I'm sitting in the screen shelter almost asleep, when I notice this chipmunk on the edge of the flower bed has beaten me to it.

Visited the in today. Immensely affecting display of doors damaged during . Came home and donated (again) to

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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. - Angela Carter

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On the Tube (London underground rail network) some of the advertising spaces above the rows of seats are taken up by these - a series of Poems on the Underground.

This one by Benjamin Zephaniah is a favourite of mine.

#poetry #Underground #Poet #London #Art

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The BBC's experiment with Mastodon is pathbreaking in English-language news -- a major organization setting up its own instance. They've really thought this through. Key language:

"We're using social.bbc as the domain, so you can be sure these accounts are genuinely from the BBC. And by linking to and from the BBC’s website, we have verified our identity on Mastodon."

bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mast

Welcome to:
@BBCRD
@BBC5Live @BBCRadio4
@BBCTaster
@Connected_Studio
@BBC_News_Labs

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I saw this on my walk yesterday. It's a ghost plant and lacks chlorophyll. Instead it feeds off fungi. I feel fortunate to have seen it

Beautiful drifts of flowering creeping thyme are taking over this neighbour's lawn. She loves it because it needs no watering and stays short without mowing.

I'm going to claim this butterfly as a Canadian Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio canadensis) although it could also be an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus).

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Our editorial walkout at NeuroImage immortalised by @dglaucomflecken is the absolute icing on the cake 🤌😙

youtube.com/watch?v=hoUGiS1LeK

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Always heartening to get confirmation that a new addition to the garden has survived its first winter. Acer palmatum dissectum "Tamukeyama" budding out nicely.

Anthropologist discovers abandoned early jewelry workshop.

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Today in 1873, shipwreck survivors are rescued off an ice floe near the coast of Newfoundland. The survivors had drifted on an ice floe for six months & 2,900 kms.
The ship survivors were kept alive by two Inuit named Ipirvik and Taqulittuq

Learn more 👇
canadaehx.com/2022/12/20/ipirv

Look carefully, a White-Breasted Nuthatch is looking carefully at me.

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