Race to rescue London's rare hairy snail. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Friend is not well. Coughing and spluttering really badly. He lives in a flat with an intercom. So I go to see him and when he answers I make a scary voice and pretend to be Pestilence and Death. Just as he buzzes me in I hear him collapse on the floor in a coughing fit. I'm a good friend!

I saw my very first #hummingbirdmoth in our garden. I had my camera; focused on the shot; finger ready on the button! And before I even had a fraction of a second to press down, Mila, our neighbour #cat from next door, threw herself over our 6 foot fence, bounced on the grass and ate it! #scotland

Why is it that when you show something to your wife she says she doesn't like it. But when a woman shows her the very same thing, she says she loves it and buys it?!

A reminder to anyone interested in #brains #birds or behaviour, our new book is available for FREE as an ebook in addition to print copies. #neuroethology #neuroskyence #ornithology 🧪🧠🪶 direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

New uses for AI in medicine. It can decide who is least likely to survive an operation and therefore refuse it or which patient is less likely to complain if it's cancelled or appointments are postponed. Aah, the future.

Wow! Just checked my weight today. 13 stone 7 pounds! I have lost more than 3 stone! Can't be happier!

Pheasants are beautiful birds and I love them to bits. But I wish they were just a smidgen better at deciding what to do when a car approaches. Go left or go right. Pick one one! But don't run in front of the car either! #pheasants #scotland #silly #birds

Aphantasia is not a disability! The absence of mental imagery is not the absence of imagination. To think in dialogue is to reason, question and understand and requires a larger vocabulary. Conceptual memory recalls truths, patterns and meaning. Our minds tend to be quieter, sharper and focused.

Give Me A Doctor W.H. Auden #cancer #poetry #doctors #life

'The Charge of the Light Brigade' Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

Cats are cats, like we needed reminding. #Caturday

dude i love cats. look at this

Woke up this morning, barely, with the thought,"I'm still 372 tired!"

We're here to be friends and support each other, aren't we? Why would people not want to follow one another? If you follow me, I will follow you. If you support me, I will support you. This is the way it should be. Repost if you agree! #art #painting #friends Enjoy my painting TREE OF COLORS

Two crows in kilts having a natter next to a loch and the beautiful Scottish hills! #scotland #crows #kilts #lochs

Taking the bin out, I saw this bright yellow #slug. We get loads around here. But you rarely see one that has just pooped! The hole on its side is where slugs both breathe and poop! And the long brown pellet on the ground is its poop!

Lovely dog photo portrait I did for someone I met on a short holiday.

Some Scottish garnets I've found on the beach. I know it sounds like,"oh there's a pile of garnets!" But it wasn't like that. I sat on the beach and picked through the sand for ages for them. They're not big but have a lovely colour!

Brilliant card games I found! Butts and farts! #butts #farts #cardgames

I saw this button. It is big and red and near a fire exit and alarmed and the picture above shows me pressing it and running away! It's actually telling me to do it!!

Did you know that the whole world can access the UK's NHS Inform website and make full use of its amazing resources? This link provides access to self help guides for lots of mental health issues. Download the PDFs or complete them online. www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-an... #mentalhealth

I was thrilled and so humbled to be part of a small number of people to hear the talented quartet, Scottish Ensemble, at #maggieslanarkshire #cancercarecentre I wish to thank them for supporting Maggie's, patients, families and medical professionals.

#BirdOfTheDay theme today is #Heron - I think this may be a tricolor heron, though i don't see any of the reddish color at the base of its neck... taken in Florida @alan678.bsky.social #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #fly

Grapefruit 😇 #art #oilpainting

I'm reading that some people don't know how the aurora borealis and australis work. It's really simples! Our sun chomps down on an extraterrestrial comet or some funky tasting meteor, gets a bit of an upset tummy and BOOM! Sun Farts!

Question! Do you read a book once and then get rid of it? Do you read a book many times and keep buying more books? Do you also love non-fiction reference books? Do you need more shelves and bookcases?

In WWI, 1916, a severely wounded Indian sepoy was carried for miles by a Scottish Highlander and a German prisoner under a flag of truce. The enemy, moved by the act, ceased fire, allowing them to reach a British aid post. This shared humanity briefly silenced the guns.

Over 4 million non-white soldiers & laborers mobilised during WWI, fighting and working on a global scale. From the Indian Sepoys on the Western Front to the Senegalese Tirailleurs & the Chinese Labor Corps, the war was won through the immense overlooked contributions of people from across the world

World War I 1914 to 1918 Few people know the staggering amount of soldiers to die in the trenches. It's estimated that about 3 million died in the trenches. Mountains of bodies thickly covered the miles of muddy land. To advance, they had to crawl and walk over their fellow soldiers.

A friend's very distinguished, tuxedo cat with a neck tie! She looks so soft, so cuddly, like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. And she'll curl up beside you and purr away letting you clap her, looking at you with so much love! Aawww! Then, without warning ... Aaarrgh!

Recovering from poor mental health is awful. You know 'how' to do things. You just can't get your body to cooperate. Here's my second watercolour. Popped in to a beautiful hotel, The Inn in the Lake, Ullswater in the Lake District, UK, for a cuppa. I need to get a finer liner, I think.

My wife, very kindly has supported me through a terrible mental breakdown and has just bought me a beautiful, small water colour set and has encouraged me to try to paint again. The very small pad has made it feel manageable. Scary still. Writing this and posting it, my stomach churns.

So, I had a really bad total mental breakdown 14 years ago. You would never know by looking at me, I know. But I have had to relearn a lot of things. Including how to hold a pen, brush, write and draw. I will be posting my terrible work as I relearn how. Please be kind! Pretty please!

Just a few of the Peperami Adverts from the 90s and 00s. Hilarious fun! share.google/KdhrgDmDgsMK...

Peperami It's a bit of an animal! I loved these adverts!

Anti vaxxer would rather die than have their child take a vaccine that they took safely as a child! Or rather, they'd rather their child did!

Did you know that your skeleton is a living tissue? So every 7 to 10 years your skeleton is completely new!

The Skuiff o' Autumn A quirky Scots poem about Autumn!

Childhood Memories Age 6 or 7 Early 80s Council flat, no carpets, coal fire, no fridge/ freezer, no TV, very basic food & my mum begs her parents for £500 and buys herself a fur coat! I have a 2nd hand bed and clothes, some paper and a few pencils though!

Does anyone ever get an itch at the back of their head and feel like scratching it with their foot like a cat or a dog?

The Sair Finger by Walter Wingate #scottishpoetry #scotland #poetry #art #writing

Memory loss from anxiety/stress, often called brain fog, dissociative amnesia or cognitive impairment. High stress hormones like cortisol impair the hippocampus, your brain's memory center. Managing anxiety through therapy, exercise, and sleep can reverse it.

It's called 'social engineering' and it has been changing and manipulating the thinking of generations for hundreds of years by the powerful through the media, political powers and religions who sit with those in power or behind the scenes, changing good to bad and bad to good.

This garden spider let me take its picture while patiently waiting on its web for its dinner. The light shines through its semi transparent legs wonderfully and the orange, white and light brown markings are strikingly beautiful.

Grey squirrel on a fence with a chip or fry as it is called in other less civilised countries. But in Scotland these are thick bits of tatties (potatoes), deep fried in beef fat, slathered in vinegar and covered in salt!

To Be Or Not To Be, That Is The Molar