Monday faces. (Click to open for the full OH NO)

The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh from the outside looks grey, massive, imposing, serious, weighty, old-fashioned. Inside: amazing. It’s like all the major London museums rolled into one, and part of it looks like THIS:

A Bit Of Edinburgh At Night

Multigenerational visit to WRNTDP @warringtonruncorn.com in Edinburgh tonight. Youngest son approves. My work is done :)

See Britain by Train, etc

Still flowering on the allotments

Farbe über dem Wattenmeer. 🌊 Colour above the Wadden Sea.  #eastcoastkin #stunday #blueskymonday

Low tide by the 'Bay of Deception'. The munro 'Liathach' behind.

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Before watching @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social at the Barbican tonight (vg) I had a few peaceful minutes outside with the night-time fountains and lighted windows in the towers (also vg)

A Kestrel hunting over Venus Pool nature reserve. #ShropshireBirding

Refilling the feeder? Can we help?

This is good

Another of a misty sunrise wide angle image at the bottom of my garden this morning. Love the Autumnal hues in this, really starting to feel it out there in the mornings. Details in the first comment. #doubleframe #photography #landscapephotography #autumn #scape

I am quite late to Fisk, but I have really enjoyed it. More of this kind of thing please, TV-making people.

@levparikian.bsky.social Enjoyed Listers thanks to your tipoff. A) very funny B) US has amazing birds C) ⬇️

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Last airshow of the year a few miles away just ended and these three flew low and slow in a final pass, close enough for this from the window.

Indifferent Landscapes A solitary tree, probably a hawthorn, clings on to life on a ridge in northern Dartmoor. It has no business surviving here but still....it persists #landscape #indifferent #persist

October. Time for firework chrysanthemums. A visual kaboom

The pleasure of having finally started to paint that wall, swiftly followed by the disappointing understanding that it’s going to take three coats

Night heron, Leiden

@metoffice.gov.uk @pennyend.bsky.social

Swallowtail. Ria Formosa, Portugal. #butterfly #Naturephotography #Wildlifephotography #Naturelovers

Two (2) bits of new music have made me laugh recently. The Divine Comedy about Mar-a-L*go (“How I miss the golden johns in which I pissed”) and Half Man Half Biscuit about Record Store Day (“I do like to re-release my B-sides, I do like an overpriced LP”)

At the famous 'Kippford Leaning Tree' that won Woodland Trust's UK Tree of the Year competition in 2021. The Hawthorn is thought to be 60-100 years old & survives harsh weather on the Solway Firth shoreline here in Scotland.

Field walking. I assume this fork of lightning path is a deer path from when the crop was high. I like the way it leads to the shadow in the wall of the wood where a way in lies. The Cambridge to Liverpool Street line rattles under the this wood. The wood itself has a hillfort hidden in the trees.

Monet transformed late summer and early autumn into a living clock. Look at the magic as light fades, colors deepen, and moods shift. Through wheat stacks and poplars, he shows a season doesn't simply end—it dissolves. 🧵👇 #artbots #monet

@levparikian.bsky.social Lev do you know about this? Seems to be in the middle of your Venn www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/cla...

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘September’ Shell Nature Studies, 1956 Artist: Rowland Hilder and Maurice Wilson

Last bit of Equinox sunshine

It is the finding-the-blankets-cold evening that was waiting to arrive all week

Bit of colour for your timeline. The hashtag below has loads more of it 8-9pm on Sundays

Lots of things to like inside the Courtauld Gallery and the staircase is definitely one of them.

Guildhall, thanks to Open House London. Been coming here since I was a child and today’s visit brought back a lot of memories of my father.

Drapers’ Hall, thanks to Open House London. Extraordinary place. Friendly people inside.

@grindrod.bsky.social Did you know there’s a free exhibition at the Guildhall Library at the moment about the history of London architecture? Stumbled on it today

The stuff @jim.londoncentric.media is writing about London at @londoncentric.media is usually interesting and sometimes hair-raising. Like London, really. See below for why it’s a different approach to journalism. And it sounds like a community is forming around it too. I’ve subscribed

It is warm enough to sit outside in the last drop of sunshine after work with a really quite stiff G&T and start listening to today’s new music from the Divine Comedy and Four Tet. Not all entirely terrible.

Made it to morning AGAIN

Not sure if it classes as a good deed of the day or not, but I just asked a bloke in a really sharp suit standing in front of me in the queue at the service station whether he knew that he was wearing a pair of plastic Adidas sliders: and given the way he repeatedly swore, I suspect he had not.

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This week's theme was The Backs of Houses. Hope you enjoyed it. Take a look at the timeline over the last week for full details of these and the rest of the featured pieces.

The Highgate end of Hampstead Heath, where you can see the weather approaching if you’re not among the trees.

Inside Lincoln’s Inn, thanks to Open House London

Hei hei from the Hvalross in Vardø, a fish port on a butterfly-shaped island in the Barents Sea, starting point for the #Schengen200 adventure. Schengen is 40 in 2025 and we’re attempting the longest point-to-point journey within it, by public transport, in about 200 hours. bsky.app/profile/poli...

This is lovely. Weeding - sorry, scouring - the White Horse of Uffington

Halnaker tree tunnel — perfect in every season. 📷 Graham Smith

Slack pylon cables. Star Wars in the wind (Sound up)

On the Archive bit of iPlayer, “Signs of the Times” is a collection of programmes from 1992 of people talking about their homes and their possessions (and so talking a lot about themselves). www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...