Lovely blossom tree outside a restaurant in Uxbridge Middx #BlossomWatch
March 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Lovely blossom tree outside a restaurant in Uxbridge Middx #BlossomWatch
Brilliant Metro Bank semis. We have a Leics v Middx final. Smallest county v Skintest county
Middx first one-day final since 1990
Great atmospheres at both, especially Leics
…BECAUSE COUNTIES MATTER
Middx first one-day final since 1990
Great atmospheres at both, especially Leics
…BECAUSE COUNTIES MATTER
August 16, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Brilliant Metro Bank semis. We have a Leics v Middx final. Smallest county v Skintest county
Middx first one-day final since 1990
Great atmospheres at both, especially Leics
…BECAUSE COUNTIES MATTER
Middx first one-day final since 1990
Great atmospheres at both, especially Leics
…BECAUSE COUNTIES MATTER
Moth numbers down to just 11:8 in the Camden trap overnight, but one NFY with just my second ever Dusky-lemon Sallow. A scarce species locally it seems - the Herts & Middx website only has one record from 2024, the one I caught on 6th October. #TeamMoth
October 8, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Moth numbers down to just 11:8 in the Camden trap overnight, but one NFY with just my second ever Dusky-lemon Sallow. A scarce species locally it seems - the Herts & Middx website only has one record from 2024, the one I caught on 6th October. #TeamMoth
A lovely little profile page for one J. G. Ballard of Shepperton, Middx, from May 1962’s “New Worlds Science Fiction” magazine. In it, Ballard’s then-radical belief that SciFi should turn from rocket ships to “inner space” is respectfully referenced. A revolution on that principle was on its way.
March 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
A lovely little profile page for one J. G. Ballard of Shepperton, Middx, from May 1962’s “New Worlds Science Fiction” magazine. In it, Ballard’s then-radical belief that SciFi should turn from rocket ships to “inner space” is respectfully referenced. A revolution on that principle was on its way.
Welcome to our new Bluesky feed where we hope to post regular updates throughout the winter months. We have lots of things happening over the winter which can be found on our branch website www.hertsmiddx-butterflies.org.uk
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November 20, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Welcome to our new Bluesky feed where we hope to post regular updates throughout the winter months. We have lots of things happening over the winter which can be found on our branch website www.hertsmiddx-butterflies.org.uk
Do follow us - we need to reconnect with all our followers found elsewhere
Do follow us - we need to reconnect with all our followers found elsewhere
1/2 Percy Hornibrook congratulates Patsy Hendren on reaching his hundred for Middx v Australians at Lord's, June 6th 1930. It was the first century scored against the tourists in their 11th game. Hornibrook played all five Tests taking 13 wickets at 36.23 including 7 for 92 ...
November 22, 2024 at 3:22 PM
1/2 Percy Hornibrook congratulates Patsy Hendren on reaching his hundred for Middx v Australians at Lord's, June 6th 1930. It was the first century scored against the tourists in their 11th game. Hornibrook played all five Tests taking 13 wickets at 36.23 including 7 for 92 ...
🏏 New County #Cricket Newsletter. Pls share & enjoy
🟣 Champ previews: Final Round
🟡 Warks or Somerset for the title
🔵 Hants relegated, Leics to join them?
🟢 Double retirement at Glamorgan
🟠 Middx win Metro Bank Cup
🔴 Lancs sack coaching team
🟣 Champ previews: Final Round
🟡 Warks or Somerset for the title
🔵 Hants relegated, Leics to join them?
🟢 Double retirement at Glamorgan
🟠 Middx win Metro Bank Cup
🔴 Lancs sack coaching team
No 201, Sept 23: The Grumbler’s County Cricket Newsletter
🟣 Champ previews: Final Round 🟡 Warks or Somerset for the title 🔵 Hants relegated, Leics to join them? 🟢 Double retirement at Glamorgan 🟠 Middx win Metro Bank Cup 🔴 Lancs sack coaching team
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September 23, 2026 at 8:07 PM
🏏 New County #Cricket Newsletter. Pls share & enjoy
🟣 Champ previews: Final Round
🟡 Warks or Somerset for the title
🔵 Hants relegated, Leics to join them?
🟢 Double retirement at Glamorgan
🟠 Middx win Metro Bank Cup
🔴 Lancs sack coaching team
🟣 Champ previews: Final Round
🟡 Warks or Somerset for the title
🔵 Hants relegated, Leics to join them?
