Merry Christmas. One thing I learned in 2025 was that you haven't lived unless you've experienced the exquisite pain of accidentally getting hot Marmite in a fresh paper cut.

I think the problem is that when people think of themselves as 'normal', they are constantly looking for justifications for the belief that other people are 'not normal'. Epistemological permissions, if you like.

Swan on the Thames in the autumn afternoon sun. This is not a black and white photo, but the sharp contrast of sunlight and silhouette makes it seem so

I've only just discovered that if I whistle at a certain pitch, my false front tooth vibrates, creating a sensation not unlike tinnitus, except in my skull

A gnawed chicken bone fell down the chimney yesterday. Presumably a witch having a bit of a sit-down on the roof to finish her KFC after a hard night cursin' and hexin'

The garden is still sparking joy in September 🌱 #bloomscrolling

Large white butterfly on a dahlia 'pooh' at Vyne House, Hampshire, England. Lovely day out 🌱 #bloomscrolling

"You think you're making a point, but in fact you're just making a noise. Presumably to remind yourself that you exist"

#bloomscrolling 🌱 "I love you like I love the sun in the morning"

This cosmos flower is actually made of atoms of the purest happiness #bloomscrolling 🌱

I think parmigiana might be on the menu in the near future... 🌱

Bumblebee and passion flower 🌱

I don't think I've ever seen a tree with so many damsons on it... 🌱

This foxglove grew wild at the back of our garden this year (ie. no-one planted it) and I've never seen one flower quite so enthusiastically and continually. It's been going well over a month already 🌱

Good morning #bloomscrolling 🌱

I think this is a Noctua tirrenica in my garden in South West London, UK. Quite far north, if it is.... Can anyone confirm?

I wish I was like Reverend Smith, but I'm really more like Doc Cochran #deadwood

Caption competition My go: looks like I found another victim of the local spriggans, unfortunately claimed while struggling against the old roots 🌱 #hookland

Peacock butterfly and pear blossom. I love an English spring 🌱

This green has to be the most exciting colour in the universe, trembling with energy and hope 🌱

The bumblebees causing a gentle cascade of damson blossom at sunset 🌱

Got to love a random violet growing out of the paving 🌱

You can either try and pull everything into a story, or you can accept that shit happens and that very little neatly falls into cause and effect

My grandparents said 'never again,' yet here we are again. I feel like I've let them down

I don't want to have to read about Elon fucking Musk any more. The guy's a dickhead, ignore him. I mean jeez, what's with the mass hysteria about the inconsequential opinions of one ignorant tech bro?

Who would have guessed that moving fast and breaking things would, you know, break things...?

I think I might be a non-newtonian fluid

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius; Dictionary of the Khazars; a bit of Pattern Recognition - some of the inspiration for an app I am making which, while not explicitly stating it is fictional, is clearly so by being fantastical - the question is, would anyone notice in this world? Is it just redundant?

#christmascactus #notchristmasyet 🌱

I have read and watched an awful lot of political commentary recently and I have come to the firm conclusion that the only qualification needed for this is a confident manner. It would be refreshing to hear people say 'i don't know' more often, rather than confidently making things up

Careful fellas, there're still two months to Christmas, get back in your buds 🤨🌱 #christmascactus #earliereveryyear

Not gonna lie, the garden's looking pretty shonky at this time of the year, apart from the cosmos, which keep exploding like little fireworks 🌱

Anyone that needs a break from the endless stream of computer-generated graphics and imagery should go and see the Expressionists exhibition at the Tate Modern Astonishing use of colour and shapes, so much energy and invention from over a hundred years ago. www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...

Hey, I'm sure you all know this, but the pied piper's goals don't necessarily align with yours. I'm not sure he cares about the rats, I think he's in it for the money and power. Sorry, I just felt it needed saying 😅

'..faith in seeing, listening, and reading is more important than faith in painting, singing, or writing.' "He took blue and red and placed them next to each other, painting the eyes of an angel. And I saw the angel's eyes turn violet" - Milorad Pavic, Dictionary of the Khazars

A very wet morning, more rain expected later, but the daisies are still loving life at the moment 🌱

Blimey, a September strawberry hiding amongst the pots 🌱🍓

Perception is not emergent; perception is crafted. When someone says "there is a perception that [...]," they are, knowingly or not, helping to craft that perception in others. Cynical people do this on purpose. Be wary of them.

As the temperature drops and the leaves start to look sad and pale, the last, lonely aubergine clings on 🌱

It's been raining so hard here in London that my ripening tomatoes are bursting 🌱

Should keep me in roast tomato sauce for a short while... 🌱

Well, hello there fella. I thought we'd lost you, good to see you back 😄🌱

Happy September! 🌱

If you see this, quote post with a beach from your gallery

I *may* have planted a few too many tomatoes this year, but at least I now no longer have to beg my neighbours to water them when I am away 🌱

🌱Moth orchid with hover fly🌱

A fiery marigold being photo-bombed by a viper's bugloss 🌱

From plant to plate in ten minutes for a lovely summery lunch

Thanks to @noupside.bsky.social's recent book Invisible Rulers, I've started noticing just how many 'inauthentic' accounts there are on X these days. It staggers me that people are still using it as a news source

The information age has rapidly become the disinformation age. Ten years ago, I told my daughter that 'everyone lies on the internet,' but I never anticipated the level of bad faith on display every second of every day. Here is a picture I took of a peacock butterfly, to cheer everyone up