is full of them!

So.

Do I protect this #oak seedling or not?

Simple enough question but it requires a lot of thought.

Why?
Well here is a thread to explain…⬇️

[Know Your History @H54355Know]

In England, it is not uncommon to see "wavy" brick walls. Interestingly, the design uses fewer bricks than a straight wall. A straight wall that is just one brick thick is not sturdy enough to stand alone & can be easily toppled, so they generally have a thickness of at least two or more layers of bricks, & are also reinforced at regular intervals with vertical posts serving as buttresses. But a wavy "one-brick" wall stands just fine on its own due to the arch support provided by its shape, which combines both wall & buttress. Such a structure is called a "crinkle crankle wall" "the Old English version of "zig zag."

[Dr Gale Pettifer🌳 @HistoryofNature]

@FobTurnip I once fell foul of feathered fiends,
in Fordingbridge with plumage preened,
upon the Avon they convened,
to scorned the grains that I had gleaned,
and left me feeling most demeaned. 🦢

[Dr Gale Pettifer🌳 @HistoryofNature]

@FobTurnip Afternoon minds, or evening’s for that matter, are generally found elsewhere.

[Dr Gale Pettifer🌳 @HistoryofNature]

@FobTurnip Different dialect.😳

[Dr Gale Pettifer🌳 @HistoryofNature]

@FobTurnip Yep.

[Marc Morris @Longshanks1307]

English leader's ill-advised trip to Normandy has disastrous political consequences.

[Chalke History Festival @ChalkeFestival]

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