westendmum

Oldish mum with fledgling in London.

[westendmum @W1mum]

Be more Moomin…

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Picturesque river polluted with sewage just 13 days after being given official bathing status."

Yep the River Avon at Salisbury was designated as a bathing spot on 15th May and just 13 days later on the 28th the EA have to issue a pollution warning due to E. coli levels. What a shambles.

https://t.co/nC3WWbwgt6

[westendmum @W1mum]

@HMRCgovuk please help, I want to withdraw notice to file for 2021. I had no income at all for that filing period and then became PAYE.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Sewage pollutes beach for more than two weeks."

South West Water up to their usual tricks again and the EA's response? Blah, blah, blah. Nothing changes.

https://t.co/5hh0GCvUUq

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

Before social media, we had
‘Chicken Licken’ (1969)

Artist: Robert Lumley

[westendmum @W1mum]

The Queen Elizabeth II Garden https://t.co/cbkMjUAqCy

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

Wild London David Attenborough
I'm getting so many posts from lovely people absolutely outraged at the misinformation regarding hedgehogs and slugs presented on this show yesterday, so I'll just address it here.
David Attenbourough is a really lovely man, and has done an immense amount of good for us, our wildlife, and our planet.
But he, like any other TV presenter, relies on programme researchers for script content.
The researchers, in turn, rely on who they *perceive to be* experts in the field.
Unfortunately, they were taken in by some clever branding and chose the wrong people:
A self-proclaimed 'hedgehog expert', often funded by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society (see their most recent dangerous misinformation, and my response, published here:https://t.co/YWqTd4PIkv)
And the London Wildlife Trust.
Recently the London Wildlife Trust engaged me as an expert consultant on a 4 page spread article about hedgehog myths.
Many of you have seen my interview, and the draft of the subsequent article.
I was sent this draft (see 1st image below) for approval, to which I agreed.
However, before going to print, an executive at London Wildlife trust decided to do some editing of his own.
It's shocking, I know, and would be unbelievable, if not here in actual print.
I've included two versions of the full article below:
the first draft approved by me and the team at LWT, and the second actual printed version, after executive 'editing'.
It was this same London Wildlife Trust who co-produced the Wild London documentary and "provided expert help and advice".
So now you know.
We're all shocked.
But of course, as usual, it's the poor hedgehogs who will suffer.
People won't provide food for our critically endangered hedgehogs, or bother keeping their garden natural and wild, now they've been told that hedgehogs eat slugs.
After all, there's plenty of them to go round.
Rescues all around the country, who are treating hedgehogs dying of lungworm from being forced through starvation into eating slugs, will feel so demoralised and invalidated.
Like you, I'm furious, frustrated, and bone-wearily saddened.

[westendmum @W1mum]

@CarlBovisNature Not seen one this year

[Lego Lost At Sea @LegoLostAtSea]

The things they left behind.
#beachcombing

[westendmum @W1mum]

@ColitisCrohnsHQ Going totally plant-based, lots of water, and fibre rich foods, plus kimchi, usually brings me out of flare in less than a week.

[South Downs National Park @sdnpa]

Halnaker tree tunnel is a natural cathedral of colour.

Once part of the old Roman road, there's no better place to soak up the beauty of the season.

📷 Mark Rowe

#SouthDowns #AutumnBliss

[Stonehenge U.K @ST0NEHENGE]

Full Harvest supermoon halo and lunar dogs over Stonehenge 🌕🌈🌙✨Photo credit Nick Bull 🙏
#moon #harvestmoon #lunar #astro #astrophotography #october #autumn #moonmagic #stonehenge #supermoon #moondog #moonhalo #lunarhalo #lunardog #rainbow

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

Other work by the Ladybird artists
Forestry Commission booklet, 1968
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

[westendmum @W1mum]

@botany_beck Cool

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

The table of someone whose brain is a bit overfull with creative projects & ADHD. Includes:
Victorian ink bottles
Tiny dried flower posies
Small friends crocheted by daughters
Edwardian MOP buttons
1940s pastels in their box
Small museums in vintage tins
Pressed pansies
Rubber stamps & inkpad
Early 1800s plate handpainted with shells
Spot the small bronze owl…

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

If you're thinking of using these sunny autumn days to 'tidy' the garden, please don't.
It won't grow any more now, and will still be there in the spring (there's a very good reason why it's called a *spring* clean).
And until then it will provide precious habitat and food for our wildlife, and overwintering places for our endangered insects.
Those spent flower heads you're eager to chop contain seeds - precious calorific food for birds when all other food is gone.
Those dried out stalks that you're itching to tidy away are hollow, and tiny insects who have an enormous part in our fragile ecosystem are sheltering inside, protected from the cold nights.
The leaf litter beneath plants acts as a blanket, protecting the eggs and larvae that beetles have deposited there, to safely sleep through winter.
Right now your garden is a nursery.
Please tread gently.

[westendmum @W1mum]

Autumn display

[Uzalendo News @UzalendoNews_KE]

#Afghanistan has been thrust into deeper isolation after the Taliban ordered a nationwide shutdown of internet and mobile data services!
https://t.co/Ux1ZUt9xJ4

[westendmum @W1mum]

@higgledygarden 😂
Have you tried pasta alla nerano yet? Yummy courgette recipe…

[wildflowerhour @wildflower_hour]

It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm so it must be time for #WildflowerHour! 🎉 Have you managed to spot any #YellowFlowers 🌼 for this week’s challenge? Please share your pics if you have & of course as always, all other colours of wild & naturalised blooms are very welcome! 🤗

[Biscuiteers @BiscuiteersLtd]

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