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of acquiescent temper, miscellaneous opinions, and uncertain vote.
This is fun! the Pollinator Pathmaker online tool www.pollinator.art – create your own artwork to plant at home. Input your location, plot size, and garden conditions, then tweak the algorithm's parameters to create a planting scheme maximised for pollinator diversity.
Pollinator Pathmaker
Create a garden for pollinators with Pollinator Pathmaker - an interactive tool by artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
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This evening on #TPTV Wed-5-Aug All programmes #TPTVsubtitles 18:30 GIVE US A CLUE (1985) 19:00 OUT OF TOWN (1981) 19:30 TRAVELLING MAN (1985) 20:35 AN ENGLISHMAN ABROAD (1983) Premiere 21:50 FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)
Chestnuts overhang the old road through France to Florence OK, maybe it’s only 20 miles south of London, but I like the phrase, it’s the title of an old book my grandmother had
Alarming exhibit at the Rolling Stones museum . . . oh, no. Still at the 'In Bloom' exhibition in the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social in Oxford www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions
The photography studio founded by the Alinari brothers in Florence in the 1850s played a large part in shaping how the rest of the world came to see Italy. Today, the extraordinary archives the firm left behind are a testament to this technological and artistic revolution.
View-finding in Italy
Established in 1852 by three brothers, the Alinari firm produced many of the oldest photographs of Italy. Sophie Barling visits its vast archive in Florence
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Horton Cemetery, Epsom has been nominated for Everyday History Heroes award for their work to uncover stories of some of the 9,000 patients who died in Epson's psychiatric hospitals from 1899 to 1955 www.findmypast.co.uk/c/everyday-h... @epsomcivicsociety.bsky.social @thehortonepsom.bsky.social
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳@ancestralenq.bsky.social · yesterdayHorton Cemetery, Epsom, Surrey has been nominated for Everyday History Heroes award for their work to uncover stories of some of the 9,000 patients who died in Epson's psychiatric hospitals from 1899 to 1955. 👇 Historical cemetery shortlisted for national recognition www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳@ancestralenq.bsky.social · yesterdayHorton Cemetery, Epsom, Surrey has been nominated for Everyday History Heroes award for their work to uncover stories of some of the 9,000 patients who died in Epson's psychiatric hospitals from 1899 to 1955. 👇 Historical cemetery shortlisted for national recognition www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
For what it's worth – beautiful flowers of beautiful cash 'Specimen Florae Britainniae' by Justine Smith from the 'In Bloom' exhibition in the Ashmolean in Oxford - two weeks left www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions
I had no idea that JFK had been blamed for the decline in wearing of hats from @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social (a back issue)
A very interesting article, which suggests to me that effectively the money-economy preceded the widespread exchange of money. There was a credit economy that was in some ways similar to the 'cashless' world we use today – except that computers now do the 'reckoning'
Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦@kfduggan.bsky.social · 3d agoFantastic article by Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on “Reckoning and Economic Life in Late Medieval England” in Past & Present. It’s open access and can be read now thanks to @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social offering early access to it! academic.oup.com/past/advance...
Feeling hot? Well you could keep *some* clothes on, Bacchus
Rowan berries on Headley Heath Early this year and the colours!!
Someone has had a beak full of wing from this rather tatty specimen; even so it’s lovely to see our silver washed fritillary butterflies out and about again this year. We have improved their habitat a lot over the past few years but I was worried that last year’s wet weather would have knocked them
'Mystery, subtle magic, and strange, elusive charm which must be felt but cannot wholly be understood': The exquisite Italianate gardens of Renishaw Hall www.countrylife.co.uk/gardens-inte...
'Mystery, subtle magic, and strange, elusive charm which must be felt but cannot wholly be understood': The exquisite Italianate gardens of Renishaw Hall
Renishaw Hall in Derbyshire is one of the earliest and finest gardens to appear in Country Life. The Anglo-Italian landscape created by Sir George Sitwell — and now home of Alexandra Sitwell and her husband, Rick Hayward — continues to enthral visitors with its elusive charms over a century later. Main photography by Clive Nichols.
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I didn’t think that Ash Dieback Disease had taken hold around here, but I found a whole hillside of dead Ash trees between Box Hill and Headley in the Surrey hills
'A Hairdresser Noticed Something Strange About Roman Statues—and Solved a 2,000-Year-Old Puzzle'
A Hairdresser Noticed Something Strange About Roman Statues—and Solved a 2,000-Year-Old Puzzle
The answer was hiding in an obscure Latin word that scholars had been mistranslating for decades.
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Figs, grapes and blackberries all growing wild together on the railway embankment at Epsom. All the fruit within reach had already been picked
An extraordinary amount of dew collects under a salt sculpture even after a warm, dry night 20 degrees at 6am and a puddle underneath
And a heron ! I saw three today for the first time. There is only one nest, it looked like parents and one of this year’s chicks
tom slists@tomslists.bsky.social · last wk.Turtley amazing walk this morning, I haven’t seen a turtle / terrapin (?) in the Stew Pond for at least 10 years
