Night 1890 https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/24929

Scientist dubbed The Bogfather is restoring peatland to fight climate change www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Grateful to the Telegraph for providing the definitive answer to its own question, albeit in quite small letters.

Mature trees provide the shade and shelter required to make cities liveable during extreme heat. Given how long it takes for trees to grow enough canopy cover, cities should be urgently planting tens of thousands more of them. 📸 Thermal camera in Lisbon, showing 59.5°C ground.

Toyota Hokkei Mt. Fuji Above the Clouds, copy after Hokkei's print from the set of Three Lucky Dreams

James Bard The Thomas Hunt and the America

A new studio portrait.

Been here. A mad dash for work purposes, as I am having a disorganised, skittish week.

Neal continues his war on bollards.

Best granddaughter quote yet: Oooh Nanny, your arm smells nice! Smell my arm.

Pine Trees near the Wall of the Asylum - 1889 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14624

Every single day there are reports, often in local newspapers online, of men receiving no sentences or custodial sentences of 4-6 years, 1-3 in reality, for crimes of sexual violence against women & children. It's obscene. These are the most serious crimes in our community, treated as the least.

The utter blandness of the title music to morning tv makes me want to burn the world down. Not sure if that's normal.

Blatant lobbying, not for the sake of our country, but for the fossil fuel industry, in which almost all the ultrarich - including, in all likelihood, the proprietors of these newspapers - are heavily invested. These people are not and never will be your friends. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

Babe, come over, the orchids are definitely up to something: making strange, soft, susurrating night conversation, frilly moon-lipped mandibles seeping abstruse plots, tapping out a suspect Morse with those elaborate roots of theirs

Been to a big art show in Wighton church, North Norfolk Projects, curated by Chris Bailkowski, which is vastly diverse and interesting. And across the road is a former residence of Henry Moore, where some years ago, they dug this up in the garden.

July 1, 1980, after weeks of clouds and rain the weather clears and USGS staff takes to the air to take high-quality photographs of the devastated landscape after the May 18th Mount St. Helens eruption

If the neighbours must have a row outside, can they at least stop the lawn mower so we can all hear?

#WyrdWednesday [Sorry, a prone stone, not standing.] 1856 The peasants point out large flat stones under which they suppose the pestilence to be buried, and which they are anxious not to raise, lest it should emerge, and again contaminate the atmosphere. [Stamullen transi stone, Irishstones.org ]

“I think that we have to drastically alter how we live...We all need to start living within our means, + as a society we’ve been living like there’s no tomorrow.” The Colorado River is drying up at its source. By @ianjames.bsky.social share.google/tuxpv5tes1Yk...

Grown something rather special, a new garden bulging with bee frien… oh.

Added an oil on paper painting to my online shop, it is a self portrait- I'm not sure if I'm the skeleton or the snake though. clairecansick.com/product/exul...

The mournful ghost of Charles Hawtrey

🚨 Google continues to lobby the UK government to hand the work of the country's creatives to big tech companies for free. 🧵 1/3

‘Imagine this was your daughter’: how grieving mothers campaigned to close sentencing gap

There's a very nice online flip book here, of all the shortlisted works for Sir John Hurt Art Award 2026. Irl exhibition at Allen Hall Gallery, Glandford, Norfolk from 20 July - 1 August. heyzine.com/flip-book/1b...

"For days, officials across France have scrambled to cope with the searing heat, shutting down three nuclear reactors after the surrounding cooling waters became too hot..." So much for nuclear as a climate solution.....

'St Ives,' (1941) was painted by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham at a time when St Ives in Cornwall was an unlikely hotbed of British modernism.

450 years after she sat for her portrait, this old woman’s look is still piercing. By Bartolomeo Passarotti, whose day was today.

Dozens of wildfires are raging across the West, burning homes and National Forest lands and forcing the evacuations of entire towns. Low humidity, dry vegetation and strong winds are driving the rapid growth and development of new fires throughout the central West. https://cnn.it/3T9XZ8y

Fan on or fan off tonight I can’t decide.

Horrific portrayal of a stag hunt by my colleague Paul de Vos. Enough to make the most carnivorous among us turn vegetarian. But not Philip IV, no siree!

I’ve decided, I like being cold.

There's a very nice online flip book here, of all the shortlisted works for Sir John Hurt Art Award 2026. Irl exhibition at Allen Hall Gallery, Glandford, Norfolk from 20 July - 1 August. heyzine.com/flip-book/1b...

🚨 Breaking news: from today, it's no longer a crime to sleep rough in England and Wales. The Vagrancy Act has finally been repealed. For more than 200 years, this archaic law criminalised people for sleeping rough or begging. But no more.

I was musing on the Tower of Babel and its place as a metaphor for Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon. Here’s versions by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1&2), Lucas van Valckenborch & as used in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. Anyway, I thought I got there first but Michel Foucault beat me to it.

A council meeting to debate scrapping West Norfolk's climate emergency was postponed because the chamber was too hot. Sometimes reality has impeccable timing. Our latest - Henry Durand reports

Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.

Just discovered that our orchid has four flower heads this year. I’m thrilled, it only had two last year.

And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...

And den hi go take dem to di bowling alley

Probably the best example of a rapid bottom-up energy transition: Pakistan imported more Chinese solar last year than any country on earth. No big subsidy, no rooftop scheme, no feed-in tariff. Solar is now around a quarter of electricity. More in my piece👇 www.thenewworld.co.uk/jan-rosenow-...

Rex Whistler's picture shows the moat and bridge of Rushbrooke Hall in Suffolk. This mid-16thC house was the seat of the Jermyn family and was demolished in 1961. During WW2, Whistler joined the Welsh Guards and died leading his men in the first battle of his military service.

From 'A Wounded Landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust'. Theresienstadt, a concentration camp and ghetto. Terezín, Czech Republic, 2018. More than 33,000 people died at Theresienstadt, mostly from malnutrition and disease

My painting has been shortlisted for the Sir John Hurt Art Award 2026. It can be seen at Allen Hall Gallery, Glandford in Norfolk, from 20 July - 1 August.

Hunt is on to find big cat roaming countryside #Norfolk