My grandad (R.A.C., right) and uncle (D.A.Collins, left) lending a hand with the underframe for a model LSWR open wagon from the early 1900s. Family business #Gauge3, 1:22.6 scale #ModelTrains #ModelRailways

Monday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOForOld #MosaicMonday

i've gotta say, i am really enjoying this current phase of toddlers being just independent enough, and the weather nice enough, to chuck them out in the garden and sit inside with my coffee and keep an ear out for screaming

‘You know we had to raise the height of the overhead wire last month?’ ‘Yyyyyessssss…?’ ‘So how’s our stock of angle iron looking just now?’

That’s falling with style #ArtemisII

Earth. 252,000 miles away.

"Orion, the Moon, and the Earth. EVERYONE, in that picture" - #Artemis II Mission Control.

Using Museum of the Moon by @lukejerram.bsky.social as a guide for the #NASA #ArtemisII flypast. #Artemis has just flown over Mare Orientale, the circular feature on the right. The craters facing this view are currently low on the terminator in the NASA video feed as at 22:00 UK BST

Gave this the soundtrack it deserves. Kubrick was onto something when he picked the Blue Danube as the Theme of Objects Floating In Space. Call me, Nutella

The stunning Dolphin mosaic at Fishbourne @romanpalace.bsky.social #MosaicMonday

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNonsense

Wet feather duster. Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Feathers There’s a blackbird under there somewhere #birds #photography

Thanks @romanpalace.bsky.social, toasty! 😎

Today’s amazing and completely not tenuous Easter fact: The Hall is 4 years older than hot cross buns. Brother Thomas Rocliffe of St Albans Abbey began making them in 1361 and would distribute them to the poor on Good Friday.

The midnight moon, rising above the clouds #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMovies The Long Good Friday (1980) For All Mankind (1989) #Astrophotography #Moon #Hampshire

Holiday advice: It's pleasant to get a train to Europe. You just have to turn travelling into a core part of the holiday - lunch in Paris, dinner in Bordeaux, trip to Spain, week on beach etc. It's limiting, but very enjoyable & decent alternative to a flight you won't be able to afford by summer.

Here's an image I just took of the Artemis II mission showing the Orion spacecraft and the upper booster module (not sure which is which) taken when they were around 69,000 km from Earth aloing with an image of Earth from the spacecraft taken at the same time. Taken with my Unistellar telescope. 🔭 🚀

St Thomas’s Church featuring its famous 15th- century ‘Doom’ painting of the Last Judgement above the chancel arch. The mural is the largest surviving example of its kind in the UK. Surviving the Reformation (it was whitewashed over). Rediscovered in the 19th century. Salisbury,Wiltshire

Time again to listen to this masterpiece #MusicSky #PeterGabriel #WorldMusic

L-75 hours and counting... My timeline app: x37b.nl/artemis/ #ArtemisII

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLayers Kraftwerk in their home town of Düsseldorf, Dec 2025. A real highlight of concerts last year, iconic #Kraftwerk #musicsky

Signed.

This BBC nature documentary about bees 🐝 is absolutely amazing — the filmmaker recorded the lives of 60 different bee species in his small Bristol garden www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

University of Oxford : maximising oil and gas extraction here would only save UK households up to £82 (€95) per year. A UK fully powered by renewable energy, would save households up to £441 (€510) a year on energy bills. www.euronews.com/2026/03/27/e...

Thank you University of Oxford! 🐝🌎

Four daffodils in our garden at the end of March, quick portraits before they disappear Vier narcissen in onze tuin #LenteFF #08Lentekriebels @ansdejager.bsky.social #daffodils #spring #gardenshour

Pearl’s a singer, one half of the famous duo. And she sing ‘Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da da-da-da…’ #TOTP

That’s a very cool flight path for a glider on a sunny Solent day 😎 Thanks to @flightradar24.com #Hampshire #Solent

Great view of the lunar X and V at 21:50 tonight. First time I’ve tried to capture this. Learnt a useful lesson to check and retry about 30 mins later if the X and Y aren’t that clear, timing is everything. #Astronomy is a chilly game though! #astrophotography #lunar #moon #Oympus

Network SouthEast everywhere. 73128 stands next to 465908 'Chris Green OBE' at London Victoria while waiting for its scheduled departure time on 0Z73 to Wembley Receptions 1-7. (25/03/26)

Cheers Bluesky. Cheers to good people, people that care, people that look out for others, and peaceful people.

