Neil Mitchelmore

cycling (on and off road), motorcycles, photography, art and artists, outdoors.

[Neil Mitchelmore @NeilMitchelmore]

Good friend and excellent artist James Millwards website.

https://t.co/WomdsT1yxo

[Neil Mitchelmore @NeilMitchelmore]

@hammerheadisup That's a lot of work. I used to go on motorcycle trips and sit at home with a map and writing all the directions down. Had to stopp every now and then to read the directions. Sometime still got lost though.

[Robbie @Robbie_Reasons]

The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them £2,000 for a review.

They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead 😆.

Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign.

Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately.

Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the flowers were made into wine, and the roots were roasted as a coffee substitute and used medicinally for liver and kidney conditions for thousands of years. They were a kitchen-garden staple well into the 1800s.

The shift happened after World War II, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero broadleaf plants.

Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept."

They aren't native, but they aren't doing significant ecological harm either. The herbicides used to kill them, on the other hand, kill bees, contaminate groundwater, and have been linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in humans.

If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.

[Neil Mitchelmore @NeilMitchelmore]

@hammerheadisup

[Neil Mitchelmore @NeilMitchelmore]

Venton and Cornwood ride views https://t.co/t5i7vxnfPB via @YouTube

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

You can crash your yard's mosquito population without spraying a single chemical with a Mosquito Bucket of Doom.

Fill a 5-gallon bucket about two-thirds with water. Drop in a handful of grass clippings, leaves, or hay. Let it sit for a day, then drop in a Bti dunk (also called Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, sold at any hardware store as "mosquito dunks," about $10 for six).

Mosquitoes are powerfully attracted to fermenting water and will lay their eggs in your bucket. Bti is a naturally occurring soil bacterium that produces a toxin that kills mosquito, blackfly, and fungus gnat larvae only.

This method doesn't harm bees, butterflies, fireflies, fish, frogs, birds, pets, or people. BTI dunks are EPA-approved for organic use and safe in animal water troughs and birdbaths.

One dunk lasts about 30 days. Top off the water as it evaporates. Cover with 1/2-in Mesh Hardware Cloth to prevent animals from getting trapped and put the bucket somewhere shady where pets and kids won't get into it.

The bucket becomes a mosquito magnet and a dead end. Compare that to fogging the entire yard with pyrethroids, which kills every insect in it, including the predators that eat mosquitoes.

Doug Tallamy's Homegrown National Park has been running the "Mosquito Bucket Challenge" since 2021. The more buckets in a neighborhood, the bigger the dent. One bucket per yard is a great start.

[Harman Singh Kapoor @kingkapoor72]

A guilty verdict will not bring back Henry Nowak, but laws need to be in place so that religious sharp daggers are not allowed in public places. Anyone carrying one in the name of religion should be prosecuted. Stop more killings in the name of religion.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

The word 'Islamophobic' has been invented by the Muslims to forestall any criticism

Funny that many people don't realise this

I could use the same tactic...

"I don't want any 'Cleesephobic' comments as they might upset me"

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

I really do not understand the position @marksandspencer have taken regarding their female customers. Women are telling them repeatedly they want single sex changing rooms, they want spaces where there are no men and yet M&S refuse to listen.

A strange form of marketing.

[Howard Beckett @BeckettUnite]

Netanyahu 🇮🇱 admits to instructing his ‘army’ to seize 70% of Gaza 🇵🇸 as a ‘step’ to taking it all:

There is no ‘ceasefire’

It’s never been ‘defence’

It’s always been ethnic cleansing
It’s always been land theft
It’s always been about a ‘Greater 🇮🇱’

Expel 🇮🇱 from the UN now.

[Frank Bruno MBE 🇬🇧 @frankbrunoboxer]

Afternoon so I have heard on the news that millions of 16-24 year olds are going to be unemployed and getting benefits ER now I am not a politician I am just a former boxer who is now trying to help people with mental Health & other issues but Why oh why doesn’t the benefits people make every 16-24 year old who does not have employment work at a charity or a gym so many hours a week get their attendance confirmed before they can have benefits it’s not quite national service but what a difference it would make.