🟢 Double retirement at Glamorgan
🟠 Middx win Metro Bank Cup
🔴 Lancs sack coaching team
🏏 New County Cricket newsletter. Please share and enjoy
🟣 Cricket 'eats itself'
🟢 No international cricket on free TV
🟠 More franchise nonsense, MCC vote
🔴 Middx woes continue
🔵 Lehmann takes reins at Northants
🟡 Duo leave Warks
https://buff.ly/4hOqFMb
🟣 Cricket 'eats itself'
🟢 No international cricket on free TV
🟠 More franchise nonsense, MCC vote
🔴 Middx woes continue
🔵 Lehmann takes reins at Northants
🟡 Duo leave Warks
https://buff.ly/4hOqFMb
No 141, Nov 14: The Grumbler's County Cricket Newsletter
🟣 Cricket 'eats itself' 🟢 No international cricket on free TV 🟠 More franchise nonsense, MCC jump onboard 🔴 Middx woes continue 🔵 Lehmann takes reins at Northants 🟡 Duo leave Warks
buff.ly
November 14, 2024 at 7:09 PM
🏏 New County Cricket newsletter. Please share and enjoy
🟣 Cricket 'eats itself'
🟢 No international cricket on free TV
🟠 More franchise nonsense, MCC vote
🔴 Middx woes continue
🔵 Lehmann takes reins at Northants
🟡 Duo leave Warks
https://buff.ly/4hOqFMb
🟣 Cricket 'eats itself'
🟢 No international cricket on free TV
🟠 More franchise nonsense, MCC vote
🔴 Middx woes continue
🔵 Lehmann takes reins at Northants
🟡 Duo leave Warks
https://buff.ly/4hOqFMb
A lovely thread on a lost (or perhaps not) place in the historic county of #Middlesex. Lots of #Domesday content, a little from our Middlesex volume 8, available @bho.bsky.social: www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vo... 🗃️
Stumbled across the Domesday entry for the local area today. Nine households, two ploughs, and forty shillings a year. It's grown a little since then.
![XXII. The land of Ranulph brother of Ilger 'OSSULSTONE' HUNDRED RANULPH brother of Ilger holds 'TOLLINGTON' Iin Islington] of the king, for 2 hides. There is land for 2 ploughs. In demesne [is] 1 hide, and there is 1 plough. The villans have 2 ploughs. There are 5 villans each on half a virgate, and 2 bordars on 9 acres, and 1 cottar and 1 slave. [There is] pasture for the livestock of the vill. [and] woodland for 60 pigs and rendering] 5s. This land is worth 40s; when received, 60s; TRE 40s. Edwin, the man of King Edward, held this and he could sell it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:phyrjqtsscocqllqjsw2jnqn/bafkreiegmnlkyhz6enon2n3ljwn47t6vew27ouholkb2k4gwhf6uqcwio4)
February 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
A lovely thread on a lost (or perhaps not) place in the historic county of #Middlesex. Lots of #Domesday content, a little from our Middlesex volume 8, available @bho.bsky.social: www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vo... 🗃️
Something that may be of interest to moffers... Colin Plant, the Herts. & Middx CMR produces a very informative and entertaining newsletter, "Moth Mumblings". These can be downloaded from www.hertsmiddxmoths.uk/newsletters..... #MothsMatter #TeamMoth
Newsletters Herts & Middlesex Moths
Newsletters The Moths of Herts & Middlesex. In association with the Herts & Middlesex Moth Group.
www.hertsmiddxmoths.uk
March 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Something that may be of interest to moffers... Colin Plant, the Herts. & Middx CMR produces a very informative and entertaining newsletter, "Moth Mumblings". These can be downloaded from www.hertsmiddxmoths.uk/newsletters..... #MothsMatter #TeamMoth
A picture I took of Vintcent van der Bijl in the deep, Middx v Surrey, Gillette Cup final, Lord's, September 6th 1980. Watching him that summer was one of the joys of my cricket-spectating life. He took 85 wickets at 14.72 as Middlesex won the Championship and Gillette Cup
June 22, 2026 at 8:50 AM
A picture I took of Vintcent van der Bijl in the deep, Middx v Surrey, Gillette Cup final, Lord's, September 6th 1980. Watching him that summer was one of the joys of my cricket-spectating life. He took 85 wickets at 14.72 as Middlesex won the Championship and Gillette Cup
Paging #skystorians, historians of sexuality, medieval & EMod units: has anyone ever written about Margaret Bradley of Middx, whom examining midwives reported to London Consistory in 1522 to be intersex (had both vagina & penis)? Quite detailed testimony @tswingard.bsky.social @rmkarras.bsky.social
May 9, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Paging #skystorians, historians of sexuality, medieval & EMod units: has anyone ever written about Margaret Bradley of Middx, whom examining midwives reported to London Consistory in 1522 to be intersex (had both vagina & penis)? Quite detailed testimony @tswingard.bsky.social @rmkarras.bsky.social
I heard of a Large Skipper in Middx on 29 April
May 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I heard of a Large Skipper in Middx on 29 April
My 12 days of Xmas in moths 4. Cosmopolitan in my VC20 garden on the 17/08/25. For some this is a regularly recorded migrant moth but in Herts (& Middx) far from it & this will be the only the 2nd record on the map (previous 2020). Not an impressive moth but still great to record #teammoth
December 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
My 12 days of Xmas in moths 4. Cosmopolitan in my VC20 garden on the 17/08/25. For some this is a regularly recorded migrant moth but in Herts (& Middx) far from it & this will be the only the 2nd record on the map (previous 2020). Not an impressive moth but still great to record #teammoth
