Alex

🌱🌳🌿🍃 - English woman, living in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 😬 🇬🇧

[Beatrice Groves @beatricegroves1]

Black bryony berries bejewelling the hedgerows❤️These strings of glossy berries were traditionally known as 'Rosaries.'
They ripen in autumnal beauty from lime green through tangerine to scarlet (but they are also very ☠️)
#FolkloreThursday

[WasAcop @WasAcop]

🚨🚨Now you know why the Met won’t ban today’s march.🚨🚨

Sadiq Khan, the man who sets the police priorities, marked the anniversary of the October 7 attacks with this:

“Today is also a moment to reflect on the unfathomable suffering and killing of Palestinians over the last three years, both in Gaza and in the West Bank. The UK Government is right to call out the reprehensible actions of the Israeli Government…”

What an absolute disgrace he is.

[Historygirl @janeyellene]

#OTD 7 October 1920, women were finally admitted as full members of Oxford University. 130 women took part in the historic enrollment ceremony at the Divinity School.
Women had been studying and sitting examinations at Oxford since the late 1870s, but were barred from registering and receiving the degrees their results would otherwise have earned them.
A week later, on 14 October, Oxford held its first degree ceremony for women, with 50 women receiving ordinary degrees that day.
#History #WomensHistory #Oxford #OnThisDay

[Brother Jördh @brother_jordh]

Today I walked the canal path to Nether Heyford in West Northamptonshire.

[Campaign Against Antisemitism @antisemitism]

This post is yet another sorry excuse for inaction.

Organising a march without providing your name and address to police is a criminal offence. Will the police do anything? It seems not. Yet another law that might as well not exist.

They don't like to ban marches but to move them, they say, like they did to multiple UKIP marches in Tower Hamlets and other areas. This situation is the same, they say, but actually this march is happening in prime central London and hasn’t been materially moved.

Basically the extent of police action on this has been to ask the organisers (whomever they may be, because the police don’t seem to know) to reconsider marching on 7th October. And if they won't reconsider (they won’t), the police ask that they might march a slightly shortened route.

It’s pathetic and an insult to Londoners’ intelligence.

[Alex @pooh6541]

@waitrose @yvettetreasaden What is this ‘Hey’ greeting I’m seeing all too often? Is it an American thing?

[Chris Parry @DrChrisParry]

Compare and contrast with Gosport.

If this march goes ahead, it will confirm that Mosley and his fascists have been reincarnated.

Will no one rid us of this cancer?

@ShabanaMahmood - you’re a disgrace and no friend of Britain.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

The condition should be: this gratuitous and obscene march doesn't take place on the anniversary of the October 7 massacre. @metpoliceuk

[@saveoldmaltoncountryside 🍃💚🍃 @saveoldmaltonc1]

And so it begins.I can hardly be near it all..I can’t imagine how Rob feels. Is this next phase the worst yet? 😓 it’s just so wrong.. why is @UKLabour allowing solar farms on best farmland, and why are they allowing them at the expense of @tenantfarmers @andyburnham #malton

[Murdo Fraser MSP @murdo_fraser]

Wow. @Ross_Greer on @BBCRadioScot states clearly that ‘Zionism is racism’. The Jewish community in Scotland will be appalled by this. No mainstream political party in Scotland should now have anything to do with the extremist anti-Semitic @scottishgreens.

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“A time traveller from 50s Britain would probably die of shock within two hours of arriving in modernised Blairland - and be quite glad to do so. The fact that the restaurants are better just would not make up for the fact that almost everything else is worse.”

Peter Hitchens

[Beatrice Groves @beatricegroves1]

Birch polypore 🤍🍄🤍
This elegant bracket fungus has many medicinal properties & was used in the Bronze Age to transport fire, as it smoulders for a long time🔥
#MushroomMonday

[Suffolk Detectorist @SDetectorist]

Walnuts in the middle of a field, not a tree in sight.

This is down to crows picking them from under a tree, flying to a favourite field, where they will continuously drop them till they break

I've seen this in Yorkshire, but they were smart up there, they dropped on the road

[Historygirl @janeyellene]

On this day, 3 October 1811, women representing Hampshire and Surrey played a remarkable cricket match at Newington, London, playing in long dresses before a large crowd.

They played for a huge stake of 500 guineas a side, Hampshire won by 15 runs.

The wonderful scene was captured in this 1811 print by artist Thomas Rowlandson.

#OTD #Cricket #1800s #Hampshire #Surrey

[Tom Harris 🇬🇧 @MrTCHarris]

@natalieben @TheGreenParty The terms "mother" and "father" are not offensive. If you find them so, then you are the problem.

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

On this day 3rd Oct 1952 the Government announced that tea rationing was soon to end

Artist: Harry Wingfield
(Shopping with Mother)

[Dyrham Park @NTDyrhamPark]

Take time to wander round the garden this autumn to take in the sights, scents and sounds of nature.

From the toffee-like smell of the katsura tree to the gentle cascade and the cool feel of the parterre decorations, there's so much to stimulate all the senses.
#Autumn #October

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

An insincere post when you’re about to open "safe routes" to people from antisemitic and violent cultures.

[Hill Top Farm @hilltopfarmgirl]

Walking cows and calves up onto the fields above Malham Tarn

[Heroes Of Britain @HeroesOfBritain]

This gardener carried three wounded men through enemy fire.

On 3–4 October 1918, during WW1 at Mannequin Hill in northern France, William Coltman, a Sunday-school teacher who would not kill, went forward alone three times, carried comrades out, and tended wounded for 48 hours.

He returned to gardening.