I am very sad about this. James Munby was not just clever and driven, he was also funny and kind.

Took me right back to these beauties photographed in 2019, the first just south of Moretonhampstead, the second a few miles further south towards North Bovey, and such a green velvet turf to walk on. Was spoiled for holloways that day #dartmoor #devon

Share your photos of cats, dogs, rabbits, etc watching #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK #TheTraitorsUK

Ozzy's glued to The Traitors

So smart

That sound you hear is hundreds of Blueskiers looking at this photo and saying, “Biiiiiiiiig stretch”…

Stretching after a good long sleep on my desk

A fiery sunrise over Elterwater in the Lake District on the last day of 2025. 💕 #Elterwater #LakeDistrict 📷 Courtesy of Verity Milligan @veritymilligan.bsky.social

A wider view of the lovely surroundings at Elterwater #LakeDistrict #landscapephotography #photography

Watching snow for the first time

There was one year during my time at Keble (Oct 1973-June 1977) when we made a snowman on the Liddon Quad. In June.

Finally snowing in Oxford - Queen's Lane.

Dusk

Refrigerate!

My niece in Stonehaven, near Aberdeen, has made a snow dalek that's featured in the Aberdeen Press and Journal. #proudaunt

Uniqlo's merino tops are a real godsend in this weather. I am completely encased in layers of wool.

Rising over the dunes behind Crosby beach, yesterday’s super moon, at first gold then silver as it rose higher above the shoulders of an iron man and a cold clear evening. #IronMenCrosby

Choices were made. Consequences were discovered.

If this is the entry requirement for Oxford, then I’m coming.

portrait vs landscape!

Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.

4th January 2026 08.44

Elegant

Hampstead Heath and Hampstead Church from Highgate

Ozzy celebrates the return of his staff with a light mauling

Sorry, I'd like to help with cleaning up but there's a tiny cat asleep on my foot.

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @magdalenoxford.bsky.social It was founded in 1458 by William of Waynflete, then Bishop of Winchester "Mrs Cass asked me to send you this with her love - also the Cromer one" If you like this image, please repost it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

I’ll see yall next year ✨

Approaching Kumano Hongu Taisha Grand Shrine. The tallest torii gate in Japan can be seen in the distance.

Well, it’s Christmas Day, so it must be time to talk about Jesus – specifically, about how on this day 1,225 years ago, Charlemagne, who was in Rome to be crowned Carolingian Emperor, presented Pope Leo III with the very holiest of relics: the Foreskin of Our Lord 🧵

Merry Christmas from Ozzy in his basin (Picture by Sophie Fischer)

Happy Christmas everyone! 🎁 🌲 And it's just ONE week to New Kitten Day, when we're joined by this little one. She's busy unwrapping her presents now.

Good morning Bkuesky & Happy Christmas from me & Beans! I hope you all have a lovely day however you're spending it. For those of you who could do with some company, remember #JoinIn is running, look for the 'Join In on Christmas Day' feed and use hashtag. 🎄☃️🎄☃️🎄☃️🎄☃️🎄☃️🎄☃️

🎶 Koi to the world 📯

Merry Christmas from Obi Castle Town, Miyazaki

Crisis averted! I've opened my @magdalenoxford.bsky.social Christmas present early and my sneaky suspicion about its possible contents has been proved correct! Thank you @dinahrose.bsky.social ❤️🍾❤️ Christmas is saved! Floreat Magdalena!

“Pray tell, the Baron, what sort of gentleman is he?” “Well…”

We're visiting our daughter @lsdandkizuki.bsky.social in Miyazaki, Japan. Here's a man playing the flute by the sea at Aoshima shrine (sound on).

I missed #Caturday but this cat belongs on your timeline regardless of the day!

Since everything is awful and it’s nearly Christmas, who’d like some pictures of ship’s cats? Don’t worry dog lovers, a canine thread’s coming soon! Let’s start with Tiddles, sitting in his favourite spot on the carrier HMS Victorious in 1943 (he liked playing with the bell rope) 📷 IWM A 10646 🧵1/17

And a happy solstice to all. 8,500 at Stonehenge to see the light return.

Socrates: So you would hold that for everything that exists there is one true and perfect idea of it? Even cats? Plato: <gestures emphatically at Ozzy>

The Magdalen College deer are back in their winter quarters on higher ground, away from any flood risk. The white buck is surveying his domain.

If current trends continue........

Ozzy so wide now (Comparison pictures by Sophie Fischer)

I've got no idea whether this will be any good... but it was filmed at Magdalen in the summer of 2024, and the College looks ravishing in this trailer. youtu.be/R-NEi8tRC8Q

EDITOR: "Get me some wildlife experts NOW for a trajectory opinion quote - and have we heard back from that glazier?"

There is always something pleasingly ghostly about encountering a heron, as if they are constantly passing surreptitiously between dimensions and we aren't officially supposed to see them.