#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Various...

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment This caught my eye on the way home from the allotment, happily growing against a wall, a bouqeut of grass. Though not sure what type...

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment More Field Woundwort growing amid the recently pruned grapevines..

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Henbit Deadnettle...

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment The solitary henbit deadnettle plant in the morning frost/dew...

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Borage now fading, leaves turning brown, but the few blossoms still vibrant and full of colour...

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Field Woundwort plus shed...

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Lots of Speedwell...

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Plant ID says Thale Cress..

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Not sure about this, plant ID says stickwort..

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Black Nightshade surviving within the shelter of a tree trunk the flowers now having turned to berries.

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment The two blossoms on the corn marigold plant that appeared last week still happily blooming...

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Feverfew still looking as fresh as a daisy...

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment EVening Primrose still standing...

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment This small wild radish plant still managing to survive the winter...

The wiggly thing on his face? Nsimba is still working it out. It flops. It swings. Sometimes it cooperates. Mostly it doesn't. His mum Naipoki fell into a well twice as an infant. We raised her – and now she's brought her baby to meet us. sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/n...

An end of the year allotment robin to cheer the day...

He got his instructions...

An end of the year allotment robin to cheer the day...

I offer this one to the crowd... Can anyone have a guess at this irish place name written on the UK 1871 census? Could be a township, a village or a town. Any clues gratefully received :-)

2025: a year in political cartoons – from a Bond-villain Trump to a toppled prince | Martin Rowson, Ella Baron, Nicola Jennings and Ben Jennings

If this got more views on YouTube than the actual show, it would make my year. youtu.be/Y54OJC0FtCs

South Park called it, and it’s hilarious. One of the creators purchased the Trump Kennedy Center URL address before the name was even changed because they know Trump’s narcissism is in the driver’s seat.

✨✨Seasons Greetings!✨✨ Here’s a selection of my favourite ancient Egyptian blue hippos seen on my travels. Now where’s William? 🦛❤️ 📷 by me #Archaeology

Good for him! South Park’ Writer Bought URLs in Advance "He did not tell the outlet how he plans to use the Trump-Kennedy Center sites he purchased, but he did say, “it’ll absolutely reflect the absurdity of the moment. Lots of surprises. Some things are truly hard to parody, though.”"

26th December 2025 08.42

‪Happy Christmas people! Here are some freshly dug parsnips for your dinner. You will have to clean them yourselves. Enjoy your day and forget about all else!

We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years. Christmas is often regarded as a time for goodwill, but one young couple's act of kindness 50 years ago changed their lives forever. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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...

I’ve just discovered #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, where people share the funny/awkward/downright strange sleeping situations they find themselves in while visiting family. While I’m comfortably in my own home this year, when I visit my parents in their teeny retirement cottage, my bed looks like this 🤣

#duvetknowitschristmas at the mother-in-law's, whose late father looks on disapprovingly from the bedside table

Always good to see a fellow cat appear on #DuvetKnowItsChristmas - for any of my friends that haven't seen it before, it's shepherded by @rhodri.biz and sees people sharing pictures of their temporary sleeping arrangements while visiting family or friends on Christmas Eve. It's a delight x

This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.

I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

Parsnips dug up for Christmas Dinner. They are the first seeds sown in the year, February/March and the last crop to be taken out. Nearly ten months in the soil growing. Ten minutes to eat them!

From yesterday’s @financialtimes.com #trump #venezuela

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

😆’I’ve done a whoopsy on the world’

Greenland has announced it will annex the United States, citing humanitarian concerns, chronic leadership instability, and an urgent need to protect valuable land from reckless mismanagement. Officials assured Americans they'll soon enjoy free healthcare, quieter politics, and less gold plating.

Well said... #Greenland

Somehow the presence of Frank Spencer seems just right....

Left: Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a placard in London Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"

A cartoon by Emad Hajjaj 'Santa in Gaza'

Times cartoon by @seamus-jennings.bsky.social

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Times cartoon by @seamus-jennings.bsky.social

Just finished watching Slow Horses on Apple TV, our son having kindly set up a free seven day trial thing....Know am late to it but highly recommend to all! Takes me back to my Graham Greene reading days, and after picking up a 1945 edition of The Power & The Glory this weekend too, happy days!

From Snape, Suffolk with the solstice sun beaming down on the Alde river... I wish you, my valued followers, peace, joy and love this festive season.

Some paintings from my youth.