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All sorts of fungi making the most of the moist decomposition out in the woods.
A cut-back of gorse appears to suit the fly agaric very well!
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BE READY? SOME OF US ALREADY ARE. 🔥
Watching Wes Streeting on Question Time, we couldn't help wondering whether anyone in Whitehall has spoken to someone who actually designs and installs fireplaces and stoves.
Power cuts. Cyberattacks. Three days' supplies. Torches. Food that doesn't need cooking.
All sensible. But something rather obvious is missing.
While a few anti-burning campaigners push to phase out domestic wood burning and Defra works with them on tighter stove regulations, the Government is telling us to prepare for when the systems we're told to rely on fail.
Could somebody please join the bloody dots?
We've spent decades designing and installing fireplaces, chimneys and stoves that provide warmth without relying on gas and electric.
And the British-made Charnwood Haven in this video goes further.
Heat. Firelight. An oven to cook dinner. A hotplate to boil the kettle. Heat and ventilation to dry clothes.
All without mains electricity. No standing charge required.
Just a suitable installation, a properly functioning chimney, dry logs and someone who knows how to use it.
Our grandparents called it being prepared for winter. Apparently, it's now called national resilience.
Of course, high standards matter. That's our job. But so does recognising the value of independent heat and cooking.
So, Government: lovely campaign. Perhaps next time, invite someone who can actually keep the kettle boiling.
We're ready. Are you? 🔥
#ScarlettFireplaces #CharnwoodHaven #BeReady #EnergyResilience #BritishManufacturing
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The #Salmon industry will have you believe that the krill that they catch in the Antarctic to pelletise for their factory farmed fish is sustainably sourced, but its clear they are already under pressure. nationalgeographic.com/anima… via @NatGeo
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💔 A little plea from our small business! 🐝
We've taken time off work, prepared lots of honey & candles, only for the storm to cancel 2 of our 3 festival days! 😢
Now we're left with lots of stock😅 Every order would mean the world to us!
Thank you💛
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Up here in the English Peak District it is pretty wet, hence the reservoirs
But this is what Ladybower looks like now - nearly two-thirds of the way through Autumn
This bodes very badly for summer 2027
Standpipes in the street would be no surprise
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The Govt saying we must drill more fossil fuels so we can use the tax revenues to fund the green transition is about as logical as a doctor telling you to smoke 2 packs a day to raise the money for your lung transplant
You don’t put out a fire by pouring on more fuel 🔥#Jackdaw
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I wrote to the Government with cross-party MPs last night opposing this decision.
Rosebank and Jackdaw won’t cut bills they'll just boost profits of fossil fuel giants.
If every country pursues its own deluded self interest the costs of climate breakdown will be unbearable.
Energy Secretary @Miatsf has agreed that the regulator can grant consent for gas to be produced at the licensed Jackdaw field.
Gas from Jackdaw is expected to start reaching British homes and businesses as early as the end of this month.
ALT Jackdaw gas field gets green light to begin production
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The future is bleak if profit continues to dictate every aspect of life.
Unwanted data centres everywhere. Luxury builds, not affordable homes. Nature turned to concrete.
Community Rights offer a different future, where healthy lives become the foundation of every decision.
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7 miles “downstream” of the “source” of the “River” Pang at Bucklebury “Ford”, not even a puddle.
Meanwhile Thames Water has leaked 51+ BILLION litres since hosepipe ban started, 570+ million litres/day, that’s almost 10x daily average flow of the Pang. #chalkstream #flyfishing
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Ugh…
Such waste!
Our supermarkets bin around 238 million meals' worth of edible food a year
WHY???
France made that illegal
We could too
…with your help.
Please sign - takes 30 seconds!
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It’s quite simple..no rain means no water 💦 supply…how does this government intend to supply water to 1.5m extra homes and god knows how many AI data centres? Especially in the highly populated and already severely water stressed south east and east of England?
@AngelaRayner @KanishkaNarayan
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We really are living in a Bond film now, with a billionaire villain switching off his technology on a petty whim to a country that's been invaded by another villain, all to please his deranged master. You couldn't script this crap any better, it's absolutely disgusting.
