Every year at this time we make the long migration to 🇨🇿 for 🎄. We don’t fly so it normally takes 14 hours or more with two kids. However the @europeansleeper.eu gods have smiled on us and we can now get a direct sleeper train from The Hague to Prague!! This should be normal

This really is awful. Even walking along the shore has changed. You just can't unsee the quagga mussels - they are everywhere. Alt text: invasive quagga mussels growing below the surface of Lake Geneva. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Glaciers set to reach peak rate of extinction in the Alps in eight years - #climatecrisis forecast to wipe out thousands of glaciers a year globally, threatening water supplies and cultural heritage Research by @landervt.bsky.social et el Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Low winter sunshine strikes Village Bay #advent #NTS #StKilda

There are some chestnuts left under dry leaves. Our mission is to find and eat them all 🌰🐑

Yes, we do find the wooden steps. Still have one of the really long pilot ladder steps (spreader?) in my back yard - not quite sure what to do with it!

I understand, but every time I look at the book, I find things I had missed or now recognise or remember. Volume 2 will hopefully have room for some more! Yes, the wooden ones were not uncommon some years back. And most steps seem to still be wooden.

These weren't in the book - there wasn't room for everything! Never found a wooden one though - have you?

@legolostatsea.bsky.social .....but this is a new find for me. #allwashedup #plasticbeach

3 washed up after the storm. They used to make them out of wood. #plasticbeach #IsleofMan

This is a fascinating book for anyone interested in the beach. It is much more than the story of the lost Lego cargo. And would be a great way to introduce youngsters to the "treasure" on the beach and the issues of plastic pollution. BUY IT NOW !

Archer is the same 😊 He has a collection of almost 1,000 tennis balls that he's found over the last 12 years 🎾

Absolutely sickening from an allegedly "Labour" government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We walk the beaches every day, but never bring a ball. Yet she rarely comes home empty-mouthed. #allwashedup #IsleofMan

A weak, watery, salty sun appeared for a minute today... and away. #IsleofMan

I wonder where the birds hid from the storm. 30+ choughs arriving before sunrise to feed on the feast of seaweed fly maggots. #IsleofMan

Promenade to shut during red weather warning https://www.three.fm/news/isle-of-man-news/promenade-to-shut-during-red-weather-warning/

Maybe our Pokemon lolly sticks will be the new ambergris...

...no wonder they were asking for Pokemon www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...

And with gales & big tides, we have the Manx pudding again. Coastal Overtopping.

The Isle of Rain, previously the Isle of Man. Today, again "heavy & persistant".

The desperate hands of the global south seek to take back an overheated world. Seriously, what's next? The McHamburglar trophy in gourmet cooking? The Pol Pot Human Rights medal? The Jeffrey Epstein childcare grant? The Vladimir Putin democracy fellowship? The Weinstein-Cosby feminism prize?

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

Enjoyed this post with my coffee with oat MILK !

“I’ve overcome worse problems than you,” youtu.be/aQnfZJIKv3Q?...

I thought the trees looked very #Christmasy with twinkling lights behind them. #briskwalk surprises

We feature these in our book! Pokémon lollipop stick from 1999 or thereabouts….

Ah. It’s five years since I wrote this elegy about leaving the EU - and nearly 50 years since the adventure happened (not). But the dream lives on! The Idea of Europe: Peter and Markie’s Loon-Clad 70s Euro-Rampage bylinetimes.com/2020/12/30/t...

Indigenous actress Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake

Good morning 🌅 The ghostly galleon that is the Voltaire at anchor, dwarfing the rest of the shipping.

This girl has a British father and the UK still rejects this little girl’s visa. What are they hoping to achieve?

Fuelled up leaving Camaret to dive across Biscay. Spain for lunch on Friday... PS can someone distract the sea pandas? Follow with live tracking here: share.garmin.com/99PHC #Sailing #boating #yachting #ThatSailingPage #Biscay

Exactly what Trump hopes to achieve through his threats. He doesn’t have to follow through with legal action, the threat was enough to trigger self-censorship. And of a REITH lecturer. What would Reith have thought?

"...one nightingale at a time..." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Oh yes, like all those other crackdowns on benefit fraud that managed to solve the massive problem that it isn't.

In the desert of plastic crap at vide greniers & Flohmärkte, sometimes a well. "Ce qui embellit le désert, dit le petit prince, c'est qu'il cache un puits quelque part…"

In the desert of plastic crap at vide greniers & Flohmärkte, sometimes a well. "Ce qui embellit le désert, dit le petit prince, c'est qu'il cache un puits quelque part…"

North wind today, Steptoe fingerless glove weather. #IsleofMan

North wind today, Steptoe fingerless glove weather. #IsleofMan

When gates open at French & German flea markets, the first wave of buyers are invariably men, with shoulder bags & torches. They ask each stall holder for jewelery (that may contain gold), any LPs & any Pokemon. I never knew what the Pokemon was, but today I found one on the beach. #allwashedup

The cheering for each Scotland goal tonight shook our block of flats and rolled around Lochrin Basin. On nights like this it's great to live in the centre of the city.

Really starting to #snow in #Shetland

@timmcnulty.bsky.social I have sent you a DM

Thinking about how the perfectly sane and humane - and not remotely radical - words coming out of this man’s mouth makes him an outlier in today’s political landscape.

I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...

A welcome, dry day in the Isle of Man. 2 hours around the coast, no peoples, but plenty of company - ravens, choughs & singing seals.

Cruel. Callous. Cowardly. The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are. We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box. Reject the hate. Reject them. This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again. Join.greenparty.org.uk

A welcome, dry day in the Isle of Man. 2 hours around the coast, no peoples, but plenty of company - ravens, choughs & singing seals.

@marlinhoister.bsky.social I recommend the posts from this smallholding in the Italian Alps.