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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The message is clear: people want nature protected, and they want more ambition. With 2030 fast approaching, the Government must listen and turn public support into real action for nature. Read the full article here: www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/polling...

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Polling finds public ambition for nature is double that of Government | The Wildlife Trusts

New polling and evidence from The Wildlife Trusts demonstrates that the public grasp the importance of nature far more than politicians

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This should hardly be a surprise. He did occasionally use 'we' when presenting, but 'they' should have featured more openly. It's time for a more realistic (and honest) GW. And preferably presented by someone who doesn't write for the Daily Mail.

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Monty Don says he may have to let go of his gardeners after leaving BBC

Presenter reveals corporation has been paying part of their salaries to keep his Herefordshire garden camera-ready

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

d. #otd 1626 Lancelot Andrewes, bp. of Winchester. Son of a London mariner, godson and namesake of a London waterman, b. All Hallows-by-the-Tower 1555. Scholar, author, benefactor. Buried on Bankside in St Saviour's Church (later Southwark Cathedral). He never married. #earlymodern

3/4 length portrait of Andrewes (Pembroke College Cambridge), as Jacobean bishop in black square cap, grey moustache, his right arm holding a quill pen over a manuscript book. Achievement of arms in top right corner.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

30+ years of this catching this morning view on visits to the UL, and still can’t resist taking one these en route.

Classic view up the river Can from a bridge looking toward another; framed by weeping willow and punts. Soft morning light.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A first—literally the only person in the cinema. I thought the ‘private screening’ remark at the kiosk was a joke . . .

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Slight mystery of unusually loud group of 60-somethings in the cinema bar explained when staff came over to tell them that the Glastonbury film was about to start.

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Ellie Collins @elleccollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Out today in the UK is Laura Banella’s new book, Rewriting #Dante, in the Oxford Studies in #Medieval Literature and Culture series - entertaining cover image global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

@adamchapman.bsky.social Am I inferring correctly that plates in VCH vols (I'm working with Surrey 4) aren't included in online platforms like BHO?

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When you have to stop in the middle of one big project and drag out another big project to write a talk. Argh!

View of a desk, cabinets and floor around strewn with files, papers, books.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hasn’t been a summer for cut flowers, so enjoying these late charmers even more.

Three pink roses in a small blue bottle on a pine table: one deep pink with flat petals (Gertrude Jekyll), the other two with shorter, ruffled petals in a lighter shade (Harlow Carr).

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’ve spent almost a whole ‘writing day’ documenting intermarriages from visitation pedigrees and narrating them in a single comprehensible paragraph. The footnotes are glorious though.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Presented without comment.

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Chris Ward @chrisward.de · 04/09/2026

The same government drilling for oil is now initiating panic-buying over the climate catastrophe.

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

(It's almost novelistic: 'theologian' revealed in practice as a moral nihilist who does not believe himself bound by law or virtue when not observed. Many such cases, I suppose. 'Your father, who sees what is done in secret...')

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So that’s 6 vols down and, er, 10 to go. (And people wonder why I laugh when they ask what I’ll do when I retire.)

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What fun to get a postcard from the present. These should be a staple of the analogue counter-revolution.

Postcard from Sidmouth, showing beachfront.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

First time spot in our garden—- clouded yellow.

Chartreuse yellow butterfly with eye-spot in centre of wing; on perennial geranium foliage in sun.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Terrible news for an outstanding museum—one of the most diverse and compelling I’ve ever visited.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Google maps deleted. First in a wider purge that I should have done before now.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

unintended humour in 1594 Norwich Consistory Court deposition: Interrogatory: is the rectory kept in good repair? William Sparke, carpenter: knows it is 'because he hath seene it done him self standinge bounde for the doinge thereof'

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Congratulations to the wonderful Mary Ann Lund (Leicester) on publication of her second (!) vol. in the Oxford Donne Sermons edition. Fantastic textual and critical scholarship on his mid-career at St Paul's.

Looking down into a box of author's copies of volume 13 in the Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne: Sermons Preached at St Paul's Cathedral, 1626-1628, in their trademark Oxford English Texts light blue dust jackets.

