First snowdrops of the year seen near Sheringham Library, 14/01/26. @icelass.bsky.social

Good luck to anyone starting the year with a new health regime. Here’s how mine always goes.

It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.

A few photos from around Sheringham this morning, 05/01/26. Before and during the snow shower around 09:30. About 5mm fell. @icelass.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk

I'm not a birder really but living in North Norfolk you are in birding country. I spent I while wondering around looking for the Eastern Black Redstart but then it appeared around 09:50, Sheringham, 30/12/25. @icelass.bsky.social

One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background. The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Jeremy Nguyen. #NewYorkerCartoons

He’s been. I’d give it ten minutes if I were you.

Gorgeous and crazy, look how the main carriageway isn’t even depicted vertically on the sign and the half has a solidus at 60° (no solidus today) just as the arrows are cut at 60° (rather than today’s 45°); Margaret Calvert’s Transport working hard since 1958 though :)

Birmingham Snow Hill station after closure of the 'old' station, when it was in use as a car park. My photo January 1977.

Never change, Glasgow 😂 Inn Deep, Kelvinbridge if you fancy it 🥂 #Glasgow

He's not, because the processing of Santa Claus's own "naughty or nice" data is necessary for the performance of a task carried out by Santa as a competent authority. (DPA 2018 s35(2))

I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.

You can’t pork there mate.

Pantone ‘Stained Glass’ door by Italian designer Armin Blasbichler

So, happy 50th anniversary to Melody Maker’s review of Bohemian Rhapsody: “Queen, with a suitably baroque vocal orchestration, contrive to approximate the demented fury of the Balham Amateur Operatic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance”

Photographer Kathrin Swoboda captured amazing images of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light #WomensArt

'Colours', Brixton (2025) by Marie Lenclos marielenclos.com 👤: @marielenclos.bsky.social

A (horrible) alternate reality, inspired by yesterday. #Cloudflare #Teletext #TeletextArt #Art

Love this RS

GRANGE HILL STREET BLUES #TWOSHOWSINONE

THREAD/Today marks the 85th anniversary of one of the more tragic incidents of the London Blitz and one that is overshadowed by the even more tragic events the same night in Coventry. Invicta Road School in Blackheath was originally built in 1900 and was a typical product of the London School Board

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just experienced "MacSpreading" - where someone just asked for more room on the train table because their MacBook Pro and Mouse needs more than their half of the table...

On Nov. 10, 1979, a 106-car freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed and caught fire in Mississauga. The incident led to the largest evacuation in North American history to that point. Not a single life was lost. This is the story of the Mississauga Miracle. 🧵 1/12

WORD OF THE DAY. Excellent. To give up spreadsheets for forty days.

As always on this day: Remember, Remember the 5th of November, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb.

"Fetch boy! I said fetch - must say your dog gets bored with games quickly." "Yes, I'm afraid I've got a short attention spaniel."

Le Brasilia's stunning staircase. My photo taken in Marseille in 2017

I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport. Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably? But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.

Braquage! #Louvre

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

"Parking is such sweet sorrow"

Poppies in the morning sun, Weybourne Station, North Norfolk Railway. 18/10/25. @icelass.bsky.social

Seeing we're on a Class 87 theme, here's one of my favourite photos: 87006 'City of Glasgow' heading north from platform 5 at Crewe after being detached from its' train on a Sunday around 36 years ago. @doublearrow64.bsky.social

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

Raindrops on nasturtium leaves. 08/10/25.

Some rather splendid yarn bombing in Westbury-on-Trym this morning.

Roses are red Sweetly sings the lark

Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns

This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

DRAGONS DEN: So it says here you have an idea for a new breakfast cereal? ME: That's right! It's sort of like Alpha Bits cereal but with numbers instead of letters... DRAGONS DEN: I see, and you think this would be successful? ME: Yes, in fact I've already crunched the numbers RS

good morning

@simonhendy.bsky.social @lunacytowers.bsky.social Dame Aunty Susan has received her package and would like to thank M'Lord and M'Lady for the thought. She was heard to exclaim "It's an real buscuit tin" I think she is going to enjoy it. Thank you, both.

"It started as a shit idea" to strengthen the local community. This is "cowpat lotto", as invented and played in northern France, near Azincourt (*the* Azincourt) where three lucky winners share the loot if their cow (goats also accepted) drop their load on their selected square.

I laughed at this video for like 2 minutes straight last night and now you get to

Whilst I was up on Skelding Hill, Sheringham, 15/07/25, looking for ladybirds I was treated to the sight of a pair of red kites overhead. This one was directly overhead for a short while before flying off east. @icelass.bsky.social

Right, a little thread coming with an small addendum at the end, concerning ladybirds seen this morning on Skelding Hill, Sheringham, 15/07/25 @ukladybirds.bsky.social Details in captions.