Lindsay
@lastronge.bsky.social
Ecology, botany & sustainability. Buckinghamshire via Tyrone.
@joannechocolat.bsky.social hi Joanne, I'm on holiday, trying obscure fruit liqueurs in the Algarve and re-reading Blackberry wine. As a botanical nerd I am really keen to know - did you have a particular variety of potato in mind when writing about Jo's specials?
October 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
@joannechocolat.bsky.social hi Joanne, I'm on holiday, trying obscure fruit liqueurs in the Algarve and re-reading Blackberry wine. As a botanical nerd I am really keen to know - did you have a particular variety of potato in mind when writing about Jo's specials?
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Our letter condemning the genocide in #Gaza and calling for an immediate ceasefire. A great crime is being committed, and we cannot stand by.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid
www.theguardian.com
May 28, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Our letter condemning the genocide in #Gaza and calling for an immediate ceasefire. A great crime is being committed, and we cannot stand by.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Why abortion rights in the UK are getting more and more perilous
Why abortion rights in the UK are getting more and more perilous
Campaigners say confused health professionals are driving the increasing prosecutions of women. Others blame the police. Ultimately, the CPS has questions to answer, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
www.theguardian.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Why abortion rights in the UK are getting more and more perilous
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Obsessed with Ozymandias, the immense and absurdly photogenic kitten of Magdalen College, Oxford
May 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Obsessed with Ozymandias, the immense and absurdly photogenic kitten of Magdalen College, Oxford
Absolutely gorgeous to be greeted by a mass of oxeye daisies every time I step out the back door. Huge plants growing from the edge of the concrete..would it look better weeded and bare? I don't think so. Let things grow!
May 14, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Absolutely gorgeous to be greeted by a mass of oxeye daisies every time I step out the back door. Huge plants growing from the edge of the concrete..would it look better weeded and bare? I don't think so. Let things grow!
I'm really getting into British artisan cheese. Especially paired with special condiments. Snowdrop by Cote Hill was Supreme Champion at the British cheese awards last year.
May 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I'm really getting into British artisan cheese. Especially paired with special condiments. Snowdrop by Cote Hill was Supreme Champion at the British cheese awards last year.
I still don't own a cat. But we have a veryyyy sociable neighbour.
May 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I still don't own a cat. But we have a veryyyy sociable neighbour.
A day surrounded only by lovely things - it's peony season! I'm ensconced on the sofa, spiced carrot and lovage soup bubbling on the hob.
May 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
A day surrounded only by lovely things - it's peony season! I'm ensconced on the sofa, spiced carrot and lovage soup bubbling on the hob.
Beltane celebrations at Butser!
May 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Beltane celebrations at Butser!
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Great write up on a very effective scam that uses a second scammer to call your bank while you speak to the scammer. Don't trust unsolicited calls/texts/emails claiming to be from your bank.
The scammer is on the phone to you.
Their accomplice is on the phone to your bank, pretending to be you.
Your bank sends you the notification.
You accept, and scammers proceed to drain your account.
Full write up: shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05...
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Their accomplice is on the phone to your bank, pretending to be you.
Your bank sends you the notification.
You accept, and scammers proceed to drain your account.
Full write up: shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05...
🧵🔚
Bank scammers using genuine push notifications to trick their victims
You receive a call on your phone. The polite call centre worker on the line asks for you by name, and gives the name of your bank. They say they're calling from your bank's fraud department. "Yeah, r...
shkspr.mobi
May 3, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Great write up on a very effective scam that uses a second scammer to call your bank while you speak to the scammer. Don't trust unsolicited calls/texts/emails claiming to be from your bank.
I do not own a cat but this rascal is disputing things.
April 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I do not own a cat but this rascal is disputing things.
Green winged orchids, adders tongue fern and cuckoo flower (with bonus orange tip butterfly) all out in North Bucks today at an old ridge and furrow site.
April 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Green winged orchids, adders tongue fern and cuckoo flower (with bonus orange tip butterfly) all out in North Bucks today at an old ridge and furrow site.
Its a horrendous time in the UK for anyone who cares about biodiversity. The Planning & infrastructure bill looms like disaster over us. Spending much time in my garden observing the life all around me
April 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Its a horrendous time in the UK for anyone who cares about biodiversity. The Planning & infrastructure bill looms like disaster over us. Spending much time in my garden observing the life all around me
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What if every garden looked like this?
#NoMowMay is fast approaching and this year you can give #PowerToTheFlowers!🌸
Whether you’re in a city, town or the countryside, pack away your lawnmower and allow wildflowers to bloom freely, starting this May🌱
Join the No Mow Movement 👉 t.co/yPZrFcC9qy
#NoMowMay is fast approaching and this year you can give #PowerToTheFlowers!🌸
Whether you’re in a city, town or the countryside, pack away your lawnmower and allow wildflowers to bloom freely, starting this May🌱
Join the No Mow Movement 👉 t.co/yPZrFcC9qy
April 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
What if every garden looked like this?
