Alison Fure
@benton2.bsky.social
Naturalist and blogger, monitoring the environment has become a way of life http://alisonfure.blogspot.com/?m=1
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Alison Fure
@benton2.bsky.social
· Dec 20
Birds and Bees
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Richard Jefferies in Surbiton & other Surbiton highlights www.mixcloud.com/swindon1055/...
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Far right protest today:
29 - police officers injured
9 - protestors arrested
Proscribed group protests:
0 - police officers injured
1,600 - protestors arrested
We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly
29 - police officers injured
9 - protestors arrested
Proscribed group protests:
0 - police officers injured
1,600 - protestors arrested
We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly
September 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Far right protest today:
29 - police officers injured
9 - protestors arrested
Proscribed group protests:
0 - police officers injured
1,600 - protestors arrested
We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly
29 - police officers injured
9 - protestors arrested
Proscribed group protests:
0 - police officers injured
1,600 - protestors arrested
We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly
Kingston’s heritage variety of apple, the #Mitchelsonsseedling
Will be huge this year
Will be huge this year
August 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Kingston’s heritage variety of apple, the #Mitchelsonsseedling
Will be huge this year
Will be huge this year
Ringlets are on the wing #kingstoncemetery
June 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Ringlets are on the wing #kingstoncemetery
Some Cheshire Navelwort growing on sandstone #wildflowerhour
June 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Some Cheshire Navelwort growing on sandstone #wildflowerhour
Lots of Celery - leaved Buttercup, a plant of pond margins but it this water lily filled bathtub, its rather aquatic
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
June 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Lots of Celery - leaved Buttercup, a plant of pond margins but it this water lily filled bathtub, its rather aquatic
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
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After plenty of basking, the Comma looks to be egg laying. She has been dotting around the borders constantly and is using a Nettle bed here - blink and you'll miss it! @norfolkbutterflies.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
After plenty of basking, the Comma looks to be egg laying. She has been dotting around the borders constantly and is using a Nettle bed here - blink and you'll miss it! @norfolkbutterflies.bsky.social
Mrs Loudon’s ‘Gardening for Ladies’ published 1840 part of the ‘Unearthed’ exhibition at the British Library
June 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Mrs Loudon’s ‘Gardening for Ladies’ published 1840 part of the ‘Unearthed’ exhibition at the British Library
Charles Darwin’s vasculum seen at the British Library expo ‘unearthed’.
June 4, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Charles Darwin’s vasculum seen at the British Library expo ‘unearthed’.
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Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals
www.theguardian.com/environment/... This is what the Planning & Infrastructure will mean, if it becomes law. Every single SSSI in England will lose its protected status, as well as non-SSSI sites for protected species.
www.theguardian.com/environment/... This is what the Planning & Infrastructure will mean, if it becomes law. Every single SSSI in England will lose its protected status, as well as non-SSSI sites for protected species.
Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals
Exclusive: Planning bill includes mechanism for developers to ‘pay to pollute’ valuable ecosystems, experts warn
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals
www.theguardian.com/environment/... This is what the Planning & Infrastructure will mean, if it becomes law. Every single SSSI in England will lose its protected status, as well as non-SSSI sites for protected species.
www.theguardian.com/environment/... This is what the Planning & Infrastructure will mean, if it becomes law. Every single SSSI in England will lose its protected status, as well as non-SSSI sites for protected species.
One up from No Mow May, ‘Fuck lawns’, by Sam Wallman at ‘Unearthed’, British Library
June 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
One up from No Mow May, ‘Fuck lawns’, by Sam Wallman at ‘Unearthed’, British Library
June 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Pyramidal Orchid Anacamptis pyramidalis, hidden in a shady patch in #Kingstoncemetery
Found an #orchidchallenge for
#wildflowerhour
Found an #orchidchallenge for
#wildflowerhour
June 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Pyramidal Orchid Anacamptis pyramidalis, hidden in a shady patch in #Kingstoncemetery
Found an #orchidchallenge for
#wildflowerhour
Found an #orchidchallenge for
#wildflowerhour
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“The hawthorn is a part of natural English life—country life…You cannot pick up an old play, or book of the time when old English life was in the prime, without finding some reference to the hawthorn.” Richard Jefferies.
May 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM
“The hawthorn is a part of natural English life—country life…You cannot pick up an old play, or book of the time when old English life was in the prime, without finding some reference to the hawthorn.” Richard Jefferies.
May 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
#KingstonCouncil contractors shoddy strimming and scalping of a community orchard in a drought during #nomowmay
May 9, 2025 at 8:48 AM
#KingstonCouncil contractors shoddy strimming and scalping of a community orchard in a drought during #nomowmay
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I knew they were there but had never been able to find them till now! So there was great excitement (amongst myself) as I finally located some Adder's-tongue fern, Ophioglossum vulgatum, on Mitcham Common at the weekend. @mitchamcommonf.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I knew they were there but had never been able to find them till now! So there was great excitement (amongst myself) as I finally located some Adder's-tongue fern, Ophioglossum vulgatum, on Mitcham Common at the weekend. @mitchamcommonf.bsky.social
UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development
Whitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...