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Watch out when a similar anomaly happens in the UK (and it will).
For comparison 2020 was the wettest February on record and parts of the UK saw 3-400% of normal rainfall. Flooding was severe.
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Auckland has now recorded:
Over 769% of their January monthly normal rainfall
Over 38% of their entire ANNUAL rainfall
Auckland is currently challenging the record for their wettest month ever. With more rain today & tomorrow, this formidable record may also be toppled.
Over 769% of their January monthly normal rainfall
Over 38% of their entire ANNUAL rainfall
Auckland is currently challenging the record for their wettest month ever. With more rain today & tomorrow, this formidable record may also be toppled.2
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Rather alarming program about the door management of clubs and venues, the Brixton Academy as the focus - hopefully they get their licence back before the London date - looking forward to it.
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I just entered ’s monthly️ #ElectricCarGiveaway & you can too! This month’s prize is a Honda E worth over £36k! It’s free to enter & you have until 30th December. All information (including Ts&Cs) can be found here:
All you want for Christmas is...an amazing new job?!
are advertising a #CommunityEngagement Manager to support #RestorationForth next year.
rbge.org.uk/about-us/worki
Take a look to be part of an AMAZING team restoring oysters & seagrass in the Firth of Forth! 🦪🌱
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Fiddling about trying to make OS ZoomStack look a little like OS 25 inch maps. nowhere near finished but not entirely horrible
Back of a Sussex Water Authority Morris Minor van
Very pleased to be the owner of a cast iron frying pan, made from melted down K6 Phone boxes. Based on a pattern from 1759, and possibly the only cast iron cookware being made in the UK. Cast by Andrew Laing at foundry Lochgelly
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Bus to the airport
Grangemouth giving it what for tonight
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Some photos I found in a tin. the group photo has a date of 1939
Whilst is targetting UK gov't to improve measures for birds in new building, in Scotland the Draft National Planning Framework 4 is out for consultation. Its an open door for lots of us to represent and get the measures included 1/2
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Lovely evening on the River Forth. Shortly after Grangemouth started flaring, which gave it a different vibe
Nee Naw must be a pretty ubiquitous spelling but on the back of this ambulance it looks really Scots
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Not sure what to call this - just tiles? Sculpture? but its on a new build housing development in the centre of Alloa and is just stunning. Easy to walk past but a treat if you stop. #urbanrealm #streetart
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So I put my 20 year old Berghaus Goretex in for a free repair with Ellis Brigham and thought I was pushing my luck. Got it back and Its been completely re taped and good for another decade! very impressed.
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Always a surprise when Worthing gets mentioned on BBC Radio 4's Front Row
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Eight years ago someone in my village put this sign up, still love to know who
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really important film busting a few illusions about natural Scottish landscapes
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Tune in to 5SELECT tonight at 8pm to watch @ScotlandTBP's new documentary Riverwoods.
Narrated by Peter Capaldi, the documentary follows the plight of Scotland’s salmon and the call to restore river woodlands.
Learn more here: scotlandbigpicture.com/riverwoods
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Hawes and arriving Fieldfare, Watercolour, 660 x 1020mm.
A large arrival of squadrons of both Redwing and Fieldfare headed low South West during the rain this morning. The bushes beneath on fire with inviting deep crimson berries. . @zeissnature
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Completely bonkers bit of lens flare
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I know you shouldn't laugh at your own jokes and I painted the eyes onto the rusted pan but it Still makes me smile
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My visual experiment showing the global surface temperature anomalies over the last 130 years has been shortlisted for the Information is beautiful award #IIBAwards 🎉
#climatechange #climatecrisis #globalwarming
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When you let someone who used to do stage lighting have keys to the clock tower
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Still looks modest but best ever pumpkin/squash haul this year. Plus some Polar Bear I'd already taken home
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Lovely to hear the Booker awards ceremony sing Happy Birthday to Alan Garner
What might ambitious, exciting and inspiring rewilding really look like in Ireland?
I found out in the Scottish Highlands last weekend, beyond all my imaginings.
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Incredible scenes on channel 4. Worth staying for the last five seconds of this
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1/2 About 5.15pm last night (27/9) whilst out training on the A811 was knocked off her bike near to Kippen Roundabout by the driver off a Ranger type SUV towing a high sided agricultural type trailer. She’s currently in hospital having sustained a broken pelvis
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This is at once brilliant and terrifying
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1970s Soviet mosaic mural in front of the South Ukraine nuclear power station. Photo by Evgeny Nikiforov, Yuzhnoukrainsk, Nikolaev region, Ukraine
I presume just using available paper. It's 1946, so not designed for POWs or anything. Printed by Unwin Brothers, Woking.
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So reggae greats Black Uhuru have cancelled their UK tour after not getting visas from the Home Office, which also this year refused entry to elders and peace messengers The Abyssinians (for which I had a ticket). The hostile environment continues. #windrush
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📢Today we are adding 60 beautiful but neglected buildings to our Buildings at Risk register. From a Cumbrian farmhouse ripe for restoration to a seaside Art Deco cinema in Kent. We think they’re too good to lose. Take a look 👀 bit.ly/3Ov2eV1 #SAVEBaR
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Happy Sussex Day. Image borrowed from Sussex Flag
She was tortured with axes during Kenya's struggle for independence from British colonial rule.
As the #PlatinumPartyatthePalace for the British monarch takes place in London, this old fighter wants to send her a message: "Let Elizabeth bring what belongs to me."
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