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  RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/117353434911281919 “Home cooling fan” is also intolerable background noise, #FFS And FYI given how road noise already affects wildlife, this isn’t exactly going to help with biodiversity loss.

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  St Albans Day of Dance today - the same weekend as the beer festival: what a strange coincidence! Anyway, if you’re in the area there’ll be morris dancing around the city from 1030 to about 1630 - the last hour of it outside the west door of the abbey. #MorrisDance #MorrisDancing #DayOfDance #StAlbans

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  Sent my preferred human a recording of me playing a new tune a friend wrote so that they could listen to it on a loop to consider writing a morris dance to it. Their phone will only open it as a preview thing or in voice memo. There is no way to add it to Apple Music and therefore no way to play it in a loop. Why can’t it be opened in Music? This seems crazy! We’ve tried both MP3 and MP4a… neither gives it as an option and Music on the phone has no option to add tracks. Yes, it is saved in their...

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  Just a day to go before Red Cuthbert Day of Dance, part of the Bedford Fringe Festival - five morris sides will be starting at the Faces on Silver Street at 1030, with various spots throughout the town until we finish at Riverside Square, 1530-1600. We’ll all be doing turns in the Quarry Theatre Garden between 1200 and 1330, and after the last dance spot there will be a music session in The Hidden Barrel. If you’re local, do come and see us & our fellow dancers! Red Cuthbert will be joined...

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  Fans of @workingclasshistory@mastodon.social may want to check out this morning’s Thinking Allowed, talking about the Grunswick strike and South Asian labour organising https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002y1bt #WorkingClassHistory #ClassStrugle #LabourHistory #Racism

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  If there’s a strict process that has to be exactly followed to seek decisions in an organisation should it be:

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  If I lived in Darlington I’d be researching putting up barrage balloons, how about you?

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  Fellow humans, this episode of Naturebang is worth a listen (I mean they all are, but definitely this one). https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002vyh4 #NatureBang #Radio4 #BBCRadio4 #BBCR4 #Radio #Nature #HumanNature

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  Shit, I missed National Tea Day on Tuesday. Oops.

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  Having reported a colour ring sighting for the first time last weekend, I wonder if anyone can tell me typical response/ acknowledgement times? I can easily imagine it being a week or so and appreciate it probably varies a lot between projects/ record keepers… #ColourRing #UKBirding #Birding

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@racingreen17/116379586899858924 With this in mind I’ve just planted a berberis that will produce flowers for pollinators and berries for the birds, to supplement our native mix hedge that never seems to make much fruit, and have a couple of kinds of sunflower, flax and forget-me-nots as recommended by the RSPB to go in pots next to our infrequent-cut-please-get-wilder “lawn” (now ~40% borage, also good for bugs and bees) on the way from https://realseeds.co.uk/ - an...

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  This is an excellent little series y’all should listen to. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002sdyn #Books #Reading #Radio #Radio4 #BBCRadio4

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  Top tip: after a nice Sunday afternoon at a music workshop learning new stuff and working out what of it we can use in your morris side on the way home, don’t check the news or social media.

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  Looks like we are performing at Bedfringe again :-) https://bedfringe.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873658622 #MorrisDancing #RedCuthbertMorris

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  Important Seagull Science!™️ A couple of days late to the party, but never mind… https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cq6j2l7j6r2o @sarahdalgulls did you know about this?

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  Excellent day at WWT London Wetland Centre yesterday. Local moaned there “wasn’t much about” while I was thrilled by the variety showing well. So what if peewits were the only waders in evidence and while there were many other herons the bittern didn’t show? Familiarity breeds contempt I guess. Good views of sandmartins going in and out of their holes, a little egret stirring the water to fish, and photographing a kingfisher, were highlights. Being unable to get photos to upload from my computer...

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  Dear fundraiser If you’ve raised £22,000 towards your £8,000 goal, I don’t think you do need my help to get to that £8,000 goal as you say you do, as you passed it some time ago…

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  RE: https://aus.social/@timrichards/116212713099038701 “Our sergeant major jumped from 30,000 feet ‘Cause he didn’t wear his his head phones”

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  £100+ walking shoes I bought reduced to £80 a year ago for morris dancing in: falling apart and can’t be fixed. £80 full price ankle boots bought a decade ago for morris dancing in with traditionally constructed soles: just back from the cobblers with new heels and fresh rubbers, good to go for another decade. Next month I’m taking in my 20 year old fake-Corcoran paraboots for the same treatment.

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  Excellent episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage on birds - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b09ly26f? #Birding #Birds #InfiniteMonkeyCage #Radio #Radio4 #BBCR4 #NaturalHistory

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  What is more beautiful, more deserving of poetry, than the thousand galaxies of a starling’s plumage?

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  Just heard that Dave Shepherd has died. He wrote some awesome tunes - here he is with Anna Pack playing my favourite of them, Rose of Raby https://youtu.be/xb460hMHqrE #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad

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  Today, 11 Pluvîose, is the day of ellébore, and once I noticed that it was inevitable that I’d share this awesome Naragonia tune - Hellebore https://youtu.be/_EezqKvAdJE (played here with Gregory Jolivet) #Naragonia #Accordion #AccordéonDiatonique #Diato #Melodeon #HurdyGurdy #Gurdy #VilleARoue #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad