Anna Shergold
@annashergold.bsky.social
Retired IT professional, living in Hampshire. Trying out where the skies are blue, and the sun always shines. Any photos, unless reposts are my own. Interests: crafts, wild flowers, orchids, nature, the environment, #Wilder, Bentley the Berner 🐶💐📚🐝
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Anna Shergold
@annashergold.bsky.social
· Jul 27
The last 4 pics of Bentley Berner bear, we went to Scotland & he never made it home. He was a good boy (well bonkers until the last year, then good, he’d just turned 5). Earlier that day we stopped at Gretna, he made loads of new friends, & went down hill very fast 💔🐾🌈 #BMD #bernesemountaindog
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I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today.
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
November 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today.
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
#fungi Helvella crispa, Elfen or white saddle, such a funky shaped fungi, it was late afternoon seen on a footpath (so not the best photos)
November 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
#fungi Helvella crispa, Elfen or white saddle, such a funky shaped fungi, it was late afternoon seen on a footpath (so not the best photos)
For #wildflowerhour a #winterTen (or was it #theWinterTen) - well nine and a helva crispa, the nine are yarrow, daisy, green Alkanet, periwinkle, red & white dead nettles, devils bit scabious, shepherds purse & buttercup - the fungi had to be included, it’s so cute!
November 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
For #wildflowerhour a #winterTen (or was it #theWinterTen) - well nine and a helva crispa, the nine are yarrow, daisy, green Alkanet, periwinkle, red & white dead nettles, devils bit scabious, shepherds purse & buttercup - the fungi had to be included, it’s so cute!
For #wildflowerhour #wildfungihour a birch bolete found under the birch trees in my mum’s garden in Scotland. We’ve just got back after almost 2 weeks, with a variety of weather, the day I took this it was sunny, Scotland at its best!
October 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
For #wildflowerhour #wildfungihour a birch bolete found under the birch trees in my mum’s garden in Scotland. We’ve just got back after almost 2 weeks, with a variety of weather, the day I took this it was sunny, Scotland at its best!
For #wildflowerhour - chicory, ox eye daisy & red campion all along the field margins in Perthshire (should they even be flowering at the end of Oct) - but a welcome splash of colour
October 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
For #wildflowerhour - chicory, ox eye daisy & red campion all along the field margins in Perthshire (should they even be flowering at the end of Oct) - but a welcome splash of colour
Fungi #fungifriday #fungifriends a selection seem down the woods, I need more practice to identify, but just admiring the variety of shapes
October 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Fungi #fungifriday #fungifriends a selection seem down the woods, I need more practice to identify, but just admiring the variety of shapes
The ivy flowers are positively buzzing at the moment in the autumn sunshine - butterflies, hoverflies, wasps and various assorted insects #buzzing
October 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The ivy flowers are positively buzzing at the moment in the autumn sunshine - butterflies, hoverflies, wasps and various assorted insects #buzzing
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As renewables overtake coal as the world's largest source of electricity, what did we get from the Tory conference?
- repeal the Climate Change Act
- scrap 2050 net-zero target
- remove renewable energy subsidies
- maximise oil and gas extraction from the North Sea
They are so out of touch!
- repeal the Climate Change Act
- scrap 2050 net-zero target
- remove renewable energy subsidies
- maximise oil and gas extraction from the North Sea
They are so out of touch!
Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
As renewables overtake coal as the world's largest source of electricity, what did we get from the Tory conference?
- repeal the Climate Change Act
- scrap 2050 net-zero target
- remove renewable energy subsidies
- maximise oil and gas extraction from the North Sea
They are so out of touch!
- repeal the Climate Change Act
- scrap 2050 net-zero target
- remove renewable energy subsidies
- maximise oil and gas extraction from the North Sea
They are so out of touch!
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While saying they want to "preserve nature" the Conservative Party have just pledged to scrap the Climate Change Act.
This makes no sense.
How do more floods, more droughts, and rising temperatures "preserve" nature?
That's what scrapping the Act will lead to.
This makes no sense.
How do more floods, more droughts, and rising temperatures "preserve" nature?
That's what scrapping the Act will lead to.
October 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
While saying they want to "preserve nature" the Conservative Party have just pledged to scrap the Climate Change Act.
This makes no sense.
How do more floods, more droughts, and rising temperatures "preserve" nature?
That's what scrapping the Act will lead to.
This makes no sense.
How do more floods, more droughts, and rising temperatures "preserve" nature?
That's what scrapping the Act will lead to.
