Helen Crawford (Lucy Knight)

Writer. Francophile.

[Helen Crawford (Lucy Knight) @Satureja2]

And what, we wonder, happened next...? https://t.co/OZWpnKbdy2

[Lucius Gellius Publicola 🏺 @Lucius_Gellius]

"Aux origines du monde" :

Les derniers peuples chasseurs cueilleurs de nos contrées nous ont laissé ces gravures à la fin du paléolithique, vers -10 000 ans, pour lesquels l'artiste a utilisé au mieux les reliefs de la roche.

Il s'agit sans équivoque d'un sexe féminin encadré par deux chevaux, gravés sur les grès de la forêt de #Fontainebleau.

Plus de 200 km en aval dans la vallée de la Seine, la très méconnue grotte de Gouy près de #Rouen (pourtant la plus septentrionale grotte ornée du paléolithique d'Europe) reprend les mêmes thèmes à la même période, cette fois gravés sur de la craie à silex.

L'association de la femme et du cheval dans l'art pariétal est un thème récurrent déja remarqué par Leroi Gourhan dans les années 60.

📸 Emilie Lesvignes

[Helen Crawford (Lucy Knight) @Satureja2]

@robjessel16 Moral question is whether to tell them afterwards or not?

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@visitnorthyork One of my favourite places!

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@visitnorthyork @stubanksphoto Nostalgia

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@frasermatthew @thomasknox Mine are just suspicious of water. They're rescues so who knows why? I'm proud of our resilience though!

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@frasermatthew @thomasknox They won't do it! I'm spraying them with a fine midt though, they quite like that. And they have special cushions that allegedly cool them down. They're doing well for older dogs though. It's 28° in the house

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@thomasknox My dogs are suffering. We don't have air con. Wet hair is good!

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@thomasknox Drop, not from...

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@thomasknox I'm more or less on the same latitude as Royan, inland. The forecast is tantalising me with possible rain and a 10 degree from in temperature. I'll believe it when I see it...

[Helen Crawford (Lucy Knight) @Satureja2]

Yes, but, the French wouldn't eat potatoes because they Weren't In The Bible. It took a prolonged publicity campaign to persuade them which included Marie-Antoinette wearing a frock embroidered with potato flowers.

[Elon Gilad @elongilad]

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For nearly 1,000 years, rabbis argued about whether a Jew could eat an eggplant.

Not a metaphor. A real debate, across a real millennium, over a real vegetable. 🧵

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@arealmofwonder A!

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

Scary ! France's most famous weather presenter @EvelyneDheliat presented a landmark prediction in 2014 on TF1 of what French weather could be like in a 2050 heatwave

Here she runs the tape back on her 2014 self and compares it with 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲'𝐬 actual figures👇
My English s/t

[Helen Crawford (Lucy Knight) @Satureja2]

@CeeChampion I'm finding books in boxes to put on my new shelves and the last one I put there was this.... spooky!

[🧬Maxpein🧬 @maximumpain333]

Niang Soli, 106, is the oldest active dancer in the world. Her continued movement and energy are a powerful testament to resilience, passion, and a lifetime devoted to rhythm and culture.

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@LBFlyawayhome Thr tights! The pinafore dress! The nonchalant pose!

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With my very handsome dad a long time ago. He's no longer here but I've still got the rabbit

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@hellothisisivan Big Brittany, for example

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@LauraAKarim That's very pleasing!

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

In 1980, an entire species had one mother. Her name was Old Blue.

The Chatham Island black robin had been reduced to just 5 individuals, and Old Blue, identified by the blue band on her leg, was the only breeding female left alive. Introduced rats and cats had wiped the species from most of its range on the remote Chatham Islands, 500 miles east of New Zealand, and habitat loss had finished much of the damage.

By the time Don Merton and his New Zealand Wildlife Service team began intensive management, there was almost nothing left to save.

Merton realized that if Old Blue's eggs were removed and placed in the nests of Chatham Island tomtits, she would lay replacement clutches. The foster parents raised the first broods while Old Blue produced more eggs.

Against all odds, the population began to grow. Old Blue was last seen in December 1983. By then, she had produced enough descendants to give the species a future. Every Chatham Island black robin alive today traces its ancestry back to her.

Don Merton went on to apply similar techniques to endangered birds around the world before his death in 2011. The black robin remains one of conservation's most extraordinary success stories.

Old Blue never knew how close her species came to disappearing forever. But she lived long enough to ensure that it didn't.