JulieT

🐿🐇🦡🍄🐝🦋🦇🦉Not waving, but drowning. Wildlife, Walking & Reading. And little fluffy animals. And sleep.

[Urbanponds101 @urbanponds101]

My pal Geoff has just finished this pencil drawing. It’s huge (A1) my camera doesn’t really do it justice. He doesn’t thinks it’s very good. I disagree, what do you think?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

«Everyone has their own way of solving problems»

[Antonia @flaminhaystacks]

Look how they have romanticised this headline. Woman dies days after her partner is found dead.

Only when you read the article does it tell you Zoe Marie Dixon was bludgeoned with a hammer by her partner and it took her 6 days to die in hospital

He ran off and killed himself

[JulieT @FuzzyBun42]

@MartinSLewis Thank you Martin. As a VERY low gas user, I used to be on an appropriate tariff before they were scrapped as an unintended consequence of “lowering” energy, resulting in quadrupling my bill 🙄 Please keep pushing, it’s not like we can easily disconnect fully 🥺

[Roger Pinney @RogerPinney]

Dumped on the side of the road in north Wales seemingly dumped by Yodel/Inpost driver. Rang the company but they don’t care. @InPostUK @Inpostukhelp

[JulieT @FuzzyBun42]

@BroomfieldKeith Magical 🥰

[JulieT @FuzzyBun42]

@cynicalkind The original Washington

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

Madness. Putting solar panels over car parks, as is required in France, makes every kind of sense. It generates clean power, provides shade to the cars, and protects countryside from solar farms. But the Government has inexplicably rejected it.

https://t.co/TbfDeoV1UF

[Brigit Strawbridge @B_Strawbridge]

Impossible to scroll past this stunning photograph by @stevesando1 (who is SO worth a follow) without a repost!

One of my favourite bee species...

[Jim Scott @jimscottphoto]

If you can help, please get in touch 👍

[Marion @Mutterdrachen_B]

Guten Morgen aus Nusshausen 🐿
Kurzes Frühstück und dann heißt das Motto des Tages "Einfach nur abhängen".
Seid so lieb und stellt uns Hörnchen und allen anderen Tieren Wasser bereit. Danke.

[JulieT @FuzzyBun42]

@jimscottphoto Such a serene place 😌

[JulieT @FuzzyBun42]

@CarlBovisNature High 😄

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

A stunning reminder of why we cannot give up on our rivers yesterday, as I stumbled across an adult eel on the Roding for the first time, lounging in the shallows in the shade of a council tower block & within earshot of the North Circular.

This now rare & magical sight used to be common, until eel populations crashed on the Roding in the 1980’s & have not recovered. Seeking to understand & reverse this population crash should surely be a key role for the governments environmental regulator, but as usual they have done nothing to improve water quality or remove barriers to eel migration. Worse, they are actively blocking my efforts to help the eel population recover.

Ordinarily, baby eels (elvers) for restocking are expensive to buy. However, I managed to secure a kind donation of elvers from fishermen on the River Severn (where the elvers often get stuck behind barriers on the river). I applied for my @EnvAgency restocking permit like a good boy & all they had to do to help recover eel populations on the Roding was to say yes. Perhaps predictably, my application was rejected, because there was no positive evidence that reintroducing eels to the Roding would be a good thing. Perhaps most annoyingly, my application to restock eels on the Roding was rejected because reintroducing them would interfere with the EA’s monitoring of their continued decline.

I asked what would happen if I went ahead & released the elvers anyway & was told that the EA would fine me up to £50,000. Yet another example of the malevolent uselessness of the EA: obsessed with procedure, but will do absolutely sod all to actually reverse the decline in our rivers.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Here it is, my occasional reminder that balloons don't get up to grandma in heaven. They come back to Earth as trash.

Sometimes stuck in a tree. Sometimes floating in a river. Sometimes wrapped around the neck of an animal.

Keep the celebration of life, but lose the balloon release.

[Sussex News - Breaking news for Sussex @SussexIncidents]

🚨 Brighton beach left in shocking state after heavy littering 🌊

Seafront teams arrived to scenes of rubbish strewn across the beach, with clean-up crews working to clear the area.

Please take your litter home and respect the coastline.
#Brighton #BeachClean #SussexNews

[JulieT @FuzzyBun42]

@EllaBeard11 🤗

[JulieT @FuzzyBun42]

@Johnnypapa64 Maybe, hope someone more knowledgeable may yet enlighten us

[JulieT @FuzzyBun42]

@HardmanYvonne @DreyfusJames I think so many of us had instant empathy for her predicament - I know this could have been me, I’m very wobbly on stairs these days…