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Ian Hall

@parrog3.bsky.social
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Rivers, wildlife, food, travel, rugby (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿), dogs, family.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
London Welsh are now two promotions away from the Championship, where they were in 2017 when the RFU decided to boot them out as a result of the huge financial issues caused by their ruinous Premiership excursions between 2012–15. They started from the very bottom of the pyramid. Amazing stuff.
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Mike Blackmore @blacky-himself.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The Chalk Stream Recovery Pack is a DEFRA document outlining the policy roadmap to protect and restore England’s unique chalk streams. It exists. It was set for publication in 2023. The government shelved it. Now there is a petition to publish it: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... Sign up 💙
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Chris Hinchliff MP @chrishinchliff.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Thanks to RevIvel for an informative tour of the Ivel Springs this week. One key takeaway: It's vital that excessive water abstraction from chalk stream source aquifers is reduced, to restore natural waterflow. Healthy, flowing watercourses are critical for our wildlife, and indeed for ourselves.
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Ian Hall @parrog3.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
It was great to have you out with us. Thank you! We have provided affinity water with a workable and sustainable solution. But they will want to kick the can down the road for decades. Help us to get this timescale accelerated and adopted as a chalk streams first pilot. 6 chalk streams will benefit
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Brewsters Brewery @brewstersbrewery.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hello BlueSkyers
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Ian Hall @parrog3.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
A lovely early winter dog walk in North Herts this morning. @northessexnotes.bsky.social @bbcweather.bsky.social
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Real Seeds @handle.invalid · 08/01/2025
Opinions Wanted! So . . . . just supposing . . . . we were maybe going to get some Real Seeds Tote Bags made up, ideal for bringing your veg home in, which colours should we go for??? Four options here, would you prefer: Tasteful Orange? Calming Teal? Victorian Greens? Psychadelic?
psychadelic totetasteful orange totevictorian greens totecalming greens tote
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Chris Hinchliff MP @chrishinchliff.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
You can read the full letter here: bit.ly/CHMPOpenreach
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The RevIvel Association @revivel.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Hi everyone. New on Blue Sky. We are a passionate group fighting to get flow back in the upper Ivel (chalk stream). Keen to link up with other like minded people to keep the pressure up on Steve Reed / Labour to deliver on pre election promises. Start by overturning awful CS recovery plan decision.
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
A busy mind this eve after the Dept of Geography’s screening of Tony Eva’s film, Pure Clean Water purecleanwater.film, on the Cambridge chalk stream crisis. I learnt a lot (cried a bit) & found a little hope. These precious Cambridge waterways hold many memories. Thank you @cambsclimate.bsky.social
An adult and child watching water pass under a wooden bridge. Photo taken from behind, they’re dressed for the cold but the sun is shining.A pushchair on a footpath alongside a vegetated stream.A slow river on a sunny day. Trees on leaf are reflected on the river surface.An adult carrying a baby in a backpack in a chalk quarry.
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The RevIvel Association @revivel.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A lump of chalk on a frosty morning demonstrating its ability to store water. Unfortunately Affinity Water currently take 53% of all available water from the upper Ivel catchment, up to 14 million litres per day! @beneath-b-waters.bsky.social @stormwater-jo.bsky.social @welshriversunion.bsky.social
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British Nature Guide @britishnatureguide.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Not a multicoloured toothbrush, but another of our UK moth caterpillars, the Vapourer.
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Together Against Sizewell C @sayno2sizewellc.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The continued destruction of wildlife-rich habitat in east Suffolk, much in the AONB, by Sizewell C ahead of a final investment decision supported by #UKLabour all funded by UK taxpayers, shows #Labour's total disregard of UK's #biodiversity crisis Heart-breaking #SayNo2SizewellC
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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Bye to the high Hi to the low...and some much colder weather Turning more unsettled with some rain, snow and ice over the next 7 days, with colder air gradually digging down from the north
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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
The first taste of some colder weather arriving from the north this weekend
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 16/11/2024
#Brexit “the Petri dish for Trump” “#Brexit hasn't brought any tangible benefit and there is no future prospect of any, the UK has changed its mind and that this should be recognised.” petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible
I believe joining the EU would boost the economy, increase global influence, improve collaboration and provide stability & freedom. I believe that Brexit hasn't brought any tangible benefit and there ...
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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A taste of winter incoming.. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
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Warnings issued for cold and wintry weather
There’s a major change in the weather from this weekend, as an early winter cold spell arrives bringing the potential for disruption for some next week.
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Imagine meeting someone who was alive when Stonehenge & the pyramids of Egypt were built 5,000 years ago Daft yes? Well what about a tree that was alive then, and still is The Great Basin Bristlecone Pines of California Photo: Rick Goldwaser
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
"Heading into the Autumnal months, heavy downpours and prolonged periods of rain can be expected to overwhelm the UK’s drainage infrastructure". A reminder: in the 6 months ended 30/09/23, Anglian Water revenue went up £66.6m (+8.8%) to £827.5m... www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-n...
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Anglian Water had biggest increase in sewage spills over last two years
The study compared figures from 2022 and 2023
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
Anglian Water. Again... See my post yesterday for exactly how much money they're raking in from customers, whilst defiling our waterways in return... 😡 (Apologies for quoting the Daily Express. I wouldn't normally go near it, but this is important). www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1956...
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Outrage in pretty UK town as sewage 'emergency' alert issued
The Environment Agency classed it as the most severe, which means it has a serious, extensive, or persistent impact on the environment, people, or property.
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Peter powell @peterpowell.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
go.bsky.app/KaDADYV Rivers and water quality starter pack. Comment below if you think you or someone else should be part of this group. I will add you.
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Brent River Park @brentriverpark.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Report in @ealingnews.bsky.social on the 5 housing developments discharging sewage straight into the River Brent. ealing.news/environment/...
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Two Ealing housing developments flushing sewage into River Brent and Thames - EALING.NEWS - The Voice of Ealing 7 towns - Acton, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell, Northolt, Perivale, Southall.
A Environmental Information Request (EIR) to Thames Water has revealed that two housing developments in Ealing have been flushing sewage directly into tributaries of the River Thames through the River...
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
WE DID IT!
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hello—introductions seem in order in this cordial new space. 👋 I’m Robert Macfarlane; I write books, films & music about the infinitely complex & fascinating terrain where nature, landscape, language & imagination entangle. These are some of my books—& Is A River Alive? (just finished, out May 1st.)
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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Autumn in Cambridge keeps getting better and better!
Golden autumnal scene with trees and leaves reflected in a stream.
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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Watching a Starling Roost - put it on your winter bucket list. Even if the Starlings don't actually murmur, an evening out watching the birds coming in to roost is an awe inspiring experience. #birds #wildlife #starlings #murmurations
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Peter powell @peterpowell.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
go.bsky.app/KaDADYV Pulling together a UK rivers and water quality starter pack. Who should be in it? Who is missing? Comment below and I will get them added.
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Friends of the Lake District @friendsoflakes.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hello @bsky.app folk and everyone else. New here! But we've been around for a long long time. 90 years in fact! We're a #charity dedicated to protecting #LakeDistrict and Cumbrian landscapes like this one. (Photo by John Macfarlane)
A beautiful image of a mountain with cloud around it
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
1st post here: a note of hope? “Daylighting" is the work of bringing buried rivers back to the surface & sun, in cities where they've been entombed. Here’s @emilyraboteau.bsky.social on a $133m daylighting project in the Bronx. Here’s to doing things differently. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/da...
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Daylighting a Brook in the Bronx | Broadcast
An ode to an underground waterway and the restorative effort to unbury it.
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