Some of us growing up had two cans on a string.

My mum kept a gold needle as she considered it antimicrobial.

5, 4, 1, no yes (always). #SausageLeague

If you haven’t been able to get to the BFI’s ‘Martin Scorsese Selects Hidden Gems of British Cinema’ season, Talking Pictures TV is showing two of the #films#FilmSky 📽️🎬

My cousin's book

If someone invented a replicator imagine that would do it. No shops just replicate what you need. Money would be worthless if it can be replicated.

I have a large garage they can inhabit without worrying the visitors or wife.🕷

I have a plastic pot ready. Capture, let my grandson have a good look then release harmlessly.

Butterfly numbers are crashing: one of a vast multitude of flashing red lights warning of the death of the natural world all around us. But we CAN reverse this, by banning pesticides and initiating mass rewilding. Less talk, more action. 🌏 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Butterfly emergency’ declared as UK summer count hits record low

Conservation group calls on government to ban insect-killing neonicotinoid pesticides outright

Nice piece by @drfrancisyoung.bsky.socialdrfrancisyoung.substack.com/p/the-dark-s...

The dark side of folklore

We are in (or it certainly seems like we are in) a cultural moment when folklore holds a particularly important place in British culture – perhaps more so than at any time since the 1970s.