Kiera Chapman
@kierachapman.bsky.social
Nature writer, research fellow University of Oxford, Co-I Planning for Nature kierachapman.com / www.planningfornature.org
Check out my state of the art greywater recycling system! Cost: £3 from Screwfix.
Now I can reuse the water from my washing machine and kitchen sink in the garden during the hosepipe ban. (Obviously I'll be using ecofriendly detergents to try to protect the soil and plants as much as I can).
Now I can reuse the water from my washing machine and kitchen sink in the garden during the hosepipe ban. (Obviously I'll be using ecofriendly detergents to try to protect the soil and plants as much as I can).
August 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Check out my state of the art greywater recycling system! Cost: £3 from Screwfix.
Now I can reuse the water from my washing machine and kitchen sink in the garden during the hosepipe ban. (Obviously I'll be using ecofriendly detergents to try to protect the soil and plants as much as I can).
Now I can reuse the water from my washing machine and kitchen sink in the garden during the hosepipe ban. (Obviously I'll be using ecofriendly detergents to try to protect the soil and plants as much as I can).
Novel ways to spend a gap yah: living as a goat.
August 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Novel ways to spend a gap yah: living as a goat.
Man whose profile says he's retired, and formerly worked as a journalist, advises end of holidays for entire country "to be more productive"...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
July 21, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Man whose profile says he's retired, and formerly worked as a journalist, advises end of holidays for entire country "to be more productive"...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This Friday! Byline Festival! At Keele University! 3pm! The Chapel! Could I be more emphatic in my use of exclamation marks ‼️
July 9, 2025 at 6:04 AM
This Friday! Byline Festival! At Keele University! 3pm! The Chapel! Could I be more emphatic in my use of exclamation marks ‼️
I'd like to say "Can't believe noone noticed this" but I totally can.
July 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I'd like to say "Can't believe noone noticed this" but I totally can.
Temperature in my Airbnb right now. It's a revolting, mean little conversion job with no airflow and very little natural ventilation, built by an exploitative landlord. I'm lucky, I can escape Wednesday. Hundreds of others have to put up with this permanently. It's lethal. PS I bought the fan.
June 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Temperature in my Airbnb right now. It's a revolting, mean little conversion job with no airflow and very little natural ventilation, built by an exploitative landlord. I'm lucky, I can escape Wednesday. Hundreds of others have to put up with this permanently. It's lethal. PS I bought the fan.
@skomerisland.bsky.social just put a BRILLIANT gay birds post up on Facebook, in celebration of Pride. And they are copping hate for it in the comments.
So please lets show them some love on here by dropping them a follow and a supportive tweet!
So please lets show them some love on here by dropping them a follow and a supportive tweet!
June 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
@skomerisland.bsky.social just put a BRILLIANT gay birds post up on Facebook, in celebration of Pride. And they are copping hate for it in the comments.
So please lets show them some love on here by dropping them a follow and a supportive tweet!
So please lets show them some love on here by dropping them a follow and a supportive tweet!
GLOW WORMS!!
I might enter this into the Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
I might enter this into the Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
June 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
GLOW WORMS!!
I might enter this into the Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
I might enter this into the Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
Side by side in real life as well as image: two very different agricultural modalities.
June 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Side by side in real life as well as image: two very different agricultural modalities.
Side by side in real life as well as image: two very different agricultural modalities.
June 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Side by side in real life as well as image: two very different agricultural modalities.
Check it out, tho 👇👇👇👇
(Do not tune back in tomorrow when half of these will be back in the hall, we live in the present etc etc )
(Do not tune back in tomorrow when half of these will be back in the hall, we live in the present etc etc )
June 23, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Check it out, tho 👇👇👇👇
(Do not tune back in tomorrow when half of these will be back in the hall, we live in the present etc etc )
(Do not tune back in tomorrow when half of these will be back in the hall, we live in the present etc etc )
Just been to Cranwich camp and there is a really worrying level of dog poo absolutely everywhere... And I do mean every couple of feet across the whole place. It's not just disgusting, it's a threat to this delicate ecosystem.
On the upside I saw purple milk vetch!
On the upside I saw purple milk vetch!
June 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Just been to Cranwich camp and there is a really worrying level of dog poo absolutely everywhere... And I do mean every couple of feet across the whole place. It's not just disgusting, it's a threat to this delicate ecosystem.
On the upside I saw purple milk vetch!
