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Mike In The Spring Garden<p><a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Trebah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trebah</span></a> gardens was truly amazing (once more) yesterday. </p><p>But life moves on, and me and the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.wales/@druid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>druid</span></a></span> are about to sip our <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/latte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>latte</span></a> at <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Bodmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bodmin</span></a> plant and herb nurseries.</p><p>But here are some more nice pictures from pir adventures in the valley yesterday.</p><p>😊</p>
Radical Anthropology<p>Might be worth a trip!</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Cornwall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cornwall</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/labyrinth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labyrinth</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bodmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bodmin</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/20/cornish-hedge-labyrinth-opens-on-bodmin-moor-kerdroya" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/20/cornish-hedge-labyrinth-opens-on-bodmin-moor-kerdroya</span></a></p>
Jon Hancock<p>BBC News: "Bodmin Moor photographer caught inside starling murmuration"</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cornwall-64599052" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-c</span><span class="invisible">ornwall-64599052</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Birds</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Bodmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bodmin</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NotThatSortOfBlackMass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NotThatSortOfBlackMass</span></a></p>
Alexander Hay<p>One side effect of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlienBigCat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlienBigCat</span></a> phenomenon is how the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mystery</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/moggies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moggies</span></a> can often become part of a local area's folklore, and even objects of affection and local pride.</p><p>We see this in places such as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bodmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bodmin</span></a> Moor and the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IsleofWight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IsleofWight</span></a>, but as this news story demonstrates, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gwent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gwent</span></a>, in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wales</span></a>, has learned to embrace its anomalous big cats too.</p><p>"How big cat sightings have become part of Gwent folklore"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cryptozoology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cryptozoology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cryptids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cryptids</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folklore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.freepressseries.co.uk/news/23118978.big-cat-sightings-become-part-gwent-folklore/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">freepressseries.co.uk/news/231</span><span class="invisible">18978.big-cat-sightings-become-part-gwent-folklore/</span></a></p>