It's not just about what you've spotted, it's about the little moments every meadow lover knows all too well...🌼 Full house, anyone? 🐝
‘Great Inventions, 1961’ Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Artist: Robert Ayton
Hi @silverpebble2.bsky.social you are on countryfile talking lichen at Dungeness and you are so engaging. Looks an amazing place .
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I used LiDAR data and historic mapping to help farmers in the Chilterns find extinct historic ponds to re-instate, creating vital wet habitat space.
This has been a bit of time coming but so glad its now out in time for #FestivalofArchaeology. A call to #Archaeologists to help tackle the nature crisis. Share your examples of how archaeology has helped nature restoration? @nattrustarch.bsky.social www.nationaltrust.org.uk/services/med...
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The National Trust, Oxford Archaeology and Knepp Castle Estate have launched the ‘Knepp Accord’, a new framework to tackle the nature and climate crisis.
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Reminder: Sat 25th July, 2pm, at Potteries Museum, Stoke I'm going to be giving a *brand new* talk torcing about the Staffordshire Torc Odyssey & the wonderful gold that has been found in the county. Talk is *FREE* to attend, just turn up. #Archaeology ⚱️ www.stokemuseums.org.uk/pmag/whats-o...
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A study organised by California Polytechnic State University of 256 Cook pines (Araucaria columnaris) across 5 continents north & south of the equator, showed that they ALL leaned TOWARDS the equator, and the further from the equator the more they leaned
You might find this piece on Rogers interesting it focuses on 6 of her best routines.
Ginger Rogers: 6 essential dance routines
Mixing sass, sophistication and astonishing footwork, Ginger Rogers’ best dance routines are some of the peerless highlights of the musical genre.
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Swifts don’t stop to feed their chicks one insect at a time. Instead, they collect hundreds in a special pouch in their throat, then head back to the nest with a little insect-packed parcel. It can contain up to 1,000 insects. 🤯 Check out that throat pouch 👇 📷 @mart-the-gooner.bsky.social
Our first time taking @nattrustarch.bsky.social to #Groundswell regenerative agriculture festival. What a fabulous experience! So many great conversations about the ways archaeology can help sustainable choices and nature recovery on farmland. Hopefully we will be back next year!
Why not write a poem With seventeen syllables And travel in time⌛
Council for British Archaeology@archaeologyuk.bsky.social · last mo.Write three little lines Where nature meets history Send us your haiku Our Festival of Archaeology competition is now open, and this year we’re asking you to write a haiku inspired by archaeology and nature. To enter, submit your original haiku by 3 August 👉 shorturl.at/FOcx1 T&Cs apply
#hillfortsWednesday I'm teaming up with @naturalengland.bsky.social and the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social Festival of Archaeology to take a look at a special hillfort that is not yet publicly accessible. Also a fragile SSSI, Ravensburgh hillfort is one of the largest in the Chilterns. 22 July,join us?
July from Eliot Hodgkin's 'The Months', 1950. A globe artichoke takes centre stage, surrounded by heady white nicotiana flowers, a flaked carnation, a poppy head, cornflowers, begonias and Chinese forget-me-not. There are luscious summer berries but also the sinister touch of deadly nightshade.
Other names for Chicory are ‘watcher-of-the-road’ and ‘blue sailor weed’. A legend tells of a maiden who waited by the roadside for her beloved, never knowing he had been lost at sea. Tears from her blue eyes became the flower, forever watching for his return. #FairytaleTuesday
June’s full moon is known in Europe as the #RoseMoon, named for the season when roses are at their glorious peak. In North America it is the Strawberry Moon, marking the strawberry harvest, while elsewhere it is called the Hot Moon, reflecting the arrival of summer heat in June.
Did u know? Stop & consider the amazing lives of small souls in our outside spaces. This munching Mullein moth, for example - it will molt 4 times before turning into a pupa & then it's in the ground, in this stage for up to 5 years before the brown adult moth emerges! Celebrate the small. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐛🦋
Join me on Monday 20 July for a Festival of #Archaeology walk through the Avebury landscape. And discover a past world where wild creatures once roamed among chalkland streams and mega monuments shorturl.at/7PZ2U @nattrustarch.bsky.social @archaeologyuk.bsky.social
One of my favourite downpipes…not sure I had a particular thing for rainwater goods, until I saw this! 🤩 😂 One of the many excellent new(ish) interventions at Caernarfon Castle.
25th June is the feast day of St William of Vercelli. In the Saints’ Calendar of Flowers, sweet Williams (Dianthus barbatus) are dedicated to his day. Old folk names include “London tufts” and “painted ladies”. In floriography they symbolise gallantry & finesse. #FolkloreThursday
I'll be hosting another @archaeologyuk.bsky.social webinar later this month. Join me and @tonyjuniper.bsky.social for An Evening with Natural England's Archaeologists 📅 24 June at 7pm 👉 Book a free place: www.archaeologyuk.org/get-involved...
An Evening With Natural England's Archaeologists
Join CBA and hear from key speakers from Natural England, the Government’s nature and landscape advisor on how nature and archaeology can work together to help recover habitats and build better places...
archaeologyuk.org
When your name is called during a meeting but you weren't listening... 📷 Hanne Siebers
an evening with @naturalengland.bsky.social Historic environment team coming up soon! book your free tickets online.
Hannah Rigden@hannahrigden.bsky.social · 2mo agoif you'd like to meet my colleagues and learn more about how nature and archaeology go hand in hand for nature recovery, a talk coming up in advance of @archaeologyuk.bsky.social Festival. Hosted by @tonyjuniper.bsky.social , it should be a lovely evening! www.archaeologyuk.org/get-involved...
if you'd like to meet my colleagues and learn more about how nature and archaeology go hand in hand for nature recovery, a talk coming up in advance of @archaeologyuk.bsky.social Festival. Hosted by @tonyjuniper.bsky.social , it should be a lovely evening! www.archaeologyuk.org/get-involved...
An Evening With Natural England's Archaeologists
Join CBA and hear from key speakers from Natural England, the Government’s nature and landscape advisor on how nature and archaeology can work together to help recover habitats and build better places...
archaeologyuk.org
One for @tubafoon.bsky.social , lots of wild roses out in the lane this morning
VenetiaJane’s Garden@venetiajane.bsky.social · 2mo ago“On long, serene midsummer days Of ripening fruit and yellowed grain, How sweetly, by dim woodland ways, In tangled hedge or leafy lane, Fair wild rose thickets, you unfold Those pale pink stars with hearts of gold!” - from ‘Wild Roses’ by Edgar Fawcett (1847-1904) #wildflowers
I found this neat tool that lets you generate text and images just from your ideas. It's really good!
Other work of the Ladybird artists ‘Welsh Hill Farm’ CF Tunnicliffe (1949)
