And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.

If you see this, post a tree.

Caught up with episode 7 of #raceacrosstheworld UK last night and can I just say, Kush Burman and Jo Diop are an amazing couple of young friends 💙 If this country is made of young men like these, we'll be just fine. Series 6 link: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002thds

A lovely article in the Telegraph today by his son about the comedian Eric Morecambe, who was born a hundred years ago today. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/150928b...

Dared to go out and draw en #pleinair 🏆

From a friend who is airside early:

Men and their Ducks Part One

A bit of colour popped on. #pleinair I like the skyline, which is probably the subject. I don't like the fact I've included the foreground but hey, it still represents progress.

When the President insults female reporters for doing their jobs and the room stays silent, that silence becomes part of the story too. Professional standards mean nothing if nobody is willing to defend them when it matters.

But his whole problem has been exactly that - concentrating on being re-elected, rather that using his mandate to actually, uh, govern. Another Labour leader with a large majority and a bankrupt country opted to actually do things, even if it meant only one term. #Attlee

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSongs youtu.be/tW3HN_pvbE4

#pleinair ink drawing in progress, inspired somewhat by @markmakingartmarks.bsky.social

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforReflections

I've escaped! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforReflections

"The name change to 'TG Jones' negatively impacted public awareness". (And it's a ridiculous name, is it not?!) Modella don't seem to be doing well. I'm hoping that Hobbycraft's tell-em-what-you-do name will be its saviour. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

See the full list of signatories here: edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... Write to your MP here: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/WBannexation

NEW: I’ve written a call to arms. Journalists are being murdered in unprecedented numbers by a Western ally that operates with total impunity. Enough. Publishers & editors have failed us. But if we can’t speak up about this, what is journalism even for? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

"Standing together in the face of hatred is not just the right thing to do – it’s the most effective way of defeating terrorism in all its forms."

#Watercolour #tree #painting #Art

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforReflections Another one from my photo archive. I need to get out much much more.

💖 if anyone is need of love this is for u 🩷💚🧡💖💜❤️💛

Watching the Making of #LifeOnEarth on TV -- David Attenborough's seminal 1979 natural history programme. It was watched by about 15 million people in the UK each week -- practically everyone who had a colour TV set, plus three or four million others on black and white.

A decade ago something impossible started: Leicester’s Great Escape followed by the unbelievable 2015-16 season. I’m going to use notes I made at the time to record how it felt to me to be involved in something so extraordinary. #Impossible10YearsOn #LCFC

With all that’s going on in the world I feel that Ukraine has been forgotten so #IStillStandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQueen 2queens.com/about/

Saw Gary O'Donoghue's piece to camera about the White House Correspondents Dinner last night, "You just didn't know if someone was wandering about the room, about to start shooting all over again." And obviously my thoughts turned to Gary himself as a blind journalist.

Great grey owl showing off its hide and seek skills for today’s #birdoftheday #camoorcontrast. #birds #owls #markcoupephotography

Me too! #WeekPforPurple #AlphabetChallenge I think only his bum counts as #Blurbee. I took ages trying to get one of him still enough, quickly enough to be not a Blurbee tbh. Now I know I shouldn't throw away the Blurbee shots.

My favourite spot for sunrise photos of Edinburgh. :) Edina! Scotia's darling seat! All hail thy palaces and tow'rs, Where once, beneath a Monarch's feet, Sat Legislation's sov'reign pow'rs! (Robert Burns) #moody #urban #photography #Edinburgh #Scotland #robertburns

MIN MINSTE KUNST Det viste seg i slutten av april at dei aller minste dikta inneheldt eit enzym som løyste sjela opp i himmel *** Maleri av René Magritte.

Thinking about Interrailing this summer?

Interrail holiday for anyone worried about flight fuel surcharges or cancelled flights? @kristianaas.bsky.social has assembled an excellent guide to Interrail. It's in Norwegian but if your Bokmål is even worse than mine, your browser will do a better job of translating it than Bluesky does.

Enjoying 'Suez: 24h That Broke the British Empire' www.channel4.com/programmes/s... The parallels / shoe-on- other-foot between the US, France and UK with regard to recent weeks focused on a different waterway are remarkable. TL,DW: Eisenhower refused to go along with Eden's mendacious Suez ploy.

Today's mood: I'm currently an hour and twenty-two minutes into a call to Civil Service Pensions. I've been second in the queue for approximately 42 minutes, having been just no 4 in the queue at the start.

Si tu vois ceci, reblousque avec l'énergie que tu apportes à BlueSky.

I watched Mission: Joy – with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0014rhk which is on @bbciplayer this evening. Most of us, I expect, have seen a clip on Social Media. If you ever fancied watching the full programme, it's on iPlayer for about 4 more weeks.

Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi...

Main share for today... I watched Extraordinary Portraits, Series 5: 1. Honouring Remarkable Bravery: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002t58p this evening: Nick Elphick sculpting Darryn Frost. The key take away for me was Darren's statement that people often see kindness as weakness...

Can’t wait for JD Vance to campaign for Reform in the UK. How about next week? Is next week good for you?

I mean honestly Viktor Orbán is lucky to only lose an election and have his opposition take 2/3 of parliament, after what JD Vance did to the last pope. The man's a menace.

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit

If you do not know the Earth Nullschool website, which shows you air currents in real time, and is showing the cyclone coming towards us, may I introduce you to it? Every Geography teacher's favourite website. earth.nullschool.net#current/wind...

«Inom mig bär jag mina tidigare ansikten, som ett träd har sina årsringar. Det är summan av dem som är ‹jag›. Spegeln ser bara mitt senaste ansikte, jag känner alla mina tidigare.» Tomas Tranströmer. Frå sjølvbiografien "Minnena ser mig", 1993.

The Singing Ringing Tree near Burnley giving some serious album cover vibes on a sunny afternoon. #photography #landscapephotography #artphotography #landscape #sculpture #spring

Bert's Books turned 7 years old this week, so I thought I might celebrate by counting down our 49 best-selling books of the last 7 years. This is across the shop and the website: 49) A Fatal Crossing by Tom Hindle 48) Black Reed Bay by Rod Reynolds 47) The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Ofcom claims there is no consensus to ban Nigel Farage from Presenting on GB News. Lets show them one.

I know there will be a long line to punch Vance in the face some day but I would humbly submit that Zelenskyy get a spot at the front.

Surely, the King, aided by the Prime Minister, must reconsider a state visit to the US at this time.

I just watched this on the iPlayer, and it's genuinely moving. In some ways it's two films woven together: one about what it means to be a "good Catholic", the other about a mother's care for her deeply ill son. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...