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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Aw, this is great news 🤩

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Berenice @beersandcats.aldea.social · 21/05/2026

Morning!!! A desayunar

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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

An interesting development in peatland restoration. Not sure if it'll also help lock up all the additional carbon generated by modern warfare! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/c...

nytimes.com

They’ve Got a Plan to Combat Global Warming (and Also Russian Tanks)

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The plans for a windfarm on deep peat in a protected wildlife area on Walshaw Moor are in considerable trouble. Nick MacKinnon paints a picture of low competence in the planning markavery.info/2026/04/17/g... Surely this scheme is doomed? But they just keep ploughing on... #wind #peat #Haworth

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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Love 'em all 🐝🐝🤩

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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Best wishes and fingers crossed for a speedy recovery 🧡

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UCL @ucl.ac.uk · 11/02/2026

Today, UCL turns 200. 🎉 For two centuries, our community has opened doors, challenged convention and pushed the boundaries of knowledge across every discipline. Thank you to everyone who’s been part of the UCL story, here’s to the next century. ✨ #UCL200 #LoveUCL

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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Doing a masters at Birkbeck, via UCL, was the best thing I ever did. Changed my life 🤩

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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Absolutely! I worked for three years with the Yorkshire Peat Partnership helping restore damaged bogs here in the north of England. Truly wonderful places🧡

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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Cold, but beautiful day in West Yorkshire!

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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Our lovely green government has just announced "destructive" seabed bottom trawling will continue in English marine protected areas (MPAs) - so, not really protected at all then!

theguardian.com

Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules

Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider

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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Gentian sage (Salvia patens) and mini-beasts in our back garden. Isn't nature brilliant🤩

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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

It's grotesque! We're currently trying to remove and recycle 7,200 plastic guards from the trees we planted on our land in Nidderdale 14 years ago. At least they're locally-sourced trees, appropriate to the terrain and not planted in rigid grid formation. You can't just bung them in and walk away!

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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

It was. A bit quirky, but good fun 😁

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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

As an aside, the chessmen were the inspiration for Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's animated children's character Noggin the Nog. We once went to a lecture given by Oliver and Peter at the British Museum. The highlight of the evening was the curators bringing these beautiful pieces out to show us!

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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I'm wondering how well wasps are faring in the UK generally. I hardly saw any this year, not even in early autumn when people often complain about them. We had a queen trying to make a nest in our garden shed in spring but she abandoned it when it was about the size of a walnut.

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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

Some beautiful natural gems on our visit to Área Recreativa de Guadamía, in Asturias, yesterday . . . including a little flock of black redstarts and linnets 🤩

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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Just taking our new brushcutter up to North Yorkshire for a spot of soft rush bashing. Car's a bit crowded in the back 😁

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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Thanks for the clarification Ann👍

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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,557,362! Gosh, I'm a trailblazer . . . and at my advanced age too 🤩

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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

It's very heartening to read this but worrying the new government is reluctant to commit to these schemes. I am a Labour supporter but I am seriously concerned about its commitment to environmental protection issues.

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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

A tad twee, but I couldn't resist. Lovely to see after all the awful news about bird flu!

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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

You just have to make sure it doesn't take over the house 🤩

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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

Lovely sphagnum moss in the foreground, but I'm not sure which one 🤩

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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

Spotted this striking looking fungus on a fallen oak in our local woods in West Yorkshire, UK. I think it's either golden jelly fungus (Tremella mesenterica) or golden ear fungus (Tremella aurantia). Can anyone enlighten me further?

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Les Hughes @lexl.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

Some wonderful achievements here 🤩

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