Weird question: but is there any kind of list of Arthurian themed visual art in the UK? Trying to cover various expressions of popular Arthurianism and realise I should probably Go And Look At Some Pictures.

I just read The Cut-Throat Trial by @barristersecret.bsky.social and it was very good. Highly recommended if you like a tense legal thriller with loads of fairly unlikeable but v convincing characters on every side.

Loch Choire nan Arr - 07:30 yesterday morning.

Just breaking up the timeline

Wall and gorse near Ingra Tor above Sampford Spiney last week, I think that’s Kings Tor in the background, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #landscape

My father-in-law's neighbour died last week and he's rung me twice today to ask if it's true. He rang last night about it too. Dementia sucks.

Dog hears a harmonica for the first time: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/dogsbeingd...

Haunted Book Club story 5 - Man-size in Marble by Edith Nesbit. Read for you by the wonderful @gavcross.bsky.social It's a book club where we read the stories to you! Join us live next week to talk about it. youtu.be/sl11wLSXwPY?...

I do a podcast thing with @gavcross.bsky.social called Haunted Book Club. Gav reads you a short spooky story (45 mins or less) one week, then we get together and discuss live online the next. Please check it out, and if you enjoy it, let others know. If you don't enjoy it, then keep that to yourself

An Easter chick(en) question for Romanists. I found this reference in a 1960s bird book to a chicken bone from Silchester with a metal band around it, as if the bird were a pet. It's mentioned in a book of 1921 but I can't find anything else; does it exist, perhaps in @readingmuseum.bsky.social?

🌷 📍 St. James's Park

Annually you forget the evil psychology of EGG. "Have another bit of me" says EGG "it might be a bit thicker than the last bit" says EGG and then oh no you have in one sitting eaten all of EGG

Do horses want cake? We conducted an investigation into statements published by @bencollins.bsky.social in the print edition of @theonion.com.

Cowslips in N. Wilts. for the #WildflowerHour #CowslipChallenge, including specimens of the rare red variety mentioned by Stace (2019) and the showy False Oxslip - a natural hybrid between Cowslip & Primrose. (See ALT for details). @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Visited Tulley’s tulip fields yesterday with elder daughter for some intense floral dopamine…I wished I could get aerial shots of the fields but it was beautiful…

It's cloudy, cool, and nearly silent outside, a Cowboy Junkies kind of morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa9n...

#NowPlaying #VinylProject This 1986 compilation of very whimsical tunes. ‘This doesn’t seem like your sort of thing,’ says Ollie, which is inaccurate if understandable. (I nicked it off an ex, actually.)

Over 500 sketches from my new book. Yes, it’s a lot of work. Yes, I am tired. Yes, AI could do it quicker. No, I never will. Please support (exhausted) human artists.

Had a quick frolic on Lancing beach yesterday.

Haunted food. My mum spiralised a carrot, and the result is like a cross between Thomas the Tank Engine, Pinocchio, and John Carpenter's The Thing. #CursedCarrot

Up unseasonably early to accompany @claudiusme.bsky.social to the Easter Makers Fair in Shoreham by Sea, where she’ll be selling cards and prints and stuff (I took these pics from her Insta).Sussex is always such fun to get to from here! Anyway come and see us if you’re in the area!

OMG. We're playing 'Headquarters' by The Monkees (part of the #vinylproject and THUS I have discovered this POP NUGGET. There's nothing I love more than finally hearing where something comes from, whether it's a sample or just inspiration. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistado...

Few are brave enough to acknowledge the truth.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Lucian Freud Buttercups (1968) Oil on canvas 61 x 61 cm

Same.

For anyone fearing feline attack, I regret to inform you that Michael has invented the tank...

"On Monday, Oedipus ate through one apple. But he was still hungry. On Wednesday he ate a whole banana. On Friday he killed an arrogant man at the crossroads and married his widow. But he was still hungry." A section, there, from THE VERY HUNGRY PATER-KILLER.

The cherry blossom is blooming along Chester Road in The Regent's Park 🌸 😍

yet to see a writing use case pitched for AI that doesn't have me like "my brain does that for free"

I thought that railing was some kind of box drawing my attention to their shoes. (Which all seem to fit, quelle horreur.)

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

1/4/26 - nocturn

Hate promoting on here but I'm going on book tour and please come

April fooled by a sock in a bush. Not a magpie.

lot of words in this one, see if you can get to the end of it without checking some shit on your phone. #aprilfoolsday

Some thoughts about writing stuff, in no particular order (this might be a long-ish thread): 1. When Old Man's War came out (2005), lots of people read it and assumed I was conservative, because of its subject matter, and sub-genre, me being a white dude from Ohio, and other various factors.

In its native state the bulb grows very deep down so taking a hint from Nature we should plant it at a depth of 6-8” [15-20cm]. there is another good reason for doing this pheasants are fond of it and are liable to scratch it up if planted too shallow. #gardening

Less showy than the buttercup, less spectacular than the foxglove in the wood, the fritillary seems to put a damask shadow over the grass as though dusk were falling under a thunder-cloud that veiled the setting sun. #gardening

Thank you to everyone who has been saying such nice things about my #sgtpepper book. I hope you don't mind but I've edited some of them together here. The book is available now through chrisbarkerprints.co.uk

Welcome to National Indexing Day! We're the UK's professional society for book and journal indexing, and we're celebrating our founding anniversary with lots of posts about indexing, indexes and indexers. Follow #IndexDay to join in.

I just read an ARC of this very entertaining fantasy novel, which like all fantasy novels in no way reflects anything about the real world no sir not at all *touches earpiece* oh hang on a minute… Anyway preorder a copy, go on. #booksky

They: Hi! Through our unhallowed ransacking of the world's knowledge, your computer can now talk to the dead. Me: Can it talk to my printer yet? They: haha no

This is interesting!

30/3/26 - nocturn

My apple orchard in bloom... and rusty old train tracks above it! This is my first time doing tracks on an aerial embroidery and I'm pretty happy with the effect; the flowering trees were a chore but I'm happy with them too! The last element to add is the allotment to the left 🥕🥬🌱 #landscape

Old McDonald had a farm On the feast of Stephen And on that farm he had a cow Deep and crisp and even

Its curious square markings explain several of its various names: fritillus is Latin for the dice-box, which in its turn has been named from a chess or chequer-board. #gardening