Poppy-pooh
@poppy-poo.bsky.social
Keen walker, book worm and history buff. Love nature and fascinated by rewilding.
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I’ve dreamt about a swift brick win & front pages of newspapers but this is a nightmare. It’s not a win. This is a meaningless policy with no legal requirement, no enforcement & no transparency inviting housebuilders who’ve bragged about blocking swift bricks to do it themselves
December 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I’ve dreamt about a swift brick win & front pages of newspapers but this is a nightmare. It’s not a win. This is a meaningless policy with no legal requirement, no enforcement & no transparency inviting housebuilders who’ve bragged about blocking swift bricks to do it themselves
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This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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“All this ethereal summer visitor asks is help in finding a spot. Labour however cares nothing for this miracle. …. This is wrong. Swifties everywhere must fly to the aid of this marvel of the air.” - The Times
November 16, 2025 at 8:57 AM
“All this ethereal summer visitor asks is help in finding a spot. Labour however cares nothing for this miracle. …. This is wrong. Swifties everywhere must fly to the aid of this marvel of the air.” - The Times
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Author wrote best book he's ever written.
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
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Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Author wrote best book he's ever written.
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
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In 2023, the Labour party supported mandating swift bricks, whipping FOR the swifts brick amendment. 2 years later, the same Ministers in charge of Housing put a 3 line whip (the most extreme block) AGAINST swift bricks. Listen to the strength of support in this powerful speech.
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
In 2023, the Labour party supported mandating swift bricks, whipping FOR the swifts brick amendment. 2 years later, the same Ministers in charge of Housing put a 3 line whip (the most extreme block) AGAINST swift bricks. Listen to the strength of support in this powerful speech.
A robin sings his heart out in the strawberry tree in my garden. Thank you for the music, little one 🎶
September 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
A robin sings his heart out in the strawberry tree in my garden. Thank you for the music, little one 🎶
Such love, determination and resilience. The final quote about entering eternity by walking into a meadow is just lovely
September 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Such love, determination and resilience. The final quote about entering eternity by walking into a meadow is just lovely
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Huh. Today I learned that English Heritage gives free admission to people who have been granted refugee status. What an excellent policy.
August 31, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Huh. Today I learned that English Heritage gives free admission to people who have been granted refugee status. What an excellent policy.
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Breaking news: Hotel workers at Radisson Blu, Canary Wharf (mainly migrant women from Nepal) ended a 6-week strike w/ ALL demands met. When we organise, we win. Solidarity forever ❤️
www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/press-rel...
www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/press-rel...
Hotel Housekeepers call off 6-week strike at international hotel chain after historic victory
UVW
www.uvwunion.org.uk
August 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Breaking news: Hotel workers at Radisson Blu, Canary Wharf (mainly migrant women from Nepal) ended a 6-week strike w/ ALL demands met. When we organise, we win. Solidarity forever ❤️
www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/press-rel...
www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/press-rel...
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"We could resolve this by creating safe, legal and managed routes."
@elliechowns.bsky.social responds to Reform's dangerous rhetoric on migration with the Green Party's genuine, compassionate, common-sense solutions.
@elliechowns.bsky.social responds to Reform's dangerous rhetoric on migration with the Green Party's genuine, compassionate, common-sense solutions.
August 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"We could resolve this by creating safe, legal and managed routes."
@elliechowns.bsky.social responds to Reform's dangerous rhetoric on migration with the Green Party's genuine, compassionate, common-sense solutions.
@elliechowns.bsky.social responds to Reform's dangerous rhetoric on migration with the Green Party's genuine, compassionate, common-sense solutions.
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It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
August 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
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The threat to our society is not from asylum seekers in small boats. It’s from politicians and media cynically whipping up fear and prejudice, labelling them all as criminals, inciting hatred against people for where and what they’ve fled from.
It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.
It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.
August 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The threat to our society is not from asylum seekers in small boats. It’s from politicians and media cynically whipping up fear and prejudice, labelling them all as criminals, inciting hatred against people for where and what they’ve fled from.
It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.
It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.
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July 31, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Do you spray pesticides in public areas @wiltscouncil.bsky.social Asking as a resident. I look forward to hearing from you.
🚫🌼 Most UK councils still spray pesticides in parks, playgrounds and pavements, harming bumblebees and other wildlife.
📌 Check your council’s record: www.pan-uk.org/pesticide-free
📣 Demand better or celebrate progress!
#PesticideFreeTowns #PollinatorsNotPesticides
📌 Check your council’s record: www.pan-uk.org/pesticide-free
📣 Demand better or celebrate progress!
#PesticideFreeTowns #PollinatorsNotPesticides
July 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Do you spray pesticides in public areas @wiltscouncil.bsky.social Asking as a resident. I look forward to hearing from you.
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⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
July 23, 2025 at 6:46 AM
⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
I'm not normally a fan of hybrid tea roses, but Chandos Beauty has bewitched me. The blooms are big, blousy and highly fragrant.
#rosewednesday #hybridtearose #englishroses
#rosewednesday #hybridtearose #englishroses
June 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I'm not normally a fan of hybrid tea roses, but Chandos Beauty has bewitched me. The blooms are big, blousy and highly fragrant.
