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Good morning 2:
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#folkloresunday
"Double, double, toil and trouble
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.." 🧙🧙🧙
Macbeth 4.1 #shakespeare
..the three weird sisters, brewing up their special form of magic, and predictions.. #Halloween2026 #magic
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A new week a new start. View near Over Haddon #peakdistrict #derbyshire
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Happy Monday! I “spotted” this Great Spotted Woodpecker a few weeks ago, resting high in the tree on a bright and beautiful afternoon ❤️
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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekQForQuotes
Spotted in the NT second- hand book shop at Avebury, Wiltshire 🙂
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It’s getting harder to spot those wild blooms so it must be time to launch our challenge for the colder months - #thewinter10! Can you spot ten wild or naturalised blooms in time for #wildflowerhour next Sunday? Let’s meet again then to find out! 😀
Wildflowers found for #WildflowerHour between the storms: wild carrot, oxeye daisy, red campion, white dead-nettle, musk mallow, yarrow visited by a hoverfly, spear thistle, hedge mustard, chickweed, and viper’s bugloss.

ALT A collage of ten close-up photographs of British wildflowers, arranged in a mosaic with narrow white borders. Delicate white umbels of wild carrot; an oxeye daisy viewed from behind; pink red campion; white dead-nettle with serrated leaves; pink musk mallow; clusters of white yarrow flowers visited by a hoverfly; a purple spear thistle with spiny green bracts; yellow hedge mustard; tiny white chickweed flowers; and blue-purple viper’s bugloss. All photographed against softly blurred green backgrounds.
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A detail from the Ghent altarpiece - by Hubert and Jan van Eyck #medievalmonday
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The most courageous
decision that you can
make each day is to be
in a good mood.
Voltaire
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Carved mermen hold onto their tails, on the 12th Century baptismal font at St.Peter's in Cambridge.
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Good morning! ☕️🥱
Sometimes life asks you to let go of what feels familiar, so there’s room for what your heart has needed for a long time. ✨
Happy Monday! ♥️🤗🍪
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Last week in Ukraine:
1,600 guided aerial bombs
48 missiles
2,300 attack drones
This past week alone, Russia has launched around 1,600 guided aerial bombs, 48 missiles of various types, including ballistic missiles, and nearly 2,300 attack drones against Ukraine. Unfortunately, almost every day, these brutal strikes leave people killed and injured. In the evening, Russian strikes on the Dnipro region killed four people. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Another 22 people were injured, including an 11-year-old girl. In Vinnytsia, a Russian drone struck a high-rise apartment building. Six people were injured. In Kharkiv, the Russians first struck a home improvement hypermarket and then carried out a cynical double-tap strike on the emergency services that arrived at the scene. First responders were injured. There were also strikes overnight on a thermal power plant, substations, coal mines, grain storage facilities, shopping malls, and a postal logistics hub. Damage has been reported in nine regions.
This is how Russia responds to diplomacy and deisolation. And it is very important that support for those who protect lives not diminish alongside the negotiation process. We need to unblock the deliveries of Patriot interceptors already approved by European countries. We need to continue supporting Ukrainian combat aviation to defend against jet-powered “shaheds.” Every such defense package, especially ahead of winter, helps save lives. I thank all partners who provide this kind of support.
@ZelenskyyUa
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Been a few years since I've photographed it, but my favourite tree (next to Kendal Castle).
#TreeClub #Monochromemonday
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In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump and his family have lost surprise elections, thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.
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For #Wildflowerhour ... Clockwise: Black Horehound, Cyclamen (on the local Heath), Red Dead-Nettle and Groundsel...
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After Elon Musk posted on X saying he had throttled Ukraine’s use of Starlink after it was used for offensive attacks, House Armed Services Committee member Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) says the billionaire’s ability to wield that power is “beyond disturbing to me.”
“It cannot and should not be the case that a tech oligarch, a private citizen, who has that much control over our national security, who is unaccountable, who is unelected, with zero transparency, is making life and death decisions on the battlefield in systems that our service members and our partners and allies rely upon,” he adds.
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Me in The Independent just now.
Link to article —> independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…








































