26 January 1942 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Alida Baruch, was born in Amsterdam.

In July 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after selection.

🎄 It’s the final day of our #Shropshire advent calendar, and here's the Christmas tree in the Quarry at Shrewsbury with St Chad’s Church in the background. Thank you for your lovely comments about the pictures, and we wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🎅

An early morning visitor to my neighbours garden in #Shropshire

Metal Herons... Made of recycled waste including washing machines... Do their Heron Thing against the sunset tonight, along the Thames.

⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed.

If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.

👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...

After the snow comes the floods #shropshire

It may be bitter and blowy out there, but Orion is dazzling at the moment. My first and favourite shape that I ever learned in the night sky.

Not too much longer into the night and he will be accompanied by the eternally faithful Dog Star, Sirius, the brightest star in the sky ⭐️🐕

Snowy day in Shropshire

The tragic news of another species extinction due to human activity - it's like a piece of our humanity is chipped away each time we cause this to happen. The slender-billed curlew: www.curlewaction.org/slender-bill... via @curlewaction.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

Throwback to the time we sat our cats down and told them we were adopting a dog. I cannot stress enough that this is the ACTUAL picture from that conversation 🤣

The final Supermoon of 2024 - Woodcock Moon - rises tonight

This gorgeous painted stone is the work of Kerrie Ann Gardner
@kerriedoodles.bsky.social ... whose art is an absolute delight

#moon #supermoon #woodcock #birds #birdart #art

Libraries are precious and beautiful and must be defended