Just me by the Sea
@creoscribe.bsky.social
Just me and my organic coastal garden, a sanctuary from this bonkers world💚 Love Mother Nature, sea and sky. Dendrophile. Treading lightly, living simply 🌱🐝🐞🍓🌸
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Fresh figs! I have the kindest, sweetest neighbour🥰
August 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Fresh figs! I have the kindest, sweetest neighbour🥰
Interesting sky this evening 🤍💙
May 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Interesting sky this evening 🤍💙
April 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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"Protesters have mounted a stunningly successful environmental campaign, mixing peaceful direct action with dogged planning objections, all leavened by irrepressible creativity & humour. These people appreciate the earth’s true value."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Country diary: Gorse or gold? Choose your riches | Mary Montague
The Sperrins, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland: These hills might have been spoiled by a mine, were it not for some dogged local campaigning. Instead, we are treated to a blaze of spring flowers
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 6:51 AM
"Protesters have mounted a stunningly successful environmental campaign, mixing peaceful direct action with dogged planning objections, all leavened by irrepressible creativity & humour. These people appreciate the earth’s true value."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This needs shouting from the rooftops 📣
Ministers should listen to a powerful message from 32 nature organisations: the Planning Bill rides roughshod over nature protection, could push species towards extinction & cause greater loss of precious green space. Nature & development can go hand in hand - but this one-sided Bill isn’t the way
Planning bill ‘throws environmental protection to the wind’, say UK nature chiefs
Heads of 32 charities warn proposals could push species towards extinction and lead to irreversible habitat loss
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
This needs shouting from the rooftops 📣
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I've just emailed my MP to ask him to sign this. Please can you do the same for the sake of the swifts? And please repost Hannah's news too so we can reach as many folk as possible. Thank you 😊👍
Fantastic news - please help - very quick
An Ace Labour MP (Barry Gardiner) has tabled something called an Early Day Motion which is a bit like an MP petition to gain cross-party support.
Please email your MP simply asking them to sign it edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...
An Ace Labour MP (Barry Gardiner) has tabled something called an Early Day Motion which is a bit like an MP petition to gain cross-party support.
Please email your MP simply asking them to sign it edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...
Securing habitat for endangered swifts and other cavity nesting birds - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament
This House notes with concern the dramatic decline in the breeding population of swifts whose numbers have dropped by 60% since 1995; recognises that the loss of natural nesting habitat for swifts and...
edm.parliament.uk
April 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I've just emailed my MP to ask him to sign this. Please can you do the same for the sake of the swifts? And please repost Hannah's news too so we can reach as many folk as possible. Thank you 😊👍
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So touched by the responses to Land Beneath the Waves from early readers. I was SO nervous about sending it out into the world, but comments like this make it all worthwhile. Thank you @amyjanebeer.bsky.social, you've made my month! 💚
#lifewriting #naturewriting #booksky #writinh
#lifewriting #naturewriting #booksky #writinh
February 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
So touched by the responses to Land Beneath the Waves from early readers. I was SO nervous about sending it out into the world, but comments like this make it all worthwhile. Thank you @amyjanebeer.bsky.social, you've made my month! 💚
#lifewriting #naturewriting #booksky #writinh
#lifewriting #naturewriting #booksky #writinh
Just a sunset x
March 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Just a sunset x
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8 easy ways to get micro-rewilding in your garden or local area:
🐞 Let the grass grow
🐝 Ditch the poison
🍃 Embrace some mess
🌳 Plant trees
🌿 Scrub-up
🌻 Plant with nature in mind
🐸 Go wild for water
🌱 Look after the soil
🐾 More: bit.ly/2P4TYBQ
#biodiversity #nature #wildlife
🐞 Let the grass grow
🐝 Ditch the poison
🍃 Embrace some mess
🌳 Plant trees
🌿 Scrub-up
🌻 Plant with nature in mind
🐸 Go wild for water
🌱 Look after the soil
🐾 More: bit.ly/2P4TYBQ
#biodiversity #nature #wildlife
February 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
8 easy ways to get micro-rewilding in your garden or local area:
🐞 Let the grass grow
🐝 Ditch the poison
🍃 Embrace some mess
🌳 Plant trees
🌿 Scrub-up
🌻 Plant with nature in mind
🐸 Go wild for water
🌱 Look after the soil
🐾 More: bit.ly/2P4TYBQ
#biodiversity #nature #wildlife
🐞 Let the grass grow
🐝 Ditch the poison
🍃 Embrace some mess
🌳 Plant trees
🌿 Scrub-up
🌻 Plant with nature in mind
🐸 Go wild for water
🌱 Look after the soil
🐾 More: bit.ly/2P4TYBQ
#biodiversity #nature #wildlife
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New on Substack: the latest letter to the garden. Dear garden: of mud, washing and crocus. #gardenwriter #gardening #gardenwriting #greenheart 🌿💚🌱
#taplink open.substack.com/pub/theblack...
