Jane Allwright

Partner in Graphic Design Consultancy, (semi-retired), Fine Art, History, Wildlife Watcher, Gardening & Flower Addict. Spouse of landscape painter

[Green Planet @Elizabeth_Ruler]

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A solar farm just opened where a beef farm used to be.

This is a real sentence about a real place. In Lincolnshire, near Glentworth, on land that grew British food for six hundred years. 1,214 hectares of grazing pasture and cropland, the size of Heathrow Airport, now under panels for the next forty years.

It is called Tillbridge Solar. It was approved in October 2025. The locals were against it. The local council was overruled by central government. The farmer who used to graze cattle on that land will not be grazing cattle on that land in your lifetime.

Down the road, Springwell Solar got the nod the same month. 1,280 hectares. The largest in the country. Same story. Beef and arable, gone.

This is happening everywhere. CPRE found that 59% of England's biggest solar farms are on productive farmland. In one Lincolnshire district, 7% of the land is now solar panels. Three solar farms, Sutton Bridge, Goosehall, and Black Peak, are built entirely on the highest grade of agricultural land we have.

Now here is the part nobody mentions at the dinner party.

The roofs of the warehouses on the A1 are empty. The supermarket distribution centres are empty. The Amazon sheds, the MoD car parks, the industrial estates outside every town in England, all empty. CPRE's own numbers show that putting panels on the roofs we already have would meet the entire 2035 solar target on its own.

The panels are not going on the roofs.

The panels are going on Lincolnshire because leasing one field from one farmer is easy, and leasing a thousand roofs from a thousand owners is hard. The shortcut is the pasture.

You will not be told to stop eating beef.

You will simply find that the farm that produced it is now a power station, and the beef in the supermarket has come from Kansas, and it costs more, and the cow is no longer in the field, because the field is no longer a field.

Cover the roofs. Leave the pasture.

[Tim Birch @TimBirchWild]

These are some of wild flowers sprayed with pesticide on Sheffield streets today by @SheffCouncil Harts tongue fern, Forget-me-not, Herb Robert. In a nature reserve we'd delight in seeing them. Why do we poison them on our streets? We need to rethink our relationship with nature

[Romina @allefuerallee]

🆘 DON’T LOOK AWAY 🆘

The Islamic regime is going to hang Diana Taherabadi because she participated in the January protests.

She’s only 16.
This is pure barbarism.
Share this before they kill her.

#IranMassacre
#StopExecutionsInIran

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Thank you Daily Express who using correct language 👏🏻

[Tim Birch @TimBirchWild]

@SheffCouncil why you spraying Sheffield streets with pesticides? Im HORRIFIED to see GLYPHOSATE sprayed on our streets by a Council worker. Cities across UK and Europe have banned it. It kills wildlife, is a health risk, cats and dogs can get very sick BAN IT NOW! @_OliviaBlake

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Henry Nowak — a student on a night out in Southampton — was stabbed multiple times with a 21cm knife.

As he lay in a pool of his own blood, police arrested him following an accusation of “racial abuse”.

He told officers that he had been stabbed and could not breathe. When Nowak repeated that he had been stabbed, it is reported that a male voice replied: “I don’t think you have, mate”.

Let that sink in. A man is arrested while bleeding out because of an allegation that he may have said something racist.

This is a harrowing example of the mess the police are in. They seem more concerned about the words people say than the fact that a man had just been brutally stabbed.

Reform MP @RobertJenrick has called for a debate on two-tier policing, warning that it is undermining respect for the police and the rule of law in this country.

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

The land under these panels will never be farmed again.

Potato growing associations nationwide will not buy potatoes grown on ex-solar sites.

Why?

The panels leach heavy metals, as well as drop glass shards and microplastics onto the soil below them.

In a mass commercial arrangement, vegetation below the panels is soaked in herbicides.

The fertile farmland is gone forever.

[Isaac @isaacrrr7]

ÚLTIMA HORA: Michael Oyedokun, uno de los profesores cristianos secuestrados de la escuela Community High School en el estado de Oyo, Nigeria, fue decapitado por sus secuestradores islamistas.

¿Dónde está la indignación mundial?

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

National food security should be a top priority!🙌🏼

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In Vinnytsia, Ukraine, a female stork was widowed when her mate died. She is incubating her eggs and is unable to feed herself.

Local residents have started feeding her.

[Patriotic 🇬🇧 Nation @HoodedClaw1974]

Today was the annual ride of respect for murdered soldier Lee Rigby.

This Friday is the 13th anniversary of his death.

Massive respect to all who took part. You do him proud every year.❤️🇬🇧

[Eli Afriat 🇮🇱 @EliAfriatISR]

"MAKE SURE THE ENTIRE WORLD KNOWS HOW BRUTALLY MY CHILDREN WERE SLAUGHTERED."

-YARDEN BIBAS.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Makes sense

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

What Muslims did to the Yazidis in Iraq was far worse than anything happening in Gaza.

Elderly women were buried alive because they were too old to serve as sex slaves.

Mothers were forced to eat their own babies.

Young girls were locked in iron cages and burned to death.

Yet not one protest. Not a single march.

The same people now flooding the streets for Gaza were completely silent. Why?

Unlike Gazans, the Yazidis never started a war!

[Brian James @Brianjames47]

My parents front garden. Photo taken early 1960’s. Our house was in Ealing, West London.

[🍀Louie Kerr 🇮🇪💚 @LouieKerr8]

🐝🌼💚

[Lucy @TheLucyShow1]

This delivery man is humanity at its best! 🤗

[Architecture Hub @archpng]

St Wendreda’s Church in March, Cambridgeshire, hides one of England’s most extraordinary angel roofs.

Above the nave is a rare double-hammerbeam timber roof, filled with around 120 carved oak angels—many with outstretched wings, watching from the beams like a suspended medieval procession.

The church itself is mainly 14th and 16th century, while the famous angel roof is usually dated to the early 16th century. Poet John Betjeman famously said it was worth cycling 40 miles into a headwind just to see it.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Denmark, particularly in Copenhagen, has installed floating platforms/islands planted with wildflowers and native vegetation in its harbors and canals.

These create safe urban habitats and sanctuaries for birds, bees, pollinators, insects, and even some aquatic life.