I hope tomorrow night you are all blessed by the New Year Good Luck Lemon Piglet ❤️...

I need to show you this nativity scene from the Church of San Geremia e Lucia in Venice.

Hate freeloaders who join in the New Year's Eve countdown for the last 10 seconds. I've been doing this all year. Where were you back in May

A slideshow of my Dartmoor photos taken this year, thanks for watching along through the seasons. Music by Steve, bird sounds recorded on the moor and in my garden. #Dartmoor #Devon #photography

Whitby Harbour Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, 1885-90

I could not love this transport poster more.

Went to Mattingley church today with @claudiusme.bsky.social. It’s Grade I listed and timber-framed and very lovely. Locked, though, so we’ll have to go back.

The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water getting desperate in his methods...

Now with non-Substack link davidallengreen.com/2025/12/jane...

Today, thoughts inevitably turn to a man whose life and death will always be associated with this time of year – a man whose purity of heart and good works alike contain, I think, the true spirit of the season.

For your holiday ambiance, I've made a hypnotic yule log fireplace with ultra slow motion macro footage of flames stretching & warping like liquid as fire reacts with calcium chloride & barium. This is real fire I filmed, not CGI or AI. 10hrs, 4K, crackling sounds, no music, no ads. Happy holidays!

Werner Bischof 'Courtyard of the Meiji shrine'. Tokyo. Japan. 1951. © Werner Bischof | Magnum Photos

I only got one book this year (so far) - it’s a good thing, I have books from five Christmases ago I haven’t read yet - anyway it’s a good example of something I wouldn’t know about if not for social media. Looking forward to reading @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social

Carved from stone around 900 years ago, the tenderness and delicacy are astounding. Dream of the Magi Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France by the French master Gislebertus. Happy Christmas.

We spent most of the day making a scale gingerbread model of Jumbo, Colchester city centre’s water tower. Jelly Tots on later. Proper Christmas food can wait!

Page 1 of the notebook in which my mother recorded every Christmas present she gave, and how much it cost, 1957 to 2003 (she died the next month). The recipients included her hairdresser, the milkman, the postman, the paper boy, the dustbin-men and “Tony’s boy” (toffees, 2s. 6d). She did good.

Apparently this is ‘Brussly’, the tutelary spirit/personification of Brussels Sprouts

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Twas the night before Christmas, and throughout the land The sleeping arrangements were carefully planned Down in the kitchen, a picturesque scene A mattress, a pillow, a washing machine

Merry Christmas, Internet Friends! Best wishes from me. And from Lou Reed and John Cale, in the very best Christmas picture ever.

Edward Hopper, Christmas card, 1928 whitney.org/collection/w...

Annual reminder that the Pee-Wee Herman Christmas Special is a tribute to late-80s gay culture that also contains KD Lang singing "Jingle Bell Rock" with such force and velocity that she threatens to rupture the fabric of space-time

I bought some cardigans in the Seasalt sale, they just arrived, Ollie says he thinks I have 'too many' cardigans? Not sure what this means tbh? Too many cardigans? How could that be?

✨🎄 Christmas Star Rise 🎄✨ ☆ Seasonal Yuletide greetings! Enjoy the festivities ☆

"Scrooge," Marley said, "you will be visited by three goats." "What the fuck?" "I'm sure that was the message. Goats. Three of them. The first when the clock strikes midnight." "What the hell am I supposed to do with ruminants?" But Marley simply faded until he was before Scrooge no more.

I shared this last year (and previously on the Twitters) but here it is again. I read it aloud at the Farnham Folklore open mic thing the other week and it seemed ot go down okay. A spooky Christmas story from the #Hookland universe. medium.com/@Muninnherse...

This got me through a couple of Christmases Past and it's great that it's transferred to Bluesky. #JoinIn

"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending My popular seasonal post from last year: emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni... Now with a couple of footnotes one year on: emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...

Incredible, read the whole thread

Blimey. That's been a year of work. Last newspapers of 2025 are off to print. I spent the year selling advertising in them. We increased our page count, sold enough ads not to go under AND brought our communities thousands of news stories in print and online. Ask me anything about local newspapers

Winter, Taw valley, Dartmoor A combination of multiple exposures, intentional movement and winter colours at dusk in the Taw valley on northern Dartmoor. #landscape #photography #icm #winter

Another lichen college. On lakeside rock, Northwest Territories, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Happy Birthday @theguyliner.bsky.social! I hope you're doing something lovely. In a place where you can just sit down if you need to, and where it isn't too loud. 💐🎂🥳 #It'sFuntobeFifty,Honest

Iconic performer Leigh Bowery in a Christmas card photo, c. 1986

Thinking of the actor Ernest Thesiger, who, when asked what it had been like in the trenches of World War One, replied "my dear, the noise! And the PEOPLE!"

Mary and Joseph praying over Jesus in the manger, or TWO T. REXES FIGHTING OVER A TABLE SAW? Once seen, cannot be unseen.

Continuing the #VinylProject and Today I Learned that the woman on the cover of Phantasmagoria is Susie Bick, the future Mrs Nick Cave.

Taken in a hurry but sometimes you only need one shot. The light in the rain outside London Bridge station yesterday evening. #Shardenfreude #ReasonsToLoveLondon

Everyone at work is mad at me because I conjured The Devil

This whole thread! 👌🏻

Happy Solstice everyone. Om nom nom nom nom nom eating the Sun nom nom nom nom

On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.

Barbara Hepworth ~ Winter Solstice, 1971 #WinterSolstice

Today’s the winter solstice so here’s a list of ten wintery films… 10. Scarf-face 9. Casablanket 8. Jurassic Parka 7. Fleece Academy 6. Extra Layer Cake 5. Mittens Impossible 4. Thermals and Louise 3. The Men Who Stare at Coats 2. What’s Heating Gilbert Grape 1. The Snood, the Bad and the Snuggly

#StandingStoneSunday #DailyMegalith Shantemon stone row aka Finn McCool's Fingers, nr #Ballyhaise #CountyCavan #RepublicofIreland (2024) 🏺

Christmas in (a very ancient) Dorset

If you missed out on the Newgrange solstice livestream this morning you can find it here. Really worth it for the authoritative, evocative commentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRgu...

Merry Christmas to the two high vis clad lads sitting in their work van, blasting Wonderful Christmas time & passing a whole huge panettone back & forth, taking bites out of it as if it was a big burger

Incredible effort here