Ex-BR Class 77 27001 ‘Ariadne’ built at Gorton, 1953, seen in Manchester’s excellent Science and Industry Museum in 2010. Ook Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) 1505 (1969) Van Manchester naar Den Haag en terug #LenteFF #05vervoer

Excellent talk in the windy city of Portsmouth yesterday. If you are in the MK area on 24th April or on zoom, well worth going to hear @jonnelledge.bsky.social talk about borders and what happens when you put humans in charge of drawing lines on maps. Recommended!

Kevin the dog picking out a toy: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected...

The small flock of chickens on our lane. Love the way the sun lights up their combs! #lenteFF #04vogels #sunset

Yesterday’s stunning crescent moon. Perfectly still conditions for #astrophotography in #Hampshire @southdownsnp.bsky.social See alt-text for some of the main craters and features on view #Moon #Lunar #Olympus #astronomy

It's the Spring Equinox - the first astronomical day of spring! ☀️ Longer days. Lighter evenings. Sunshine warm on your skin, birds singing, blossom in the branches.

Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable. Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours. Strategic autonomy doesn’t arrive via summit communiqués. It’s built in advance — in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment

1/2 The world's longest coastal path is now open in England! We were proud to open the first section of the King Charles III England Coast Path in the South West, with improvements along a quarter of the length of the 36 mile stretch of the The SW Coast Path so that walkers...

#WeekJforJuxtaposition #AlphabetChallenge 2R meets 2D at the Spa Valley Railway #Lego #Thumper #DEMU #ModelTrains #RailBlue

European Sleeper confirms that their new Paris-Berlin sleeper will also stop at Aulnoye, Mons & Liège, see www.seat61.com/trains-and-r.... All being well, I'll be attending the launch event in Paris and riding the first departure from Paris on 26 March. Tune in for live updates! 🥳

"Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, the government’s climate advisers have forecast." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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As I work on this icon, with rain drumming on the studio roof, I think about all the hedgehogs curled up asleep in their leafy beds. If you’re tidying up your garden please check carefully in all the places they might be before using the dreaded strimmer.

That’s a bit tidier! The new(old) store took all of the split logs from 2 loose pallets, still space! 👍 Production line set up - whole logs stored right, split logs in the middle store, then logs for burning in a smarter (also #recycled #upcycled) store near the house off to the left #gardenshour

Today’s job in the fantastic March sunshine in #Hampshire Two old pallets and a couple of old decking boards turned in to a log store #recycled #upcycled

BREAKING: @EuropeanSlpr's new sleeper train from Brussels & Cologne to Zurich, Como & Milan will start 9 September. Tickets go on sale from 17 March with couchettes from €49.99, single/double/triple sleepers also available. 🥳 Press release: mcusercontent.com/5ffbd133c9ab...

Great evening for spotting the #planetaryparade here in #Hampshire, clear and still conditions. #nightsky Managed to spot 3, W-E: Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter, with tonight’s full moon just rising above the trees. All taken with #Olympus E-M5 #astrophotography Click for full views and alt-text

tell you what lads, maybe getting ourselves off gas and oil wasn't such a bad idea after all

Did you know that pigs have 15,000 taste buds? Or that they have a great sense of smell and use it to forage and root? 🐽 🧠 They are also extremely intelligent and remember both positive and negative experiences. And they love snuggles, being brushed, and belly rubs.❤️ 🐷 Happy National Pig Day! 🐷