Florian LanckerMein Körper hat heute beschlossen, mir eine praktische Vorlesung in Sportmedizin zu geben. Nach dem Schwimmen brennen vor allem die Glutealmuskulatur, die Adduktoren an den Innenseiten der Oberschenkel, die Hüftbeuger in der Leistengegend und die tiefe Bauchmuskulatur. Jeder Schritt fühlt sich an, als hätte ich heimlich einen Triathlon absolviert. Ursache sind winzige Belastungsschäden in den Muskelfasern, die nun repariert werden. Kurz gesagt: Mein Po ist beleidigt, meine Oberschenkel führen einen Aufstand und mein Unterbauch hat jede Kooperation eingestellt.
Der WaldcoachLieblingsplätze in der Natur
Habt ihr einen Lieblingsplatz in der Natur? Einen Ort, an den ihr geht, um abzuschalten, loszulassen, zu träumen – oder sogar zu arbeiten?
Ich habe mehrere davon.
🌊 Zum Abschalten in der Stadt gehe ich gern in die Johannstadt an die Elbe. Zwischen zwei Bäumen in der Hängematte erholt es sich besonders gut.
🌿 Für tiefe Stille, fernab vom Lärm der Stadt, ziehe ich in den Priesnitzgrund. Dort gibt es erstaunlich schnell Plätze ohne Zivilisationsgeräusche, bis auf Hunde und Radler.
🏞️ Notfallgrün in der Altstadt liefert der Zwingerteich. Da kann man sich in den Schatten legen oder Mittagessen.
🌳 Hier direkt bei mir gibt es eine alte Kiesgrube, die je nach Jahreszeit mehr oder weniger verwildert ist – mein Go-to bei wenig Zeit.
🗻 Und ganz in der Nähe liegt noch eine Bergbauhalde mit schönem Rundumblick aufs Elbtal. Da können Gedanken besonders schnell groß werden.
Und wo sind eure Naturplätze?
Via NegativaPalette Sorting
Post compost, nerd.https://vianegativa6.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/palette-sorting/
Agroecology MapCradled in the Murray Hills, this farm builds a regenerative, agroecological system from the ground up 🌱 Permaculture, food sovereignty, and agroforestry weave a living tapestry that heals the land 💚 https://agroecologymap.org/l/331 #Permaculture #Agroecology #Agroforestry #Regeneration
Ars TechnicaSevered sea cucumber appendages don't seem to die
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/severed-sea-cucumber-appendages-dont-seem-to-die/
Kit PetersKINGSWAY: Beloved Welsh indie record shop Tangled Parrot moves between two regeneration sites as it picks new flagship location
One of Wales’s longest-running independent record shops is moving across Swansea city centre — and choosing a building delivered by the same housing association that owns its current location.
Tangled Parrot, founded by Matt Davies as a stall in Carmarthen Market in April 2000, is moving from its existing space on Swansea High Street to a dedicated standalone unit at 61 Kingsway. The new store is expected to open before the end of June.
Announcing the move on Instagram, Mr Davies described it as “the most difficult post I’ve had to make in 26 years of running Tangled Parrot” — a reflection of the difficult decision to close the original Carmarthen store at the same time.
A move between two Beacon regeneration sites
Both locations sit within the regeneration footprint of Beacon Cymru — the housing association formerly known as Coastal Housing, which has spent more than a decade rebuilding the commercial and residential offer along High Street and is now extending the same model to the Kingsway.
Beacon’s £100 million-plus High Street investment programme has steadily brought derelict and underused buildings back into use through mixed-tenure schemes, anchoring what is now known as the High Street Urban Village.
The Kingsway location continues the same pattern. Work began in September 2024 to transform the long-vacant former McDonalds at 61 Kingsway — closed since 2010 — into seven apartments for social rent across the upper floors, with two ground floor commercial units fronting onto the Kingsway and Park Street respectively. Tangled Parrot is taking the Kingsway-facing unit.
