When the customer says make me fence that means we don’t have to sell up and move because of the neighbours…then the pressure is on! A willow hurdle I wove in situ makes a nice tight weave and did the trick🥳. Hazel and steel for the uprights and 1 year old willow for the weave.

For a human rights lawyer, @Keir_Starmer has alarmingly little interest in international law "Foreign Office unit tracking Israel’s breaches of international law closes due. Department will also lose access to database of 26,000 verified incidents"

Happy #thicktrunktuesday# to you all from The Pulpit Yew in Nantglyn. Despite being hollowed out and a hand rail and slate steps inserted it’s still flourishing-the sheer beauty and resilience of trees!!

The beauty of a coppice woodland-little visit to the hazel coppice and a block I cut last year. A sheer joy to work in these woodlands and carry on these ancient practices which produce beautiful habitats and sights like these.

My heart feels gratitude ❤️ Today I’ve been remembering the depth of Tom’s smile. It’s hard to find words that capture its essence - intelligent, kind, curious, mischievous and empathetic - similar to the faces of countless young Palestinian men shot by Israel

“Controversial” ? Seriously? How about: “immoral”, “unethical”; contrary to all democratic norms”? How about: “in breach of international law”? How about “heinous”, “stomach-turning”, “irredeemably revealing of a sick society in need of help”?

BREAKING Spain’s MEP Irene Montero: “No woman has ever been freed by American bombs or illegal aggression. Not in Syria. Not in Iraq. Not in Lebanon. Not in Afghanistan. And it will not happen in Iran either. They hide behind women’s rights to justify their colonial wars.”

Bombing Iran in the middle of negotiations, while starving Cuba, while genociding Palestinians, while threatening to invade Greenland… the US and Israel are the single greatest threat to humanity and it’s not even close. We are all forced to live in the nightmare they create.

The kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife solidifies America’s role as a gangster state. Violence does not generate peace. It generates violence. The immolation of international and humanitarian law, as the U.S. and Israel have done in Gaza, and as took place in Caracas, generates a world without laws, a world of failed states, warlords, rogue imperial powers and perpetual violence and chaos. If there is one lesson we should have learned in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya, it is that regime change spawns Frankensteinian monsters of our own creation. The Venezuelan military and security forces will no more accept the kidnapping of their president and U.S. domination — done as in Iraq to seize vast oil reserves — than the Iraqi security forces and military or the Taliban. This will not go well for anyone, including the U.S.

The Judge in the Palestine Action legal challenge has been removed, and replaced by 3 others. Two of them appear to have conflicts of interests, including Judge Victoria Sharp who has family connections to pro-Israel lobbyist Trevor Chinn. Chinn funded both Conservative and Labour Friends of Israel, and headed up lobby group BICOM, which Palestine Action targeted. Is this a set up?

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian. Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg during their conference. Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say? Let's keep growing:

Highly recommend watching this if you're ever tempted to think all the massacres & all the protests are having no effect on Israel's status. Brilliant introduction to the appalling Herzog by @bronwenmaddox which makes absolutely clear that Israel has turned itself into a pariah

Last September, nearly one year into the Gaza genocide, foreign secretary David Lammy told the House of Commons: ‘I am very comfortable with the support that we give to Israel’ Prepare yourself for an uncomfortable prison cell in The Hague, @davidlammy