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Annie Sutcliffe

@folkwife.bsky.social
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Compost nerd; wildlife gardener and allotmenteer; nature lover; folkie; history and archaeology geek; knitter.

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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
My Garden Birdwatch Year 🐦 #bto #btogbw2025 #gardenbirdwatch #stats #wildlifegardening
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I thought it might be nice to give away my last 2 signed hardbacks of my novel 1983, with two lovely linocut hares by my mum. All you have to do to enter is repost this (& leave a reply). The book's been called "Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut and Sue Townsend”. Extract in the replies.
The final two first edition hardbacks of my novel 1983 that I have in my house.Two cut-out linoprint hares by my mum, Jo. This is a hare linoprint which she originally did to illustrate a chapter in my earlier (non-fiction) book, Ring The Hill, which has a hare subtheme darting through it.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies? By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
🍁🦊Competition time! To celebrate the coming of autumn, win a cornucopia of delights! A signed copy of my book, Reynard the Fox & accompanying journal, A Fox for All Seasons, Apple & Blackberry chocolate, cinnamon knots, Caramelised biscuit tea & a fine fox companion. Follow, like & repost to win! 🦊🍂
A signed copy of my book, Reynard the Fox, its accompanying journal, A Fox for All Seasons, a fine bar of Apple & Blackberry chocolate, a box of cinnamon knots, a packet of Caramelised biscuit tea & a charming & fluffy fox companion.
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Damsons! 🌱 #gardening
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Appropriate accidental bedside table companians, @nicwilson.bsky.social! #books
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Here come the Chalkhill mob 🦋 #butterflies
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
These broomrapes have popped up in one of my wild beds! They are parasitic plants with no chlorophyll. #wildflowers
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Remarkable Green Huntsman spider spotted yesterday! 🕷 #ukspiders
Large bright green spider in grass
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Evening walk #sunset
Two people and dog in long evening shadow
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
First Large Skipper of the year. #butterflies
Large Skipper on Valerian
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I'm holding a flash sale this w/e-you can bag 15% off my June botanical or bird illustration & mental health w'shops w. the code LEAFYFLASH15. Learn how creative activity & contact with nature gives us resilience to stress & trauma Plus learn how to draw twigs or wrens ✒️🌿🪶 workshops.emmamitchell.uk
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
“[Chalk streams] are globally significant ecosystems and are largely restricted to our shores. So we have a huge responsibility to protect them.” Really disappointing for this amendment I moved in the Planning & Infrastructure Bill Committee to be vetoed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Attempt to protect rare chalk streams in planning bill rejected by Labour MPs
Government vetoes cross-party effort to protect threatened waterways from push to rip up environmental red tape
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
What a stunning April 🌱 #gardening #blossom
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Dozens of mining bees in the front garden this year! Hopefully this bodes well for pollinators after last year's poor numbers 🤞 #pollinators
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Saw a heartening five butterfly species on my walk today; a beautiful russet fox; plenty of chiffs chaffing; and blossom, dearies! #spring
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Post a warning
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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The public has been advised not to leave pet hair out for nest-building birds in case they come into contact with chemicals found in anti-parasite medicine:
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Don't leave hair out for nesting birds, vets say
The public has been advised not to leave pet hair out for nest-building birds in case they come into contact with chemicals found in anti-parasite medicine. The request comes after a recently published study linked an increased mortality in unfledged chicks to the chemical treatments. The research s...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The Dartington Trust is making a massive, historic mistake here. Please sign the petition - www.change.org/p/stop-the-d... - to let it know what you think. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Pioneering forest garden in Devon at risk after landowner serves notice
Thousands sign petition to save garden ‘of vital importance’ near Totnes that teaches agroforestry methods
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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Such a fabulous column by Matthew Syed on male violence, fundamentalism, and the Tates: www.thetimes.com/article/29e4...
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If you know a 13-year-old boy, talk to him about what being a man is
Male violence towards women is a poison in our society that is inexplicably tolerated and even endorsed
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This morning's dog walk brought all sorts of treasure... the first hare of the year, a couple of handfuls of wild garlic, and a sizeable chunk of Hertfordshire puddingstone 🤎 #Hertfordshire
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
In case you were wondering how they got their name... Hairy-footed Flower Bee 🐝 #solitarybees
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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Just writing the community news for nature-based events across the UK this spring. If you'd like to publicise your event in my Only Connect! Nature Newsletter, due out later this week, please could you send details? And if folk cd repost, I'd be grateful. Many thanks, Nic 🙏 #community #natureevents
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Join the Only Connect! Newsletter
Novelist E.M. Forster wrote ‘Only connect!… only connect the prose and the passion… Live in fragments no longer.” Nature thrives on connections…
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Bedecked 🍄 #fungi
A woodland tree covered in small bracket fungus.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“That’s why Tate got the following he got. So maybe I’m part of a similar phenomenon..." Nigel Farage, July 2024.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Who radicalised him?
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.
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Government AI, defending DOGE and more: Takeaways from Elon Musk’s three-hour interview with Joe Rogan
The wide-ranging interview between the two prominent Trump supporters comes as Musk remakes the federal government.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/03/2025
Farage goes missing (again) during an important debate, is it starting to look like a pattern? 🇺🇦 (PART 1/2) 🧵
