🔊 Wombat Wednesday ASMR. Our southern hairy-nosed wombats are more than just adorable grazers, they’re equipped for life in dry, arid environments. Like rodents, their incisors grow continuously, so munching on abrasive grasses helps naturally wear their teeth down. 🦷🌱
Bank Voles are always present in my Suffolk garden but this encounter with a Water Shrew was definitely unexpected! Here's a glimpse of the fast-moving Water Shrew, often active around dusk... (22nd July 2026)
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You're a voter in Clacton. Your MP triggered a by-election to delay an investigation into his financial affairs. The other parties refuse to pander to his self-indulgent vanity project. The only opposition he has is a man dressed as a bin, because this is not a serious election.
A mouse lived in a windmill in yorkshire .
A windmill with a mouse in and he wasn't grousin'
He sang every morning, "How lucky I am
Living in a windmill in Yorkshire with the kind old man!"
“They knew exactly who Mona Khalil was.
They knew the bright orange house in Mansouri, south Lebanon. They knew it was not a military site, not a command center, not a battlefield position. It was one of the most recognizable symbols of environmental conservation on Lebanon's southern coast; a sanctuary dedicated to protecting endangered sea turtles and preserving life.”
Marwa Osman writes about Israel’s deliberate targeting of a prominent environmental activist in Lebanon. ⬇️
Another legacy of Starmer will be that no other prime minister has managed to make so many sensible politics understanders look like clueless blowhards in such a short space of time.
It is a genuine pleasure to witness the downfall of this awful, whingeing, suck-up-and-punch-down moral black hole of a human being. A creature of the state, a martinet and petty authoritarian, the fact that he became prime minister is a true indictment of our politics and media.
Another good Old English name for a horse would be Hoppa, which meant ‘hopper’ or ‘one who skips, bounces, or prances’. The word isn’t recorded by itself, but it occurs in græshoppa, or ‘grasshopper’.