Ex Farm Worker 18 years, Countryside management/conservation 30 years, VSO stint China 1994.
East Suffolk
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Chris Ryde retweeted
Britain's biggest ever petition wasn't about Britain. 📜
1814. We'd just beaten Napoleon. The peace treaty gave France five more years of the slave trade. ⚓
Our own government had signed it. The country erupted. 🔥
One in every seventeen people signed. Children included. ✍️
Castlereagh took those names to Vienna. He could have asked for anything. He asked for an end to the slave trade. ⚖️
France never got its five years because of the British people. 🇫🇷 🫷🇬🇧
Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
A cherished book on my shelf!
My nature journal, Secrets of a Devon Wood is ON SALE at @SummerfieldBook - what a bargain!
summerfieldbooks.com/product…
It is okay to fly the so called Palestinian flag, along with a statue of a terrorist, but 11 year old children have their names taken for wearing our national flag. The establishment is trying to snuff out a peat fire but we all know that isn't easy.
🚨Never forget the time British police stopped 11-year-olds and taking their details for flying the St George’s Cross in their own capital.
Officers surround kids draped in England flags, question them on the street, and note names like it’s a crime.
Same city where other flags and marches routinely get a free pass.
Flying the flag of the country you’re standing in used to be normal. Now it’s treated as suspicious - even for children.
This is what “without fear or favour” looks like in the UK.
Disgusting.
Chris Ryde retweeted
Morning everyone I hope you are well. In between the showers overlooking Chapel Stile Church with the Langdales as the backdrop. Have a great day.
#LakeDistrict
Chris Ryde retweeted
A very Happy Birthday to the brilliant musician and songwriter Hank Marvin (Brian Rankin) who was born on this day in 1941. Best known as the lead guitarist of the Shadows. 🎸 #HankMarvin #TheShadows #FootTapper #FBI #Shindig #InTheCountry #Sam #Geronimo #OnTheBeach
Chris Ryde retweeted
Away from worldwide negativity I visited Winkworth Arboretum today to soak up some autumn colours. Simply stunning. @WoodlandNomad
Chris Ryde retweeted
Alfred the Great died on this day, 899. 🕯️
In 878 the Vikings took his hall at Christmas. 🔥
He hid in the Somerset marshes with twenty men. 🌾
In spring he sent word: meet me at the stone. ⚔️
Edington. He won. Then he built the towns, the navy, the laws and the schools. 🏰
His grandson united England. 👑
The only English king we ever called Great. 🏴
Help us keep the story of England alive. 📖
Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
Chris Ryde retweeted
Let’s be clear, @GOVUK @DefraGovUK are looking to impose more standards on the uk food supply chain, and we all know the cost will be passed onto the farmer, taken from their bottom line which is currently in MAJOR deficit.
Whilst waving in imports that still use CO2 stunning 1/3
The Government has unveiled plans to phase out CO₂ stunning in pig slaughterhouses, with argon gas and electrical stunning among the proposed alternatives. ❌
While the move is intended to improve animal welfare, the pig sector has previously warned that any replacement must be commercially viable and avoid creating further problems for producers and processors.
A consultation is now open until December 21.
READ MORE: ow.ly/SWr65100SBc
Chris Ryde retweeted
Platform 4 at Nottingham Victoria.
There's a Krispy Kreme donut store there now.
Chris Ryde retweeted
If Wildlife Trust is taking over, with their reluctance to carry out any predator control, I can’t help but feel this will be the the beginning of the end for the curlew there.
The government is funding one of England's biggest land purchases for nature.
£1.94 million to secure the future of The Rothbury Estate in Northumberland. @WildlifeTrusts will manage the estate for nature recovery.
Learn more: wildlifetrusts.org/news/uk-g…
ALT Scenic landscape of Rothbury Estate with rolling hills, lush fields, and a vibrant foreground of purple heather under a partly cloudy sky. Text overlay reads: "Government Funds Purchase Of The Rothbury Estate For Nature Recovery.
Chris Ryde retweeted
"Fortune favours the brave!"
Upbeat sandwich wrapper sketch-of-the-day to help you on your way.😃👍🏼
(This one from a short while ago, as I'm on half-term hols in Turkey, surrounded by what what a slightly biased, perhaps, Czech friend has just referred to as "bottle-blond, trout-lipped Russians." "And that's just the men!" chips in Mrs Allen, who's also Czech.)
