Here is a worker bee with very pale yellow pollen in her basket. There are 3 other bees. One of them is a guard bee. She checks everyone before they are allowed in. They can be quite rough sometimes and always look very bossy #beekeeping

@goatsarah @christineburns you are not wrong but thats what they have said. Its going to cause a lot of grief for women who don't confirm to some peoples idea of what is feminine as well as to trans women.

@christineburns but the police have already said searches would be done by the same gender as on the birth certificate.

@bmacDonald94 great news 😁

@bmacDonald94 hope the procedure went ok Bill

@bmacDonald94 I hope it goes smoothly Bill

60 sweetpea seeds sown, bit late, scented naturally.
This unseasonable warm has given the greenfly a head start #gardening

So in America you can have 150 pipe bombs, make threats against politicians, keep a high explosive in your freezer, and the only thing they can charge you with is having an unlicensed gun. So they let you go after your attourney successfully argues there is no evidence you are a threat

I have mopped living room, hall and kitchen. Totally pointless as it's so damp and muddy out and, between the spaniels and Stuart, it will all be dirty again soon. However, Stuart has noticed there is an issue, this is very, very rare, and is out there clearing the path to improve things.

'I embroider my life - it's not for the faint-hearted'
An icon a day for 5 years https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnv3rd62qq4o

https://theconversation.com/sexual-identity-is-more-fluid-than-previously-thought-says-twelve-year-study-243892

2 years old today 💕🎉 #dogsOfMastodon

New study reveals half a century of change on Britain’s iconic limestone pavements - Lancaster University

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/new-study-reveals-half-a-century-of-change-on-britains-iconic-limestone-pavements

269,000 longterm empty homes in England and yet we need to build more🤷♀️
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g518le0r5o

Business creating onion skin packaging to reduce waste - BBC News

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17l8zd4zqxo

I am a pensioner, one with only a state pension, and I think winter fuel allowance should be directed to those who need it not people with big company pensions nor, as previously, the King and the Duke of Westminster

We fetched the poorly hedgehog we took to the hogspital a couple of weeks back and released her in a slightly different, safer, place. She's a different animal, bright, lively and fat, getting rid of those lung worm has saved her life. We made her a hedgehog house but she flatly refused to settle in it and was last seen heading off to start her new home. We brought another big female back too who had been bitten by a dog. She settled right in to her new home. 🤞

If you want bumbles ecinops is the plant for you, daughters is smothered in them #bumblebees #nature

A rather untidy frame with drone brood, worker brood and honey stores. But most importantly the nice big queen bee is there too #beekeeping

Garden is depressingly devoid of insects. Aphids on the teasels, 1 possible sawfly chowing down on the carrot flowers. Nothing at all on the comfrey or the alkenet.
So I was pleased to spot this chunky mullion moth caterpillar chomping at the buddleia. I put him back on the mullien where he belongs with his siblings #wildlife