Tracey Righton

Undergraduate reading Creative Writing at Oxford University. Loving Mum, Wife, Sister, Aunty and Mate. #AmWriting

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@The_Astral_ Windmill

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We are, aren’t we? Gloriously unserious. 👏👏👏👏👏👏⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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[Mack @kenzietuff]

@Donna_Rachel_ In what universe, regardless of what standards of language or boundaries you want to use, is this a still frame that should be in a video response to an inquiry about mass horror committed upon children?

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@TickleTexts I laughed so hard had to watch it twice. Thanks. Needed that.

[Made In England @BuyEnglishMade]

Word of the day: petrichor.

The earthy scent that rises when rain falls on dry ground, that clean, mineral smell after a long dry spell breaks.

"She opened the window to let the petrichor in, that first breath of rain on thirsty earth."

A word for something everyone has smelled, and few can name.

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@urbanponds101 Magnificent

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@james_xond I did this last Sunday.

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@allontheboard *waves from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Oh goodness.

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@ericchristian_ I adored No3 as featured in The Painted Veil - arguably the most breathtaking film score ever to my mind. Gosh No1 is stunning.

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@ericchristian_ Oh my goodness. This made me cry a little. ❤️

[oog @oog84__]

You see, hooman is strange creature. Not like rock. Rock just sit. If Oog throw rock at tree, rock hit tree. Rock never try to be a bird. But hooman? Hooman is like soft mud on river bank.

You push, it shape!

When Oog tell young hunter, "You have heart of great mammoth-slayer, you protect tribe," boy change. His back go straight. He carry heaviest log. He run fastest through mud. Why? Because boy want Oog words to be true. He not want to make Oog a liar. He want to be the strong wall Oog already see.

You give them a good heart in your eyes, and their own heart beats harder to match the dream.

We all just clumsy apes trying not to bump toes on dark rocks. When you give someone a shiny name (like Mok the mammoth-slayer), they wear it like heavy golden necklace. They don't want it to drop in dirt.

So they dance the dance you give them! They build the fire you say is already there. It make Oog want to weep a little tear, then eat a big beetle. Truly, hooman magic is wildest magic of all. Ugh!

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@CuriosityonX 32

[James Wright @JPBWFarm]

Want to understand how we ended up with a pony cull?

It’s the same logic that gave us a £100m bat tunnel and a £700m fish disco, that blocks thousands of homes, and that has added billions to HS2. Legislation, and the delegated powers to create regulation in pursuit of those goals, has meant Natural England has little choice but to cut grazing on Dartmoor.

The ponies are in the crosshairs because the rules count every grazing animal as a single livestock unit, a system built for the EU to allow subsidy regimes that applied equally to French beef farmers and Eastern European subsistence farmers.

The goal of cutting the total means graziers will have to prioritise livestock. Worse, the Government’s own review told Natural England not to reduce pony numbers. They are doing it anyway.

Even Labour’s own ministers and MPs say they are deeply concerned; Labour are in government, but not at the wheel. It would not matter who you put in government tomorrow if they weren’t willing to change how government works. The same rules would tie their hands in exactly the same way.

That is why nothing ever seems to change, whoever wins.

This is not an argument for caring less about nature; we need more accountability to actually achieve nature recovery. We must return real control to elected ministers, so that the people who make these decisions are the people you can remove.

Only then can we supercharge nature recovery, get the economy growing, and make farms across Britain productive and profitable.

Until we do, we will keep losing the things we love to a system no one is able to own.

(Photo Exmoor not Dartmoor)

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@LeoDaVinciWave Magnificent

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@alphafox Yes

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[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt
via Smithsonian Magazine

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