Pete Flood
@floodenheim.bsky.social
Musician and field botanist
New favourite sedge!
June 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
New favourite sedge!
Got a rare gig this weekend!
Hot news is we've got percussion legend Pete Flood joining us for our London Launch
1st March @WorldHeartBeat, Embassy Gardens
Hope you can come. TICKETS...
worldheartbeat.org/.../lisa-kna...
1st March @WorldHeartBeat, Embassy Gardens
Hope you can come. TICKETS...
worldheartbeat.org/.../lisa-kna...
February 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Got a rare gig this weekend!
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Hot news is we've got percussion legend Pete Flood joining us for our London Launch
1st March @WorldHeartBeat, Embassy Gardens
Hope you can come. TICKETS...
worldheartbeat.org/.../lisa-kna...
1st March @WorldHeartBeat, Embassy Gardens
Hope you can come. TICKETS...
worldheartbeat.org/.../lisa-kna...
February 22, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Hot news is we've got percussion legend Pete Flood joining us for our London Launch
1st March @WorldHeartBeat, Embassy Gardens
Hope you can come. TICKETS...
worldheartbeat.org/.../lisa-kna...
1st March @WorldHeartBeat, Embassy Gardens
Hope you can come. TICKETS...
worldheartbeat.org/.../lisa-kna...
Proliferodiscus pulveraceus and Stictis radiata. And what they look like from afar. I love the way that a few spots on a twig can become a wildly colourful world when you look at it under a hand lens. Essentially (and stupid as it sounds) it’s my prescription for the blues, every time.
January 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Proliferodiscus pulveraceus and Stictis radiata. And what they look like from afar. I love the way that a few spots on a twig can become a wildly colourful world when you look at it under a hand lens. Essentially (and stupid as it sounds) it’s my prescription for the blues, every time.
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sadly, my 2021 novel hummingbird salamander is not getting less relevant
January 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
sadly, my 2021 novel hummingbird salamander is not getting less relevant
Nothing beats a glossy emerald drift of Stream Water-crowfoot- back in this stretch of the River Arle in quantity after decades of scarcity
December 30, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Nothing beats a glossy emerald drift of Stream Water-crowfoot- back in this stretch of the River Arle in quantity after decades of scarcity
A curl of Water Figwort in bloom - a late addition to the #NewYearPlantHunt list
December 30, 2024 at 2:38 PM
A curl of Water Figwort in bloom - a late addition to the #NewYearPlantHunt list
Straggly tufa-encrusted Cratoneuron filicinum from the banks of the Itchen at Winchester while waiting for a mot. Common name is Fern-leaved Hook-moss but this form was more Hookless Drab-mo. Stout nerve (pic 2), big auricles on branch leaves (2), rhizoids (3) and paraphyllia (4) give the game away
December 29, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Straggly tufa-encrusted Cratoneuron filicinum from the banks of the Itchen at Winchester while waiting for a mot. Common name is Fern-leaved Hook-moss but this form was more Hookless Drab-mo. Stout nerve (pic 2), big auricles on branch leaves (2), rhizoids (3) and paraphyllia (4) give the game away
Walked the perimeter of Alresford today and found 44 species for the #NewYearPlantHunt
Most surprising: Water Avens
Tallest: Hybrid Water-speedwell
Most reliable: Spurge-laurel (always out at this time of year)
Most annoying: Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage (just about to pop but no open fls yet)
Most surprising: Water Avens
Tallest: Hybrid Water-speedwell
Most reliable: Spurge-laurel (always out at this time of year)
Most annoying: Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage (just about to pop but no open fls yet)
December 29, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Walked the perimeter of Alresford today and found 44 species for the #NewYearPlantHunt
Most surprising: Water Avens
Tallest: Hybrid Water-speedwell
Most reliable: Spurge-laurel (always out at this time of year)
Most annoying: Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage (just about to pop but no open fls yet)
Most surprising: Water Avens
Tallest: Hybrid Water-speedwell
Most reliable: Spurge-laurel (always out at this time of year)
Most annoying: Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage (just about to pop but no open fls yet)
Thousands of plants of Jersey Cudweed lining a road verge near Southampton Water. I guess it’s the botanical equivalent of a £100,000,000 bat tunnel: joke ecology, wasting everyone’s time and driving disaffection with conservation across the board. Hoping NE delist it asap
December 17, 2024 at 10:18 AM
Thousands of plants of Jersey Cudweed lining a road verge near Southampton Water. I guess it’s the botanical equivalent of a £100,000,000 bat tunnel: joke ecology, wasting everyone’s time and driving disaffection with conservation across the board. Hoping NE delist it asap
Out looking at Spartina meadows on the edge of Southampton Water yday. Loving all the ergotic Common Cord-grass - but the bright orange rust on the ergot sclerotia is new to me - anyone got a name for this peculiar thing?
December 14, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Out looking at Spartina meadows on the edge of Southampton Water yday. Loving all the ergotic Common Cord-grass - but the bright orange rust on the ergot sclerotia is new to me - anyone got a name for this peculiar thing?
