I’m a big fan of netsuke. Here’s one of my favorites.

Before the rain

Places where no one can hear you scream: - space - IKEA - in a vacuum - the Meryal Water Park

The 26 steps Hillgate Place, Campden

Mum walking home from pick-up: What did you learn at school today love? Little girl: How to do this: (blows a raspberry).

I have updated this list - are European countries bigger than US states? only the big 5 The top 35 US states have similar populations to 24 Euro countries and 4 English counties Anywhere east of the Aegean is omitted from the list, figures are not definitive and may show different years

Other work of the Ladybird artists. The delicacy and detail here ‘Autumn Wedding’ Artist : SR Badmin

“The meaning of the documents is what the parties using those words against the relevant background would reasonable have been understood to mean...even to conclude that the parties must have used the wrong words or syntax.” www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news...

Let's play Bucks Name or Name Name

Start your week in Surrey! If you're looking for some Monday morning listening why not tune in to our podcast series exploring the landscapes and monuments in the Surrey Hills: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/surrey... Be sure to check out Episode 1 which features our very own James Brown!

This tomb has Bea Swallowed www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The other fence panels are OK, now I know why the top rail has disintegrated on this one

"quote" and "quoth" are not related. Quote is from Medieval Latin (via French) quotāre (“to distinguish by numbers, number chapters”), itself from Latin quotus (“which, what number"). Quoth is from ME quoth, quath, from OE cwæþ (first and third person past indicative of cweþan = to say).

A rather charming lion on the font at Shobdon, Herefordshire Romanesque. Photo by my son

'Many people mistakenly believe that having a laugh means that one is not taking things seriously. On the contrary There is no better way of approaching a grim and desperately serious topic, in my opinion, than by cracking a joke.' – Michele Hanson in @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social No.10

No more watching someone jab at the 'door open' button repeatedly because it didn't respond, not knowing that it needs a calm, firm, slow push www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Carlisle Cathedral's jazz nocturne of a vault.

Only 392km to a beautiful place

Understanding geometry through model making

In Icelandic we have 'Ókind' for monster. But the translation is un-sheep. So everything not a sheep is dangerous.

What to wear when you want to go to bed and read a paperback

Dogwood Cat wouldn’t

A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire go.nature.com/4qMYGRw

If you can’t decide which way to go, maybe just sit down

Autumn would be easy If your colours were like my dream Red, gold and green Red, gold and green

Four views of the Hope Cement Works, Peak District

A flaming tree on the waterside

A column swallower at St Andrew's, Eastleach Turville looking furious at being relegated to the column store. #SundayStonework

Briar, berries, and thorn

Box Hill looking moody and dramatic today

Ranmore church looking very pointy today

The ladybirds out in force today at Denbies vineyard

love the textures - also seen in Spencer's painting of Eric Williams where it seems almost abstract

So, after only fifteen years of using a smartphone I discover that there IS a scientific calculator if you just turn the phone sideways!

This is a delightful interview about the life of Prunella Scales www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

#ReliefWednesday Little ivory relief of drunken god Silenus once decorated fulcrum where back met base of a kline (couch) in C3 BC home in Monte Sannace, Puglia. Lovely detail of bald head wreathed in ivy, half-closed eye, snub nose, fleshy lips, wavy moustache and beard. Gioia del Colle Museum 🏺

UTTERLY SURREAL LOW ANGLE GLACIER SLIDE!! 😮😱 On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊 asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309 📽️ via @volcaholic1

TIL It was not until 1960 that Rank of England notes displayed the monarch's face while the first commoner William Shakespeare didn't appear until 1970 English private banks could print their own notes well into the Victorian period, the very last were issued as late as 1921 from Dominic Sandbrook

I think this must be an ex-parakeet, not something I've ever seen before but I guess it met a hungry fox because there's nothing else left on the lawn

Today’s incidental finding: a Scientific American cover, June 1925, illustrating an article called “Vacation #Geology.” I love that the woman is standing breezily on a high ledge, in shoes with a 1-inch heel, enjoying some binocular views, while a man is struggling up with a rock hammer.

Love the tonal variation of colour in the speckled leaves above the speckled Trout Godstow

Built in eighteen eighty fiiiiiiiii

Trees in the park today

The geraniums gave us a feather as well as a flower today

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🇨🇭 VIDEO: Women riders saddle up for Swiss Cow Grand Prix In Flumserberg, a resort nestled in the heart of the Swiss mountains, nine cows and their female riders line up at a start marked out with hay -- all hoping to claim the crown of the Cow Grand Prix. The race began in 2006, is open to women.

I met Bambi today on a footpath within sight of suburban streets on the outskirts of London

The garden bench has caught cat scratch fever

Umbrella pines in Rome’s rose garden frame a view of the Vittoriano

The Ickleton, Cambs, C12 arcade paintings found after the fire in 1979. Totally breathtaking.