Sussex Field Notes
@SxFieldNotes
Walker of lanes & gazer at views. Love & live among South Downs. Writer (blog), naturalist & gardener. Mostly on Instagram. Happily married October 2020
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Very useful illustration, and another reason why we should be harvesting as much rainwater in our gardens as possible. If you can, focus now on setting up water butts, water storage tanks etc, to help reduce water racing into into sewers when the rain eventually comes...
In this experiment Dr Rob Thompson of @UniRdg_Met shows just how long it takes water to soak into parched ground, illustrating why heavy rainfall after a #drought can be dangerous and might lead to flashfloods. @R0b1et @UniRdg_water
⚠️ The @metoffice's Fire Severity Index is EXCEPTIONAL for most of #WestSussex this weekend. Please stay safe and: 🔥 Avoid open fires - including bonfires 🚬 Extinguish cigarettes properly 🍾 Take litter home, especially glass 🚒 Call 999 if you see a fire
In this experiment Dr Rob Thompson of @UniRdg_Met shows just how long it takes water to soak into parched ground, illustrating why heavy rainfall after a #drought can be dangerous and might lead to flashfloods. @R0b1et @UniRdg_water
Summer is ok, but nothing beats a Sunday roast on a chilly Autumn day, followed by wrapping up in a coat and scarf for a brisk walk, ideally involving a dog, through rusty, crunchy leaves as the sky glows orange and purple, then home for apple crumble and good telly in the dark.
Please take care during #StormEunice: 🌳 For highways issues, or if a tree is blocking the road, call 01243 642105 💡For any electrical incidents call 105. Keep clear of fallen power lines ☔Stay indoors if possible 🚙Drive slowly and carefully 🚒In an emergency, dial 999
The mornings are now getting lighter again and within 10 days sunrise will be before 8am ☀️
If you feel overwhelmed, very low &/or are frightened by your thoughts please text ‘Shout’ to 85258. A trained crisis volunteer will text you back 24/7 & this service is free. Here are some more numbers that will offer help if you need it in the next few days:
HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE, TWITTER! The days get longer from now! 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
I'm feeling a bit like badger from Wind in the Willows today. There are shadows knocking at the door and mice scrabbling in the walls. The midwinter hush has found us, snuck in under the fieldfare's wing. But there is comfort, magic even, in the year's darkest part. #midwinter
A garden hedge: Filters wind (slows it down) Absorbs water (prevents flooding) Absorbs CO2 (fights climate change) Houses wildlife (promotes biodiversity) There are 22 million gardens in the UK. Many of them will lose a fence panel this weekend. Please replace with a hedge 🌳
How sad on this October day To see our hedges shorn away Small creatures would have liked to eat, The hawthorn berries, rose hips sweet, Blackberries and nuts and sloes, But through the blades the banquet goes Won’t somebody heed our words, And leave the berries for the birds.
Like a fine needle of frost tumbling down through the sky … tseeeip. R E D W I N G S! Welcome winter thrushes, coming all this way with that radiator warm glow tucked under your wing pits; the colour of the berries you’ve come for.
Alone in the Forest. He sits and thinks of the things they know, He and the Forest alone together: The springs that come and the summers that go, Autumn dew on bracken and heather, The drip of the Forest beneath the snow ~A.A.Milne #fridaymorning #October1st
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