Scientist, wife & mum I like wildlife, walking, reading, history, science, arts, meeting people...
South Wales, UK
Joined March 2012
- Tweets11.9K
- Following5.3K
- Followers1.5K
- Likes108K
Pinned Tweet
Heard #nightingales for the first time yesterday, on a beautiful, beautiful early morning walk at RSPB Highnam woods @Natures_Voice
ALT Spring morning at Highnam woods.
RIP Sir Patrick Stewart. Multitalented Yorkshireman. Thank you for entertaining us and your enthusiasm for Shakespeare
Kaye Smith 🦔🌳 retweeted
“We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half.”
- Emmeline Pankhurst.
UK suffragette arrested, 1914 #womensart #Tuesday
Kaye Smith 🦔🌳 retweeted
Yesssssss
Natural history GCSE finally gets go-ahead 💚💚💚
Landmark qualification to be made available in schools years after its initial target start date, with content to be decided after a 12-week consultation
Students WILL be able to take a new natural history GCSE qualification as part of curriculum reforms, the government has confirmed.
It is proposed that natural history GCSE students will spend a minimum of 20 hours learning outdoors, exploring “real habitats, from urban parks to coastal salt marshes”. The DfE said that a “deep understanding” of UK habitats and wildlife is “at the heart” of the new qualification.
More here: tes.com/magazine/news/genera…
Kaye Smith 🦔🌳 retweeted
Ah not many swallows this year - heartbreaking so few . Adore these ‘spitfires’ of the sky. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Kaye Smith 🦔🌳 retweeted
A woman asleep over a book, Jan de Bray, made #otd 10 Sept 1660 (British Museum)
Kaye Smith 🦔🌳 retweeted
Male hop flowers, twining through #Oxford canal hedgerows on their beautiful, clockwise-twisting bines🌿
These climbers are known as bines rather than vines because they climb by simply winding upwards, curving round anything they meet; vines, such as grapes, use tendrils🌿
Kaye Smith 🦔🌳 retweeted
I do think there should be a public enquiry and steps to prevent the hounding of individuals in political battles.
Show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name now goodlawproject.org/s/c9c589
Kaye Smith 🦔🌳 retweeted
It has always been vital to back our firefighters.
And now we're seeing escalating risks - they must have what they need.
Charities should not be paying for fire helicopters!
Don't tell us there's no money left - tax the fossil fuel giants who are responsible.
Another heatwave, another escalating wildfire risk.
Firefighters will be out there protecting communities. We need the resources, specialist equipment and national strategy to meet this growing threat.
That’s why @fbunational called for an emergency wildfire summit and we’ll take our first-hand experiences directly to government.
Kaye Smith 🦔🌳 retweeted
I see I have overlooked Lammas (from Old English hlāfmæsse/ loaf-mass), aka Lammastide, a Christian holiday we celebrate on 1 August.
Originates in loaf (bread) + Mass (Eucharist).
Traditional festival to mark the blessing of the first fruits of harvest, where loaves of bread are brought to church.
Most of us have missed it this year: no early harvest (drought): no new seasonal loaves.🙁🙁
Kaye Smith 🦔🌳 retweeted
It's a rare to see a hare drinking like this🐇
They normally get their moisture from the vegetation that they eat, or from dew or rain.
But it's been so dry recently I've spotted one at the pond almost every day.
Keep an eye on the pond cam- sometimes you can spot deer drinking here too: robertefuller.com/pages/live…
Kaye Smith 🦔🌳 retweeted
Not going to deny it, I LOVE this review
The Rest is History episode on Jefferson is simply excquisite. @holland_tom does what so few other historians seem able to do: he celebrates the good in the person; stares directly into the abyss of the bad in them; yet is able, through the most human empathy, to reconcile these in a way which does not take away from either side. He refuses to do cheap moralizing (which is SO COMMON!!!!!) while still not blinding himself to good and bad. A masterclass in how to approach ‘controversial’ historical figures.