Beacon Cymru’s then regeneration manager Andrew Parry-Jones said at the time that the McDonalds redevelopment would be the first in a series of city centre projects. Tangled Parrot is now the first significant commercial tenant to take that space.
A bigger Swansea presence
Mr Davies explained the choice of unit on Instagram. “61 Kingsway — a more central location than our current shop on High Street,” he wrote. “There will also be a café space which will be run by a friend… allowing us to do more frequent and bigger events in the shop space.”
The Kingsway location is substantially larger than the previous space at Alleyway Coffee on High Street, allowing Tangled Parrot to run more frequent and bigger events in its own dedicated venue.
Mr Davies framed the move as a deliberate strategic shift. “I’m looking on it overall as a positive move allowing the business to become more focused, to expand our online operation and to collaborate on events with other like-minded folk in the Swansea area,” he wrote.
The shop is known for stocking both new and second-hand records and CDs, with an emphasis on music from the fringes — and sometimes extremes — of the industry, rather than mainstream chart releases.
A growing independent cluster
Tangled Parrot joins what is now a noticeable cluster of independent businesses along the Kingsway. The Bunkhouse — the independent music venue, hostel and café — has already welcomed the news on social media, jokingly offering to lend their new neighbours sugar.
The Kingsway has been the focus of one of the most significant city centre regeneration programmes in Swansea’s recent history. The £1 billion Copr Bay scheme at the street’s eastern end has been the most visible component, but a quieter pattern of housing-association-led mixed-use redevelopment is reshaping the street’s western stretch.
The arrival of a 26-year-old indie record store reflects the growing confidence in the street’s independent commercial offer — a different proposition to the chain-driven retail of the Quadrant Shopping Centre or out-of-town parks like Parc Fforestfach.
The Carmarthen back-story
The Swansea move comes alongside the closure of the original Carmarthen shop, where the business began.
Mr Davies has described the decision to leave Carmarthen as one that took nearly two years to reach. “I have a lot of attachment to Carmarthen,” he wrote. “The town has been good to myself and the shop, and it also nurtured the venue The Parrot before the established CWRW. I’ve made a great many friends in the town and surrounding areas through the shop and I will miss it.”
He cited wider economic pressures as the underlying driver. “The last few years have been difficult in many ways not least economically with the pressures that all retail businesses face nowadays — rising costs across the board and the changing shopping habits affecting basic footfall,” he wrote.
The Carmarthen store will close on 30 May 2026 after a closing sale to lighten the load before the move. A separate Tangled Parrot location in Hay-on-Wye will continue trading unaffected.
The Carmarthen closure leaves a gap in the town’s independent music scene — though Mr Davies has suggested that Dales Music Store, currently based in Tenby, may be planning a move to fill it.
Closing dates and farewell
Tangled Parrot will close its Swansea High Street location for the final time on Wednesday 27 May, with the Carmarthen store remaining open through to the 30 May final day. Both stores will operate normal opening hours in the meantime.
In a video posted to Instagram, longstanding team member Rich shared an emotional farewell to the Carmarthen shop ahead of its closure, reflecting on what the store had meant to him and to customers over the years — and recalling earlier Tangled Parrot homes including the original market stall in 2000 and a previous Bridge Street location, before the current King Street unit. The new Swansea store is expected to open sometime in June.
A win for Beacon, a win for Swansea
For Swansea, the arrival is a clear win. An independent business with 26 years of history, a loyal customer base across south Wales, and a niche cultural offer that’s hard to replicate is choosing the city centre at exactly the moment the Kingsway is finding its post-regeneration identity.
It’s also a small but telling win for Beacon Cymru’s slow-build approach to city centre regeneration. The housing association now anchors much of High Street’s commercial offer, has delivered the first major Kingsway commercial space since the Copr Bay phase, and has retained one of its longstanding tenants through that transition rather than losing it.
Signing off his Instagram announcement, Mr Davies quoted a phrase associated with the late DJ and producer Andrew Weatherall: “Fail we may, sail we must.”