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Kathryn Rose @artsyhonker.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
In the UK and born between 1970 and 1990? You may need a second dose of MMR. You can contact your GP about it or if you're in a larger city you might get somewhere by a quick internet search for walk-in MMR vaccination clinics. www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...
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MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine
Find out about the MMR vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella, including who should have it, when it's given and possible side effects.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Remember: a vote for Nigel Farage is a vote for Donald Trump, who has just humiliated the true leader of the free world, President Zelensky
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
#slavaukraini
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Saw my first Hairy-footed Flower Bees today! Spring is springing folks... 😊☀️🐝 #wildlifegardening
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Felt crap. Snatched an hour after hours of torrential rain *which was supposed to stop at 11am* 🙄 Saw goldcrests, chaffinches, treecreepers and a heron. Found treasure. #ifindoubtgoout
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
First Hellebores 💜 #Gardening
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
A sea of aconites in this woodland, betraying its origins as a Baroque garden. Hundreds of snowdrops too, including lots of lovely doubles. #winterwalks
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
If this were Just Stop Oil, there'd have been dozens of arrests, furious denunciations in the billionaire press and, perhaps, long jail sentences. Farmers have a right to protest, and the police respect it. Other people, it seems, not so much. The real #TwoTierPolicing www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Hundreds of tractors block Westminster
Farmers from across the UK protesting in London against changes to inheritance tax.
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
If you enjoyed taking part in the Big Garden Birdwatch I can thoroughly recommend joining the BTO's Garden Birdwatch scheme. You get to do the same thing all year round, contribute to some important citizen science, and you get some cool stats at the end of the year! #GardenBirds
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I met an extraordinary tree today; caught a branch trying to sneak away; and accidentally captured reflections in the flood water. #winterwalks
Ancient oak with huge boleFallen branch caught in tree looks like it's tiptoeing away Landscape reflected in flooded field
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Tiny Trace @dink2710.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
She could and should have been just mindful to the grief of the families, but she wasn’t. She panders to a base that is not who we are. She’s a disgrace. This is bigger than politics & yet she debases herself every time for what? A vote? Shameful
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
The radicalisation of much of the right in Britain far exceeds that of the left under Corbyn. (I say that as a staunch critic of Corbyn). It's essential that decent Conservatives speak out, if they don't want the likes of Cummings, Oakeshott and Jenrick to prostitute their tradition to an arsonist.
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
A very cold walk without the promised sunshine (don't get me started on weather forecasts!!) but bleakly beautiful and a bit of a birdy bonanza including my favourites - Treecreepers - and an unexpected Grey Wagtail on the ice, as well as a massive boost for my wobbly mental health. #winterwalks
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
After being confined to the house whilst pup awaits his boosters it was grand to spend a few hours at the #allotment albeit double-fleeced and double-hatted! Warmed up by unloading six bags of hotbin compost and coppicing the remaining hazel. Failed to take any photos 🤣. #gardening
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman claims: Italy has built a wall on its land border with Turkey. She went to see it. Drones patrol the wall leading to the number of migrants crossing to fall. Problem: Two countries don't share a land border. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/sue...
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Suella Braverman claims she has seen the 'land border' between Italy and Turkey
Suella Braverman has baffled social media users after suggesting she has seen a "land border" between Italy and Turkey.
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
It's been a challenging Christmas with a new puppy in the house, but he's definitely won our hearts 💕 #puppy
Puppy with bone toy
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
@tonyjw.bsky.social Finally got to Fowlmere. Not ideal conditions but pretty amazing 🙂 especially when they all dropped down into the reeds #murmuration
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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity
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Annie Sutcliffe @folkwife.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Sunshine at last and a few hours in one of my favourite places, watching birds from sunny benches... #naturecure
Low sun through tree silhouette
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/12/2024
RE the comparison to climate protesters - this is *worse* than hypocrisy. Police, media and conservative commentators *fabricate* instances of blocked ambulances, for climate protest. Whereas for farmers, actual instances of emergency services hindered get ignored ketanjoshi.co/2023/08/04/a...
Here’s something that happens whenever a disruptive climate protest gets media attention: the level of disruption is exaggerated, or fabricated, in an effort to inspire public hate against protestors. This is one of a few tactics being used to suppress climate protest, in Australia.

When climate activist Violet Coco blocked the Sydney Harbour Bridge last year, the police claimed that the protest “prevented an ambulance responding to an emergency under lights and sirens as it was unable to navigate through the increased heavy traffic”. It was later revealed that was a complete fabrication by the New South Wales police. The absurd, excessive jail sentence handed to Coco, 15 months, was lifted on appeal. In the original sentencing from magistrate Allison Hawkins, the phantom “ambulance” is repeatedly referred to:

“You have halted an ambulance under lights and siren. What about the person in there? What about that person and their family? What are they to think of you and your cause? In fact, you do damage to your cause when you do childish stunts and dangerous stunts like this. It angers the community and rightfully so.”
In the header image of this post, a painting has been spray-painted. Look closer, and you’ll realise the glass covering on that artwork is the thing defaced – but the majority of headlines of that action and most others involving artwork imply or explicitly declare the artwork itself has been irretrievably destroyed.
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