#taplink open.substack.com/pub/theblack...
Blackberry Garden #23
Dear Garden - of mud, washing and crocus.
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February 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
New on Substack: the latest letter to the garden. Dear garden: of mud, washing and crocus. #gardenwriter #gardening #gardenwriting #greenheart 🌿💚🌱
#taplink open.substack.com/pub/theblack...
#taplink open.substack.com/pub/theblack...
Morning over the sea. Have a great day everyone
January 14, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Morning over the sea. Have a great day everyone
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A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳
January 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳
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New on the blog: I review some gardening books perfect for New Year's Resolutions #gardeningbooks #bookreview #gardeningblog #gardening #greenheart #taplink 🌿💚🌱
www.blackberrygarden.co.uk/2024/12/book...
www.blackberrygarden.co.uk/2024/12/book...
Book Reviews - Gardening Books perfect for your New Year's Resolutions
a blog about gardening, garden visiting, plants and wildlife in the garden
www.blackberrygarden.co.uk
December 27, 2024 at 9:54 AM
New on the blog: I review some gardening books perfect for New Year's Resolutions #gardeningbooks #bookreview #gardeningblog #gardening #greenheart #taplink 🌿💚🌱
www.blackberrygarden.co.uk/2024/12/book...
www.blackberrygarden.co.uk/2024/12/book...
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Wondering if there's a gardening community on here yet
Here's some pictures of my gardens
#Gardening #No-Till #No-Dig #Organic #Regenerative #Agriculture #Gardens #Vegetables #Fruit #RegenerativeAgriculture #Flowers #Compost #Sustainable #Soil #Plants #Farming #Garden #KissTheGround #PlanetEarth
Here's some pictures of my gardens
#Gardening #No-Till #No-Dig #Organic #Regenerative #Agriculture #Gardens #Vegetables #Fruit #RegenerativeAgriculture #Flowers #Compost #Sustainable #Soil #Plants #Farming #Garden #KissTheGround #PlanetEarth
December 13, 2024 at 7:59 AM
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'When gentlemen wore ruffles and gold-laced waistcoats ...'
One of my favourite Christmas tales, The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter.
youtu.be/LhnWqYKEVVw?...
One of my favourite Christmas tales, The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter.
youtu.be/LhnWqYKEVVw?...
CARTOON ONLY: The World Of Peter Rabbit & Friends - The Tailor of Gloucester
YouTube video by Thom Goddard
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December 11, 2024 at 2:57 PM
'When gentlemen wore ruffles and gold-laced waistcoats ...'
One of my favourite Christmas tales, The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter.
youtu.be/LhnWqYKEVVw?...
One of my favourite Christmas tales, The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter.
youtu.be/LhnWqYKEVVw?...
