Piggy firming up his horizontal position, leaving us around 6ins legroom each.

Been working on a partial new garden layout for the last three months, am pretty pleased with it. Just want everything to growwww, cover those fence and wall spaces.

Clouds bubbling up over the Hebrides - reflected in Loch Dughaill earlier this morning.

Old man is building three garden frames in the living room, it is 6.11am.

Sold- hooooraahhh! Off to the US.

Andrew Cranston’s paintings capture the thrillingly diverse effects, modes and moods of the medium—from poetry and longing to absurdity and joy. Check out the latest A brush with… to hear him discuss the pleasure and liberation he finds in painting. buff.ly/G5VC43n

Just found this, published a year or so ago. Thank you @myartisreal.bsky.social myartisrealmagazine.com/2025/03/you-...

Scribbles and a Square with Not Straight Vertical Lines Outside and Not Straight Horizontal Lines Inside (plate 41) from Squarings http://www.moma.org/collection/works/409684

Earlier.

This is such an interesting series. The Nash programme was superb. Proper tv. Properly intelligent. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Warming seas are brewing extreme weather in months ahead, scientists forecast ft.trib.al/XV9zgqj

I won radish wars. Look at those whoppers.

'Night Flats', Camberwell (c.1967) by David Hepher (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art)

Over the last few days I've uploaded the entire collection of my project You And I Are Earth for sale on my website. £500 each, all provenance will be included, PLUS bits and bobs I like to slip into every sale. Pass it on, ta x a few have already sold... clairecansick.com/product/you-...

Reform manifesto: If you become unemployed and don’t get another job within 4 months, your benefits will be stopped. Also Reform: Pull a sickie on the day of the election to canvass for us

Climate campaigners attack Shell over ‘windfall’ profits from Iran war

'Send them to jail' says Feargal Sharkey as water companies make charity payments to compensate for their offence climatewithbrian.com/2026/05/07/n...

Pussy Riot protest at Venice Biennale forces Russian pavilion to briefly close

a party which hates women almost as much as refugees

The price some women pay.What It Costs Women To Survive Men www.huffpost.com/entry/women-...

New drawing! Coloured pencil on plywood.

Richard Artschwager, The Organ of Cause & Effect, 1981 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134977

Spectacular footage from the eruption of Reventador volcano in Ecuador on January 6, 2020. 😲🌋😎💙 📽: Martin Rietze

Insta won’t let me post this, even with blue heart nipples. A photo of the lovely Big Sue, as seen in the loos of an arty establishment.

Where do you work now darlin'?

Hate WooCommerce. Just saying.

The area is supposed to be protected for wildlife but often there are “wet wipes and plastic pollution entangled in algae and all over the rocks” Gibraltar's government claims wet wipes “that appear occasionally on our beaches have … come from outlets in nearby Spain”.

The anti-Muslim chants I’ve heard when documenting these protests were so staggeringly offensive I won’t post them on here. The usual double standards from the police, the politicians and the media.

Strange cracked clouds today.

Two small paintings made in variations of ultramarine have gone up for sale on my website. Painted from images of shadow fleet ships, abandoned set alight. I'm drawn to ships and the sea, having grown up in a port town, and these stories are fascinating.

Our breakdown of Wes Streeting’s donors has been doing the rounds online for the last year. Now we’ve updated it – with another £55,000 from OPD Group.

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Two small paintings made in variations of ultramarine have gone up for sale on my website. Painted from images of shadow fleet ships, abandoned set alight. I'm drawn to ships and the sea, having grown up in a port town, and these stories are fascinating.

Leatherback sea turtles have laid their eggs here for over 100 million years But not much longer says India Modi Great Nicobar islands in India one most pristine ancient forest left on Earth to be concreted over with over 10 million trees to be felled time.com/7316182/modi...

Urgent Petition to Save the millions of Trees and one of the last ancient forests on Earth at The Great Nicobar Islands of India To replace this place with concrete is criminal and insane www.change.org/p/save-the-n...

Alfedena Abruzzi https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938311

That is a friggin’ incredible painting.

Margaret Towneley, b. 1664 d. 3 May 1731, Augustinian Canoness of Paris She professed 8 June 1683 Unknown artist (Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum)

Just saw my first swift.

Sunday.

Paul Klee : Strange Glance, 1930 Oil on canvas 65.4 × 38.1 cm | 25.75 × 15 in Art Institute of Chicago.

Did 7 hours gardening with my daughter today- I can barely walk.

Art without walls 🖼️ Explore Cromer’s streets transformed into an open-air gallery with 24 inspiring works. No barriers – just creativity by the coast. Cromer Artspace brings art for all. Kath Richmond reports ⤵️

Earlier.

You want to know what #climate scientists got wrong about #climatechange? We were too cautious. It's happening faster than we anticipated and the impacts are going to be worse.

Post your warning sign.

Why is this UK case not getting as much media exposure as the Gisele Pelico case in France? Where is the horror,- & the respect for Joanne Young? The man drugged his [former] wife & raped her & is accused of enabling other men to rape her while she was drugged. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This rate of change in methane gas use is insane. 25% decrease in one year. "That growth in battery capacity managed to shift about three times as much power from the daytime...It has caused the need for gas-fired generation to drop by more than a quarter from the same time last year"

Seymour Rosofsky #chicagoimagists

Drawing at Fritton lake, before getting in.