An early morning visit to Bowling Green Marsh, Devon to see what the high tide might bring. The sun was barely up and no one else was around. Peaceful.

#birds #birdsofmastodon #nature #wildlife #starttheweek #devon #peace #sunrise #blacktailedgodwit #godwit
📷 #Cormorant lording it over #Redshank
📷 Early morning light and Black-tailed Godwit, #Lapwing, #Curlew and #Whimbrel
📷 Redshank

Really enjoyed #StartTheWeek @BBCRadio4 just now. #NatalieHaynes #BarbaraKingsolver & #MichaelRosen all taking part from @hayfestival So good.😊

Felixstowe crime stats: first 3 months of 2023 down on figures from 2022:
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#crime #crimestatistics #Felixstowe #startTheWeek
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Felixstowe crime stats: first 3 months of 2023 down on figures from 2022:
Find full details on our page:
#crime #crimestatistics #Felixstowe #startTheWeek
facebook.com/StartTheWeek

@ST3AMCo RT by @aiww: DON’T MISS @AIWW Discussing his new show #MakingSense at @DesignMuseum On @BBCRadio4 #StartTheWeek today at 9am Here’s a film and story we made so you have a few pictures for your radio experience And the lyrics so you can sing along: ‘The Eastern world, it is explodin'… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645332322995036160 https://nitter.hongkongers.net/ST3AMCo/status/1645332322995036160#m

Finally, Sarah Bakewell–also known as my favourite living author–visits radio programme Start the Week to discuss humanism and her new book, 'Humanly Possible':

'The writer Sarah Bakewell explores the long tradition of humanist thought in her latest book, Humanly Possible. She celebrates the writers, thinkers, artists and scientists over the last 700 years who have placed humanity at the centre, while defying the forces of religion, fanatics, mystics and tyrants.'

Start the Week - Humanism - what is it good for? - BBC Sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001k7qj

#SarahBakewell #humanism #HumanlyPossible #StartTheWeek #philosophy

RT @KateRaworth
Here's a link to the whole conversation on #StartTheWeek @BBCRadio4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001jkjn?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile 3/n

RT @KateRaworth
It was great to start the week by opening the black box of Capitalism with @BernieSanders and @martinwolf_ on @bbcr4 #StartTheWeek - you can catch our conversation here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jkjn

This was really good
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RT @KateRaworth
It was great to start the week by opening the black box of Capitalism with @BernieSanders and @martinwolf_ on @bbcr4 #StartTheWeek - you can catch our conversation here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jkjn
https://twitter.com/KateRaworth/status/1630544518339543055

Start the Week - Democratic capitalism – marriage on the rocks: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001jkjn

Kate Raworth defines 'capitalism':

'Yeah, well, it's a big word. So I never use it unless I get to define it, because otherwise we find ourselves talking past each other. So I'm great to have the chance to define it. To me, capitalism is, yes, it's markets and it's business, but it's more than that, because those have been around for millennia. To me, capitalism is an economic system that prioritises, above all, delivering profit for the honest of wealth. And that's in terms of dividends for those who own stocks and shares and corporations. That's in terms of rent for those who own land and housing and real estate. And that's in terms of interest for those who own other people's debt. And the key consequence of this is not just the obvious that it enriches the already rich. It systematically puts a squeeze on everything else that we value. So it underpays and undermines wage workers. It privatizes public goods like health care and transport. It exploits care that's provided by families and communities. It degrades the living world on which everything depends. It appropriates land and culture from indigenized and racialized communities. And crucially, it captures the legal system and the political system so that it can secure and reproduce its privilege.'

#StartTheWeek #KateRaworth #capitalism

@LowlyAdjunct

I had a good morning at the allotment (although it was *cold*)

I didn't do it to be kind to myself but the end result comes to the same thing

I did a far, far better thing than I thought I was doing!

It's a good way to start the week

#allotment #startTheWeek

In case there’s anyone here who still doesn’t know… this morning was my Radio 4 takeover ;-) First a lovely conversation about Indigenous histories and knowledges with Iokiñe Rodríguez Fernandez and Adrian Locke on #StartTheWeek https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h43w And then the amazing Maggie Service is reading excerpts of #OnSavageShores for #BookoftheWeek every day this week. You can catch the first episode now! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h444

Tuning in right now!
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RT @AdamRutherford
Very excited to hear the brilliant @carolinepennock on #StartTheWeek on @BBCRadio4, talking about her phenomenal new book #OnSavageShores - already a book of the year. (Slightly annoyed I’m not presenting!)
https://twitter.com/AdamRutherford/status/1614905461588770818

Listening to #StartTheWeek on @BBCRadio4@twitter.com and its celebration of "Awe"...

RT @theAliceRoberts@twitter.com

A wonderfully dark #StartTheWeek - and I'm now very much looking forward to the radio adaptation of Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising - on midwinter eve https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xtvp7, adapted by Simon McBurney and @RobGMacfarlane@twitter.com https://twitter.com/AdamRutherford/status/1602204811390328832

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/theAliceRoberts/status/1602238404581785600

Great author event to #StartTheWeek - B.P. Walter at our local Waterstones. Such a modest person in his answers in the Q&A. Came home with the #TBR two books longer! 📚

#CrimeFiction #bookstodon @bookstodon

OK, we're back into the working week and I might need to ask you to calm yourselves - because it involved dropping another lath & plaster ceiling 🤣 Dusty. Dropping the ceiling took minutes, then the rest of the day was ferrying waste into trailers and cleaning. Supremely dull yet also satisfying. My reward was a warm fire and a bowl of my delicious homemade butternut soup. Pretty good start to the week. Off to cuddle the pup. #Demolition #StartTheWeek #ButternutSoup #WomenInConstruction

Fascinating conversation on #starttheweek #bbcradio4 @simon_schama talking about Picasso’s Guernica & how #artists #writers #musicians fought for democracy through their work- inspiring. Just caught the end - the amazing @mariaressa also talking - going back to the beginning, hey who needs to work on #monday !!

"Inspiration spreads as far and as fast as fear and hate", good words from Maria Ressa, author of 'How To Stand Up To A Dictator', on
BBC Radio 4 #StartTheWeek https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fd0j

One of the few works by Sofoniba Anguisciola in the UK is the little known painting of three children in the collection of Corsham court #starttheweek