Dingy green 1mm ‘tongues’ growing with the liverwort Microlejeunea ulicina on Willow bark in wet woodland. Grazed/old slime mould sporocarps, right? Right??? If so, which species/genera have multiple stems that coalesce halfway up? In the books I have most species have a discoid hypothallus instead
November 30, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Dingy green 1mm ‘tongues’ growing with the liverwort Microlejeunea ulicina on Willow bark in wet woodland. Grazed/old slime mould sporocarps, right? Right??? If so, which species/genera have multiple stems that coalesce halfway up? In the books I have most species have a discoid hypothallus instead
Breathing opportunity
November 27, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Breathing opportunity
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Penultimate day. SPORTS CLUB with @rachaelmcshane.bsky.social and @floodenheim.bsky.social 🥰
November 25, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Penultimate day. SPORTS CLUB with @rachaelmcshane.bsky.social and @floodenheim.bsky.social 🥰
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At the end of busy week I’m reflecting on the highly partial coverage devoted by the media to different issues. Massive coverage this week on a farm demo, but a far larger demonstration on Nature in June got hardly anything. Both about land. Why might that be? amp.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The nature march had a huge turnout – so why didn’t it make bigger news? | Just Stop Oil | The Guardian
Disruptive demonstrations are decried by the press, but given acres of coverage. This is the new conundrum of public protest: the only way to be talked about is if you’re demonised, writes Zoe William...
amp.theguardian.com
November 24, 2024 at 12:28 PM
At the end of busy week I’m reflecting on the highly partial coverage devoted by the media to different issues. Massive coverage this week on a farm demo, but a far larger demonstration on Nature in June got hardly anything. Both about land. Why might that be? amp.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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LIVE STREAM TONIGHT!
See Bellowhead live streaming at our Gateshead gig from 8.45pm📺🎉
Watch LIVE from your living room AND/OR on demand for up to 12 months. Tickets & Info - folkscape.live
See Bellowhead live streaming at our Gateshead gig from 8.45pm📺🎉
Watch LIVE from your living room AND/OR on demand for up to 12 months. Tickets & Info - folkscape.live
FolkScape Live
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November 23, 2024 at 12:19 PM
LIVE STREAM TONIGHT!
See Bellowhead live streaming at our Gateshead gig from 8.45pm📺🎉
Watch LIVE from your living room AND/OR on demand for up to 12 months. Tickets & Info - folkscape.live
See Bellowhead live streaming at our Gateshead gig from 8.45pm📺🎉
Watch LIVE from your living room AND/OR on demand for up to 12 months. Tickets & Info - folkscape.live
Yes but WHAT IS THAT FLYING SPIKY FRUIT?!?!
November 22, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Yes but WHAT IS THAT FLYING SPIKY FRUIT?!?!
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Have wonderful memories of you all when Bellowhead first started out. That night at Whitchurch Folk Club North Shropshire when Pete Flood was setting his windup mechanical toys loose on the small stage & you said all us clapping along should dance & thus a big conga round the small hall happened. :)
November 21, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Have wonderful memories of you all when Bellowhead first started out. That night at Whitchurch Folk Club North Shropshire when Pete Flood was setting his windup mechanical toys loose on the small stage & you said all us clapping along should dance & thus a big conga round the small hall happened. :)
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How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example).
1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company.
2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly.
🧵
1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company.
2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly.
🧵
November 18, 2024 at 12:02 PM
How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example).
1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company.
2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly.
🧵
1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company.
2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly.
🧵
Sheffield station, waiting for Dionne. Initially far more drawn to the vacant lot than the water feature but - Bryum pseudotriquetrum/ old hand lens in pocket - hours of fun
November 17, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Sheffield station, waiting for Dionne. Initially far more drawn to the vacant lot than the water feature but - Bryum pseudotriquetrum/ old hand lens in pocket - hours of fun
An extremely lovely review: www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...
To be fair though - nothing wrong with lizards - some of my best friends are lizards :)
To be fair though - nothing wrong with lizards - some of my best friends are lizards :)
Review: Bellowhead, Bristol Beacon - 'An unhinged party on a sinking galleon'
The multi-legged folk beast are back to remind audiences what they've been missing
www.bristol247.com
November 15, 2024 at 12:57 PM
An extremely lovely review: www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...
To be fair though - nothing wrong with lizards - some of my best friends are lizards :)
To be fair though - nothing wrong with lizards - some of my best friends are lizards :)
Initiating proceedings here with a pic of some moss on pony dung. Not sure if it’s a comment on 2024, Twitter, or just finding gorgeousness in unexpected places, but here’s the wonderful, holly-leaved Splachnum ampullaceum
November 14, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Initiating proceedings here with a pic of some moss on pony dung. Not sure if it’s a comment on 2024, Twitter, or just finding gorgeousness in unexpected places, but here’s the wonderful, holly-leaved Splachnum ampullaceum