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Only 3% of our wildflower meadows are left. Please repost if you agree we should give pollinating insects a fighting chance by growing wildflowers in our gardens, communities, towns and countryside, and by avoiding pesticides and weedkillers 🐝
December 11, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Only 3% of our wildflower meadows are left. Please repost if you agree we should give pollinating insects a fighting chance by growing wildflowers in our gardens, communities, towns and countryside, and by avoiding pesticides and weedkillers 🐝
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🙄 We have a family of magpies in our garden. They can be naughty and yes they do predate smaller birds. But they are very entertaining and we still have thriving populations of songbirds and hedgehogs. And just look at that fabulous tail. Feed all the birds. Don't use pesticides people!
December 10, 2024 at 5:07 PM
🙄 We have a family of magpies in our garden. They can be naughty and yes they do predate smaller birds. But they are very entertaining and we still have thriving populations of songbirds and hedgehogs. And just look at that fabulous tail. Feed all the birds. Don't use pesticides people!
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Thanks @davegoulson.bsky.social for flagging this up! @dailyexpressnews.bsky.social is urging 'gardeners' to use #PESTICIDES to kill insects to control magpies???? DON'T - it will starve insect-eating #birds, #hedgehogs, #bats, #aphibians #reptiles.
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1984...
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1984...
Warning issued to anyone with magpies in their garden
Magpies can cause damage to gardens, particularly in the breeding season.
www.express.co.uk
December 10, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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It is a mistake to assume that only children can look with a sense of discovery.
Aging brings a different perspective.
Remembering the poet Nikki Giovanni. An excerpt from a poem in her collection, A Good Cry.
Summer Storms
The clouds
like my grandmother
carry a load
they can no longer support
Aging brings a different perspective.
Remembering the poet Nikki Giovanni. An excerpt from a poem in her collection, A Good Cry.
Summer Storms
The clouds
like my grandmother
carry a load
they can no longer support
December 10, 2024 at 3:10 PM
It is a mistake to assume that only children can look with a sense of discovery.
Aging brings a different perspective.
Remembering the poet Nikki Giovanni. An excerpt from a poem in her collection, A Good Cry.
Summer Storms
The clouds
like my grandmother
carry a load
they can no longer support
Aging brings a different perspective.
Remembering the poet Nikki Giovanni. An excerpt from a poem in her collection, A Good Cry.
Summer Storms
The clouds
like my grandmother
carry a load
they can no longer support
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How can you tell that this hedge is Norman and nearly a thousand years old? youtu.be/kM3F-BkKgds?...
Hooper's Rule: ageing hedges
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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December 10, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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We’ve made it to Bluesky! Please give us a follow and share - we post positive solutions offering hope for tackling the nature and climate emergencies🌱
November 15, 2024 at 8:46 AM
We’ve made it to Bluesky! Please give us a follow and share - we post positive solutions offering hope for tackling the nature and climate emergencies🌱
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First post on this platform, thank you to all who have followed me thus far & circulated my joining the #nature network on bsky😊 Please bear with me as I get to grips with platform quirks🙃 Take care & stay safe all👍
December 10, 2024 at 8:48 PM
First post on this platform, thank you to all who have followed me thus far & circulated my joining the #nature network on bsky😊 Please bear with me as I get to grips with platform quirks🙃 Take care & stay safe all👍
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Hi Bluesky! I've been nominated for a book prize! It's the People's Book Prize so I need you, the people, to help me win it! If you enjoyed One Garden Against the World could I trouble you for a vote? Leaving a comment is optional. Thank you so much! peoplesbookprize.com/2024-cat/non...
Non-Fiction | Peoples Book Prize
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December 10, 2024 at 12:05 PM
Hi Bluesky! I've been nominated for a book prize! It's the People's Book Prize so I need you, the people, to help me win it! If you enjoyed One Garden Against the World could I trouble you for a vote? Leaving a comment is optional. Thank you so much! peoplesbookprize.com/2024-cat/non...