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Poppy-pooh

@poppy-poo.bsky.social
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Keen walker, book worm and history buff. Love nature and fascinated by rewilding.

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Liver UK @liveruk.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
"When I was diagnosed with PBC I felt so alone... The British Liver Trust’s patient information, patient stories and support groups have put me in a place of safety and helped me feel supported." Lisa shares her story. Full video: ow.ly/Bjmf50YmXJt #RareDiseaseDay #NoOneLeftBehind
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Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I’ve dreamt about a swift brick win & front pages of newspapers but this is a nightmare. It’s not a win. This is a meaningless policy with no legal requirement, no enforcement & no transparency inviting housebuilders who’ve bragged about blocking swift bricks to do it themselves
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
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Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
“All this ethereal summer visitor asks is help in finding a spot. Labour however cares nothing for this miracle. …. This is wrong. Swifties everywhere must fly to the aid of this marvel of the air.” - The Times
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Author wrote best book he's ever written. Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings. Book was finally published by new publisher. Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed. Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one.. bsky.app/profile/zygo...
Joe McLaren's fabulous cover of Everything Will Swallow You.

You might like the book if you like:
Folklore
Landscape
Stories of long-lasting friendship
The concept of circular time
The magic of old objects
Records
Tangles stories, with a strong connection to the earth
Jokes
Community
The sea
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Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
In 2023, the Labour party supported mandating swift bricks, whipping FOR the swifts brick amendment. 2 years later, the same Ministers in charge of Housing put a 3 line whip (the most extreme block) AGAINST swift bricks. Listen to the strength of support in this powerful speech.
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Poppy-pooh @poppy-poo.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
A robin sings his heart out in the strawberry tree in my garden. Thank you for the music, little one 🎶
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Poppy-pooh @poppy-poo.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Such love, determination and resilience. The final quote about entering eternity by walking into a meadow is just lovely
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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Huh. Today I learned that English Heritage gives free admission to people who have been granted refugee status. What an excellent policy.
Screenshot from English Heritage's FAQs.

I am a refugee. Do I qualify for free entry to English Heritage sites?

Yes, if you’ve been granted refugee status or have been given leave to remain as a displaced person, you can visit English Heritage sites for free. You’ll need to show your Biometric Residency Permit (BRP) when you arrive. You can’t pre-book your visit.

These sites represent the best of England’s heritage, and we’re proud to share them with people who have been forced to leave their home countries because of war or persecution.

If you are accompanying a refugee and are not an English Heritage Member, you will need to pay the normal admission price.

This policy doesn’t apply to people seeking refugee status. The only exception is for organised group visits of people seeking refugee status or leave to remain run by local authority resettlement services or charities and booked through the normal group booking process.

