Lydia Macpherson
@afreshafresh.bsky.social
Poet ‘Love Me Do’ @saltpublishing.com Pamphlet under construction. Live on a wily windy moor. Gardening at 1300’ up. Remainer. Hate injustice. Girly swot. Never a Tory. I am LUCKY. Wind farms shouldn’t be built on protected peat.
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🔥 @ninajankowicz.com to the European Parliament: "Before I describe the details of Russia's recent online influence campaigns, I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy: The United States of America."
April 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🔥 @ninajankowicz.com to the European Parliament: "Before I describe the details of Russia's recent online influence campaigns, I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy: The United States of America."
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unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
April 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
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On #Walshaw Moor, #curlews are curleeing, #lapwings are peewitting,meadow #pipits are piping. It's all full of fresh life under a high blue sky. Please help us save this highly protected #SAC #SPA #peatland Donate: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/protect-ou... Sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
April 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
On #Walshaw Moor, #curlews are curleeing, #lapwings are peewitting,meadow #pipits are piping. It's all full of fresh life under a high blue sky. Please help us save this highly protected #SAC #SPA #peatland Donate: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/protect-ou... Sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Please sign and share - 10K names will been the government must respond.
Planning and Infrastructure Bill MUST ban #windfarms on protected #peatland If you're #TeamBat #TeamNewt please join #TeamPeat and sign our petition to #UKParliament petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... The curlews and lapwings are back on our SAC SPA SSSI protected moor: PLEASE share and repost!
Petition: Ban wind farms on protected peat land in England
In its recent consultation on new onshore wind planning regulations, the government asked if some habitats, such as those containing peat soils, need extra protection from renewable energy development...
petition.parliament.uk
April 9, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Please sign and share - 10K names will been the government must respond.
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@yorkshirepeat.bsky.social get an admiring write up in Nick MacKinnon's latest blog
Nick MacKinnon's latest blog is out now. Nick and friends have now walked to 32 of the 65 proposed turbine sites. It's an important analysis of the question we all want an answer to: access to the wind farm site... or not. Thanks to our friend @markavery.bsky.social
markavery.info/2025/03/27/g...
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March 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
@yorkshirepeat.bsky.social get an admiring write up in Nick MacKinnon's latest blog
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Nick MacKinnon's latest blog is out now. Nick and friends have now walked to 32 of the 65 proposed turbine sites. It's an important analysis of the question we all want an answer to: access to the wind farm site... or not. Thanks to our friend @markavery.bsky.social
markavery.info/2025/03/27/g...
markavery.info/2025/03/27/g...
March 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Nick MacKinnon's latest blog is out now. Nick and friends have now walked to 32 of the 65 proposed turbine sites. It's an important analysis of the question we all want an answer to: access to the wind farm site... or not. Thanks to our friend @markavery.bsky.social
markavery.info/2025/03/27/g...
markavery.info/2025/03/27/g...
If you are able to support this national campaign to ban wind farms on protected peat, please donate: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/protect-ou...
March 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
If you are able to support this national campaign to ban wind farms on protected peat, please donate: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/protect-ou...
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Great blog by @green--jenny.bsky.social courtesy of @markavery.bsky.social ... This is why wind farms must not be built on protected peatland:
markavery.info/2025/03/15/g...
#blanketbog #hebdenbridge #floods #Walshaw #grouse #wheelerdealer #protectourpeat
markavery.info/2025/03/15/g...
#blanketbog #hebdenbridge #floods #Walshaw #grouse #wheelerdealer #protectourpeat
March 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Great blog by @green--jenny.bsky.social courtesy of @markavery.bsky.social ... This is why wind farms must not be built on protected peatland:
markavery.info/2025/03/15/g...
#blanketbog #hebdenbridge #floods #Walshaw #grouse #wheelerdealer #protectourpeat
markavery.info/2025/03/15/g...
