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Local Nature Recovery Strategies in Norfolk and Suffolk now open for consultation

And then either they will be considerate and willing to discuss, in which case happy days, or they won't, in which case you will know you tried!

Tricky one. Personally I'd monitor for a while to see how often it's annoying and if I could live with it if it's occasional. And if I couldn't then I'd raise it with them and say I found it distracting and ask for a compromise (e.g. turning it down when you're both on site, suggest headphones)...

I have played women's roller derby for over a decade and shared women's changing rooms with cis and trans women and a) this has been entirely normal and unremarkable and b) if anyone tries to stop any of our teammates using our changing room they'd have to make all of us.

Yesterday I did my first working-from-patio day of the year. This morning I have a day off work and am enjoying coffee with bee-flies on the honesty.

Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet.

A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra

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Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯

A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛

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Absolute scenes in Ramsgate photographed for #GullsEatingStuff.
Also saw my first Swallows of the year and chatted to lovely people at the South East Ringers' conference, great to stay at the Sandwich Bay bird observatory too.

I've seen lots of local celebration about this today (one village over from Methwold)

Good to see, well done NE on consistently reducing the gender pay gap

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I knew it!

*overall

Ha I'm trying very hard to not volunteer myself for that, I know it would be a solution but might end up being more stressful overtake!

Thank you! Unfortunately the site is owned by a tiny local charity (a legacy to the village) so he's answerable only to the trustees, who don't seem to care. I've been totally left alone for years, the site is just a field with no facilities, but this new secretary is power crazy!

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It absolutely is. What the fuck is wrong with these people!

While there may be many similarities, I guess a zealous adherence to health and safety rules is probably not one of Elon Musk's features, so I think this is a different guy...

2) 'Pollarded', not that you should do that to apple trees, a huge beautiful apple tree on the edge of the site.

3) Hacked to the ground, today, nesting season, the bramble patch at the end of (and I think on) my plot.

All of this in the name of health and safety. He is deaf to reason.

I have acquired a new arch enemy in the form of the new secretary of my allotment site.

In the last few weeks, he has
1) Ordered me to remove the trampoline my kids play on (semi fair enough, but the allotments are massive and half unused and the trampoline has caused no problems for 4 years)

Invited myself along to the NE Norfolk &Suffolk area team day at Shimpling Park Farm; lovely to learn about LNRSs and Landscape Recovery projects, meet colleagues, enjoy sunshine, see tiny hazel flowers and hear my first and second Chiffchaffs of the year.

I've seen a bit of the huge amount of work that has gone into this, exciting news!

Beaver releases into wild to be allowed in England for first time in centuries Exclusive: Government to grant nature groups a licence for release of rodent species after earlier setbacks

Another reason to celebrate today. FANTASTIC news for biodiversity in England. Important to recognise when Labour, Defra & @naturalengland.bsky.social do something really hugely positive for nature, both symbolically and in practice. Well done them. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Beaver wild release: a milestone for nature recovery in England By Stuart Otway, Principal Officer in Natural England’s Complex Cases Unit and Delphine Pouget, Principal Officer in Natural England’s Species Recovery & Reintroductions Team  After centuries of absen...

An historic moment for Nature recovery in England with a new policy setting out plans for the return of wild Beavers. Licenses will be issued by Natural England so that we can harness the power of these keystone animals for the many benefits they bring.

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Frosty trees at Brandon today

Roydon Common was on top form with 6 Hen Harriers at dusk yesterday - this video taken at 1620 hrs showing an adult and an immature male (2nd year bird?). Another adult male and 3 ringtails (all in view at the same time) were seen with the first bird in at 1555 hrs. #NorfolkBirding

Linocut created by printmaker Alexandra Buckle #WomensArt

New year's resolution is more outdoor swimming, and make it up to the sea more often. Been twice in 2025 so far including at Sheringham so it's going well

Had to stop the car to take a picture of over 50 Egyptian Geese in a Norfolk field, not sure I've seen that many together before

No birds but incredible views over Edale today

Dragged the kids away from Saturday TV to get some winter sun on the shortest day, they complained and then loved it

Time to start the Christmas holidays! I've got as far as I can get on my current project, and I've been saving this special beer from a lovely colleague to mark the occasion.