Related stories from Swansea Bay News
Kingsway revival continues as work starts on former McDonalds site
Our September 2024 report on the start of work at the 61 Kingsway redevelopment.
The £100m investment that’s transforming Swansea’s High Street
Our March 2024 feature on Beacon Cymru’s wider High Street programme.
Copr Bay coverage from Swansea Bay News
Our ongoing reporting on the £1 billion city centre regeneration scheme.
Rancho de la LibertadOne of the critical things we're trying to do is develop sensible animal feed formulations based on what grows *here* really well. Because we understand that there's a caloric issue: our limiting factor is animal feed, because the animal manure is the primary thing helping us to restore our native nitrogen cycles and grow food. Roots in the ground mean little if we can't get those roots going in the first place, and we need all of it for any of this to work.
There are more things that grow here really well that animals can easily convert to calories than us, like saltbrush, bromegrass, and bermudagrass (the latter are both invasive grasses) and many that both animals and humans benefit from like ricegrass (where cellulose-digesting animals can eat the grass and humans can eat the seedheads). Prickly pear cacti are a good source of vitamins, water, and other good stuff but require processing before feeding out, though they have a place in this too in my mind. The wild cottontails and jackrabbits eat young trees, and our rabbits can convert creosote and mesquite prunings to meat, which is crazy.
When we can extend our cultivable area beyond the initial dense gardens, the grasses and wildflowers that already grow here can establish themselves better under shade and start to develop a root mat that can stabilize the soil and make the land less hydrophobic. We hope this will have measurable effects on the groundwater levels over time as layers of root systems help bring the water back down into the earth rather than leaving it to run off and evaporate as it currently does. Establishing wildlands with savannah grasses, trees, cacti, and windbreak to preserve the moisture we can carefully and intensively graze a few small ruminants (NOT goats) to consume what we can't and mimick the herbivores that are supposed to engage in trample-eat-urinate-manure-move cycles to push the roots deeper - at that point we'll be moving into a kind of savannah version of the typical regenerative ag that folks like Savory have been championing, and which does really work once you get things growing season after season.
My guess is for the long term future all animals will be cut-and-carry fed through the summer for the land to rest in the dry season and this means probably planning to only keep breeding stock for this season, and a minimal chicken flock to manage for pests (usually these are worse in the summer than winter, even here).
I want to go into this more when there's more testing behind it and documented success. All I can say is right now we're making huge strides producing food here and moving towards a closed loop system faster than I thought possible. Still, ecological time is slow, so we must weather the next few years in order to prove this all!
#RanchoDeLaLibertad #RegenerativeAgriculture #Permaculture #ClosedCycle #ClosedLoopFarming #Land #Regeneration #ClimateJustice #FoodSovereignty
El Pregoner del MetallREGENERATION (Xina) presenta nou single: "Extraction" #Regeneration #ProgressiveDeathMetal #Maig2026 #Xina #NouSingle #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic
Werner NeugebauerErschöpft ohne Ende
Erschöpft ohne Ende. Jede Kampagne raubt Lebensenergie. Was, wenn Blockaden dich auslaugen? Vitalität in 14 Tagen zurück.
👉 Mehr erfahren & direkt reinschauen:
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CLondoner92A Mayor decision taken by Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, within the Good Growth Directorate, concerns #Transport for #London support for the statutory consultation on the draft London Plan (MD3503). The Mayor must consult on the Spatial #Development #Strategy for Greater London, with a minimum 12-week consultation planned for Summer 2026.
TfL will provide technical support including publishing on the GLA engagement platform, accessibility compliance, and managing a supplier for consultation responses. The GLA Planning and #Regeneration Unit retains responsibility for policy, engagement, communications and reporting.
The Mayor will delegate functions to #TfL and approve transfer of up to £100,000 to cover staffing, Easy Read materials, British Sign Language and audio formats, and contingency. The Executive Director of Good #Growth will finalise payments. The approach aims to ensure statutory compliance, accessibility, and efficient delivery.
https://www.london.gov.uk/md3503-london-plan-consultation-support
