Small boy, seeing my little carved pumpkin 🎃 scary-faced in the window, after passing all the shops in town with plastic sparkly Halloween decorations: Mummy, Mummy! Look a real live pumpkin! 😊

The brilliant, but dark, new album by Hilliat Fields. A Darkness This Way Comes. On sale now. #NewMusic hilliatfields.bandcamp.com/album/a-dark...

A wonderful day, discovering more about the archaeology in my piece of woodland. A local guy knows *a lot* about it. I've invited him and his archaeologist friend to dig again, to establish the route of a prehistoric hill fort track

Hello again to friendly folk who aren't still with me on the other site. 👋 I got very busy, recovered from injury, bought a small piece of ancient woodland to manage. I would be there today but I'm laying around, not doing my admin, recovering from effects of vaccine yday

Something amazing. Dr Consultant, with new Dr in tow, came to me & ward Administrator, and, introduced new Dr to us! New Dr even shook hands with us! Me & WA have been a wee bit low at work recently. Dr Consultant, not for the 1st time, treated us like humans. It's the little things, kids, really.

Hiya I got signed out of my account for a while. I'm a bit fed up because I injured my back and recovery is painful. I was happy to be able to work 3 days, after getting help from my osteopath, & my acu. But I need more tomorrow. Ouch

I've found the transition into Spring hard this year. Some awful days are over, and I've had a great time at work today. When you truly register that your patients are well and they are recommending you as a practitioner, that lifts the spirit so much.

Clarinet solo

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

A big thank you to whoever did this, using their wealth for everyone's good. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tomorrow Could Be So Beautiful 1. From the album of the same name. #Live #Ambient hilliatfields.bandcamp.com/track/tomorr...

Incredible from Bishop Budde: "We don't have to go to the highest extremes of contempt when we are in a position of disagreement. I think if we could get that back as a country, we would go a long way in being able to work together to address the many problems that we face." ~AA @maddow.msnbc.com

Best "Caution - slippery floor" notice ever!

Something quiet this way comes....

The Department of Justice has just DELETED its four-year-old webpage on the US Capitol riot investigations.

Wall painting - still life with hare and four figs - Pompeii.

I fear there is deep truth here.

I’m worried that the exodus from Meta and Twitter is what they want. To isolate us from each other. Isolation is a big part of autocracy. It makes people easier to lie to and abuse. I don’t have a global answer, but I am working on building a social media space for our podcast listeners.

Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickle, Cricket in an Armchair, 1911

Brand new watercolour. Life is a blanace between holding on and letting go. I hope you like it.

No close up, but I just disturbed a heron as I walked by Stotfold water mill

When I opened my laptop, the screen was flipped upside down. A cat once did this so I knew vaguely how to fix it, but the advice I found online didn’t work so I contacted our tech guy. He said I’m the fourth person since Monday this has happened to, after the latest Windows 11 update. Good update

Reform MP Nigel Farage has been paid £189,000 for a part-time job as a “brand ambassador” for a gold bullion firm, register of MPs’ interests confirms. Follows story by @rowenamason 👇 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I've set up a temporary working space after a contractor's van drove over my boyfriend's e motorbike and into a neighbour's car. I've driven him to his pool and gym centre so that he can now relax, as he had planned to do before this stress!

Anyone recommend a powerchair servicing company in the north west/north midlands ?

Exhaustion

A good friend sent this to me this morning and there is so much truth to what this says.

I sleep better when I’m loved

Happy New Year everyone! I was too busy dancing to great live music and out socialising to post anything last night.

Good morning. I'm staying horizontal for now, planning on doing very little indeed! Then I should have energy to enjoy tonight, with a great little rock/funk trio in our local.

Christmas Timey-wimey: why it's hard to tell what day it is during the festive period open.substack.com/pu... An evidence-based neuroscientific explanation for why we lose track of what day it is during the festive break #brains #memory #Christmas #time #DoctorWho

Coffee & ciggie at the Big Window. Grey low cloud. Obscures the Hill. The Spire. The ground. Doesn't muffle the sound. Of Blackbird song. Proud and loud. Not singing the year out. Unaware, as it is, of this abstract concept. This man-made lie. Time.

I was at work today. I'm thankful coz I did it in a mask, feeling a bit sniffy from a head cold. My other booking was a phone consult so that was fine. But I had to try and get my D1's phone number sorted at the phone shop in between. I now want to have another early night 😴 Party on everyone..

Piano Variations II. New, live, ambient album. #LiveMusic #Ambient hilliatfields.bandcamp.com/album/piano-...

I’ve been through a lot. Doors mostly, a few windows, couple of tunnels.

On my way north for Xmas, I paused to visit a Roman bridge at Piercebridge. I find that seeing something this substantial and yet 2000 years old makes me reconsider things that are fleeting but upsetting in my life. They mustn't trouble me #archaeology

Happy Christmas everyone! I've been made very welcome in a village in Northumberland national park, where my friend has done well with the DIY since he just moved this autumn. Beautiful driving here.

An evening of comfort in the dark of my EV. Warm and safe enough, reading Iain M Banks. Soon I'll be wrapped up and sleeping, ready to wake with the birds,n friendly long-horned cattle in the paddock next to me. My journey continues tomoro thro Yorkshire, to spend xmas w/my friend in Northumbria

I was too late to start an astronomical advent, so I’ve spent a bit of December writing a Christmas space story instead: "The Christmas Scope". No special meanings, just total OTT indulgence. Follow the hashtag #XmasScope to enjoy it.

The day hasn't gone exactly as planned, and I'm pretty exhausted, not up to going out to the choir concert. But! I had a good work shift, that I thought would be cancelled, I've got income, and I've got new patients, before Xmas and in the NY. Lots of things I'm #thankful for 😊

My books for you to buy, should you so desire to feed my vanity thus. #marketing 💙📚👀📢📚 #books mybook.to/bqibv

New! Brexit has reduced goods exports by £27bn – with smaller firms most affected Rebecca Freeman, @marcogarofalo.bsky.social Enrico Longoni , Kalina Manova, Rebecca Mari, Thomas Prayer, @thomsampson.bsky.social Read: cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/d...

After 5 years in a pandemic caused by a #virus , there is misunderstanding and misinformation about what a virus actually is. Not incomprehensibly, the scientific community has also repeatedly changed its mind about what viruses are. A 🧵

This opening paragraph really made me laugh 🤣

starting to feel like my desire not to dissociate and deaden myself to the horrors of the news is coming into conflict with the sheer volume of horror in the news

Reminded of the ?bee orchids I found on the day my father's ashes were scattered at Connaught Water

Good morning, any orchid fans out there? May your Wednesday blossom in a glorious way 😊

That is ridiculous! So Thames water has been allowed to borrow money to pay dividends using profits manufactured from shirking its duties as a supplier, and now when the music has stopped it's customers and the taxpayer are going to pick up the bill. Truly an outrageous mess.