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I’ve decided to rename the North Atlantic Ocean.

A person in the West Midlands has contracted bird flu after "close and prolonged contact with a large number of infected birds" UK Health Security Agency

The Corrour Estate, east of Ben Nevis, 57,000 acres of mountain, lochs, bog & moor, now managed for habitats, biodiversity + carbon capture. Partly funded by a natural capital deal with University of St Andrews. Fantastic to visit with prod Heather. Tmw’s On Your Farm. Farming Today

Silage alert! Reporting on the Westmorland Agric Society silage championships Westmorland Show in tmw’s Farming Today. Tune in for some top class maize silage, like weetabix for dairy cows, in Nether Kellet nr Lancaster. All was tickety-boo, said the judge!

Chilly but spectacular as usual up on the Scar. A very rare Friday run! Well a very rare anytime run to be more accurate.

Our next guest on #ThisNaturalLife is Sir James Dyson ⁦BBC Radio 4⁩ ⁦today at 3pm then ⁦BBC Sounds⁩

Remember the old days when we just to come on here and say, hey, great gig tonight at xxxx? Well….great Epsen Eriksen gig with Andy Sheppard tonight at Brewery Arts. Reclaiming twitter.

Morecambe in the sunshine, world and her other half, if that makes sense, out enjoying it all today…

On this day in 1943, Beatrix Potter was elected President of the Herdwick Sheep Breeders Association at their AGM. Beatrix passed away before she could assume her role. She would have been the very first female President of the Association. © National Trust Images

A List of Complaints from 1925 🧵

Happy Mother’s Day! (My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books)

Spring!

The young Beatrix Potter with pet rabbit Peter. What a terrific artist she was

Allan Bank in Grasmere, really enjoyed the new exhibitions on Wordsworth’s time there + his influence on the Lake District and Gwyneth Alban Davis prints. Light boxes with old photos fantastic. WW hated AB and slagged it off no end when it was built….but then moved in!

#OnThisDay 1921 the Admiralty increased the allowance for milk for ships cats from 1 Shilling to 1 Shilling & Sixpence per week. Royal Navy

This is such a good production. I’d somehow forgotten just how tragic Steinbeck’s novel is for almost every character. Do go and see it if you’re near Keswick. Theatre by the Lake

Richard Dawson and really excellent drummer, didn’t catch his name, on top form at Brewery Arts last night. Fan girl moment queuing behind BBC Radio 6 Music Mark Riley at the bar😆

True story. Potato farmer goes into his local chip shop, asks where the guy buys his spuds in from. Egypt, he says. Hmmm, thinks the farmer, has cunning plan: builds chip factory on his farm which is just down the road. Tmw’s On Your Farm 6.30 BBC Radio 4

I know, I know, we say it all the time but Cumbria is just indescribably beautiful on days like these. Up near Hartsop + Angle Tarn.

Shelbourne, a superb cartoonist, always right on top of the stories that matter, tourism, government, farming, foot and mouth back in 2001 - subtle, political, moving...and funny. Will miss you Colin!