Can Spain please edit him out of the white house?

Y Viva España Argentina deserved losers

Commentator on World Cup final just said “I said to you didn’t I” and I immediately heard Caroline Aherne finishing that sentence with “Roy”

Gatekeeper butterfly visiting ragwort. #WildflowerHour

Carder bee scaling mt purple loosestrife #WildflowerHour

Wild marjoram in the wilds of Thamesmead. #WildflowerHour

Marsh woundwort in the watery wilds of Kidbrooke. #WildflowerHour

‘We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.’ ~ George Eliot, Middlemarch. #BookWormSat 🖼️ Andrey Remnev

Common Blue butterfly on riverbank grasses today.

Sometimes people go all the way into space to recognise how small and insignificant they are but I just post on BlueSky 🛸

Uh oh just discovered the inner workings.

Loved this poem, Aubergines, by Catherine Wilson Garry, in @poetrylondon.bsky.social -Not looking, she asked who I was seeing.-

Azure damselflies today by the water in Cator Park, Kidbrooke. <3

That Gordon goal tho 👌

Love saying this love saying that love saying this and that love saying this or that love saying this that (favourite) It turns up in my poems like a little Easter egg. Recent feedback: “don’t think you need ‘this or that’ there”. Me internally: how dare u.

Tufted duck and tufted duckling today.

If you are pondering the order of things a little girl just walked past my house saying with dramatic pacing and a half tune, one—six—two—five—two—ten—TWO (quite loud ending, might be important).

Rest easy Sam Neill.

🦇 Did you know brown long-eared bats love perching in their favourite spot and eat moths? They are not so keen on the wings though... This photo, taken by Mike Mullis, is a collection of moth wings left by a brown long-eared bat from underneath its feeding roosts in his barn in East Sussex (cont)

In the space of five minutes I saw all these winged critters on a patch of creeping thistle by a stream. #WildflowerHour #Pollinators #Insects #bees #butterflies

Well I’ve spent the whole of #NorEng drawing the three English lions on a tote bag, time well spent even if we don’t win

This bee’s eyes be(e) like 🥺

I have a #poem accepted for #UndertheRadar mag @ninearchespress.bsky.social for the Autumn issue and you should definitely check out this #poetry mag which has been gorgeous for like forever now.

*cannot abide the I will openly state I am shocked about particular murders to reassure people I am leftwing yet decent trend* PS I see the police are still a bit crap.

Loved this episode of Escape to the Country.

Catch Billy Ramsell reading alongside @mollytwomey.bsky.social and @deanbrowne.bsky.social at a @westcorkmusic.bsky.social coffee & chat event on Saturday morning – a phenomenal lineup of poets! ☕️ www.westcorkmusic.ie/literary-fes...

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. - Mark Twain

"(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)" #TodaysPoem #poetry [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] by e.e. cummings in Complete Poems: 1904-1962 (1980 @liveright.bsky.social)

A lady on the bus today was simultaneously very kind and slightly insulting to me. She offered me her little portable fan and said, “I noticed you are sweating a lot”.

Jersey tiger moth was trying to fly through our (unopenable!) kitchen window earlier. Managed to direct him to freedom through the door. We get a lot of these around the SE London / Kent area but usually see them with only the stripy forewings on show when they are resting on leaves and bus stops.

The older I get the more I understand why cats just walk away mid conversation.

We've all lost our poetic voice and then one day...

Marbled White on an ox-eye daisy #wildflowerhour

Perennial pea with bee 🐝 on the edges of a very old cottage which was given a church exterior in the 18th Century and now long vacant remains wedged between a Halfords and a busy roundabout. #WildflowerHour

Essex skipper butterfly on lesser knapweed in a parched meadow.

Rosebay willowherb aka fireweed for #WildfloweHour

Yellow sweet clover for #WildflowerHour

Creeping restharrow in a car park for #WildflowerHour

Purple loosestrife by river today #WildflowerHour

Got to the last ep of #Hacks and had to pause halfway, was not sure I was up to it. Eventually braved the rest with emergency chocolate in hand. good god you two.

One thing I know for certainish with poetry is that if I stop trying to write about *the thing* and immerse myself in virtually anything separate to *the thing* then go to write about the separate thing and whoops oh lord I’ll have written about *the thing*. #things #poetry

Sometimes if I have had no response to a few poetry submissions for a long time I wonder if I am a ghostie. If you’re ghostied it’s like being ghosted except more cute.

Gatekeeper butterfly in an alleyway, gatekeepers everywhere innit tho writers.

This is Harley. She's never rolled down a hill before, but she's super proud of her first attempt. 13/10 nailed it (TT: jesskoselke)

Had to walk up a little road I never have reason to go up anymore just because the magnificence of this pink was beckoning me. It’s outside the hall I used to take my kids to preschool gym and singsong and numerous wild primary school parties. Am I becoming a hydrangea fan or do I just love #pink

Pinch Punch First day of the Christmas season today according to Caffè Nero.

Last night I missed the moon and tonight I couldn’t focus on it except for a split second from a bedroom window. Then as I left the room some ancient stars on the ceiling caught my eye with planet lampshade just visible.

Birthday of Czeslaw Milosz today. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49457/...