Kit Collins

Green fingered photographer, artist, designer & veg grower.
#kitcollinsphotography #beachropebasketry

[Kit Collins @foundsketch]

I'm thinking of making recycled bags using a similar method, cotton string and rope salvaged from the shore. Anyone interested in a bag that lasts as well as this and never needs to be thrown away?

#bagforlife #beachropebasketry #sustainable #design

[Kit Collins @foundsketch]

After 8 years my hand made washing basket finally needed repairs.. not bad for a recycled bit of old fishing rope found on the beach!
#beachropebasketry #HandmadeHour #ecofriendly #designforlife #weavingwithwaste #2minutebeachclean #knittinghour

[Kit Collins @foundsketch]

@qikipedia My 3yr old son shouts 'pancake' as a swear word..

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

Three million years ago, otters were the size of lions.

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

Trying to achieve a world record for the longest time spent weeping, Tembu Ebere from Nigeria cried for a whole week but then went temporarily blind. The Guinness Book of World Records didn’t recognise his attempt.

[Kit Collins @foundsketch]

How times have changed...

[Mark Pinky Laughton @PinkyTriathlete]

@BBC6Music Sure some clever person could order their titles to make a story like this....

[Kit Collins @foundsketch]

https://t.co/iweTXnE83P

More rope designs.

[Portable Antiquities & Treasure @findsorguk]

Today is the 75th anniversary of VE Day, commemorating the end of World War II in Europe. For Britain, the Spitfire became a symbol of freedom & thus a popular toy for children up & down the country. This model is a "make do & mend" version, converted from a coin maybe. #VEDay75

[Preet Bharara @PreetBharara]

Trump does not have a working understanding of sarcasm, jokes, or medicine.

Same for weather, climate, history, law, geography, science, technology, democracy, literature, space, math, and art.

Ditto for nukes, walls, and moats.

I’d go on but I’m not in the mood for a thread.

[PostcardFromThePast @PastPostcard]

Buses are very awkward.

[Lego Lost At Sea @LegoLostAtSea]

Old painted wood, washed up on Cornish shores.

[University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum @OBGHA]

The flavour of tea depends on where tea plants grow, the quality of harvested leaves and how the polyphenols are modified during processing. Consequently, processing fresh tea leaves is important for the quality of the final product. https://t.co/HKVnQiDz9K

[University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum @OBGHA]

The impressively huge and fetid Amorphophallus konjac has flowered at the Garden. Producing a single but very large inflorescence, it mimics the appearance and scent of carrion, enticing pollinators.

Thanks to Kate our Glasshouse Curator for sharing this odorous wonder with us.

[Lev Parikian @LevParikian]

You know how sometimes you get to the late afternoon and you get to thinking about all the different types of green so you take 49 photographs of green things in the garden and make a collage out of them?

[University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum @OBGHA]

The pink-white flowers of Theobroma cacao grow directly from the branches and trunk and are pollinated by Forcipomyia, a genus of small biting midges.
Even though we are not usually in favour of midges, most of us appreciate the fruits of the Forcipomyia's labours... #chocolate!

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

The tiny island of Lítla Dímun is often crowned with its own individual cloud.

(Image: SPUMADOR.)

[Lego Lost At Sea @LegoLostAtSea]

On this day in 1997, nearly 5 million bits of #Lego, much of it sea themed, fell into the ocean when a huge wave hit the cargo ship Tokio Express, washing 62 containers overboard. Among the pieces lost were tiny minifig heads, their faces now mostly blank after decades at sea.

[Kit Collins @foundsketch]

Half the world knows not how the other half lives #Proverbs #sotrue #always #BananaSplit

[All On The Board @allontheboard]

For #WorldMentalHealthDay2018 by @allontheboard X #WorldMentalHealthDay #AskTwice #WMHD2018 #mentalhealthmatters #MentalHealthAwarenessDay #MentalHealthDay #HappierWorld #HelloYellow #ItsOkayNotToBeOkay #BTS @BTS_twt #BTSLoveYourselfTour⁠ ⁠#LoveMyself #BeKind #allontheboard ❤️

[Kit Collins @foundsketch]

@sainsburys Thanks Sam, much appreciated, I hope you manage the target.
It's amazing what you can do with paper and cardboard, would be great to see new sustainable paper bags and the woodland/environment that would come with them. #plasticfree #Enviroment #ecology

[Kit Collins @foundsketch]

@ItsuOfficial @sainsburys your sushi is delishous but why so much packaging? Especially the plastic fish which is just the right size to get stuck in the throat of a sea bird!? #plasticfree #fish #irony #2minutebeachclean #SaveOurOcean #environment #ecology #welivehere