Louise Paine

[Louise Paine @Superloopy101]

@SoSSwifts @SuffolkBirdGrp 7 swifts spotted in Ipswich. Cemetery Road!

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

And here they are 👇 the men and woman responsible for dumping 14,027,654 hours worth of sewage into the environment over the last 5 years and helping pollute every single river in the country.

Ladies and gentlemen I give you the board of @Ofwat.

"In the name of God, go".

[Sarah Merritt @Sareyware]

Christ almighty. We’ve just passed by this at the Rowley Mile BP garage on the a14. Two cars on fire in the forecourt. This is on the Eastbound carriage way.

[Louise Paine @Superloopy101]

Here's hoping hard that @YerevanZoo do the right thing. #Freebunka #elephant #cambodiawildlifesanctuary

[FreeBunka @FreeBunka]

On #WorldElephantDay @FreeBunka have just held a positive meeting with #CambodiaWildlifeSanctaury (home to Kaavan) about Bunka going to live there. A forever home. But we still have a long journey ahead negotiating with @YerevanZoo to free him. @saveelephant

[Louise Paine @Superloopy101]

Spot on

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

So how did Sunak’s much hailed ‘small boats week’ turn out?

https://t.co/NSwHUliiDu

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Morning @UKLabour @Conservatives @LibDems I suppose the simple choice you face is staying in/grabbing short term power or helping secure the future of life on earth . . . We are watching . . . https://t.co/45eiscNq0x

[Louise Paine @Superloopy101]

@IoloWilliams2 @AllanKi22269349 Is this real?? Where is this? The place should be named and shamed. Horrendous behaviour.

[Louise Paine @Superloopy101]

Our little urban meadow, that @IpswichGov have given us permission to seed, is doing well this year. Plenty of bees, bugs and butterflies. #urbanmeadow #meadow #suffolkwildlife #ipswichwildlife #wildflowers #ipswich

[Louise Paine @Superloopy101]

@hedgehogsociety We have 3 happy healthy Hoglets with mama in a nest in our garden. This is one of the rapidly growing babies.

[Louise Paine @Superloopy101]

3 mini hedgehogs spotted outside the nest in our garden today! #suffolkwildlife #ipswichwildlife #hedgehogs #hoglets

[Louise Paine @Superloopy101]

Harry (or Harriet),our resident hedgehog, is off for an evening forage. #hedgehogs #suffolkwildlife #ipswichwildlife

[Louise Paine @Superloopy101]

@LeifBersweden Great thread Leif. It's more difficult than you think finding a succinct overview of how to grow a wildflower meadow. I'm in my fourth year now of meadow making and still learning.

[Louise Paine @Superloopy101]

@BurtonsAnatomy @LeifBersweden It depends what look you are after Mary Ann. I used native perennial wildflower mixes as well as annual cornfield mixes as I was doing it for an area to be enjoyed by my neighbours and people love a bit of instant colour. I've found you have to be patient with a meadow.

[Louise Paine @Superloopy101]

@tbfspace @LeifBersweden Yes you can get special woodland shade seed mixes (make sure they are native) such as this https://t.co/xWfa5RY2G0 for sowing in autumn and I've also planted wildflower plugs in the spring to supplement, but you need to water these if dry weather.

[Louise Paine @Superloopy101]

@thatgermansnail @LeifBersweden I leave the cuttings for a week to ensure the seeds that are left on them, drop. Then take them away and put in a big heap away from the meadow to create another habitat for insects. Plus keep an area of long grass if you can for overwinter shelter for bugs and animals.

[Louise Paine @Superloopy101]

@katemacrae Ah ok, that's good, that's what I leave out too. I'm not lucky enough to get badgers though.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

WCs chief lobbyist (the 3rd in as many years), tells parliament it's swimmers and canoeists who are to blame for sewage scandal.

WCs "Fatal act of self-denial, blaming the general public and wild swimmers for their own incompetence... will never work."

https://t.co/5ZPCmoDHjC

[Louise Paine @Superloopy101]

After a 2 year hiatus (no idea why) the bee orchids are back in our little urban meadow. 😊 #suffolkwildlife #ipswichwildlife #urbanmeadow #meadow #wildflowers #Ipswich

[Louise Paine @Superloopy101]

What he said.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”