A small number of our sites are managed by local organisations, and they might have different admission policies. Please check with the site before visiting.
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United Voices of the World @uvwunion.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Breaking news: Hotel workers at Radisson Blu, Canary Wharf (mainly migrant women from Nepal) ended a 6-week strike w/ ALL demands met. When we organise, we win. Solidarity forever ❤️ www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/press-rel...
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Hotel Housekeepers call off 6-week strike at international hotel chain after historic victory
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 26/08/2025
"We could resolve this by creating safe, legal and managed routes." @elliechowns.bsky.social responds to Reform's dangerous rhetoric on migration with the Green Party's genuine, compassionate, common-sense solutions.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure. It's capital. The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
The threat to our society is not from asylum seekers in small boats. It’s from politicians and media cynically whipping up fear and prejudice, labelling them all as criminals, inciting hatred against people for where and what they’ve fled from. It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.
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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
A message from our CEO. Please, donate today: www.bumblebeeconservation.org/give
Black text on a white background: 
Due to rising costs and more competition for funding, we are having to scale back our work.
We’ve had to make painful decisions, including staff redundancies. With staff and resources stretched to their limit, we are now considering which vital projects may no longer be possible.
This comes when bumblebees are struggling to recover following their worst year on record.
I’ve never been more worried, or more determined to fight for a future for bumblebees.
We need to raise £50,000 right away to make sure we can continue our vital work.
If you’ve ever thought about giving a donation, we’re asking you to please, make it today.
Thank you,
We’re facing the hardest chapter in our history.
Gill Perkins,
CEO Bumblebee Conservation Trust
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Poppy-pooh @poppy-poo.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Do you spray pesticides in public areas @wiltscouncil.bsky.social Asking as a resident. I look forward to hearing from you.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
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Poppy-pooh @poppy-poo.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I'm not normally a fan of hybrid tea roses, but Chandos Beauty has bewitched me. The blooms are big, blousy and highly fragrant. #rosewednesday #hybridtearose #englishroses
Chandos Beauty hybrid tea rose. Pink blooms and highly fragrant Chandos Beauty hybrid tea rose. Pink blooms and highly fragrant.Chandos Beauty hybrid tea rose. Three pink blooms on the shrub. Highly fragrant.
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Nature friendly farming approaches can reduce need for pesticides, improve soil health, & create buffer strips to reduce the amount of pesticide entering waterways. Robust, reliable, easy to access funding for such measures is vital to river health. 2/3 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour cutting farming budget in England by £100m a year, figures shows
Nature and farmers’ groups cautiously welcome spending review as there were fears Treasury wanted bigger cuts
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Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Apparently it’s world swift day. Email angela.rayner.mp@parliament.uk saying PLEASE MANDATE SWIFT BRICKS and add that to the subject line too. You’ll get an automated response but if we all email it will have a trickle up effect that’s better than a petition. So ask at least one person to do it too
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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Keir Starmer needs to listen not to housebuilders but nightingales! More great reporting by my colleague Helena Horton. Madness that the best place in Britain for this endangered bird is owned by a housing quango. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘All the birdsong in the world in one sound’: England’s nightingale haven at risk from planning bill
Conservationists warn that losing Lodge Hill in Kent to housing could be a catastrophe for one of Britain’s most at-risk birds
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The warning couldn’t be clearer. ⚠️ Slashing the nature-friendly farming budget would be catastrophic for the nature and climate crisis, and for our long-term food security. What's more, it would leave the UK Government’s credibility on climate and nature in tatters.
A headline from The Guardian reads: “Fund for nature-friendly farming to be slashed in UK spending review.” Below it, a line of bright green tractors ploughs wide, bare furrows into a large field. The image underscores the scale of UK farming and the warning that vital support for restoring nature is about to be cut.
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Labour promised to restore nature. ❌ Instead, their Planning Bill contains a licence to destroy it. We offered solutions. We’re done waiting. Part 3 of the Bill would gut the laws protecting our most precious habitats & species. Without significant change, it must be scrapped.
Screenshot of a Guardian news article with the headline: “Wildlife charities urge Labour to scrap ‘licence to kill nature’ in planning bill.” The subheading reads: “Conservationists say part of bill allowing developers to avoid environmental laws by paying into nature fund should be ditched.” Below, a protest photo shows handmade signs in woodland. One reads “BAT FACTS – 14 species of bat in Buckinghamshire. Bats are the only mammals that can fly.” Another says “FAT CATS KILL BATS” in bold letters. The image underscores public anger and the scale of opposition to the proposed Planning Bill.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
'Keir Starmer’s planning bill......as it stands, lets developers “pay cash to trash nature” ' Another stupid, ill-thought out, bill that will alienate even more voters Assuming there are any still left to alienate www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Planning bill will ‘push public towards Reform’: Labour’s Chris Hinchliff on standing up for nature
MP says draft law will let developers ‘pay cash to trash’ habitats and urges colleagues to back his amendments
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This is what I want in a house … you can keep those kitchen islands, spare bedrooms & driveways …
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Poppy-pooh @poppy-poo.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
What a treat it was to have the Moon visit a church in our town recently. It was awe-inspiring and rather thought provoking. She's back up in the sky now 😉
