Life & Times

Please sign this petition to stop the body parts of lions killed in gruesome hunts from being bought and imported into the UK as hunting trophies.

To hunt these beautiful animals for fun is inhumane and just wrong.

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UPDATE 17/03/2023: Ban on imports of animal hunting trophies set to become law

The government has backed legislation which would stop hunters from bringing back body parts of thousands of species, including lions, rhinos, elephants and polar bears, killed abroad. Tory MP Henry Smith, who proposed the bill, said it would help conserve the world’s most endangered species. It was approved by MPs and will now face further scrutiny in the Lords. As it has the support of the government, the Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill is likely to become law.

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My Album of the Week is And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow from Weyes Blood.

Read more on [inews.co.uk](https://inews.co.uk/culture/music/weyes-blood-if-theres-no-more-human-race-thats-totally-fine-1975514).

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We moved to South Devon a month ago, renting a renovated barn whilst we look for our new permanent home. We live a few miles from the coast, in the middle of farming country, which means that in the morning we explore the local woods and footpaths.

Here’s a photo of Topsham Bridge, taken around 8am yesterday.

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Since moving, it’s compulsory to go to the coast at the weekend and yesterday we went to the beach at Thurlestone just before sunset.

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It’s the time of year when I set up a filter to send all emails with Black Friday in the subject line to the trash bin

Dodging the rain at Bantham Beach, Devon

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I don’t think I’ll be making a feast with these beauties that are growing out of our doorstep.

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Figure - verb

1. An awesome beast who figured in Egyptian legend: feature, appear, be featured/mentioned, be referred to; participate, play a part, play a role, be conspicuous, have prominence, have a place; star.

2. A way to figure the values: calculate, work out, total, sum, reckon, compute, enumerate, determine, evaluate, quantify, assess, count, add up, put a figure on, tally, totalise, gauge; British tot up; rare cast.

3. North American informal I figured that I didn’t have much of a chance: suppose, think, belief, fancy, consider, expect, take it, suspect, have a sneaking suspicion, sense; assume, dare say, conclude, take it as read, presume, be of the opinion, trust; deduce, infer, gather, glean, divine; North American guess.

4. North American informal ‘Rosemary’s away.’ ‘That figures.’: make sense, be understandable, seem reasonable, stand to reason, be to be expected, be logical, follow, add up, stand up, hold up; ring true, be convincing; be likely/probable, go without saying.

Prog Magazine’s Halloween playlist will kickstart your trick and treating…🎃

I think it may rain today …

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Sunday morning coffee and pastry at Bigbury-on-Sea, Devon.

Canon EOS M6 Mark II, EF-M 15-45mm, processed in ON1 Photo RAW 2023

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