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Mark Jelley @perkinslodge.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The kids are going to be thrilled, absolutely flying with the smaller presents this year and such an original idea!

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Northamptonshire Weather @nnweather.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Ravensthorpe 81mm Marston St Lawrence 81mm Flore 78mm Middleton Cheney 74mm Rothwell 65mm East Haddon 63mm Brixworth 60mm Daventry 60mm A Major Incident has now been declared by local authorities for the county.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Too good not to share: a wooden floor of a #Neolithic house. Unearthed in Alleshausen-Grundwiesen, a wetland settlement at the western rim of the Federsee marshlands, 3020-2700 BC. 📷H. Schlichterle/Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden Württemberg 🏺 #archaeology

A lawn, squares of which have been dug out until a depth of 30 cm. There are bicolor length indicators (red and white) and, on the flat uneathed bottom: a wooden floor : planks on joists. The wood is black and corroded.

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Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

"When the government cuts farmer support, it reduces the amount of “public goods” in the country — which crudely means less hedgerows, less wetlands, less birds, and less insects. It is profoundly self-defeating." @herdyshepherd.bsky.social #Farming #FoodSecurity #Food unherd.com/2024/11/a-fa...

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The farmers march on Westminster

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Lucie Buchi @lucieabuchi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I was trying to find account weed related, but like arable weeds.. apparently people creating Feeds on weed have another type in mind! So if you can help me finding arable weed interesting content, let me know!

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Barry Williams @barryjwill.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Lovely week last week. Nice to see some sunshine. Mascani winter oats up and flying. And some beet being lifted and drilled right behind on the farm I used to work on. #backbritishfarming #agronomythatdelivers #wintersun

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Ok, so this account generally has a "no reposting pictures without alt text" policy, but I can't resist. For those who need it, the below image features our glamorous correspondent elbow deep in a plastic cow, presumably doing the traditional "I've lost my watch" routine bsky.app/profile/phae...

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Tom Clarke 🇺🇦🌻 @tom-clarke.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

NEW DEFRA stats just out. Show that in 2023/24 cereal farm incomes fell by 73% On average cereal farms made a £26k loss on their crops, only earning an income due to direct govt subsidy & non-farming activity. Even so, 1/3 of all cereals farms made a loss despite other income.

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The Farm Dude @thefarmdude.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Rained out on the farm today. Took a walk in the woods instead.

A small waterfall in the Oregon rainforest

A young pine tree growing out of a stump

Scenic photo of a steel path alongside a river in the Oregon rainforest.

Scenic photo of a hiking trail in the Oregon forest.

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Natalie 🦇 @natsabin.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

For some bats we have to tell them apart in the field using willy size/shape. Remember it's wee willy Whiskered and bulbus Brandt's.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

This here is one of the great U-boat hunters of the Second World War. Grab a comfy seat and a glass of something pleasing. We're going on a journey...

Wren Janet Okell, staring at the camera with a slightly awkward smile. Fair enough - as we'll see, she did her best work hidden behind a screen...

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Mark Jelley @perkinslodge.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

This photo has just popped up on my timeline, nothing remarkable about it but we haven't seen any blue sky or sunshine at all in November yet, it's being severely missed!

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Before the internet kittens had to call everyone individually to explain how small and cute they were. Ca. 1920 - 1935. collection.powerhouse.com.au/object/597342

Black and white photo of a shorthaired tuxedo tabby kitten on a floor next to a black, old fashioned candlestick type telephone. The kitten is sitting up on its haunches with its paws against the mouthpiece, peering into it curiously. Another kitten can be seen a couple feet away, blurry but you can see its sleeping in the upright loaf position.

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Mark Jelley @perkinslodge.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

This always amazes me, the sheer number of spiders living across the farm to cover acres and acres of ploughed soil, an apparently lifeless environment. We see it across grassland too & I've got no real idea what role they play in the environment on the farm, it's fascinating

Ploughed soil in a farmers field, covered in thousands of tiny cobwebs strung from the high points of the soil like tiny fairy nets catching dew.

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Mark Jelley @perkinslodge.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

One of the more frustrating jobs today, roof nets going up in preparation for scaffolding in preparation for solar panel strip and reinstalling next week. The original panels went up in 2011 but the installers cut corners so this time we've got the experts on the job

A large open span cattle building which has solar panels on the roof. The picture shows an extending lift platform being used to hang safety netting close to the roof as fall protection for contractors working above

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Was kept awake all night worrying that somebody in BlueSky's now 10 million users might not have heard the exciting ideas of Louis-Émile Bertin. And the exciting ideas of Louis-Émile Bertin were not necessarily good ones.

Amazing French blunderweapon, the presunk battleship Henri IV. There's a solid line of logic to explain why the vast majority of the deck has about half a metre of freeboard. I wouldn't say it was good logic though.

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Mark Jelley @perkinslodge.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

Interesting year on the farm, 3rd & final year of SFI Pilot has bought a wonderful crop of late flowering clover & some rapidly developing scrub which we've decided to partially manage. Beans have been brilliant & off farm despite the weather our new garden is producing a surprising crop of grapes!

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

With the fucking around to finding out pipeline turned firmly on, a reminder that Brazil enjoys picking a scrap so much that the first time its navy fired a torpedo was to sink its own battleship. Admittedly it was revolting at the time. Looks even more revolting with a bloody big hole in it...

Brazilian battleship Aquidabã in dry dock with a massive hole punched into its side, just aft of the bow. 19th century torpedoes might have been crude by modern standards but they could still dampen your enthusiasm, sundry other parts of the ship, and quite possibly your trousers if you weren't quite brave enough.

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Mark Jelley @perkinslodge.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Utter devastation in the straw rows yesterday as a whirlwind made off with a fairly significant amount of straw. The last I could see of some of it was at about 2000 feet crossing the motorway 2 miles away! Apologies to anyone downwind of here with blocked gutters this morning...

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Mark Jelley @perkinslodge.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

A beautiful sight, a field of wheat showing lots of potential for #harvest24! It's a shame half of the wheat never made it to the field though, such a wet winter this year

A setting sun aging across a young field of wheat, you can see the individual rows and it's a thing of rare beauty in 2024

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

Trying to get myself out of my writing funk - enjoy the fruits of my labours and encourage me to write more, please... dreadships.com/varyag-degre...

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Varyag degrees of success - DreadShips.com

To lose a ship once, as Wilde nearly suggested, may be regarded as misfortune. To lose the same ship twice begins to look like carelessness...

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

Someone tagged me into this as, in Drach's absence, the person on BlueSky most likely to know (without guessing) how navies handled cat poo. I am VERY offended. But they're also right. 😆 Indeed Drach/Dr Alex and I were comparing notes on this back in November. So thread: How cats shat on ships /1

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Mark Jelley @perkinslodge.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

It's been a long day but this has beaten me 🤷🏻‍♂️

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