#Legionella found onboard the #BibbyStockholm is most deadly strain

Data from #Dorset council shows that Legionella #PneumophilaSerogroup1 discovered on August 15
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/08/legionella-found-onboard-the-bibby-stockholm-is-most-deadly-strain #ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #asylum #Refugees

🔴 Record sightings of #Asian #hornets are raising fears of catastrophic consequences for the 🇬🇧's 🐝 populations for years to come

The invasive #hornets are wreaking havoc in mainland #Europe and threaten to get a foothold in the #UK, with nests found in East #Sussex, #Kent, #Devon and #Dorset

The insects feed on native #bees and #wasps, damaging biodiversity

The warning comes as leading scientists release a global report into the threats caused by invasive species

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66697968

Seaside town of Lyme Regis, in West #Dorset, #England. The webcam shows views over and around Lyme Regis Cobb Harbour, the beach and the picturesque waterfront along Lyme Bay, on the English Channel. This town is well known for fossils found in beaches and cliffs on the area called #Jurassic Coast or Heritage Coast.
#webcam
Yes I'm obsessed with webcams, no I won't apologise. Also I went here last time I visited @darklyadapted i had no idea we were on camera!
https://www.webcamtaxi.com/en/england/dorset/lyme-regis-harbour-livecam.html

Have your say on Premier Inn hotel plans for Dorchester

THE public is being asked for their views on proposals for a new Premier Inn in Dorchester town centre

http://www.premierinn-dorchester.co.uk/register

#dorchester #dorset #premierinn

What a fabulous way to end the weekend - Seth Lakeman on stage at the Big Barn. Superb. Every time. Superb. What a musician.

#PVFF #PurbeckValleyFolkFestival #Purbeck #Dorset #LiveMusic #sunday #SethLakeman #Devon #LiveMusic

Another one from #RSPB #Arne in #Dorset on Thursday. Eyebright is technically a group of quite a lot of very similar species, telling them apart being very difficult. #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #plantscience #photography

One of two, possibly three, lifers for me at #RSPB #Arne in #Dorset on Thursday. Trailling St John's Wort. Tiny little yellow flowers hiding on the edge of a shrubby area at one of the viewpoints over the sea. #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #plantscience #photography

I’ve only ever been to one Music Festival. This is my fourth year. Every year these two have been here and I’m still not sure how I feel about them. Are they narcissistic, attention seeking people or are they just ahead of everyone else in being able to express themselves? You decide. I’m too scared to ask them 😃

The music has been top notch. The people lovely. Purbeck Valley Folk Festival. #PVFF #PurbeckValleyFolkFestival #Purbeck #Dorset #LiveMusic #sunday

Not all powered by beer consumed but Mike and I have decided that the answer to the question “Where does time go?” is…… up the nose of this mask in the Big Barn, Purbeck Folk Festival. That is all. Carry on.

#Dorset #Purbeck #beer #PVFF #Folk #saturday

I am abroad - well, Dorset! I shall be spending a couple of days at Purbeck Valley Folk Festival #PVFF On the way here, I visited RSPB Arne to see a Forster’s Tern (after a 3.5 hour wait). The first time I’ve seen this species in the UK. Happy days!!!
#BirdsOfMastodon #Birds #Dorset #Purbeck #Folk #Music #friday

We've been recording and watching Dorset: County and Coast on Channel 5 not because we particularly like the county - although we do - but because we knew that a friend of ours was going to appear in an episode. We became friends while spending an afternoon drinking real ale in a microbrewery a few years back. Tracy finally turned up in episode 4 this week, sharing her passion for Thomas Hardy.

https://www.channel5.com/show/dorset-country-and-coast/season-1/episode-4

#Dorset #ThomasHardy #DorsetCountyAndCoast

This walk over Ballard Down to Old Harry Rocks in #Dorset offers spectacular long distance views over Swanage, the coast and the brilliant white chalk cliffs. For route details, see tinyurl.com/y9666vms

#coast #walking #holidays

@tero

Maybe, but I see some issues: you'd end up with some hashtags that were ambiguous in whether they were location-based or not (the village of #Seaton is next to the village of #Beer for example, I kid you not...)

And you'd also have the issue of differing scales - do I subscribe to #SeafieldRoad, or #Seaton, or #Dorset? The dream goal for me is a system where I could paint onto a map the area within which I'd like to subscribe (with ability to control the brush size!)

For example, I'm visiting #Seaton for the next couple of days and wanted to ask locals what kind of #apple trees are planted around the "Sea Front Gardens" Green https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/178239906 #iNaturalist

#Devon #Dorset

Contractors told about #legionella on day #AsylumSeekers boarded barge

#Dorset council says it flagged test results about potentially deadly bacteria on Monday, but evacuation didn’t take place until four days later
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/13/home-office-was-told-about-legionella-on-refugees-barge-on-day-they-boarded #BibiStockholm #ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #TheCrueltyIsThePoint

Wonderful atmospheric description of walking the length of Chesil Beach from Oliver Smith at the FT:
“the process of longshore drift has graded the pebbles … a very visible interaction of time and matter”
“like a Japanese Zen garden: an arrangement of stones, raked by wind and tide, mostly untrodden by humans”
“its long, solitary flight out through the chaos of the sea”
https://www.ft.com/content/b7e3d473-dab9-4537-a350-e5dcffa1c7ac (free to read)
#Dorset #Walking

#rockfall #dorset Way too close for comfort!

Rockfall forces beachgoers to flee

https://news.sky.com/video/share-12937870

#FensterFreitag #FordeAbbey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forde_Abbey) #Dorset

This weekend, when I wasn't wading through ankle deep mud at #WickhamFolkFestival, I seem to have undertaken a #Neolithic / #IronAge roadtrip of #Wiltshire and #Dorset. Pictured are;

#Avebury #StoneCircle (or rather, a small section of it)
#SilburyHill
#Woodhenge, and
#BadburyRings

Oh, wie schön, es gibt einen #meermittwoch 😃 Da mache ich mit: Man O'War Beach, Dorset

#meer #küste #dorset #england #coastpath