@CarlBovisNature I opened my front door one day and right outside my door a sparrow hawk was lunching on a dead pigeon. It stared at me defiantly for at least 30 seconds, eye to eye, until it finally flew off. I will never forget that wild gaze or that encounter.
Here's a Wimbledon fact you probably didn't know... 🎾
Many of the tournament's used tennis balls are given a second life as miniature shelters for harvest mice through conservation projects across the UK. 🐭💚
My garden robin just had an ‘everything’ bath-watch to the end bc she’s drenched, spiky haired & in need of a towelling down when she flies off.
One academic study shows that when we watch footage of ‘cute’* animals it dials down stress levels-my small feathered pal’s bathtime is for your brain.
*actual word used in the experiment:
Just watched Ep 1 of C4's The Tony Blair Story which almost completely erased Mo Mowlam's key role in the Northern Ireland peace process. Just a brief shot of her at a table with Blair and a mention by Jonathan Powell. Disgusting disrespect to dear Mo.
Imagine the son-in-law of the US President presenting a ‘vision and plan’ for a shiny city with resorts on the ruins of Auschwitz or Theresienstatd where dozens of my mother’s family and tens of thousands of others were slaughtered. And from which he will personally benefit. Repulsive, inhuman & rapacious doesn’t even begin to describe what they are proposing
"Battle Hymn of the Republic" is not a song to be taken on lightly ... but in light of this week's New Year Trumpian news onslaught, we're sharing this adaptation, called "Battle Hymn of the Empire" - as Trump goes marching on, and dragging us all back to the nineteenth century.