#blanketbog #hebdenbridge #floods #Walshaw #grouse #wheelerdealer #protectourpeat
Let @lucympowell.bsky.social know how WRONG she got it yesterday in HoC - please share and quote and stand up for #TeamPeat #TeamBat #TeamNewt #TeamNature
Thks #RobbieMooreMP for speaking for #TeamPeat in HoC yesterday and highlighting the threat to #Walshaw moor of a #windfarm on highly protected #SAC #SPA #peatland. @lucympowell.bsky.social you IGNORED that important point. Planning to break environmental law to get it built? fb.watch/yjS0gxSltN/
March 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Let @lucympowell.bsky.social know how WRONG she got it yesterday in HoC - please share and quote and stand up for #TeamPeat #TeamBat #TeamNewt #TeamNature
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Congrats to our runners up! 🙌
Audrey Molloy
@jaxxi.bsky.social
Ilse Pedler
Janice Warman
Jo Haslam
Livvy Hanks
@afreshafresh.bsky.social
Mary Mulholland
Penny Boxall
Roselle Angwin
rosiehadden.bsky.social
Rosie Jackson
Sharon Black
@sophiaargyris.bsky.social
So Sparham
Tonya Lailey
Audrey Molloy
@jaxxi.bsky.social
Ilse Pedler
Janice Warman
Jo Haslam
Livvy Hanks
@afreshafresh.bsky.social
Mary Mulholland
Penny Boxall
Roselle Angwin
rosiehadden.bsky.social
Rosie Jackson
Sharon Black
@sophiaargyris.bsky.social
So Sparham
Tonya Lailey
March 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Congrats to our runners up! 🙌
Audrey Molloy
@jaxxi.bsky.social
Ilse Pedler
Janice Warman
Jo Haslam
Livvy Hanks
@afreshafresh.bsky.social
Mary Mulholland
Penny Boxall
Roselle Angwin
rosiehadden.bsky.social
Rosie Jackson
Sharon Black
@sophiaargyris.bsky.social
So Sparham
Tonya Lailey
Audrey Molloy
@jaxxi.bsky.social
Ilse Pedler
Janice Warman
Jo Haslam
Livvy Hanks
@afreshafresh.bsky.social
Mary Mulholland
Penny Boxall
Roselle Angwin
rosiehadden.bsky.social
Rosie Jackson
Sharon Black
@sophiaargyris.bsky.social
So Sparham
Tonya Lailey
Walshaw Moor stretches from Top Withens aka Wuthering Heights to Hardcastle Crags. It’s highly protected carbon-storing blanket bog. Curlews (on the edge of extinction) breed there. Please sign this petition to ban wind farms on protected peatland in England petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Ban wind farms on protected peat land in England
In its recent consultation on new onshore wind planning regulations, the government asked if some habitats, such as those containing peat soils, need extra protection from renewable energy development...
petition.parliament.uk
January 28, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Walshaw Moor stretches from Top Withens aka Wuthering Heights to Hardcastle Crags. It’s highly protected carbon-storing blanket bog. Curlews (on the edge of extinction) breed there. Please sign this petition to ban wind farms on protected peatland in England petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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News Klaxon! John Glenday will be joining our Galloway House Estate 9-15th June 2025 Writing Retreat as our first guest tutor! John most recently judged the Saltire Prize’s First Book Award (Poetry, Fiction and Non Fiction). More details about the retreat on my website link above or DM for more info
December 3, 2024 at 9:19 AM
News Klaxon! John Glenday will be joining our Galloway House Estate 9-15th June 2025 Writing Retreat as our first guest tutor! John most recently judged the Saltire Prize’s First Book Award (Poetry, Fiction and Non Fiction). More details about the retreat on my website link above or DM for more info
Best cakes for miles around.
My wife has a bakery in West Yorkshire - you may remember it from 'cakegate'.
Anyway, the Christmas range is available to order and there is even a postal option if you're not local: www.threelittlebirdsbakery.com/christmas
This year, more than ever, supporting small businesses is a must.
Anyway, the Christmas range is available to order and there is even a postal option if you're not local: www.threelittlebirdsbakery.com/christmas
This year, more than ever, supporting small businesses is a must.
November 23, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Best cakes for miles around.
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My wife has a bakery in West Yorkshire - you may remember it from 'cakegate'.
Anyway, the Christmas range is available to order and there is even a postal option if you're not local: www.threelittlebirdsbakery.com/christmas
This year, more than ever, supporting small businesses is a must.
Anyway, the Christmas range is available to order and there is even a postal option if you're not local: www.threelittlebirdsbakery.com/christmas
This year, more than ever, supporting small businesses is a must.
November 23, 2024 at 11:26 AM
My wife has a bakery in West Yorkshire - you may remember it from 'cakegate'.
Anyway, the Christmas range is available to order and there is even a postal option if you're not local: www.threelittlebirdsbakery.com/christmas
This year, more than ever, supporting small businesses is a must.
Anyway, the Christmas range is available to order and there is even a postal option if you're not local: www.threelittlebirdsbakery.com/christmas
This year, more than ever, supporting small businesses is a must.
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Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her.
RP if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.
RP if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.
November 23, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her.
RP if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.
RP if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.
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King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £125m a year tax free from the tax payer and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed.
But he still needed a 45% pay rise.
Like if he needs a pay cut.
RP if you want the Monarchy gone.
#AbolishTheMonarchy
But he still needed a 45% pay rise.