On the upside I saw purple milk vetch!
Who said moths are boring?!
Poplar hawk. It has a little patch of red on its hindwing that it can flash when alarmed.
Poplar hawk. It has a little patch of red on its hindwing that it can flash when alarmed.
June 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Who said moths are boring?!
Poplar hawk. It has a little patch of red on its hindwing that it can flash when alarmed.
Poplar hawk. It has a little patch of red on its hindwing that it can flash when alarmed.
I think this might possibly be a not-quite-out man orchid, a knapweed broomrape, and some sulfur clover.
May 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I think this might possibly be a not-quite-out man orchid, a knapweed broomrape, and some sulfur clover.
Another bloody monarch!!
May 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Another bloody monarch!!
Gorgeous spring gentian from this week!
But zoom in - can you see the illusion of a young boy's face in the petals?
But zoom in - can you see the illusion of a young boy's face in the petals?
May 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Gorgeous spring gentian from this week!
But zoom in - can you see the illusion of a young boy's face in the petals?
But zoom in - can you see the illusion of a young boy's face in the petals?
Today I'm at a workshop at the University of Glasgow, and I'll be asking the question - is the planning process more about fiction than fact? And if it is a kind of fiction, what is its role?
May 16, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Today I'm at a workshop at the University of Glasgow, and I'll be asking the question - is the planning process more about fiction than fact? And if it is a kind of fiction, what is its role?
But what counts as a boundary?
The new judgement makes a pretty big statement. If there's something drawing a hard line on the map, like a motorway, then parcels of land between the edge of an existing settlement & that line are already bounded. So they don't contribute strongly to this purpose.
The new judgement makes a pretty big statement. If there's something drawing a hard line on the map, like a motorway, then parcels of land between the edge of an existing settlement & that line are already bounded. So they don't contribute strongly to this purpose.
May 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
But what counts as a boundary?
The new judgement makes a pretty big statement. If there's something drawing a hard line on the map, like a motorway, then parcels of land between the edge of an existing settlement & that line are already bounded. So they don't contribute strongly to this purpose.
The new judgement makes a pretty big statement. If there's something drawing a hard line on the map, like a motorway, then parcels of land between the edge of an existing settlement & that line are already bounded. So they don't contribute strongly to this purpose.
So Angela Rayner just issued a judgement based on the new Planning Policy Guidance about the greenbelt - and it's a sign of seismic change to come in the countryside.
So there used to be 5 purposes to the greenbelt. But these were recently been reduced by Labour to three.
1/?
So there used to be 5 purposes to the greenbelt. But these were recently been reduced by Labour to three.
1/?
May 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
So Angela Rayner just issued a judgement based on the new Planning Policy Guidance about the greenbelt - and it's a sign of seismic change to come in the countryside.
So there used to be 5 purposes to the greenbelt. But these were recently been reduced by Labour to three.
1/?
So there used to be 5 purposes to the greenbelt. But these were recently been reduced by Labour to three.
1/?
Why, just WHY, is it so hard to write about normal technological developments without sounding like you're wearing tweed and smoking a pipe?
Just wrote the phrase 'internet-enabled homeworking' and I feel like I'm 102 years old and about to use the word 'new-fangled'.
Just wrote the phrase 'internet-enabled homeworking' and I feel like I'm 102 years old and about to use the word 'new-fangled'.
May 7, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Why, just WHY, is it so hard to write about normal technological developments without sounding like you're wearing tweed and smoking a pipe?
Just wrote the phrase 'internet-enabled homeworking' and I feel like I'm 102 years old and about to use the word 'new-fangled'.
Just wrote the phrase 'internet-enabled homeworking' and I feel like I'm 102 years old and about to use the word 'new-fangled'.
This is brilliant - and wickedly funny. It's great on rentier capitalism. On the way social media forces us to live life through images that appeal to the eyes of others. On consumerism as a form of conformity. And on the modern city and the way one way of gentrifiers gets displaced by another.
May 4, 2025 at 6:43 AM
This is brilliant - and wickedly funny. It's great on rentier capitalism. On the way social media forces us to live life through images that appeal to the eyes of others. On consumerism as a form of conformity. And on the modern city and the way one way of gentrifiers gets displaced by another.
Highly recommend this new book by the lovely and extremely knowledgeable John Stokes of The Tree Council.
May 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Highly recommend this new book by the lovely and extremely knowledgeable John Stokes of The Tree Council.