Looking for #Kent #campsite recommendations please. We've been invited to a wedding in #HerneBay next summer and are going to make a little mini break of it, I've found a couple of campsites in cycling distance but they look like there's no shade and if next summer's like this summer that might be a bit tough. Does anyone have any *personal recommendations* for campsites with shade nearby? Please just personal recommendations, not just searching which I can do myself or asking AI which I don't want anyone to do. TIA.

Do you ever stop and think about how we spend so much of our lives doing housework and life admin and email and trying to live up to our parents' standards and impress our bosses and worrying about our weight and meanwhile we live on a planet where the sky just does this and we're not going to be here forever. And it's not doing this for us, sunsets are just as beautiful whether we're good people or bad people and whether we have good credit scores or clean kitchens.

Nothing makes me feel older than the start of a new term with a fresh batch of undergraduates. The kids now seem to be layering their socks, like ankle socks over knee socks over thigh socks, and I have so many questions. Aren't their ankles hot? How do they fit them in their shoes? Do they buy shoes specially in bigger sizes to fit them into? Do they only have to wash the innermost ones? When did I turn into my grandmother?

‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ death bloom looms for Kew Gardens plant

"The mountain agave, which was planted around 20 years ago, will open up into a massive cluster of thousands of individual flowers when it blooms.

After that, the parent plant will die. Botanists are looking to cross-pollinate the behemoth, calling it "the UK's most eligible agave".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq2e0y90ej34o

#London #KewGardens

New from the people who brought you "sunscreen causes skin cancer" and "vegetables are toxic, actually": "nicotine is good for your brain!"

How the pro-nicotine ‘wellness’ movement rebranded an addictive drug
https://theconversation.com/how-the-pro-nicotine-wellness-movement-rebranded-an-addictive-drug-290129

#Drugs #MedicalMisinformation #MAHA

I really love how done with customers' nonsense whoever wrote this menu clearly was.

A lifeboat museum says it has been forced to close after its volunteers were targeted by anti-migrant protesters.

Poole Old Lifeboat Museum said it made the decision after several incidents of "protesters verbally assaulting our volunteers".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62mq66lrqjo

#RNLI #FarRight

Iceland’s government will submit a bill in February to ban whaling, a move that would leave Norway and Japan as the only two countries in the world to continue commercial whaling.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/iceland-propose-whaling-ban-leaving-norway-japan-isolated-rcna596976

#ShareGoodNewsToo

"Don't mind me, just here to collect my Amazon parcel"

We are celebrating a brief interruption of the drought and the return of the rains in true British fashion by going camping in it, but I thought Mastodon might appreciate how someone else traveled to the campsite

The Human League's "Don't you want me baby" is basically three minutes of a bunch of red flags in a man suit telling on himself isn't it.

Jumping beans: UK shoppers turn to legumes to save cash and improve diet

Sales of beans, lentils and soya bean derivatives on rise while Britons buy less real and fake meat

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/aug/28/bean-lentil-sales-british-save-money-improve-diet

#Vegan #Vegetarian #PlantBased