@jennyedwards
Personal capacity. Chair People's Health Trust, Trustee Affinity Trust. Fellow Fac Public Health. Mental Health, Arts, Learning Disability, Health Inequalities, Mindfulness, Peace, Nature Connection, Swans. Studied Archaeology & Anthropology. Typos galore
Greylag goose with a white ring of fearhers around her orange beak standing on a nest of twigs on her 2 pink legs.
This pretty greylag goose has arrived in Broomfield Park with her more conventional partner. Will they take over the coots nest? Is she a hybrid? #greylag #birds #geese #nestingtime
Time to change the shopping plans. Produce from Spain: olive oil, wine, olives, cheese, cold meats, fruit, every sort of veg, fashion, brandy, nuts. So much choice. Hold your chorlinated chicken & horrible chocolate USA.
Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:
"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."
Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
A mouse caught inside a humane mousetrap
Humane mousetraps work. This little mouse brought upstairs by my cat was caught and now released back into nature. #Mice #BeKind
A really beautiful book. Realism tempered with love and hope.
I just fed the swans today and the smell of the silt they were eating from was sewage.
Isn't it just! Loving the flowering trees - the cherries and magnificent magnolias opening up to the sun
Charge them what the market rate is for escaping a war zone
And 184 families of the school girls who died in the first hours of the preemptive attack
Great to hear Miranda back in #TheArchers . We need some good Miranda v Lilian tussels
The frogs are back in the pond. The first frogspawn appears. #Spring is on the way. #frogs #NatureConnection
“Prof Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to clean water, has singled out the English system for criticism, saying water should be managed as a publicly owned service, rather than run by private companies set up to benefit shareholders.”
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Good to hear the Tate speaking up so eloquently for the value of free entry to our great national museums and galleries. Neil Macgregor & Nick Serota were important advocates in the original campaign. Visitors numbers have more than doubled. A great act of cultural equity.
This is British Culture. We still celebrate the glorious humanity of William Shakespeare while the religious fanaticism of Bloody Mary a few years earlier is rightly in the dustbin of history. #McKellen #migrants #BritishCulture #Reform youtu.be/DceEunnTA3A?...
If you want truth beauty and hope in your life don't look to the news, look to the natural world.
Recordings of Sibelius's 5th symphony. He described seeing 16 swans circling overhead as 1 of his greatest experiences, inspiring the #swan theme. Great performances bring together "extraordinary muscular force with something deeply lyrical and loving" 1 hr in www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Google Maps was always really helpful. Now destroyed by sponsored links hiding the results you want. Easy to make a mistake if you don't already know route. I hate it's sending me to private clinics instead of my NHS appointment
“it is well to hear, to become aware of, the operations of water among whose spider lacings by chance we live…”
James Agee in 1941, superb on the life and liveliness of rivers.
A river as a “huge, casual and aloof creature”. That trifecta of adjectives (not to mention the choice of noun)…
Rescuing a cygnet chased out by his parents
Rescuing a cygnet
Do you care that people die before their time? Would you like to help a charity that works to change this? Are you a qualified accountant? A volunteer advisory position here. @peopleshealthtrust.bsky.social www.peopleshealthtrust.org.uk/jobs/vacanci...
She believes it was Brad
"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"
www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw...
#R4Today
A resident pair who have taken ownership of a territory do not tolerate other adult swans there. As their young ones grow to full size they chase them away quite aggressively (particularly as they turn white) so they can concentrate on making and raising their new family.
A precious moment as we rescue our lonely cygnet Vee, who had been driven out of the water by his parents. Vulnerable to dog attack on land it was time to take him to a safe flock where he can learn and mature. Basically time for swan university. He was calm & trusting #NatureConnection #swans
A wonderful episode of Soul Music. Yo Make You Feel My Love. The enchanting voice of 1st nation artist Dyagula singing this familiar song in an ancient language that is 10s of millenia old is unforgettable. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Why on earth was someone with his history ever accepted onto it
Shocking!
A new study puts a number on the potential human toll of sharp aid cuts over the past year, projecting an extra 9.4 million deaths by 2030 if the current trends persist.
I was lucky enough to be at her last live show in the UK and then to chat as we drove back to London. I still enjoy listening to her recordings.
