🇬🇧🏴 🇺🇦 “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” #Meiklewood #Gargunnock
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Lt. Robert “Bobby” R P Spens, MC.
Royal Artillery. 65 (The Norfolk Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regt.
1916-1942.
My mother never got to meet her father.
Commemorated at Alamein.
Thank you @CWGC 🙏
#lestweforget
Foxes have turned up … not seen them on the cameras, let alone heard them, since the Late Spring (lucky enough to live in a near loop of a meander of the River)…
… but they turned up at this time for the last two years. The Roe Deer get a bit jumpy as do the hares.
Hmm.
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@SoilAssocScot have dropped the #organic standard for farmed #Salmon! This is brilliant news, indicative of the insurmountable problems that face the industry. I hope that @rspcaassured scheme rethink their stance on certifying this horrific industry.
thetimes.com/uk/environment/…
One of the #otters “ottering” about in front of M&D’s house, fishing and “muddying” along the sides for fry.
Now a gorgeous afternoon after what was a very dreich morning before Church.
#RiverForth #Meiklewood
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Bit niche ; but see #BANvWI Test; Tawhid Hridoy scored 242* out of Bangladesh’s 1st Innings total of 386ao.
So 62.7% of the total innings score…
…which I think is a record high percentage runs by a single batter for an innings over 350 runs.
@ZaltzCricket ?
@bbctms
#Cricket
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This is a straight forward lie Wes. You know what i said was both Labour and Conservatives hollowed out defence. Be man enough to admit it. Lies dont hide your own record. The last government to spend 3% of GDP ( without all your treasury tricks) was a Conservative one. MOD now spends 2.2% GDP and you are cutting day to day spending this year and next. many veterans, like me who served under a Labour government never forget the Snatch Landrover scandal. If you want to be taken seriously as a Defence Secretary stop playing child like politics. Earn your respect by sticking up for the armed forces, fighting the Treasury for real funding not spin and be honest about Labours part in hollowing out. At the moment your fake claims on 2.7% GDP coupled with under funding day to day spending are a perfect example of hollowing out. @haynesdeborah @larisamlbrown
Classic Oxford PPE graduate - I am sure exceedingly academically intelligent but like all these career politicians:
no common sense and
no understanding of the Private Sector.
[Also like most recent Sec of State for Env, Food & Rural Affairs, she had no clue about farming]
Of course the brilliant men and women across the country who run small businesses are working people - they are the backbone of our high streets and our economy.
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This budget does very little to the overall level of tax, and the overall level of tax is going up significantly.
Here's the tax increases over the next few years, in 2026 £. You can just about see today's changes in green.
#Beavers v #Trees : I’m struggling. This is just 100m of bank after the high water here (6m height variation of the #RiverForth here).
There must be a way of trying to get some balance because we have lost and are losing so many trees (let alone banks damaged from burrowing)
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Any dams built by the Beavers get washed away by the flood…
…so so benefit to the Beavers from their effort…
…we lose mature trees…
…and the debris ends up downstream.
Such a waste.
We planted these up years ago as part of bank protection / wildlife corridor projects.
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I confess I’m struggling with seeing the pointless damage to our trees (100s of which we planted, “no good deed goes unpunished”).
What to do?
Seems mad to have so many 🦫s here with this river height range, but I know they might be useful much further upstream.
@BeaverTrust
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An increase to £13.20p/h equates to a minimum wage of £27,456, based on a 40 hour week.
Once you factor in employers NI and basic pension contributions, the MINIMUM cost to hire a 21 year old for a company would be £31,461.
This is before you factor in any overarching business costs like office space, laptops, phone, software, training, support staff, vehicles etc.
This is going to be devastating to SME's who cant put together a simple 12 month budget without the goalposts being moved & their margins squeezed.
It'll also be catastrophic to youngsters opportunities because businesses will simply not be able to afford to hire them.
What's also incredible is that anything above £50,270 is seen as 'high earnings' in the UK and is taxed at 40%!
We are governed by financially and economically illiterate morons.
This will not end well.
Seeing more #Woodcock arriving here with these storms after their #migration , joining the residents that are here all year (that appear larger to my eyes).
Some journey… this one was feeding away in the soft verges as I came back from clearing branches.
#LastBirdOfMyDay
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