Wish you were here because I still love you.

You know I love your ham sandwiches.

With reports of a clear sky today, we feel it is time to show Edward IV’s rose noble with a sun in splendour in the centre. Image from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Mr. Bland sitting with me, talking of my Lord Windsor’s being come home from Jamaica, unlooked-for; which makes us think that these young Lords are not fit to do any service abroad.

“There are some leaps which you must take in the dark, if you mean to jump at all. ... [A] very wise man should declare to himself that with no possible amount of hesitation could certainty be achieved.” Anthony Trollope, RALPH THE HEIR, 1871. #booksky

Lots of Hippies & Layabouts in Ryde. Why not join us?

Wuthering Heights (2026)

We might be going to the Sound of Music, we got our anoraks at British Home Stores.

I've read a couple of biographies lately in which the writer's uncritical admiration for the subject backfires. A refusal to concede any faults or failings causes the reader to resist the biographer's interpretation. (However, I want my own biographer to be uncritically admiring of me.) #booksky

“[H]is doughy hands gave no impression of having done anything before: now we are going to see how this file opens; now we are going to address ourselves to this strange object called a pencil.” John le Carré, THE SECRET PILGRIM, 1990. #booksky

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

I kiss you.

Emma Haworth, contemporary London-based painter known for her observations of the streets and parks, with a hint of otherworldliness #womensart

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WaterBirds and the alt theme is #blue. Portrait of a Great Blue Heron #GreatBlueHeron #Birds

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Reading John le Carré's the Russia House (1989) and having a mixed reaction. It's full of compelling details about life in the USSR during glasnost, and it's cleverly told. But as usual with le Carré, his half-worshipful, half-contemptuous attitude toward women gets in the way. #booksky

“It was a new idea to me – outside the pages of Victorian fiction, that is – that women would get married for money, security, and position; I had thought it was always for love.” Ruth Rendell (writing as Barbara Vine), A DARK-ADAPTED EYE, 1986. #booksky

Black Necked Stork, last week. Beautiful birds these.

Roman mosaic of a victorious charioteer called Marcianus depicted commanding a quadriga (a four-horse chariot), 4th century AD, National Museum of Roman Art, Mérida. Credit: Carole Raddato #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology #MosaicMonday

One day closer to It happening.

I have saw lots of bunny rabbits.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #posted - a bird on a post or fence. Here's a Red-tailed Hawk on a fence. #Birds #Red-tailedHawk

#StandingStoneSunday The Standing Stones of Torhouse (also Torhousekie) are a stone circle of nineteen granite boulders on the land of Torhouse, three miles west of Wigtown, Scotland.

The Merry Maidens #StandingStoneSunday

Coastal Foam, 2019 by US painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt

My 14 hand strawberry roan rolls round like a ship in a heavy swell.

I hope you are feeling better. Sorry about that little upset but you will be glad to know very little was mentioned about it when we arrived home.

I'm choosing some socks for you in a minute after a quick one with Nora at the Caledonian Hotel.

Only one dame in Torquay and she is going with some body.

Very disappointed I can't find a fish & chip shop anywhere.

“Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.” - Dorothy Parker U.S poet, writer, critic, and satirist #womensart

And so to a bookseller’s in the Strand, and there bought Hudibras again, it being certainly some ill humour to be so against that which all the world cries up to be the example of wit; for which I am resolved once again to read him, and see whether I can find it or no.

Not exactly sure why this is ironic.

“[T]he world about us is a living poem, and everyone has the power to make life a living poem or else a dead letter.” Anna Leonowens, in a letter to her daughter, 1880 (quoted by Susan Morgan in BOMBAY ANNA: THE REAL STORY AND REMARKABLE ADVENTURES OF THE KING AND I GOVERNESS, 2008).

I'M WRITING THIS FAIRLY BIG BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE HARD OF HEARING.

Vendel Helmet 1. Iron helmet with bronze fittings from a boat grave in Vendel, Uppland, Sweden, c. 550–793 AD. 📷 Swedish History Museum samlingar.shm.se/object/F0DD4... #Archaeology

It all looks very nice but actually it is the worst spot in the British Isles. Stinks.

Recommendation: Anything by Ruth Rendell (also writing as Barbara Vine). Most of her books are murder mysteries, but the label doesn't do them justice. Taken as a whole, they're a complex, compassionate, absorbing portrayal of British society from ~1965 to the early 21st century. #booksky

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections. #birds #GreatEgret

Sveinn Forkbeard, king of the Danes and the English, died at Gainesburg (Gainsborough, Lincolnshire) #OTD in 1014, and was buried at York. Later legend would hold that he was slain by the vengeful spirit of St Edmund. 📸Nationalmuseet #medievalsky

I am going to be a bridesmaid.

We girls now know something you've always wanted to know - the length of Pete's legs.

“[F}or many years she evaded marriage, just as her parents had feared, by persisting in an arm’s-length semi-engagement to Sam Blackwell, a rather unsatisfactory ironmaster from Dudley.” Ruth Brandon, GOVERNESS: THE LIVES AND TIMES OF THE REAL JANE EYRES, 2008. #booksky #novelinasentence

Recommendation: THE TRAGEDY OF TRUE CRIME (John J. Lennon, 2025). Lennon combines research and analysis with personal experience to provide an intimate look at conditions in America's vast penal system, along with a critique of the way true-crime narratives are constructed and consumed. #booksky

'Lakeside Puddles' linocut created by printmaker Alexandra Buckle #WomensArt

Then I thought of you on Sunday & finished the bottle.

Ever blow-dried a labrador?

Short Poem of the Day 📝 A thin line between life and death. There is another world, called love and hate. Love wins over death and life hates death. Rainy Sarmistha

'February' by Ruby Silvious, visual artist and graphic designer, whose recent work includes experimenting on recycled and found materials, including tea-bag paper as here #WomensArt

‘Greenhouse, Garden and Washing Line’ by artist Pamela Grace #WomensArt #Sunday