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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Pinned
Lots has been said and written about Israel and Gaza but this from Bertrand Russell in 1970 is particularly poignant
2025 warmest year on record

#r4today
December 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Storm Cloudier?
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November 14, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Text and photo are at variance on the month 🤦🏻‍♂️
November 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Did I miss the bit where Tim Davie reveals whether he was a Faithful or a Traitor?
#r4today
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Is it an editorial requirement that #r4today prefix ‘left wing’ with the word ‘radical’?
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Grassland Fungi: A Field Guide – 3rd Edition out now!
The proceeds go towards Monmouthshire Meadows Group and their work in helping to conserve and protect the species-rich grasslands in which these fungi thrive

#wildfungihour

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October 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Scarlet Waxcaps (Hygrocybe coccinea) in field behind the house and Golden Waxcaps (Hygrocybe chloroprana) on the lawn

#wildfungihour
October 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Trying to blend in with the weather map perhaps, whereas on the BBC:
October 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Great picture of Mason - his reporting condensed to one image
October 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Late for #wildflowerhour again…

Favourite new plant find this year was Adder’s Tongue Fern (Ophioglossum vulgatum)
And as described by #NatureSpot, in a colony of hundreds of plants in a sand dune slack

#wildflowerhour
September 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM
What remains of a Common Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) seedhead in early January
#wildflowerhour
September 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Curled Dock (Rumex crispus) seedheads - attractive rather than ‘spectacular’

#Wildflowerhour
September 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Euonymus europaeus - end of October 2024

#Wildflowerhour #fruits
August 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa)

#Wildflowerhour #fruits
August 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
My ‘flower hunting’ today has been limited to my photo archive…
Common Centaury (Centaurium erythraea) at Kenfig NNR on 9 July 2025,
..and an old pic of Blackstonia perfoliata from late June 2020

#wildflowerhour #GentianFamily
August 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Missed yesterday’s hour again!

Nodding Thistle (Carduus nutans) at Caerwent S.Wales end of June 2022

#wildflowerhour #DaisyFamily
August 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Late but…

The day-flying Forester moth (Adscita statices) on Salad Burnet (Poterium sanguisorba) at end of May, in Gloucestershire

#wildflowerhour #PollinatorPals
August 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Sea Holly (Eryngium maritimum) attracting the attention of a pollinator
#wildflowerhour #bythesea
August 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Two edibles: Rock Samphire (Crithmum maritimum) and Sea Kale (Crambe maritima)
#wildflowerhour #bythesea
August 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Autumn Squill (Prospero autumnale) at Prawle Point, S. Devon in early September
#wildflowerhour #bythesea
August 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Agree…
…with a couple of additional images:
August 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Not really listening to #r4today this morning….
…in case this aspect of Latin usage was not mentioned:

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Many of us are familiar with the well-rehearsed reasons for using scientific Latin rather than vernacular names. A Latin binomial is unambiguous, no two species share the same name, and no matter t…
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August 1, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Skullcap (Scutellaria galericulata) seen at Kenfig on 9 July 2025
The other 4 are from yesterday in Monmouthshire:
Wild Marjoram (Origanum vulgare) and Wild Basil (Clinopodium vulgare) together,
Betony (Stachys officinalis) and
Wood Sage (Teucrium scorodonia)

#Wildflowerhour #DeadNettleFamily
July 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don’t suppose he sang: "Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy gurdy"?

Donovan
July 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
One message Nick Robinson hasn’t got is that ‘junior’ doctors, are now known as Resident Doctors
#r4today
July 14, 2025 at 5:55 AM