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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I hear you. But in rural sw france the only charity shop is open twice a week. And is 20 mins away by car. Whereas Vinted is on my phone next to me at 3am 😕

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Enjoyed meeting this very grand chair in Norwich Cathedral last week. #Norwich

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Filming this morning at Le Moulin de Pensol - Vanessa Finot, France 3. Hard to talk about a drought when its pouring but we tried! Also rewilding and some crazy footage with horses everywhere. My French functions not when i'm stressed. Nik did much better.

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Never own a mule. Never buy a mule. Never let a mule worm her way into your heart and train you never to ride her or make any demands on her.

2 Images. the top one shows a man riding a draft mule. The lower image is of a dinosaur called a styracosaurus which bears a resemblance to the mule in girth and heft and poor attitude!

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Even The Grauniad can't bring itself to say the words "climate chaos". We're about to run out of drinking water in Haute Vienne. That's really going to put the performance of my investments* in perspective. (*I don't have any of course. I worked in nature conservation.)

Headline from Larry Elliott in The Guardian which talks about another financial crash coming citing AI and war and global stresses but doesn't mention climate once.

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Seven people have liked this. SEVEN!!! Forgive me if a get a bit giddy - I've never gone viral on Bluesky before 😃.

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Chuffed to have hosted Dr Erica McAlister — entomologist, author & Natural History Museum fly curator — at Le Moulin. 🪰 She gave us a brilliant talk, explored our rewilding project… and loved it. ❤️ We want this to be a place where serious naturalists come to visit. Felt like a bit of a milestone. 🦋

Dr Erica McAlister, with Nik and Heidi Smith on the bridge at Le Moulin de Pensol.

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh! Thought it was just me. Ours is routinely awful so its hard to tell.

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Heartburn much? 🔥🐸 Its all going on down at the pond this morning. #holidaysinfrance #natureholidays #lemoulindepensol

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thank you. That's the biggest compliment 😊

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received - and that consequently, this country is at war with Piddington.

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We have the fabulous Erica McAlister staying next week and she will be giving a talk at Le Moulin on invertebrates and then we're all walking to a resto for Sunday lunch. I guess you are all too far away to come but I just wanted to show off a little. 🪰 #nature #diptera #LifeinFrance

A collage of various colourful inveterbrates taken at Le Moulin de Pensol by Nik Smith.

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thank you so much 🙏 I got there too with a search, but he never mentioned a Yamaha so I dismissed it. But looking at some photos I think you're right.

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Calling motorcycle bluesky. Does anyone know what this bike is? This photo is of my parents. ❤️ The pic was in the local newspaper. #motorbike #nortonbikes #velocette

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Prunella. ❤️ 17 and still living her best life.

Shows a Romanian rescue dog lying by some flowers in tall grass with a big smile on her beautiful face.

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Goodness gracious...... Great banded grayling!

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

French traditional music appears to have a strangely calming effect on animals. 🎶 Vladimir here hates having his feet trimmed. But put on some pipes and hurdy-gurdy and he’ll stand there and put up with it - just about. #donkey #VielleARoue #MusiqueTraditionnelle

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There is still water in our big pond. But we desperately need some rain. 🐸💦 #frogs #naturephotography #LivinginFrance

Pool frog taken at Le Moulin de Pensol. Just loafing around in the water.

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Classic 🇫🇷 apero dilemma ce soir. Invited for 6pm. Food not mentioned. Do I: 1. eat first then be presented with a banquet of lovingly cooked food? Or 2. Go hungry and be flat out drunk and starving by 9pm? #France #apero #LifeinFrance

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Nice. I need to get a map on a map.

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still nothing here. Not a drop 😭

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Me finding out the Notaire's is shut on Tuesday morning, having waited all weekend and Monday to get a tiny but important thing done. #France #FrenchLife #LivinginFrance

Volodymyr Zelensky looking exhausted but grimly determined.

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Tough message for the middle classes. Me very much included.

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hosting a community showing of the Natuonal Emergency Briefing at Le Moulin de Pensol this evening. In English, in France (where we live) but excitingly we will have some Germans and Dutch attending too. Imagine discussing a subject this complex in your second language. 💪🌿

Screenshot from the NEB website, showing a quote from Professor Michael Mann calling for a NEB in each country.

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Cheers mate. He ruined my NCC leaving do by picking a fight with Mike Sutton Croft's collie, and embarrassed me more times than I can count. But i'm in bits tonight.

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Goodbye to my strange little dog. You were never a good boy. Often quite the opposite. But you loved us and we loved you for 14 years. 💔

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

New puzzling question of the day from my phone.

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A violet dropwing - about an hour from us in southwest France. Nature really went to town on that paint job. 💜 We are hoping we'll get them at Le Moulin one day. #dragonflies

Photo shows a red, pink and purple drangonfly. It is sitting in an unusual posture with its wings forward instead of out to the sides hence its name - violet dropwing. Even the transparent wings are shot through with pinky purple. It has a red tip to its tail. If you put these colours together on, say a shirt, it would be disgusting - but this boy is rocking the look.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Not sure why but my mental health's really deteriorated-it's a struggle to work/move,my self esteem's fallen down the🚽& self hatred's LOUD. If my posts make your day a little better/you've saved one of my 📷s,maybe buy me the equiv. of some teabags on ko-fi.No obligation obvs: ko-fi.com/emmamitchell

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social Devil's beggarticks. Bidens frondosa. Not UK but SW France. Naturalised, sometimes classified as invasive but we find it's very well behaved (unlike the H balsam behind it). #Wildflowerhour #CommonNames

Photo shows dense green vegetation on the edge of a river at Le Moulin de Pensol in France. The plant in the foreground is devils beggarticks

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Got dragged out of a restaurant last night as the second fire in 2 weeks was knocking on our door. Worth a televised National Emergency Briefing yet Andy Burnham? #Climatechange

Smoke over pine plantation trees. Limousin France.

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Apparently Britain's record wildfires are the fault of… rewilding. 🌿 This level of tossery crossed a line even for the Daily Mail, so I've submitted an IPSO complaint for breach of Clause 1 (lying through billionaire oil-covered teeth). Anyone else complained? #ClimateChange

Photo shows front page of the Daily Mail 13th August 2026 with the massive headline REWILDING LINK TO RECORD FIRES. This is under a smaller headline about the eclipse that says "Britain finally gets a break from the sun (for a few minutes).

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

😭😭😭 and Kelling i hear.

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

At least its a kind of water mark so we can still tell what wrote it.

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Good old BBC - takes some balls to segue without comment from a VT with a farmer who mentions climate change 12 times and explains he can't grow many root crops anymore and the harvest will be awful, to a piece on GDP growing by 0.4% - which they then examine in detail. 😱 @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

In place for l'eclipse. This is going to be so embarrassing for science if it doesn't happen. 😬🤞

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If you watched Threads when you were a kid and couldn't sleep for a month, I suggest you dont read this. But also - everyone should read this.

Screenshot shows cover of audio version of the book If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies, by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. Published by Penguin.

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Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The great enthickification continues. 😠

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