#rosewednesday #hybridtearose #englishroses
#rosewednesday #hybridtearose #englishroses
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Nature friendly farming approaches can reduce need for pesticides, improve soil health, & create buffer strips to reduce the amount of pesticide entering waterways. Robust, reliable, easy to access funding for such measures is vital to river health.
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour cutting farming budget in England by £100m a year, figures shows
Nature and farmers’ groups cautiously welcome spending review as there were fears Treasury wanted bigger cuts
www.theguardian.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Nature friendly farming approaches can reduce need for pesticides, improve soil health, & create buffer strips to reduce the amount of pesticide entering waterways. Robust, reliable, easy to access funding for such measures is vital to river health.
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Apparently it’s world swift day. Email angela.rayner.mp@parliament.uk saying PLEASE MANDATE SWIFT BRICKS and add that to the subject line too. You’ll get an automated response but if we all email it will have a trickle up effect that’s better than a petition. So ask at least one person to do it too
June 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Apparently it’s world swift day. Email angela.rayner.mp@parliament.uk saying PLEASE MANDATE SWIFT BRICKS and add that to the subject line too. You’ll get an automated response but if we all email it will have a trickle up effect that’s better than a petition. So ask at least one person to do it too
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Keir Starmer needs to listen not to housebuilders but nightingales! More great reporting by my colleague Helena Horton. Madness that the best place in Britain for this endangered bird is owned by a housing quango. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘All the birdsong in the world in one sound’: England’s nightingale haven at risk from planning bill
Conservationists warn that losing Lodge Hill in Kent to housing could be a catastrophe for one of Britain’s most at-risk birds
www.theguardian.com
June 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Keir Starmer needs to listen not to housebuilders but nightingales! More great reporting by my colleague Helena Horton. Madness that the best place in Britain for this endangered bird is owned by a housing quango. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The warning couldn’t be clearer. ⚠️
Slashing the nature-friendly farming budget would be catastrophic for the nature and climate crisis, and for our long-term food security.
What's more, it would leave the UK Government’s credibility on climate and nature in tatters.
Slashing the nature-friendly farming budget would be catastrophic for the nature and climate crisis, and for our long-term food security.
What's more, it would leave the UK Government’s credibility on climate and nature in tatters.
May 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The warning couldn’t be clearer. ⚠️
Slashing the nature-friendly farming budget would be catastrophic for the nature and climate crisis, and for our long-term food security.
What's more, it would leave the UK Government’s credibility on climate and nature in tatters.
Slashing the nature-friendly farming budget would be catastrophic for the nature and climate crisis, and for our long-term food security.
What's more, it would leave the UK Government’s credibility on climate and nature in tatters.
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Labour promised to restore nature. ❌
Instead, their Planning Bill contains a licence to destroy it.
We offered solutions. We’re done waiting.
Part 3 of the Bill would gut the laws protecting our most precious habitats & species.
Without significant change, it must be scrapped.
Instead, their Planning Bill contains a licence to destroy it.
We offered solutions. We’re done waiting.
Part 3 of the Bill would gut the laws protecting our most precious habitats & species.
Without significant change, it must be scrapped.
May 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Labour promised to restore nature. ❌
Instead, their Planning Bill contains a licence to destroy it.
We offered solutions. We’re done waiting.
Part 3 of the Bill would gut the laws protecting our most precious habitats & species.
Without significant change, it must be scrapped.
Instead, their Planning Bill contains a licence to destroy it.
We offered solutions. We’re done waiting.
Part 3 of the Bill would gut the laws protecting our most precious habitats & species.
Without significant change, it must be scrapped.
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'Keir Starmer’s planning bill......as it stands, lets developers “pay cash to trash nature” '
Another stupid, ill-thought out, bill that will alienate even more voters
Assuming there are any still left to alienate
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Another stupid, ill-thought out, bill that will alienate even more voters
Assuming there are any still left to alienate
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Planning bill will ‘push public towards Reform’: Labour’s Chris Hinchliff on standing up for nature
MP says draft law will let developers ‘pay cash to trash’ habitats and urges colleagues to back his amendments
www.theguardian.com
May 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
'Keir Starmer’s planning bill......as it stands, lets developers “pay cash to trash nature” '
Another stupid, ill-thought out, bill that will alienate even more voters
Assuming there are any still left to alienate
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Another stupid, ill-thought out, bill that will alienate even more voters
Assuming there are any still left to alienate
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This is what I want in a house … you can keep those kitchen islands, spare bedrooms & driveways …
A last fly past and both swifts are in this morning. The moment, greatly anticipated for 10 months, has arrived - Harold and Maude back safely. Cross sparrows, happy me. @rspb.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @levparikian.bsky.social @katebradbury.bsky.social @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
This is what I want in a house … you can keep those kitchen islands, spare bedrooms & driveways …
What a treat it was to have the Moon visit a church in our town recently. It was awe-inspiring and rather thought provoking. She's back up in the sky now 😉
May 12, 2025 at 7:07 AM
What a treat it was to have the Moon visit a church in our town recently. It was awe-inspiring and rather thought provoking. She's back up in the sky now 😉
May meadows with buttercups and bluebells, both white and blue. There's something about meadows that fills my heart with joy ❤️
May 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
May meadows with buttercups and bluebells, both white and blue. There's something about meadows that fills my heart with joy ❤️