Like if he needs a pay cut.
RP if you want the Monarchy gone.
#AbolishTheMonarchy
November 23, 2024 at 12:53 PM
King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £125m a year tax free from the tax payer and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed.
But he still needed a 45% pay rise.
Like if he needs a pay cut.
RP if you want the Monarchy gone.
#AbolishTheMonarchy
But he still needed a 45% pay rise.
Like if he needs a pay cut.
RP if you want the Monarchy gone.
#AbolishTheMonarchy
Peat grows a millimetre per year. Some peat on Walshaw moor has been growing since the Bronze Age, absorbing rainwater (thus mitigating flooding in the Calder Valley) and storing carbon. Wind farms don’t need to be built on protected peatland.
The latest in the series of Walshaw Moor guest blogs - here John Page finds that the peat depth in the middle of a proposed windfarm is 240cm. If that isn't deep peat - what is?
And if that isn't a daft place to put a windfarm then what is
Ed Miliband?
Full blog: markavery.info/2024/11/22/g...
And if that isn't a daft place to put a windfarm then what is
Ed Miliband?
Full blog: markavery.info/2024/11/22/g...
November 23, 2024 at 9:55 AM
Peat grows a millimetre per year. Some peat on Walshaw moor has been growing since the Bronze Age, absorbing rainwater (thus mitigating flooding in the Calder Valley) and storing carbon. Wind farms don’t need to be built on protected peatland.
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Loads of brilliant writing courses on offer at Arvon with grants available for low income writers. I used to be a Trustee and can vouch for their dedication to being as inclusive and accessible as possible.
Choosing a Course - Course Types & Levels - Arvon
We have a range of creative writing courses for writers of all levels of experience. Some are more suitable for beginners or more experienced writers.
www.arvon.org
November 23, 2024 at 8:45 AM
Loads of brilliant writing courses on offer at Arvon with grants available for low income writers. I used to be a Trustee and can vouch for their dedication to being as inclusive and accessible as possible.
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This Sunday 24th November from 4-6pm: join an online writing workshop with me and Anna Chilvers - and explore the extraordinary ecology of bogs and their unique culture as world-between-worlds. Every penny raised goes to the Give Peat A Chance crowdfunder for our Little Toller “Book of Bogs”.
The Magic of Bogs
an online creative writing workshop with Anna Chilvers and Clare Shaw.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 19, 2024 at 9:27 AM
This Sunday 24th November from 4-6pm: join an online writing workshop with me and Anna Chilvers - and explore the extraordinary ecology of bogs and their unique culture as world-between-worlds. Every penny raised goes to the Give Peat A Chance crowdfunder for our Little Toller “Book of Bogs”.
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this is what Kim Moore and I do every day in January along with hundreds of other writers. Poetry, prompts and time for writing; pay-what-you feel and bursaries available. Everyone is welcome (but shy, neurodivergent, queer, left-wing, disabled and/or anxious folk will feel especially at home).
January Writing Hours 2025
Come and join Kim Moore and Clare Shaw in a daily Writing Hour throughout January 2025
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 20, 2024 at 12:27 PM
this is what Kim Moore and I do every day in January along with hundreds of other writers. Poetry, prompts and time for writing; pay-what-you feel and bursaries available. Everyone is welcome (but shy, neurodivergent, queer, left-wing, disabled and/or anxious folk will feel especially at home).
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This free online event sounds fantastic.
Free online event on Sunday 1st December 2pm-4pm features @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social , Char Heather and Naomi Morris as they discuss medical misogyny and a feminist approach to illness narratives. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panel-disc...
Panel Discussion: Charlotte Shevchenko Knight, Naomi Morris, Char Heather
Our online panel will illuminate the gender inequality in medicalised spaces and language
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 20, 2024 at 10:43 PM
This free online event sounds fantastic.
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Slender-billed Curlew, a bird once seen migrating over Europe (in huge flocks) from unknown breeding grounds (somewhere in former Soviet Union?) to North African winter quarters, is considered practically certain to be extinct.
RSPB press release: markavery.info/2024/11/18/r...
📷 Chris Gomersall
RSPB press release: markavery.info/2024/11/18/r...
📷 Chris Gomersall
November 18, 2024 at 4:36 AM
Slender-billed Curlew, a bird once seen migrating over Europe (in huge flocks) from unknown breeding grounds (somewhere in former Soviet Union?) to North African winter quarters, is considered practically certain to be extinct.
RSPB press release: markavery.info/2024/11/18/r...
📷 Chris Gomersall
RSPB press release: markavery.info/2024/11/18/r...
📷 Chris Gomersall