Tondo portrait in gold frame of John Donne when Dean of St Paul's; thick dark hair and beard and draped in what looks like a very un-clerical black satin toga, channeling Roman orator (latter day preacher). V&A and a contemporary copy in St Paul's Cathedral Chapter House.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Sub specie aeternitatis, Caligula was not so bad. He only made his horse into a senator. And it was just his boots that were little.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

No, that’s just Canada glaring at you.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Wonder how many cans of water I carried for this supper.

Three ears of yellow corn, some French beans, kitchen scissors on a worktop

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Chancery experts — @thegozfather.bsky.social perhaps? I have (for the first time I think) a dedimus potestatem among some C 4 process papers. Since it requires an answer to be taken outside court, how does the dft's answer that is in the papers relate to it? Dedimus issued even after an answer?

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Summer’s ending like it started: early.

Wicker basket with pears and red apples on a pine kitchen table.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

@oxfordclarion.bsky.social deadpanning it brilliantly, as always. (‘Nigel Biggar moral theologian . . . )

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Drought notwithstanding, a beautiful evening.

View into slanting afternoon light across borders with some flowers, yew hedges beyond, cloud and sky, and foreground jumble of birdbath and watering cans.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Nice unplanned purple with yellow accents on the greenhouse bench: aubergine, purple basil, French marigold.

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Petition calling on the government to make climate resilience a national mission. Why has this only chalked up 24k signatures? You know what to do.

campaigns.nationaltrust.org.uk

I've signed. Will you? Add your name to help make wildfire prevention and climate resilience a national priority, and stand with the communities affected by wildfires.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Drought annals (cont.) The foxes are really getting desperate.

Large faux-lead fibreglass planter with hole torn in its side and soil dragged out. (It had a crack, which they prised open.)

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A bit out of date, but we particularly enjoyed the natural version of the colander trick on Weds.—light in eclipse crescents through the leaves of trees. Photo @tomknoll.bsky.social

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

What with the eclipse, followed by the Perseid meteor shower, and the heat, and the drought, and grouse slaughter, and *Everything*, someone needed to post Matt. 24 and Hamlet 1.1 today. Even if (ominously) it is my birthday.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

‘For whatever time we live is deducted from our whole term of life, and that which remains is daily becoming less and less’. Thank you, Augustine (De Civitate Dei, 13. 10). Who knew?

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Do this. This govt has to wake up to environment and climate.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I learned my alphabet with my mother's Scrabble tiles, and put the knowledge to use first on my grandmother's Underwood typewriter. There is nothing in the world as satisfying as the sound and feel of using the carriage return lever on a manual typewriter.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

August: you just go out to bring in the laundry but come back with five more cucumbers.

Wicker basket of laundry with peg bag and five big cucumbers on top.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Similarly, almost everything I spot-water (with a can, not a forbidden hose) is getting vigorously excavated by either blackbirds or foxes desperate for worms, grubs, etc. Tries my patience but a reminder that we’re not the only ones suffering in the #climatecrisis .

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Ben Morgan @benjlmorgan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

My mother once again struggles with whatsapp's accidental voice transcription

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The one that kills me is people giving speeches about someone (birthdays, farewells, retirement) and thinking it’s funny to say, ‘So just for fun I asked ChatGPT about x, and it came up with . . . ‘—as if that’s not really using it. Appalling and needs to be called out.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Tale of two quads @lincoln.ox.ac.uk . Under our no-water policy, the Front Quad (L) with trad formal lawn; and Chapel Quad (R) with native wildflowers planted as plugs 9 mos ago. Only the latter are green; as they spread and knit together, this will be how to have a sustainably green quad.

Quadrangle of Oxford college with large central lawn, closely mowed with a curved pattern still visible, but entirely brown.

Another quadrangle, with central portion still green from un-mown grass and developing clumps of wildflowers.

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 02/08/2026

Thomas More in Utopia (1516), as timely as ever: “When I run over in my mind the various commonwealths flourishing today, so help me God, I can see in them nothing but a conspiracy of the rich, who are fattening up their own interests”.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

On my own tonight and having Ottolenghi’s fattoush. May eat the whole batch. Mind you, it has taken most of the evening to make.

Steel mixing bowl with chopped ingredients (pita, tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, mint, parsley) with dressing measured in jug next it (yoghurt mixed with milk and a pool of olive oil on top).

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