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Poppy-pooh @poppy-poo.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
May meadows with buttercups and bluebells, both white and blue. There's something about meadows that fills my heart with joy ❤️
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Poppy-pooh @poppy-poo.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
A riot of wild garlic on a verdant country path.
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🦊 Competition time! To celebrate the beginning of summer, I'm giving away a signed edition of my Reynard the Fox, a Fox for All Seasons journal, packets of Dorset biscuits & tea to honour my other main character Old Fox & a charming & fluffy fox companion! Simply like, repost & follow to enter! 🌷🦊
A still life of prizes: Reynard the Fox book, A Fox for All Seasons journal open at a map of Flanders, a toy fox, Dorset tea and biscuits.
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Poppy-pooh @poppy-poo.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
A stunning sea of bluebells near Fonthill Lake in Wiltshire. I've never seen so many in one place! 😍
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Jeremy @floregonian.com · 18/03/2025
There’s this muppet on TikTok who transcribes and then scats incredibly difficult jazz solos so well and I could not possibly love a thing more
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Poppy-pooh @poppy-poo.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Lovely outfits, although the one on the far right looks like she's got a snake curling around her shoulders! 🐍
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Poppy-pooh @poppy-poo.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
It amazes me that we haven't done so already...
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Poppy-pooh @poppy-poo.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Very well said, but it's heartbreaking that this keeps happening over and over again...
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A "potential" 0.43% increase in GDP *by 2050* - in return for torching the UK's climate leadership and adding vast amounts of carbon to the atmosphere - is simply not worth it. No third runway. Grow the green economy, not airports. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Rachel Reeves confirms backing for third runway at Heathrow – UK politics live
The chancellor says she wants plan for runway brought forward by summer and criticises Conservatives for not acting to build runway
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Poppy-pooh @poppy-poo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
In amongst all the bad news, this really gladdens my heart.
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Little Green Space 🐝 @lgspace.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
What would you choose? Plastic grass has zero wildlife benefits, a high carbon footprint, and sheds micro-plastics. Real grass allowed to grow with wildflowers boosts biodiversity – from butterflies, frogs and bees to mammals, bats and birds, and is good for our health. More: bit.ly/3L806DJ #nature
Upper image shows lifeless plastic grass by a roadside, which compares to the lower image of an orange-tip butterfly amongst wildflowers and long grass
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WildDartmoor @tonydartmoor.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Well done to all who campaigned for the Bill and to @rozsavagemp.bsky.social for introducing it. But shame on Starmer and Reeves, who just don't get it, do they? Will this Government actually be worse than the Tories on nature? #attackonnature www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK climate and nature bill dropped after deal with Labour backbenchers
Ministers avoid internal party row by promising potential rebels they will have input into environmental legislation
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David Allen Lambert @dlgenealogist.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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Poppy-pooh @poppy-poo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This gladens my heart ❤️
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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WASPI Campaign @waspicampaign.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
3.6 million #WASPI women not properly told about increases to their State Pension age. Retirement plans shattered. #DWP at fault. Still waiting for recommended compensation. Sign our petition to get Govt to act. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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The Watchful Cook @thewatchfulcook.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
With much love and grateful thanks to @annelouiseavery.bsky.social on her birthday. May her year ahead bring respite in your health and more people falling in love with your wonderful work.
A guache painting of a slender blonde Princess, dressed in white, with two handsome and devoted polar bears at her side. Dark sky, full of stars and snow underfoot (and under paw).
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Poppy-pooh @poppy-poo.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Good morning and happy #Caturday It's blowing a hoolie outside so Poppy won't be pottering around the garden today.
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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It's up! Please add your name to the petition launched by bsky.app/profile/wild... if you'd like to see an end to driven grouse shooting.
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Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting
Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...
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Poppy-pooh @poppy-poo.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Such a beautiful picture. Thank you 😊
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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
3/3 East Barsham's excellent collection of late medieval glass includes a roundel cut from the face of a 15th Century angel, and reset as if peering into the church. Once seen, never forgotten! East Barsham: : www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/eastbarsham/... #NovemberNorfolk30
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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
If you know me from the “other place” please do reply to this post and let me know who you are so I can follow you back. I’d love to keep in touch with as many people as possible, but I’m getting a bit confused as to who’s who on here. I’d also be grateful if you would share this message for me!
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Poppy-pooh @poppy-poo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
No snow so far today, but it's very cold and soggy. Poppy the cat's decision to hunker down under a blanket seems eminently sensible. #cat #tuxedocat #hygge
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