Isabelle
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Today is St Clement's Day, the patron saint of blacksmiths and metal workers.
At Finch Foundry in Devon, blacksmiths will gather to show their skills and complete in the annual snail race. Not what you might immediately think of, the race is to create an iron snail sculpture!
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At Finch Foundry in Devon, blacksmiths will gather to show their skills and complete in the annual snail race. Not what you might immediately think of, the race is to create an iron snail sculpture!
📷 Mel Peters
November 22, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Today is St Clement's Day, the patron saint of blacksmiths and metal workers.
At Finch Foundry in Devon, blacksmiths will gather to show their skills and complete in the annual snail race. Not what you might immediately think of, the race is to create an iron snail sculpture!
📷 Mel Peters
At Finch Foundry in Devon, blacksmiths will gather to show their skills and complete in the annual snail race. Not what you might immediately think of, the race is to create an iron snail sculpture!
📷 Mel Peters
A very chilly luchtime walk today 🥶 #fungifriends
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A very chilly luchtime walk today 🥶 #fungifriends
A beautiful morning to start the week with a walk
November 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
A beautiful morning to start the week with a walk
Also today's walk: heron watches very wooshy river
November 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Also today's walk: heron watches very wooshy river
Today's walk: past the peak I think, but still plenty of fungi to spot #fungifriends
November 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Today's walk: past the peak I think, but still plenty of fungi to spot #fungifriends
Few days left to watch this absolute gem
Meet You at the Hippos: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00124rq via @bbciplayer
Meet You at the Hippos: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00124rq via @bbciplayer
Meet You at the Hippos
Mark Bonnar returns to the Scottish new towns in which he grew up to explore the street sculpture made by artists such as his dad.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Few days left to watch this absolute gem
Meet You at the Hippos: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00124rq via @bbciplayer
Meet You at the Hippos: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00124rq via @bbciplayer
One of the many many random things I know about as a result of my Antiques Road Trip addiction...
yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
One of the many many random things I know about as a result of my Antiques Road Trip addiction...
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Daily bunny no.3135 found a cool pinecone
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Daily bunny no.3135 found a cool pinecone
Episode 3: fungi! 🍄
#fungifriends
#fungifriends
PSA: this is great. The segments towards the end of the first episode on adders and nightingales are wonderful(but also, when you hear about the declines in their populations, chokingly sad) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC One - Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles, Series 1, Spring
Hamza Yassin travels the UK to uncover hidden wildlife spectacles in spring.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Episode 3: fungi! 🍄
#fungifriends
#fungifriends
This morning's walk: rainbow, blue skies, sun-dappled woods
November 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This morning's walk: rainbow, blue skies, sun-dappled woods
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These are milu, also known as Pere David's deer. Once wiped out in the wild, they now roam across the Chinese landscape in great herds. From just 39 animals reintroduced from British zoos in 1986, their numbers have now topped 14,000. Wow.
https://f.mtr.cool/whyomaepvl
https://f.mtr.cool/whyomaepvl
November 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
These are milu, also known as Pere David's deer. Once wiped out in the wild, they now roam across the Chinese landscape in great herds. From just 39 animals reintroduced from British zoos in 1986, their numbers have now topped 14,000. Wow.
https://f.mtr.cool/whyomaepvl
https://f.mtr.cool/whyomaepvl
Have camped in Buxton *summer* weather, every morning in the shower queue there would be people chatting about when they could reasonably leave without ruining their children's holiday completely. Also quite distressingly it was so windy a squirrel's nest blew out of a tree as we walked in the park
Buxton is the Blackpool of spa towns. Grand Victorian buildings, a decaying high street, extremely poor transport connections and prone to extreme weather in winter.
October 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Have camped in Buxton *summer* weather, every morning in the shower queue there would be people chatting about when they could reasonably leave without ruining their children's holiday completely. Also quite distressingly it was so windy a squirrel's nest blew out of a tree as we walked in the park
This week's fungi walks #fungifriends
October 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
This week's fungi walks #fungifriends
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I found a capybara pebble🤎
October 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I found a capybara pebble🤎
PSA: this is great. The segments towards the end of the first episode on adders and nightingales are wonderful(but also, when you hear about the declines in their populations, chokingly sad) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC One - Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles, Series 1, Spring
Hamza Yassin travels the UK to uncover hidden wildlife spectacles in spring.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
PSA: this is great. The segments towards the end of the first episode on adders and nightingales are wonderful(but also, when you hear about the declines in their populations, chokingly sad) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Managed to catch the best of the weather for this morning's walk, and spot some fungi of course #fungifriends
October 19, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Managed to catch the best of the weather for this morning's walk, and spot some fungi of course #fungifriends
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Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."
Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first
Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...
nation.cymru
October 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Figures and Dog in Front of the Sun https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/figures-and-dog-in-front-of-the-sun
September 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Figures and Dog in Front of the Sun https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/figures-and-dog-in-front-of-the-sun
October 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
October 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM