A tiger from the Barton Farm Orpheus Mosaic which was discovered in 1825. Now part of the collections at Corinium Museum in Cirencester. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #Cirencester #CoriniumMuseum
Meg
@roaringmeg.bsky.social
Arts & Crafts art & architecture, Italian Renaissance art, books and beer. Family history addict. Train traveller. Environmentally conscious. Former librarian. Stratford for Europe. Green Party member. Manchester City supporter
As the UN Secretary General says, every new fossil fuel project approved today makes tomorrow’s heatwaves more dangerous & our world less secure. I hope Andy Burnham is listening. Caving in to the fossil fuel lobby as the planet burns would be unforgivable
Burnham risks first revolt as PM over apparent support for North Sea drilling
Labour MPs fear No 10 team lack up-to-date energy insight and don’t fully recognise voters’ climate concerns
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Oct 1950: Watches ad from C. R. HENRY (SALES) LTD. «3 AMAZING WATCH BARGAINS!»
'Cornish dusk" by contemporary painter Mary Pym, who was born in the Netherlands but who now lives in the UK #WomensArt
Reform UK are funded by oil billionaires They want you to think climate change isn't real ... They want you to think drilling for oil would lower bills They are liars Climate change kills hundreds of thousands of people a year Wind & solar are much cheaper, quicker cheaper than oil or gas see below
The Red House, 1906 by Witold Wojtkiewicz (Poland, 1879 -1909). Oil on canvas | 60 x 45 cm. Location: National Museum, Krakow, Poland. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
The Pink Dress, 1891 by Paul Gauguin (French, 1848 - 1903). Oil on canvas | 93 x 73 cm. Location: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
The 19 year old leader of #Warwickshire County Council needs to go back to school himself ! #ClimateChange centralbylines.co.uk/politics/cou...
Council row about climate change teaching in school
Warwickshire County Council: Leader accuses primary school of 'teaching children the world is going to end'
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For generations, people have come to Dunwich Heath for its heather, Nightjars and Dartford Warblers. Now much of that landscape lies blackened. David Jobbins' powerful reflection on an environmental tragedy.
What we’ve lost at Dunwich Heath
Dunwich Heath has burned. The wildlife may take decades to recover
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Participants with poorly controlled asthma experienced a 70% drop in hospital admissions & days missed from work or school. Burning fossil fuels just isn't good for us in so many ways: share.google/qvBffNyFLoDy...
Replacing gas stove can help asthmatics as much as some drugs, US experts find
Team in Ohio finds swapping to electric has ‘very large’ impact, despite study being scaled back by Trump cuts
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Reform scores hat trick of losses in Manchester despite the hype, the polling and the noise around Farage. Over to you now, Clacton. Deal the killer blow and vote Count Binface in August. The country could do with the laugh. And without that grifting loser. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
THIS SHOULD TERRIFY EVERYONE. AI models from two of the world’s biggest AI companies broke out of controlled tests and attempted to hack real-world systems. Regulation isn’t optional anymore. If lawmakers don’t get serious about AI regulation, we’re living on borrowed time.
FIFA ⚽️ investment project scrapped www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Fifa World Cup plans: Gianni Infantino scraps private investment proposal after widespread opposition
Football's world governing body Fifa abandons plans to sell off stakes in its major competitions after widespread opposition to president Gianni Infantino's proposal.
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If you watch anything on #Moroccans coming to #Ceuta, make it this report. CBS News have interviewed some of them & they confirm that social media posts on Facebook & Instagram told them Spain had opened its borders. They're playing with people's hopes & lives. It's awful. We must combat fake news.
Five minutes of utter joy: hundreds in central Birmingham singing and dancing their hearts out to ELO's Mr Blue Sky. They performed it live on TV, part of the handover ceremony to the city for the last Commonwealth Games. As they say on Insta, watch to the end. #brum www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU_x...
Birmingham 2022 Handover
YouTube video by Leesha Mansell
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Released on this day in 1986: Crowded House, the self-titled debut album from #CrowdedHouse youtu.be/J9gKyRmic20?...
Suffolk Bird Group vice chair: "We need to really value our wilder habitats, nature and biodiversity because we all depend on it, and a world without that is going to be a rather sadder place." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Fire-ravaged Dunwich Heath 'could take 25 years to recover'
The vast blaze at the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is still being tackled by firefighters.
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Having recently read the select committee report the part about the GCSE curriculum really jumped out at me - not a new problem as I remember being put off English by it in the late 90s! I only did english A level after meeting an inspiring teacher at sixth form. GCSE English is the mind killer.
Bob Eaglestone @bobeaglestone.bsky.social · 3mo agoI gave evidence to the House of Commons Education Select Committee: very short account here schoolsweek.co.uk/secondary-en...
July 31, 1926: Rupert Neve, a British sound engineer who invented the equipment that made modern studio recording possible, is born in the town of Newton Abbott. Neve mixing consoles were used in the making of records by Fleetwood Mac, Nirana, the Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd, among others.
To the motorist who nearly took out two cyclists and an oncoming car on a blind bend on the Tavistock to Plymouth road- slow down- think of the worst case scenario of your stupidity!