Brain teaser. Xochimilco canal, Mexico City. #heron #whichwayisup ?

Counterpoint: If the average car driver swapped just one 2-mile trip for a bike ride, they’d save money, boost their long-term physical & brain health, have more fun getting where they're going, & cut into the profits of a health-harming industry. Win! #UrbanTruth www.cyclinguk.org/article/fina...

City of Puebla #Mexico

5:30am arrival in Puebla, Mexico. Just as the sun begins the day too. #Mexico #Puebla

🌞 Back on the water in the sunshine, with a new #greenlandpaddle to try. #kayak #riverthames #london Short brisk trip Putney to Chiswick and back. #seakayaking #putneybridgecanoeclub

Reform is a protest party. A protest against decency, integrity, kindness, expertise, and progress. It's a party of pettiness and hate, and it is made up of petty and hateful people from the grassroots to the very top. What it doesn't have is competence. So good luck with the bins and potholes.

Happy David Attenborough 💯day everybody ! #davidattenborough www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The day has finally arrived. You can now *officially* watch puffins live from the Farne Islands, 24 hours a day: bit.ly/4tRz72T Please enjoy these puffins kissing in celebration of this momentous event.

This is brilliant to see! Made around the time I started cycling in London mid 80s. Lots has changed but in other ways it’s all familiar- love the confidence of the cyclists shown in heavy traffic. A trip down memory lane too. Who else had those bulky (and dim!) Eveready grey bike lights? #cycling

The newly restored church of St Stephen Walbrook in the City of London. An interior of Portland and Bath Stone with an altar of Tivoli Travertine by Henry Moore #urbangeology #london

Rooting for King Charles and Pope Leo, it’s been a confusing season for us heathens who are also sceptical about monarchy. What a finely crafted, subtle speech to Congress…

Brilliant colours in the Spring sunshine today from the azaleas, camellias and rhodos. Valley Gardens, Windsor Great Park.

On the subject of #horse themed music.

Tonight's last gig in Leeds by #TheUkrainians band on their farewell tour - caught them Friday @thelexingtonlondon.bsky.social Since @glastonbury.bsky.social in '92, & all the music before & since, thanks Peter, Len and friends - always memorable! New hope in Europe for #Ukraine this evening too!

1988 and at least Peter’s keeping his hands in his pockets now. #totp

Loved a bit of Declan then. Still do now. #totp

Mrs H grew up in Canada in the 70s, and she says all Canadians looked like that in 1978 #totp

X is not above the law goodlawproject.org/s/b85130 Link to support @goodlawproject.org campaign in the attachment

@rbreich.bsky.social in @theguardian.com today: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Heralding the start of #Spring in the uk. Bulbs emerging, insects awakening, hope rising.. #snakesheadfritillary #crocus #springbulbs #LondonGardens

Film the Last Gig! - The Ukrainians Still a few tix left for their final tour - will be catching them at the Lexington (London) - a long way from the first time at @glastonburyfestivals.co.uk in 1992! See you there..? www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/film-the-l...

The incredible splendour of the Portuguese Manueline architecture exemplified at the Convento de Cristo, at Tomar. #architecture #Portugal

#MosteirodeAlcobaça #Alcobaca #Portugal #Monastery #springtime

Dear Co-op, please could you bring these freezers to your late-night pop-up shop ambient offer at @latitudefestival.bsky.social ? “Like an electrical gong bath..” 😂 www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

#Mainz #Rhineland - more architectural highlights from a quick hop over to Germany.

#Heidelberg Baden-Württemberg: a few architectural highlights…..

News | Report highlights state of England’s cultural infrastructure £7bn is needed for repairs, maintenance and renewal

@brucespringsteen.net reviving a strong musician’s tradition - CSN&Y’s ‘Ohio’ still resonates 55 years later - and here’s one more out today in support from the UK from our excellent @billybragg.bsky.social - youtu.be/c4qb2YoyNxQ #minneapolis #Minnesota

We've been through a lot lately, and it’s not over.  Extremism is knocking on our door, as YouTubers and federal agents. Schools and hospitals are slashed while Trump pardons crooks and gives handouts to billionaires. Minnesotans know there’s only one way to weather a storm: you don’t do it alone.

How can this not be flying today? Your help to get it signed would be appreciated. MPs and Councillors changing parties after being elected is NOT democracy. They may(or may not!) have changed their minds but their electorate may not🤬 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

2026 is the big 50 for @archhfund.org.uk. We're celebrating with a series of events over the course of the year (more details 👇) and will be announcing some exciting plans for the future shortly. And there's a rather nice new website and look to go with it!

Timeline cleanse… Having a desk in the Surveyor’s Office at StPaul’s is amazing, but the greatest privilege is a dark winter’s evening when almost everyone else has gone home, and you feel you have the whole place to yourself… #architecture #buildingconservation #cathedral #historicbuildings

9 days and 350 nautical miles last July compressed at last into 58 seconds! #LofotenIslands #ArcticNorway #Orca

Sangita Myska said the position of people of colour in public life in Britain was “becoming harder by the day”, in part due to an “unbelievably toxic environment in which anything goes” normalised during the #Brexit campaign in 2016. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

#keepmusiclive Excellent night at the Bath House, Hackney Wick. Brown Horse headlining, support from Maripool, and the excellent Zach Thompson. #altfolk

#totp Robert Palmer not a bad 45 but sounding like he’s being played at 33 rpm…

More like it #jam #totp

Liberalism is losing the argument right now - here’s a quick piece I wrote for the Fabian’s on how to fight back ….https://fabians.org.uk/fit-for-the-future/

A little more of our brilliant #Norway #kayaking trip last weekend! Aurlandsfjord and #Naeroyfjord, 150km east of Bergen. Calm water and idyllic, stunning scenery - could spend a lifetime here… but it also reminded us of the power of #nature, as the wind later blasted down from the #mountains.

Voringfossen, near Eidfjord, Vestland, Norway. Zoom in and check out the scale! Falls themselves are 165m high - and some very precipitous viewing platforms… #waterfall #norway #autumncolours #cliffs #vestland #voringfossen

Kayaking and camping the Naeroyfjord and Aurlandsfjord, Vestland, #Norway #kayak #camping #starfish

Some architectural gems from a quick visit to #Bergen #Norway and the #Bryggen #Unesco #WorldHeritageSite

Interesting! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

#totp I prefer The Fall’s version tbf, but we had to wait a few years for that.

“If we were in some alternative universe where our party system mapped on to people’s views, a modern party of the liberal left….might fall somewhere between Ed Davey & former Green leader Caroline Lucas” great piece by John Harris @guardiannewstoday.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

4am last Sunday morning and lucky enough to see a pod of at least 6 #Orca, 3Nm off Andenes while rounding Andoya on a 90Nm (106 miles) 18 hour passage #arcticsailing #arcticnorway #whales #Norway

#midnightsun #lofotenislands #arcticnorway #sailing #goodcompany Currently anchored overnight in a bay at Brettoya. Where else would anybody want to be..?!

Arctic sailing in #Norway this week. #LofotenIslands starting at Harstad and heading south-west out to the islands. #snowcaps #sailing #rainbow #arctic