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Simon Houstoun
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Natural world enthusiast
A very rare Lady Orchid, I know it's not in the pea family for this week’s #wildflowerhour but I discovered it today – and think worth sharing. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Low tide & a seemingly endless horizon.

#RyeHarbourNatureReserve #Sussex
May 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Always a bit of effort to reach this spot ...1/2
May 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Reposted by Simon Houstoun
💥London bucks national trends as cycling boom continues💥

New City of London data shows biggest increase cycling since records began:
📈cycling up 57% since 2022
🚲🚲nearly 2x more bikes than cars
📈500% increase in cycling since 1999

www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/assets/Servi...
April 24, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I spotted these snake’s head fritillaries in a damp meadow. Not the tiniest of plants as per #tinyplants but I still had to look hard for them @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildlfowerhour
April 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Reposted by Simon Houstoun
🚨Email your MP to back my Bill to ban pesticides from public spaces! 🐝🌱

We’re facing a biodiversity crisis and our urban areas can help reverse this decline.

100 councils have already taken action and with proper legislation and guidance, the rest can too.
pan-uk.eaction.org.uk/edm-urban-pe...
April 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Sand wavelines…

The interaction of flowing water (tidal currents, waves, or wind) with the sediment on the seabed creates these.
#coast #seashore
April 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Hopefully #London will follow suit.
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.

Good trade.
April 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
US currently well on the way to full-blown authoritarianism....it looks like.
🧵DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY

I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent.

It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy.

based on
christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...
1/18
April 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Sussex is a county with contrasting coastal landscapes.
#coast #Sussex
April 12, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Beautiful day today on the south coast.
I spotted a group of turnstones on an old wooden groyne. Enjoying the warm sun & taking respite from their aerial circular manoeuvres. #RyeHarbourNatureReserve #Sussex
March 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Sharing intelligence with this lot not recommended..
March 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Best ad yet..
Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.

Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK

Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.
March 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Another fine day for a latest #winterdip #photography #coast
March 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Great to see this in #Copenhagen ..good on the #Danes
“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.”

#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level
Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...
www.latimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Reposted by Simon Houstoun
Trump wants to annex Canada because, as a convicted felon, he can’t go there any other way.
Marco Rubio in Canada: "The president has made his argument as to why he thinks Canada would be better off joining the United States."
March 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Seems an ocean is no barrier to idiocy..
Trump 2.0 is turning out to be America’s Brexit - and cheered on by the same crowd of bigots, charlatans and fools on both sides of the Atlantic…
Too late, too late…clowns!
March 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
winter sun ..
March 14, 2025 at 9:06 AM