An undisturbed part of Birchwood Forest Park with plenty of new saplings - this is #rewilding right? Just don’t mow it all and trees will seed themselves.

My plan to permanently colour one testicle was diabolical.

Loomer put Kirk on her “list” and this kid decided he’d follow through. Oh well. Let ‘em kill each other.

The more recent Enid Blyton books have been quite dark

Hope is the thing with feathers

Feel like an intense few years are starting. GCSE results tomorrow for my eldest, and significant exam results due almost every year for at least the next four, and if degrees are involved then for a few more after that. 3 kids, who thought that was a good idea?

@jesszafarris.bsky.social @robwords.bsky.social do you have an episode on words that seem to contradict themselves? Just did a crossword which contained “unloose” clue was “free”, but loose is often used to mean free, unloose seems like it has a negative prefix. I guess loose here is like leash?

Had a touching father-son moment a minute ago. Put the lad to bed, read a chapter of a book. “Daddy can I tell you something?” “Of course, what is it?” “If I bounce a ball of that beam, that wall, that bit of the window and back to the beam it makes a loop!” “Ok, goodnight” 🤨

Increase a band: Deep, Core and R.E.M.

Clear summer evenings are the best for bat watching

Genuinely don’t understand why politicians aren’t trying to make us all elites, rather than complaining about elites. “We will invest in education, science and technology to make your children elite!”

From the Dumb Runner Comics Vault:

Had a dream in which I got lost in an English town I had never been in. All the details looked utterly real, from the people at Pride to the Heritage sign for an Iron Age hillfort. This is what our brains do all the time, constructing reality, it’s hard to say that what you think you see is real.

Posts like this serve to remind me how little TV I watch. Not seen more than one or two episodes of any of these, nor most of the ones in the replies, mostly zero episodes. No wonder I do so badly in quiz trivia rounds.

Motherfucking wind farms…

Rate my neighbour’s cat

#runchat #ironman

Every chance that Europe will rapidly start electrifying haulage rapidly when the charging infrastructure reaches a decent level.

"Sales in the world's biggest market for new energy trucks are estimated to have risen 175% year-on-year to 76,100 in the first half of this year, or about a quarter of new truck sales" www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Two of the biggest standing stones in Wales, and me. The taller stone spent some years as the end wall of a cottage, whose builders cut a notch in the stone for a roof beam

Wordle 1,478 2/6* ⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 This took a lot longer than the number of guesses would suggest

Cheese on toast with mustard is the best (I do not mean that flavoured mayonnaise that Americans call mustard) so why haven’t I seen a mustard topping on pizza?

Spot the plover! There is a nesting plover in this photo, the cones are there to stop people walking too near.

Cat bites grass

A neighbour’s cat has just brought us a shrew. I do like cats, but there’s a reason I will never have one. I would much rather have a garden with shrews in it than cats.

Once again we’re generating so much renewable electricity we are exporting more than we are generating from gas. Feels inevitable that in the next few years we will have periods with no gas.

Is he dead yet?

Feels like a map for @irishrainforest.bsky.social, but also look at the state of Wales, Cumbria and Northumberland! Could be so much more rainforest.

#decay #decline #runners #runchat

Lyme Park cattle on my run this morning

Hey @herring1967.bsky.social, how about a boost for a subject close to your heart(?):

We’re exporting more electricity from the GB grid than is being generated by fossil fuels at the moment.

GB grid, I keep seeing figures like this and trying to work out why people claim you can’t run a grid with more than 40% renewables

#hmhb Can always rely on Nigel to shine a light in murky corners of my mind

#murderbot my wife - who is effectively allergic to sci-fi - watched two episodes so far and will watch more when released. Makes me happy.

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But I do not see much thorough joy, but only an indifferent one, in the hearts of people, who are much discontented at the pride and luxury of the Court, and running in debt.

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie The good, the bad, the ugly, the terrible, the mid and the fire

Just watched Mickey 17. Big differences from the book, Mickey 7, and not positive either.

This is a big reason why! bsky.app/profile/jonc...

@motomatters.com question from watching Jake Dixon crash in practice with red sectors on screen. When considering fastest sector times do they count all of that rider’s fastest sector times, or only ones from complete laps?

Loving the GB grid today

Complaint from my daughter about music: this is old music, it’s from like 2020

Might give this game a rest for a little bit, but quite pleased with my stats. My Victordle Stats: 3000 Games played, 1980 Wins, 66% of wins Play Victordle - www.britannica.com/games/victor...

I've reached my silver donor milestone! Register to donate at: my.blood.co.uk/your-account...?

Wordle 1,366 5/6* 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Nearly fell into the valley of death

If cations are attracted to cathodes and anions to anodes, what are onions attracted to?