When Lucy @thedodomicropub.bsky.social issues an instruction to dress up for her presentation for Ealing and West Middx Pub of the year “like the BAFTAs” I of course obey said instruction fully and with great joy 😂💗🍺
August 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
When Lucy @thedodomicropub.bsky.social issues an instruction to dress up for her presentation for Ealing and West Middx Pub of the year “like the BAFTAs” I of course obey said instruction fully and with great joy 😂💗🍺
Another day in the lab. This male Oegoconia from home on 10th October looks good for novimundi I think, which would be my second this year (and the latest listed on the Middx moth site). #TeamMoth
November 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Another day in the lab. This male Oegoconia from home on 10th October looks good for novimundi I think, which would be my second this year (and the latest listed on the Middx moth site). #TeamMoth
Did you miss our Zoom talk last night? Andrew Wood discusses predicting long term changes to butterfly and moth flight times in this really interesting talk based on branch data. Now available on YouTube! youtu.be/jsFvmdfiq5M @savebutterflies.bsky.social @lnhs.bsky.social @hnhsoc.bsky.social
Herts & Middx Butterflies in 2025 and can we predict long term changes?' by Andrew Wood
YouTube video by Herts & Middx Butterfly Conservation
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March 5, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Did you miss our Zoom talk last night? Andrew Wood discusses predicting long term changes to butterfly and moth flight times in this really interesting talk based on branch data. Now available on YouTube! youtu.be/jsFvmdfiq5M @savebutterflies.bsky.social @lnhs.bsky.social @hnhsoc.bsky.social
“What was your #childhoodcinema”?
The Astoria in Ashford Middx, closed in 1975. At the time it looked downheel & dowdy. But the building itself was rather wonderful. (Behind those huge windows, I was forced to take ballroom dancing lessons for a short while.) I saw Bond, Soylent Green & Kess there.
The Astoria in Ashford Middx, closed in 1975. At the time it looked downheel & dowdy. But the building itself was rather wonderful. (Behind those huge windows, I was forced to take ballroom dancing lessons for a short while.) I saw Bond, Soylent Green & Kess there.
January 11, 2026 at 7:25 PM
“What was your #childhoodcinema”?
The Astoria in Ashford Middx, closed in 1975. At the time it looked downheel & dowdy. But the building itself was rather wonderful. (Behind those huge windows, I was forced to take ballroom dancing lessons for a short while.) I saw Bond, Soylent Green & Kess there.
The Astoria in Ashford Middx, closed in 1975. At the time it looked downheel & dowdy. But the building itself was rather wonderful. (Behind those huge windows, I was forced to take ballroom dancing lessons for a short while.) I saw Bond, Soylent Green & Kess there.
#middx finish their D2 #countychampionship in 4th, with a win. More #digin batting points next year, lads, and promotion beckons. #cricket
September 26, 2026 at 1:42 PM
#middx finish their D2 #countychampionship in 4th, with a win. More #digin batting points next year, lads, and promotion beckons. #cricket
I'll have to see if I've got The Jewel In The Crown, Southall, Middx to send you, dear chap.
March 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I'll have to see if I've got The Jewel In The Crown, Southall, Middx to send you, dear chap.
Just a reminder, we have a Zoom talk this evening at 7.30 www.hertsmiddx-butterflies.org.uk/winter-zoom..... Our branch recorder Andrew Wood will be talking about 'Butterflies in 2025 and can we predict long term changes?' All welcome and no need to book.
Winter Zoom programme - Herts & Middx Butterfly Conservation
Herts & Middx branch
www.hertsmiddx-butterflies.org.uk
March 4, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Just a reminder, we have a Zoom talk this evening at 7.30 www.hertsmiddx-butterflies.org.uk/winter-zoom..... Our branch recorder Andrew Wood will be talking about 'Butterflies in 2025 and can we predict long term changes?' All welcome and no need to book.
Today we’re out protesting an arms manufacturer in Hayes, Middx.
March 25, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Today we’re out protesting an arms manufacturer in Hayes, Middx.
Herts. and Middx. Moth Group ( @lizgoodyear.bsky.social et al.,) hit the big time last night on BBC's "Have I got news for you" presented by (of all people, friend to moths) Monty Don, when the brilliantly named "Moth Mumblings" newsletter got a mention. Good episode, too. #teammoth
April 12, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Herts. and Middx. Moth Group ( @lizgoodyear.bsky.social et al.,) hit the big time last night on BBC's "Have I got news for you" presented by (of all people, friend to moths) Monty Don, when the brilliantly named "Moth Mumblings" newsletter got a mention. Good episode, too. #teammoth
Same to you chap, here’s to some decent performances from Middx and Northants in 2026.
December 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Same to you chap, here’s to some decent performances from Middx and Northants in 2026.