One of many sturdy ladder stiles above Threlkeld #StileSaturday

Essex coast seagulls love a good bin! @countbinface.bsky.social @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Most of my hollyhocks are deep shades of pink, but some are salmon pink, some white, and the ones by the hydrangea are a matching shade of pale 🩷💕

Got back to Oxon to find the hollyhocks had reached 7ft on either side the washing line; needed a bit of juggling to hang out 🧺🌺

Clipped the Monstrous Shrub yesterday 🤪 Planted by mum 50 yrs ago at Cumbrian cottage it is supposed to conceal the septic tank, but the rampant bunnies have eaten the lower part so it doesn’t 🙄 The leaves are leathery and dusty so the experience was horrible 😬

For those, like @lakesstiles.bsky.social & @tutty352.bsky.social , who need a 🐑 🧵 with Herdies included 🐏🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

Open garden at local Manor House this afternoon: village church from different perspective

Unexpected orchid in hedgerow on walk the other day #Wildflowerhour

Mullein on footpath, West Oxfordshire: a plant which appears and disappears mysteriously, but has flowered here two years running #Wildflowerhour

Field poppies and flax ❤️💙

A juvenile green woodpecker flew from the oak to the hawthorn in my woodland garden and circled the trunk silently and camouflaged “Annihilatiing all that’s made / To a green thought in a green shade” 💚

Hot air balloons taking off from village sports field on Saturday evening

Looking towards the Cotswolds, West Oxfordshire #StileSaturday

I may be here for some time 🤣

A few splashes of colour in my mostly green garden: old roses planted by previous owner in 1950s, spindly rose under silver birches, clematis on ancient apple tree Pink rose is Albertine and flowers every year though most of the wood has died 🥀

Green woodland garden

I was given a copy of Persepolis by the English Dept of my placement school in July 2010, at end of PGCE, but didn’t read it until this year, which seemed the right time It is wonderful I am sad that Marjane Satrapi has died: RIP

Red kite, West Oxfordshire We have many quartering the sky over the village but difficult to get photos

Beer Festival in West Oxon 💚☀️

Summit lochan delights 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥰

Back in West Oxon went for walk via kissing gate and over brook, where tried to take screenshot of photo of rapid dragonflies: this was result - gate and rippling brook palimpsest I quite like it 💙💚

Now 🌅

North West Lake District cloudage this evening @lakesstiles.bsky.social

Partridge posing on a wall Like the Famous Grouse ad

A peaceful corner in the garden at Wordsworth House this morning

How Green is Lorton Valley

Views on Langdale Pikes yesterday: wonderful day out ☀️

Blea Tarn for @lakesstiles.bsky.social and the zigzag path @tutty352.bsky.social and I followed to it a year ago

Lambs 1. Watching 2. Eating hedge

Cloudy afternoon, not too hot, so scraped moss off paving stones and built bonfire before promised heatwave

Castlerigg Stone Circle and lambs

Iconic through-stone Cumbrian stile: the big stone beside it is a clue to its location

Greenery, lambs, and a bit of warmth in the air in the North West 💚

Virgil Society meeting in London on Saturday New president @carolawrence.bsky.social gave me a copy of Achates 🐕 😊 and we completed The Times O Tempora Latin crossword 📚

Initial A is always good, particularly when it is followed by NN 😁

Today’s favourite object from a quick look around the British Museum: Anglo-Saxon bird-head fastening from a Wiltshire hoard, which knocked the Tudor Heart Pendant into a cocked hat; both found by responsible metal detectorists

Weston Library exhibition Wonder of Birds: Jackie Morris’s puffins and Audubon’s fish hawk @tutty352.bsky.social

Friends of the Bodleian Annual Lecture at the Weston Library With slide of the Rad Cam for @lakesstiles.bsky.social 📚

Sculpture in a garden in Bampton #Artweeks #Oxfordshire The swan was broken and has been mended with gold in the Japanese tradition

Stoop 😍

Vandals have knocked the toppers off this 100 year old drystone wall, which is infuriating but does show how well these walls are constructed

North Oxon #FingerpostFriday

Lakes Stiles Hound 😍

Tall kissing gate into Christ Church Meadow, Oxford #Thursgate

Favourite ironstone slab stile into the park at Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire @lakesstiles.bsky.social

After I regaled the village café with my discovery of Egg Machines the Café Ladies gave me a critter - newly hatched dragon? 💕😂 @vimtotime.bsky.social @soapywittank.bsky.social

Went to a funeral next to a castle in North Oxfordshire ironstone country: perfect Spring weather

Crabapple blossom on tree grown from a crabapple picked up in the wild some years ago: the fruits are the size of ping-pong balls so not pure wild #wildflowerhour

Spring garden, West Oxfordshire