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Pete Flood

@floodenheim.bsky.social
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Musician and field botanist

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Pete Flood @floodenheim.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
New favourite sedge!
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Pete Flood @floodenheim.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Got a rare gig this weekend!
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Lisa Knapp @lisaknappmusic.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Hot news is we've got percussion legend Pete Flood joining us for our London Launch 1st March @WorldHeartBeat, Embassy Gardens Hope you can come. TICKETS... worldheartbeat.org/.../lisa-kna...
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Pete Flood @floodenheim.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Proliferodiscus pulveraceus and Stictis radiata. And what they look like from afar. I love the way that a few spots on a twig can become a wildly colourful world when you look at it under a hand lens. Essentially (and stupid as it sounds) it’s my prescription for the blues, every time.
Fruitbodies of Proliferodiscus pulveraceus at x45 magnification, looking like furry, irregular jam tarts with yellow centres and grey edgesFruitbodies of Proliferodiscus pulveraceus unmagnified - looking like grey-blue speckles on a branchThe ascomycete Stictis radiata at x45 magnification- looking like irregular star-shaped holes with orange centres, erupting through the stem of a herbaceous plant.Stictis radiata unmagnified, looking like a loose scatter of holes with lighter rims on a dark stem of Great Willowherb
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
sadly, my 2021 novel hummingbird salamander is not getting less relevant
page of novel describing collapse as hard to grasp and making each of us into a different kind of time traveler
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Pete Flood @floodenheim.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Nothing beats a glossy emerald drift of Stream Water-crowfoot- back in this stretch of the River Arle in quantity after decades of scarcity
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Pete Flood @floodenheim.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
A curl of Water Figwort in bloom - a late addition to the #NewYearPlantHunt list
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Pete Flood @floodenheim.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Straggly tufa-encrusted Cratoneuron filicinum from the banks of the Itchen at Winchester while waiting for a mot. Common name is Fern-leaved Hook-moss but this form was more Hookless Drab-mo. Stout nerve (pic 2), big auricles on branch leaves (2), rhizoids (3) and paraphyllia (4) give the game away
Dry Cratoneuron filicinumBranch leaves x100 with stout nerves and decurrent auricles Dry moss x20 showing rhizoids and tufa-encrustationSection of stem with paraphyllia - tiny leaf-like structures that are hard to find and photograph
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Pete Flood @floodenheim.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Walked the perimeter of Alresford today and found 44 species for the #NewYearPlantHunt Most surprising: Water Avens Tallest: Hybrid Water-speedwell Most reliable: Spurge-laurel (always out at this time of year) Most annoying: Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage (just about to pop but no open fls yet)
A just-open flower of Water-avensA single plant of Hybrid Water-speedwell towering over watercressShiny green leaves and yellow-green flower clusters of Spurge-laurelA mat of Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage on the brink of flowering
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Pete Flood @floodenheim.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Thousands of plants of Jersey Cudweed lining a road verge near Southampton Water. I guess it’s the botanical equivalent of a £100,000,000 bat tunnel: joke ecology, wasting everyone’s time and driving disaffection with conservation across the board. Hoping NE delist it asap
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Pete Flood @floodenheim.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Out looking at Spartina meadows on the edge of Southampton Water yday. Loving all the ergotic Common Cord-grass - but the bright orange rust on the ergot sclerotia is new to me - anyone got a name for this peculiar thing?
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Pete Flood @floodenheim.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Dingy green 1mm ‘tongues’ growing with the liverwort Microlejeunea ulicina on Willow bark in wet woodland. Grazed/old slime mould sporocarps, right? Right??? If so, which species/genera have multiple stems that coalesce halfway up? In the books I have most species have a discoid hypothallus instead
The liverwort Microlejeunea ulicina and unknown myxomycete at x40 magnification.Unknown myxomycete in water at x40 magnification, showing multiple lower stems coalescing into one
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Pete Flood @floodenheim.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Breathing opportunity
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Sam Sweeney @samsweeney.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Penultimate day. SPORTS CLUB with @rachaelmcshane.bsky.social and @floodenheim.bsky.social 🥰
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Tony Juniper @tonyjuniper.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
At the end of busy week I’m reflecting on the highly partial coverage devoted by the media to different issues. Massive coverage this week on a farm demo, but a far larger demonstration on Nature in June got hardly anything. Both about land. Why might that be? amp.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The nature march had a huge turnout – so why didn’t it make bigger news? | Just Stop Oil | The Guardian
Disruptive demonstrations are decried by the press, but given acres of coverage. This is the new conundrum of public protest: the only way to be talked about is if you’re demonised, writes Zoe William...
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Bellowhead Official @bellowhead.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
LIVE STREAM TONIGHT! See Bellowhead live streaming at our Gateshead gig from 8.45pm📺🎉 Watch LIVE from your living room AND/OR on demand for up to 12 months. Tickets & Info - folkscape.live
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FolkScape Live
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Pete Flood @floodenheim.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Yes but WHAT IS THAT FLYING SPIKY FRUIT?!?!
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Lesley @englishfolkfan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Have wonderful memories of you all when Bellowhead first started out. That night at Whitchurch Folk Club North Shropshire when Pete Flood was setting his windup mechanical toys loose on the small stage & you said all us clapping along should dance & thus a big conga round the small hall happened. :)
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example). 1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company. 2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly. 🧵
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Pete Flood @floodenheim.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Sheffield station, waiting for Dionne. Initially far more drawn to the vacant lot than the water feature but - Bryum pseudotriquetrum/ old hand lens in pocket - hours of fun
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Pete Flood @floodenheim.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
An extremely lovely review: www.bristol247.com/culture/musi... To be fair though - nothing wrong with lizards - some of my best friends are lizards :)
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Review: Bellowhead, Bristol Beacon - 'An unhinged party on a sinking galleon'
The multi-legged folk beast are back to remind audiences what they've been missing
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Pete Flood @floodenheim.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Initiating proceedings here with a pic of some moss on pony dung. Not sure if it’s a comment on 2024, Twitter, or just finding gorgeousness in unexpected places, but here’s the wonderful, holly-leaved Splachnum ampullaceum
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