Wee Willy Winky

“Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals”. In one place! The Pied Piper of Hamlin comes immediately to mind. Followed by fish in a barrel. Or all your eggs in one basket. I wonder what Machiavelli or Sun Tzu or the goddess Athena would have to say about it?

Imagining a parallel world in which 22 billion was injected into the UK arts industry.

Extraordinary image!

Mesmerized by the tale of Alexander von Humboldt: a holistic thinker appalled by deforestation & extractive ag, who presaged the anthropocene, merged the poet & the naturalist & was a lifelong opponent of slavery. 🙏 @andreawulf.bsky.social!

"Before I die in that old people's home, I would rather go to a meadow and enter eternity that way," said Sister Bernadette.”Good luck, sisters 🙌

Where the clouds grow.

And an angel appeared in Chelsea.

The degradation of the natural world is an economic disaster already unfolding in the UK.

Sun on the garn.

Perfect

Perfect Porth Oer

I thought of you @iantattum.bsky.social !

“Activists dream that the courts will impose their notion of virtue on a world that does not share their values.” Bleak but thoughtful words from The Economist @economist.com

With Labour encouraging councils to sell off centuries-old allotments to the highest bidder, I reckon it's time for a new Diggers movement! The 17th century Diggers believed in "digging" on common land to provide for themselves and others, establishing a "community of goods". #radical #gardening

Metaphor

Can someone talk me through what I’m looking at?

There is no consensus among scientists on the fundamental nature of physical reality.

Peckerwood: Butterflies glow, flit, skank and chase through Mark Mattock‘s “feral’d” NW2 garden, in his latest dispatch from the flowerbeds 🦋 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/07/peck...

“I have to find that silver lining around the dark cloud looming over all of us.” ― Chaker Khazaal

Native trees may not always be the best choice for Dublin as the climate changes, says city tree officer. “Not all native species will survive what’s coming,” he told Dublin city councillors on the climate committee. www.dublininquirer.c...

Funny and yet horrifically true summing up. Do watch; they’re very good at what they do.

Fascinating. @askwilliamblake.bsky.social on #WilliamBlake

Such good news. Not long since there were some men with boats arguing that there were no seahorses here to worry about.

"Support farmers & landowners to make space for water with more, easily accessible funding schemes. We call on government to commit to providing financial incentives to help farmers create & maintain connected land along all river corridors (with buffers, wetlands, riparian tree planting) at scale."

That came around rather suddenly.

I’m not sure how often I’ll be able to say: “Look at that magnificent ash”, so here’s a magnificent ash. 🌳

magnetized today by this original photograph of Princess Abbess Hripsime, Senior deaconess of Etchmiadzin, taken probably by Lynch in 1874 when she was 27 years old also the only image of a woman who isn’t a saint or a goddess in the Matenadaran

Our co-captain @likewinterblue.bsky.social was on the local BBC news last night talking about the 70th anniversary of the publication of Alfred Wainwright’s Eastern Fells. Sam Read has been selling guides and maps to eager visitors since before the man himself set up his own shop in 1887.

Was Jung a mystic? And did he not want anyone to know? Join us in the last of my four part series on the Golden Age of Western Esotericism 7/27 at 7:00 GMT. www.eventbrite.com/e/secret-tea...

Good luck to writer Jeff Young whose "Wild Twin" is up for the @thetls.bsky.social Ackerley Prize tomorrow @Foyles He's our wonderful guest in #MisadventuresinMusic podcast with @ianprowse.bsky.social & Mick Ord Check it! @littletollerbooks.bsky.social urbanistamagazine.uk/jeff-young-o...

Meeting people trying to reach Britain in small boats gave @horatioclare.bsky.social‬ a vision for change, he tells Sarah Meyrick

Having a go at writing an icon with the extraordinary Hanna Ward at the King’s School of Traditional Arts.

"This world is just a little place, just the red in the sky, before the sun rises, so let us keep fast hold of hands, that when the birds begin, none of us be missing." ~ Emily Dickinson, in a letter written in 1860

July 13th is the Feast Day of St Mildred of Minster in Thanet, Kent. Here she is depicted in stained glass by Christopher Whall at Nurstead Church in Kent. Mildred died in AD734 and is depicted with the deer from her hagiography

Lining up the ducks.

“We can have clean water or privatised water but we can’t have both.” Yes please. Still reeling from over a month of severe illness following a swim in one of the loveliest spots in Britain.

A perfect candidate for the chink in the Wall in a forest setting of A Midsummer Night’s Dream!

Holey/holy oak.

Duvet day, Clapham Common

Oak life, Clapham Common

mentally im here

Sunday

📢Our Bowber Head Farm nature reserve will be OPEN to celebrate #NationalMeadowsDay! 😍 📍Bowber Head Farm, Kirkby Stephen, CA17 4NL 🕐 10am - 4pm More info ⬇️ www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/national-meadows-day-events#events #Cumbria #LakeDistrict

‘New hope’: ash trees rapidly evolving resistance to dieback, study reveals www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thinking about the vast legacy of Mr Blake: to the Romantics, to us all, and then pondering how wonderful it would be to @saverydalmount.bsky.social ! (WB’s Soho home long gone!).

One of my favourite colours in the whole world — the intense, yet, somehow at the same time, daydream violet-blue of meadow crane’s-bill.

Lovers of Wordsworth, Dorothy & William & of the Romantic Poets, please tell everyone! @saverydalmount.bsky.social @taylorswift.com.br @wildhaweswater.bsky.social @pollyrowena.bsky.social @karenlloyd.bsky.social @annieworsley.bsky.social @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social @keswicktheatre.bsky.social

Actors Paul and Mark McGann with us at Rydal Mount. They've joined our campaign to save the house for the public. You can help too. Just add your name here saverydalmount.org.uk, and share this as widely as possible. Thank you!