I got visited by three ghosts last night, who were all experts in English grammar.

Bats and Umbrellas by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1882

For #NationalMonkeyDay 🐒: There are a lot of cute #monkeys in #JapaneseArt but this one may be the cutest 🥰 Kanō Sansetsu (Japan,1589-1651） 猿猴図（えんこうず) Monkey Figure (Enkozu), 17th c. Ink on scroll Tokyo National Museum commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pa...

@robinharford.bsky.social Heard a fascinating podcast “The Mushroom Hour” with you as the interviewee. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... Enjoyed listening to your thoughts on many things and was particularly interested in to hear you had seen Latcho Drom 😀

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Here be pirates 🏴‍☠️. Sunken boat in the canal today. Passed it on the way south earlier this year. #UKCanals moving day

View from the swing bridge: The Three Horseshoes Bourne End. #UKCanals 🤳 moving day

Sunrise this morning at Boxmoor #UKCanals 🤳

Looking Forward 🎨 acrylic on canvas 12x12”

Diego Rivera "Melancholy Promenade", 1904 oil on canvas

In a foolhardy attempt to appease my bank manager, I suppose I should mention that I have some books which may – or may not – make suitable presents for Christmas. They should be available through your local bookshop - and the online ones. Here are what a few of them look like …

Here’s a poem called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.

Looking down towards Warwick at Hatton Locks, first boat through after the lock repairs were finished. 21 locks over 3km. Drop of 45 metres. Originally built in 1799 and widened in 1934. #UKCanals 🤳

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Matthew Wong, The Journey Home (oil on wooden panel (triptych)) (2017)

𝗙𝗔𝗥𝗠𝗘𝗥 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗹𝘂𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻... A FARMER has been ordered to pay £7048 for illegally discharging slurry into a river due to a leaking pipe. www.towpathtalk.co.uk/farmer-fined...

Fascinating stuff: 🍄🌿🧪 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

The entrance to Shrewley Tunnel on the Grand Union. Built in 1799 and 395.9 m With obligatory flying duck (top Left) #UKCanals 🤳

Eduardo Naranjo. Iris, lirio, 1979

きょうごはん。巻きました。業務スーパーの冷凍鮪たたきでねぎトロ、出汁巻き卵焼いてねぎトロ卵巻き。なかなか丸く上手く巻けてHAPPYなので #青空ごはん部 のタグをつけて皆さまにも見ていただきたく。中トマトが4個で298だったので久しぶりにトマト食べた。HAPPY。ごちそうさまでした。

#Lilacbreasted #Roller #photography #nature #outdoors #birdwatching #Botswana #Africa #BirdsSeenIn2025

The pallet compost bins are still evolving - next step is adding a corrugated roof to catch the rain, which we’re never short of here. This morning’s temperatures were encouraging: 50°C, 42°C, and 40°C across the three bays. Everything’s moving in the right direction. #allotment #kitchengarden

‘The Tree’ - #RSThomas (An Acre of Land, Montgomeryshire Printing Co)

I have always enjoyed flower painting and here's a couple of older ones from the '80s, sold a long time ago. These images were scanned from film photos taken by me before they were sold. These would all have been picked from my garden. #art #botanical #stilllife #flowers

🥣RADISH GOBBLING😊 It's time once again to eat up Daihōon-ji's (大報恩寺) blessed daikon for another year of protection against sickness and disease. On December 7th and 8th about 5000 radishes are cooked and 10,000 meals consumed during the 'Radish Boiling Festival' (大根焚 'Daikon-daki'). #大根焚 #daikon

'Sport ohne Ball' #FotoVorschlag

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Bull's head rhyton, Minoan, 1600-1500 BC

Artomyces pyxidatus, the Crown-tipped Coral or Candelabra Coral fungus, was not seen in the UK over the entire 20th century, its last record in 1886 until a spate of recent findings around 2022, which is when I found this specimen (in East Kent). Where did it disappear all this time?

Dutch artist Dirck Jacobsz cleverly creates a double memorial portrait of his deceased mother and father by depicting his artist father painting a portrait of Dirck’s mother. Both parents now gaze at us (1550) Toledo Museum of Art

Mark Grantham (Canadian Artist, born 1966) "February on June Street, Halifax", 2015. Acrylic on Canvas Board, 24" × 18". Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

The serrated peaks of Patagonia's Mount Cerro Torre, one of nature's outstanding sculptures, softly emerge from a veil of clouds, as they are touched by the early morning light. #photography #travel #bluesky #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #mountains

Jeremy Miranda (American, born 1980) December, 2023 Acrylic on board 10 x 12 inches Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Falcon on a Branch https://www.wikiart.org/en/ohara-koson/falcon-on-a-branch

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£6.46 MILLION Secures Restoration of Stroudwater Canal’s ‘Missing Mile’ After 70 Years ⬇ www.towpathtalk.co.uk/6-46-million...

I couldn't resist sharing this beautiful snowy print of Mount Fuji in winter for #LegendaryWednesday. 🎨'Mount Fuji After Snow from Tagonoura Bay' - Kawase Hasui, 1932. #JapaneseArt #shinhanga

📍 Yokohama, Japan 🇯🇵 — Local Time 05:00:08 PM

Namiki Tsunenobu (Japanese, born 1949) "Path of Fresh Green Leaves", 2015. Lacquer, Gold Powder, 116 × 91 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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A #giftlink #giftarticle 🎁 🎨🖌️🖼️10-Minute Challenge: The Two Fridas www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#OTD in 1955, "The Talented Mr. Ripley" is published 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

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Starlings and Cherry Tree https://www.wikiart.org/en/ohara-koson/starlings-and-cherry-tree

White Poplar #Bonsai

Mount Fuji https://www.wikiart.org/en/ohara-koson/mount-fuji