Compared to this month in 2025, I receive £183 more income a month (Yay!) However, bills have increased by £334.02 a month. This is all just mortgage, insurances, council tax, water etc. No subscriptions, no frills. Does not include food and diesel. No wonder everyone feels skint. We are!

Not sure if anyone speaks bee, but what could this red tailed bumble bee be trying to say? Today a neighbour complained that a shrub in my garden was bringing too many insects in. That’s the point of the shrub, I replied, as I had this little one clinging to the sleeve of my jumper 🐝

This is crazy and wrong. Darkness is important to the health of many species, including ours. Do not allow this, people! #ALAN #darksky @danidarkskies.bsky.social @darkskyintl.bsky.social

F.C.C. Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry

A start-up company has permission to try its plan to bounce solar rays onto the dark side of Earth, turning night to day for a three-mile-wide patch.

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‘Scotland could freeze datacentre projects in challenge to UK’s AI strategy’ Starmer was an uncritical booster of AI. I hope Burnham takes a different approach www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Scotland could freeze datacentre projects in challenge to UK’s AI strategy

Scottish government to consider SNP national council motion for moratorium on all new datacentres

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“Council calls off climate emergency” is a remarkable headline. A bit like voting to declare the Earth flat. Whether politicians acknowledge a problem and whether that problem continues to exist are, unfortunately, two entirely different things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Suffolk Reform council plans to call off climate emergency

Suffolk County Council plans to audit all its environmental projects.

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So proud to be flying the flag for darkness on the @endsreport.com Power List 2026! Privileged to have made the list of top 100 most impactful environmental professionals, there are some amazing people doing incredible things on that list, and all of us fighting the good fight for nature ✨

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🎆 POWER LIST: PUBLIC SECTOR 🎆 Day two of the ENDS Power list 2026 announcements begins with the environmental champions in the UK public sector 🥁 Here are the 14 successful nominees from the government and its arm's-length bodies across UK nations 🧵

Goodness me. Never thought I’d see the day he admitted this! Credit where credit is due. It’s important to allow people to recognise when they are wrong and change their minds.

Did you know that we are now without true nighttime in the UK? From now until late August/early September (depending where you are) we remain in perpetual twilight

FITBIT USERS So, the switch from the old app to ‘Google health’ has totally ruined Fitbit for me. The app is unusable. I don’t want Google having my health records. I don’t want an ’AI coach’. Plus it’s just ugly. Anyone recommendations for a different fitness watch?

When ‘Please mind the gap’ should really be, ‘please mind the abyss’ 🚆 The old wooden steps are so rickety now too 🤣

This Thursday evening in Aberystwyth, I’ll be talking with the writer sisters Francesca Rhydderch and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch about their brilliant new books. They truly are. Event organised by Waterstones, but taking place in the town library. Dewch yn llu! www.waterstones.com/events/in-co...

In Conversation with Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch and Francesca Rhydderch | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about In Conversation with Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch and Francesca Rhydderch today.

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No Mow May Day 5 offerings: Very pretty Common Cornsalad. No idea where that’s come from. Germander Speedwell, always a favourite with me! So delicate and colourful. Wild strawberry and some mint has also arrived. Lovely!

Over the moon to be speaking this year at the du Maurier Fowey Literary Festival, about my book 'Dancing with Bees' Do please come if you can... or pass details to anyone visiting, or living in Cornwall who might be interested Fri 8th May at 11am Tickets 👇 www.foweyfestival.com/event/brigit...

Brigit Strawbridge Howard – Dancing with Bees - The du Maurier Fowey Literary Festival

Enchanting, insightful and full of quiet magic, this event is perfect for nature lovers, gardeners, environmentalists and anyone ready to fall under the spell of bees.

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'Starry Starry night' hand embroidered artwork by Vicki Foster, contemporary textile artist #WomensArt

UK households made up of straight couples; have you also had electoral ‘literature’ sent to your address from Reform, addressed only to the male in the house? All other literature from other parties has been addressed to both of us.

Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater. This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning. Never doubt your power to change the system.

Walking through the pitch black dunes in gales and I get the absolute life scared out of me by a Typhoon jet. Was really weird seeing its glowing engines in the dark night. Pretty unusual activity, anyone else been buzzed by them this evening?

It's always a good idea to keep dogs on a lead at this time of year for the safety of livestock and our ground nesting birds.

A Reform UK lead candidate is trying to bully NationCymru and a councillor who left Reform after raising concerns about her candidacy by issuing threats of legal action ✍️Martin Shipton

Reform UK lead candidate threatens Nation.Cymru and former party colleague

Martin Shipton A Reform UK lead candidate is trying to bully Nation.Cymru and a councillor who left Reform after raising concerns about her candidacy by issuing threats of legal action. Both Nation.Cy...

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This is how you tackle the ‘falling birth rate’. You support families and importantly, you support women into work. Many women my age cannot afford a family due to childcare costs and I refuse to quit work to have a child that I would then have to raise whilst struggling @plaidcymru.bsky.social

Happy International Dark Sky Week! 🌌 When was the last time you remember standing under a truly dark sky? Have you ever? The Milky Way has been lost to over a third of humanity. We’ve scrubbed it from the skies with light pollution. Follow @darkskyintl.bsky.social to find out how you can help 🌌

Can’t believe we live in the age of billionaires and not one of them has become Batman yet

No judgement from me, but the guy in front of me at the supermarket spent £161.80 on Guinness, Fray Bentos pies and a singular avocado. I need to know where the avocado comes into the equation.

Genuine question: I use my time driving to sing. A lot. Like none stop. I never see anyone else belting songs out when they pass me. Is it not normal to sing when driving!?

My job as a Dark Skies Officer summed up…

#FindsFriday The stunning head of the Capel Garmon firedog, dug up from a peat bog in north Wales in 1852 A masterpiece of Late Iron Age forging & smithing, with bull's horns & plaited equine mane representing a composite animal More here: coflein.gov.uk/en/site/800314 📷 My own, NMW St Fagans

Tomorrows sees the start of Welsh Dark Sky Week 🌌 Yes - I have booked the weather… Check out your local National Park or National Landscape website/social media for events near you ✨

Absolutely love these little bore waves that keep appearing on an otherwise totally calm estuary. Is there anyone more marine adept than I who can explain the physics?

Cannot describe how much I wish there was a ‘bike bus’ in this country and how much joy it would bring me to see that 🚴‍♀️ If you don’t know what I’m talking about, google ‘bike bus Portland’

Did I hear that right? Jeremy Kyle, disgraced talk show host, has been training Reform candidates in Wales? What kind of fever dream is this