Everyone's a football expert now!

"I won't forget you." Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) seals his friendship with the Pigeon Lady (Brenda Fricker) in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)

Today’s hare having a little supper in her wheat field 🌾

Applecross Bay.

New feature on my site - my Top 10 walks in 12 different categories (the list is subjective): #1 Cities and Towns: www.andrewswalks.co.uk/top-10-city-...

This by @timadamswrites.bsky.social is lovely.

Crummock Water and Mellbreak

Hi England, here’s the Christmas tree we’re sending you for Trafalgar Square this year.

What a moving interview on R4 BH with Peter Hennessey - says he’s retiring because his Parkinson’s means he can longer think clearly, but he sounded far clearer and made more sense than most people you hear on the radio

Splendid? Wordle 1,849 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The Dead Ringers Tom Tuchel sketches have ruined me because I fully expected him to respond to that question about taking the match to another level by saying "No, a football match is played on a flat surface that has one level." #engnor

A gorgeous morning on Esthwaite Lake.

FIFA makes surprise last-minute change to refereeing team for USA v Belgium:

If Justin Vernon's not there, it didn't happen.

@kpro.bsky.social Doesn't read, he counts.

Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs

Just been in a brilliant webinar for teachers (mostly) with four other authors and Anna Lise Gordon (host) from St Mary's Twickenham talking about children's books about grief and bereavement.

aj @strawberry.bsky.to bsky.app/profile/stra... Replies are turned off; presumably because the poster has never read a book.

USA AUS Keystone Cops football.

If you listen to nothing else today, do yourself a favor and listen to Michelle Obama's glorious Obama Presidential Center Grand Opening Ceremony speech.

Michelle Obama to Barack: "You never fell for the temptation of a quick fix, or an easy pay day. You never changed from that idealistic summer associate who showed up on that rainy day when we first met without an umbrella. You always gave us the very best within in you."

Michelle Obama: "Barack and I have always said this Center is grounded in our stories, but it has never been about us. It's never been for us." "A lasting legacy isn't an award or a name on a building or the number of zeroes in a bank account, but the difference we make in one another's lives."

Copper beech leaves during morning drizzle near Bassenthwaite, Cumbria this morning.

bsky.app/profile/masa... Done.

I cannot hold fragile things "I want to shatter the beige politeness of the afternoon" northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/poet...

the snot-green, scrotum-tightening sea happy Bloomsday

Beautiful display in Parliament celebrating Jo’s life and legacy ahead of the 10th anniversary of her murder tomorrow💜 #JoCox @jocoxfoundation.bsky.social

A walk up Bessyboot www.andrewswalks.co.uk/bessyboot.html

Day 13 of #75daysofPaddy A Paddy McAloon lyric a day until Truly Gifted Kids is published. Today (from Faron Young): 'Antiques!' (As I say in the book, 'Swoon carried no exclamation marks ... but the very first word on Steve McQueen signals something new'.) #prefabsprout

A beautiful new visitor to our bird feeders today. Usually a shy bird, this one was just four feet from our living room window.

Wildflower meadows in 4 of England's great gardens: Great Dixter, Sissinghurst Castle, Newby Hall and Stillingfleet Lodge

My wee sooky cheety

spectacular, if quite random: Blake's mosaic Tyger rescued from the streets of Lambeth and rehomed in Surbiton station...

Mayor takes new power over arts funding Kim McGuinness will use new powers to reshape arts funding in the region to ensure it supports economic growth as well as enriching culture northeastbylines.co.uk/region/north...

Transformation of a wild flower meadow April-June

A little video from today's hillwalking up on to Rest Dodd via Satura Crag in the Eastern Fells. Warm day but windy on the tops. We met no one on the tops today but we did start early doors #lakedistrict #cumbria #uk #mountains #hills #hillwalking #spring

Moan Alert Parked up at Brotherswater at 7am. This was dumped in the car park, BBQ rotting food eg sausage, chicken etc. Foil disposable BBQ's x3, 2 boxes of beer (bottles everywhere). Now in boot. Car smells like a dustbin 😡 People FFS take your shit home you chavs. We live here. #lakedistrict

Please watch 👇

But, I see, I can't *respond* to this post. Oh, I see, so *now* everyone in Sunderland is happy to be in Europe.

Good morning! ☕️🌧️☔️🌸🎶☮️💗

Let those among us who have not accidentally followed a fascist leader on Facebook in full on fascist gear... who's like the most obvious fascist... doing really fascist stuff... cast the first stone. #Reform

Head of Crummock Water in better weather than today

@mrjamesob.bsky.social is very well read. I wonder has he seen this new title?

I had a friend at university who liked neither tomatoes nor soup. We are no longer in touch. But he'd have liked this riff on a pizza bianca. Creamy taleggio cheese topped with new potatoes, leeks & pesto with a chewy, not too thick crust. www.netherton-foundry.co.uk/baking-tins/...

The Armentara wildflower meadows: www.andrewswalks.co.uk/armentara.html

Trailcam footage from a small bridge this week

RIP Scott Hastings. When I was editor of Scotland on Sunday 1994-97, if the Scottish rugby team won it added 10,000 to the sales. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...

Scott Hastings, a man of integrity, honesty and empathy. A player who never gave below his maximum. There is nothing more you can ask as a legacy. RIP