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Two years ago today, we exposed huge amounts of illegal sewage dumping in Windermere.
And still, the Environment Agency has done nothing about it.
@WindrushWasp
🚨 Breaking News 🚨
Save Windermere has once again been involved in exposing United Utilities exploitation of Windermere. Today the BBC reported that in the last 3 years, United Utilities has ILLEGALLY dumped 143,000,000 litres of untreated sewage directly into Windermere from just one of their sites — that’s thethe equivalent of 23 million toilet flushes, 1,600 double-decker buses, or enough to fill Big Ben 30 times! 💩
According to the BBC, United Utilities claims they reported these incidents at Glebe Road Pumping Station as soon as they were aware, which suggests they simply didn’t know about the instances of illegality from 2021 to September 2023, despite it being their statutory obligation to show permit compliance. The BBC estimates an additional 24 incidents that weren’t reported at the time could have cost the company £2.5 million through lower rewards or greater penalties.
You might be thinking, where’s the Environment Agency? Isn’t this their job? Well, once again, they’ve turned a blind eye. They’ve failed to ask for the data, failed to hold United Utilities accountable and failed to protect Windermere from this predatory behaviour.
We need your help to stop this 🫵
👊 Tag @Keir_Starmer
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Let’s try and get this trending. Keir Starmer has often spoken about his love for the Lake District. Now it’s time for him to put his money where his mouth is and end sewage pollution in Windermere once and for all. Windermere is a symbol of our cultural heritage, a key driver of the local and national economy, and a sanctuary for rare and protected wildlife. This is a national and international disgrace, one of the country’s greatest natural treasures is being exploited by the multi-billion pound private water company. It’s time for Westminster to act.
@Keir_Starmer , it’s time to stop the sewage to Save Windermere.
Read the full blog to see how we uncovered this shocking story 👉
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BBC article 👉
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So Red Roses finally lose. Magnificent result for Canada, well-deserved, they have some fantastic players. Women’s rugby keeps on developing at elite level
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Known this spring for 40 yrs & it’s never dried up St Felix The🦫Bishop brought Christianity to East Anglia in AD 615 shipwrecked in the Wash & saved by a family of🦫 The spring has dried up🤔Over abstraction ?
@greenbeltsal Sad to think of springs that fed villages for centuries being disturbed like that. Water shaped so much of our history and I hate the thought of losing it.
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There is a mountain of unworn clothes in the driest desert on earth, large enough to be photographed from space. It grows by 39,000 tons a year and almost none of it will ever rot.
The Atacama, in northern Chile, is a place where it may not rain for a decade. On its edge is a duty-free port called Iquique. Every year about 59,000 tons of clothing arrives there from Europe, America and Asia. It is last season's stock that never sold, and the bags people leave at charity shops.
Dealers pick through it for anything they can resell across South America. Two thirds of it is worthless. Nobody will pay to ship it back out, so lorries drive it into the desert at night and tip it.
The local landfill refuses to take it. The reason given is that the clothing does not biodegrade and is full of chemicals. Most of it is polyester, which is plastic, and in a place with no rain and no soil life it will lie there for centuries. Some of it is set alight, and the smoke drifts over a town of 100,000 people.
In 2025 a Chilean court ruled that the dumps had done serious damage to the land.
For most of history this could not have happened. Clothes were wool, linen and leather. They were worn out, handed down and patched, and at the very end a rag merchant paid for the scraps. In Yorkshire, from 1813, old woollens were shredded and spun into new cloth. Anything left went on the fields, where wool breaks down in months and feeds the grass.
Nobody ever had to find a desert for worn-out wool. We invented a fabric that cannot die, and then we started making it to be thrown away.
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So it’s official: Reuters has confirmed that the White House gave the order to disrupt Starlink so Russia could attack Kyiv with no advanced warning. The US aided and abetted Putin’s killing of numerous civilians in Ukraine. Trump’s a traitor, a Russian asset who is using US military technology to help our enemy.
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Lack of Autumn rains so far means the drought situation continues to deteriorate.
Parts of southern England now in severe drought (the highest category).
Make no mistake, a dry autumn and winter would mean big problems next year.
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