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@EnfieldCouncil
Water leak at back of town park near bridge to carrs lane walkway

[seán @snoozeebear]

@boopbetty1000 @GWandShows You can follow her on instant at fionacumberpatch https://t.co/bEHX5YeAV6

[seán @snoozeebear]

@EnglishHeritage Top left is the impressive, 'Audley End'. The top right is 'Whitby Abbey'.
I know the bottom two only after an image search. I'll play fair and let someone who independently recognises these two places to name them. I'm adding them to my visit list, though. 🙂

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@ThePlanetaryGuy It is pretty incredible when you think about it.

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@ThatTimWalker Body language is a wonderful thing to read.

[That Baratheon Girl 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🌹 @baratheongirl]

I don't know who this lady is but damn girl you hit the nail right on the head!

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

Instead of remaking existing films and TV shows over and over again, filmmakers should read more books by indie authors. A lot of them have fantastic story ideas that have never or rarely been seen before, yet fade into obscurity for lack of awareness.

[BBC Archive @BBCArchive]

Back in 1979, The Front Garden showcased three gardeners' extraordinaire - Mrs Barnes who tended a graveyard garden in Castleton, Derbyshire and Mr & Mrs Harrison, torch-bearers to Capability Brown at the majestic Brocklesby Park in North Lincolnshire.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

"LGBT has got a T in there for a reason - trans people started our movement"

Writer Armistead Maupin talks to @krishgm about transphobia in the UK and US, and why he's using his voice to stand up for trans rights.

Watch him on Ways to Change the World: https://t.co/fBGznleKWF

[seán @snoozeebear]

@ZoeParamour Woop woop! Great news!!

[Beautys Legacy registered charity 1194186 @beautys_legacy]

Urgent please share, weve been asked for help with finding Bear, missing a month. He is distinctive, microchipped, DNA profile held and is an #Autism therapy dog. #LANCASHIRE
@dogs_autism @animalstaruk @RFTownshend @rickygervais @RavWilding @BBCMorningLive #findmissingbear

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@MattPearceArt It's the otter for me!

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@cornish_jack @RamblersGB @chrisgriffiths @ThamesPathNT Truly, one of London's best things to do!

[seán @snoozeebear]

@11Thames11 Details! Don't leave us hanging! What are the details!! 😄

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[seán @snoozeebear]

@RossleeGardener Hello Ross. Has your garden featured on GW yet? I have seen it in the July magazine but was curious as to if I've missed your segment, or if it's yet to be screened.

[Jack Wallington @jackwallington]

Conservationists, ecologists and nature lovers - I’ve done all I can over the last five and a half months to get this petition over the line of 10,000. We’ve done well to get it to 6,630 - thank you everyone - but we can’t do it without your help now. https://t.co/0xWOyZG1fq

[Mhairi Black 🏳️‍🌈 @MhairiBlack]

A lot of people have asked me my views of the leadership contest. Truthfully, I have been incredibly hurt so far. Hurt originating with the statements @_KateForbes has made and since stood by. I, like most people in Scotland, could not care less about someone’s religion. (1/10)

[seán @snoozeebear]

A day with walking bestie, on the Thames Path - Hampton Court to Richmond. Lovely way to spend a sunny Wednesday in February #Thamespath