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Today marks three years since the iconic Sycamore Gap tree was illegally felled. We're pleased to bring you new images which reveal how the stump is growing, a sure sign that the tree is in recovery.

Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä's record collection. tovejansson.com/tove-tuulikk...

The exceptional collection of 500 vinyl records of Tove and Tuulikki

Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä's vinyl records collection is exceptional – a collection for true music lovers.

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I think we have enough data to show if you're arresting elderly human rights lawyers you are not the good guys in this story.

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 7d ago

Jewish human rights barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action https://aje.news/zjyo4q

My local - and excellent - Nepalese restaurant has run into philosophical deep waters.

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Anne Robbins@hincmariana.bsky.social · last wk.

I do but not from google news. @greenwichwire is pretty much the only journal covering my local issues. No local papers still exist, but the council still needs public interest reporting. This story comes from there, without its author being given much credit or support.

The "Scare-Fox", 1910. A mechanical device, designed to keep foxes away from pheasants: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/scare-fox

Brief reminder that Greenwich was not always the safe Labour constituency we see today.

Overjoyed for my fabulous colleague Nadine Mitschunas. Not only an expert field ecologist at UKCEH, but one of the UK's top gardeners, winning the BBC Gardeners World Magazine's 'best of the best' of the decade. And on a shoestring budget. Look what she created: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gu2...

10 Years of Gardens of the Year: Meet Our Best of the Best Winner

YouTube video by BBC Gardeners' World Magazine

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Live, Laugh, Love but as a strategy.

🌸 Autumn catalogue of floricultural stock... /. Buffalo, NY: Long Brothers.. [Source]

"A taint of the supernatural had mixed itself with the healthy odour of the drying shallots."

To assume a supposedly egalitarian 'Anglo-Saxon' golden age ignores the fact that pre-conquest England was very much plugged into developments on the continent & assumes that nothing would have changed. Well, it blantly was as William's was the second violent conquest of the 11thc for starters. 12/

Quite a selection of books at Deptford market yesterday.

its use 'the greater light to rule the day & the lesser light to rule the night; and the stars also 'to give light upon the earth. It is a harmless and universal propensity to magnify consequences that appertain to ourselves & woud be a foolish thing to try the test of the scriptures upon these...

order as near as I can reccolect. I have read the first chapter of Genesis the beginning of which is very fine, but the sacred historian took a great deal upon credit for this world when he imagines that God created the sun moon & stars those mysterious hosts of heaven for no other purpose than...

No connection to these folks / haven't done any diligence / am a bit skint myself to chip in rn (maybe later) / crowdfund investing is risky. But. Looks like a great little musical/cultural project, in a corner of SE London that would v much benefit from it. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/sistermidn...

Sister Midnight: The Final Push

Build a home for local music, community power and shared ownership in Catford.

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Spat out my tea reading this review of The Uprising. The what of what now? Popular understanding of medieval history has taken a hell of a pounding in recent weeks. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

Well this spammy scammer brought me joy! Author Jonathan Foster (or IS it George Weinstein) missing the AI point: faint praise. Though I love the sign off ‘perkily’ & may adopt it with my earlier happy accident: ‘all beset, perkily, Nicola. And I DO want to know what the Cafe touches are. Don’t I?

I'm off to my favourite charity shop in Leigh to buy a Thesaurus. Ah look, just the thing...

An ancient listing, flagged in an old cutting from the Guardian, for a job at Southeast Missouri State University, to teach philosophy and religious studies. Startlingly frank.

Well, this is appalling and shameful www.economist.com/finance-and-... From The Economist

okay so the festival might be legit but I’m fairly sure the email I just received about it… is not

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The only people this talking point might work on would have to live so far away from London that they don't have everyday understanding of how Ulez works and, crucially, have no vote in this election.

I mentioned a couple of days ago that there was a pod of Dolphins in the loch. Yesterday, they came back, and I managed to get some footage. The largest of them was huge. Best guess; 4 metres long.

#OtD 26 Aug 1921 workers in the mills and bakeries declared a soviet (aka: a workers' council) in Bruree, Ireland. A rare photograph features a sign workers affixed to one of the mills, reading "Bruree Soviet Workers Mills. We make bread not profits." stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9804...

Did early medieval Laon specialise in rebellious bishops who were nephews of bishops of Rheims, or am I just imagining the parallels between Hincmar and Adalbero? #medievalsky

The American Colony of Jerusalem’s “Wild Flowers of Palestine” (ca. 1900–20), hundreds of stereographs of rockrose, lupin, bryony, mandrake, “akkoub”, and scores of other species: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/wild-flowers-of-palestine/

Part of petrichor, the delish earthy smell released when rain hits parched ground, is geosmin,a compound from soil bacteria-human👃s can detect it in lower concentrations than sharks can detect blood in water. Seeking out water on dry plains was essential for our ancestors. Here’s a geosmin molecule: