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  1. Whitewashed

    Off the beaten path, Cheddar also offers quiet and cozy views.

    August 2026 Cheddar/Somerset

    #Cheddar #Somerset #England #UK

  2. Whitewashed

    Off the beaten path, Cheddar also offers quiet and cozy views.

    August 2026 Cheddar/Somerset

    #Cheddar #Somerset #England #UK

  3. Whitewashed

    Off the beaten path, Cheddar also offers quiet and cozy views.

    August 2026 Cheddar/Somerset

    #Cheddar #Somerset #England #UK

  4. A stream winds through fields on the Holnicote estate, #Somerset. The rewilding projects help “store water during drought… and slow water during extreme rainfall“.

    “Nature is providing solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing society today,” said Ben Eardley, the project manager at the Holnicote estate.

    “By reconnecting river systems with the surrounding area and creating natural sponges in the landscape, we’ve created a system that stores water during drought, keeping wetlands and the surrounding habitats healthy, and slows water during storms and periods of extreme rainfall, helping to protect villages from the risk of flooding downstream.”

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #adaptation #carbon #carbonSinks #restoration #rewilding #reforestation #water #river #wetland #rewetting #resistance #drought #droughts #heatwaves #landSink #floods #flood #flooding

  5. The Guardian view on the Conservatives under Kemi Badenoch: purging moderation is not 'common sense' | Editorial
    By Editorial

    A row over a local council candidate reveals a deeper problem with the Tory leader’s diagnosis of her party’s electoral predicament

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #Conservatives #Somerset #Politics #UKnews #LouiseHaigh #Labour #ReformUK #RestoreBritain #Thefarright #TheGuardian #Editorial

  6. Spotted at Tyntesfield!

    Blanche Gibbs used this room as a private sitting room, where she could entertain female friends and family William and Blanche married in 1839. Willam was 49 and Blanche 21. The couple had seven children together.

    Blanche was musical and well-read. She played the harp and once wrote that 'a room without books is always dull and insipid.'

    #nationaltrust #tyntesfield #somerset #womeninhistory #books #history #music

  7. #OnThisDay in 1895, Adela Breton and Pablo Solorio arrived in Liverpool having caught a boat from Canada. They were heading to Adela's home in Bath to study and catologue pre-Columbian Mexican artefacts.

    There is a full chapter on Adela in the junior edition of Unsung Women in Somerset and she features in the standard edition as well as On This Day in Somerset.

    #bath #somerset #precolumbian #womeninhistory #historicalwomen

  8. Photo 1: Husband wearing his Unsung Women in Somerset hoodie that he designed. Get your orders in, people!

    Photo 2 is the Wassail we went to yesterday. Kids couldn't manage staying for all of it but we saw the mummers.
    Wassailing is singing, shooting guns, sprinkling apple trees with cider etc to ward off evil spirits and ensure a good apple crop for the cider.

    #qotd What unusual traditions does your country have?

    #wassail #wassailing #cider #apples #somerset #clarksvilage #unsungWomen

  9. All Saints Church, Publow
    (Anyone know what's the name for that steeple with one corner aspiring to be spire?)
    #photography #church #steeple #memorium #Publow #Somerset

  10. Christmas light switch on in our next of the woods involves the deputy mayor giving her best Hobby Horse.
    The kid was Beelezebub in the Mummers too. He did a cracking job

  11. Christmas light switch on in our next of the woods involves the deputy mayor giving her best Hobby Horse.
    The kid was Beelezebub in the Mummers too. He did a cracking job #MummersPlay #Somerset

  12. Christmas light switch on in our next of the woods involves the deputy mayor giving her best Hobby Horse.
    The kid was Beelezebub in the Mummers too. He did a cracking job #MummersPlay #Somerset