Oriental Poppy … flowering triggered by the overnight rain ?

Yorkshire Insect splatter … more food for breeding birds than ‘down South’

What a brilliant way to brighten up a grimy underpass #E12 #RodingValleyWay #Aldersbrook @riverroding.bsky.social

Maybe no platform will quite have the impact of the pre-Musk Twitter ever again. Sorry Threads and BlueSky though you’re nicer places and preferable to X … you feel rather inconsequential

Make sense... and make fun, that is Please do repost if you can

Went to Rainham Marshes but this was the most interesting thing I saw ….

For all the Faces fans out there

Great Yarmouth is dominating the news tonight … a holiday town that saw its peak in the 1960’s now the HQ of a spy ring and the constituency of a belligerent Reform MP

Daffodil Density Delivered

Crocuses seeking the Sun

Lots of Harry Potter lookie likies at Primary Schools throughout the country on this #WorldBookDay while JK Rowling’s yacht is moored in St Helier marina

Spring has Sprung … eventually

Any reason why Jeff Goldblum played piano with only his right hand ?

William Morris didn’t travel much but did visit Iceland … a distraction after he found out his friend Rossetti was having an affair with his wife #WilliamMorrisGallery

FFS … stop making loud phone calls on the train !!

Finally Stella Goes To ILFORD

🎶 Full Moon You Saw Me Standing Alone, Without A Dream In My Heart Without A Love Of My Own 🎶

Bob the White Cheeked Turaco who used to frequent Wanstead Park and the grounds at St Gabriel’s Church. Could do with his splash of colour in these dreich times

Edward VIII Post Box - must have been cast and positioned in 1936

On a grey day … memories of Ecuador

Just a walk in the Winter sun …

Sharon Osbourne - no more dieting please

This week 16 years ago (2nd Feb 2009) - near Valentine’s Park (which sadly remained closed)

Thinking of this amazing place and all who live there (mostly evacuated now !)

Westminster Abbey near midnight

Silver Studded Blue Butterflies Female (no blue upper side) & Male - Buxton Heath in July

Off road gem near Ongar Essex in sunnier, warmer times

The sky may have been grey in London today but the male kingfisher on the south side of Walthamstow Wetlands brightened up many peoples day. #LondonBirds #nature #wildlife #kingfisher #kingfishers #ukbird #birds #walthamstow #eastlondon #ornithology #LondonBirds #lowcarbonbirding #London

Redpoll near Tea Hut #WansteadPark

Stonechat on a cold, frosty morning #WansteadFlats

Memories of those news bulletins in the time of the Troubles … who’d have expected there was any interaction between Catholics & Protestants let alone a love affair. To paraphrase Max Porter ‘Absolutely loved it too’ @louisekennedy.bsky.social

The #ADHD song - when can we have Rob Corcoran & The Necessary Evils back at the @thewansteadtap.bsky.social please

According to the Express, magpies are "hooligans" & "instinctive killers" best controlled by using pesticides to kill their insect prey. Against stiff competition, possibly the worst piece of journalism I've seen. www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1984...

Marsh Fritillary - Portugal April 2024

R/V Kinfish our home during the most amazing week in Svalbard #NaturalWorldSafaris

Tiger Scratch Post Bhandhavgarh April 2023

Finally got to the top of my TBR pile … hilarious romp through Westminster over the last 10 years through the eyes of Herbie … and an illuminating expose of the personalities that ran the country. Thank you @mrjohncrace.bsky.social

Why am I not even a bit surprised that both Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are private landlords? Parasites, the pair of them, plus the other 85 MPs who are private landlords, particularly Jas Athwal, the vile Labour MP for Ilford South ... www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Someone's just thrown a bottle of Omega 3 tablets at me. I only received super fish oil injuries, but still.

I just found out that around 20% of the neanderthal genome still exists today in living people!! No individual person has more than 3 or 4% but we don't all have the same bits. If you add up all the bits we've found, about a fifth of the Neanderthal genome is still present on earth today.

Bike ride into London ‘cos it’s ‘warmer’ - stunningly clear bright winter’s day. Never seen Westminster so busy …. with lobbyists and tourists !

Great evening @mrjohncrace.bsky.social & @jessicaelgot.bsky.social at the Wanstead Tap. Thanks both and let’s get Dan on here too

Sunnier times in August - the Secret Nuclear Bunker off road sportive

Wet visit to Wanstead Park … looks like the Red Crested Pochard has departed. The flyer (bottom left) is warning about Oak Processionary Moths

Royal London Hospital Heli-Pad

Chestnut Crowned Ant Pitta - one of 9 species we saw in Ecuador November 2022

Lesser Kestrel Tarifa April 2023

Seychelles Paradise Flycatcher, La Digue, 2024