For #wildflowerhour, common kapweed & greater celandine - still lots of flowers, but starting to look autumnal
October 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
For #wildflowerhour, common kapweed & greater celandine - still lots of flowers, but starting to look autumnal
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Linocut by #printmaker Mariann Johansen-Ellis #WomensArt
October 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Linocut by #printmaker Mariann Johansen-Ellis #WomensArt
For #wildflowerhour Devil's-bit scabious -
Succisa pratensis appearing in copious amounts on the local heath
Succisa pratensis appearing in copious amounts on the local heath
September 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
For #wildflowerhour Devil's-bit scabious -
Succisa pratensis appearing in copious amounts on the local heath
Succisa pratensis appearing in copious amounts on the local heath
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'My Garden...' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary artist and printmaker #WomensArt
September 21, 2025 at 6:08 AM
'My Garden...' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary artist and printmaker #WomensArt
For #wildflowerhour, 4 from Down Grange Meadow in Basingstoke from yesterday - toadflax, oregano/wild marjoram, small scabious, common centaury. Lovely to still have some colour in the meadows.
September 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
For #wildflowerhour, 4 from Down Grange Meadow in Basingstoke from yesterday - toadflax, oregano/wild marjoram, small scabious, common centaury. Lovely to still have some colour in the meadows.
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Yesterday, the UK’s leading insect conservation charities launched the Declaration on the UK Insect Declines Crisis at the @WildSummitUK🚨
This united front calls for change across governments, land managers, businesses, and the public. @savebutterflies.bsky.social
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This united front calls for change across governments, land managers, businesses, and the public. @savebutterflies.bsky.social
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September 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Yesterday, the UK’s leading insect conservation charities launched the Declaration on the UK Insect Declines Crisis at the @WildSummitUK🚨
This united front calls for change across governments, land managers, businesses, and the public. @savebutterflies.bsky.social
1/5
This united front calls for change across governments, land managers, businesses, and the public. @savebutterflies.bsky.social
1/5
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"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress
September 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress
For #wildflowerhour Eryngium maritimum sea holly, from the beach at Lee on Solent #seedheads
September 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
For #wildflowerhour Eryngium maritimum sea holly, from the beach at Lee on Solent #seedheads
September 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
For #WildFlowerHour #fruits, it's that time of year for #hips #haws #sloes and #blackberries all signs of Autumn, although it is still summer (just, for a few more hours, although autumn weather has arrived in NE Hants🌦️). Another interesting fact is that they are all members of the Rosaceae family.
August 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
For #WildFlowerHour #fruits, it's that time of year for #hips #haws #sloes and #blackberries all signs of Autumn, although it is still summer (just, for a few more hours, although autumn weather has arrived in NE Hants🌦️). Another interesting fact is that they are all members of the Rosaceae family.
#WilderHook had its Gentian walk today, just in time for #wildFlowerHour #GentianChallenge #gentian - marsh gentian - Gentiana pneumonanthe #NEHampshire
August 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
#WilderHook had its Gentian walk today, just in time for #wildFlowerHour #GentianChallenge #gentian - marsh gentian - Gentiana pneumonanthe #NEHampshire
For #wildflowerhour #daisychallenge from the asteraceae family ragwort - Senecio Jacobaea & yarrow Achillea millefolium (sorry none of the leaves were in the pic)
August 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
For #wildflowerhour #daisychallenge from the asteraceae family ragwort - Senecio Jacobaea & yarrow Achillea millefolium (sorry none of the leaves were in the pic)
For #wildFlowerHour #polinatorPals watching a bee in the marsh gentian - Gentiana pneumonanthe in NE Hampshire
August 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
For #wildFlowerHour #polinatorPals watching a bee in the marsh gentian - Gentiana pneumonanthe in NE Hampshire
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The threat to our society is not from asylum seekers in small boats. It’s from politicians and media cynically whipping up fear and prejudice, labelling them all as criminals, inciting hatred against people for where and what they’ve fled from.
It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.
It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.
August 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The threat to our society is not from asylum seekers in small boats. It’s from politicians and media cynically whipping up fear and prejudice, labelling them all as criminals, inciting hatred against people for where and what they’ve fled from.
It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.
It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.
For #wildFlowerHour walking across our local heathlands, when the sun shines (ok not seen too much sun this week), there are so many vivid blue marsh gentian - gentian pneumonanthe. At this time of year, I go the long way over the heath to the local shops, such a joy to see the blue flowers!
August 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
For #wildFlowerHour walking across our local heathlands, when the sun shines (ok not seen too much sun this week), there are so many vivid blue marsh gentian - gentian pneumonanthe. At this time of year, I go the long way over the heath to the local shops, such a joy to see the blue flowers!