#NoMowMay is fast approaching and this year you can give #PowerToTheFlowers!🌸
Whether you’re in a city, town or the countryside, pack away your lawnmower and allow wildflowers to bloom freely, starting this May🌱
Join the No Mow Movement 👉 t.co/yPZrFcC9qy
#NoMowMay is fast approaching and this year you can give #PowerToTheFlowers!🌸
Whether you’re in a city, town or the countryside, pack away your lawnmower and allow wildflowers to bloom freely, starting this May🌱
Join the No Mow Movement 👉 t.co/yPZrFcC9qy
Really thought provoking piece, especially struck by the idea of decarbonisation as disempowering people (understand that and feel it myself sometimes) but tackling adaptation initiatives prompts more resilience.
READ: “To survive the #Chaoscene, we will need resilient communities."
This essay for @aeon.co is about strategic/transformative #climate adaptation, as necessity and a general game-changer…
#SAFER
aeon.co/essays/to-su...
This essay for @aeon.co is about strategic/transformative #climate adaptation, as necessity and a general game-changer…
#SAFER
aeon.co/essays/to-su...
To survive the Chaoscene, we will need resilient communities | Aeon Essays
The climate crisis is here. In order to thrive in these dangerous and precarious times, we must build resilient communities
aeon.co
April 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Really thought provoking piece, especially struck by the idea of decarbonisation as disempowering people (understand that and feel it myself sometimes) but tackling adaptation initiatives prompts more resilience.
A beautiful day monitoring Field Fleawort on Dunstable Downs and learning more about the species from a researcher who joined me. Two colonies of 33 and 53 rosettes found.
April 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
A beautiful day monitoring Field Fleawort on Dunstable Downs and learning more about the species from a researcher who joined me. Two colonies of 33 and 53 rosettes found.
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From The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain, 1846.
April 24, 2025 at 7:18 AM
From The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain, 1846.
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my HORRIFYING cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books
April 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
my HORRIFYING cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books
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How do you start the day, with tea or coffee? And do you take milk with that?
Today's #bloomscrolling post is a dash of milk in your day - Neotinea lactea, the lactea referring to its milky tones.
We think it deserves a prettier name than the rather clunky 'Milky Orchid' - suggestions please!
Today's #bloomscrolling post is a dash of milk in your day - Neotinea lactea, the lactea referring to its milky tones.
We think it deserves a prettier name than the rather clunky 'Milky Orchid' - suggestions please!
March 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
How do you start the day, with tea or coffee? And do you take milk with that?
Today's #bloomscrolling post is a dash of milk in your day - Neotinea lactea, the lactea referring to its milky tones.
We think it deserves a prettier name than the rather clunky 'Milky Orchid' - suggestions please!
Today's #bloomscrolling post is a dash of milk in your day - Neotinea lactea, the lactea referring to its milky tones.
We think it deserves a prettier name than the rather clunky 'Milky Orchid' - suggestions please!
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Here in Beara, sally (willow) is always the first tree species to leaf up come spring.
The faithful harbinger of another season of turning atmospheric CO2 pollution into rich, diverse nature, whether in the rainforest, or rewilding up the hill. 🌏
The faithful harbinger of another season of turning atmospheric CO2 pollution into rich, diverse nature, whether in the rainforest, or rewilding up the hill. 🌏
March 19, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Here in Beara, sally (willow) is always the first tree species to leaf up come spring.
The faithful harbinger of another season of turning atmospheric CO2 pollution into rich, diverse nature, whether in the rainforest, or rewilding up the hill. 🌏
The faithful harbinger of another season of turning atmospheric CO2 pollution into rich, diverse nature, whether in the rainforest, or rewilding up the hill. 🌏
It's so nice to open up BlueSky and see some of my old timeline again. ☕
March 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
It's so nice to open up BlueSky and see some of my old timeline again. ☕
Everything is very bleak in the world folks but I'm settling into my new garden. Yes the pond needs some work!
March 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Everything is very bleak in the world folks but I'm settling into my new garden. Yes the pond needs some work!
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I've just joined the Real Cheese Project as a subscriber. Looking forward to a cheese and a new artisan cheese arriving every month.
International shipping is the enemy of science, and of cheese. 🧀
In other news, @theguardian.com is now on this platform.
In other news, @theguardian.com is now on this platform.
UK cheeses miss out on international prize after getting stuck in customs
November 22, 2024 at 10:07 PM
I've just joined the Real Cheese Project as a subscriber. Looking forward to a cheese and a new artisan cheese arriving every month.
I cooked oxtail stew overnight in the slow cooker. The meat was falling off the bones and I added some dark chocolate for good measure. Indescribably good to come home to dumplings and stew after a long walk in the freezing cold this evening 🐕
November 20, 2024 at 8:17 PM
I cooked oxtail stew overnight in the slow cooker. The meat was falling off the bones and I added some dark chocolate for good measure. Indescribably good to come home to dumplings and stew after a long walk in the freezing cold this evening 🐕