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According to this, the entire road project is costing £500 million, so I doubt that this figure is for the bridge alone.
It depends on the species. Some tend to follow hedgerows or lines of trees etc. They would find a motorway to be a barrier, but would cross using something like this.
Why don’t we celebrate this day?
As the wiki page lists, the UK has had one since 2020. But we’ve also had National Tree Week for 50+ years anyway.
I have my driving licence, work ID, a first aid quick reference, postage stamps and one of those Swiss army knife credit card sized things as well as cash and bank cards.
Starmer said he had ‘full confidence’ in McSweeney a couple of days back. That phrase always used to be the knell of doom. Nice to see that some things remain constant in the current political world.
These days just surveying for the national bat and dormouse monitoring programmes, but I have done quite a range of other things in the past including: starting and running a Green Drinks group, pagan prison chaplain for the Pagan Fed, direct action with Greenpeace, local wildlife group committee member, starting and running a toad patrol group, helping at an old folks day centre, running a tea stall and car-parking at a few green festivals, crash and bash conservation work with various groups etc.
I wonder if Irish/Scottish/Gaelic speakers can pick out anything
Those are from the Q-celtic branch. Cornish, Breton and Welsh are P-celtic. They are pretty different.
Thanks. I was just going to add one myself.
I’d imagine that whereas you can guess at confusing cursive letters in words from the others around them, you can’t do that with digits.
The year has never been the problem.
Now, if there are plans to rename the months Thirtyseconduary, Fortyfirstember and so on, we might be getting somewhere.
- Losing a fight in the sandpit
- Crying because there were no more trains in the trainset for me to have one. But then being given another whole set to play with
- Farting extremely loudly in the middle of storytime
- Miss not being able to tell me what dates Robin Hood lived in
- Having a lesson on how to use a dictionary - which surprised me, since I already could, and didn’t realise that anyone couldn’t.
Neither am I but my friend circle uses this, having heard it, not because it is German but because it is inherently silly, and we are silly. I would expect that the same may apply here.
Ends. ‘Alles hat ein Ende nur die Wurst hat zwei’. A popular German phrase.
A lot of brands do use bags containing plastic - which probably isn’t great in terms of you actually ingesting microplastic as you drink, let alone composting - but some do not. The trick is to find the brands that don’t and use them. They fully compost.
I see that Jason Haigh-Ellery is involved, which - given his involvement with Big Finish - does give me some hope for the quality if it does go ahead, but that is a very big IF.
Mixed feelings on this one with Waitrose in particular as a target. Whilst not exactly a workers cooperative, it is employee owned: staff have non-transferable shares. Thefts will hit employees directly as a result.
Clearly this is not going to be any kind of significant dent in the overall profits of the company - it is very much about the publicity - but, even so, couldn’t they have chosen one with a more standard corporate model?
Some decades back I described myself in a social organisation’s yearbook as “Degenerate freeloader and card-carrying pope” - which should indicate my influences at the time.
I no longer carry a pope card.
The last three have been s/h when I have bought them and then I have hung on to them for around 5 years each myself.
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) is often considered to be a prime example, I think.
What are known as moose in the Americas are known as elk in the UK. What are known as elk in the Americas are known as deer in the UK.




















Farmers call for clarity on Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme (bbc.com)
Livestock farmer Martin Hole grazes his organic sheep and cattle on 280 hectares of the Pevensey Levels, one of the most bio-diverse wetlands in the country.
Harwich dredged materials to be used to create saltmarshes (bbc.com)
Sediment collected during harbour maintenance is being used to restore saltmarsh habitats on the north-east Essex coast.
South Scotland golden eagles thrive despite deaths and disappearances (bbc.com)
Ten years ago the iconic golden eagle was a rare sight over the rolling hills of southern Scotland.
North East - best places to see starling murmuration 2026 (thenorthernecho.co.uk)
Nature lovers across the North East are being urged to wrap up warm and head out at dusk, as starling murmuration season continues.
Lapwings come in their thousands to Blacktoft Sands reserve (bbc.com)
“Crazy numbers” of lapwings have been reported by the RSPB along the Humber estuary.
Sightings of one of UK's rarest insects triple in New Forest (bbc.com)
The green forest hoverfly, distinctive for its metallic green and golden body and bright orange wings and legs, has increased in numbers that have far exceeded previous records.
According to this, the entire road project is costing £500 million, so I doubt that this figure is for the bridge alone.
It depends on the species. Some tend to follow hedgerows or lines of trees etc. They would find a motorway to be a barrier, but would cross using something like this.
£460million bridge that will help deer, badgers and bats in the UK cross safely (mirror.co.uk)
A groundbreaking wildlife bridge is under construction in Gloucestershire, with completion expected for 2027. The Gloucestershire Way bridge, set to be the UK’s largest wildlife crossing, is part of the A417 Missing Link project, an initiative designed to build new roads while preserving the Cotswolds ' natural beauty and wildlife.
Bid to add East Anglia's rare chalk streams to UNESCO natural world heritage list (itv.com)
A bid to recognise Cambridgeshire’s chalk streams as a UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site will be put before parliament by a local MP.
Britain's hedgerows: the neglected network that holds us together (geographical.co.uk)
The dog walker looked confused. ‘The reaves? I’m sorry. I’ve no idea what they are.’ He spoke with the kind of Devon accent that indicated a lifetime spent out on the hills of Dartmoor. ‘But, if it’s the Bronze Age settlement you’re looking for, then it’s up there on the top of that there hill,’ he said, pointing towards the summit of a boggy hillside swept in cold drizzle.
As the wiki page lists, the UK has had one since 2020. But we’ve also had National Tree Week for 50+ years anyway.
Flurry of baby wild boars take on a river (bbc.com)
Love is in the air for beaver pair in Studland (bbc.com)
Beavers are continuing to enjoy valentines day as they spread the love in Studland in a rare sight, captured by the National Trust’s trail cam.
MBA welcomes passing of the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Bill and its entry into UK Law | Marine Biological Association (mba.ac.uk)
The Marine Biological Association (MBA) welcomes the news that the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement has now become UK law, having received Royal Assent. This marks the completion of the UK legislative process required to ratify and implement the landmark High Seas Treaty.
Deer shooting to be facilitated in England to protect woodlands (theguardian.com)
It will be much easier to shoot deer in England under government plans that aim to curb the damage the animals are doing to the country’s woodlands.
Record number of seal pups born at Orford Ness colony in Suffolk (bbc.com)
The number of grey seals born at a relatively new colony on the Suffolk coast has almost doubled this year, the National Trust revealed.
Bad weather blamed for north-east coast puffin deaths (bbc.com)
Storms and bad weather could have caused the deaths of dozens of puffins washed up on beaches, according to the RSPB.
Volunteers to help threatened tower mustard herb by home growing (bbc.com)
Volunteers across London are being enlisted to grow a threatened wildflower vital for bees, butterflies and rare moths, in an effort to stop one of the capital’s rarest plants from disappearing.
Most roadless areas in Great Britain are smaller than 1 km², fragmenting wildlife habitats (phys.org)
Britain’s landscape is highly fragmented by roads, with researchers from Cardiff University finding that more than 70% of the UK’s roadless areas are smaller than 1 km2. The researchers say that more than 60% of roadless patches in the UK are smaller than the typical area many common UK mammals need to survive, meaning species such as badgers and red foxes likely face a high risk of wildlife-vehicle collisions.