[neyi kaybettiğini hatırla @neyikaybettik]

🇪🇸 İspanya

Benjamin Netanyahu: "İspanya, dünyanın en ahlaki ordusu olan İsrailli askerlere iftira attı. İspanya'ya Kiryat Gat'taki askeri koordinasyon merkezinden dışlanmasını emrettim. "

İspanyol yanıtı – Bakan Sira Rego:

"Seni iftira etmiyoruz; seni olduğun gibi tanımlıyoruz."
"Siz bir imha ve suç sistemisiniz ve hepiniz Uluslararası Ceza Mahkemesi'nin önünde duracaksınız."

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: A brave local Vicar has spoken out on the murder of Henry Nowak in Southampton:

"The police are driven by a cultural-Marxist ideology and it's not right. We're seeing two-tier policing, two-tier justice and the people of Britain have had enough!"

[Grinton smallholder @Sharpr1966]

Ten years without chemical fertiliser and this meadow now has a good abundance of legumes like black medic, red clover and vetches symbiotic with nitrogen fixing bacteria in their roots.

Take nitrogen from air and turn it into ammonium ions and then nitrates for plants to use.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

How to be a great climate activist:

1. Own a private jet
2. Own a yacht
3. Have five mansions
4. Fly to a climate conference every six weeks
5. Lecture poor people about their carbon footprint
6. Convince them the planet can be saved by taxing them more
7. Tell farmers their cows are the problem
8. Eat the wagyu at the gala
9. Give yourself an award
10. Post about it from the yacht

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years putting up barn owl nest boxes on weekends. This year, the region saw 308 owlets hatch.

His name is Robert Salter. He's 56 and does bricklaying full time. In 1990, he saw a piece on the news about a man in Lincolnshire installing barn owl boxes, and decided he'd do the same. He started with five.

He now has more than 350 boxes scattered across fields, farms, outbuildings, and trees in East Yorkshire. Every June, he takes four weeks off from bricklaying and visits them with his wife Sue. Scrambling up ladders, ringing chicks, cleaning boxes, repairing the ones the weather got to. He's a licensed bird ringer for the British Trust for Ornithology.

In 2024, the region ringed 95 owlets. In 2025, the count was 308. The Barn Owl Trust says that nationally, this year was "pretty poor" for barn owl breeding, but east Yorkshire is the exception, and it's the exception because of one man with a ladder.

The barn owl population in the UK was estimated at 4,000 pairs in the mid-2000s and crashed to roughly 1,000 by the early 2010s. The species is still recovering.

Most of conservation is one person who refuses to give up.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Alcohol and tobacco are available on every street corner.

Cigarettes proven to cause cancer. Alcohol proven to destroy the liver, the brain, the marriage, and the careful plans of an entire weekend.

Both legal. Both taxed. Both stocked at the petrol station.

Raw milk, on the other hand, sold by a farmer three miles down the road from a cow that has a name, must apparently be regulated as a public health threat.

The petrol station sells nicotine pouches, vodka, energy drinks containing seven grams of taurine and a kilogram of sugar, and an entire wall of ultra-processed snacks designed by chemists.

The farm gate down the lane sells a glass of milk. The same milk humans have been drinking for ten thousand years.

The petrol station is fine. The farm gate is the problem.

You can decide which of these your government is actually trying to protect you from.

[Neil Mitchelmore @NeilMitchelmore]

A bit of Devon countryside.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

It doesn’t get better than this. Half a dozen hardy skiers went up Ben Nevis yesterday to get some turns in the cathedral-like Observatory Gully. Perfect spring snow as we head towards summer!

Video by Dave Jacobs https://t.co/Hqq3tViUN1

[Tiago Guilherme @tiagoguilhermef]

Uma das coisas mais perturbadoras sobre os estupros no caso da Flotilha é que os sobreviventes estão tendo que tomar, por 28 dias, medicamentos para prevenir uma possível infecção pelo HIV em razão da violência praticada pelos soldados.

As mulheres, além disso, tiveram que tomar pílulas do dia seguinte e torcer para que fossem efetivas.

Isso mostra que a violência de Israel não termina quando os sequestrados são libertados. Ela continua no corpo, no medo, na espera por exames, nos efeitos colaterais dos medicamentos, na angústia de quem ainda precisa lidar com as consequências de uma agressão cometida sob custódia de um Estado.

A libertação não apaga a tortura. Não apaga a violência sexual. Não apaga o trauma produzido por um sequestro ilegal e por práticas que deveriam ser tratadas como crimes internacionais.

As violências de Israel continuam acontecendo e produzindo efeitos físicos, psicológicos, políticos e humanos muito depois do fim do sequestro.