what a spectacle ... not quite THE spectacle, but still ... #eclipse #Hoylake #Wirral

@greengathering.bsky.social Encouraging you to use Bluesky a little more. After all @zackpolanski.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social And @shane-collins.bsky.social can't all be wrong can they?

🦔 We are thrilled to announce that @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social will be the opening speaker at our Nature Festival this Saturday. Always full of hilarious anecdotes and fun facts, 'Hedgehog Hugh' will be telling us how hedgehogs can save the world! 💪 See you there! 🌍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

Want to be in with a chance of winning a copy of the new RSPB Pocket Book of Hedgehogs? Enter on @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social's Substack now: hughwarwick.substack.com/p/prize-give...

Prize giveaway ...

who wants to win one of my new hedgehog books?

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Want to win a copy of my new book? Just answer (correctly!!) one very easy question ... hughwarwick.substack.com/p/prize-give...

Want to do a hedgehog PhD? Want a hedgehog on a banknote? And want to know how I beat Muhammad Ali? All in the latest update ... hughwarwick.substack.com/p/it-was-eit...

some disturbing new research into what we are feeding our pets and the wildlife we are trying to help ... hughwarwick.substack.com/p/are-you-fe...

I am so thrilled to announce that @lfcr.bsky.social are the winners of the most prestigious prize open to football teams in the UK ... (sorry @arsenalfc.bsky.social ) that's right, they have won the 'Hedgehog Cup'!!! Link in first comment for more ... @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social

Wonderful night with @londonsymphony.bsky.social - with Sir Simon Rattle and Lucy Crowe weaving magic between them. 4 Last songs and Mahler 4 - and the Roberto Gerhard piece was astounding ... amazing to think it was only 12 years after the Strauss - a different universe!

Still recovering from the wonderful @woodhq.bsky.social festival - had a great time hosting the Kindling stage - loads of brilliant speakers ... @robinince.bsky.social @kityates.bsky.social @helenpilcher.bsky.social @edfinch.bsky.social among many others hughwarwick.substack.com/p/wood-was-g...

Wood was Good!

a tonic for the soul

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The world can feel so overwhelming, but hedgehogs remind us we’re not all entirely powerless. Simple acts can help them on their journeys — and for those of us who can, that kind of everyday kindness is often where our care for a much harder world begins... hughwarwick.substack.com/p/hedgehog-a...

Hedgehog Awareness Week! Join in ... sign up to the Hedgehog Pledge ... find ways to help through the @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social hughwarwick.substack.com/p/hedgehog-a...

I went on a Prospect Cottage Pilgrimage while down in Dungeness - such a beautiful, bleak, organic, and industrial landscape! hughwarwick.substack.com/p/a-prospect... @rspb.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @dungenessbirdobs.bsky.social #birds #nuclear #nature #DerekJarman

cracked it on the first day!!! But still the charity can VERY usefully use your donations.

Prickles and Paws Hedgehog Rescue@pricklesandpaws.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Your donation = DOUBLE the impact 💥 We’re so close to our goal — already at 86% of our target 🎯 Every £1 you give is matched, turning kindness into real change. Help us cross the finish line and be part of something bigger ❤️ donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social

Bluebells - went for a walk with my dog and my camera - was not disappointed!!!

Writing Cull of the Wild forced me to think really rather hard! Nothing was particularly simple... this is a clip from the talk I gave @greengathering.bsky.social - thanks @camerazoe.bsky.social - link to that in the comments - as well as to my substack account where all sorts of things pop up!

Do you ever find it hard to speak to people with very different opinions? I certainly struggle to burst out of my bubble ... here is a short clip of a film which is linked to in my latest Substack ... hughwarwick.substack.com/p/bursting-b...

Bursting bubbles ... Talk from Hedgehog Hugh (warwick) @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social covers an important theme - how we best communicate with people of differing views. open.substack.com/pub/hughwarw...

Bursting bubbles ...

learning how to communicate beyond our own echo-chambers

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I wrote about my lawn being 'spangled with dandies' - well, now the clocks have come! Which is your favourite? open.substack.com/pub/hughwarw...

Spangled with Dandies! My lawn is rebelling against the Cult of Tidiness (in fact, so is my house!) If you would like to read all about this rebellion and also get a sneak peak at who is coming along to this year on my Kindling stage @woodhq.bsky.social find the link in the comments!!

We’ve moved into bigger premises🏡✨ now we need more hutches to increase capacity🦔🐾 A wonderful group of Newquay students have set up a crowdfunder for us —please help us build more hutches💚 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/homes-for-hedgehogs @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social

Many thanks to: - @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social for his kind opening words -Truro High School for girls for providing the shuttle bus -Watergate Bay Hotel for providing parking - Sodexo for the delicious buffet - RAF St Mawgan for providing the gazebo -All of you for making this Hogspital possible🫶🦔🐾

You might have heard the news about wildlife appearing on UK banknotes ... well ... I have a plan!! Thank you to Nick Cope for his wonderful Hugh (the hedgehog!) - have a read and a share and let's get hedgehogs where they belong! hughwarwick.substack.com/p/prickly-ba...

really good piece from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social - as ever! Doomed to repeat, we are! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot

Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

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#WorldBookDay - apparently - well - here is my contribution, so far. Two more out this year ... and another one on which I am working when not getting distracted by unrelated ideas that then end up on substack ... I will point you to the comments for the link to my most recent piece

Lovely write up of the memorial for the wonderful Romain Roch, who died in January, aged 22..poet, anarchist, lover of the wild and one of the kindest people I have ever met. In these shattered times, love and kindest are radical and necessary.

Hugh Warwick@hedgehoghugh.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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‘Grow your heart to the size of the world.’ It is a risky business, falling in love - with people, with animals, with the world - but we have to take the chance - we cannot afford to give up. Some words (link in comments) on the loss of a bright light ..

A Close Shave - wildlife hospitals do so much amazing work ... this #hedgehog lost the top of a patch of spines ...a VERY lucky hedgehog! Does Bluesky squelch substack links? Just in case putting the story in the comments ... actually - if anyone knows, please tell me!

A Close Shave ... Hugh Warwick @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social on hedghogs & other beautiful animals at an animal rescue centre open.substack.com/pub/hughwarw...

A Close Shave ...

for a very lucky hedgehog!

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Turns out that Oxford is a hot spot for beauty in/of the beasts 🤣 The only reasonable thing is to read them both!

Hugh Warwick@hedgehoghugh.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Thrilled that @jowimpenny.bsky.social has a new book - so much good in Beauty of the Beasts ... even if the title reminds me of something!!! hughwarwick.substack.com/p/beauty-of-...